Fourth and fifth graders at Mount Desert Elementary School (MDES) are working to reduce single-use plastic at the school, ...

TREMONT — Representatives from MDI Biological Laboratory will be hosting an informational meeting about PFAS contamination in ...

Congratulations go to nine-year-old Skyler Ehrlich of Bar Harbor, who has taken third place in the 2023-2024 National Poetry ...

Good news from the Maine Department of Public Safety: Maine’s overall crime rate, including violent crime, was down in 2023 ...

Every year the Islander's founding editor, Earl Brechlin, writes a holiday story intended to be read on Christmas Eve. It is ...

A downtown breakfast institution that announced its move in October after being unable to secure a continued lease in its ...

Sassafrass Cafe hosted a “Sip & Thrift” pop-up brunch, on Dec. 22, offering an array of entrees featuring sourdough waffles ...

Visit the Southwest Harbor Public Library to view an exhibition of quilts by the MDI Island Quilters from Jan. 7-20. The ...

Experience “Reef Point,” the debut play reading by local playwright Carolyn Gage, at the Southwest Harbor Public Library on ...

In its last meet before the Christmas holiday, the Mount Desert Island girls' swimming and diving put together a dominating ...

MOUNT DESERT — An “aggressive timeframe” is underway to complete an update of the town’s comprehensive plan. That’s according ...

The Mount Desert Island boys basketball team earned its first win of the season Friday night, and did so in resounding ...