The Town Council got its first look at the water and sewer budgets for fiscal year 2025 and asked questions of Public Works ...

Final rules are in place for the Maine Department of Labor’s paid family and medical leave program, a major endeavor ...

High school students from the island have diverse outcomes post-graduation. One, Southwest Harbor local Avonlea Brown, speaks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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