Zach Lanning

If you ask some of the returning members of the Ellsworth High School volleyball team about their fall 2025 campaign, they’ll tell you it was a difficult one, not necessarily

Cruise line tender boats line up at the Bar Harbor waterfront to disembark at the West Street facility owned by Ocean Properties (d/b/a Golden Anchor, LC).

BAR HARBOR — Members of the Planning Board met earlier this month for the first time since the consequential council votes on both the moratorium extension and the shelving of the proposed graduated lodging scale land use ordinance amendment. Discussion at the meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 2, focused on what comes next now that the timeframe for meaningful reform in a number of areas has been extended.

Antonina Burns and Christina Mobley celebrate finishing the race.

BAR HARBOR — It has been an up-and-down 2026 season for the boys soccer team so far. After a dominant 7-0 win over Old Town to start the season on Sept. 5, which made MDI look like it would be an unstoppable force in Class B this season, the Trojans faltered against a Class C opponent in GSA three days later, losing 2-1 to the visiting side on Tuesday.

KILLIN' IT … Lanaia McDaniels gets a kill during MDI's 3-0 defeat of Brewer on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The junior would rack up seven kills in the match, tied for the team lead with senior captain Janiece Anderson, as well as four digs and one solo block. The Trojans swept Brewer in straight sets, 25-10, 25-14, 25-14, to improve to 2-0 on the season.

It was a strong start to the season for the Ellsworth High School football team as the Eagles handled their down-the-road rivals, Bucksport High School, 52-26 under the lights at

A number of Hancock County schools kicked off their cross country seasons on Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Ellsworth High School Invitational, where a cool mist on a gray, rainy

Normally, an overtime draw against a team from a higher classification would be a welcome result for the team attempting to punch above its weight. But for the Deer Isle-Stonington

“The bottom line is tourism’s here to stay, and the residents are here to stay,” said J.E. Austin’s president, Joe Lowther, who led the discussion in person at the meeting.