Maine Coast Heritage Trust has sold an acre of marshland to Acadia National Park and donated 3 adjoining acres to the Island Housing Trust to create year-round workforce housing. The land is fronted ...

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Summer heat stretches into fall and Mount Desert Island is still well stuffed with visitors. Not as busy as the crazy hectic summer was, I’m told by one local business owner. But downtown Bar Harbor, ...

In 2021, Mount Desert Island High School purchased and deployed the first electric school bus in Maine. Many students and parents in the community advocated for the project, and a Maine Department of ...

While some Mt. Pleasant city employees spent the past few days getting rid of ice, others were busy making it. The Arctic blast that closed central Michigan school districts also provided Mt. Pleasant ...

The boards of South Nassau Communities Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System today signed an affiliation agreement that will expand that Manhattan-based system on Long Island, pending state ...

Much of the region was underwater thousands of years ago when glaciers clogged up the natural outlet of Lake Michigan, creating what geologists call glacial Lake Chicago. Two islands peeked out of the ...