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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The season may be young but the Mount Desert Island girls basketball team put the rest of Class B North on notice Saturday ...