As summer fades, coastal Maine reveals its charm in new ways. For those considering buying a home on Mount Desert Island or in the surrounding Hancock County towns, fall offers unique [...]

"Longtime broker and Swan Real Estate Agency owner Kim Swan purchased this 53-acre parcel fronting Flanders Bay and Flanders Stream on Jan. 8 as a “passion project.” There will be an opportunity for the public to see Swan Song Salt Farm and offer ideas for its use at a date yet to be [...]

By Laurie Schreiber

A long-time restaurant on the waterfront in Stonington has sold to Bar Harbor restaurateurs who have been in the business for nearly 50 years.

Laura and Erik Johnson bought 27 Main St. from Rudi Neumayr of Nereus Investments LLC for an undisclosed price.

The list price was $1.195 million.

Erica Brooks of Swan Agency Real [...]

The long-shuttered Hamilton Hill mansion is now open for tours during the 2023 Bar Harbor Designer Showhouse
ISLANDER PHOTO BY PIPER CURTIN

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BAR HARBOR — Driving up winding Hamilton Hill Way, on the crest of a grassy hill, a mansion and the expanse of the Atlantic come into view. Inside the mansion, carved statues of an [...]

 

"A New Jersey woman now lives alone part of the year on a remote island in Maine that Stephen King called ‘a novel here, just waiting to be written.

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July 28, 2023

“Duck Ledges Island,” the listing read, “offered in its entirety.”

The accompanying photos showed a scene of stark

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Decor Maine: Gem of Vacationland
by Kathryn Williams

"Places, like people, are hard to pin down, too easy to flatten. And every portraitist, as Pablo Picasso so dramatically demonstrated, has their angle—or angles.  

Painting a picture of Mount Desert Island, Kim Swan’s perspectives are as varied as any cubist master’s: Bar Harbor kid since [...]

Some businesses are especially iconic and landmarks in a community. Chart Room Restaurant with Tidewatch Cabins is one of those in Bar Harbor. Located on the ocean in Hulls Cove, the restaurant is so popular that there are regularly lines of cars at high [...]