College of the Atlantic News

Scott Swann, lecturer at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, uses calipers to measure a gull egg found Tuesday, May 22, 2012, on Egg Rock off Mount Desert Island.

Starting with violin lessons, progressing to piano at age 8 and later the clarinet and tenor saxophone at age 12, McKay now holds distinction as an award-winning composer.

Sure, the men wore dress shirts and slacks while the women donned colorful spring dresses and shoes that wouldn't sink in soft soil.

MILLINOCKET, Maine - Lillian N. Dow, daughter of Donald Dow III and Nichole Jamo, has been named valedictorian of her class.

Hunter McKay recently took third place for an original composition he submitted to a statewide music competition.

Four leases for land in Barrington dominated the Town Council meeting Monday night.

BAR HARBOR, Maine - A dancer since the age 5, Bo Dennis studied ballet for 10 years, then modern dance and beyond.

Community-driven classical theatre comes to Bar Harbor This spring marks the launching of a new community-based theatre company for the residents of Mount Desert Island and Hancock County: the Harborside Shakespeare Company.

Senior College's popular Festival of Art, a non-juried exhibition by amateur and professional Maine artists of a certain age , turns 10 this year and will open with a 5:45 p.m. red-carpet/ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by an evening to meet the artists and see their work Thursday, May 10 at University of Maine's Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont ... (more)

The Town Council will be asked tonight to renew the lease agreement for Haines Memorial State Park .