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  1. Vacancy; Bar Harbor businesses reporting a slow summer so far

    It was noon and humid, and the mercury was creeping toward 90 degrees. The lines at Ben & Bill's Chocolate Emporium in Bar Harbor should have stretched out the door. But only two tourists were inside the cool, sweet-smelling shop, pondering which flavors of homemade ice cream to select. They were far outnumbered by the staff who waited behind the counter to scoop up their cones or weigh pounds of specialty chocolate.


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  2. BOOK KEEPERS; How do independent sellers stay in business?

    You've got to have a gimmick these days in the book-selling world. The larger bookstores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble have size and resources on their side. A daunting number of volumes fill up their thousands of square feet of shelves and their customers sip trendy coffee drinks as they peruse new paperbacks and magazines in the chains' bustling cafes.


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  3. Bird flu scenario dire, says expert; Huge death toll, global panic likely

    It's beginning to look like when, not if, planning should begin for a bird flu epidemic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist told a full house Wednesday at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.


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  4. It's heavy duty; Restoring park trails, Acadia crew moves rocks in a hard place

    You can hear the trail crew members long before you see them in Acadia National Park. Shouts and the reverberating clunk of rock against rock echo through the thick canopy of leaves near Jordan Pond, alerting hikers to the work in progress in this formerly peaceful corner of Acadia National Park.


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  5. Very rare crustacean caught by Down East lobsterman

    The newest addition to the Mount Desert Oceanarium's lobster colony looks half-baked. But it's nothing personal. The rare 1-pound crustacean, caught earlier this week in Steuben, is a genetic mutation with a two-toned shell.


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