Bryan Sidelinger
Multimedia Journalist
Bangor, Me
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A year round resident of beautiful Bar Harbor in Acadia National Park. I'm also a knower of all things New England Patriots, a golf junkie, and rueben sandwich connoisseur. I also hold the distinction of being the only person in 1996 who foresaw the timelessness of the song "Return of the Mack."
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‘Milbridge Days’ is one of the largest celebrations of the year in eastern Hancock and Washington Counties.
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COVID cancelled Special Olympic bowling last year and it may not happen again this year.
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Ivan Ivanov competed in the 1996 Olympics for Bulgaria.
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The league that provides an authentic baseball experience for teens and adults- ages 15 and up- with autism and other disabilities, using Major League Baseball rules.
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The non-conference schedule includes the season opener on the road against Nebraska, and the home opener against Providence.
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It’s been nearly three months since Ellsworth Deputy Fire Chief Bobby Dorr passed away.
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Bar Harbor has plenty of gift shops, ice cream shops, bars, restaurants and breakfast places, but it’s never had a donut shop. Until now.
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A recently completed engineering study says the pier at the old ferry terminal in Bar Harbor is not worth saving.
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Plourde's score of 219 was six shots clear of runner-up and defending champ Ruby Haylock.
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The Bangor Historical Society will hold its annual “Soldiers at Rest” tour at the Mount Hope Cemetery Wednesday night.
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On July 15, families nationwide started receiving payments through the expanded Child Tax Credit.
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Maine’s summer tourism season is right around the halfway point and already shaping up to be the busiest on record by far in Bar Harbor.
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The concert was organized by “Last Chance MC,” a clean-and-sober motorcycle club out of Bar Harbor.
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Altogether, the truck, trailer and building totaled 142 feet long by 15 feet wide, weighing in at 200,000 pounds.
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Manuel's three-round score of 121 was one shot better than Will Kannegieser of Portland.
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Kebo Valley was a gracious host and a tough test at the 102nd Maine Amateur Golf Championship.
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Alex McKenney had 43 strikeouts in just 56 and-a-third innings for UMaine this season, and finished the year with a 3.67 ERA
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Will Kannagieser, Caleb Manuel and Joe Alverez are in a three-way tie for first at 3-over par in the 102nd Maine Amateur Golf Tournament
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Lynch was was a driver- and a fixture- in car racing for the better part of three decades, from Hermon to Unity to Wiscasset, and all over New England.
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It’s been two years since Schoodic Arts for All has been able to offer in-person programming, and now that those programs are returning, Schoodic Arts couldn’t be more grateful.
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The Scooter Cannonball is a bi-annual event in which participants ride scooters from one side of the country to the other.
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An open house for the Brownville Historical Society's new featured item will be held later this month.
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The 102nd Maine Amateur Golf Tournament is being played at the oldest golf course in Maine this year.
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A year ago at this time, the holiday fell in the middle of a global pandemic, and many businesses had more uncertainty than they did customers.
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Heavyweight Justin Rolfe of Fairfield has accepted a four-round fight against Steve Torres.
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10-year-old Silas Harper of Tremont was diagnosed in April with Evans Syndrome.
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As they do every summer, Maine Marine Patrol is taking part in Operation Dry Water, a national campaign with a focus on keeping people from boating under the influence.
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Lobsters aren’t the only seafood tourists consume while they’re here on vacation.
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For more than 30 years, Hancock County has leased the old jail to the Ellsworth Historical Society.
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Food trucks aren’t allowed in Bar Harbor, but in the last five years, a half dozen of them have sprung up across the rest of Mount Desert Island.
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The bench sits at the school’s playground at the request of Emilina Rae, who wanted more inclusion at her school after being bullied since kindergarten.
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The Mount Desert Island Historical Society is opening for the 2021 season with two new exhibits at the Somesville Museum and Gardens.
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Folks in Tremont will have to wait until August to share their thoughts, again, on a proposed campground that would offer visitors dozens of places to stay.
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Black Raiders players and fans took us through a weather delay
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The Bar Harbor Food Pantry serves all of MDI and of Hancock County, where food insecurity is as much a reality as it is throughout the state.
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Game time is 4 pm at St. Joes in Standish.
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The Red Riots will play Monmouth Academy for the Class C State Championship.
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The Tigers will play Hall Dale for the Class C crown.
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The Coyotes will face Freeport in a rematch of the 2016 title game.
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The Ellsworth Public Library will have a “Library on the Lawn” this summer.
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Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital is transitioning to a new electronic health record software, joining all other Northern Light Health hospitals.
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Mount Desert Island Hospital has received two $10,000 grants from Bar Harbor residents in honor of their friends and family who have been treated at the hospital.
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Island Connections in Bar Harbor is kicking off a matching donation campaign on Wednesday.
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Dirigo Reads is a program that started in 2019 with the goal of giving a book every month to every first grader in the state
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The roadside food stop is a staple along the coast of Maine.
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With the loosening of COVID restrictions on masks and social distancing, some of Maine’s tourist towns are doing record spring and early summer visitation.
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Sinacola becomes just the fourth Black Bear in program history to be named a First Team All American, and the first since 1991.
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The book is illustrated by Rick Parker, another Mainer who lives in Falmouth.
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Covell came to Orono in 1961 and resurrected a baseball program that hadn’t played in two decades at the time.