FOOD & DRINK

WERU sends weekly reports to the music industry representatives which keeps new music flowing into the station. Below are our most recent top recording reports for the week ending on Sunday, May 21st, 2023. Our next weekly airplay chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 30th. Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9...

BAR HARBOR — The Oceanarium and Education Center is set to open for its first full season on May 17. This comes after Dick Post of Lexington, MA took over ownership in 2021, transforming the Mount Desert Oceanarium into a marine education hub. Executive director Jeff Cumming said the change "allows us to kind of pursue the mission of education." The facility, now run as a nonprofit, is primed to host Maine public schools and families alike for enriching, hands-on learning experiences.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) -Local Television news stories are invaluable documents of American life during the second half of the 20th century, a time of profound change. Corey Bouchard takes a look at how that digitized footage made it’s way back home and what it takes to bring you Throwback Thursday each week.

BAR HARBOR— Springtime on Mount Desert Island is a bird lover’s paradise. As the weather warms up and the snow melts away, the island comes alive with the songs and calls of hundreds of bird species. One of a chickadee’s many calls sounds like “spring’s here, spring’s here”...

BAR HARBOR — The Acadia Community Theater is gearing up for its spring musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” which will be performed on the Higgins Demas Stage at Mount Desert Island High School June 2-10. At a rehearsal last Wednesday, Director Angel Hochman put her cast through their paces with a run-through.

BAR HARBOR — Last season, a driver from New Jersey got his Ford Bronco stuck in the mudflats between Bar Harbor and Bar Island until a salvage company floated it to a sandbar. When the Ford Bronco was stuck for three days in the Atlantic Ocean on the bar...

BAR HARBOR — Bonnie Chase and Bill Calvert will share their knowledge of the monarch butterfly on Friday, May 26, at Birch Bay Village, exploring its amazing life cycle and one of the world’s most incredible long-distance migration journeys. Chase will speak about the basic biology of monarch...

BAR HARBOR — Kotwica, meaning “anchor,” a cultural symbol of freedom, plays folk music from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Directed by David Rapkievian of Bar Harbor, the group features musicians on fiddle, button accordion, balalaika, guitar and string bass. Kotwica will be performing at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, at Jesup Memorial Library.

ELLSWORTH, Maine (WABI) - Clothes Encounter has been a staple on Water Street in Ellsworth for the last decade, but it’s constantly finding ways to reinvent itself. You could say the same about some of the items sold there. On June 1st, Clothes Encounter will celebrate ten years in...

Editor's note: This article was written by a Townsquare Media Northern New England contributor and may contain the individual's views, opinions, or personal experiences. A popular travel site recently showered plenty of praise towards one of Maine's most cherished spots, Acadia National Park. The Pine Tree State's golden child was...

A woman with a heart for canines is this year's Small Business Administration's Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Elissa Nally owns Something To Wag About, a doggie daycare and grooming business in Ellsworth dedicated to the health and happiness of each pet that passes through its doors. At Something To...

This week's "Pet Of The Week" is just the right amount of pretty and playful. According to Cole over at the Hancock County SPCA, Nav is all kinds of fun. "If you’re looking for a young, playful, and affectionate kitty, the SPCA of Hancock County has a perfect cat for you! Navi, short for Na’vi River Journey, came to Maine from Maryland in January and has been searching for her purrfect home. "

Rosalie's Pizza on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor is reopening for the 2023 season on Wednesday, May 17. Now you can sit in the window on the second floor and watch everyone walk by on Cottage Street while biting into a pizza loaded with pepperoni, green pepper, and onions. Rosalie's...

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — When the owner of Harbor Barber announced she was ready to move her business to a new location, Common Good Soup Kitchen jumped at the opportunity to expand its seating using the space next door. The new dining room on Clark Point Road will open on...

BAR HARBOR — Healthy Acadia is partnering with Maine Senior FarmShare and Maine Federation of Farmers Markets to launch a new Senior FarmShare program at the Bar Harbor Eden Farmers’ Market. Senior Farm Share is designed to support lower-income older adults in accessing healthy food while also ensuring that Maine farmers are fairly compensated for the food they grow.

It’s food truck season again, and now there is a brand new lunch option in Ellsworth!. Ladies and gentleman...I give you the “Salsa Shack”. I have a true obsession with food trucks. My dream is to have my own reality tv show, where I travel the country and sample all kinds of food and give my opinions. Since that probably won't happen, luckily for all of us, the Bangor area and beyond, has so many options to sample delicious cuisine, and you can add another one to the list.

The beer scene in Maine is no longer a secret, with visitors associating Vacationland with beer as much as they do lobster and moose. But as with any popular attraction that people will travel for, different cities and towns in Maine have been working hard to become the beer capital of the Pine Tree state. While Portland has carried the mantle as a beer lover's destination, there's another small town in Maine that is getting a lot of recognition.

BAR HARBOR [Maine] — Last season, a driver from New Jersey got his Ford Bronco stuck in the mudflats between Bar Harbor and Bar Island until a salvage company floated it to a sandbar…. Now, 12 cartoonists have taken up their pens to draw about the event with the...

Remember last year when the SUV from away got stranded between Bar Harbor and Bar Island on the bar? No. How about when a car did the same thing? The story is, during low tide, driver drives where they shouldn't. Leaves the vehicle and the tide comes in. Oops. Not...

ELLSWORTH — “Charlotte’s Web,” directed by Brent Hutchins, returns to The Grand June 2-4 with new cast members and a production designed especially for the Stanley Subaru Stage. This is a community-driven live theatre production based on the book by E.B. White and adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette.