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Housing as the Primary Health Concern
Mount Desert Island Hospital and Healthy Acadia have recently completed the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Action Plan for the Mount Desert Island Region. This includes the four MDI towns plus Cranberry Isles, Frenchboro, Swan's Island, Hancock, Lamoine, and Trenton.
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Conference Center Dedicated to Kogod Family
Mount Desert 365 is excited to announce the dedication of its conference center to Arlene and Robert Kogod, longtime summer residents of Seal Harbor and ardent supporters of the Mount Desert Island community.
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Housing on MDI is Everyone’s Issue
I was born and raised in Southwest Harbor, graduated from MDIHS in 1989, and lived on MDI off and on until 1998. I moved away for my career and recently returned to the place I always called home in 2020. It has been astounding to see how much change has happened on the island during the past 20 or so years. In my memory, affordable housing has always been a challenge here, and people would often move out of their homes in the summer to rent them even when I was young.
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Saving Our Community Together
The Islander’s recent article about our work and plans for a subdivision in Northeast Harbor of year-round homes created quite a stir. We were aware of the petition opposed to our plans. Clearly many others are in favor. To our surprise, and delight, a counter petition was created over New Year’s weekend that has already gathered over 160 signatures, and many supportive comments.