The Bar Harbor Story & Acadia Adventures!
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The Bar Harbor Story is an alternative daily news and features site that focuses on the people, places, and events of Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, and Mount Desert Island Region. Sometimes we even venture to the rest of Hancock County, Maine.
People We've Lost.
Matthew S. Tate. Sally Clark. Elizabeth “Lily” (McEldowney) Hall.
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Matthew S. Tate. Sally Clark. Elizabeth “Lily” (McEldowney) Hall.
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People We've Lost
Matthew S. Tate. Sally Clark. Elizabeth “Lily” (McEldowney) Hall.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
People We've Lost.
Matthew S. Tate. Sally Clark. Elizabeth “Lily” (McEldowney) Hall.
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Matthew S. Tate. Sally Clark. Elizabeth “Lily” (McEldowney) Hall.
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Bar Harbor Likely Is Moving Toward Months More of Lodging Limits.
Many Moratoriums Later, Bar Harbor Faces Its Next Big Lodging Decision This Month.
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Many Moratoriums Later, Bar Harbor Faces Its Next Big Lodging Decision This Month.
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Bar Harbor Likely Is Moving Toward Months More of Lodging Limits
Many Moratoriums Later, Bar Harbor Faces Its Next Big Lodging Decision This Month
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December 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Bar Harbor Likely Is Moving Toward Months More of Lodging Limits.
Many Moratoriums Later, Bar Harbor Faces Its Next Big Lodging Decision This Month.
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Many Moratoriums Later, Bar Harbor Faces Its Next Big Lodging Decision This Month.
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From Digital Heart Models to Digital Fundraisers: Jackson Lab Leans Into AI.
Multiple firsts for the Jackson Laboratory this week: Lab develops world's first autonomous AI engagement officer.
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Multiple firsts for the Jackson Laboratory this week: Lab develops world's first autonomous AI engagement officer.
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From Digital Heart Models to Digital Fundraisers: Jackson Lab Leans Into AI
Multiple firsts for the Jackson Laboratory this week: Lab develops world's first autonomous AI engagement officer
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December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
From Digital Heart Models to Digital Fundraisers: Jackson Lab Leans Into AI.
Multiple firsts for the Jackson Laboratory this week: Lab develops world's first autonomous AI engagement officer.
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Multiple firsts for the Jackson Laboratory this week: Lab develops world's first autonomous AI engagement officer.
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It's All the Briefs and Press Releases.
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
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(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
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It's All the Briefs and Press Releases
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves)
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December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It's All the Briefs and Press Releases.
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
Free to read, just click through.
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(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
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Proposed Tremont Public Safety Building Slowly Moving Forward.
Trying to do things right and still make grant deadlines.
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Trying to do things right and still make grant deadlines.
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Proposed Tremont Public Safety Building Slowly Moving Forward
Trying to do things right and still make grant deadlines
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December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Proposed Tremont Public Safety Building Slowly Moving Forward.
Trying to do things right and still make grant deadlines.
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Trying to do things right and still make grant deadlines.
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Bar Harbor School Committee Wants a Safer Way for Kids to Reach the YMCA Back. A New Service Plan Could Help.
"Three to a Seat": Bar Harbor Grapples With After-School Safety Fix.
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"Three to a Seat": Bar Harbor Grapples With After-School Safety Fix.
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Bar Harbor School Committee Wants a Safer Way for Kids to Reach the YMCA Back. A New Service Plan Could Help.
"Three to a Seat": Bar Harbor Grapples With After-School Safety Fix
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December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Bar Harbor School Committee Wants a Safer Way for Kids to Reach the YMCA Back. A New Service Plan Could Help.
"Three to a Seat": Bar Harbor Grapples With After-School Safety Fix.
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"Three to a Seat": Bar Harbor Grapples With After-School Safety Fix.
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Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree.
Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island.
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Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island.
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Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree
Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island
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December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree.
Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island.
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Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island.
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Stabilized but Still Evolving, Holy Redeemer Church Pursues District Change for Accessibility and Parking.
Why a Bar Harbor Church Wants a Downtown Residential Rezone for New Parking.
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Why a Bar Harbor Church Wants a Downtown Residential Rezone for New Parking.
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Stabilized but Still Evolving, Holy Redeemer Church Pursues District Change for Accessibility and Parking
Why a Bar Harbor Church Wants a Downtown Residential Rezone for New Parking
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Stabilized but Still Evolving, Holy Redeemer Church Pursues District Change for Accessibility and Parking.
Why a Bar Harbor Church Wants a Downtown Residential Rezone for New Parking.
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Why a Bar Harbor Church Wants a Downtown Residential Rezone for New Parking.
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Top-Ranked Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson Tapped—Yet Again—for Random National Student Assessment.
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Top-Ranked Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson Tapped—Yet Again—for Random National Student Assessment
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Wealth Management.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Top-Ranked Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson Tapped—Yet Again—for Random National Student Assessment.
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Smokey Bear Coming to Trenton Soon.
Community Resilience Grants and Comprehensive Planning Moving Forward.
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Community Resilience Grants and Comprehensive Planning Moving Forward.
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Smokey Bear Coming to Trenton Soon
Community Resilience Grants and Comprehensive Planning Moving Forward
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December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Smokey Bear Coming to Trenton Soon.
Community Resilience Grants and Comprehensive Planning Moving Forward.
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Community Resilience Grants and Comprehensive Planning Moving Forward.
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Holiday Happenings!
Our round-up of MDI region holiday events that we know of so far.
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Our round-up of MDI region holiday events that we know of so far.
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Holiday Happenings!
Our round-up of MDI region holiday events . . . so far.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Holiday Happenings!
Our round-up of MDI region holiday events that we know of so far.
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Our round-up of MDI region holiday events that we know of so far.
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Southwest Harbor Boy Sustained Serious Injuries After Hit By a Truck Yesterday.
Police updates for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, State Police and Hancock County Sheriff's Department.
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Police updates for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, State Police and Hancock County Sheriff's Department.
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Southwest Harbor Boy Sustained Serious Injuries After Hit By a Truck.
Police updates for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, State Police and Hancock County Sheriff's Department.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Southwest Harbor Boy Sustained Serious Injuries After Hit By a Truck Yesterday.
Police updates for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, State Police and Hancock County Sheriff's Department.
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Police updates for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, State Police and Hancock County Sheriff's Department.
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What’s Really Going On Under Mount Desert’s Streets?
Infiltration and old pipes: Mount Desert will look for a methodical plan to fix private and public lines.
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Infiltration and old pipes: Mount Desert will look for a methodical plan to fix private and public lines.
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What’s Really Going On Under Mount Desert’s Streets?
Infiltration and old pipes: Mount Desert will look for a methodical plan to fix private and public lines.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What’s Really Going On Under Mount Desert’s Streets?
Infiltration and old pipes: Mount Desert will look for a methodical plan to fix private and public lines.
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Infiltration and old pipes: Mount Desert will look for a methodical plan to fix private and public lines.
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Bar Harbor’s New School May Get Double the Expected Energy Credit.
Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition.
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Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition.
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Bar Harbor’s New School May Get Double the Expected Energy Credit
Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition
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December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Bar Harbor’s New School May Get Double the Expected Energy Credit.
Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition.
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Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition.
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Town Hill Bear Marked Safe From Bear Season 2025.
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Town Hill Bear Marked Safe From Bear Season 2025
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Town Hill Bear Marked Safe From Bear Season 2025.
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Ruth Colket’s $4 Million Leadership Commitment Anchors MDI Hospital’s Campus Transformation.
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Ruth Colket’s $4 Million Leadership Commitment Anchors MDI Hospital’s Campus Transformation
Press release
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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ruth Colket’s $4 Million Leadership Commitment Anchors MDI Hospital’s Campus Transformation.
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$1.6M Federal Investment to Transform Historic MDI Bio Lab Building Into Biomedical Innovation Hub.
A century-old research building on Frenchman Bay will be modernized to host the MDI Biological Laboratory’s translational science and entrepreneurial initiative.
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A century-old research building on Frenchman Bay will be modernized to host the MDI Biological Laboratory’s translational science and entrepreneurial initiative.
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$1.6M Federal Investment to Transform Historic MDI Bio Lab Building Into Biomedical Innovation Hub
Press Release: A century-old research building on Frenchman Bay will be modernized to host the MDI Biological Laboratory’s translational science and entrepreneurial initiative, MDI Bioscience
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December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
$1.6M Federal Investment to Transform Historic MDI Bio Lab Building Into Biomedical Innovation Hub.
A century-old research building on Frenchman Bay will be modernized to host the MDI Biological Laboratory’s translational science and entrepreneurial initiative.
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A century-old research building on Frenchman Bay will be modernized to host the MDI Biological Laboratory’s translational science and entrepreneurial initiative.
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A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation.
Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us."
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Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us."
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A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation
Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us"
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December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation.
Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us."
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Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us."
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THINGS TO DO IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION THIS WEEK.
And in the near future.
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And in the near future.
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THINGS TO DO IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION THIS WEEK
And in the near future.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
THINGS TO DO IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION THIS WEEK.
And in the near future.
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And in the near future.
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ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week.
It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
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It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
Free to read, just click through.
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ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week.
It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week.
It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
Free to read, just click through.
open.substack.com/pub/barharbo...
It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
Free to read, just click through.
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People We've Lost.
Audrey Sands Mills. Leah P. Lingley. Dwight Littlefield Eaton.
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Audrey Sands Mills. Leah P. Lingley. Dwight Littlefield Eaton.
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People We've Lost.
Audrey Sands Mills. Leah P. Lingley. Dwight Littlefield Eaton.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
People We've Lost.
Audrey Sands Mills. Leah P. Lingley. Dwight Littlefield Eaton.
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Audrey Sands Mills. Leah P. Lingley. Dwight Littlefield Eaton.
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Salvage Firm Trying to Find Insurer of Ship That Sank Off MDI in 1890s.
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Salvage Firm Trying to Find Insurer of Ship That Sank Off MDI in 1890s
By Bill Trotter/BDN
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November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Salvage Firm Trying to Find Insurer of Ship That Sank Off MDI in 1890s.
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A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try.
Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try
Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try.
Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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It's All the Briefs and Press Releases.
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
Free to read, just click through.
open.substack.com/pub/barharbo...
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
Free to read, just click through.
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It's All the Briefs and Press Releases
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves)
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November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's All the Briefs and Press Releases.
(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
Free to read, just click through.
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(So, basically all the inside parts of the paper that reporters don't write themselves.)
Free to read, just click through.
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