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You Aren't Gonna Believe What Happened Upta Camp!

In September, we’re bringing back our popular Hunting in Maine special section. But we’re lacking something... HUMOR! We need your camp stories! Tell us about the ones you bagged and the ones that got away. Fill us in on that time Uncle Bob fell in the outhouse, who snores the loudest and who cheats at cards!

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ATV & Snowmobile Registration

ATV and snowmobile registrations are valid from July 1st through June 30th of the following year.  ATV renewals submitted before May 1 will expire June 30th of the current year; renewals submitted after May 1 will expire June 30th of the following year.  The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife now offers online renewals, click the link below to learn more.
 
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Outdoor
Board Meeting

MOUNT DESERT — The MDI Skatepark Association gave 80 blank skateboard decks to artists and community members to design as they wished. Check out the cool art and help raise money to build a public skatepark on Mount Desert Island at a gala slated to be held at the Joy Building lot on Main Street in Northeast Harbor on Thursday, from 4 to 7 p.m. For more information visit mdiskatepark.org/auction/.

 
Echo Lake Swim

MOUNT DESERT — The 16th Annual Bill Reeve Echo Lake Swim returns on Saturday at 10 a.m.

 
All in the Family

It is summer in Maine and the time for lobster bakes, blueberry picking and a gathering of the clans — family clans, that is.

 
Gun Buffs Plan Park Picnic Protest

ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo-boo will have more than just picnic baskets to keep an eye out for here this weekend.

 
Ready to Roll

BAR HARBOR — Alex Wilkinson and other volunteers built a demonstration skateboard ramp Friday at the town athletic field in Bar Harbor. Leaders of the SkateMDI organization hope the ramp’s visibility will help them raise $250,000 for a permanent, in-ground skateboard park on the site.

 
Acadia is Tops

WILMINGTON, Del. — To help cycling enthusiasts plan their own “Tour de U.S.A.,” HotelsCombined.com has identified its top 10 American biking destinations. From dirt roads to carefully structured paved tracks, great biking trails throughout the United States provide a variety of terrain, scenery, challenges and experiences for riders of differing abilities and cycling goals. Thrill-seekers can trace along metropolitan parks in Sacramento, Calif., bike on the edge of swampy bayous and saltwater marshes in Louisiana or ride through forests and meadows in Busse Woods near Chicago, Ill.

 
Along the Boardwalk

It used to be little more than an underused muddy track covered for most of the spring and summer with ankle-deep water.

 
Decked Out

BAR HARBOR — MDI Skatepark Association presents DeckedOut on MDI, a skateboard art show and auction on July 10 through Aug. 10. The show will be held at these and other MDI locations: Jesup Memorial Library, 34 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor; Randonnee Cafe, 37 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor; Cadillac Mountain Sports & Patagonia & North Face Stores, Cottage Street, Bar Harbor: Reel Pizza Cinerama, 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor; Morning Glory Bakery, 39 Rodick Street, Bar Harbor; Bar Harbor Bank & Trust branches: Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Somesville and Southwest Harbor.

 
Any-Deer

AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is accepting applications for the annual Any-Deer (Antlerless) Permit Lottery, and hunters will find it easy to enter online.