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BLUE HILL — Two programs at Word, the Blue Hill literary arts festival, will introduce children to the joys of a dark night sky. Word and the Blue Hill

Featured evening speakers will be best-selling novelist Lily King, whose 2021 story collection “Tuesdays in Winter” has received rapturous reviews, and Phuc Tran, Portland author of the celebrated 2020 memoir “Sigh, Gone.”

Island Briefs LED projects qualify for rebates  MOUNT DESERT — The town will pay MCM Electric in Hall Quarry up to $48,600 to replace existing light fixtures with LED lights at the police department in the Town Hall building and in the truck bays at the highway garage.  By participating in the Efficiency Maine rebate program, the town will receive $7,132 in rebates for the two LED projects.  The Board of Selectmen voted at a special meeting Monday to approve the expenditure and to acce...