BAR HARBOR, Maine, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Maine Coast Bicycle Tours, offering what the company calls an ideal mix of luxury and activity, is offering a "Stomp the Recession" discount of $200 per person off its popular "All Acadia" tour. The six-day tour features a variety of bicycling routes in Acadia National Park, located near Bar Harbor, ME, along with deluxe inns and gourmet restaurants. "This tour is for those who enjoy being active but also like to be pampered with the finest food, lodging and other amenities," a Maine Coast Bicycle Tours spokesman said, indicating cyclists will spend five nights in the most luxurious inns in Bar Harbor and will dine at several of the resort area's most renowned restaurants. Participants will bike 20 to 30 miles a day (or farther, if they wish) at a comfortable pace, pedaling on the unique carriage roads of Acadia as well as the park's Ocean Drive and Schoodic Peninsula areas.

By ERIC RUSSELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF WINTER HARBOR - It has been three months since representatives of a large-scale development project on more than 3,000 acres of the Schoodic Peninsula brought their ideas to the public.

SULLIVAN - A collaborative public school prekindergarten program at the Mount View School has received approval from the State Department of Education.

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK - To celebrate the 40th annual National Trail Day, the public is invited to participate in events planned for Saturday, June 7.

By ERIC RUSSELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF WINTER HARBOR - A standing-room-only crowd of more than 250 people packed the gymnasium of the Peninsula School on Wednesday evening to hear the first public presentation regarding a proposed large-scale development project.