Chris is WDEA's "Sports Guy!" He has been broadcasting MDI and Ellsworth Basketball games for the past 17 years and this is the 16th year of broadcasting MDI Football. In May 2020, he was a honorary inductee into the National Technical Honor Society by Hancock County Technical Center. He is the 2013 Electronic Media Award winner from the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrator's Association in recognition for outstanding electronic media contributions to Maine Interscholastic Athletics. He is the 2015 Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce President’s Award Winner for Sustained and Exceptional Service to the Community In addition to broadcasting the sporting events for Townsquare Media, Chris sells advertising on the Townsquare Media stations. If you want to have your business reach our great community of listeners on the radio and the web, please give Chris a call at 941-1994 or email him at chris.popper@townsquaremedia.com
Chris Popper
Acadia National Park Offers Free Admission
The National Park Service has announced that there will be free admission at all 412 National Parks, including Acadia National Park August 25-28 in celebration of its centennial birthday month.
Air Quality Alert Friday
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued an Air Quality Alert for Coastal Hancock County including Acadia National Park on Friday July 15th from 11 AM to 11 PM.
Lobster Fisherman Lands 1-in-30 Million Catch
Congratulations to Michael Carroll of Southwest Harbor who landed a calico colored lobster aboard the F/V Molly Hock on Monday July 11th.
There’s No Parking In The Ocean [PHOTO]
It happens at least once every year. Someone from away finds what they can only think is the most perfect place to park their vehicle in Bar Harbor. They leave West Street and go to Bridge Street and lo and behold there's a sand bar. A sand bar that leads to Bar Island.
MDI Graduate Creates Beautiful Time-Lapse of MDI, Acadia National Park [VIDEO]
If you have any doubt to the beauty of Acadia National Park, Will Greene, a recent graduate of MDI High School will convince you otherwise, when you watch the video he has created.
Sheriff’s Office Searching for Hancock Man [UPDATE]
The Hancock County Sheriff's Office is searching for Sean Davis, 30, from Hancock.
Missing Teen Found At Area Hospital, Say Ellsworth Police [UPDATE]
The Ellsworth Police Department is seeking a missing teen girl Wednesday evening June 8th. She was last seen at 6:57 p.m. in the vicinity of the Ellsworth Public Library.
Ellsworth PD Caught Doing Something Good
The measure of a man/woman is what they do when they think no one is watching. Officer Gil Jameson of the Ellsworth Police Department demonstrated the kind of man he is, when he saw an elderly woman struggling to put her groceries in the car after shopping.
Sumner Tigers Senior Prank [PHOTO GALLERY]
A huge shout-out to the Sumner Memorial High School Class of 2016 who pulled off not one but a series of Senior Pranks on Friday, June 3, 2016. The Class of '16 Tigers had it going down! Check out the photos!
Disney Magic Cruise Ship to Bar Harbor in 2017
Bar Harbor is going to experience a little "Disney magic" when the Disney Magic Cruise Line makes its maiden voyage to town in September.