BAR HARBOR BANKSHARES

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This proxy statement voting roadmap highlights certain information contained elsewhere in this proxy statement for the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders or any adjournments or postponements thereof (the “Annual Meeting”) of Bar Harbor Bankshares (“BHB,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or similar terms). This voting roadmap does not contain all of the information you should consider. You should read the entire proxy statement carefully before voting.

Election of Directors

To hold a non-binding advisory vote approving the compensation of our named executive officers.

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To ratify the selection of Crowe LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

VOTING PROCEDURES AND METHOD OF COUNTING VOTES

Each share of common stock is entitled to cast one vote for each matter to be voted on at the Annual Meeting. Cumulative voting is not permitted.

If a proxy card is properly executed, returned to BHB and not revoked, the shares represented by the proxy card will be voted in accordance with the instructions set forth on the proxy card. If you are a shareholder of record and you return a signed and dated proxy card without marking any voting selections, the shares represented will be voted:

I. “For” each of the Board nominees named in this proxy statement (the “Director Nominees”);

II. “For” the non-binding advisory vote approving the compensation of our named executive officers (the “NEOs” or the “Named Executive Officers”);

III. “For” the ratification of Crowe LLP (“Crowe”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; and

IV. “For” the amendment of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the total number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000.

For participants in Bar Harbor Bankshares’s 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”), the Plan trustee shall vote the shares for which it has not received voting direction from the Plan participants utilizing the same voting percentages derived from the Plan participants who did direct how their shares are to be voted.

If your shares are held by your broker, bank, or other agent as your nominee, you will need to obtain a proxy card from the organization that holds your shares and follow the instructions on that form regarding how to instruct your broker, bank, or other agent to vote your shares. Brokers, banks, or other agents that have not received voting instructions from their clients cannot vote on their clients’ behalf with respect to proposals that are not “routine” but may vote their clients’ shares on “routine” proposals. A broker non-vote occurs when a broker holding shares for a beneficial owner does not vote on a particular proposal because the broker does not have discretionary voting power with respect to that proposal and has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner (“broker non-vote”). Proposals 1 and 2 are considered a non-routine matter, and Proposals 3 and 4 are considered a routine matter. Therefore, your broker only has discretionary authority to vote your shares with respect to Proposals 3 and 4. In the absence of specific instructions from you, your broker does not have discretionary authority to vote your shares with respect to Proposals 1 and 2. Although broker non-votes are counted as shares that are present at the Annual Meeting and entitled to be cast for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum, they will not be counted as votes cast and will not have any effect on voting for a non-routine proposal presented at the Annual Meeting.

The Board at present knows of no other business to be brought before the Annual Meeting. However, persons named in the proxy, or their substitutes, will have discretionary authority to vote on any other business which may properly come before the Annual Meeting and will vote the proxies in accordance with the recommendations of the Board.

The Bar Harbor Club, 111 West Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

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Voting Requirements Summary Table

The following table sets forth, among other things, the vote required for approval of each of the proposals to be presented at the Annual Meeting:

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