
By Jeffrey Good • July 31, 2026
The husband of an Orr's Island grandmother who died in a January crash — and the first responders who tried to save her — are asking why the driver accused of killing her was on the road at the time of the crash and for months afterward, despite a record of impaired driving and drug possession.

By Hannah Miller • July 30, 2026
The grand opening of the Harpswell Collective, a gallery and studio space in the former Estes Lobster House, attracted hundreds of curious visitors during the third annual Harpswell Open Studio Tour on July 18 and 19.

By Hannah Miller • July 29, 2026
"History has a bad reputation of being boring," 17-year-old reenactor Addie Miller said. That wasn't so during Harpswell's Colonial Days celebration from July 16-18.

By Hannah Miller • July 27, 2026
Handmade quilts lined the walls of the sanctuary at the Cundy's Harbor Community Church of the Nazarene on Sunday, June 28. Carrying on a tradition that has lasted more than 20 years, volunteers crafted quilts for high school graduates with connections to the church.

By Sam Lemonick • July 20, 2026
The owner of the Mackerel Cove wharf Glen's Lobsters has bought the Angie's Lobster wharf next door, a move that brings a piece of Bailey Island's working waterfront back under local ownership.

By J.W. Oliver • July 13, 2026
A family of four was displaced, but no one was hurt, when a mobile home near Stover's Point caught fire overnight on Sunday, July 12.

By Jeffrey Good • July 8, 2026
After a fisherman spotted a shark swimming near Bailey Island's Cedar Beach in late June, Harpswell town officials raised a purple caution flag alerting beachgoers to the potential risk. But rather than continue to raise and lower warning flags at this and other swimming spots as shark sightings occur, they've decided to keep them up throughout the summer tourist season.

By John Gormley • July 1, 2026
About 30 years ago, Scott Moody was clamming near Harpswell by the Sea when he came across "a monster bed" of shellfish he couldn't identify. "What the hell are these?" he asked himself. He showed some of them to Bob Waddle, a lobsterman and seafood buyer. Waddle recognized them right away: European oysters.
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