
By Jeffrey Good • August 2, 2026
"Did I always want to be a priest? It's an unfortunate answer, but it shows God has a sense of humor — and knows what he's doing. I was going to Seton Hall University on a track scholarship. It's a Division I school, so I was pretty fast. I went to the weight room, went to the workouts. The one thing I wasn't going to was the classes."

By Bisi Cameron Yee • August 1, 2026
The dining hall at the historic Auburn Colony in South Harpswell overflowed with members on a Wednesday evening in July. A breeze off Casco Bay ruffled the sheer white curtains. There was an energy in the air, a buzz of anticipation.

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.
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