Photo gallery: Horse-drawn wagon rides delight children in Cundy’s Harbor

More Harpswell motorists have collided with deer in recent years, leading law enforcement and town officials to recommend heightened vigilance on local roads. Some are urging more residents to hunt the animals or allow local hunters on their land.

"Swedish settlers began arriving in northern Maine in 1870, leaving behind famine and feudalism. They were paupers and most went to the Midwest, but Maine's economy needed labor to build rail lines. Bowdoin graduate W.W. Thomas Jr. was consul to Sweden during the Civil War, and he helped recruit a group of settlers who were no strangers to hard winters and rocky soil."

"One night at the warming center, I looked around and thought of the movie "Groundhog Day." We were all doing the same thing every day, waking up without a home and then passing the day. Some people smoke it away or drink it away. Some people, including me, go to the library. But we all end up back in that same spot, sleeping on blankets spread across the hard floor."