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Photo gallery: ‘Tis a Night in Harpswell’ brings in the season with skits and songs

December 12, 2025

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Harpswell residents gather for the annual tree lighting at Centennial Hall in Harpswell on Saturday, Dec. 6. (Bisi Cameron Yee photo)

Carols were sung, love letters written, and chimneys descended during a holiday celebration at Centennial Hall in Harpswell Center on Saturday, Dec. 6. Harpswell Community Theater and the Harpswell Garden Club put on the event, which included the variety show “Tis a Night in Harpswell” and a traditional tree-lighting ceremony.

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Bisi Cameron Yee

Bisi Cameron Yee is an award-winning photojournalist and writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications across Maine.

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Lifelong Harpswell Neck fisherman remembered as cribbage competitor, neighborhood mentor

Sheldon Morse Sr. died Dec. 5, two weeks shy of his 86th birthday. He lived his whole life on the land where he grew up on Allen Point Road, fishing into his late 70s on a boat he built with his father and named after his daughter. Family and fishing were the focal points of his life.

bySam Lemonick

February 2, 2025

7 minute read

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Harpswell still navigating recovery a year after destructive storms

One year after twin storms battered Maine's coastline, ripping apart wharves, docks and buildings, Harpswell is still grappling with the extensive damage and struggling to rebuild.

byJ. Craig Anderson

January 31, 2025

4 minute read

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Harpswell has 44 of Maine’s 600 remaining overboard discharge systems

With no municipal sewer system, almost all of Harpswell's homes and businesses rely on septic systems to handle their wastewater. But a few dozen properties that are too small or too rocky for conventional septic systems still use what are called overboard discharge systems, even as the state and town governments work to replace them.

bySam Lemonick

February 4, 2025

4 minute read

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County Teacher of the Year’s dedication goes beyond the classroom

Rob Messier understands that the crucial first step to helping any young person is to show up and make yourself available, so that's what he does.

byJ. Craig Anderson

October 3, 2023

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