Central Maine Power is nearly finished with a project to upgrade more than three miles of power infrastructure leading to the Harpswell Town Office and surrounding facilities, according to the utility. The town needs the upgrade to make planned improvements such as a new office HVAC system and recycling center enhancements.
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Completing the first major update to Harpswell’s comprehensive plan in nearly two decades will require input from a wide variety of local interests, said officials at an open house on Wednesday, May 24, designed to explain individual components of the plan and gather residents’ feedback and suggestions.
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It’s easy to think of technology as cold and impersonal, but it can be capable of deeply moving feats such as bringing closure to a decades-old tragedy and reviving the memory of a lost loved one.
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Nearly 150 residents of Harpswell, Topsham, Bowdoin and Bowdoinham have endorsed the $52.8 million Maine School Administrative District 75 budget for the upcoming academic year.
The overwhelming approval of the district’s 6.5% budget increase occurred in a town meeting-style vote at Mt. Ararat Middle School’s Orion Performing Arts Center on Thursday, May 18. The meeting is the first step of a two-step voter approval process. Now the issue will go to a budget validation referendum on June 13.
A top official at Harpswell Coastal Academy said a local resident has come forward to purchase the dissolving charter school’s campus on Ash Point Road in Harpswell after a recent auction to sell the property ended in uncertainty. The new buyer’s identity had not been made public as of Friday, May 19.
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