Jeffrey Good

Harpswell firefighters are crediting a veteran small-plane pilot with helping them track down and fight a woodland fire that smoldered for hours late on Halloween and into the next day above Gun Point Cove.

Firefighters from Harpswell and neighboring departments labored until late Saturday night and much of Sunday to successfully contain a stubborn woodland fire that began Halloween afternoon and smoldered for nearly 24 hours.

Orr's Island Republican Ben Porter knows he faces a steep challenge in trying to unseat Democratic incumbent Mattie Daughtry as the state senator representing Harpswell and neighboring towns in District 23. But as Porter and supporters campaigned at the corner of Route 24 and Cundy's Harbor Road one recent afternoon, he heard an inspiring sound.

The couple who managed Harpswell's last sizable farm have moved themselves and their livestock off the property and lost their latest appeal to Maine's highest court.

Fast and strategic work by firefighters kept a blaze that had been growing inside a private art gallery from roaring out of control Saturday evening off Basin Point Road.

Ruby Pinders grew up in Maine, spent years building a business with her husband in Vermont, and then came home. As her 77th birthday approached this summer, she traveled to the Giant's Stairs on Bailey Island to walk beside familiar waters.