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Fishnet Cafe owner Joan Ouellette has sold her popular Bailey Island restaurant to niece Sara King, who plans to reopen the seasonal eatery in May. If you're going to sell your restaurant, what better person to buy it than someone in your own family?

Building a canoe isn't just an exercise for the hands — it also engages the mind in a variety of ways. In the case of Mt. Ararat Middle School students Keegan Pennell and Carter Decker, canoe-building has become a gateway to developing a greater passion for learning in general.

Uncle Pete's Community Market has new owners who are keeping the store open seven days a week instead of five. The Patel family — Sky, Mike, M.P. and Annie — immediately made the change after buying the market next to the post office on Harpswell Neck Road.

Why own just one restaurant when you can have two? "Life is short," said Khristine Leeman, who, with her husband, Zac Leeman, launched Sundrenched on Bailey Island in 2022.