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The third-generation owner of a commercial wharf on Harpswell Neck wants to ensure it remains working waterfront. Soon, he hopes to reach an agreement to sell a covenant on the property to the state, which would protect the wharf forever.

As they hunt for fish, common terns are a delight to behold. These smallish gray-and-white birds with black caps and orange beaks swoop low over the water.

Brunswick's Region 10 Technical High School will begin the school year under the leadership of a new director and superintendent, Shawn Chabot. Chabot joins Region 10 with more than 25 years of experience in Maine schools.

It ain't easy being a clammer. The soft-shell clam fishery — the second-most-valuable fishery in the state last year — is facing increasing pressures from climate change and is being picked apart by the invasive green crab.

Esther Root was a child of the 1920s, coming of age in that decade when women were abandoning 19th-century values and embracing experience in often controversial ways.

Mount Washington, which one can see on a clear day from high points in Harpswell, looms large in Clint Cunningham's childhood memories.

The Cundy's Harbor Volunteer Fire Department needs more emergency responders. Several members have recently resigned or retired from the service, and new recruits are scarce. "We're holding on by the skin of our teeth," says Fire and Rescue Chief Benjamin Wallace Jr.

Ron Webber was working for the town of Brunswick in 1962, trying to support his wife and children on $38 a week in take-home pay. At the suggestion of a friend, he decided to try making some extra money pumping septic tanks.

If it's possible for a place to be in a person's DNA, Harpswell and the surrounding area are in jeweler Keith Field's. With four generations of Mainers behind him, he has a sense of place and time rooted in community, and that sense informs his art.

When Jane Covey began volunteering and growing at the Harpswell Community Garden around 2012, the garden saw persistent problems with drainage, water access and soil quality.