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Handmade quilts lined the walls of the sanctuary at the Cundy's Harbor Community Church of the Nazarene on Sunday, June 28. Carrying on a tradition that has lasted more than 20 years, volunteers crafted quilts for high school graduates with connections to the church.

The owner of the Mackerel Cove wharf Glen's Lobsters has bought the Angie's Lobster wharf next door, a move that brings a piece of Bailey Island's working waterfront back under local ownership.

A family of four was displaced, but no one was hurt, when a mobile home near Stover's Point caught fire overnight on Sunday, July 12.

After a fisherman spotted a shark swimming near Bailey Island's Cedar Beach in late June, Harpswell town officials raised a purple caution flag alerting beachgoers to the potential risk. But rather than continue to raise and lower warning flags at this and other swimming spots as shark sightings occur, they've decided to keep them up throughout the summer tourist season.

A speedy response by bystanders helped prevent a diesel spill of about 40-50 gallons from polluting the waters of Cundy's Harbor on Wednesday, June 24.