Rockweed, a kind of seaweed that thrives all along Harpswell’s rocky shoreline, is often referred to as a foundation species. That’s because many other creatures in the intertidal zone depend on it.
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The Harpswell Marine Resources Committee is asking the town’s Select Board to impose a yearlong ban on new aquaculture leases.
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Glen Gordon isn’t one to shy away from a breaking wave. “If there’s a wave in sight, Glen will go beelining for it,” says his paddling partner, Tom Allen, laughing.
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Local officials, business owners and residents say the town must prepare for increasingly powerful winter storms like the ones that struck coastal Maine on Jan. 10 and 13, as climate change continues its rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine.
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It could take weeks or months for Harpswell residents and business owners who suffered property damage in January’s back-to-back storms to learn how much, if any, financial assistance they’ll receive to help them rebuild.
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The town will use a $50,000 grant from a state climate change program to design improvements for two roads where flooding could cut off residents from their homes and fishermen from town landings and wharves.
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The Harpswell Select Board has contracted R.A. Webber & Sons Inc., of Cundy’s Harbor, to restore the Giant’s Stairs Trail and parking areas for $8,884. The board approved the contract on Thursday, Sept. 28.
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Dozens of residents shared their concerns about how climate change might affect Harpswell at a recent workshop hosted by the town’s Comprehensive Plan Task Force.
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The Quahog Bay Conservancy plans to transform the former Quahog Bay Inn into a “hub of marine research excellence” and revitalize the property’s working waterfront.
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The Harpswell Select Board has ordered the owner of a boat that sank in Mackerel Cove, Bailey Island, this spring to remove it by mid-September.
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Harpswell resident Jerry Leeman III sits in an office chair at a dining room table with his father, Jerry Leeman Jr., on a nearby couch watching TV.
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Paul Joyce, at the helm of a 21-foot center-console motorboat, slowly maneuvered the vessel away from the dock at Bowdoin College’s Schiller Coastal Studies Center on Orr’s Island.
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A trawler that sank to the bottom of Mackerel Cove, Bailey Island, in the 1990s leaked diesel fuel into the cove on Monday, July 10.
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On a sunny spring day, it’s typical to find the average Harpswellian lounging by the shore, cutting through currents in a kayak, or simply enjoying whatever leisurely outside activity suits them best.
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Harpswell’s dramatic rocky shores are a big part of what makes the town such an attractive place to live. They also make it a precarious place to call home. The great majority of the residences here depend on drilled wells for their water.
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If you were looking for an example of the range of problems that can affect groundwater in Harpswell, you need only go to Cundy’s Harbor, where the Holbrook Community Foundation owns a wharf, restaurant, general store and apartment building.
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Before Walt Dunlap moved in 2011 to the shores of Maquoit Bay, just south of Brunswick, he did his homework. A licensed land surveyor, Dunlap knew the steep banks sloping down to the ocean were unstable and prone to erosion.
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Meredith White began her education as a marine biologist while a child exploring the tidal pools around Potts Point in Harpswell. White was recently named supervisor of the state’s Nearshore Marine Resources Program.
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Harpswell’s Resiliency and Sustainability Committee has asked the town to create a $100,000 fund to help pay for future projects related to climate change.
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Martha Spiess, a retired veterinarian, began testing waters in Brunswick for PFAS, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, after hearing news of “forever chemicals” contaminating Maine farms.
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