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The Harpswell Select Board has chosen a contractor to demolish an aging military structure at George J. Mitchell Field, known as the administration building, with work expected to commence in December.

The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a fatal fire that broke out early Tuesday inside a house on Harpswell Neck.

Two people were rescued the evening of Oct. 6 after their boat lost power and ran aground on Great Mark Island near Harpswell, prompting a dramatic water rescue involving local lobstermen, emergency responders and a private salvage crew.

With the goal of better serving customers in east Brunswick and Harpswell, Morning Glory Natural Foods plans to open a second location at Brunswick Landing in March of next year.

Organizers of the 33rd annual Harpswell Lobster Boat Races were thrilled to present the event’s largest-ever donation of $30,000 to the Harpswell Santa Fund in late September.

The nonprofit Friends of Casco Bay has added telemetry equipment and a rooftop weather station to its existing data-collection site in Cundy's Harbor, with plans to offer the public online access to real-time ocean and weather data.

A legal analysis by the Portland law firm Drummond Woodsum has found that a new state law intended to boost affordable housing in Maine will affect Harpswell's ability to restrict higher-density development.

The well that has supplied water to Karen Krag's family cottage on Bailey Island for more than 75 years ran dry for the first time this summer. Then it went dry again, and again — nine times and counting, she said.