The local school board has approved the purchase of a larger, wheelchair-accessible school bus that will reduce crowding on a ...

Bus drivers for the local school district are pressing the school board to offer them competitive pay and benefits in order ...

Fast and strategic work by firefighters kept a blaze that had been growing inside a private art gallery from roaring out of control Saturday evening off Basin Point Road. After hearing a report of ...

“Curious,” an exhibition featuring the work of Orr’s Island artists Catherine and Robert Gibson, is on display in the River Room at River Arts in Damariscotta through Oct. 7. The exhibition, which ...

Government transparency advocates say the state went too far in redacting an investigator’s report on a fatal March 2025 house fire on Bailey Island, withholding details that are typically disclosed ...

The husband of an Orr’s Island grandmother who died in a January crash — and the first responders who tried to save her — are asking why the driver accused of killing her was on the road at the time ...

The Home Repairs Team from Harpswell Aging at Home gathers for a job at Jeff Wootan’s house on Harpswell Neck. Wootan, a volunteer with the organization’s food operation, was recovering from an injury ...

Little Mark Island and Monument in Casco Bay. The town of Harpswell and The Presumpscot Foundation are continuing a multiple-year effort to acquire the island and its one-of-a-kind tower from the ...

Joseph and Laura Grady, the longtime operators of Two Coves Farm on Harpswell Neck, stand inside the farm’s cattle barn on Dec. 12. An arbitrator’s ruling has ordered the Gradys to vacate the farm by ...

The Bailey Island Post Office at 2120 Harpswell Islands Road. The privately owned building is for sale, with restrictions intended to keep it a post office as long as the U.S. Postal Service will ...

Clam diggers and other harvesters are reporting huge shellfish die-offs in mudflats around town. Harpswell's harbormaster and marine resources administrator, Darcie Couture, said it may be linked to a ...

Aquaculture is transforming Harpswell’s waterfront. Floating oyster cages and marker buoys now share space with lobster traps, signaling a shift driven by warming waters, market demand and ...