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

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

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 ...

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 ...

David Wilson, left, Chris Williams, center, and Austyn Wilson, in the boat, survey the clam conditions in Long Cove, Orr’s Island, Thursday, Sept. 10. (Jim Gerberich photo) Getting your Trinity Audio ...

September always reminds me of tomatoes. Jersey tomatoes grow in abundance at that time of year and I never grew weary of the taste. Those tomatoes are truly in a class of their own.

A Harpswell couple has opened a printing and marketing business in Brunswick, drawing upon their experience in the big-city advertising world and their ability to complement each other’s skills. Great ...

Eider ducks and bald eagles that nest in and around Harpswell have high levels of PFAS chemicals following an August 2024 spill of firefighting foam on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Harpswell has the most lobster licenses of any town in Maine. Those 254 lobstermen fish the most traps of any town in Maine, at 131,200 as of 2022, according to the Island Institute. Harpswell’s ...

Yellow bands secure the claws of a lobster caught in Cundy’s Harbor on June 19. Preliminary data from Maine’s Department of Marine Resources indicate that the state’s lobstermen caught more than 78 ...

It has been many years since Harpswell last considered enlarging its Select Board. I think it is time for taxpayers to reconsider the expansion of the board from three members to five. Why? More and ...