Harpswell News

This year's mid-August to mid-October U.S. Grand Banks swordfishery period has generally left its catchers, consumers and purveyors smiling.

The "Gloucester rally," as chief organizer Amanda Odlin terms the casually organized mass meeting tomorrow morning to vent grievances against the U.S. system of regulating fisheries, is expected to draw hundreds of working fishermen, but possibly not a single politician.

Shortly after Harpswell town meeting approved a Master Plan for Mitchell Field two years ago, the Mitchell Field Implementation Committee began working to realize the goals outlined in that plan.

After a summer's worth of public meetings and heated back-and-forth, a date has still not been set for voters to voice their official say on the effort to consolidate Harpswell's two elementary schools.

Editorial: Where we stand on local and state ballot questions Published: Oct 27, 2009 10:10 am - There are several local ballot questions facing voters in The Forecaster coverage area Nov.

At Finestkind Boatyard in Harpswell, Maine, Mark Hubbard and his crew are turning a Young Brothers 38-foot lobster yacht that was built in 1986 into a lobster boat.

As a special tie-in with the Brick Store Museum's ongoing exhibition "Quilts from the Collections of the Brick Store Museum," the museum is hosting "The Patchwork Series." On three separate Saturdays, different quilters will showcase and demonstrate various facets of their craft.

In 1979, Ruth Weeks of South Harpswell began reading a 12-page Halloween story and 30 years later she is still at it.

The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram has announced the Top 10 winners in its 'Dash of Inspiration ... Women Motivating Women' contest.

Mr. and Mrs. David Pickering of Harpswell, Maine, formerly of Kennebunk, are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Brooks Montgomerey Pickering, to Kelsey Leigh Kuhwald, daughter of Mr.

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HARPSWELL, Maine a ' The Coast Guard says two boaters are safe after their motorboat ran aground and began taking on water in Casco Bay.

Rough waters lie ahead as Maine and New Brunswick work to secure ties to what may emerge as a key fuel in the coming decades, liquefied natural gas, or LNG.

You may have seen him flying around the skies of Harpswell. First, you heard a small aircraft; as it came closer something in the sound was different and you looked up.

A chronological compilation of local police and fire calls from all four editions of The Forecaster, covering 14 Maine cities and towns: Portland, Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Freeport, North Yarmouth, Chebeague Island, South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Bath, Brunswick, Harpswell and Topsham.

You've heard of the Trail of Tears, the Yellow Brick Road to Oz, The Primrose Path and the Road to Hell, which is paved with good intentions.

ROCKLAND : The Methodist Conference Home will host a 40th Anniversary Party on Friday, Sept.

Commercial fishermen all across the region - like Bill Doughty and Bill Amaru - are discovering serious errors in government issued catch histories for the 10-year period chosen to determine how much they can catch and earn in 2010 - the first year of "catch share" sector fishing.

Plans to open new facilities to import liquefied natural gas, or LNG, have met with loud and sometimes successful opposition in many parts of the country.

HARPSWELL : An exhibition of photographs from Olive Pierce's "Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community" will open Tuesday, Sept.