Harpswell News

Steve Vance of Harpswell is the new certified hand therapist at Select Physical Therapy in Brunswick.

Cundy's Harbor resident Terry Alexander sums up the rise and fall of groundfishing in Harpswell, and Maine, when he describes his family's participation in the industry.

Harpswell builds girls with courage, confidence and character. Harpswell has twenty-one girls enrolled in Girl Scouts this year.

At backyard barbecues, weddings, charity benefits, dances and other events, to the occasional cable TV appearance, Mike Chipman and the Big Chips Trio are a familiar sight and sound in the Midcoast area.

You swear you'll have your deck dismantled, come spring, when you're shoveling it in January.

The 88-foot offshore Maine dragger Aaron & Melissa II steamed over Middlebank the morning after New Year's Day to offload in Gloucester.

HARPSWELL a ' Mary Beth McCormack, 52, of Harpswell Neck Road, passed away at home with family at her side early Tuesday, Dec.

HARPSWELL, Maine a ' The Maine Marine Patrol says a 27-year-old Bath man died after falling from a lobster boat into icy water off the coast.

Youth at the Islands Community Church on Bailey Island know a thing or two about helping others.

Over fifty years ago, a bicentennial celebration inspired the idea of a World War II memorial, to be established at the Old Harpswell Meeting House located at Harpswell Center.

When longtime Harpswell resident Connie Henry is asked about Kellogg Church's upcoming blood drive, it doesn't take her long before she's saying: "It's really dreadful." Is she describing the inconvenience, the pain, the blood? Nope.

A lobsterman drowned Thursday morning in the town of Harpswell. The victim has been identified as Christopher Hanna, 27, of Bath.

Time after time, Kaile Warren has told the world his story. He was a down-on-his-luck handyman from Maine, out of work and sleeping amid rats in an abandoned waterfront warehouse, when his prayers for help were answered with a middle-of-the-night vision for a business, complete with a slogan: Rent-A-Husband. For those jobs that never get done.

A This winter when you see a snow plow clearing the roads, it will have a different name on the door.

For many years I have been an outspoken advocate for directing resources towards protecting working waterfront.

I haven't talked about the chickens lately, but I have big news. We are starting to get eggs on a daily basis! The older girls have started laying, and the second younger batch of six should also be laying in the next few weeks.

Ann Young, 11, stitched those words on her sampler in the early 1800s. It is easy, looking at her work, to imagine the child at her mother's knee, needle in hand, making the thousands of cross-stitches that make up the letters of the alphabet, the numerals and the words of the verse.

Keep Saturday night, December 4th, open on your calendar. That's when Harpswell's great, young songbird, Dorie Barnes, has her next gig, together with her accompanist, Jessie Feinberg, at downtown Bath's hot new gourmet restaurant, Solo Bistro.

In 1959, Howard Hutchins' parents bought Land's End, a small snack bar at the last stop on Bailey Island before the ocean.

The Chart House Coastal Compound includes the Chart House, Compass Rose Lodge, Studio Guest House and Detached Garage.