Walpole News

Wanted: curious, hardworking University of Maine students to spend 10 weeks seeing the world from the decks of a schooner.

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.

On the wall of a home in Walpole hangs a faded document dated July 18, 1932, a oeA Tribute to Maine.a The owner had found it in a flea market, framed it and kept it as a historic relic.

WALPOLE : The state should have an easement on the Spruce Head Fishermen's Cooperative within a few months to assure that the waterfront parcel remains open to commercial fishing for perpetuity.

SPRUCE HEAD : The state has dramatically scaled back its offer to subsidize the purchase of the Spruce Head Fishermen's Cooperative for the fishermen who have leased it for decades.

Creamy white frosting covered some of their chins Saturday and their fingers were coated with chocolate, but the mess didn't bother participants of the inaugural Whoopie Pie Festival.

When Sir Robert Walpole was dismissed from all his responsibilities at his work, he retired to Houghton and walked into the library.

ROUND POND : Local lobstermen and members of the business community in Round Pond recently teamed up with 25 volunteers from around the state to clean 220 derelict lobster traps from the shores of Bar Island in Muscongus Bay.