New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.
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Before Mitchell Field: The Cold War brings the Navy to Harpswell
A photograph from August 1954 shows the pier at the brand-new Casco Bay Fuel Depot and four of the facility’s 14 fuel storage tanks. Eight deliveries by 130,000-barrel tankers were necessary to fill the tanks. (Courtesy of Terri Gaudet) This is the first in a two-part Harpswell Anchor series about the U.S. Navy’s development and […]
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Topsham-area superintendent shares back-to-school updates, new cellphone policy
The Mt. Ararat Middle and High schools will implement a cellphone–free policy this year.
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Building the Orr’s and Bailey Islands bridge was a masterful feat of engineering
A “scow barge” is unloaded by a crane as the last of the Pownal Granite is put in place on the Orr’s and Bailey Islands’ Crib Stone Bridge in the 1920s. (Courtesy of the Maine Department of Transportation) Ninety-nine years ago, “after nearly a half century of controversy,” work finally began on June 6, 1926, […]
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Police searching for missing Brunswick woman
Rebecca Dorr was last seen near the Botany Place neighborhood on Monday.
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Where community grows: Home is where your local farmers market is
There’s something special about the way the morning feels at the Brunswick farmers market. Maybe it’s the scent of basil mixing with mouthwatering smells coming from Taco the Town. Maybe it’s the way toddlers zig-zag between tables of sunflowers and early apples, giggling and playing while their parents chat with neighbors. Maybe it’s getting to talk […]
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Harpswell Select Board approves 4.7% property tax increase
The Harpswell Select Board is hoping residents won’t get too superstitious about the town’s new property tax rate of $6.66 — an increase of 30 cents, or 4.7%. “I will say, that’s not a very lucky number,” Select Board member Matt Gilley said during a special meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 12, to approve the tax […]
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Maine fishermen aren’t afraid of great white sharks. They’re fascinated.
‘If I see a fin near the surface, I always go and check it out,’ said fisherman Cory Hawkes, who spotted 10 great white sharks near Harpswell in July.
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As recycling costs skyrocket, Harpswell stays the course
Because of changes in global markets, the cost of recycling in Harpswell has more than tripled in the last decade. It is now more expensive by volume to dispose of recyclables than trash — and it isn’t clear how much of those recyclables are recycled or how much ends up in landfills. But town officials […]
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Judith Stanton’s hardworking honeybees live the sweet life in Harpswell
Judith Stanton wishes humans could be more like bees. “They’re all doing everything for the good of the hive, the good of the community,” Stanton said. “It’s a perfect model that nature created. … Why can’t we do that same thing?” Stanton, owner of Harpswell Honey, is in her 20th season of beekeeping. With five […]
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