Coastal campgrounds are missing out on the usual rush on Memorial Day weekend as they wait for June and July to slowly start bringing in visitors again.
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Maine Bicentennial: Phippsburg
Kiah B. Sewall, the son of the Rev. Samuel Sewall and Abigail Trask Sewall of Edgecomb and Phippsburg, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1829 and married Lucretia Day, daughter of Ezekiel and Eunice Day, in 1836. After losing money in land speculation in the 1830s, Sewall went to Boston to study law and moved to […]
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Thousands in Midcoast lose power, no impact on Election Day voting
According to Catherine Hartnett, Central Maine Power’s spokesperson, customers lost power for about an hour Tuesday morning until an equipment replacement resolved the issue.
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Fur trapper weighs in amid Midcoast plans to tackle rabies
Nelson Frost of Brunswick, a trapper most of his life, says it’s a more humane way to deal with animal overpopulation, and resultant sickness and starvation.
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Phippsburg adds free vaccination clinic to rabies remediation plan
Norm Warner, Phippsburg’s animal control officer, said animals infected with rabies won’t display symptoms for two weeks to six months. Once an animal begins showing symptoms it’s too late to treat, and the animal will die.
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Phippsburg sportsmen’s group to host winter field day
PHIPPSBURG — The Phippsburg Sportsmen’s Association will host its Winter Youth and Family Field Day on Sunday, Feb. 23. The event, to be held at the John Rogers Outdoor Education Center on Pitch Pine Hill, 272 Main Road, will include dog sledding, Nordic skiing, snow shoeing, tracking, an introduction to orienteering, a cell phone scavenger […]
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Phippsburg chooses local trappers over federal program to control rabies
Phippsburg selectmen agreed to connect residents interested in trapping wildlife on their property with local fur trappers, who help control the wildlife population and the diseases they carry.
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Fox rampages through Phippsburg neighborhood, attacking woman, man, animals
Bath considers trapping animals as rabid animal attacks continue in southern Midcoast
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Phippsburg Sportsmen to hold ice fishing derby
PHIPPSBURG — The Phippsburg Sportsmen’s Association will hold the 21st annual Dickie LeMont “Take A Kid Fishing ” ice fishing derby Sunday, Feb. 9. The event will run from daybreak until 4 p.m., on Sagadahoc County waters only. First-, second- and third-place prizes will be offered for bass, trout, crappie, pickerel, white and yellow perch […]
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Freeport talk spotlights tragedy of Malaga Island evictions
Kate McBrien, a Union historian, has been researching the 1911-12 relocation of the island’s population for nearly 20 years.