TOPSHAM — Acrimony on the School Administrative District Board of Directors led the panel Feb. 28 to unseat Chairwoman Kim Totten and appoint a new search committee for a permanent superintendent of schools. The actions came nearly three weeks after the Feb. 8 resignations of longtime Harpswell representatives David Johnson and Joanne Rogers, who both […]
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Bath council election draws former Coastal Journal editor
BATH — Raye Leonard, former editor of the Coastal Journal, will likely be the person to fill the Ward 4 City Council seat vacated after the Jan. 29 death of Bernie Wyman. Leonard was the only person to submit nomination papers for the position by the March 1 deadline. She will be the sole person […]
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Local girls honored by Hardy Girls Healthy Women
FALMOUTH — Haley Stark, a junior at Falmouth High School, has received the Against the Odds award from Hardy Girls Healthy Women. She is one of six girls across Maine that will be honored at the annual Girls Rock! awards ceremony being held March 22 at Waynflete on Portland’s West End. “The Girls Rock! awards […]
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Sande's Picks: Harraseeket kitchen joins apprenticeship program
If you are a food adventurist you can certainly travel to find new tastes and experiences. Closer to home there are chefs who delight in taking risks and experimenting with new dishes and preparations. One such chef is Troy Mains from the Harraseeket Inn. With support from Chip Gray, the inn’s owner, and his eager […]
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Coastal History: Shedding a light on the Fresnel lens
One of the marquee exhibits at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath is an original Fresnel lens from the Two Lights lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth. According to Pressherald.com, the lens weighs 1,800 pounds and is valued at $2.5 million. The Coast Guard retains ownership of lighthouse lenses, which have mostly been taken out of use, […]
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Cooking at the Cove: Brighten March with blood oranges
When my granddaughter Lucy was a wee tot, she was often brought to the grocery store, an outing she still enjoys 12 years later. On one such early excursion, as she was perched in the grocery cart seat like a princess in a carriage, her mother gave her a blood orange to hold. After putting […]
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Bath museum gears up for $3M campus redesign
BATH — The Maine Maritime Museum has piled up an array of accolades in recent years – being named one of “New England’s 10 Unmissable Historic Sites,” by Fodor’s Travel, and the best museum in Maine by USA Today, to name just a couple. But while the offerings within its walls and along its Kennebec […]
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USM hosting nationwide summit on world hunger
PORTLAND — Even as people go hungry, 40 percent of the food produced in the United States every year goes to waste, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And the U.S. is not the only country where this is an issue. That’s why a coalition of universities from across the country have partnered with the […]
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Jewish film festival opens this weekend
PORTLAND — This year’s Maine Jewish Film Festival will open at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, with a showing of the “The Last Suit,” a comedic and poignant story of an 88-year-old Argentinian tailor, at the Nickelodeon in downtown. The festival, which runs March 9-17, will also include films about America’s first fast-food restaurant, […]
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Budget increase of almost 8% awaits Harpswell Town Meeting
HARPSWELL — The Board of Selectman was expected to decide Thursday, Feb. 28, whether to send proposed ordinances regulating sport shooting ranges and the use of firearms to next week’s annual Town Meeting. The two ordinances would replace an existing one-page firearms ordinance, and include a limit on the hours firearms can be discharged and […]