HeyJaredSam LemonickHarpswell Anchor
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PFAS from 2024 spill are showing up in Harpswell’s birds (opens the original)
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Eider ducks and bald eagles that nest in and around Harpswell have high levels of PFAS chemicals following an August 2024 spill of firefighting foam on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Scientists from the Portland-based Biodiversity Research Institute found themselves in a unique position after the spill, when 1,450 gallons of aqueous film-forming foam concentrate leftover from the U.S. Navy’s firefighting system mixed with 50,000 gallons of water entered streams and waterways that drain
Investigator’s report reveals likely cause of fire on Bailey Island’s Hugh Avenue (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Sam Lemonick is a volunteer with the Cundy’s Harbor Volunteer Fire Department who responded to the January fire. All information in this story comes from interviews and documents, not from firsthand observations of the fire. Investigators believe a January fire that destroyed a Bailey Island home resulted from an accident involving gasoline collected from junkyard cars ignited by a kerosene heater. All four people inside the house at the time made it out, although one was treated
Harpswell property owners get preliminary revaluation results (opens the original)
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Property owners received preliminary assessment numbers in mid-July as Harpswell nears the completion of an 18-month revaluation effort. Property owners were given two weeks to ask questions or suggest corrections before the values are finalized. Vision Government Solutions, which Harpswell contracted to perform the revaluation, mailed letters containing new assessments to property owners on July 15. The town also sent a notice to its email list saying assessments were available and giving instr
Glen’s Lobsters buys adjacent Angie’s wharf on Mackerel Cove in Harpswell (opens the original)
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The owner of the Mackerel Cove wharf Glen’s Lobsters has bought the Angie’s Lobster wharf next door, a move that brings a piece of Bailey Island’s working waterfront back under local ownership. Shawn Baumgartner said he plans to do some repairs to the Angie’s dock and buildings and keep that wharf operating for the foreseeable future. The lobstermen who had been selling to Angie’s will continue to use the wharf’s bait shed and workshop, and will still access their boats from the Angie’s dock, ac
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