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Welcome to the Harpswell Anchor. Here you can find information on our unique community whether it be local events, historical vignettes, and profiles of some of our unique individual residents.

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The Anchor Staff

Memorial Day Plans Print

Written by Bob Jørgensen | 15 May 2009

For the 11th year in a row, Shirley Thompson is planning the annual Harpswell Memorial Day parade to be held Monday morning, May 25th.
The parade will feature the Mt. Ararat HS band, old cars, marching units from the local Boy and Girl Scout troops, Cub Scouts and Brownies, an American Legion color guard, a small equestrian group, led by Ms. Thompson's daughter, Janis Morrell and her friend Kim Stone, bagpiper Donald Duncan and finishing up with fire engines and members from all three fire departments. The Sheriff's Department will provide traffic and crowd control.

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Maine Moving on Energy Reform Print

Written by Rep. Leila Percy | 15 May 2009



There are many ongoing efforts to reform Maine's energy policy, to create long-term planning for our energy delivery infrastructure and to move Maine toward energy independence. Both the Utilities and Energy Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Maine's Energy Future are focused on these issues this year.

The new and temporary Joint Legislative Committee on Maine's Energy Future was formed in the fall to focus attention on, among other issues, the new upgraded transmission lines proposed by Bangor Hydro and Central Maine Power (CMP) to connect Maine and the rest of New England to energy produced in Maine and New Brunswick.

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You might be a Harpswellite if.... Print

Written by Nelson Barter and thanks to camp follower Alison Hawkes of the Harpswell Militia | 30 April 2009


When you went to register to vote, Clara Merriman lowered the key out of the upstairs window so you could let yourself in to complete the forms.

You ever got jolly at the Holly

You still wave at passing boats

If you call a place a "venue"...... You ain't!

You bought an ice cream at Land's End, when it was out on a wharf.

You build your truck around the tires