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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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Thoughts Of A Town Beekeeper Print

Written by Thomas Owen | 16 August 2010

Judith Stanton, of Bailey Island, pulls out a smoker - a common device used to calm honey bees. Her suit is in the trunk of her BMW station wagon, which is parked alongside the road at Two Coves Farm.

"We bought our place around Thanksgiving," says Stanton, whose license plates read New Jersey. Stanton says she has been in Maine for almost 20 years, but it was at Mount Desert Island.

"That hive there, the bees plus the equipment, is easily an investment of 500 dollars, and I have spent well over that over the past six years," Stanton says, motioning to a green hive beside a patch of trees.

Looking down at her smoker, Stanton says, "No one seems to know why this pacifies the bees, but the most accepted theory is that the bees are alarmed that there is fire, so they start to gorge on honey in case they have to leave the hive, and once they have their honey, they're pretty calm."

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Response To Intervention = Stronger Schools Print

Written by MSAD #75 Board of Directors | 16 August 2010


At each recent meeting of the Board of Directors, Harpswell citizens concerned about SAD 75's interest in closing the West Harpswell School have attempted to dissuade the Board by questioning the enrollment data being used, raising the negative effects of longer bus rides, and describing the community interest in retaining a school. In spite of these arguments, a Board majority has continued to support the consolidation of the two schools primarily for educational reasons.

The District is invested in Response to Intervention, an instructional construct that is organized around the belief that all students will meet State and District learning standards. RTI expects that teachers collaborate and learn from one another as a regular part of practice so as to be more strategic in addressing student needs. It asks that student performance data be the bed rock for diagnostic and prescriptive teaching. RTI promises that the issues for struggling students be addressed quickly, and that the strategies employed be monitored closely so that they can be changed if students fail to do better.

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You might be a Harpswellite if.. Print

Written by Nelson Barter | 16 August 2010

And several recruiters from the Harpswell Militia.
An English teacher has ever asked you to use "rebate" in a sentence..
And your answer was, "The bitch crabs ate all the herring, so I had to rebate the trap."
You chased the girls at T-Ledge.
You think "sushi" is the Japanese word for "bait."
If you think "I'd take the snow tires off now, but it's almost time to put them back on."