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Sarah Risley, a University of Maine graduate student based at the Darling Marine Center, will lead a team of undergraduate and high school students to study the shellfish species living at several sites along the upper Damariscotta River and...

Address: Westport Island Occupation: Retired adult educator, after over 35 years helping adult learners have a second chance at success by getting their GED (or HiSET) or improving skills to be college and/or career ready Education: B.A, M.Ed . from...

Licenses were approved by the Edgartown select board for three Edgartown taxi companies —  MV Taxi, Stagecoach and Adam Cab — Monday. Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee said he “looked over the last year’s worth of calls of service involving those three cab companies and there’s really nothing that jumped out at me that would […]

Late last spring, Prospect Harbor’s mudflats reopened and were reseeded after being closed due to pollution for 40 years.

At the Select Board’s meeting on Dec. 9, Gouldsboro Infrastructure Superintendent Jim McLean said DMR is aware of the failed water quality tests, and he expects the state agency to close Prospect Harbor to shellfish harvesting “for only one year,” not five years as initially anticipated.

The crew improvised with old credit cards to cull through and extract live survivors from the Gouldsboro Shellfish Resilience project’s inaugural batch of 105,000 seed clams.

Community members last week made short work of transferring tens of thousands of young softshell clams from a former lobster pound, where they grew in floating, fine-mesh trays since early last summer, to Gouldsboro’s shellfish resilience laboratory in Bunkers Harbor.

GOULDSBORO — Community members last week made short work of transferring tens of thousands of young softshell clams from a former lobster pound, where

WALDOBORO — Voters from the Town of Waldoboro will cast ballots during the town’s annual town meeting June 8 on a series of warrant articles, including what to do with the property of the former A.D. Gray School. Below are a few highlights of the...

Gouldsboro selectmen approve access path to flats GOULDSBORO — Selectmen cleared the way Thursday night for the creation of a footpath enabling the town’s Shellfish Committee, clammers and public to access the water and flats on the eastern shore of Prospect Harbor. The board heard both support and concerns at a public hearing before voting 5-0 to advance the project on the town’s ¾-acre shorefront parcel on Lighthouse Point Road.  Lack of a parking area, potential trash, further land e...