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The Southport Climate Action Team (SCAT) warmly invites members of our community to join workshops aimed at understanding how climate change might affect our town and ways we can be prepared. This is the start of an effort to plan for climate action...

Southport selectmen finished a self-evaluation survey Aug. 31 as part of joining the Community Resilience Partnership, a program administered by the Governor’s Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future. The program helps municipalities implement...

The Firemen’s Auction had a sunny day in which to conduct their major fund raising event, which was well attended as usual and raised a record $35,329. Fire Chief, Gerry Gamage was the auctioneer, again presiding high above the crowd on a platform...

The newly created blasting committee is drafting an ordinance with a goal of protecting property owners’ rights and local drinking water wells. Southport Planning Board Chairman Skip Simonds picked Jeff Long and Jeff Brown to lead the effort. The...

On Saturday, Aug. 12 at 11 a.m. at All Saints by-the-Sea summer chapel, the funeral service for my husband, Kit Sherrill, will be conducted by the Rt. Reverend Thomas Brown, Bishop of Maine. If you are attending the funeral and the reception at the...

The Charles E. Sherman American Legion Post 36 in Boothbay is on a mission to honor local veterans dating back to World War II. The post is working on a project which would display large posters of servicemen in prominent locations in all four...

The town of Southport’s Climate Action Team and Sunrise Ecologic are co-sponsoring an open house on Aug. 17 at the Southport Town Office from 6 to 8 p.m. This free event is open to the public to meet members of the Climate Action Team (CAT), learn...

Southport Fire Department showcased its new engine in the 3rd annual Fire Truck Parade and Competition and took home the Dalmatian Cup and the People’s Choice Award Nov. 26. Madison “Maddie” Gaudette said the group of people who showed up for the...

A small island town in Maine must decide this month if it will continue to create its own broadband system or scrap the project and lose the hundreds of thousands of dollars it has already invested.