General links relating to Harpswell

Table of Contents for this page

• Pests Brown Tail moth, Lyme Disease

• Maps and Charts

• News/Weather

• Pictures

• Recreation

• Schools

• Town of Harpswell

Other Pages in the section

• Pests

  • Mosquitoes

  • Brown Tail Moth

    • Browntail Moth
      From the state with additional links

    • Casco Bay Online, Natural browntail moth-killer could end need for spraying
      Interesting history with additional links, including finding winter nests

    • News in MaineToday.com In Depth Browntail Moths Feb 2002

  • Ticks and Lyme Disease

    • MMCRI Lyme Disease Research Laboratory
      MAINE MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Lyme Disease Research Laboratory

• Maps and Charts

  • Maps
    Maps of the Town of Harpswell

  • Topic Maine
    Favorite US Geological Survey Pages about Maine and Harpswell

• News/Weather

  • The Times Record Home

  • Portland Press Herald-Maine Sunday Telegram
    You can have the headlines emailed to you each morning for free

  • National Weather Service Forecast Office - Portland-Gray, Maine
    Just click on the desired portion of the map for local or marine forecast.

  • Maine Harbors
    Tides and Weather

    • Tide Chart Index Southern Maine and Casco Bay
      Includes Potts Harbor; Use Portland for Cundy's Harbor

    • Coastal Maine Zone Forecasts
      Coastal Cumberland County

    • Marine Forecasts GYX: Stonington to Merrimack River

    • Portland Buoy Conditions

  • Weather Underground South Harpswell, Maine Forecast

  • Weather Underground Tropical Weather
    Hurricanes

  • Cancellations.com - Weather Closings & Delays

• Organizations

  • Harpswell Historical Society
    Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

  • Casco Bay Online A Maine community
    Includes tides, history, lots of fun information From MaineToday

  • Friends of Casco Bay
    Founded in 1989 to Improve and Protect the Environmental Health of Casco Bay 

• Pictures

  • Harpswell Scrapbook
    Pictures of Harpswell

  • Harpswell Historical Society
    HHS contains many pictures and postcards of historic Harpswell

  • Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
    HHLT has many pictures of properties around Harpswell, public and private

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• Recreation

  • Recreation
    Town Recreation Department. Includes Recreational opportunities and applications for town sponsored activities. Also walks and hikes in Harpswell

  • Public Access Properties
    Properties owned or overseen by the Harpswell Heritage Land Trust that are open to the public

  • Anchor Publishing
    The Anchor's Community Calendar lists many activities both in and outside of Harpswell.

• Schools & Libraries

  • Curtis Memorial Library

  • Cundy's Harbor Library

  • Orr's /Bailey Island Library

  • MSAD No. 75

  • Harpswell Islands School

  • West Harpswell Elementary School

  • Mt. Ararat Middle School

  • Mt. Ararat High School

  • Stone Soup Institute - Maine, USA
    The non-profit Stone Soup Institute is an International four seasons school for students who are interested in integrating traditional and contemporary agrarian knowledge, skills and creativity.
    The educational experience of Stone Soup Institute is designed around the practical skills and seasonal rhythms associated with maintaining a small farm in the 21st Century. Participants will learn to integrate classroom theories and hands-on skills using the farm as a laboratory experience

• Town Government related sites

  • Maine Municipal Association - a Municipal Membership Association
    "The Maine Municipal Association is a voluntary membership organization of the State's cities, towns, plantations and organized townships to provide a unified voice for Maine's municipalities to promote and strengthen local government."

• Town of Harpswell

  • Town of Harpswell
    Website of the Town Government

  • Harpswell, Maine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Harpswell is a town in Cumberland County Maine which is geographically within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. The population was 5,239 at the 2000 census. Harpswell is composed of land contiguous with the rest of Cumberland County, called Harpswell Neck, as well as a several large and small islands: Great Island, Orr's Island, and Bailey Island. Harpswell is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.