Galleries

18 Phippsburg elementary students joined clam diggers in the Hermit Island mudflat.

The mid 1800’s saw extensive growth in Phippsburg with construction of roads, schools, granges, and churches. Check out the old photos from the Historical Society.

Volunteers helped researchers from the Downeast Institute and University of Maine at Machias by installing shellfish recruitment boxes on flats at Atkins Bay and Hermit Island on April 19.

Traps in the yard are a crucial part of the Maine lobster industry. They are also part of what could be argued is the lobsterman’s winter art, as demonstrated by Sebasco’s Keith Wallace. Check out Kate Cart’s photo gallery.

More than 90 volunteers collected tons of trash during the town’s annual clean-up day, while the PTA collected bags and bags of bottles and cans.

Volunteers for the Phippsburg Land Trust have been busily clearing trails around the peninsula this spring. Check out the photo gallery.