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Profiles

On a West Point rooftop, Lady Oyster brings the working waterfront to the table

October 1, 2026

Lady Oyster has formed a thriving partnership with John Herrigel and the Maine Oyster Company over the past three years, co-hosting gatherings, tastings and parties, becoming a quietly essential part of Phippsburg’s working waterfront.

My father: still lobstering at 89

September 1, 2026

NOTE: This is the first of what we hope will be a regular monthly feature: first-person accounts of family members, friends and neighbors. Please let us know if you would like to share a memory. You can write it yourself, or have one of our reporters interview you, take notes and prepare a first draft.…

At 97, Boston Post Cane recipient Dot Richardson is still going strong

July 1, 2026

Extending a tradition dating back to 1909.

Who was John Parker? And why is so much of Phippsburg named after him?

July 1, 2026

There were at least seven John Parkers, spanning eight generations of the Parker family, dating from the Popham Colony settlement of 1607 into the early 1800s.

Joe Harrington: The Original Cooper Flagg

May 28, 2026

Before Maine’s Cooper Flagg took the basketball world by storm, there was Phippsburg’s Joe Harrington.

Phippsburg Observer 1960s – Through the Eyes of a Child

May 28, 2026

Elna Joseph-Bijouwer recalls helping her mother and others publish the original Phippsburg Observer in the 1960s.