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The original structure still stands and is now home to the Wells Chamber of Commerce. [4] Moody Beach is central in the debate over public access versus private rights to the Maine shore. In March 1989, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court sided with homeowners in Bell v. Town of Wells, also known as the Moody Beach case. [5]
Doug and Kristen Perry opened their new bakery, Bake Maine, in their hometown of Wells, Maine, on Friday, May 3, 2024. ... Above & Beyond Catering: Opens new wedding, events venue in Sanford, Maine.
Wells is on the southern coast of Maine, surrounded by Kennebunk to the northeast, Sanford to the northwest, North Berwick to the west, South Berwick to the southwest, and Ogunquit to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 73.61 square miles (190.65 km 2 ), of which 57.55 square miles (149.05 km 2 ...
Ogunquit was first a village within Wells, which was settled in 1641. [3] The first sawmill was established in 1686, and shipbuilding developed along the tidal Ogunquit River. Local shipwrights built schooners, brigs and dories. [4] At what was then called Fish Cove, near the unnavigable Josias River, fishing was a major
WELLS, Maine — Members of the Wells Select Board voted unanimously on March 19 to have the town attorney draft a retroactive moratorium that would halt large-scale residential developments in ...
Downeaster service began on December 15, 2001, with only a platform at Wells. The station building was constructed in 2002 and opened in 2003. [2] The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNERPA) is adding a 6-mile (9.7 km) second track through Wells to allow an additional daily Brunswick-Wells round trip.
The Yarmouth Clam Festival is an annual three-day event which takes place in Yarmouth, Maine, starting on the third Friday every July.Established in 1965 as a successor to the town's late-August Old Home Week (itself started in 1911), it is hosted by the Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce, with the aim of raising money for approximately thirty local non-profit organizations, churches, and school groups.
The protected lands comprising the Wells Reserve are entirely within the Town of Wells, Maine. These conservation lands are owned by the Maine Department of Conservation (533 acres), United States Fish and Wildlife Service / Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (1,428 acres), Town of Wells (249 acres), and Wells Reserve Management Authority ...