You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Swan Island Pier, pictured at right earlier this month, was planned as ...

What if you took a really unique vacation by renting a house on Maine’s Swan’s Island for a week last summer. Swan’s Island is 30 minutes off the coast, served by Captain Henry Lee, a 17-car ferry out ...

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Yesterday a new trail was dedicated on the Swan Island riverfront. The “Going to the River” trail is a 3/8 mile section of the existing Greenway Trail that now offers one full mile of peaceful, ...

Gary Smith pilots his pontoon boat Saturday on the Kennebec River near the Maine Kennebec Bridge. Smith is now providing ferry service to Swan Island from Richmond, even as a working group gears up to ...

The Swan Island dock in Richmond, left, and on the island, at right, are seen in 2024. Swan Island hasn’t had ferry service since 2022, when the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the island’s ferry service ...

Great views of Northwest Portland and Forest Park from the beach on Swan Island. (Photos by Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) With so many people hopping on bikes these days, there’s a growing demand for ...

SWAN’S ISLAND, Maine (WABI) - For Maine’s island communities, ferries are a lifeline to the mainland. This week, Swan’s Island has been dealing with a disruption to its regular ferry service, ...