WELLS, Maine — The crowd of people sunbathing, walking along the surf, and reading books in an easy chair at Wells Beach this week, made one thing abundantly clear. Summer is upon us, and people ...

WELLS, Maine — The crowd of people sunbathing, walking along the surf, and reading books in an easy chair at Wells Beach this week, made one thing abundantly clear. Summer is upon us, and people ...

"It was a very big dorsal fin," he said. The beach was due to reopen Monday, but was closed again when another shark was spotted at about 10:30 a.m., and remained closed through Monday night.

Ed Smith has walked Wells Beach for years but has never seen anything like it: ... He first noticed it Sunday night. When he went back out Monday, it was there again.

The beach between Wells Road and Sunset Avenue — where oceanfront homeowners have clashed with a growing number of public beachgoers — will be the focus of a Town Council meeting on Dec. 7.

WELLS — Who owns the beach? That was the topic of a talk given Wednesday night at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm by land surveyor Robert Yarumian and historian Edwin Churchill. The presentation ...