HARPSWELL ANCHOR • January 2, 2026
Chris McIntire was content. He had made goals — to live on Orr’s Island, to fish for a living, to raise a family — and by working hard, he had achieved them. Maybe more than anything else, he wanted to make sure his children could also have the life that satisfied him so much, if they wanted it. McIntire, an emerging voice in the community and in Maine’s lobster fishery, died unexpectedly on Nov. 24 at the age of 32. He served on the town’s Fisheries Committee and Aquaculture Working Group. At the state level, he represented part of Harpswell on a regional lobster council. “He’s going to leave a hole. There’s nobody I can think of who can step into his shoes and do what he did,” said Harpswell’s interim harbormaster, Darcie Couture.