High Honor Roll Grade 9 – Christina Agneta, Marina Barankevich, Nicole Begley, Cecelia Conroy, Haley Desjardins, Anthony Dighello, Emily Dodge, Alex Doering, Carly Grondin, William Hanson, Katlyn Irish, Daniel Juergens, Devin MacKenzie, Samuel McFarland, Daniel McGovern, Chelsea Plante, Nicholas Rallis, Kassie Reutlinger, Kirstin Russell, Peter Sepulveda, Viktor Shoberg, John Skvorak, Megan Stevenson, Kimberly Sundquist, Lindsay […]

The Bonny Eagle Middle School’s Honor Flag recognized the State Science Fair winners: Sara Clark won top prize for Best Exhibit. Riley Heroux won the Eureka Award. And Morgan Smith won for Best Engineering and Safety Award. The seventh grade students were winners at the middle school science fair to qualify for the state fair.

Electrockshock devices, such as the Taser-brand device and conventional stun guns used in Windham, sends a current into the target and disrupts the electric signals the brain uses to control the muscles. While a cattle prod uses pain to subdue its target, a stun gun temporarily prevents the target’s brain from coordinating the body. Tasers […]

There’s a new Otter Pond Express, and it’s scheduled to depart out of the Pineland YMCA (with a stop in Windham) beginning the week of June 25. For 25 years, the Otter Pond Wilderness Day Camp in Standish has served mainly Portland-area youths with a host of summer programs at its idyllic, lakeside property. Each […]

Bonny Eagle High School Student Council members participate in Law Day Law Day is a national day set aside to celebrate how law and the legal process have contributed to the freedoms that all Americans share. At Bonny Eagle High School, the Student Council met to recognize Law Day by getting together and discussing its […]

New postage rates go into effect on Monday, May 14, including a two-cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail stamp to 41 cents. Post offices in the Lakes Region are now selling the new 41-cent stamps and also one and two-cent stamps for customers who still have a supply of 39-cent stamps. Customers […]

A phone call I received earlier in the week regarding the elm trees that once lined the roads and streets of Windham prompted the choice of photo this week. This is taken in the early 1900s, in Windham Center, looking down the Windham Center Road toward the direction of Portland. Hawkes store would have been […]

Birthday Ethel Verrill, Windham’s oldest citizen and the holder of the Boston Post Cane, celebrated her birthday April 27. She turned 106. There will be a family party later at Ledgewood Manor where she resides. Meeting The Rebekah Lodge No. 71 will meet May 16 in the Odd Fellows at 7:30 p.m. This will be […]

Would you ever consider running for public office? Mike McNally, 36, Windham “No. I’ve never had the interest nor have been very political…I don’t have the knowledge base I guess.” Bruce LeClaire, 59, Windham “No. It exposes people to too much scrutiny. Politics is dirty business. I’ve been paid political staff in the past-U.S. senate […]

Maine National History Day is an annual event for teachers and students interested in developing critical thinking skills and an understanding of the past through original research. Using primary sources, students complete projects (research papers, exhibits, presentations, and performances) and present them at the statewide competition. The theme for this year’s National History Day isTriumph […]