Lately, I’ve been bombarded (like many others, I hear) with e-mails which have subjects like “update your account,” “your account is in danger,” “guaranteed winner,” etc. These are all scams. They don’t even make it to my inbox, because I have a spam folder where they are automatically sent, soon to be deleted without reading. […]

Welcome Home, Annie Annie is a 3-year-old gray tiger cat owned by Karen McNutt of Standish. Annie disappeared from her home on Oct. 5, 2005. She remained at large for one year and five months, and was found and returned in March of 2007. There were two sightings of Annie when she first disappeared, and […]

Happy Birthday Jaycie Robichaud, daughter of Heidi Robichaud, of Windham, celebrated her 5th birthday with a party thrown for her on April 15. She had several friends and family members over for cake and ice cream. She and her guests played pin the tail on the donkey, tag and danced. Her favorite gift was her […]

Raising Your Grandchildren? Parenting a relative’s child? If so, a May 10 program in Naples may be for you. Many of us (in the older generation) depended on someone in our family for babysitting. In my own family, my mother provided care from time to time to at least several sets of grandchildren; when my […]

A fatal accident on Route 107 last week claimed the lives of two young Sebago men. Gregory Grant, 25, was driving a Ford Explorer owned by his passenger Nicholas Olsen, 23, around 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 19 when the vehicle went onto the shoulder and was overcorrected, landing on its roof in a ditch. […]

Sebago Kids Growing Garden The garden, the daffodils, the seed program…these are all programs that the Sebago Kids Growing Garden have successfully completed since they began in 2003. There seems to be no limit to the ideas that keep this program interesting and educational. Last year, the program produced 350 pounds of vegetables to donate […]

Come and register for Girl Scouts on May 1 in Windham and find out about Girl Scout activities taking place in your community, as well as learn about summer camp opportunities and information on fall troops. The information and registration meeting takes place Tuesday, May 1, at 7 p.m. at the Windham Primary School Cafeteria. […]

Here is school teacher Abbie Cartland with a group of pupils at the old Ireland school. None of these students has been identified, so if readers recognize anyone, kindly contact Kay Soldier. In East Windham, there is a neighborhood historically called “Little Ireland,” in the area where Nash Road and Falmouth Road intersect. In 1840, […]

Maine is beginning to clean up following a powerful spring Nor’easter that recently hit our state with heavy rain and high winds. This terrible storm, the worst natural disaster to strike Maine since the Ice Storm of 1998, caused massive storm surges, astronomical high tides, and inland and coastal flooding that left behind a trail […]

For Windham Hill UCC Church, at 140 Windham Center Road, Windham, 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of their “Music On the Hill” Concert Series. This year’s concert series will host a stellar line-up, starting on Saturday, July 7. Each weekend in July, these concerts bring professional musicians right to your doorstep here in the “Lakes […]