“Are you ready? Are you ready for a miracle?” are the words of a song I sing with the Rock My Soul gospel group. On this Earth Day 2007, the Earth is in urgent need of a miracle. But WE are the ones who must make this miracle happen. At a conference last week, sponsored […]

Emergency responders and utility crews were working to repair damage to power lines, roads and flooded areas Wednesday, two days after a nor’easter lashed the state, leaving thousands without power, closing roads and downing trees. In Westbrook, a Central Maine Power Co. worker and a utility crew from Presque Isle went to the rescue of […]

Maine Medical Center births: • Addison Reece Clara Tinkham was born March 22 to Mark Tinkham and Erin Verhille of Windham. Grandparents are Gary and Leeann Verhille of Randolph and Don Tinkham of Scarborough. Great Grandparents are William and Marilyn Verhille of Randolph and Alan and Joy Brown of Hope. • Abigail Clota Flowers was […]

I’m never quite sure what is and what isn’t with holidays. When I lived in Boston, there was a holiday which was a holiday only in Suffolk County (where Boston is) and I think it may have been Bunker Hill Day, but I could be wrong. Patriots Day is a holiday only in Massachusetts and […]

The 19th Annual Spring Math Meet was held on Saturday, April 7 at Bonny Eagle High School. There were 132 students in grades four through six from across the district competing for top honors in the areas of arithmetic, geometry and problem solving. In all, 55 fourth graders, 53 fifth graders and 24 sixth graders […]

It was windy. It was rainy. Homes and vehicles were crushed under the weight of rising floodwater and falling tree limbs. People died. ////The impact of the Patriot’s Day storm was an emergency situation.////Probably unnecessary///// But unless you worked for a local public safety department or dispatch, you wouldn’t have known it, despite us living […]

Hold onto your Stetsons for the Originals’ production of Jane Martin’s outrageous shoot ’em up, knock ’em down, cut ’em up comedic romp “Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage” at Saco River Grange Hall in Bar Mills. Flaming Guns mixes slapstick, satire and black humor as it pits the Code of the West against contemporary […]

Hold onto your Stetsons for the Originals’ production of Jane Martin’s outrageous shoot ’em up, knock ’em down, cut ’em up comedic romp “Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage” at Saco River Grange Hall in Bar Mills. Flaming Guns mixes slapstick, satire and black humor as it pits the Code of the West against contemporary […]

The following college students from the Lakes Region earned Dean’s List honors at their respective schools for the fall, 2006 semester: • Joanna Clark, of Windham, freshman at Clark University. • Samantha Scott, of Windham, at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. •Tonya Smith, of Windham, junior marketing majoring in marketing at Bentley College. •Patrick O’Beirne, […]

Army National Guard Pvt. Joseph C. LoSciuto has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. LoSciuto is the son of Scott LoSciuto of Falmouth Road in Windham. LoSciuto is a 2004 graduate of Windham High School. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core […]