Out with the old After covering the Lakes Region for this newspaper for the last seven years, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. I don’t yet know what the future holds for me, but I’m looking forward to new adventures and challenges. Because this issue will be my last, I wanted to take some […]

CAPTION ONLY Turkeys2: A pair of wild turkeys loiter on a lawn this week on Windham Center Road. Part of a larger flock, these feeding turkeys can cover several miles on foot a day. Although they prefer to walk, turkeys are capable of flying at speeds up to 60 mph. Gobble gobble

This is a view of the intersection of Windham Center Road, Ward Road and Pope Road in the early 1900s with one of the first cars. The area was known then and is still known now as Windham Hill. The building shown was once the tavern where stagecoach drivers stopped overnight with their teams of […]

Editor, It is with complete disgust that I have read yet another of William Orr’s biased letters. If he ever once had anything nice to say about our town or our officials I would probably faint dead away. Mr. Orr is a deranged old fool who has nothing better to do with his time than […]

Crossroads for Women, based in Windham and Portland, is offering “The Effects of Addiction on Friends & Family,” a five-week educational series, to anyone who has a loved one, male or female, with a substance abuse problem that may or may not be in treatment at this time. The series will explore the basics of […]

“Mom’s Milk,” the breastfeeding support group at Bridgton Hospital, will begin their 2007 meetings Monday, Jan. 8. The meeting will run from 10 – 11 a.m., with meetings scheduled every other Monday through the year. The support group meets in the family quiet room at the hospital, led by International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Crystal […]

Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Cumberland County, wasn’t satisfied with the four-year jail sentence handed to a Winslow man this month for his 12th drunken driving conviction. Under state law, the maximum sentence that Clayton Bryant, 57, could receive was five years behind bars and a six-year driver’s license suspension. Bryant pleaded guilty to a charge of […]

Longtime Raymond resident Joseph Bruno has been named chairman of the Maine Republican Party. Bruno was elected on Dec. 9, just three days after the new legislators were sworn in. Bruno was encouraged to run for the chair position by members of the Republican’s state committee. “When you have people suggesting you run and believing […]

What are your New Year’s resolutions? Adam Lafond, 31, Raymond “I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution in years and I have no plans on doing it this year.” Bill Whitman, 69, Harrison “Same one everyone else has: I have to lose 75 pounds. But I know if I try to do it all at […]

What are your New Year’s resolutions? Adam Lafond, 31, Raymond “I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution in years and I have no plans on doing it this year.” Bill Whitman, 69, Harrison “Same one everyone else has: I have to lose 75 pounds. But I know if I try to do it all at […]