With many of the summer visitors here in the Lakes Region now, and people spending a lot of times remembering the “good old days,” maybe someone can recall just where this scene is on “Main Street, North Windham.” One of a series of postcards, made in the early 1920s, which the Windham Historical Society has […]

Half a world away, the people of Qana in southern Lebanon are burying their dead: more than 50 civilians, most of them children. Israeli ground troops continue to push north to fight Hezbollah inside the border, and helicopters continue to search and destroy enemy targets. Half a world away, the people of Haifa, Israel, near […]

Here we are in the middle of another beautiful summer in Maine and we know that your thoughts are not necessarily on the needs of those who require our assistance. Some of us are not as fortunate though and require the need of a little bit of help from the Food Pantry. You have been […]

The state has committed to hiring more than 50 temporary workers, both in-house and through outside contractors, to fix problems associated with the new Medicaid billing computer – work that will be ongoing though at least half of 2008. Gov. John Baldacci last week signed the second financial order in a little over a month […]

Editor, Nearly one year ago, the Little Sebago Lake Association contacted me with a shared concern from the Lakes Region-state actions to stem the spread of milfoil statewide. As the State Representative for parts of Windham and Gray, and as a former member of the Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, I have been closely […]

The state’s superintendent of insurance has approved a Dirigo fee of $34.3 million for 2007 – $7.5 million less than was requested, but enough to keep the subsidized insurance program going until the Legislature votes on a new way of funding it. Trish Riley, head of the governor’s office of Health Policy and Finance, said […]

Raymond L. Chase Jr., 80 Lifelong Boston Red Sox fan Raymond L. Chase Jr. 80, died Friday evening July 21, 2006, at his home with his family by his side. He was born in Windham on April 4, 1926, the son of Raymond Sr. and Mary Wilson Chase. He was educated in Portland Schools before […]

Raymond L. Chase Jr., 80 Lifelong Boston Red Sox fan Raymond L. Chase Jr. 80, died Friday evening July 21, 2006, at his home with his family by his side. He was born in Windham on April 4, 1926, the son of Raymond Sr. and Mary Wilson Chase. He was educated in Portland Schools before […]

Next Tuesday, the Windham Town Council will begin review of a proposed long-term quarry that has met fierce opposition from surrounding neighbors. The quarry received its first round of approval from the Windham Planning Board earlier this month. The quarry, proposed by local developer Peter Busque, would encompass 75 acres of ledge rock on the […]

Never mind In a recent flap over whether the state’s end-of-the-fiscal-year surplus was something for Democrats to crow about, House Speaker John Richardson turned on Sen. Chandler Woodcock for not being upfront with voters about his conservative views. “Chandler Woodcock is refusing to define himself,” Richardson told statehouse reporters, whom he initially called together to […]