SMART Child and Family Services will be having a summer garden live and silent auction on Saturday, June 24 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the North Windham Union Church on Route 302. Many gift certificates and items will be available to bid on from area businesses. Admission is free. Free refreshments, live jazz music, […]
Lakes Region Weekly News
Take a number, please
“Rikki don’t lose that number.” By Black Friday I hate waiting in lines. I don’t care in I am standing in a line or have to pull a stupid number from a machine only to search for a place to sit. Why does it seem there are more government establishments that require numbers than civilian […]
Protestors claim unfair treatment by State Police
State Police have asked for DNA samples from environmental protestors, including some members of the group Earth First, who say they had nothing to do with vandalism last October that targeted people working on the controversial Plum Creek development around Moosehead Lake. While State Police are declining to say the Plum Creek attacks were their […]
Naples library announces extensive children's summer program
The Naples Public Library will kick off its summer reading program on Tuesday, June 27 and will run until Saturday, August 12. The theme this year for pre-readers through grade 5 is “Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales.” The Library will have lots of exciting programs in store, including a visit from Spark’s Ark of Windham, […]
Naples library announces extensive children's summer program
The Naples Public Library will kick off its summer reading program on Tuesday, June 27 and will run until Saturday, August 12. The theme this year for pre-readers through grade 5 is “Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales.” The Library will have lots of exciting programs in store, including a visit from Spark’s Ark of Windham, […]
Denmark Park Project fundraising passes half-way point
The Denmark Lions Club together with the Denmark Arts Center has raised more than $78,000 in cash and pledges of the $150,000 necessary to create a public waterfront park in the middle of Denmark Village. Mark Allen, secretary of the Denmark Lions Club and a member of the Denmark Park Project Committee said the Lions […]
So long Gerry, for now
There just was something about Gerry (Spencer) that I don’t know how anyone who knew him could not like him. He was always interested in everything someone else was doing and if he felt you as a true friend he wanted you to know how he was doing also. I never heard Gerry speak badly […]
Faithful fisherman does double duty in Lakes Region
Pastor Alton King, 57, of Windham, is a man of faith and everyday ingenuity. Every Sunday morning and Wednesday night, he preaches at the Windham Church of God on Route 302 – spiritual home to a close-knit congregation and the occasional robin perched on its steeple. On his days off, he works part-time at “The […]
Lakes Region Weekly editorial
Bonny Eagle deserves a valedictorian It doesn’t seem fair, once again, that the students at Bonny Eagle and the public at large, can’t celebrate the senior class valedictorian. They can’t celebrate the valedictorian because the school administration doesn’t issue the coveted distinctions. And that is simply not right. Windham does it. Lake Region does as […]
Raymond's Dodge headed to NYC art school
Erin Dodge, daughter of Gary and Cathy Dodge of Raymond, has been accepted at the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. She will be majoring in Illustration. Erin is a 2006 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School. She is also the recipient of the Byrion Gouzie Memorial Scholarship awarded to a student majoring […]