The Windham Lions Club is offering one $1,000 scholarship to a student graduating in 2006. The student must be living in Windham and attending a local high school, public, private or home schooled. The graduating senior must have demonstrated participation in community service during their high school years. In order to be eligible for this […]

Windham historians want to preserve the old Parson Smith homestead on River Road. One of the oldest homes in Windham, it stands today much as it did back in 1764. Owners Donald and Elaine Dickenson allowed the public to visit the homestead, but, with the house up for sale again, historians fear this valued landmark […]

The corner of Route 302 and 115, where the Walgreens Drugstore construction is proposed, looked like this back in the early 1900s when it was Tommy Nason’s store. A millinery shop and other small retail businesses filled up this busy corner in North Windham. Photo from archives of Windham Historical Society

Photo: 0426 Beryl Varney Courtesy photo Beryl O. Varney, formerly of Windham, was the guest of honor March 19 celebrating her 92nd birthday. Members of her family who gathered to help her celebrate were: daughters, Jennie MacDonald and Paul Blake of Casco and Julia and Albert Cheney of Lyman; sister, Frances Atwood of Windham; grandchildren, […]

Set back in the woods off Route 302 and Nash Road, there sits a large hill of tree stumps and rocky ledge that is at the heart of heated debate in Windham. Developer and local businessman Peter Busque plans to blast the hill, and a surrounding 75 acres of elevated terrain, bit by bit to […]

Set back in the woods off Route 302 and Nash Road, there sits a large hill of tree stumps and rocky ledge that is at the heart of heated debate in Windham. Developer and local businessman Peter Busque plans to blast the hill, and a surrounding 75 acres of elevated terrain, bit by bit to […]

Last week’s Lakes Region Suburban Weekly confirms that, at least in Windham and Raymond, everything I have been saying about tax reform is true. Both towns were able to keep tax increases well below the rate of growth in prices and incomes, thanks to tax reforms passed into law by Governor Baldacci and the state […]

The deadline to apply for the Joseph A. DiPietro Scholarship, offered by the Portland Water District, is May 15. The scholarship serves students in the water district’s member communities who will be attending college and are striving toward the same mission as PWD – protecting public health and the environment. The Joseph A. DiPietro Scholarship […]

The town of Windham projects a $41.7 million budget for the next fiscal year starting in June. School and town officials spent months calculating the numbers and now the results are in the hands of Windham’s Town Council. The budget includes town expenses of $13.42 million, a revised school budget of $27.92 million and $360,000 […]

The town of Windham projects a $41.7 million budget for the next fiscal year starting in June. School and town officials spent months calculating the numbers and now the results are in the hands of Windham’s Town Council. The budget includes town expenses of $13.42 million, a revised school budget of $27.92 million and $360,000 […]