Faced with a sharp loss in state aid, SAD 61 made its first cuts to the proposed district school budget for 2006-2007 this week. On Monday night, the SAD 61 Board of Directors voted to eliminate several teaching and staff positions. At the elementary school level, two teaching positions at Crooked River Elementary in Bridgton […]

Okay, I admit it. I’m like Johnny Fever on WKRP and I have always dreamed of using the word “booger” in one of my columns. It wasn’t just Lu Bauer’s column of last week about bipartisanship, but also – strange as it might seem – the Twin City Times contained a column by State Senator […]

Nearly every day, the Poland Spring delivery truck drove by the house Dana Desjardins built for his family. It traveled cautiously along the narrow wooded road, bumping and jolting as it headed to customers down that stretch of Raymond’s treasured rural paradise. It was as regular as a neighbor’s walk; as familiar as an old […]

Nearly every day, the Poland Spring delivery truck drove by the house Dana Desjardins built for his family. It traveled cautiously along the narrow wooded road, bumping and jolting as it headed to customers down that stretch of Raymond’s treasured rural paradise. It was as regular as a neighbor’s walk; as familiar as an old […]

Molly Masterton of Windham, a senior at Windham High School, has been selected to receive the 2006 Principal’s Award, Principal Deb McAfee announced today. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. According to McAfee, Masterton is this year’s valedictorian. She has […]

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will be serving their Annual Soup and Chowder Sampler Luncheon on Saturday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in Bridgton. Come in and warm yourself, sample a variety of homemade soups, chowders, breads and end with a delicious brownie a-la-mode dessert. […]

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will be serving their Annual Soup and Chowder Sampler Luncheon on Saturday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in Bridgton. Come in and warm yourself, sample a variety of homemade soups, chowders, breads and end with a delicious brownie a-la-mode dessert. […]

“Her son-in-law overdosed. Not good. That’s why she’s had to cut back on her hours,” Sarah explained to Priscilla and me as we scanned the menu. Overdosed over the holidays! Another grandma-waitress dealing with the next generation’s pain. Overdose equals three children left without a father. A wife left without a husband. A grandmother mothering […]

For some reason, I am not in the writing mood. The urge is go outdoors, soak up that sunshine I’m seeing out the window and, like an old barnyard hen, scratch the earth ’til I can smell spring. But I have to push myself back to writing. There are newsletters to write, a book to […]

Last week’s photo of the South Windham train station raised a lot of interest and several have asked about the station at Newhall, a section of Windham not too far from South Windham village. Newhall at one time was the site of a gunpowder manufacturing mill, and later a company made wood fiber here. Over […]