River Road – a 12-mile state road connecting Windham to Westbrook – lives up to its name. Like a river, the winding road rolls and bends with enough hills and sharp turns to spill any commuter’s morning coffee. But, regardless, each day hundreds of cars speed down the road on their way to and from […]

Ms. Roberts should do a little more research and use her head before damning the PWD for trying to protect our water. Mr. Billington claims that the water in the lake is better than it was 10 years ago. The town of Standish has done absolutely nothing to protect the water; so, if it really […]

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners approved the 2006 county budget, based on the recommendations of County Manager Peter Crichton and his staff, at $29,809,865. The 2006 budget represents a 2.1 percent increase to taxpayers and a mill rate of 56 cents. The majority of the county budget (58 percent, more than $16 million) goes […]

Michelle Thompson of Windham is one of 29 Susquehanna University juniors participating in the Sigmund Weis School of Business’s London Program during the 2006 spring semester. The program is designed to provide students with an international experience to develop and expand their learning capabilities and broaden their perspectives about possible careers. While abroad, students complete […]

Nearly two years since her death, a California man pleaded not guilty on Dec. 21 to the murder of Windham native Hannah Montessori. On the night of Jan. 19, 2004, Montessori, 15, died of head trauma after she was discovered unconscious and bleeding in a residential neighborhood in Santa Ana, California. Police believe Jonathan Tran, […]

Lighting strike fires up Faith Lutheran Church member to repaint church Seated in the choir during a worship service in late October, Delina Eisenhauer of Gorham had an epiphany. She would put her two passions – God and painting – to good use by repainting the interior of Faith Lutheran Church on Route 302 in […]

Casco Public Library is holding various Winter Workshops, detailed below, during the next few months. The workshops are open to adults and older teens. Call the library at 627-4541 for more information and to register. Some workshops have limited enrollment. Most will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 8 TIKI CARVING Try this […]

Dec. 31: Rock Solid, a band of southern musicians which play secular and Christian contemporary music, performs for New Year’s Eve Portland at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. FMI 839-4434. Dec. 31: New Year’s Bethel will feature Johnny Battis who will play New Orleans jazz favorites. The performance will be a tribute to the jazz tradition […]

Compiled by Staff Writer Peggy Roberts, the Year-in-Review recaps the last year of news events in the Lakes Region. This week we present January through June’s items. Next week, look for the second half of the year. As this extensive list indicates, 2005 was a long year with many interesting developments. New stories caught our […]

Kristen Jordan sold off her dream company earlier this year because she couldn’t keep up with new state regulations designed to prevent the kind of fraud that cost employers millions of dollars in Maine two years ago. What those regulations did instead was force Jordan and other small payroll processors out of business. “This was […]