Don Swander, President of the Windham Veterans Association, hoped by creating a Veterans Memorial Park at the Windham Veterans Center that the vandalism would stop. For years, the Veterans Center has been the target of vandalism: rocks thrown through windows, their storage trailer destroyed from constant abuse and their parking lot torn up by skidmarks […]

The Sebago Lakes Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual Season’s Greetings Chinese Auction on Sunday, Dec. 4 at the Naples Town Office gym on Route 302. The auction is a good chance to purchase Christmas presents. The auction preview is at 11:30 a.m. and the actual auction starts at 1 p.m. The event benefits […]

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Standish Town Council authorized the town’s attorney to appeal a recent decision by a Cumberland County Superior Court judge to the Maine Supreme Court. Judge Thomas Humphrey ruled Nov. 14 that the town of Standish could not take Portland Water District land adjacent to Northeast Road Extension by prescriptive […]

Tina’s Law overdue Bill Diamond is a leader on a mission. Diamond, Senate representative for most of the Lakes Region, is trying to make operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license as socially taboo as operating under the influence of alcohol and drugs. And so far he’s doing a good job. Since the summer, […]

Tina’s Law overdue Bill Diamond is a leader on a mission. Diamond, Senate representative for most of the Lakes Region, is trying to make operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license as socially taboo as operating under the influence of alcohol and drugs. And so far he’s doing a good job. Since the summer, […]

Naples Annual Tree Lighting Celebration, organized by Naples Main Street in coordination with the Lakes Region Development Council, is being held Sunday, Dec. 4 from 5:45 to 7 p.m. Festivities begin at the Union Church Lawn (next door to the Naples Library) at 5:45 p.m. with holiday music provided by the Lakes Region High School […]

Maine has joined 33 other states in the newly created National Sex Offender Public Registry. The program was developed by the U.S. Department of Justice to link sex offender data from across the nation by creating a link to each participating state’s Web site. The national Web site – www.nsopr.gov – allows Internet users to […]

Mary A. Douglass and Jeremy D. Miller were married on Sept. 10 at the South Coast Community Church in Scarborough. A reception followed at the Italian Heritage Center. The bride is the daughter of Genella and Jeffrey Douglass of Baldwin. The groom, who grew up in Steep Falls, is the son of Teresa Ripley and […]

The state is putting $130 million worth of road work on hold because of the rising cost of construction and to pay for projects protected by Maine’s congressional delegation. The first phase of the long-awaited Gorham Bypass for $15.7 million is on the protected list, along with a $33 million bypass around Presque Isle, the […]

Windham Center Stage Theater will be holding auditions for its annual children’s production of The Wizard of Oz opening in March, 2006. Based on the always-popular response from the community and the limitations as to the availability of the Community Center, Windham Center Stage will be offering a limited number of auditions and will require […]