At an age when many women would prefer to put their feet up and read Martha Stewart Living, two Sebago women were recently living it up while putting their feet to the pavement. Through blustering wind, over hilly terrain and in heavy rain, friends Sally Hammond, age 80, and Martha Strickland, age 71, walked the […]

Senior Citizens at Marblehead Manor, 21 Oak Street, Windham will hold their annual Holiday Fair on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Features include home-baked goods, candy, crafts, white elephant table and raffles. All are welcome!

Come next year, Adelphia Communications will become part of Time Warner Cable of Maine, and the Naples Board of Selectmen is doing what it can to make sure service to Naples residents doesn’t diminish as a result. Billions in debt forced the Broadband Internet and cable provider to file for bankruptcy in 2002 and sell […]

With all the wild weather the world has experienced this year, is something wrong with Mother Nature? Cheryl Atherton, 56, Gorham “I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with Mother Nature. I think how things are is how it’s supposed to be. You can’t control it. But there are, I’m sure, scientists and weather forecasters […]

With all the wild weather the world has experienced this year, is something wrong with Mother Nature? Cheryl Atherton, 56, Gorham “I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with Mother Nature. I think how things are is how it’s supposed to be. You can’t control it. But there are, I’m sure, scientists and weather forecasters […]

Rain dashes the water as Windham’s REAL school students paddle canoes down the Presumpscot River past trees of fall foliage – orange, red, and evergreen. Zipped up in wetsuits, life preservers and windbreakers to brave the gray day, the students work together, oar strokes synchronized with their canoe partners. Adventure counselor Rod Nadeau tells the […]

Rain dashes the water as Windham’s REAL school students paddle canoes down the Presumpscot River past trees of fall foliage – orange, red, and evergreen. Zipped up in wetsuits, life preservers and windbreakers to brave the gray day, the students work together, oar strokes synchronized with their canoe partners. Adventure counselor Rod Nadeau tells the […]

Weak sunlight filtered in through the large windows, casting a gentle glow on a thousand different colors that looked like a fractured rainbow scattered across the rows of hanging quilts. It could have been a paint store, with its selections of every imaginable shade and hue displayed in precision, random order. It was, in fact, […]

The Portland Water District invites area preschoolers to join them for themed, read-aloud story times and related activities during the fall and winter months. Books and activities aim to build upon natural curiosities about the environment. All events are free and take place on Fridays in two sessions: 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Snacks provided. […]

By Lu Bauer I’d like to discuss an issue raised in a letter to the editor written by N. Bryan Pullen, President of Summit Spring Water, Inc. He noted a disconnect between local resistance to Nestle/Poland Springs removing and selling Maine water and people’s tendency to buy Poland Springs water (rather than buying from small, […]