Halloween will be bigger and better in Windham this year, thanks to a new party and trunk-or-treat initiative. “Windham’s All New Halloween Adventure” will take place Saturday, Oct. 29, from 6 – 9 p.m., at Windham Middle Middle School. The free event will feature games, prizes, refreshments and “haunted happenings,” plus an opportunity to trick-or-treat […]

Voters are being asked to OK $500,000 to aid the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad’s effort. Gray residents will vote next month on whether to support the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum with a $498,000 grant to help it relocate to the community. Proponents the grant say it is an investment in a project […]

With Halloween just around the corner, the Maine Afterlife Research Society and the Standish Historical Society are teaming up to offer a chance to get spooked. The afterlife researchers will hold a paranormal investigation of the First Parish Meetinghouse in Standish on Saturday, Oct. 22, and again at an already sold-out event on Oct. 29. […]

A Windham resident has been convicted of mailing cyanide to a man in England, which resulted in the man’s death. According to a news release from Assistant U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank, Sidney Kilmartin, 54, faces up to life in prison and a $250,000 after being found guilty in a six-day jury trial in U.S. […]

The new regional headquarters planned for the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife in Gray will roughly double the size of its current office space and give the public easier and more comfortable access to the department’s services. The $1.3 million facility, to be located on a new site about a quarter-mile from its building […]

What would you do if you were promised all of your heart’s desires – but with some nasty strings? In the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” Seymour Krelborn, a poor, miserable floral shop employee, faces this timeless question after he unwittingly stumbles upon a flesh-eating plant that promises him money, fame and the love of […]

Late morning on Thursday, Sept. 29, a dozen students from Windham Christian Academy piled into a dark-green van for a trip into North Windham. These seventh- and eighth-grade students weren’t headed in town to do their shopping, or even for a field-trip activity. They’re on a mission to rid the town of unsightly cigarette butts. […]

In response to complaints about the disturbance created by consumer fireworks in Windham, the Town Council is considering restrictions on their use. The draft of the new fireworks ordinance, discussed at a council meeting on Oct. 4, would restrict the days that fireworks can be set off and require residents to obtain a permit from […]

In response to complaints about the disturbance created by consumer fireworks in Windham, the Town Council is considering restrictions on their use. The draft of the new fireworks ordinance, discussed at a council meeting on Oct. 4, would restrict the days that fireworks can be set off and require residents to obtain a permit from […]

Construction on a $3.5 million project to improve a section of Route 35 in Standish is expected to begin next summer. Details of that project, as well as information on plans to construct a roundabout on Route 25, were reviewed Tuesday at a meeting of the Standish Town Council. At the public hearing led by […]