Join Maine Custom Wood Sculpture on Saturday, July 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as chain saw artist Bill Fournier demonstrates his techniques for creating eagles, hawks, bears, wolves, mountain lions and more, from up to seven-foot-tall pieces of white and Norway pine, fir, cedar or spruce. Fournier is from the Auburn area, has […]

In preparation for a public hearing on July 26, the Windham Town Council discussed proposed amendments to the town’s land-use ordinance at Tuesday night’s workshop. If adopted, the land use ordinance modifications, also known as design standards or guidelines, would have an effect on the direction and appearance of future commercial growth in town. These […]

Here are two proposals for those taxpayers who are still wondering when Governor Baldacci’s tax relief will come. First, support the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR). Simply put, TABOR limits the amount budgets at all levels in the state can be raised. It limits increases to the rise of inflation plus a population growth factor. […]

Windham Center Stage Theater is proud to present “Sentimental Journey,” a musical review of its last 30 years of productions with selections from shows to come, the last weekend of July. Director and Mistress of Ceremonies, Catherine Ryder, has been busy searching the archives for past favorites to revisit for this 30th Anniversary celebration. The […]

Boy Scouts Boy Scout Troop 51 of Windham, led by Scoutmaster Barry Wilson and Assistant Scoutmaster Brian Butler, attended Camp Roosevelt at the Katahdin Scout Reservation in Eddington from July 3 to 9. Each scout earned three or four merit badges each including badges in small boat sailing, pioneering, leatherwork, environmental science, mammal studies, pioneering […]

Changing gears The former Suburban News office was located on Route 302, right at Boody’s Corner. In the summer, the traffic was horrendous, and obviously slowed down just at the doorsteps of the newspaper office, waiting for the traffic light to change. One day, as employees were wondering what the sirens were about and went […]

Standish resident and Two Lights State Park employee Deborah Boxer enjoys walking, the outdoors, and watching the wildlife that abounds in her area of Standish. One of her regular places to walk is beside the railroad tracks that run along Sebago Lake near Sticky River. But what she observed recently was no cause for enjoyment. […]

Standish resident and Two Lights State Park employee Deborah Boxer enjoys walking, the outdoors, and watching the wildlife that abounds in her area of Standish. One of her regular places to walk is beside the railroad tracks that run along Sebago Lake near Sticky River. But what she observed recently was no cause for enjoyment. […]

The Windham Parks and Recreation will sponsor two Special Family trips in the last weeks of August. The first scheduled trip is Tuesday, August 16. Participants will spend the day at Water Country in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A second trip will be held Tuesday, August 23. This trip is to Canobie Lake Park in Salem, […]

The Windham Parks and Recreation will sponsor two Special Family trips in the last weeks of August. The first scheduled trip is Tuesday, August 16. Participants will spend the day at Water Country in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A second trip will be held Tuesday, August 23. This trip is to Canobie Lake Park in Salem, […]