He sits quietly, dragging deeply on his cigarette between sentences. His matter-of-fact delivery and mild, almost gentle manner as he gives his account of war contradicts the atrocities he’s witnessed firsthand, the grueling existence he’s endured for the past eight months. Lance Corporal Thomas Lawler of the United States Marine Corps is back in Raymond, […]

Tax dreams The Legislature passed 21 tax reduction bills this last session – with a total price tag of $237 million – that have been left in funding limbo, ranging from a tax break on prescription drugs for animals to loosening the rules on when non-residents have to pay income tax here. Those bills got […]

Detectives from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s office are still on the hunt for a middle-aged man who raped a Sebago female at knifepoint in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 6. According to authorities, the assailant came out of the woods behind the victim’s house on Molly Lane around 2 p.m., jumped up onto the rear […]

Reservations must be made two days ahead if you plan to have lunch at the Senior Dining Center. This is so a proper amount of food will be prepared. Call Virginia Billings, 892-3891 for reservations. Call the same number for information about Meals on Wheels. Please call between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday, July […]

Raymond Village Library presents An Evening of Laughter on Saturday, July 23 at Jordan Small Middle School in Raymond starting at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Comedians George Hamm, Karen Morgan and Chris Mac are scheduled to perform. George Hamm, who stars in local television commercials as MDOT’s Road Model and is considered […]

Two area teens recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to take part in the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC). Rebecca McIntire, 17, of Raymond and Jessica Harris, 15, of Windham, flew out of Portland on June 25 for the 11-day conference, which was made up of 400 students from all over the United States. While in […]

Bath Iron Works could be violating the conditions surrounding a $60 million tax incentive it got from the state to expand in the late 1990s if it decides to eliminate 24 union jobs and instead contract the work to an out-of-state firm. Sen. Ethan Strimling, D-Cumberland, has asked legislative leadership for permission to hold a […]

Bath Iron Works could be violating the conditions surrounding a $60 million tax incentive it got from the state to expand in the late 1990s if it decides to eliminate 24 union jobs and instead contract the work to an out-of-state firm. Sen. Ethan Strimling, D-Cumberland, has asked legislative leadership for permission to hold a […]

Grade 6 HIGH HONORS Pauline Adams, Taylor Adams, Nicole Avery, Taylor Bickford, Julia Boucher, Katelyn Boyer, Kelsey Bulger, Joseph Call, Dylan Carlson, Lindsey Carter, Lorynn Carter, Alison Clift, Joseph Collins, Ryan Cook, Morgan Costa, Reid DesRuisseaux, Peyton Dostie, Mariah Eppich, Sara Estes, Rachel Hegarty, Stuart Hewitt, Meaghan Kane, Cara Kinney, Samantha Labbe, Taylor Lampron, Christopher […]

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Raymond Board of Selectmen, the board chose members to serve on the Board of Assessment Review. The purpose of this newly created board is to review appeals from property owners regarding revaluation decisions made by the Board of Assessors (also the Board of Selectmen). Candidates for these positions were required […]