Adam Garrett Manzo, son of Anne (Dentremont) Manzo of Roosevelt Trail and Gary Manzo of Mount Hunger Shore Road, Windham, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, on Sunday, May 22. A 2001 graduate of Cheverus High School, Portland, Adam plans to pursue a career in Marketing. […]

No Dam Reason In a page one story this week, Peggy Roberts, our new Standish and Raymond reporter, has investigated recent rain events and how they impact the Sebago Lake rim. Aside from being a very complicated and multi-faceted issue, lake levels are a measurable concern for people who live and work around the lake […]

The state plans to tax insurance companies and self-insured businesses based on the claims they pay out to privately insured Maine residents starting in January to help fund the Dirigo Health insurance program, with hopes of collecting up to $48 million in 2006. The amount needed will depend on how many people are enrolled in […]

The 3rd annual Don Gordan Scholarship Dance will be held Sunday, June 5 from 5-9 p.m. at Keeley’s Convention Center, Warren Avenue, Portland. The event, which raises money for a scholarship given to a local music student, is in memory of Don Gordan, a well-known Portland area jazz musician and longtime Windham resident. Many local […]

This Saturday, a dedication ceremony will be held for the new Gambo bicycle/pedestrian bridge that crosses from Windham to Gorham. The new bridge is the final link in what is now being called the Presumpscot River Loop Trail. With the opening of the bridge, pedestrians and bicyclists will be able to pass over the bridge […]

To the editor, Fresh from my first year at college, ripe with a new outlook on life and new ideas (albeit slightly conservative ones), and having been bludgeoned to death with the cudgel known as “political correctness,” I was rather shocked and angered by the Gulf of Maine Gunsmithing shop’s sign bearing three terms: “DEMARATS/SEXUAL […]

Scott Seltzer of Blue Plate Specials is ecstatic. Only a matter of months ago, he was a stay-at-home dad burnt out by the sales industry. Now he runs his own alternative advertisement company that designs placemats and take-out menus for local restaurants. What makes Blue Plate Specials “special” is that these placemats and menus are […]

Scott Seltzer of Blue Plate Specials is ecstatic. Only a matter of months ago, he was a stay-at-home dad burnt out by the sales industry. Now he runs his own alternative advertisement company that designs placemats and take-out menus for local restaurants. What makes Blue Plate Specials “special” is that these placemats and menus are […]

Scott Seltzer of Blue Plate Specials is ecstatic. Only a matter of months ago, he was a stay-at-home dad burnt out by the sales industry. Now he runs his own alternative advertisement company that designs placemats and take-out menus for local restaurants. What makes Blue Plate Specials “special” is that these placemats and menus are […]

The back parking lot at Bonny Eagle High School looked like a construction site when a derrick from the Cianbro Corporation and Cianbro employees Kevin Murphy and Allen Goepner spent the day at the school showing Don Denico’s industrial technology students how a large crane works. The students helped to rig the loads for the […]