Camp Winona is sponsoring an intensive backcountry medical training course in Bridgton on June 19 and 20. This 16-hour, hands-on Wilderness First Aid course will enable students to deal with medical emergencies when they are miles away from help and dialing 911 is not an option. This course is recommended for all those who spend […]

Jill Gray (left) and Kathleen Walker were presented with plaques at the Standish Town Council meeting on April 12 recognizing their service with the Public Health and Safety Committee. Walker, having recently returned to fulltime work, does not have the free time to devote to the committee she has served on since 1998. Gray is […]

Faces of Retirement is a new series of articles featuring profiles of senior citizens in the Lakes Region, and their life in retirement. More than half of all retirees continue to work, part time and full time, and some of them change their careers entirely. There are some who leave the workplace, never to return […]

Windham Children’s Librarian Laurel Parker and Dorothy Millett cut into the teapot cake at the Windham Public Library tea social on Monday. The next scheduled tea time for all interested tea drinkers is Tuesday, June 7. Staff photo by Melinda Baker

The June 8 Charles River cruise trip has sold out and Sherri Holtan, Senior Activities Coordinator for Windham Parks and Recreation is taking reservations for the July theater trip. A production of Beauty and the Beast, plus dinner will cost $20 per person. The play is being performed at Leddy Center for the Performing Arts, […]

Local entrants in April 18’s Boston Marathon Carlton Mendell, 83, Windham, 28th Boston Marathon T.J. Hesler, 36, Steep Falls, 5th Boston Marathon Robin Dressel, 41, Windham, 4th Boston Marathon Tom Noonan, 33, Steep Falls, 1st Boston Marathon Sometimes, the numbers tell the story. There are split times, pace times, finish times, finish places, personal records, […]

Several Windham community service organizations, along with local churches, have organized into a group called Food & Fellowship, Inc. They began a program called “Monday Meal”, about 4 or 5 years ago. It started out with the idea of a free meal offered to local residents, as a change for people to get to meet […]

On March 7, the Winter Pathfinder Club from Bonny Eagle Middle School set off for Eustis and what would prove to be quite an adventure. For the past few years, the boys have gone to Millinocket and Baxter State Park for their weeklong expedition. This year, they used a cabin in Eustis. Upon arrival, the […]

Maine’s teachers, encouraged in the 1990s to shun using standardized tests to show student progress, are being overwhelmed by a process that calls on them to develop local and more hands-on measurements of how their kids are doing. The so-called “local assessment” approach to measuring progress has gotten so burdensome, in fact, that Gov. John […]

All community members are invited to join Cumberland County YMCA staff and volunteers to learn about the current status of bringing a YMCA to Scarborough. In addition to a progress update, Y representatives will speak about volunteer opportunities in a variety of areas and welcome all potential volunteers to attend. The YMCA will serve Scarborough […]