A heavily traveled section of Route 114 disappeared into the Sticky River Sunday evening as rainfall and melting snow pushed tons of water through the culvert beneath the road surface. Only moments before the collapse, vehicle traffic was still using the road, and disaster was averted only because emergency personnel were in place. On Monday […]

A heavily traveled section of Route 114 disappeared into the Sticky River Sunday evening as rainfall and melting snow pushed tons of water through the culvert beneath the road surface. Only moments before the collapse, vehicle traffic was still using the road, and disaster was averted only because emergency personnel were in place. On Monday […]

Just before midnight on Sunday, a 19-year-old youth led police on a chase, with speeds approaching 100 mph, through Gorham, Standish and Limington, after a Gorham officer tried to stop the man for speeding. Dean Hannon, Gorham police officer, initiated the chase on Route 25 in Gorham of a red Ford Escort speeding toward Westbrook. […]

A former Windham resident charged with attempted armed bank robbery was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last week. Michael Anthony Mahone, 27, was a resident of 3 Roosevelt Trail in Windham for about six months prior to a Nov. 19, 2003 attempted bank robbery in Gardiner, Maine. Mahone, whose associates described as […]

Library display On display, now through May 21, is a wonderful collection of old advertising tins from the collection of Louis Sinclair. He began collecting advertising tins about 20 years ago, initially using them as objects reproduced in paintings. He continued to collect them for the history that they evoke, as well as for the […]

The Honor Flag was raised for the Girls Varsity Basketball Team at Bonny Eagle High School. The team earned the highest team grade point average for second quarter: Members of the team: L-R: Lacey Whitehouse, Kellsey Howes, Amy Richardson, Laura Bell, Sarah Sargent, Jessica Nassetta, Kelly Johnson, Lyndie Libby, and Meghan Ledoux. Courtesy photo by […]

A bill designed to open large tracts of private land to public access could spell a more than $330,000 property tax increase for the Portland Water District in Standish. LD 1328, sponsored by John Martin, a Democrat from Aroostook County, would require large landowners such as the District to provide public access to those lands […]

David Krueger, 48, a mechanical contractor from Casco, displays his collection of magnetic vehicle ribbons which he has collected “from Kittery to Augusta” during his business travels. “There’re a lot of them out there and if I find them, I buy them,” Krueger said. “I served in the military and I have my own opinions […]

I was raised to say please and thank you – a lot. This is as good an opportunity as any, to say thank you to all the readers who call about information related to an old picture which they see in the Lakes Region Suburban Weekly; thank you, too, to my friend in Porter who […]

I was raised to say please and thank you – a lot. This is as good an opportunity as any, to say thank you to all the readers who call about information related to an old picture which they see in the Lakes Region Suburban Weekly; thank you, too, to my friend in Porter who […]