Welcome winter In the last edition, I commented on how mild it was, how we needed snow…I must have more pull than I thought because prayers have been answered. The Lakes Region experienced two storms on either side of a weekend. I am well aware of this because the Lake Region High School indoor track […]

Full moon snowshoe Join members and supporters of the Royal River Conservation Trust on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 4-7 p.m., for their free, annual full moon snowshoe evening at Pisgah Hill Preserve on the New Gloucester-Pownal town line, hosted by neighbors Terry DeWan and Nancy Wines-DeWan. Hikers will watch the full moon rise over Pownal […]

Several years ago, I was able to participate in an eye-opening experience. My application for the Maine Master Naturalist Program was accepted. Suddenly, I found myself immersed in the world around me: learning to use dichotomous keys to identify species; collecting, mounting and labeling specimens; spending time at my sit spot while I sketched and […]

Happy Trails Main Street Variety closed their doors on Feb. 14, after 37 years in business. The owners needed a change and decided to sell the building. I hate change. Sometimes change is good, I know, but most times it leaves me feeling sad. I will miss going into the store on Friday evenings to […]

A Standish man was captured Wednesday morning after leading a Cumberland County sheriff’s K-9 team on a 1-mile foot chase through woodlands near Watchic Lake and Route 113. At 8 a.m. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies were informed by a state parole officer of the location of Jacorey Vincent Monterio, 22, who was living at 45 […]

A Standish man was captured Wednesday morning after leading a Cumberland County sheriff’s K-9 team on a 1-mile foot chase through woodlands near Watchic Lake and Route 113. At 8 a.m. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies were informed by a state parole officer of the location of Jacorey Vincent Monterio, 22, who was living at 45 […]

The woman who told police she was raped on a desolate road in Sebago two years ago has been arrested for filing a false report. On Thursday afternoon, deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lindsay J. Anderson, 34, at her residence in Sebago. According to Capt. Don Goulet, the arrest stems from a […]

A handful of residents of the Gray neighborhood on the western side of Little Sebago Lake have initiated a movement to secede from Gray and join the town of Raymond. Members of the five-person secession committee cited Gray’s higher tax rate, dissatisfaction with town government, and the area’s proximity to Raymond as some of the […]

When Elaine Conant, a school nurse at Bonny Eagle High School, nominated Susan Dunn for the Maine School Nurse of the Year award, she wrote that as Dunn’s colleague, she had watched Dunn “find her voice.” Dunn, a resident of Buxton, is a nurse in Bonny Eagle’s three elementary schools – Edna Libby, Steep Falls […]

Registration for Real Deal 5K open Registration is open for the third annual Real Deal 5K Run/Walk to be held on Saturday, May 7, at 9:30 a.m. at the Standish Town Municipal Complex. The Real Deal 5K is a memorial run/walk honoring 1992 Bonny Eagle graduate Kenneth “Kenny” Coughlin, who passed away in April 2012 […]