Windham police took to Facebook Friday to urge motorists to avoid driving due to the winter storm moving through the area. “We are officially getting our *sses kicked, please stay home!!!!” wrote Officer Ernest MacVane at about noon on the department’s Facebook page. Another message from police warned: “Please stay off the roads if at […]

Spring means mud, marbles, jump rope – and baseball! In Windham, a few will remember hearing about Grasshopper Mains. Willard Eben Mains of Windham, they called him “Grasshopper” or “Willie,” and his image on a baseball card recently sold for more than $2,600. A Windham relative has been collecting newspaper clippings and other “Mains” ephemerae […]

Spring means mud, marbles, jump rope – and baseball! In Windham, a few will remember hearing about Grasshopper Mains. Willard Eben Mains of Windham, they called him “Grasshopper” or “Willie,” and his image on a baseball card recently sold for more than $2,600. A Windham relative has been collecting newspaper clippings and other “Mains” ephemerae […]

Christopher Knight, a native of Standish, was recently promoted to the role of press secretary for Sen. Susan Collins, where his mission is to “work to keep Mainers well informed of (Senator Collins’) efforts on behalf of Maine in the U.S. Senate,” he said. Knight graduated from Windham Christian Academy in 2009, where he was […]

An overwhelming majority of Sebago voters agreed Tuesday to continue pursuing withdrawal from School Administrative District 61. The referendum, which passed 335-58, will allow the town to send the petition for withdrawal to the school board and the Maine commissioner of education, and authorizes the town to spend $25,000 from an undesignated fund to support […]

Local legislators and town officials testified Monday in Augusta in support of L.D. 1447, a bill that, if approved, would allow for $165 million in bonds to be spent on renovations to the Maine Correctional Center on River Road in South Windham. While the local officials supported the renovation bill during testimony in front of […]

Carrie Walia will be leaving her position as executive director of the Loon Echo Land Trust this summer, when she moves with her husband and young son back to her home state of Wisconsin. During her tenure, Loon Echo officials say, the land trust expanded exponentially both in influence and land acquisitions. Walia, who has […]

Janet Allen, who has been representing The Forecaster and Sun Media Group publications in several southern Maine communities, will also be representing the Lakes Region Weekly in Gray and New Gloucester, as well as Current Publishing’s other publications. The change comes as a result of the recent merger between Current Publishing and The Forecaster. Allen, […]

Senior brunch On Monday, Feb. 8, a “Bruncheon” will be held from 10 a.m.-noon at the Lakes Region Senior Center, 40 Acorn St., in Gorham. All are welcome at $5 per person. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, fruit cups and beverages. Gloria Jean entertains Windham Veterans Association will hold a Valentine’s Day bean […]

Two young dancers from Windham have been awarded a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship through the Maine Arts Commission to study traditional Chinese dance. Mae Pryor Rosenstein and Sylvie Pryor Rosenstein, 16, are twin sisters who have been dancing together since they were 3 years old and taking classes at the Chinese & American Friendship Association of […]