Holiday meals Food baskets are needed for families, individuals and senior citizens of Gray and New Gloucester at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Caring Community of Gray-New Gloucester accepts applications for holiday assistance and then looks for volunteer sponsors to “adopt” a family/individual. The CCGNG matches applicants with sponsors and provides information and guidelines for the […]

Heather Masse, a New York-based singer-songwriter and member of the Billboard-charting folk group the Wailin’ Jennys, is returning to her home state this weekend to perform in the North Windham Union Church’s final 2015 Music with a Mission concert. Masse, 33, who grew up in Lovell and began singing at an early age, will be […]

Standish voters elected Town Councilor Lester Ordway, a Republican, to represent part of Standish in House District 23 for a one-year term on Tuesday. Ordway, with 628 votes, replaces Mike Shaw, a Democrat who resigned in late August and moved to Freeport. Ordway defeated four other candidates, including Democrat Lynn Olson with 494 votes, independent […]

Windham voters on Tuesday defeated a proposal to borrow $7.66 million to build a new public works building, and elected two councilors and two school board directors. While 1,110 residents rejected a referendum for the proposed 29,000-square-foot public works garage, which would have also housed the Regional School Unit 14 transportation and maintenance activities, 997 […]

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Naples men Tuesday night on charges of aggravated trafficking in heroin. Arrested were Lawrence Dyer, 51, and Kenneth Brown, 28. According to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, MDEA agents and detectives from the sheriff’s office have been investigating the […]

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Naples men Tuesday night on charges of aggravated trafficking in heroin. Arrested were Lawrence Dyer, 51, and Kenneth Brown, 28. According to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, MDEA agents and detectives from the sheriff’s office have been investigating the […]

On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Windham voters will elect two town councilors, two school board directors, and weigh in on a referendum to fund a new public works maintenance facility. The referendum, Question 1, seeks funds for the construction of a $7.66 million, 29,000-square-foot public works and maintenance building on Windham Center Road. If […]

On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Standish voters will elect a new member of the Maine House representing District 23. Five candidates are vying to replace Mike Shaw, the former District 23 state representative who resigned on Aug. 21 and moved to Freeport. The candidates, Democrat Lynn Olson, Republican Lester Ordway, Green independent Michael Wakefield, […]

I have to admit that I am sick and tired of the increasing push to eliminate plastic bags, along with other things such as Styrofoam containers. Do these people really believe by adding the cost of a nickel per plastic bag or, in some cases, paper bags as well, that people will no longer discard […]

I have to admit that I am sick and tired of the increasing push to eliminate plastic bags, along with other things such as Styrofoam containers. Do these people really believe by adding the cost of a nickel per plastic bag or, in some cases, paper bags as well, that people will no longer discard […]