Unity events Unity of Greater Portland on River Road continues the Season of Interfaith and Intercultural Celebration at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, with a showing of “waking in Oak Creek.” The movie depicts a community rocked by hate that is awakened and transformed by the forgiveness shown by the Sikhs after six Sikh […]
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Unity events Unity of Greater Portland on River Road continues the Season of Interfaith and Intercultural Celebration at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, with a showing of “waking in Oak Creek.” The movie depicts a community rocked by hate that is awakened and transformed by the forgiveness shown by the Sikhs after six Sikh […]
Inside Windham
Unity events Unity of Greater Portland on River Road continues the Season of Interfaith and Intercultural Celebration at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, with a showing of “waking in Oak Creek.” The movie depicts a community rocked by hate that is awakened and transformed by the forgiveness shown by the Sikhs after six Sikh […]
Once a dream, paving takes shape
Toby’s Dream has come true. Toby “Stuart” Pennels, the late financial adviser, Iraq War veteran and Windham Veterans Association president, had hoped to pave the Windham Veterans Center’s bumpy dirt access road and parking lot behind the Windham Mall in order to increase hall rental income and help the veterans organization keep up with its […]
Lakes Region Briefs
Raymond singer Nashville bound Suzanna Butterfield, a Raymond resident and junior at North Yarmouth Academy, was recently selected to the 2015 All-National Honors Mixed Choir for the second year in a row. Butterfield was one of 673 student-musicians from 49 states to be chosen out of their district or All-State ensembles by the National Association […]
Beach access granted
After years of negotiations, the Portland Water District will allow Standish residents use of a sandbar on Sebago Lake. The Portland Water District’s board of trustees last week unanimously approved a management plan and two lease agreements that collectively impose a cap of 400 people and 75 boats on the sandbar beach located on the […]
New Gloucester mother charged with abandoning her child in downtown Gray
Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies were alerted to an intoxicated female, identified as Samantha Lovering, 34, of New Gloucester, who was acting suspiciously on Main Street, near the Gray Square on Saturday at 11 p.m. At about the same time, Lovering flagged down a deputy and indicated that her car had been stolen. According to Chief […]
Missing driver in fatal Naples accident meets with investigators
On Friday, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the whereabouts of Michael Minson, the Gray man who was the driver in an accident that killed a 4-year-old in Naples in August. According to Capt. Don Goulet, Minson had been listed as missing earlier this week by the sheriff’s office. On Friday morning, however, […]
Glen DaCosta, former Wailers saxophonist, coming to Saint Joseph's College
Hosted by the Saint Joseph’s College of Maine Art Department, the fall 2015 Speakers, Performers, Artists, and Culture (SPArC) lecture series welcomes Glen DaCosta, former saxophonist of Bob Marley & The Wailers, to campus for a live performance and talk on Thursday, Sept. 24, at noon. The event will take place on the lawn in […]
Man involved in fatal Casco crash disappears
A Gray man who crashed a car on Route 11 earlier this month, resulting in the death of a 4-year-old boy, has disappeared, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. On the morning of Aug. 11, Michael Minson, an unlicensed driver with a residence of 22 Whitney Road in Gray, lost control of a 1993 […]