The Windham-Raymond Athletic Boosters will hold its 22nd Annual Windham Auto Show behind the North Windham Hannaford on Sunday, Sept. 13. The show, which benefits the Boosters and the Windham High School athletic department, raised $8,000 and attracted nearly 300 cars. According to Dan McGowan, a former president of the Boosters, the goal is to […]

The Windham-Raymond Athletic Boosters will hold its 22nd Annual Windham Auto Show behind the North Windham Hannaford on Sunday, Sept. 13. The show, which benefits the Boosters and the Windham High School athletic department, raised $8,000 and attracted nearly 300 cars. According to Dan McGowan, a former president of the Boosters, the goal is to […]

Fall Library Events Attend a free movie in the Gray Public Library’s new “theater.” Upcoming showings include: Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., “Mad Max Fury Road” (R); Thursday, Sept. 17, at 2 p.m., “Age of Adaline” (PG-13); Saturday, Sept. 19, at 1 p.m., “Cinderella” (2015 version) (PG); Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6:30 p.m., “Love […]

Fall Library Events Attend a free movie in the Gray Public Library’s new “theater.” Upcoming showings include: Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., “Mad Max Fury Road” (R); Thursday, Sept. 17, at 2 p.m., “Age of Adaline” (PG-13); Saturday, Sept. 19, at 1 p.m., “Cinderella” (2015 version) (PG); Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6:30 p.m., “Love […]

Bean Supper The American Legion Field-Allen Post 148 will hold a bean supper at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 at the Windham Veterans Center located in the back of the Hannaford’s Mall complex, North Windham. Proceeds from the event will go to the Post Scholarship fund for local High School graduates. Tickets are $8, […]

It’s been a year since Toby Pennels’ death, but the Windham community has refused to forget the Casco-based financial adviser, Iraq War veteran and civic-minded volunteer. With another blood drive held in his honor this week, and road improvements at the Windham Veterans Center scheduled to be done in his name before the end of […]

The home of a Maine state trooper was broken into last week in Standish, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. Trooper Joseph Bureau discovered the burglary and theft last Friday. No one was at the residence when the incident occurred. Taken were two handguns, three long-sleeved state police uniform shirts, the trooper’s […]

By Ezra Silk esilk@keepmecurrent.com Ted Finn, who became the principal of Lake Region High School five years ago after the Department of Education listed it as one of the lowest performing schools in Maine, has been hired as the new principal of Gray-New Gloucester High School. Finn, 47, will replace Eric Klein, who recently switched […]

Slow Down The other day, I was working in the gardens at Highland Lake beach. It was raining pretty hard, and I was feeling pretty soggy, but I continued to plug along so that I could get my job done. Just as I stood up, holding my bucket of weeds, a car quickly drove past, […]

Maine author Helen Peppe presents her humorous novel, “Pigs Can’t Swim,” a collection of anecdotes about growing up the youngest of nine children on a backwoods Maine farm at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Raymond Village Library. Peppe will be joined by Chris Lombard, an accomplished horse trainer/clinician and author of the […]