Auditions will be held this weekend in Windham for “BOO! Thirteen Stories from Halloween,” a Windham Center Stage Theater production that celebrates Halloween with a witch’s brew of playlets, each designed to make your skin crawl and tickle your funny bone. This eerie review of 12 skits and a one-act play, all with a sinister […]

The Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce has raised more than $10,000 for Feed the Need, a regional initiative aimed at alleviating hunger. The 10-week fundraiser, which kicked off Aug. 4, is an expanded version of the Community Coin Challenge, which has raised $60,000 in the past three years for the 13 food pantries that […]

Monday’s single-vehicle car crash that seriously injured two adults and killed a 4-year-old boy is the latest in a string of dangerous accidents that have occurred in Casco on Route 11 near Hancock Lumber’s Ryefield saw mill. Though the mill is in a straightaway area where the speed limit is 50 miles per hour, other […]

The Standish Town Council has 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 western shore of Sebago Lake. At its regular meeting on Aug. 11, the council voted 7-0 to approve the agreement and the two leases, […]

Raymond Village Community Church – UCC is one of only 29 churches nationwide and the only church in Maine receiving a special grant to explore new ways of enhancing worship. The $12,000 grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is intended to help the church generate renewed interest and energy in public worship at […]

Members of the Sebago Lake Rotary Club recently donated books to the Windham Food Pantry as part of its Literary Project. Pictured is club president Deb McPhail, Colette Gagnon from the Windham Food Pantry and Don Drew, project coordinator for the Rotary club. Each month the club will replenish the crate with books that have […]

Members of the Sebago Lake Rotary Club recently donated books to the Windham Food Pantry as part of its Literary Project. Pictured is club president Deb McPhail, Colette Gagnon from the Windham Food Pantry and Don Drew, project coordinator for the Rotary club. Each month the club will replenish the crate with books that have […]

Last month, the Regional School Unit 14 hired Drew Patin, 35, as the new principal of Windham High School, replacing outgoing principal Charlie Haddock. Patin has worked at Sanford Junior High School for the past 13 years, teaching seventh- and eighth-grade science from 2002 to 2009, working as assistant principal from 2009 to 2012, and […]

Having declared a “guarded victory” in its 11-year campaign to eradicate the invasive aquatic milfoil plant from the Songo River and Brandy Pond, the Lakes Environmental Association is now setting its sights on Sebago Lake. Since 2004, the Bridgton-based environmental group has employed four to eight seasonal crew members in the summer to remove milfoil, […]

The Lakes Region bus will stop in Bridgton on Monday for the first time. Lakes Region voters collectively in June approved $43,000 in funding for the bus, allowing the 18-month-old Naples-to-Portland daily shuttle service to continue through July 1, 2016, and also extend north – a long-sought demand of public transportation advocates in Bridgton. Regional […]