Schoolhouse Arts Center on Route 114 in Standish is performing ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ a musical about the rocky romance between Buffalo Bill’s Wild West sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, from Friday, July 9, through Sunday, Aug. 2. America’s beloved Broadway composer, Irving Berlin’s score contains the hit songs “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “Anything […]

Cemeteries are wonderful places to find mysteries of history. Years ago, we plodded through about a half mile (it seemed) of hayfields, the grass shoulder-high, into a cluster of tall trees that cast shade over a number of old gravestones, fieldstones, and just plain rocks. This was the old graveyard known as John Akers Knight, […]

Chicken Barbecue The second annual New Gloucester Veterans Monument Chicken Barbecue will be held rain or shine on Saturday, July 11, at Amvets Post 6, 1095 Lewiston Road, beginning at noon and continuing until the food is sold out. The meal includes chicken, cole slaw, dinner roll, chips, beverages and Hodgman’s Frozen Custard. The Berry, […]

A group of seven residents from Raymond and Frye Island have appealed the Raymond Planning Board’s approval of a park-and-ride facility on Raymond Cape. Nearly three years after Frye Island initially proposed the park-and-ride facility, the Planning Board voted 5-1 to approve the project in February, with Bruce Sanford opposed. The appellants, many of whom […]

Raymond health officials shut down the town beach on Sebago Lake Wednesday afternoon following reports of an unusually high E. coli count. Earlier that day, the Portland Water District, which tests different areas of Sebago Lake weekly, notified town officials that the E. coli colony-forming unit (CFU) count at the waters off Raymond Beach had […]

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and other local law enforcement agencies responded to a residence in Standish on Sunday after a man called to say he had shot his girlfriend and was going to harm others. The call, according to Chief Deputy Naldo Gagnon, turned out to be a hoax. According to Gagnon, the Cumberland […]

Have you ever wondered about the little golf course that you can see from Route 114 in Sebago? Or did you take part in the putting contest two years ago? Either way, you can help Spaulding Memorial Library, try your hand putting on the course, enjoy a meal and a few hours in a beautiful […]

He was only 40 when he died, but one of several Elijah Popes of Popeville in Windham, had an interesting life. The story of his life was recorded on the “Find a Grave” website, along with a photo of his gravestone in the Old Quaker Burying Ground in Windham. It starts with the discovery of […]

A Cool Venue Attend a free movie in the Gray Public Library “theater.” The lineup includes: “While We’re Young” (R), Tuesday, July 7, at 6:30 p.m.; “Underdog” (PG), Thursday, July 9, at 10:30 a.m.; “Jaws” (PG), Thursday, July 9 at 2 p.m., “Princess Bride” (PG), Saturday, July 11 at 1 p.m.; “Kingsman: The Secret Service” […]

A Cool Venue Attend a free movie in the Gray Public Library “theater.” The lineup includes: “While We’re Young” (R), Tuesday, July 7, at 6:30 p.m.; “Underdog” (PG), Thursday, July 9, at 10:30 a.m.; “Jaws” (PG), Thursday, July 9 at 2 p.m., “Princess Bride” (PG), Saturday, July 11 at 1 p.m.; “Kingsman: The Secret Service” […]