Jim Gallant Band at Coffee House Mix a little Americana, blues, folk, bluegrass and rockabilly with some great original music and you have the music of the Jim Gallant Band. Accompanying Gallant, who is a New Gloucester resident, are some extremely talented musicians. Guitarist Rick Masters, bassist Billy Belskis, and vocalist, percussionist and arranger Mark […]

Yard Sale – Inside Windham Historical Society will hold an Indoor Yard Sale on Saturday, April 11, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on the second floor of the old Grange Hall at 46 Lotts Drive and Route 302 near the rotary. Parking in the rear. There is a handicapped ramp. There are wonderful treasures: braided rugs, […]

Windham Town Manager Tony Plante on Tuesday night proposed a municipal budget for fiscal year 2016 that increases spending 6.6 percent. The Town Council will now deliberate Plante’s proposals and bring forth a final budget to residents at the annual town meeting in June. Plante’s $15.5 million proposed budget would increase spending $959,803 compared to […]

The new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for the Eel Weir Dam contains major mandated changes at the Eel Weir bypass reach, the 1.25-mile stretch of the Presumpscot River between the Eel Weir Dam and the North Gorham Dam that is one of the most popular fishing spots in southern Maine. In particular, the 40-year […]

U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, will discuss the impacts of global climate change on Maine’s ice fishing season this Thursday at the Naples Town Hall. According to Maine-based scientists, the long-term increase in Maine’s average annual air temperatures since the late 19th century has caused the ice-out date on many of the state’s lakes to […]

The Bonny Eagle Robotics Team – and their robot BOUNT-e “the quicker picker upper” – finished first at a regional robotics competition March 21-22 at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center Arena. Ranked ninth out of 40 teams going into the quarterfinals, Bonny Eagle formed an alliance with teams from Manchester, N.H. and Keene, […]

The Standish Town Council has rebuffed the latest effort by Frye Island to limit its annual contribution to School Administrative District 6. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to approve a resolution of opposition to a new bill sponsored by Rep. Sue Austin, R-Gray, that would modify the school district’s cost-sharing formula, and repeal the […]

Last Friday, Margaret Moore, manager of the Deck House Sports Tavern, the newly opened sports bar at Seacoast Adventure, took a pause from work to describe the view from the tavern’s hilltop perch. “You can look out over all of Windham, basically,” Moore said. It was the Deck House’s fourth day of business. Down the […]

Promotion to Principal Rhiannon Pelletier has been promoted to Principal dancer of the Maine State Ballet Corps. This is the highest level one can achieve. Rhiannon has been training and performing ballet for almost 14 years. While teaching dance to all ages of students at CenterStage and Maine State Ballet, she also attends school full […]

Family cemeteries were common in the “olden days” but records were seldom kept of who was buried in them. Sometimes the old gravestones – if they had them – have deteriorated over time so they are unreadable. Often, a little cluster of fieldstones is all that’s left of a place where a family spent hours […]