Basketball Player Wins Award Maria Valente from Gray-New Gloucester High School was recently named as the Robert E. Butler Sr. Award winner for 2015 from the Western Maine Conference. This award is based on her four years of basketball and takes into account leadership, overall good citizenship, sportsmanship, dedication to team play and outstanding quality […]

Basketball Player Wins Award Maria Valente from Gray-New Gloucester High School was recently named as the Robert E. Butler Sr. Award winner for 2015 from the Western Maine Conference. This award is based on her four years of basketball and takes into account leadership, overall good citizenship, sportsmanship, dedication to team play and outstanding quality […]

Windham High School’s one-act team came in sixth place at Maine Drama Festival’s state championships in Bangor last weekend. On Saturday, about three dozen Windham-Raymond students performed the “The Chronicles of Jane, Book 7” at the Maine Drama Festival’s Class A state finals at Bangor High School. The play is about a teenager, Jane, who […]

Windham High School’s one-act team came in sixth place at Maine Drama Festival’s state championships in Bangor last weekend. On Saturday, about three dozen Windham-Raymond students performed the “The Chronicles of Jane, Book 7” at the Maine Drama Festival’s Class A state finals at Bangor High School. The play is about a teenager, Jane, who […]

Every week we send a reminder to many Windham groups, asking for their news and events to this column. If you have email and would like a reminder, please let us know. Thanks! King’s Pines at the Library Learn all about the “King’s Pines” at Windham Public Library on Saturday, April 4, at 9:30 p.m. […]

In a lopsided decision Wednesday night, Regional School Unit 14 voters approved a new district cost-sharing formula that increases taxes for Windham residents, reduces Raymond’s burden, and changes the way the district funds capital improvements, such as renovations and new school construction. On Wednesday evening at the Windham High School auditorium, the assembled residents voted […]

After 13 years, the Federal Energy Regulation Commission has issued Westbrook-based Sappi Fine Paper a new operating license for the Eel Weir Dam, establishing a new Sebago Lake-level management regime for the next four decades. The new requirements, which could lead to lower lake levels in the late summer, have buoyed environmentalists, who have criticized […]

An 11-year-old boy, using a school-issued computer, issued a bomb threat at the Gray-New Gloucester Middle School Wednesday afternoon. Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the school after staff was alerted to a communication found on a scanner/printer in the library that alleged a bomb was in the school. According to Lt. Donald Foss, the […]

Kevin Schofield, Bridgton’s police chief since 2011, is set to replace Richard Lewsen as Windham’s next police chief. The Windham Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to confirm Schofield’s appointment. Schofield will join the Windham police force on April 20, while Lewsen, Windham’s police chief of 24 years, will retire April 30. Schofield, 48, a […]

Regional School Unit 14 Superintendent Sandy Prince has proposed a budget that would increase school district spending next year by $1,902,200, or about 4.63 percent. According to Prince, the proposed increase, which would be the highest in the history of the consolidated school district, is primarily driven by rising fixed costs for labor, electricity and […]