Holiday Performers Raymond teens Emily Algeo and Emily Gagne were two of seven young ladies to volunteer their voices and perform at The Studio for the Living Arts’ “Nutcracker” on Dec. 13 at the Windham Performing Arts Center at the Windham High School. The girls opened the show with “Deck the Halls” and also provided […]

STANDISH – Walter Butler, the co-owner of the former Sensata building on Northeast Road, has donated about 22 acres behind the facility to the town of Standish. On Tuesday, the Standish Town Council voted 5-2 to approve the deed transfer, with councilors Wayne Newbegin and Steve Nesbitt opposed. The land could easily fit six playing […]

Most students of Windham history recognize the name of Thomas Chute as the first settler, his name memorialized by the Chute Road and Chute Cemetery, both in South Windham. He and his wife were multi-talented, as he was a tailor, sheriff, landlord, soldier and innkeeper. His wife, tradition says, was the first teacher, trading her […]

Most students of Windham history recognize the name of Thomas Chute as the first settler, his name memorialized by the Chute Road and Chute Cemetery, both in South Windham. He and his wife were multi-talented, as he was a tailor, sheriff, landlord, soldier and innkeeper. His wife, tradition says, was the first teacher, trading her […]

Holiday Assistance Still Needed Caring Community of Gray-New Gloucester is urging locals to ‘adopt’ a family or individual this Christmas. This year, there are 137 families asking for help. Sponsors ‘adopt’ a family through the CCGNG for Christmas and provide a holiday meal and gifts for children (up to age 18). In the past, sponsors […]

Windham police say a 16-year-old Windham male was arrested Tuesday night for multiple counts of Class C terrorizing, in association with this week’s shutdown of Regional School Unit 14. Police are not releasing the name of the individual but say he is being detained. He is charged with one count of terrorizing for each of […]

Windham police say a 16-year-old Windham male was arrested Tuesday night for multiple counts of Class C terrorizing, in association with this week’s shutdown of Regional School Unit 14. Police are not releasing the name of the individual but say he is being detained. He is charged with one count of terrorizing for each of […]

Nine months ago, John Rand of Raymond started commuting to work on the Lakes Region Shuttle. For Rand, an employee of the environmental engineering firm, Amec Foster Wheeler, abandoning his long commutes to work in Portland has been a blessing. Instead of driving, he works on his laptop on the way. “It’s totally awesome,” Rand […]

SOUTH WINDHAM – A federal court judge in Bangor denied bail Monday to Sidney Kilmartin, 52, the South Windham resident indicted in early November on charges of mailing potassium cyanide to a suicidal man in Hull, England. On Nov. 4, a U.S. District Court grand jury indicted Kilmartin on one count of mailing injurious articles, […]

RAYMOND – Twenty-eight months ago, Sandy Winde’s doctors told him he had six months to live. Twenty-four months ago, in response to twice-monthly chemotherapy treatments for pancreatic cancer, Winde developed peripheral neuropathy, a chronic condition that causes him to feel like his feet are on fire, frozen or walking on pins and needles. Five months […]