Last week’s release of the Maine Attorney General’s report vindicating the Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed Stephen McKenney in April, has provoked the curiosity of Dan Lilley, the attorney who is representing McKenney’s widow. In a report released Aug. 21, Attorney General Janet Mills concluded that Cumberland County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Mangino […]

STANDISH – Dick Randall, 75, of Standish, the proprietor of the 109-year-old Randall Orchards farm on Route 25, has placed an agricultural conservation easement on about 300 acres of the property for a variety of reasons, he said Monday. First, the easement, which was signed on Aug. 14 with the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust, ensures […]

STANDISH – With the assistance of a Central Maine Power matching grant, the town of Standish has signed a two-year lease on a 2014 Ford Fusion plug-in hybrid. The town is the first in the Lakes Region to add an electric vehicle to its municipal fleet. Town Manager Gordon Billington, who now drives the Fusion […]

The Schoolhouse Arts Center is winding down its summer season with one of the most famous mysteries ever to be produced for the stage, “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie, which will be presented from Sept. 12-28 in the Schoolhouse’s newly refurbished theater in Standish on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 […]

BRIDGTON – In 2012, Frederika and Wardner Gilroy, an elderly Bridgton couple, contacted Glen Niemy, a local attorney. They wanted their wills amended. Frederika Gilroy, a Dutch immigrant who lived under the Nazi occupation of Netherlands, had harbored a lifelong interest in American Indians. When she told Niemy, a native New Yorker of Jewish descent, […]

BRIDGTON – In 2012, Frederika and Wardner Gilroy, an elderly Bridgton couple, contacted Glen Niemy, a local attorney. They wanted their wills amended. Frederika Gilroy, a Dutch immigrant who lived under the Nazi occupation of Netherlands, had harbored a lifelong interest in American Indians. When she told Niemy, a native New Yorker of Jewish descent, […]

AARP Smart Driver Course set for Sept. 6 The new AARP Smart Driver course for drivers age 50 and older will be presented from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St., Bridgton, on Saturday, Sept. 6. Advance registration no later than Aug. 30 is requested as class size is […]

FRYE ISLAND – For some two decades, the Frye’s Leap Cafe? and General Store on Frye Island has been a popular destination for boaters cruising through the “Gut,” a channel of water passing between the island and Raymond Cape. It is, after all, the only full-service restaurant with docks on Sebago Lake. But since Amy […]

Lobster Dinner The Kiwanis Club is holding its annual lobster dinner on Saturday, Aug. 23, from 4:30-6 p.m. at the Little Meeting House, Route 302 at Boody’s Corner. The menu includes lobster, corn-on-the cob, coleslaw, chips, dessert, and beverage. $15 per person. The King’s Pines On Monday, Aug. 25, Windham Historical Society presents a program […]

WINDHAM – Thanks to a new lease with the Maine Department of Education, Windham High School students and staff will be equipped with new MacBook Air laptops when they return to school this year. The new laptops are a key component of a broader technological overhaul that will bring 68 new Apple TV micro-consoles and […]