STANDISH – Seven Standish residents are vying for three seats on the Town Council. There are three open-seats: At-Large, Area 2, and Area 4. In the at-large race, Adam Higgins, Wayne Newbegin and Eric Stanton are running for the seat held by Council Vice Chairman John Sargent, who is running for the Area 4 seat. […]

STANDISH – Robert Deakin is set to challenge incumbent Todd Delaney for a three-year term as a Standish representative to the School Administrative District 6 Board of Directors. Deakin, 64, is a resident of Whites Point Road. His daughter, Cici, is a ninth-grader at Bonny Eagle High School. Deakin has worked for more than three […]

Remembering the Derby The popular TV program with the Maine accents, North Woods Law, will be premiering on May 29 (Animal Planet) and on June 26 and will feature our own Sebago Lake ice fishing derby. Go to http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/north-woods-law. The second program will be the ice fishing show. The name of the show is “Ice […]

Remembering the Derby The popular TV program with the Maine accents, North Woods Law, will be premiering on May 29 (Animal Planet) and on June 26 and will feature our own Sebago Lake ice fishing derby. Go to http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/north-woods-law. The second program will be the ice fishing show. The name of the show is “Ice […]

A person doing research in Windham cemeteries recently noticed that there were few veterans’ markers or flags in the Friends cemetery. The Friends, or Quakers, were historically known as pacifists and did not go to war. One of the Quakers’ most prominent families in Windham’s early years, however, had their beginning here with a “retired” […]

As I wrote in my last column, there are several initiatives and citizen referendums on the upcoming ballot that are inspiring much local debate. Unless you never leave your house or read a newspaper, you have surely heard about the proposed cellular tower off of Hio Ridge Road and the vote whether to save or […]

Thursday’s storm brought the first big snowfall of the season, and more than any storm brought last winter.

Boys’ Hockey 12.08.2012

At 7 p.m. on Sunday, Standish Fire-EMS received a call from a passerby on Pequawket Trail (Route 113) reporting a garage fire on Watchic Manor Road, Chief Brent Libby said. Upon arrival, crews found a single story 44-by-48-foot ranch-style home with heavy fire in the attached garage. Crews were able to attack the fire from […]

At 7 p.m. on Sunday, Standish Fire-EMS received a call from a passerby on Pequawket Trail (Route 113) reporting a garage fire on Watchic Manor Road, Chief Brent Libby said. Upon arrival, crews found a single story 44-by-48-foot ranch-style home with heavy fire in the attached garage. Crews were able to attack the fire from […]