GRAY – With the rights secured to a 2-mile stretch of the former Portland-Lewiston Interurban rail bed, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad is “100 percent” committed to building a new museum in Gray Plaza, according to Donnell Carroll, the group’s executive director. Since 2011, when the railroad group’s board of trustees voted to relocate their […]

CASCO – Evelyn Meserve, a Poland native who lives in Whitinsville, Mass., has plans to convert the former Casco Associated Grocer’s store, which closed in 2012, into a convenience store. Meserve has signed a purchase and sale agreement with Wayne and Kelly Lewis, the owners of the .75-acre lot at 978 Meadow Road, or Route […]

Financial planner to discuss Social Security Lorraine A. Jordan, a Windham-based financial planner, will present a seminar on maximizing Social Security at the Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Road, from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30. Jordan will present information on how much, when to start, spousal benefits, paying federal tax on benefits, divorce, […]

Financial planner to discuss Social Security Lorraine A. Jordan, a Windham-based financial planner, will present a seminar on maximizing Social Security at the Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Road, from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30. Jordan will present information on how much, when to start, spousal benefits, paying federal tax on benefits, divorce, […]

Financial planner to discuss Social Security Lorraine A. Jordan, a Windham-based financial planner, will present a seminar on maximizing Social Security at the Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Road, from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30. Jordan will present information on how much, when to start, spousal benefits, paying federal tax on benefits, divorce, […]

WINDHAM – Three Windham police officers were honored on Saturday, April 12, as the Portland Sea Dogs held their 7th Annual Hometown Heroes game at Hadlock Field. The game allows the Portland Sea Dogs to honor police officers, firefighters, EMS workers and volunteers from around Maine. A recognition ceremony was held prior to the start […]

WINDHAM – Three Windham police officers were honored on Saturday, April 12, as the Portland Sea Dogs held their 7th Annual Hometown Heroes game at Hadlock Field. The game allows the Portland Sea Dogs to honor police officers, firefighters, EMS workers and volunteers from around Maine. A recognition ceremony was held prior to the start […]

WINDHAM – The recent inclusion of Windham in a quarantined area designed to contain the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid has forced the Roosevelt Trail Nursery and Garden Center to adapt. This season, the nursery, located on Route 302 in Windham, will maintain a hemlock holding area in Casco, which is outside the quarantine, […]

WINDHAM – Neighbors and a former colleague of Stephen McKenney, the Windham resident who was fatally shot by a Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office deputy early Saturday morning, say they are shocked and bewildered by the events that suddenly ended the life of the 66-year-old retired bus driver. Just after 6 a.m. on April 12, officers […]

WINDHAM – Following seven years of delays, the developer who will erect Windham’s first large-scale, brand-name hotel has broken ground on the project. In March, Wells-based Heyland Development cleared the forest on a 7-acre property across Route 302 from Seacoast Adventure on which a 58-room, three-story Microtel Inn & Suites will be built. Last week, […]