What’s to Become of Mario’s? The Route 100 property in New Gloucester, on which the now-closed Mario’s Restaurant is sited, is owned by RW Michaud Properties LLC, a Lewiston-based real estate company. According to owner Rick Michaud, who also manages Sam’s Italian Foods, there are no immediate plans for the property. Michaud wrote by email, […]

LRHS Drama Club Presents… “Fiddler on the Roof!” Don’t miss what is sure to be a great family event at the Lake Region High School’s auditorium. Shows start Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. Additional shows are Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday and […]

LRHS Drama Club Presents… “Fiddler on the Roof!” Don’t miss what is sure to be a great family event at the Lake Region High School’s auditorium. Shows start Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. Additional shows are Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday and […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – Neighbors and former associates said they were shocked that Andrew Demers, 73, of New Gloucester, the former chief of the Maine State Police, has confessed, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s office, to sexually abusing a 4-year-old female relative. After a police investigation, Demers turned himself in to the Cumberland County Jail […]

In the next five years, the Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce plans to better represent towns beyond Windham, become more politically active, and acquire a substantial marketing budget, according to goals set out in a new strategic plan. According to Aimee Senatore, who became executive director of the chamber in November 2012, the plan […]

Happy Spring Hallelujah. I remain skeptical that this cold won’t still be here through April, but at least it is a ray of sunshine amidst piles of dirty, demoralizing snow. I imagine all the flower bulbs below, bursting with energy and just waiting for Mother Nature’s starting gun to go off. They’ll be busting out […]

Windham is composed of several villages or “centers,” usually at an intersection of two or three roads. The intersection of Routes 302 and 202, near Windham Center, is known as “The Rotary” by most people. It was created in the mid-1850s – prior to that, it was all farmland from the Pleasant River to Ward […]

STANDISH – David Call, a Republican ammunition salesman from Standish with scant political experience, is set to challenge Bill Diamond in this year’s District 26 state Senate race. In an interview, Call, whose primary political experience has been his service on a town budget committee, repeatedly referred to Diamond – a Democrat who has served […]

Joshua Shea, an Auburn resident and publisher of the Lewiston Auburn Magazine, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of possessing child pornography. Shea, 38, was the former publisher of the Windham Independent newspaper under a previous owner. According to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, the State Police Computer Crimes Unit arrested Shea […]

On March 10, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office received information of unlawful sexual contact taking place in New Gloucester. During the past several days, detectives conducted several extensive interviews of witnesses and a suspected victim. At the conclusion of the investigation, Andrew E. Demers, 73, of Bald Hill Road, was arrested on a charge of […]