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Inside Windham – 10/18

Thanksgiving Baskets The Windham Food Pantry is providing Thanksgiving Baskets to more than 200 Windham residents in need. Donations of cash or food (turkeys needed!) are being accepted at the Family Resource Center and Town Hall, Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The Windham Clothes Closet continues to be open Mondays and Tuesdays 10 a.m.-noon. Clean […]

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The last harvest

STANDISH – A 12-acre, nonprofit organic farm on River Road in Standish that has been growing fresh vegetables to sell to local farmers markets and whose staff has led various community outreach services, is for sale and expected to close after 22 years of operation. While the Rippling Waters Farm property is in its last […]

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Inside Naples – 10/18

Trick or Treat As we head into October, of course, our minds are filled with thoughts of Halloween, pumpkins and the like. I’ve noticed over the years that there are certain hot spots that families go to trick or treat. Mainly because in many rural areas, the houses are just too far apart and street […]

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Zest for Octoberfest

SEBAGO – Last Saturday’s second Octoberfest and Community Coin Challenge, which benefits the region’s 10 food pantries, has raked in just shy of $20,000, with money still coming in, said Aimee Senatore, Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce executive director, on Wednesday. Octoberfest, which caps a month-long Community Coin Challenge organized by the chamber to […]

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Windham's Corsetti sentenced to six months

Donato Corsetti, a well-known Windham business owner who faced two criminal charges of class A arson for allegedly setting fire to an apartment building he owned on Gray Road, appeared in Cumberland County court Friday where both arson charges were dismissed by a judge, according to assistant district attorney, Jennifer Ackerman, who prosecuted the case. […]

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Two arrested in Gray on drug charges

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 11:45 p.m., Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies received information of a vehicle traveling northbound on the Maine Turnpike alleged to be carrying illegal narcotics, according to Capt. Don Goulet. Deputies located and stopped the gold-colored 1999 Chrysler 300 on the Route 26-A bypass in Gray. A sheriff’s office K-9 team, which […]