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Oil-sands rally overflows with activists

SEBAGO LAKE – Last Saturday, environmental activists from Maine and surrounding New England states took to local streets and water bodies, to voice concerns over what they describe as the looming flow reversal of the Portland-Montreal pipeline. The environmental group 350 Maine spearheaded the event in an effort to boost awareness about the pipeline’s proximity […]

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Sebago Days blooms under hot July sun

SEBAGO – Despite sweltering temperatures, hundreds of people turned out for last weekend’s 35th Annual Sebago Days held at Sebago Elementary School. ?? “Friday night was too hot and the crowd was smaller than usual,” said Sebago Days organizing committee member Bob Burns. “But we made up for it on Saturday; we had a great […]

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Inside New Gloucester – 7/26

New Gloucester Community Market Re-Opens Filled with a diverse selection of local products, the New Gloucester Community Market will be opening this year on Sunday, Aug. 4. The Market will be located at Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. There you will find products such as vegetables, bread, jams and preserves, eggs, meat, […]

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Nice spread

SEBAGO LAKE – On Saturday, July 27, 100 people will have the good fortune of enjoying an afternoon of golf and good food at one of Sebago Lake’s classic lakeside estates. David and Pam Donohue, owners of a circa 1919 hunting camp located at the end of Oak Drive on the eastern side of Sebago […]

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‘A great day to live in New Gloucester’

NEW GLOUCESTER – Anna and John Hunnewell have spent thousands of dollars replacing corroded well-water systems at their home on Bald Hill Road in New Gloucester. When the wellhead stops pumping, which has happened several times in the past dozen years – even on Christmas Eve, it’s usually due to the salt- and benzene-laced water […]

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Park woes

WINDHAM – Three weeks after the Windham Town Council eliminated staff supervision at the skate park, Town Manager Town Tony Plante presented a slide show Tuesday night to town councilors documenting several acts of vandalism and the failure of the youth skateboarding community to police itself. The Windham Parks and Recreation Department has provided a […]

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NFL Notebook: Griffin expects to sit out the preseason

RICHMOND, Va. – Quarterback Robert Griffin III put on his knee brace and passed the perfunctory Washington Redskins’ conditioning test on the eve of training camp, then declared he has “nothing left to prove” — at least physically — in his return from major knee surgery. That’s doesn’t mean he’s all the way back. Griffin […]