RAYMOND – Last Thursday’s dramatic accident in Raymond, in which a 6-month-old baby survived being thrown 25 feet from a vehicle, has caught the attention of a Windham-based group dedicated to teaching parents the correct way to use child safety seats. The accident is still under investigation by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, and investigators […]

It happened in Windham 190 years ago! After the Revolutionary War, pensions were available to veterans and/or their dependents. These records are fairly easy to find via the Internet – and oftentimes, newspaper articles embellished these legal proceedings. The following is from an 1823 edition of New England Farmer and concerns two neighbors from East […]

Gray’s Falabella earns academic honors Keshia Falabella, of Gray, was recently named to the President’s List at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY. Each fall and spring term, the college’s President’s List honors those students who have a term grade point average between 3.5 and 4.0. Falabella is in the Individual Studies academic program […]

Thanks Each of us needs help at some time in our lives. Hundreds have been (and are being) helped through donations to Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors fuel fund. Last week, WNHN received an anonymous donation of $260 representing $10 in memory of each of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. What a […]

It looks like we are having a good old-fashioned winter, unlike last January’s warm washout. This is great news for sportsmen (and women) who love to ski, snowmobile, ice-fish and in my case, snowshoe. As tempting as it is to just hibernate in my cozy house and watch the new seasons of Downton Abbey and […]

Impressive Display of Family Artifacts Descendants of one of the founding families in New Gloucester are sharing insight into several generations of the Blake/Stinchfield family by displaying a multitude of ancestral artifacts at the New Gloucester History Barn. New Gloucester has a long history of sawmills. A 5-foot circular saw blade was part of a […]

WINDHAM – Leroy Eugene Dunn, now an inmate at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, was sentenced Jan. 3 to 33 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for threatening the president of the United States. Dunn, 30, pleaded guilty to the charge on April 25, 2012. He was sentenced […]

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick plans to name an interim replacement who does not intend to run for the Senate seat.

The author was a founding member of the National Organization for Women and is credited with creating the nation’s first graduate program in women’s history, in the 1970s in New York.

Sandwiched between two long periods serving patients, Dr. Jane Pringle spent six years at disability insurance giant Unum in Portland, learning a lot about how medical insurance rates are impacted by errors, overpayments and government programs. “Without that six years of Unum experience I don’t think I would feel adequately equipped to go into the […]