Merry and Bright …and white! It’s snowing as I write this, which adds a festive feel to the season. My neighbors on Hillcrest have bedazzled their yard with lights, which are twinkling through the snowflakes. They live on a dead-end street with only two other houses and no traffic, yet they still take the time […]

WINDHAM – Three years ago this week, Kaile Warren was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury on three charges of defrauding investors in his national handyman company, Rent-A-Husband. By 2009, the former Windham town councilor was living pretty well. Homeless when he got the idea – from God, he says – to start the […]

While he didn’t win the $100,000 grand prize in the recently held NASCAR Foundation’s humanitarian award contest, Ron Eby says he won something much more important: publicity and awareness for Camp Sunshine, an organization he was championed for years now. Because of his work raising funds for Camp Sunshine, Eby, 52, of Windham, was one […]

Until Dec. 16: Schoolhouse Arts Center will present Miracle on 34th Street on Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 7, 8, 14, and 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 2, 9, and 16 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. Schoolhouse Arts Center is located at 16 Richville Road (Route […]

Hanging Up the Hats As I write on this dreary Monday, I am reminded why, with the project being so close to completion, that the Causeway construction crew is taking a hiatus for the winter. Come spring, they will get right back at it, finishing up the details as well as the highly anticipated amphitheater. […]

WINDHAM – The state fire marshal’s office has ruled Friday’s fire at a triple-unit apartment building next to Corsetti’s Market on Gray Road in Windham Center as an arson. The only question now, investigators say, is who caused the arson and whether the arson was also an attempt on the life of the building’s owner, […]

WINDHAM – The state fire marshal’s office has ruled Friday’s fire at a triple-unit apartment building next to Corsetti’s Market on Gray Road in Windham Center as an arson. The only question now, investigators say, is who caused the arson and whether the arson was also an attempt on the life of the building’s owner, […]

The Associated Press Montell Owens, who played at the University of Maine, got his first NFL start as a running back with the Jaguars on Sunday. Owens, a two-time Pro Bowler as a special teams player, finished with 91 yards on 14 carries, including a 32-yard TD run. The Jets won the game, 17-10.

Saint Joseph’s College will offer a course in CPR for professional rescuers and health care providers on Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Harold Alfond Center on the Standish campus. The Red Cross-certified course is designed for the professional rescuer and those who have a duty to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies, such as lifeguards, […]

NAPLES – Rich Cebra, the new chairman of the Maine Republican Party, inherits a fractured and beaten GOP, with his first order of business to bring members together, and the party back to power. “The goal is to unify the party,” said Cebra, a Naples resident and former legislator elected to the position by party […]