LAKES REGION – Anyone who says Maine somehow dodged the worst of Tropical Storm Irene doesn’t know what they’re talking about – at least according to residents who had trees spear their homes, Central Maine Power and Lucas Tree line workers who have worked 17- hour days since Sunday, and Sebago Lake residents who have […]

LAKES REGION – Anyone who says Maine somehow dodged the worst of Tropical Storm Irene doesn’t know what they’re talking about – at least according to residents who had trees spear their homes, Central Maine Power and Lucas Tree line workers who have worked 17- hour days since Sunday, and Sebago Lake residents who have […]

LAKES REGION – Anyone who says Maine somehow dodged the worst of Tropical Storm Irene doesn’t know what they’re talking about – at least according to residents who had trees spear their homes, Central Maine Power and Lucas Tree line workers who have worked 17- hour days since Sunday, and Sebago Lake residents who have […]

Irene debris The Town of Gray Transfer Station will be accepting brush and limbs, which came down as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. There is no cost to Gray residents from Wednesday, Aug. 31 until Sunday, Sept. 18. All material must originate within the boundaries of the town of Gray. Welcome back Deborah Shaw […]

Lakes Region ?Senior Center In a fairly short period of time, some senior citizens here in the Lakes Region have gotten off to a good start with the new Lakes Region Senior Center which will hold an Open House on Thursday, Sept. 22 from 1-3 p.m. at the former Little Falls School, Acorn Street in […]

LAKES REGION – According to Mike Kistner, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service based in Gray, Tropical Storm Irene packed a wallop, but more in the form of wind than rain. “York and Cumberland counties seemed like they got hit worst with wind, while the Carrabassett area got hit with rainfall,” he said Wednesday. […]

SEBAGO – While Tropical Storm Irene’s high winds and rain made power outages commonplace throughout the Lakes Region this week, most homes were spared damage. The same could not be said, however, for a camper owned by a Massachusetts couple that was staying at Nason’s Beach and Campground in Sebago, where a tree literally cut […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – A husband-and-wife duo has been charged in the Aug. 16 strong-arm robbery of the former Cloutier’s Market on Route 100 in New Gloucester. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office last week apprehended Nicholas Fecteau, 26, of 11 Lisbon St., Lewiston, and his wife, 25-year-old Kyleen Dennison of 13 Pond Road in New Gloucester. […]

RAYMOND – Administrators and faculty at a prominent Philadelphia private school are mourning the loss of Lewis S. Somers III and his wife, Elizabeth, who died earlier this week in their Raymond home of carbon monoxide poisoning. Lewis Somers had been an overseer of the William Penn Charter School since 1973, and the Somerses gave […]

STANDISH – Dr. Joseph Lee, president of St. Joseph’s College in Standish, has announced his resignation to the college community. Lee was appointed president of St. Joseph’s College in 2007 after coming to the college in 2005 as vice president of enrollment management. For the last three years, Lee helped shape a strategic plan geared […]