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 […]

RAYMOND – The elderly couple who were found dead in a Raymond home early yesterday afternoon have been identified. According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, Lewis S. Somers III, 85, and his wife, Elizabeth Somers, 84, both of Lafayette, Penn., died in a house they own at 76 Musson Road in Raymond. The likely […]

Damaged more extensively than first realized, Maine’s most popular state park campground may open in time for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, according to a press release from the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL), under the Maine Department of Conservation (MDOC). Sebago Lake State Park, known for its sandy, lake-front beaches and extensive […]

Damaged more extensively than first realized, Maine’s most popular state park campground may open in time for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, according to a press release from the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL), under the Maine Department of Conservation (MDOC). Sebago Lake State Park, known for its sandy, lake-front beaches and extensive […]

RAYMOND – An elderly man and woman were found dead in a Raymond home early this afternoon as a result of what officials suspect was carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator running in the basement. A neighbor went to the home at 76 Musson Road, which had lost power due to the weekend storm, after […]

SEBAGO – While damage from Tropical Storm Irene Sunday was mostly limited to downed power lines and lots of brush cluttering roadways and lawns in the Lakes Region, a trailer parked at Nason’s Beach and Campground in the town of Sebago felt the worst of the storm as a tree cut the camper in half […]

SEBAGO – While damage from Tropical Storm Irene Sunday was mostly limited to downed power lines and lots of brush cluttering roadways and lawns in the Lakes Region, a trailer parked at Nason’s Beach and Campground in the town of Sebago felt the worst of the storm as a tree cut the camper in half […]

LAKES REGION – Local food pantries that have relied on the federal government for meeting their food budget expenses were dealt a blow earlier this month as all funding to Cumberland County pantries was completely cut. Maine, which used to receive $815,000 in Emergency Food and Shelter funding, distributed locally by the United Way of […]

BRIDGTON – With those trying to sell their houses doing everything they can to make their property presentable for prospective buyers, one homeowner has taken a different tack. He lets the view do the talking. From any spot inside or outside the 3,000-square-foot home at 780 Kansas Road in Bridgton, known better by Long Lake […]

WINDHAM – After two years of training at Fort Bragg and a quick return home for rest and relaxation, Army Spc. Josh Varney of Windham is set to enter the fray known as the Afghanistan war. Born and raised in Windham and a 2009 graduate of Windham High School, the 20-year-old Cook Road resident enlisted […]