Laura Campbell of New Gloucester got bored with supermarket food a long time ago and is now enrolled in a master gardening course. One requirement is to donate 40 hours of horticulture for the community. Thus, she and two other New Gloucester master gardening students Bob Fowler and Deb Fralich are set to begin an […]

Ben & Jerry’s creators say the benefit corporation law would have helped them avoid a takeover.

PHILADELPHIA — John “Jack” Agnew, one of the original members of an Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the movie “The Dirty Dozen,” has died at age 88. Agnew belonged to the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial unit within the 506th Parachute Infantry […]

Alice Fogg Update A while back the local papers and television stations ran a story on Alice Fogg, an 82-year-old Naples resident who decided to make a difference in the lives of our troops. Mrs. Fogg created more than 1,700 pillows in 14 months and shipped them to Afghanistan to help comfort the soldiers who […]

Soak up the sun The divine weather keeps coming, and Easter weekend found me taking the first dip of the season in Highland Lake and picking bouquets of buttercups from my garden while peepers chattered from the vernal pool. I raked and weeded in a T-shirt and shorts, marveling all the while about the gift […]

scrapbook@securespeed.us Music festival Mark your calendars for a preeminent four-day music festival in New Gloucester you won’t want to miss! The fifth season of “The Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions” runs from June 23-26. This year pianist Paul Posnak, soprano Christina Astrachan and brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker […]

Did you go to Massabesic High School? Massabesic High School Class of 1980 30th Reunion Planning committee members are seeking their classmates for an event which will be held Saturday, Aug. 7, from 4-8:30 p.m. at Jimmy the Greek’s in Old Orchard Beach. Additional events are being planned for Aug. 6 and 8. Please contact […]

CASCO – Jeannine Lauber Oren, the Casco woman who last month filmed Casco Selectwoman Barbara York’s apology for forwarding racist e-mails, has filed a complaint against Casco’s town attorney William Dale. In the written complaint she sent Wednesday morning to the Board of Overseers of the Bar in Augusta, Oren accuses Dale of “making an […]

CASCO – Casco residents as well as a selectman baffled by the town’s handling of charity fuel assistance funds have sought help from several state agencies to analyze the Casco Helping Casco fuel assistance fund. On Thursday, March 29, Selectman Carroll Morton e-mailed a request to three separate state agencies seeking their independent review of […]

CASCO – Casco residents as well as a selectman baffled by the town’s handling of charity fuel assistance funds have sought help from several state agencies to analyze the Casco Helping Casco fuel assistance fund. On Thursday, March 29, Selectman Carroll Morton e-mailed a request to three separate state agencies seeking their independent review of […]