Join Lakes Environmental Association for an early spring birding trip at the Holt Pond Preserve Friday, May 1, at 7:30 am. Local birder and naturalist Jean Preis will lead this avian adventure. Participants should meet at the Holt Pond Preserve parking lot, off Grist Mill Road in South Bridgton. Bring binoculars and dress for the […]

I was born in Windham in 1937, and for as long as I can remember the monstrous “Keddy” mill has loomed from the river in South Windham. Before I was born, my father and many local men worked at the mill when it was a pulp mill. The old folks (really old timers like me) […]

School Administrative District 15 is still trying to decide whether it can afford to expand the laptop program to Gray-New Gloucester High School next year. The laptop initiative is one of several items, originally cut from the budget, that the district’s Board of Directors will consider restoring as the board moves toward another draft of […]

Members of the American Legion Post 128 Auxiliary in Standish have knitted a quilt that will be sent to a serviceman or woman injured while serving in the military. The Auxiliary has also adopted a platoon, sending care packages to soldiers overseas. Standing are Doris Deschaine, Florence Stevens, Carolyn Davis and Meredith Roubo. Janet Heggeman, […]

Members of the American Legion Post 128 Auxiliary in Standish have knitted a quilt that will be sent to a serviceman or woman injured while serving in the military. The Auxiliary has also adopted a platoon, sending care packages to soldiers overseas. Standing are Doris Deschaine, Florence Stevens, Carolyn Davis and Meredith Roubo. Janet Heggeman, […]

The Standish Sno-Seekers will be hosting their annual Spring Dance Saturday, May, 9, at The Roost on Chicopee Road in Buxton. Come and join them dancing and lisenting to the fabulous “Easy Money Band.” They are a sensational group, and are sure to get the crowd on its feet. Tickets are $10 per person. There […]

Farm work can be dangerous, but a University of Maine Cooperative Extension tractor safety course will help reduce risks to Maine farmers and farm workers. A farm tractor safety course will be held on five consecutive Tuesday evenings starting April 21 at the Maine Forest Service Building on Route 26 (Shaker Road) in Gray. “Many […]

A quarter century ago, Bob Bell came to Special Olympics Maine Executive Director Mickey Boutilier with the idea to transplant to Maine a fundraising event he had heard about from a police chief in Kansas. “Mickey thought he was crazy and maybe he’d be around for three weeks and get about $100,” said Lisa Bird, […]

I don’t like the way you’re looking at me. That’ll be 50 cents to cover Maine’s new hostile-stare tax. Planning to punch me out? It’ll hurt you more in the wallet than it will me in the kisser, because this state will soon have a hefty surcharge on surliness. Spreading nasty rumors about me? The […]

I don’t like the way you’re looking at me. That’ll be 50 cents to cover Maine’s new hostile-stare tax. Planning to punch me out? It’ll hurt you more in the wallet than it will me in the kisser, because this state will soon have a hefty surcharge on surliness. Spreading nasty rumors about me? The […]