Reflections of a Year in Raymond Many changes are in our town’s future as we embark upon the new year. Before moving forward, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the notable events that took place in 2008. The past year proved to be trying as we were forced to make town-wide […]

A $25,000 donation will move one of two Pondicherry Park bridges closer to reality. The Kendall C. and Anna Ham Charitable Foundation donated $25,000 to construct a bridge linking Pondicherry Park to Stevens Brook Elementary School and the Bridgton Community Center. This new donation is in addition to $50,000 that the Ham Foundation already contributed […]

Happy New Year to all of our readers. I hope you had a wonderful holiday week and survived the requisite sugar rushes, shop-a-thons and family gatherings with your sanity intact. I for one am “cookied-out” and ready to resume my exercise regime at the gym. Mountain madness I managed to set my fork down for […]

0102NG: During a three-week trip “Down Under,” New Gloucester residents Mary Lou Lowrie and Nat Steele hiked along the Cape to Cape trail, which stretches from Cape Naturaliste (near where the photo was taken) to the southwestern-most point of Australia, Cape Leeuwin. Snorkeling, surfing, and just plain relaxing on deserted beaches was the how they […]

0102NG: During a three-week trip “Down Under,” New Gloucester residents Mary Lou Lowrie and Nat Steele hiked along the Cape to Cape trail, which stretches from Cape Naturaliste (near where the photo was taken) to the southwestern-most point of Australia, Cape Leeuwin. Snorkeling, surfing, and just plain relaxing on deserted beaches was the how they […]

Family, friends and fellow students will gather at Windham High School this week to remember a popular student killed Saturday in a snowmobile accident in northern Maine. A wake will be held Friday from 6-9 p.m., at the school auditorium, to honor Kyle Rogers, 15, a Windham High sophomore who died when his snowmobile went […]

A Westbrook man has been indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl on separate occasions in Westbrook and Windham. Thomas Bassler, 57, in an indictment handed down by Cumberland Count Superior Court, was charged with four counts of gross sexual assault, a Class A crime; two counts each of Class B unlawful […]

Happy anniversary Carl and Carol Currie, of Birch Lane, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary Dec. 19. They enjoyed a great dinner at Bugaboo Creek Restaurant in South Portland. Christmas with mother Bill and Jen Toms, with son, Joshua, and Kimberly Morrell, spent Dec. 19-21 in Otisfield. They had an early Christmas with the girl’s mother, […]

A Gray man was convicted last week on three charges stemming from a home invasion last year in which the victim was beaten with a baseball bat. Tyler McFarland, 27, was found guilty of elevated aggravated assault, robbery and burglary after a two-day jury trial in Cumberland County Superiour Court. His sentencing is scheduled for […]

Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire this morning at 5 Crams Point Rd. in Gray. According to a Cumberland County dispatcher, Raymond Fire and Rescue has been called to handle the fire because Raymond is closer to Crams Point Road, which is on the west side of Little Sebago Lake. Check back […]