Weather words of the week: Ice crystal process: A process that produces precipitation. Friday: Sunny with 0 chance of showers. High: near 60 Low: 39 Saturday: Sunny with a 0 percent chance of showers. High: 69 Low: 45 Sunday: Sunny with a 0 percent chance of showers. High: 68 Low: 48

Casco’s public safety workers will show off equipment and provide activities and information for adults and children at the fifth annual Public Safety Day Saturday, Sept. 27. The Casco Fire Department is hosting the free event, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Central Fire Station on Meadow Road. Scott Avery, assistant fire chief, said the […]

Casco’s public safety workers will show off equipment and provide activities and information for adults and children at the fifth annual Public Safety Day Saturday, Sept. 27. The Casco Fire Department is hosting the free event, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Central Fire Station on Meadow Road. Scott Avery, assistant fire chief, said the […]

Casco’s public safety workers will show off equipment and provide activities and information for adults and children at the fifth annual Public Safety Day Saturday, Sept. 27. The Casco Fire Department is hosting the free event, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Central Fire Station on Meadow Road. Scott Avery, assistant fire chief, said the […]

Staff photo by Julia Davis Jurors in the manslaughter trial of Robert LaPointe got a look earlier this week at the two boats involved in the fatal Long Lake collision. Terry Raye Trott and Suzanne Groetzinger were aboard the 14-foot Glasspar runabout, above, when it was hit by LaPointe’s 32-foot Sunsation Dominator. Outside the Cumberland […]

On their way to the annual town meeting, then held in March, Windham citizens gathered at Alley Hawkes’ grain store at the corner of Route 202 and Windham Center Road. The Old Grocery is now one of the Windham Historical Society museums. The building dates from the early 1800s.

Walking through a forest, it is easy to notice the trees and maybe even some of the wildlife, but a forest is more than what lives there. A forest is defined by all its relationships, the connections between the trees, wildlife, soils, climate, and geologic history. The examination of these relationships will be the focus […]

Land Trust annual meeting The Windham Land Trust will hold their annual meeting Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Windham Public Library. The meeting is for election of officers and annual reports. The public is welcome and sharing of new ideas is always appreciated. For more information, check out www.thewindhamlandtrust.org. Community supper A […]

As prosecutors prepared to rest their case this week against a Massachusetts man charged with manslaughter in a fatal boating collision on Long Lake in Harrison, defense attorneys were expected to begin presenting evidence that Robert LaPointe was not drunk and was operating his boat safely before the crash. Prosecutors expected to finish presenting their […]

Lurking right around the corner is what a lot of people in Maine consider our fifth season. And being the wife of a game warden, I would be in deep trouble if I did not know that hunting season is nearly upon us. Opening day of deer hunting season begins in the form of archery […]