The Opportunity Farm for Boys and Girls of New Gloucester recently recently named the officers for its board of directors. Cheryl Bascomb of New Gloucester will serve as board chairwoman. Bascomb, a board member since 2002, has led the Development Committee and the Committee on Trustees. Bascomb is the marketing director for the accounting firm […]

Two years after opening the Acropolis, the Katsamas family of Windham can count their Greek restaurant in a Portland success. However, it’s the business they’re opening in Westbrook next month that they dreamed of when they moved to Maine. Just off Route 302, in the former flea market on Elmwood Avenue, Zoe and Niko Katsamas […]

I just love it when money grows on trees in my backyard. Yeah, it takes a little work to get the dollars to come off in one piece without tearing through the illustrations of Washington or Franklin, but once I’ve harvested a bag full from my flowering moneywood, I’m all set for any unforeseen expense. […]

A Standish resident who crashed his motorcycle Sunday remained in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland Tuesday. Gregory Emmons, 47, was traveling north on Manchester Road in Standish midday Sunday on a 1994 Harley Davidson motorcycle, according to Cumberland County Chief Deputy Kevin Joyce. Emmons was thrown from his motorcycle when he failed […]

Almost two weeks after the accident, a Baldwin woman died Aug. 14 from injuries sustained in a truck collision in Standish. The head-on collision that put Norma Thomas, 83, in the hospital happened at around 10:30 a.m. Aug. 3, on Route 113. Thomas was riding with her son Ronald Thomas, 58, of Baldwin and Brian […]

It is said there’s nothing new under the sun. Well, there may be a few things that are technologically new, but overall, we are doomed to repeat ourselves. That’s where history comes in. If we know the history, we can prevent repeating mistakes, and as farmers say, going over plowed ground. Cleaning out a file […]

A New Gloucester man has been charged with drunk driving after he crashed his pickup truck in West Gardiner early Saturday morning. Stephen Jeffrey Hanson, 33, was driving north on Indiana Road when he lost control of his truck, said Chief Deputy Everett Flannery of the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department. The truck went onto the […]

Weather phrase of the week: Rain shadow: The region on the lee side of a mountain where precipitation is noticeably less than on the windward side. Friday: Sunny with a 0 percent chance of precipitation. High: 83 Low: 58 Saturday: Sunny with a 0 percent chance of precipitation. High: 83 Low: 60 Sunday: Sunny with […]

The Gray Town Council is seeking expert opinion on the value of municipal properties as the town moves toward a decision on the future of the Pennell Institute. Councilors are asking for proposals from commercial real estate agents that include an opinion of value and marketing plan for five town owned properties: Pennell Institute and […]

0822memories.jpg These men seem to be having a pretty good time, considering they’re building a barn! Yes, this is a barn raising, held at Frank Sawyer’s house on the Webb Road, early in the 1900s. As any old farmer knows, spontaneous combustion happens when a barn has wet hay inside and that’s what happened here, […]