The $13.1 million town budget for 2021-2022 was approved at the April 29 Town Meeting.
Lakes Region Weekly News
Bibliophiles, rejoice: A new bookstore is coming to Windham
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops announced late last month that the local bookstore chain is opening a new location in Windham this summer, as well as locations in Topsham and Rockland.
Maine Guide celebrates four seasons of sporting adventures
Tom Roth’s “A Sporting Year in Maine” is a month-by-month journey in the year of a Maine outdoorsman, who counts Sebago Lake as one of his favorite fishing spots.
Naples reaches a resolution in hoopla over cupola
Selectmen earlier this month unanimously agreed to transfer ownership of the historic structure that once crowned the Bay of Naples Inn to landowner Mark Copeland.
Windham public safety building expansion gets green light
The $4.3 million renovation and expansion project should begin in a couple of months.
‘Cloaked Figure’ newest piece of public art in Yarmouth
Gray sculptor Roy Patterson’s granite sculpture will be installed near Merrill Memorial Library on Main Street.
Windham correctional center revamp moves closer to completion
Modernizing a century-old prison by constructing new buildings and demolishing others is complicated when that prison is fully operating, but completion of the work at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham is expected be completed by August 2022, just off the original June 2022 target date. The $141 million state funded project, which began in […]
Region’s schools vary on increasing in-person learning
Though COVID-19 case numbers have spiked across the region, the five school districts in the Lakes Region have made different decisions on whether to increase in-person instruction for the remainder of the academic year.
Garden gives kids green thumb, green goodies
Lake Region Kids’ Garden founder Tory Ryden and other volunteers will help kids grow their own produce for the second year.
Volunteers needed for busy fish migration in Westbrook
The Presumpscot Regional Land Trust says with a growing number of visitors, more help is needed.