A Windham resident serving as interim president at St. Joseph’s College in Standish was appointed to the job fulltime Monday. Dr. Joseph Lee of Windham has served as the interim president since Dr. David House resigned in May 2007. Lee was the vice president of enrollment management before that. “During the search process, it became […]

A Windham resident serving as interim president at St. Joseph’s College in Standish was appointed to the job fulltime Monday. Dr. Joseph Lee of Windham has served as the interim president since Dr. David House resigned in May 2007. Lee was the vice president of enrollment management before that. “During the search process, it became […]

Charles L. Cragin of Raymond, a 36-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and a former candidate for governor of Maine, has been chosen to chair a federal committee advising officials on issues related to veterans of the Gulf War. Cragin was appointed to the advisory committee on Gulf War veterans by Dr. James Peake, secretary […]

Debates in Naples and Casco over replacement bridge replacement and plans for the future of town offices will continue Tuesday, May 20, as Naples, Casco, and Sebago residents vote in municipal elections. The three elections will be held with a district-wide vote to approve the School Administrative District 61 budget. The budget was set at […]

I love beer. I hate taxes. Guess how I feel about that big increase in the state beer tax approved by the Legislature in last month’s weasel-infested, eleventh-hour, back-room deal to help pay for the struggling Dirigo Health program. I’m all in favor, of course. Surprised? Actually, so am I. I’d expect me to be […]

Thank you to all our and Zach’s friends, family and the Lakes Region community who contributed to the Zach Smith Scholarship Fund. When our son, Zach, died unexpectedly on February 22, 2008, at the age of 19, we felt there would be no better way to keep his memory alive than start a music scholarship […]

The saga of the bridge on the Naples Causeway is a sad litany of bureaucratic clumsiness. When the existing bridge showed signs of its age, it was apparent that something needed to be done. The state examined the situation and then ignored the obvious, mandated the unnecessary, and then settled on the impractical. To recapitulate, […]

Haunting memories Pineland Cemetery is haunted, not by fictitious ghosts, but by real ones. The appalling ghost story traces back to the deplorable treatment of the inhabitants of Malaga Island, off the coast of Phippsburg almost 100 years ago. In the mid-1800s, a community was established on the small island situated in the New Meadows […]

A long battle between former Bridgton Selectwoman Joan Gardner and Bridgton resident William Shelley ended in Cumberland County Superior Court Tuesday when Gardner was sentenced to 10 days in jail for writing Shelley a bad check. “I’m glad that this 3.5-year-long taffy pull with Ms. Gardner is finally over and that the court gave her […]

A long battle between former Bridgton Selectwoman Joan Gardner and Bridgton resident William Shelley ended in Cumberland County Superior Court Tuesday when Gardner was sentenced to 10 days in jail for writing Shelley a bad check. “I’m glad that this 3.5-year-long taffy pull with Ms. Gardner is finally over and that the court gave her […]