Feeding a need A celebration will be held at the Steep Falls Fire Barn on the corner of Boundary and Middle roads, Wednesday, April 23. What is being celebrated? The opening of a community food pantry named Catherine’s Cupboard. Catherine’s Cupboard is the result of months of planning by the town of Standish, a pantry […]

Feeding a need A celebration will be held at the Steep Falls Fire Barn on the corner of Boundary and Middle roads, Wednesday, April 23. What is being celebrated? The opening of a community food pantry named Catherine’s Cupboard. Catherine’s Cupboard is the result of months of planning by the town of Standish, a pantry […]

Four teenage boys were caught Friday buying household cleaners that could be used to make explosives at a Windham supermarket. Lt. David DeGruchy of the Windham Police Department said the department was called April 11, at 8:30 p.m., after employees at the Hannaford supermarket on Roosevelt Trail observed the boys, all age 15, buying over […]

You’ve been given a free education from the time you were 4 years old – something that is beyond the reach of kids in many countries. Your community transported you safely to and from school every day. Most of your textbooks and school supplies have been “free.” Nurses come to your school every day to […]

0411memories.jpg Moses Little, lived and had his law office at Windham Hill. The Windham Historical Society has a large collection of his papers. A descendant, also named Moses, is shown here in 1914, leaving church. Moses Little was one of at least a half dozen “merchants” with offices and stores at the intersection of Pope […]

Bridgton Hospital will have the Central Maine Medical Center Mobile Osteoporosis Van parked at Fryeburg Family Medicine at 253 Bridgton Road in Fryeburg, Wednesday, April 30, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., for free bone density screenings for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a silent disease that causes bones to thin, weaken and fracture, without warning, especially in the […]

Weather word of the week: Actual vapor pressure: The pressure exerted by the water vapor molecules in a given volume of air. Friday: Mostly sunny, 0 percent chance of rain. High: 53 Low: 33 Saturday: Rain likely, chance of precipitation is 40 percent. High: 41 Low: 31 Sunday: Rain and snow likely, chance of precipitation […]

Back to my aching head. Did no one else notice that in October 2002 all of the major news shows described a war with Iraq as “imminent?” President Bush was right when he said, “In my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over… to kind of catapult the […]

I’m sorry to inform you that there is an institution in Maine that repeatedly makes promises to the public, but rarely fulfills them. This same entity is also prone to issuing statements containing exaggerated claims about its accomplishments. And when it comes to the financial benefits it bestows on the public, let’s just say its […]

I’m sorry to inform you that there is an institution in Maine that repeatedly makes promises to the public, but rarely fulfills them. This same entity is also prone to issuing statements containing exaggerated claims about its accomplishments. And when it comes to the financial benefits it bestows on the public, let’s just say its […]