Breakfast with Bill Edna Libby Elementary School celebrated National Breakfast Week recently with a special bag breakfast, a Breakfast Bunch membership card, and a visit from Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Cumberland. Diamond was there to speak to and educate the young pupils about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast. Studies by the American Academy of […]

Even with four binders of paperwork, for Scott and Stephanie Davis, photocopy costs are the least of their worries. After winning a due process hearing through the Maine Department of Education in January, the Naples family said the School Administrative District 61 special education department still hasn’t lived up to the ruling to provide their […]

Weather words of the week: Flood watch: Conditions for a flood may be possible, but not likely, usually within a 24- to 48-hour period. Friday: The chance of snow showers after 8 a.m. is 30 percent. High: 39 Low: 18 Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a chance of snow showers at 40 percent. High: 38 Low: […]

Stephen Seymour has taught kindergarten at Raymond Elementary School for six years. Early this month, he found out his days there could be numbered. “I’m very disappointed. I’ve worked very hard to make connections to the community and families. To have that pulled out from in front of you is a little difficult,” said Seymour. […]

Dinner theatre On Saturday March 29, at 5:30 p.m. the Gray-New Gloucester Middle School will be the location of a 30-minute comedy called “Three on a Bench,” produced by Elyse Doyle and performed by Zach Roderick, Lindsey Davalla, Kaitlyn Rokowski and Devin Gilman. The class of 2009 of the Gray-New Gloucester High School will be […]

I’ve seen the term “tipping point” used in a number of ways in the past few years. It has described the slow spread of a flu virus before it reaches a critical number in a population and then cascades into global epidemic. Environmentally speaking, the tipping point is when a gradual physical process triggers other […]

Last week I visited the food pantry, as I do about once a month. While I was there, the phone rang several times, mostly about fuel needs. Bags of groceries, ready to go, lined the tops of every available surface and I remembered when an entire room was taken up with Christmas boxes for dozens […]

“If there are marginal revenues that need to be raised in a nonbroad-based way, I think that is where we will be looking to close this thing up.” – Jeremy Fischer, Democratic state representative from Presque Isle and co-chair of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee, quoted by the Capitol News Service on March 17, 2008, on […]

For B.J. Bell, of Windham, getting out on Sebago Lake will not only be for sport this summer. Bell attended an orientation meeting Monday night at the Raymond Public Safety Building to learn more about classes scheduled for April for those who wish to become certified crew on Raymond’s public safety boat. Bell is hoping […]

Frank Olten doesn’t look away when he reveals that farmland his father toiled with the first John Deere tractor in the state in 1928 is now part of the Falmouth Country Club. Olten, 83, is now a resident of Cumberland but still considers himself a farmer, even though the only green vehicle he commands is […]