Monday’s vote by the Raymond and Windham school department representatives not to join with the Westbrook School Department may have stunned Westbrook Superintendent Stan Sawyer, but it can be thought more perplexing that the three districts considered the idea when there was no requirement to do so. The Windham and Westbrook school departments, each with […]

Covering with care Participation in the third annual “Make A Blanket” day for Project Linus resulted in another 32 quilts for comforting youngsters in Maine. Sixteen Maple Grove Grange Knit Wits and friends met at the Sebago Center Community Church on a recent Saturday with Southern Maine Project Linus coordinator, Sue Kirk. The room was […]

Covering with care Participation in the third annual “Make A Blanket” day for Project Linus resulted in another 32 quilts for comforting youngsters in Maine. Sixteen Maple Grove Grange Knit Wits and friends met at the Sebago Center Community Church on a recent Saturday with Southern Maine Project Linus coordinator, Sue Kirk. The room was […]

Covering with care Participation in the third annual “Make A Blanket” day for Project Linus resulted in another 32 quilts for comforting youngsters in Maine. Sixteen Maple Grove Grange Knit Wits and friends met at the Sebago Center Community Church on a recent Saturday with Southern Maine Project Linus coordinator, Sue Kirk. The room was […]

I am stuck with the price of bread, when it comes to viewing the economy. While some of my fellow commentators rant and rave about what’s going on in Augusta and Washington, I am more concerned with what’s going on in the grocery stores. Trying to solve a shortage of millions of dollars is way […]

Windham High School announced the following students earned honors and high honors in the second quarter of the 2007/08 school year. Students earning high honors: Grade-Nine Samiratu Abdul-Karim, Lyudmila Barankevich, Danielle Bellavance, Tyler Brennick, Gina Cirillo, Chelsea Curit, Christopher Frost, Evan Gardner, Cody Guyer, Jerod Guyer, Emma Krieg, Ryan Littlefield, Benjamin Richardson, Angela Ruggiero, Elizabeth […]

After reading papers, and listening to any number of talk radio shows, it seems to me that we get the government not only that we vote for, but also, that we encourage. All those in government are and should be different, having various perspectives, strengths and weaknesses. We can only expect that different people act […]

Most of Maine is too butt-ugly to preserve. That’s not my opinion. That’s the official position of the Governor’s Task Force on Tourists Who Accidentally Wander Into Downtown Skowhegan. You can understand how such a high-level assemblage might have arrived at that conclusion. The kind of people who get appointed to a gubernatorial task force […]

Most of Maine is too butt-ugly to preserve. That’s not my opinion. That’s the official position of the Governor’s Task Force on Tourists Who Accidentally Wander Into Downtown Skowhegan. You can understand how such a high-level assemblage might have arrived at that conclusion. The kind of people who get appointed to a gubernatorial task force […]

Curves of Windham will be participating in the Curves Food Drive to benefit local food banks. Last year, the Curves Food Drive collected almost 11 million pounds of food for local communities all over the world. This year, Curves has set a goal to collect 15 million pounds to help even more people in need […]