Hunting season is over and the turkey bones are in the trash. Families are cruising the aisles of the stores, with their wish lists in hand. Regardless of the cost of gasoline and fuel, most people in our town will proceed through the holidays, the same as they have in other years. Some will be […]

Gray-New Gloucester school board members approved an incomplete consolidation plan to be sent to the Maine Commissioner of Education last Tuesday night, with many questions remaining. SAD 15, which includes the towns of Gray and New Gloucester, has worked since September on a plan to consolidate school services with the towns of Mechanic Falls, Minot, […]

Gray-New Gloucester school board members approved an incomplete consolidation plan to be sent to the Maine Commissioner of Education last Tuesday night, with many questions remaining. SAD 15, which includes the towns of Gray and New Gloucester, has worked since September on a plan to consolidate school services with the towns of Mechanic Falls, Minot, […]

Editor, It has become the talk of the town, Standish councilors being conned into paying $375,000 for a piece of land not suitable for building its community center on. It appears someone wasn’t thinking far ahead. The land was cleared to make it appealing for the site. The denial of the vernal pools was no […]

New Fire Station Informational Meeting On the evening of Nov. 27, approximately 60 New Gloucester citizens comfortably filled the AMVETS Hall to hear about one of the most important and expensive projects to be proposed in many years: a new fire and rescue station. With a PowerPoint presentation, Fire Chief Gary Sacco summarized the time […]

New Fire Station Informational Meeting On the evening of Nov. 27, approximately 60 New Gloucester citizens comfortably filled the AMVETS Hall to hear about one of the most important and expensive projects to be proposed in many years: a new fire and rescue station. With a PowerPoint presentation, Fire Chief Gary Sacco summarized the time […]

The Windham Town Council told representatives of the Portland Water District that the town has no intention of paying for costs projected to exceeded those written in the contract the two bodies signed last year for a sewer project. “It’s not fair to do business this way,” said Councilor Liz Wisecup. The cost the Portland […]

Weather Word of the Week: Thermograph: An instrument that measures and records air temperature on paper or weather map. Jason’s Weather Forecast Friday: Partly sunny 0% chance of precipitation Hi: 30 Lo: 15 Saturday: Mostly cloudy 0% chance of precipitation Hi: 38 Lo: 29 Sunday: Increasing clouds 0% chance of precipitation Hi: 30 Lo: 10

Spirit is here What is a town without Christmas spirit? Fortunately for “Our Town,” we will not find out. When a group of local citizens learned that there might not be a Christmas tree lighting ceremony this year, they sprang into action. The beautiful spruce tree in front of the Union Church will glow for […]

A Standish nonprofit group that rehabilitates malnourished horses will be using its resources to feed needy people this month. Hemlock Valley Equine Rescue will be having an “open barn” on Sunday, Dec. 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at their location on Richville Road in Standish. Steve and Mary Ann Belanger, who run the horse, […]