Current Publishing, Maine’s largest weekly newspaper company serving nearly 40 communities in southern Maine, has announced expanded coverage in the Sebago Lake region, as well as changes in distribution designed to put its newspapers in the hands of more readers. The newspaper company was founded in 2001 when it launched the Current, covering Scarborough, Cape […]

Naples Public Library invites you to celebrate its 100th birthday at a good ol’-fashioned chicken barbecue on the Naples Village Green, Sunday, Aug. 26 from noon to 3 p.m. Lake Region Catering will be providing a wonderful meal including chicken, beans, corn-on-the-cob and lemonade. We will be entertained by Doc’s Banjo Band at the Gazebo […]

Local graduates from University of Maine at Farmington include: Casco: Kellie M. Davis, Early Childhood Education; Jennifer L. Morton, General Studies. Naples: Alicia Kathleen Bent, B.S., Elementary Education. Raymond: Stewart Michael Purinton, Art. Standish: Austin L. Carr, Secondary Social Studies; Joseph Richard Dunham-Conway, Business Economics; Steep Falls: Melanie Anne Levesque, Interdisciplinary; Windham: Brooks Robinson Campana, […]

Sen. Susan Collins was in Raymond last Friday, Aug. 17, for a reception in honor of the U.S. Coast Guard patrol vessel the town acquired in June for patrolling Sebago Lake. The reception was held at the Raymond Public Safety Building, and other guests included the Raymond Board of Selectmen, staff from the Portland Water […]

Cleaner elections needed The Clean Elections fund is drying up, thank goodness. The Maine Ethics Commission, overseers of the fund, reported earlier this week that the fund would need an infusion of $9 million next year to keep the fund solvent through the 2010 elections. Rather than dumping more money into a broken system, the […]

Cleaner elections needed The Clean Elections fund is drying up, thank goodness. The Maine Ethics Commission, overseers of the fund, reported earlier this week that the fund would need an infusion of $9 million next year to keep the fund solvent through the 2010 elections. Rather than dumping more money into a broken system, the […]

An editorial in last week’s paper incorrectly stated that the Standish Historic Commission brought a lawsuit against the Higgins family of Standish. In fact, Standish residents Eleanor Dudek and George McNeil brought the lawsuit.

Editor, People work hard to own a home for themselves and succeeding heirs, by committing capital and agreeing to pay a mortgage. They should not have other burdens placed on them by government other than those in existence at the time of purchase. After all, when they purchase there is an automatic lease put into […]

Windham Center Stage Theater will be holding auditions for its fall production of “You Can’t Take it With You” on Monday, Aug. 27 and Tuesday, Aug. 28 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Windham Community Center on School Road in Windham. “You Can’t Take it With You” is a comedy about a good-natured, but […]

There are hundreds of historic photos at the local historical society in Windham. The one shown here is of a Mr. Wilson’s arrival for a Friday night visit at a neighbor’s on Little Sebago Lake. It was 1904 and the term horsepower really meant something! The Windham Historical Society, 234 Windham Center Road, is open […]