The following students from the Lakes Region were named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester at St. Joseph’s College in Standish. The Dean’s List includes students with a 3.5 to 4.0 grade point average: Casco: Risa Card, Adam Richardson Naples: Nathaniel Bacon Raymond: Nicole DeCesere, Alexandra Kanakis, Jamie Murphy, Andrew Young and Emily […]

In June, Louise Douglas of Windham was elected to the Portland Water District Board of Trustees. She represents Windham and Raymond, a change from the previous constituency (Raymond, Windham, Falmouth, and Cumberland). Douglas ran unopposed and received 1,532 votes. In addition to her seat on the Board, she serves on the Board’s Administration and Finance […]

In June, Louise Douglas of Windham was elected to the Portland Water District Board of Trustees. She represents Windham and Raymond, a change from the previous constituency (Raymond, Windham, Falmouth, and Cumberland). Douglas ran unopposed and received 1,532 votes. In addition to her seat on the Board, she serves on the Board’s Administration and Finance […]

In June, Louise Douglas of Windham was elected to the Portland Water District Board of Trustees. She represents Windham and Raymond, a change from the previous constituency (Raymond, Windham, Falmouth, and Cumberland). Douglas ran unopposed and received 1,532 votes. In addition to her seat on the Board, she serves on the Board’s Administration and Finance […]

In June, Louise Douglas of Windham was elected to the Portland Water District Board of Trustees. She represents Windham and Raymond, a change from the previous constituency (Raymond, Windham, Falmouth, and Cumberland). Douglas ran unopposed and received 1,532 votes. In addition to her seat on the Board, she serves on the Board’s Administration and Finance […]

Editor, After last week’s terrible bridge tragedy in Minneapolis, I have heard from many of you who are concerned with the condition of Maine’s bridges, and in particular, our local bridges. Before the federal government asked the states to look into the safety of their bridges, Gov. Baldacci had already issued an executive order to […]

Some enterprising person should start right now working on a product to replace sand, stone, gravel and those beautiful granite countertops and anything else made from quarried products. Maybe we can come up with another synthetic product that will look like brick, granite or marble and will have the strength of concrete. In Windham and […]

Make revisions a priority The Windham PRIORITY Task Force started out with a worthy goal: to rewrite Windham’s outdated ordinances in an effort to prevent further debacles such as the now infamous “quarry quarrel” in the Nash Road neighborhood. But, more than a year after its establishment, the task force’s reputation has flagged, so much […]

Editor, According to an article published in 2005 by the Bible Literacy Project, young Americans know very little about the Bible. Think how many more in 2007. But then a fair number of Americans do not see why youngsters and/or oldsters and all those in between should know anything about the Bible. For those who […]

Lane/Tommy: What scares us the most about the direction the Windham Priority Task Force is undertaking has been the discussion about using that vile term eminent domain. We think that it could result in someone abusing our property rights to promote their own personal agenda. Webster’s New World Dictionary and Thesaurus defines eminent domain as […]