Sign up now for Salvation Army Camp Sebago. This summer, send children from your community for a week’s stay at The Salvation Army’s Camp Sebago. The Christian camp in Standish provides a rich camping experience for boys and girls ages 12-17 from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Camp Sebago offers traditional outdoor activities; swimming, boating, […]

Sign up now for Salvation Army Camp Sebago. This summer, send children from your community for a week’s stay at The Salvation Army’s Camp Sebago. The Christian camp in Standish provides a rich camping experience for boys and girls ages 12-17 from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Camp Sebago offers traditional outdoor activities; swimming, boating, […]

Have you taken part in any outdoor activities this winter? Scott Murray, 38, Standish “Health issues kept me inside this winter. I had quintuple bypass surgery in June and I try to stay inside and keep warm. But I can understand how people could be disappointed because this winter was just blah! But I’m not […]

It’s about learning, not earning While competition can be healthy, it is sad that childhood learning, dictated by President Bush’s ill-conceived No Child Left Behind, is being viewed as a golden road to monetary success and a way to rank one student, or school, against another. The story, this week, out of Lake Region High […]

Last week’s photo of the South Windham train station raised a lot of interest and several have asked about the station at Newhall, a section of Windham not too far from South Windham village. Newhall at one time was the site of a gunpowder manufacturing mill, and later a company made wood fiber here. Over […]

For some reason, I am not in the writing mood. The urge is go outdoors, soak up that sunshine I’m seeing out the window and, like an old barnyard hen, scratch the earth ’til I can smell spring. But I have to push myself back to writing. There are newsletters to write, a book to […]

“Her son-in-law overdosed. Not good. That’s why she’s had to cut back on her hours,” Sarah explained to Priscilla and me as we scanned the menu. Overdosed over the holidays! Another grandma-waitress dealing with the next generation’s pain. Overdose equals three children left without a father. A wife left without a husband. A grandmother mothering […]

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will be serving their Annual Soup and Chowder Sampler Luncheon on Saturday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in Bridgton. Come in and warm yourself, sample a variety of homemade soups, chowders, breads and end with a delicious brownie a-la-mode dessert. […]

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will be serving their Annual Soup and Chowder Sampler Luncheon on Saturday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in Bridgton. Come in and warm yourself, sample a variety of homemade soups, chowders, breads and end with a delicious brownie a-la-mode dessert. […]

Molly Masterton of Windham, a senior at Windham High School, has been selected to receive the 2006 Principal’s Award, Principal Deb McAfee announced today. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. According to McAfee, Masterton is this year’s valedictorian. She has […]