With no indoor golf training facilities located in the community, Windham High School coach Roger Young has set up a place for his athletes to practice putting and chipping during the off-season. “The purpose was to have an area where members of the team and potential members could improve their short game during the winter,” […]
2006
Sexual assault: victim
Nearly every day, the Poland Spring delivery truck drove by the house Dana Desjardins built for his family. It traveled cautiously along the narrow wooded road, bumping and jolting as it headed to customers down that stretch of Raymond’s treasured rural paradise. It was as regular as a neighbor’s walk; as familiar as an old […]
Sexual assault: victim
Nearly every day, the Poland Spring delivery truck drove by the house Dana Desjardins built for his family. It traveled cautiously along the narrow wooded road, bumping and jolting as it headed to customers down that stretch of Raymond’s treasured rural paradise. It was as regular as a neighbor’s walk; as familiar as an old […]
Bipartisanship – Sugar or Booger?
Okay, I admit it. I’m like Johnny Fever on WKRP and I have always dreamed of using the word “booger” in one of my columns. It wasn’t just Lu Bauer’s column of last week about bipartisanship, but also – strange as it might seem – the Twin City Times contained a column by State Senator […]
SAD 61 cuts teachers, programs to cover loss in state aid
Faced with a sharp loss in state aid, SAD 61 made its first cuts to the proposed district school budget for 2006-2007 this week. On Monday night, the SAD 61 Board of Directors voted to eliminate several teaching and staff positions. At the elementary school level, two teaching positions at Crooked River Elementary in Bridgton […]
Medicare Part D help sessions start Mar. 16
The Naples Public Library is pleased to begin offering Medicare Part D help sessions to area seniors. The help sessions will be offered on Thursdays beginning March 16 at 10 a.m. Many seniors are confused and intimidated by the new program which began offering prescription drug coverage to seniors on Jan. 1. There are a […]
Inside Windham this week
Meeting The Windham Drifters will hold a club meeting March 13. It will be at 7 p.m. in the East Windham fire barn. There will also be a directors meeting March 12 with the location to be announced. Birthday Jody Doty, formerly of Windham and daughter of Ed and Polly Varney of Nash Road, celebrated […]
In time of need!
Editor, I know you are probably saying “another letter from the Food Pantry” but there is a need to let the community know how much we appreciate their help, so here goes. Earlier this year the Windham Food Pantry was in need of a new refrigerator. The refrigerators at the Pantry were very old and […]
A long wait
hannafordlongline.jpg hannafordribboncut.jpg Store Manager Cindy Hakala cuts the ribbon for the new Hannaford Supermarket and Pharmacy on Route 302 in Bridgton as long lines waiting to get into the new store foreshadow the chain’s predicted impact on the region. Courtesy photos
A long wait
hannafordlongline.jpg hannafordribboncut.jpg Store Manager Cindy Hakala cuts the ribbon for the new Hannaford Supermarket and Pharmacy on Route 302 in Bridgton as long lines waiting to get into the new store foreshadow the chain’s predicted impact on the region. Courtesy photos