Last weekend, Portland Museum of Art honored several Lakes Region art students whose work is now on exhibit in celebration of Youth Art month. On Saturday, the crowded museum auditorium flickered with flashbulbs as proud parents took snapshots of their children receiving certificates of achievement from museum coordinators. In the museum’s cafA?© and foyer, more […]

Last weekend, Portland Museum of Art honored several Lakes Region art students whose work is now on exhibit in celebration of Youth Art month. On Saturday, the crowded museum auditorium flickered with flashbulbs as proud parents took snapshots of their children receiving certificates of achievement from museum coordinators. In the museum’s cafA?© and foyer, more […]

A bill that would look at whether taxpayers are subsidizing large employers in the state by paying for their employees to be on Medicaid – dubbed the Wal-Mart bill – is expected to get a favorable committee review despite opposition from business groups. “It’s greased,” said Sen. Richard Rosen, R-Hancock County, of the Health and […]

W.C. Fields once said, “Never work with children or animals.” Evidently, Director Mary Wassick chose not to heed his warning, electing, instead, to work with both. Following Windham Center Stage Theater’s philosophy that every child who tries out gets a part, Wassick cast 58 children and two cuddly dogs for the group’s ambitious production of […]

The Windham Green Party Town Committee will caucus on Friday, March 10, at 7 p.m. in the Windham Public Library to elect officers and delegates to the Cumberland County Green Party Committee. Pat LaMarche of Yarmouth a candidate for the Green Party nomination for Governor of Maine, will be the guest speaker. She will discuss […]

Over the past weeks I have read with interest the controversy regarding the Billingtons’ desire to have a 100-acre subdivision on their property. It never ceases to amaze me when people are critical of town employees or, God forbid, volunteers on boards and committees who have exercised the same rights as other citizens. This is […]

Responding to a call from Democratic leadership to suggest ways by Friday to improve Dirigo Health insurance, representatives from business, insurance and health care will recommend getting rid of the $43.7 million assessment to fund the program. The way it is set up now, that assessment – or what opponents call the Dirigo tax – […]

What follows in this column has been boiling inside of me for a long time. I’m talking about “convenient disregard of the Rule of Law,” and I see it happening in my hometown and at the national and international levels. It is a symptom of misuse of power. Around town, I’ve seen close-up what appears […]