A coalition of boatyards from Kennebunkport to Calais is celebrating the news that Maine is getting a $15 million federal grant to grow its boat-building industry and expand the use of new materials in the process. The grant is coming from the federal Department of Labor and is part of a $195 million initiative by […]

A coalition of boatyards from Kennebunkport to Calais is celebrating the news that Maine is getting a $15 million federal grant to grow its boat-building industry and expand the use of new materials in the process. The grant is coming from the federal Department of Labor and is part of a $195 million initiative by […]

Georgetown was full of mingling human bodies going and coming. Only God knew where. But no one appeared to be hurrying – just going and coming. We noted the goats traipsing in front of cars. Goats did not care. Drivers had little option but not to care either. Not a few cows meandered at the […]

Georgetown was full of mingling human bodies going and coming. Only God knew where. But no one appeared to be hurrying – just going and coming. We noted the goats traipsing in front of cars. Goats did not care. Drivers had little option but not to care either. Not a few cows meandered at the […]

House Democrats are just waiting until they have enough supportive members in their seats to pass a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $7 an hour. The bill has been sitting as unfinished business on the House calendar since Jan. 5. That’s because the tally is expected to be so close that […]

House Democrats are just waiting until they have enough supportive members in their seats to pass a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $7 an hour. The bill has been sitting as unfinished business on the House calendar since Jan. 5. That’s because the tally is expected to be so close that […]

House Democrats are just waiting until they have enough supportive members in their seats to pass a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $7 an hour. The bill has been sitting as unfinished business on the House calendar since Jan. 5. That’s because the tally is expected to be so close that […]

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and the Windham Police Department joined forces to conduct a driver’s license checkpoint on River Road, resulting in three summonses and 18 citations. According to Windham Police Chief David DeGruchy, Michael Lavoie, 28, of 1019 River Road in Windham and Shaun Breton, 28, of 14 Mill Pond Drive in Windham, […]

Black-eye blackouts A front-page story this week concerning intentional power outages reminds us that, although we hate to admit it, we lowly energy-dependent moderns are not in control of our own destinies. Mother Nature, the government, and power companies, which provide the necessities of life, are more in control than we individuals will ever be. […]

This spring, Windham’s Town Hall will expand into the Aikins annex at one end of the building, completed in 1910 and where town management has done business since the early 1980s. Historically, Windham’s town leaders met annually in a variety of places including schools, churches and a fort, where they planned all the business for […]