RAYMOND – Last Thursday’s dramatic accident in Raymond, in which a 6-month-old baby survived being thrown 25 feet from a vehicle, has caught the attention of a Windham-based group dedicated to teaching parents the correct way to use child safety seats. The accident is still under investigation by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, and investigators […]
2013
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS – Keeping busy in January
Every day it seems something new is discovered – especially in the field of health. Last week, when reading about the return of a terrible disease, whooping cough, I discovered that even though like many in my generation, I had it when I was a kid, I could catch it again – horrors. So I […]
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SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF SEBAGO – Slowing down for winter
As snow falls, it’s easy to wonder how creatures that live outside survive when bombarded with so much precipitation. Adaptation truly is a wonder of science; all living things, by nature, do what they must do to stay alive. Humans wear warm clothes, stay within the comfortable confines of our homes, or sometimes escape to […]
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ON THE RIGHT LANE – Living in the Twilight Zone
There are times when I believe that American politics and the Twilight Zone have many similarities. Let’s face it, when it comes to our politics and politicians, too many voters hear what they like and therefore vote for that politician even if what they have said isn’t true. I would like to think that in […]
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IT HAPPENED IN WINDHAM – War veterans fined, pilloried
It happened in Windham 190 years ago! After the Revolutionary War, pensions were available to veterans and/or their dependents. These records are fairly easy to find via the Internet – and oftentimes, newspaper articles embellished these legal proceedings. The following is from an 1823 edition of New England Farmer and concerns two neighbors from East […]
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Briefs – 1/11
Gray’s Falabella earns academic honors Keshia Falabella, of Gray, was recently named to the President’s List at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY. Each fall and spring term, the college’s President’s List honors those students who have a term grade point average between 3.5 and 4.0. Falabella is in the Individual Studies academic program […]
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Inside Windham – 1/11
Thanks Each of us needs help at some time in our lives. Hundreds have been (and are being) helped through donations to Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors fuel fund. Last week, WNHN received an anonymous donation of $260 representing $10 in memory of each of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. What a […]
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Inside Bridgton – 1/11
It looks like we are having a good old-fashioned winter, unlike last January’s warm washout. This is great news for sportsmen (and women) who love to ski, snowmobile, ice-fish and in my case, snowshoe. As tempting as it is to just hibernate in my cozy house and watch the new seasons of Downton Abbey and […]
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Inside New Gloucester – 1/11
Impressive Display of Family Artifacts Descendants of one of the founding families in New Gloucester are sharing insight into several generations of the Blake/Stinchfield family by displaying a multitude of ancestral artifacts at the New Gloucester History Barn. New Gloucester has a long history of sawmills. A 5-foot circular saw blade was part of a […]
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Comeback for old frat house
GORHAM – Thanks to a Gorham couple, a once-rundown fraternity house in Gorham Village has taken on new life – and town officials couldn’t be happier. Peter and Dawn Wentworth bought the two-story building at 27 Preble St. from the town in 2010 with an $81,000 winning bid. With a foreclosed tax lien, Gorham had […]