NEW GLOUCESTER – Inside the wooden riding arena on a private, Meadow Lane farm in New Gloucester, Burton Curtis, a 99-year-old World War II veteran, stared down Cooper, a brown quarter horse. Curtis, an Alzheimer’s patient who resides at the Avita of Stroudwater assisted living facility in Westbrook, had already petted Cooper a bit. But […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – Inside the wooden riding arena on a private, Meadow Lane farm in New Gloucester, Burton Curtis, a 99-year-old World War II veteran, stared down Cooper, a brown quarter horse. Curtis, an Alzheimer’s patient who resides at the Avita of Stroudwater assisted living facility in Westbrook, had already petted Cooper a bit. But […]

STANDISH – Bonny Eagle Superintendent Frank Sherburne has recommended a 2.36 percent increase over this year’s budget. School Administrative District 6 includes the towns of Buxton, Hollis, Limington, Standish and Frye Island. The $45,622,550 budget would increase Standish’s school tax assessment by .9 percent, or $77,948, to a total of $8,694,092. In 2012, the district […]

STANDISH – For two decades, the town of Standish has sought to fix the five-way intersection, prone to congestion, where Oak Hill Road merges with Route 25 and intersects Route 35. Now, following a failed 2013 bond issue meant to pay for the project, the town has finally commenced construction on a new cross-connector road […]