STANDISH – Despite wet weather, about 150 people attended Saturday’s Second Annual Lakes Region Trail Day, sponsored by the Portland Water District and held at the district’s Sebago Lake Land Reserve in Standish. Among many events offered, a big lure was a Learn to Fish event held Saturday morning at the Otter Ponds off Route […]

SOUTH WINDHAM – The Environmental Protection Agency has placed the Keddy Mill complex in South Windham on the National Priorities List, also known as the Superfund, pushing the contaminated site one step closer to a federal cleanup effort. According to Kate Melanson, the community involvement coordinator for the agency’s New England regional office, the listing […]

BRIDGTON – April E. Nedeau, M.D., a vascular surgeon, is now seeing patients at Bridgton Hospital. She also practices with Central Maine Cardiovascular Surgery in Lewiston. Nedeau specializes in endovascular and vascular surgery, treating problems involving the circulatory system, which are primarily the arteries and veins that transport blood throughout the body. Many vascular procedures […]

GRAY – Fiddlehead Center for the Arts and Sciences, the after-school educational center and charter school, is expanding its footprint in downtown Gray. For seven years, the center has shared a 16,000-square-foot facility at 25 Shaker Road with health management company Patient Advocates LLC. But on May 1, Patient Advocates moved into a 10,000-square-foot building […]

By rights, the ancient Brown Cemetery on Windham’s Chute Road, probably should be called the “Andrew” Cemetery, for at the time it was created, it was on property that belonged to Jonathan Andrew, a prosperous resident of South Windham. He built a home (still standing) and also a small schoolhouse where his children were educated. […]