A proposal before the Legislature would ban so-called facility fees from being charged for telehealth appointments and require more transparency about when patients will be charged such fees.
2024
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Inside Windham: March 15
100-year-old resident honored Connie Parisi of Windham received a letter of sentiment from the 131st Maine Legislature in recognition of her 100th birthday. Rep. Barbara Bagshaw, R-Windham, presented Parisi with the letter, cosigned Rep. Jane Pringle, D-Windham. “Connie Parisi, who lives on Little Sebago Lake, turned 100 the same year the Little Sebago Lake Association […]
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Portland is now ticketing cars with expired registrations. People have noticed.
Since the new regulations went into effect on Nov. 15, the city has issued 1,567 tickets for unregistered vehicles, a violation previously left up to police to enforce.
Posted inLetters
Letter: Prioritizing democracy over immigration at the polls
A local newspaper featured an obituary recently describing the steps that a lady from Finland had to complete in order to immigrate to the United States in 1958. She had to pass a full medical exam, have a sponsor, and have place of employment and a place to live. It took her four years before […]
Posted inLetters
Letter: Learning a lesson from NIMBYism
I’m not proud to say this: I was a NIMBY. I told myself – and I actually told the town at a town meeting – that it was not in our interests to have affordable housing for seniors built in a field whose right-of-way was adjacent to my property. I said that its entrance would […]
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special
Local boy makes good in the gastronomic capital of Paris
Raymond native Justin Terry moved to Paris a decade ago and now runs a Japanese restaurant there that specializes in ramen.
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Letters to the Editor
No remorse from presidential candidate To the editor, In October 1973, Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president of the United States because he had committed income tax evasion and was facing charges of political corruption. The Republican party took action and Agnew knew enough to leave office and never run again. In 2016, President-elect Trump […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Inside Gray: March 15
Hadyniak to fill town communications director job permanently Kyle Hadyniak has been promoted to director of communications and IT for the town. He started working for Gray in 2021 as digital media coordinator, and was named interim communications director last September. “In my short time working with Kyle, I’ve seen his passion for technology and […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
It Happened in Windham: Two WWII flyers remain at rest in depths of Sebago Lake
Tuesday, May 16, 1944, was to be an ordinary day of training for two British pilots practicing low-level formation training over Sebago Lake. That morning, six Vought F-4U Corsair aircraft took off from the Brunswick Naval Air Station and made their way to the lake. Among the pilots were Sub-Lts. Raymond Laurence Knott and Vaughan […]
Posted inObituaries, Times Record, Times Record Obituaries
Obituary: Capt. Earl R. Riffle
BRUNSWICK – Capt. Earl R. Riffle, USN, retired, passed away on Feb. 26, 2024, in Brunswick.
He was the son of …