Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village celebrated a major milestone in its years-long herb house project – lowering the building onto its new foundation.
Rory Sweeting
Staff Writer
Rory, an experienced reporter from western Massachusetts, joined the Maine Trust for Local News in October 2024. He is a community reporter for Windham, Raymond, Casco, Bridgton, Naples, Standish, Gray, New Gloucester and other towns in the Lakes Region. Rory previously reported for the Greenfield Recorder in Greenfield, Mass., and the Deerfield Valley News in Wilmington, Vt. He holds a bachelor’s degree in professional and creative writing from Goucher College in Maryland.
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Windham launches long-term project to improve accessibility and traffic congestion
The North Windham Moves project aims to make the town safer for both drivers and pedestrians by building improvements and connector roads.
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Bridgton Academy holds annual holiday auction
Bridgton Academy continued their annual holiday tradition of holding an online auction to raise money for the school
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Bridgton Rotary gives dictionaries to third graders to boost literacy
The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club recently distributed dictionaries to the third graders of Stevens Brook Elementary School as part of an effort to promote literacy.
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Sabbathday Village renovating herb house, making a community space
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the last active Shaker community in the world, is working on renovating its herb house to add a community space. Part of a larger modernization project, the work will allow for the continuation of an herb making tradition that is almost as old as America itself.
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Lakes Region towns to test traffic-calming measures
Temporary traffic-calming measures will be implemented in three Lakes Region towns as part of the Greater Portland Council of Governments’ Vision Zero Initiative for a goal of zero deaths from traffic.
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Gray council appoints new member after long debates
At the Nov. 12 Gray Town Council meeting, a lengthy and chaotic hearing was held to fill a council vacancy. Five candidates laid out to the council why they were best to fill the position.
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Bridgton community development director talks priorities
Nicole McKeith, Bridgton’s new community development director, spoke at the town’s Rotary Club as part of a larger outreach effort to get to know the town.
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Bridgton opens new wastewater plant
The town’s old system was unable to treat wastewater, as it was only handling graywater, household water without major contaminants.
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Standish narrowly votes down moratorium on large-scale subdivisions
After a lengthy debate, Standish voted down a moratorium on large-scale housing, 3-2. The moratorium would have suspended the approval of such projects for 180 days to allow for revisions to the town’s impact fee ordinance.