The Windham Skate Park is open again, but the town’s Parks and Recreation Department and Advisory Committee have much bigger dreams for the space. The skate park shares the roughly 9-acre lot next to the Public Safety Building with the town’s community garden. Parks and recreation officials would like to see the site turned into […]
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Rehabbed skate park reopens
The Windham Skate Park is open again, but the town’s Parks and Recreation Department and Advisory Committee have much bigger dreams for the space. The skate park shares the roughly 9-acre lot next to the Public Safety Building with the town’s community garden. Parks and recreation officials would like to see the site turned into […]
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Scots topple Storm, head to States: Bonny Eagle will play Portland Saturday for the State Championship.
Bonny Eagler Cam Theberge posted a huge performance on Friday night, Nov. 11, adding more than one backbreaking play vs. visiting Scarborough. Theberge’s contributions included a critically timed INT as well as a kickoff-return TD and propelled the Scots to a 40-20 win over the Storm in the A South Regional Final. “We really were […]
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Frisky Whisk whips up goodies in Gray
Emily Wright hopes customers come for the oven-fresh cinnamon rolls and stay for Fat Elvis. Wright says she’s fulfilling a longtime dream by moving The Frisky Whisk Bakery and her line of decadent, gourmet cupcakes and desserts out of her Auburn kitchen and opening a storefront in Gray. The store has been open and operating […]
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Standish kidney donor faces sex charges
A Standish man who made headlines when he donated a kidney to a stranger last year was indicted last week by a York County jury on five counts of sexual assault. Joshua Dall-Leighton, 31, faces four charges of gross sexual assault (a Class B crime) and one charge of unlawful sexual contact (a Class C […]
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Reefer zombies
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” President-elect Donald Trump This is a column that I have been dreaming about writing and this year’s election handed it to me. Let me start by stating the choice of presidential candidates seemed to be between equal evils and more than […]
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Inside Windham
Meatballs for all On Saturday, Nov. 19, the Knights of Columbus will hold an Italian dinner at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Route 302 in Windham from 5-6 p.m. The menu includes antipasto, homemade meatballs and marinara sauce, pasta, garlic rolls, beverages and a dessert buffet. The cost is $9 for adults and […]
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Windham to put brakes on pot sales
The Windham Town Council is poised to approve an emergency moratorium on retail marijuana establishments next Tuesday. The vote anticipates that Question 1, a citizen’s referendum to approve the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, officially wins. As of Nov. 16, the Secretary of State’s Office said the question appears to have passed by a […]
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Windham to put brakes on pot sales
The Windham Town Council is poised to approve an emergency moratorium on retail marijuana establishments next Tuesday. The vote anticipates that Question 1, a citizen’s referendum to approve the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, officially wins. As of Nov. 16, the Secretary of State’s Office said the question appears to have passed by a […]
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Windham departs bracket after fall to Portland
Kyle Houser and Griffeth Hebert added TDs to keep Windham on pace with Portland through the first half of Friday night, Nov. 11’s A North Championship. The Bulldogs, however, pulled away in the late going, securing a 27-14 W on big, fourth-quarter efforts by Jake Knop and Dylan Bolduc. The result, which played out at […]