Gray-New Gloucester Middle School students are helping to collect and prepare Thanksgiving food baskets. Eighth-graders at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School say they are thinking differently about Thanksgiving now that they’ve been working on a project to help provide holiday meal gift baskets to people in their community. Each fall, students in the National Junior Honor […]
Lakes Region Weekly
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Lessons to be learned in the community
Gray-New Gloucester Middle School students are helping to collect and prepare Thanksgiving food baskets. Eighth-graders at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School say they are thinking differently about Thanksgiving now that they’ve been working on a project to help provide holiday meal gift baskets to people in their community. Each fall, students in the National Junior Honor […]
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It Happened in Windham: Here lies Buffy
One day in the early 1920s, a funeral was held in Windham Center. Invitations to this somber event had been sent by the close “relatives” of the recently deceased, whose name was Buffy Greenleaf Clarke. She was the beloved pet cat of two ladies who lived in the Goold homestead at the corner of Windham […]
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Meet Maine’s first funnyman
It’s said you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your unsolicited emails.? For example, an email came over the transom here at Storyteller Central the other day from someone who said he had been reading a book on “the humor of Abe Lincoln” and it said somewhere that the Great Emancipator’s favorite humorist […]
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Arts calendar
THEATER Through Sunday, Nov. 20 “Kiss Me Kate,” 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham High School. $8-$14. 893-1742. Through Sunday, Nov. 20 “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” presented by Good Theater at St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland. Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday […]
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Maine Mayhem to hold tryouts
The Maine Mayhem, the 2016 Independent Women’s Football League Affiliate Bowl Champions, will hold their next tryout on Saturday morning, Nov. 19, from 9-11 a.m. at the Portland Sports Complex, located at 512 Warren Ave. in Portland. The Mayhem are eagerly recruiting and no football experience is necessary. For more information, visit www.mainemayhemfootball.com, or write […]
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Meet Maine’s first funnyman
It’s said you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your unsolicited emails.? For example, an email came over the transom here at Storyteller Central the other day from someone who said he had been reading a book on “the humor of Abe Lincoln” and it said somewhere that the Great Emancipator’s favorite humorist […]
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Scarborough man arrested in fatal hit and run
A Scarborough man has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run earlier this week in Windham. Devin Brown, 33, faces several charges in the car crash that killed Brandon Dumond, 25, of Windham, police said Friday. Dumond was biking on Anderson Road around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday when the crash occurred. Brown has been charged […]
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Maine Mayhem to hold tryouts
The Maine Mayhem, the 2016 Independent Women’s Football League Affiliate Bowl Champions, will hold their next tryout on Saturday morning, Nov. 19, from 9-11 a.m. at the Portland Sports Complex, located at 512 Warren Ave. in Portland. The Mayhem are eagerly recruiting and no football experience is necessary. For more information, visit www.mainemayhemfootball.com, or write […]
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Can’t accept it
Paul LePage, Maine’s Republican governor and vocalizing blockage in our plumbing, has some new problems. In the Nov. 8 election, voters approved several laws LePage opposes, and unless he decamps to Washington for a job in the Trump administration (secretary of racial profiling?), he’s going to have to enforce them. Or maybe not. LePage has […]