A Standish man was captured Wednesday morning after leading a Cumberland County sheriff’s K-9 team on a 1-mile foot chase through woodlands near Watchic Lake and Route 113. At 8 a.m. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies were informed by a state parole officer of the location of Jacorey Vincent Monterio, 22, who was living at 45 […]
Lakes Region Weekly
Weekly news from and about Windham, Raymond, Sebago, Standish, Bridgton, Casco and Naples.
Sebago woman arrested for filing false rape claim
The woman who told police she was raped on a desolate road in Sebago two years ago has been arrested for filing a false report. On Thursday afternoon, deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lindsay J. Anderson, 34, at her residence in Sebago. According to Capt. Don Goulet, the arrest stems from a […]
Gray residents pursue secession from town
A handful of residents of the Gray neighborhood on the western side of Little Sebago Lake have initiated a movement to secede from Gray and join the town of Raymond. Members of the five-person secession committee cited Gray’s higher tax rate, dissatisfaction with town government, and the area’s proximity to Raymond as some of the […]
At Bonny Eagle, state’s top nurse ‘found her voice’
When Elaine Conant, a school nurse at Bonny Eagle High School, nominated Susan Dunn for the Maine School Nurse of the Year award, she wrote that as Dunn’s colleague, she had watched Dunn “find her voice.” Dunn, a resident of Buxton, is a nurse in Bonny Eagle’s three elementary schools – Edna Libby, Steep Falls […]
Inside Raymond
Academic scholar Congratulations to Emma Laprise for being named a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar during a November Bowdoin College awards ceremony. The award is given to the top 20 percent of students with the highest GPA at Bowdoin College. Emma was unable to attend the ceremony as she was studying abroad in Grenada, Spain. […]
Inside Standish & Sebago
Registration for Real Deal 5K open Registration is open for the third annual Real Deal 5K Run/Walk to be held on Saturday, May 7, at 9:30 a.m. at the Standish Town Municipal Complex. The Real Deal 5K is a memorial run/walk honoring 1992 Bonny Eagle graduate Kenneth “Kenny” Coughlin, who passed away in April 2012 […]
Inside Standish & Sebago
Registration for Real Deal 5K open Registration is open for the third annual Real Deal 5K Run/Walk to be held on Saturday, May 7, at 9:30 a.m. at the Standish Town Municipal Complex. The Real Deal 5K is a memorial run/walk honoring 1992 Bonny Eagle graduate Kenneth “Kenny” Coughlin, who passed away in April 2012 […]
Windham, Scots take on SMAAs, prep for States
More than a dozen schools descended on University of Southern Maine’s Costello Sports Complex in Gorham on Saturday morning, Feb. 6, for this year’s South Maine Athletics Association Championship. Scarborough took top honors on the boys’ side, besting No. 2 Thornton by a score of 166-153. On the girls’ side, Westbrook claimed the crown at […]
Bill to rename Naples Causeway span honors bridge-builder
In honor of the late Robert Neault, members of the Naples community are looking to rename the Route 302 span along the causeway – known as the Naples Bay Bridge – in his memory. State Rep. Christine Powers, a Democrat who represents Naples, Sebago, Baldwin, Cornish, Naples and part of Parsonsfield, said the idea to […]
Windham prison, from the inside
Walking through the Maine Correctional Center in South Windham – from the entrance at Mallison Falls Road to the Women’s Center at the opposite end of the facility, about a quarter mile away – is a trip through time and different models of incarceration. “Most modern facilities now don’t look anything like this,” said Warden […]