The performers in “A Night of Broadway,” the nine-season smash hit at Windham Hill United Church of Christ during the 2000s, say they cannot wait for their one-time reunion performance in Windham on Saturday – their first show together in six years. Music with a Mission will present “A Night of Broadway: The Reunion Concert” […]
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It Happened in Windham: Sixty years later
Yesterday, I saw one of my former classmates at Windham High School. He asked where I had been at Alumni Banquet – he and two others from the class of 1955 attended. There aren’t many of us left, for sure. By today’s standards, we were a small class – but then, Windham was small in […]
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Taking it in stride, Hall testifies about diabetes
Just weeks after setting a national long-jumping record, Kate Hall, 18, of Casco, testified in front of a U.S. Senate committee last Wednesday about what it was like to set the record without the glucose monitor she needs to track her blood sugar levels. On June 21, Hall, a Type 1 diabetic, jumped 22 feet […]
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Details surface in beach deal
Officials from Standish, Portland Water District and Sebago Boating Club are close to an agreement that would allow residents lake access. The Standish Town Council will vote Aug. 11 on a management plan and two lease agreements that could collectively impose a cap of 400 people and 75 boats on the sandbar beach located on […]
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Vets’ monument flap moves to Windham
A heated, multi-year dispute in the town of Cornish over the fate of a veterans monument has spread to Windham, following the decision of the Windham Veterans Association to allow the monument to be placed at its center in North Windham. In late 2011 and early 2012, a Cornish woman named Calista Cross established a […]
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Public works overhaul eyed
The Windham Town Council may schedule a November referendum seeking funds for the construction of a $7.62 million, 29,000-square-foot public works and maintenance building on Windham Center Road. If taken to vote and approved, the new facility would replace the 8,783-square-foot existing structure, which was constructed in 1979 on a 29.5-acre site on the southerly […]
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Public works overhaul eyed
The Windham Town Council may schedule a November referendum seeking funds for the construction of a $7.62 million, 29,000-square-foot public works and maintenance building on Windham Center Road. If taken to vote and approved, the new facility would replace the 8,783-square-foot existing structure, which was constructed in 1979 on a 29.5-acre site on the southerly […]
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Editorial: Passion and purpose
Swimming a third of a mile – in an undulating ocean, no less – sounds like a dangerous and tiring undertaking. The idea of then embarking on a 15-mile bike ride and, after all that, going on a 3-mile run sounds equally intimidating. But this Sunday morning, as the Tri for a Cure triathlon begins […]
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Editorial: Passion and purpose
Swimming a third of a mile – in an undulating ocean, no less – sounds like a dangerous and tiring undertaking. The idea of then embarking on a 15-mile bike ride and, after all that, going on a 3-mile run sounds equally intimidating. But this Sunday morning, as the Tri for a Cure triathlon begins […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
Editorial: Passion and purpose
Swimming a third of a mile – in an undulating ocean, no less – sounds like a dangerous and tiring undertaking. The idea of then embarking on a 15-mile bike ride and, after all that, going on a 3-mile run sounds equally intimidating. But this Sunday morning, as the Tri for a Cure triathlon begins […]