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Inside Windham

Thanks! Thanks from Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors to North Windham Union Church for their recent generous donation. Support like this makes Windham a community that cares about everyone. For information on Neighbors, visit the website at www.windhamneighbors.org. Volleyball Camp The Windham-Raymond Volleyball team will be hosting a second volleyball camp week for fifth-ninth grade kids […]

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Schoolhouse to present ‘Annie Get Your Gun’

Schoolhouse Arts Center on Route 114 in Standish is performing ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ a musical about the rocky romance between Buffalo Bill’s Wild West sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, from Friday, July 9, through Sunday, Aug. 2. America’s beloved Broadway composer, Irving Berlin’s score contains the hit songs “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “Anything […]

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It Happened in Windham: Whitehouse in Windham

Cemeteries are wonderful places to find mysteries of history. Years ago, we plodded through about a half mile (it seemed) of hayfields, the grass shoulder-high, into a cluster of tall trees that cast shade over a number of old gravestones, fieldstones, and just plain rocks. This was the old graveyard known as John Akers Knight, […]

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Inside New Gloucester

Chicken Barbecue The second annual New Gloucester Veterans Monument Chicken Barbecue will be held rain or shine on Saturday, July 11, at Amvets Post 6, 1095 Lewiston Road, beginning at noon and continuing until the food is sold out. The meal includes chicken, cole slaw, dinner roll, chips, beverages and Hodgman’s Frozen Custard. The Berry, […]

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Cape lot project appealed

A group of seven residents from Raymond and Frye Island have appealed the Raymond Planning Board’s approval of a park-and-ride facility on Raymond Cape. Nearly three years after Frye Island initially proposed the park-and-ride facility, the Planning Board voted 5-1 to approve the project in February, with Bruce Sanford opposed. The appellants, many of whom […]

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Century later, hero’s war legacy marked

On July 4, area veterans and dignitaries will commemorate Daniel Milliken, a Raymond farmer and Civil War soldier whose Riverside Cemetery gravestone does not indicate that he was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Milliken, born in Saco in 1841, served as a Union Navy quarter gunner on the U.S.S. New Ironsides during the Civil […]