Girl Scout Award As a community service project for their Bronze Award, Gray–New Gloucester Girl Scout Troop 1214 chose to update the playroom of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center. Drawing upon their personal experiences of having had family members hospitalized there, the Scouts identified this project as a need in the […]

Organizers are hoping the Toby’s Dream 5K road race at Windham High School on Memorial Day weekend will “pave” the way to the campaign’s success. The campaign, meant to honor the late Toby Pennels, a Casco-based financial adviser, and benefit the Windham Veterans Association, is running about $15,000 short of its $50,000 fundraising target. The […]

The June 9 Standish ballot will include a $441,565 bond question that town officials say will facilitate the conversion of the Cargill lot on the western shore of Sebago Lake into a public beach. The proposed bond – $397,386 in principal and $44,179 in interest payments – would fund the construction of a 1,200-foot access […]

In response to a student posting on Facebook, School Administrative District 61 administrators temporarily locked down Lake Region High School and middle school in Naples Tuesday morning. The schools were locked from roughly 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., according to Superintendent Al Smith, who declined to characterize the Facebook post that provoked the lockdown. At […]