Annual Town Meeting New Gloucester voters will consider 37 warrant articles at their annual town meeting, Monday, May 4, at Memorial School, 86 Intervale Road. A voter check-in will occur at the front entrance of the school gymnasium beginning at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. View the warrant […]
Lakes Region Weekly
Weekly news from and about Windham, Raymond, Sebago, Standish, Bridgton, Casco and Naples.
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Sebago Lake State Park campground opening May 1
The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands announced this week that the opening of the camping area at the Sebago Lake State Park for the 2015 season on Friday, May 1. The camping area, which is the largest in the state park system, averages 90,000 campers a season and has 250 individual campsites. Power and […]
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Lippman Park playground to be installed this summer
The town of Windham will install a playground at Donnabeth Lippman Park this summer. The $40,000, 60-by-60 foot structure, will accommodate up to 40 people at one time, according to Parks and Recreation Director Brian Ross, who retired on Friday after 10 years with the town. The playground will include slides, climbing apparatus and tunnels, […]
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Earth Speaks: Peace through non-proliferation
It was a gorgeous fall day in 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colo. I looked out my window, as I did every morning, to view Pikes Peak. No snow on the peak yet, but it’d be coming before too many weeks. I picked up the Wall Street Journal and read about a plan to bury nuclear […]
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Appreciation dinner
Buddy Knight, owner of Knight Property Management, and his wife, Darcy, and daughter, Emma, enjoy a turkey dinner Friday night at Stonecrest in Standish held to honor the crew that kept the retirement community plowed out all winter.Photo courtesy of Nancylou Stiles
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?New Standish fish-game club could solve gun-range? issues
A nascent effort to set up a Standish Fish and Game Club could lead to the establishment of the town’s first legal shooting range. At a Tuesday night Standish Town Council meeting, Greg Sirpis, Dick Bernier and Dan Dyer presented a proposal for basing a new fish and game club on heavily wooded, town-owned property […]
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Playground ceremony to honor former teacher
The Windham Primary School will dedicate a granite bench Saturday afternoon in honor of Candace Woolston, the third-grade teacher who died of cancer in late 2012. The dedication, from 1-3 p.m., will coincide with a grand re-opening of the school’s new playgrounds. At the event, Superintendent Sandy Prince will speak, the Third Grade Chorus will […]
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Baseball: Gray-New Gloucester wins big over Lake Region
The Gray-New Gloucester Patriots rode a wave of early Lake Region pitching problems to a six-run first inning Monday afternoon, and though Lake Region would eventually get on the board, it would be much too little, much too late. G-NG’s Thomas Wood performed most consistently at the plate for his team, nabbing a trio of […]
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EDITORIAL: A salute to the trailblazers
Congratulations to the Sebago to the Sea Trail Coalition, which has finally realized its dream of creating a continuous trail from Sebago Lake to the Atlantic Ocean. Now, we’d like to see the Eastern Trail Alliance, which has made equally great strides in recent years connecting sections of former rail line along the southern coast […]
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Standish motorcyclist seriously injured after striking deer
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Standish Fire/EMS came to the aid of a motorcyclist Wednesday morning who had struck a deer on Cape Road in Standish. According to Lt. Tom Williams, Wade Kennedy, 18, of Standish, was seriously injured suffering multiple fractures and a head injury as a result of the crash. After striking […]