For an hour last week, the talk on TV was all about dirt roads, undeveloped fields, the price of gas, telephones with party lines, working for less than $5 a day and how life was before electronics. Windham’s local cable television station features a program called “Speakout,” hosted by Bill Diamond, a longtime resident. Usually […]
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Inside Windham – 6/27
Slow Down on River Road According to the town’s website, “the speed limit on River Road has been reduced to 40 miles per hour from the Masonic Hall in North Windham to Bishop Drive near Newhall in South Windham. MDOT reduced the speed limit along this length of River Road due to its condition and […]
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LETTERS: Police holding fundraiser
The Windham Police Association is conducting a fundraiser that consists of selling advertising space for a police yearbook. Due to requirements in the state law we are required to hire an outside contractor to conduct the telephone solicitation for us. The donations collected from the fundraising effort go to local and national charities such as […]
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Summer Spectacular to ‘celebrate freedom’
STANDISH – This year’s Standish Summer Spectacular, the annual celebration of the town’s three distinct villages, will also honor American Legion Post 128 and the Women’s Auxiliary with the theme, “Celebrating Freedom.” The fifth annual summer celebration, which will run from June 26-28, will feature live music, fireworks, a beach boogie, a pancake breakfast, and […]
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Rabid fox terrorizes campground
NAPLES – After a rabid fox attacked his wife and then bit one of his campers at the Loon’s Haven Family Campground in Naples on June 11, Mike Mason figured it was time to deal with the diseased animal. Maine game warden Pete Herring, with a crew from “North Woods Law” television show in tow, […]
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Shakers object to turnpike sign rules
NEW GLOUCESTER – Overseers of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester are crying foul regarding state regulations that will remove their two signs on the Maine Turnpike within the next five years. According to Shaker Village director Michael Graham, the small brown-and-white signs, located under the larger Gray-New Gloucester exit 63 signs on […]
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Desjardins complaint dismissed
RAYMOND – The U.S. District Court in Portland has dismissed former Raymond Selectman Dana Desjardins’ complaint against Town Manager Don Willard and Selectman Mike Reynolds in its entirety. In an August 2013 complaint filed with Cumberland County Superior Court, Desjardins’ attorney, John Campbell, accused Willard and Reynolds of defamation of character, negligent infliction of emotional […]
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Desjardins complaint dismissed
RAYMOND – The U.S. District Court in Portland has dismissed former Raymond Selectman Dana Desjardins’ complaint against Town Manager Don Willard and Selectman Mike Reynolds in its entirety. In an August 2013 complaint filed with Cumberland County Superior Court, Desjardins’ attorney, John Campbell, accused Willard and Reynolds of defamation of character, negligent infliction of emotional […]
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ON THE RIGHT LANE: Another giant sucking sound
“If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.” Ross Perot I wonder how much longer it will take government at all levels to make life as we know it unaffordable, and for many that has already happened. Property taxes in Windham increased thanks to the higher municipal and […]
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Symposium to equip ‘mandated reporters’
STANDISH – According to state statute, educators, medical and mental health professionals, day-care providers and municipal officials, among others, are mandated to report reasonable suspicions of child abuse to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. To Bill Diamond, the longtime Windham politician and child sex abuse prevention activist, it is clear that many […]