On Friday at 3:50 p.m., Cumberland County Sheriff deputies and New Gloucester Fire/EMS responded to a two-vehicle head-on crash on Route 100 in New Gloucester. According to sheriff’s Capt. Don Goulet, a 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier operated by Tina Dennison, 36, and 5-year-old passenger Christopher Hinks, both of New Gloucester, collided head-on with a 2006 commercial […]
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New Gloucester collision injures three
On Friday at 3:50 p.m., Cumberland County Sheriff deputies and New Gloucester Fire/EMS responded to a two-vehicle head-on crash on Route 100 in New Gloucester. According to sheriff’s Capt. Don Goulet, a 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier operated by Tina Dennison, 36, and 5-year-old passenger Christopher Hinks, both of New Gloucester, collided head-on with a 2006 commercial […]
Fireworks for sale in Windham
WINDHAM – More than two years after the legalization of consumer fireworks in Maine, Windham is now home to a fireworks retail store, Pyro City. Steve Marson, the owner of Farmingdale-based Central Maine Pyrotechnics, opened the store at 399 Roosevelt Trail on Thursday, May 22. Marson, a former construction manager at Bath Iron Works, has […]
History comes alive in Windham Center
WINDHAM – Re-enactors from Company A of the Third Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry spent Memorial Day weekend recreating a Civil War encampment on the Village Green, located behind the Windham Historical Society on Windham Center Road. At the invitation of the historical society, which hosted the Third Maine group in 2012, about 30 Union re-enactors […]
Budget hike, borrowing face town meeting votes
RAYMOND – At the June 3 town meeting, Raymond voters will have a chance to weigh in on a proposed budget that increases property taxes 2.67 percent, an $885,000 capital improvements bond, and a $50,000 appropriation toward a 347-acre community forest project along Conesca Road. Facing a revenue shortfall, Raymond officials hope to make up […]
Inside Naples – 5/30
Memorial Day weekend certainly was dramatic and unpredictable in terms of the weather. The only thing you could count on was that it was going to rain on your parade, eventually. Actually, we were quite lucky here in Naples, where the weather held out until the end of the parade. A few drops sprinkled as […]
ON THE RIGHT LANE: Honey, I shrunk the budget
“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.” Robert Half, author I have been doing my best to watch the budget deliberations by the Windham town councilors and confess that it was not only difficult, but impossible as well. I […]
Inside Gloucester – 5/30
New TV Show “Bartlett Adams: Stone Cutter” is the name of a New Gloucester TV production, showing at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Friday-Sunday, May 30-June 1, on local access Channel 3. Ron Romano, a Spirits Alive Tour Guide, gives a PowerPoint presentation of gravestone carvings done by Bartlett Adams and his associates in the […]
Three seek Raymond selectmen seats
RAYMOND – Sam Gifford, Julie Sutherland and Lonnie Taylor will vie for two open seats on the Raymond Board of Selectmen at the June 10 town election. In Sutherland, incumbents Gifford and Taylor will face a controversial figure scheduled for a June 11 arraignment in Portland’s Unified Criminal Court on five charges stemming from an […]
Seven running for council
STANDISH – Seven Standish residents are vying for three seats on the Town Council. There are three open-seats: At-Large, Area 2, and Area 4. In the at-large race, Adam Higgins, Wayne Newbegin and Eric Stanton are running for the seat held by Council Vice Chairman John Sargent, who is running for the Area 4 seat. […]