Memorial Day The Gray Annual Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 26, at 11 a.m. Procession will begin at the Russell School and continue to the monument at the center of town where the 15th Alabama Regiment will hold a salute. The parade will then continue to the Henry Pennell Municipal Complex. […]
Lakes Region Weekly
Weekly news from and about Windham, Raymond, Sebago, Standish, Bridgton, Casco and Naples.
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IT HAPPENED IN WINDHAM: Captured, kidnapped and sold
We have to reach back into the history books written in the late 1800s to find the story of what it was like to be kidnapped in “the olden days.” No newspaper headlines, no negotiations between countries, and only a trickle of information down through the centuries to reveal the problems faced by settlers. Ten […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Time to rev up the YSI, ASAP
Now that black flies are beginning to come alive around here, Maine’s largest industry also begins to show signs of life. I’m referring, of course, not to BIW, but to the YSI – the Yard Sale Industry. It’s as important to Maine’s socio-economic life as BIW, tourism and potatoes combined and is overseen by the […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Time to rev up the YSI, ASAP
Now that black flies are beginning to come alive around here, Maine’s largest industry also begins to show signs of life. I’m referring, of course, not to BIW, but to the YSI – the Yard Sale Industry. It’s as important to Maine’s socio-economic life as BIW, tourism and potatoes combined and is overseen by the […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Web
ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: ‘Vet to Vet’ volunteers prepped
We’re always interested in programs or resources that are designed to serve and provide help to military veterans. A while back, I read about the “Vet to Vet Project,” and now can report a little more information, which was in a recent publication from Southern Maine Agency on Aging, a nonprofit organization that cares in […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: ‘Vet to Vet’ volunteers prepped
We’re always interested in programs or resources that are designed to serve and provide help to military veterans. A while back, I read about the “Vet to Vet Project,” and now can report a little more information, which was in a recent publication from Southern Maine Agency on Aging, a nonprofit organization that cares in […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Web
POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: Good liquor gonna carry me down
I thought for sure this would be the year I’d finally stop traveling to New Hampshire to buy almost all my booze. It appears I was wrong. In 2013, Gerry Reid, then the director of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations (motto: If We Controlled Pot And Prostitution, We’d Have It All), […]
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IF YOU GO
“AMERICAN VISION: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE OWEN AND ANNA WELLS COLLECTION” WHEN: On view through Feb. 23; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday ADMISSION: $12 adults, $10 seniors and students with ID, $6 youth ages 13 to 17, and children 12 and younger free; free […]