We now know how often incredibly stupid people used welfare payments from the state of Maine to make purchases in bars, liquor stores, smoke shops and strip clubs. We have yet to learn how many incompetent bureaucrats are responsible for allowing these dopes to squander that money. Earlier this month, Republican Gov. Paul LePage released […]
Lakes Region Weekly
Weekly news from and about Windham, Raymond, Sebago, Standish, Bridgton, Casco and Naples.
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GUEST COLUMN: Jury: Keep ‘Huck Finn’ in schools
Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has recently jumped off the page and into the “courtroom” of Freeport High School. FHS juniors in American Studies (a combined English and history class) held a mock trial regarding the classic American novel. The prosecution argued it should be banned for its racial content, and the defense’s […]
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Voters halt SAD 6 withdrawal effort
STANDISH – Standish residents soundly rejected, in a 142-32 vote, a proposed $25,000 appropriation for a study on the financial and logistical issues involving a possible withdrawal from School Administrative District 6 during a special town meeting held Tuesday. During the hour-long public comment period preceding the vote, residents expressed bewilderment regarding the proposed study […]
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Voters halt SAD 6 withdrawal effort
STANDISH – Standish residents soundly rejected, in a 142-32 vote, a proposed $25,000 appropriation for a study on the financial and logistical issues involving a possible withdrawal from School Administrative District 6 during a special town meeting held Tuesday. During the hour-long public comment period preceding the vote, residents expressed bewilderment regarding the proposed study […]
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Voters halt SAD 6 withdrawal effort
STANDISH – Standish residents soundly rejected, in a 142-32 vote, a proposed $25,000 appropriation for a study on the financial and logistical issues involving a possible withdrawal from School Administrative District 6 during a special town meeting held Tuesday. During the hour-long public comment period preceding the vote, residents expressed bewilderment regarding the proposed study […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Voters halt SAD 6 withdrawal effort
STANDISH – Standish residents soundly rejected, in a 142-32 vote, a proposed $25,000 appropriation for a study on the financial and logistical issues involving a possible withdrawal from School Administrative District 6 during a special town meeting held Tuesday. During the hour-long public comment period preceding the vote, residents expressed bewilderment regarding the proposed study […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Gloves come off early in sheriff primary duel
CUMBERLAND – Maine State Police Sgt. Michael Edes of Cumberland will challenge Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce of Standish, who plans to seek a second four-year term as sheriff, in the Democratic primary on June 10. In an interview, Edes, who is retiring, said that morale at the sheriff’s department has declined in recent years, […]
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Gloves come off early in sheriff primary duel
CUMBERLAND – Maine State Police Sgt. Michael Edes of Cumberland will challenge Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce of Standish, who plans to seek a second four-year term as sheriff, in the Democratic primary on June 10. In an interview, Edes, who is retiring, said that morale at the sheriff’s department has declined in recent years, […]
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Probe likely in case of file gone missing
NEW GLOUCESTER – Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce said that his department will likely look into the case of a personnel file that went missing from a file cabinet in the New Gloucester town office, after selectmen voted Monday night to request a sheriff’s investigation. The personnel file belongs to the town’s former bookkeeper, Sandra […]
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Winter storms test Lakes Region public works departments
WINDHAM – On Saturday morning, Windham Highway Division Supervisor Mike Constantine sanded Keene Road, a dirt road off Route 202, frozen by another bout of cold, wet weather. Less than a half hour later, Constantine returned, only to find that Keene Road was, once again, totally covered in ice. “Ice storms use an extraordinary amount […]