A representative from the Maine Community Foundation will present a scholarship workshop for students March 5 at the Windham Public Library. The workshop, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., will cover scholarships for traditional students, awards based on academic performance, financial need, extracurricular activities and work experience. For more information on attendance, including the option to […]
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Inside Windham: Feb. 16
Winter vacation activities Kids in grades K-5 can go sledding at Pineland Farms or take a trip to the USM Southworth Planetarium with Windham Parks and Recreation next week. Thursday, Feb. 22, meet at the Town Hall gym at 9 a.m. with a lunch, water bottle, sledding-appropriate clothes and a sled, if you have one, […]
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It Happened in Windham: Abba Goold, Windham’s woman of the 19th century
If you have visited the Village School at the Windham Historical Society’s Village Green, you know that the schoolmarm’s name is Miss Goold. When students come for a living history class in the schoolroom, they take on the personas of students from 1898, when their imaginary class would have taken place. Miss Goold, likewise, is […]
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Inside Windham: Feb. 2
Anne Gass library guest Maine author Anne B. Gass will be at the public library to discuss her book “We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip,” based on the true story of Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg traveling from San Francisco, California, to Washington, D.C., with women’s suffrage activists in 1915. The discussion will […]
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It Happened in Windham: Community rallies behind Chamber Singers of ’96
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 30 years since the Windham Chamber Singers made history by winning the Prize of Vienna at the 25th International Youth and Music Festival in Austria. It was an exciting time for the students and their conductor Richard Nickerson, and one that will be long-remembered by the Windham community. […]
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Inside Windham: Jan. 19
Community suppers American Legion Field-Allen Post 148 is hosting its first bean supper of the year at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Windham Veterans Center. The Auxiliary will hold a pie auction to help raise money for the Legion’s scholarship fund. The cost for dinner is $10, with kids under 12 eating for […]
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Accidents on rise at little roundabout in Gorham’s Little Falls
The traffic circle at Routes 202 and 237 is too small by today’s standards, according to the Maine Department of Transportation.
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Forum: Unelected bureaucrats are restricting our freedoms
It doesn’t take a return to lockdowns, business closures, mandated vaccinations and firing of health care workers during COVID to see our steady march toward authoritarianism. Unelected bureaucrats trying to take away your right to choose a political candidate and what kind of car we can drive – those are the most recent and blatant […]
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Libraries want to get people talking – 10 minutes at a time
“Big Conversations in 10 Short Minutes” will virtually connect people from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in an effort to prevent social isolation.
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UMaine Cooperative Extension offers backyard maple sugaring workshop
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a workshop on maple syrup production Feb. 3. The workshop is split into two parts, the first from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Standish Town Hall. It then moves to the Dunn Family Maple farm, 419 Chicopee Road in Buxton, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Participants in […]
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