Reading programs begin Summer programs have begun at Walker Memorial Library. The annual summer reading program for children started this week and will last through August 15. To sign up, visit the library at 800 Main Street. In addition, the library has added a new program this summer. Residents can sign up to receive passes […]
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Quinn – Surveys, subsidies and other such statistics
Another Iraq benefit: A recent Rand study forecasts as many as 300,000 Iraq war vets suffer from either brain injury or post traumatic stress requiring medical treatment for many years. The Army suicide hotline is reporting over 1,000 calls a week. Hookers in the wild: Scientists have long observed that food or services are exchanged […]
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Town budget passes in Bridgton
Next year’s municipal spending is set and the town’s debt paid off after Bridgton residents approved a $5.57 million budget June 11. The largest spending categories in the town budget were $1.87 million for administration and $1.86 for public works. Town spending showed a 6.04 percent increase in the approved budget, which Town Manager Mitchell […]
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Windham Council elects officers
The Windham Town Council named its officers for the coming year Tuesday night, but not before engaging in a sharp debate that cast into doubt the councilors’ claims of moving past the acrimonious atmosphere of the past year. Carol Waig, recently elected to her second term on the Town Council, was named chairwoman, replacing John […]
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Raymond meeting set on school budget
Raymond residents will have another opportunity to shape the school budget next week after rejecting the School Board’s first proposal at the polls on June 10. A special town meeting will be held Friday, June 27, at 6:30 p.m. at the Jordan Small Middle School to discuss and approve the school budget. A budget referendum […]
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Expansion approved for town hall in Standish
Despite an error in calculations and attempts to remove funding for the project, the expansion to the Standish Municipal Building is set to go ahead as planned after Saturday’s annual town meeting. Standish residents approved the town budget almost exactly as proposed. Besides the $1.21 million dollar bond for capital expenditures, the largest spending category […]
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An explanation is needed (letter)
The Standish Town Council’s 4-3 vote not to renew Town Manager Gordon Billington’s appointment of Martin Jordan as public safety director is a disgrace, and councilors Pomerleau, Stack, Newbegin and Thompson owe the citizens an explanation. It’s ironic this took place just before municipal elections at which three of them were up for re-election. Their […]
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Budget approved quietly in Windham
Windham residents approved the municipal and school budget in speedy fashion Saturday, tackling the town meeting warrant with little comment and in just over one hour. The 2008-09 budget, with an almost $30 million municipal budget and more than $14 million school spending plan, represents a 3.5 percent tax rate increase, to $11.70 per thousand […]
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Buxton struggles with co-housing project
Last summer, while on retreat in southern France, Francoise Paradis decided that all the reading she had been doing about cooperative housing communities needed to become a reality for her. So, she began to design Greensward Hamlet, a so-called co-housing community, which would be an environmentally friendly development using geothermal, solar and wind energy, where […]
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Westbrook Then & Now
John Wheeler built his windmill, above photo, in the 1870s in his wood and coal yard at Main and Haskell streets. A sign painted on the structure proclaimed it to be a Hercules Wind Motor, which Wheeler used to power the saws in his mill. After the windmill, this site was vacant for a period […]