High Honor Roll, first quarter Grade 9 Shantal Bouthillette, Nicole L. Deschambault, Anthony Grondin, Hannah E. Huber, Angela Landers, Tyler R. Littlefield, Patrick M. Martin, Scott McPherson, Deborah Pratt, Audrey Quigley Grade 10 Chelsea Bicknell, Tara Z. Chevannes, Justine A. Foster, Alicia Michaud, Stephanie M. Noyes, Vanessa L. Rallis, Margaret Topel Grade 11 Dominique Bouthillette, […]

The state Board of Education is rolling out a controversial report authored by state leaders that calls for reducing the number of school districts from 286 to 35 and paying teachers more money while requiring them to be better educated. It also calls for increasing the time teachers and most students spend in school; putting […]

Air Force Airman Joseph M. Cawood has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Cawood is the son of James and Tami Cawood of Lord Road, Buxton and a 2005 graduate of Bonny Eagle High School in Standish. Courtesy photo

The town of Frye Island recently filed a lawsuit in Cumberland County Superior Court against the State of Maine. The suit claims the state legislature violated the town’s rights under the constitution on two separate occasions: enacting LD 500 in 2001 and inserting D-69 into LD1 in 2005. In April of 2001, three years after […]

A Standish man was killed instantly when his car flipped on Route 114 late Sunday night. Roger Gould, 35, of 2 Chadbourne Road, was driving west on Route 114, about a mile after the Route 35 intersection when he failed to negotiate a curve, said Captain William Rhoads of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Gould […]

I cringe when I see the price of Christmas cards and postage combined. Here we are in this technological age, emailing every day to people and instead of a heartfelt Merry Christmas, we invest in cards and stamps and (often) hurriedly write out a message and rush to the post office. Does that make any […]