The Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce is encouraging holiday shoppers to frequent Lakes Region retailers, restaurants, and service sector businesses this Saturday, Dec. 6, as part of its second annual “Shop. Eat. Save.” campaign. The campaign, which does not discriminate between locally owned businesses and large chain stores, is designed to promote spending within […]
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Gorham Savings Bank promotes employees
Gorham Savings Bank announced last week the promotion of Susan Laliberte, Julie Viola, Jane Cirone, Katherine Damon, Lisa Thomas, Lisa Hughes and Jessica Burbank. • Susan Laliberte (Windham) vice president, retail loan processing and underwriting manager. Laliberte has 30 years of experience in residential lending and will be responsible for the day to day operations […]
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Inside Gray – 12/5
Snoopy and Shrek? A Fiddlehead Players Community Theater production of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will be held at G-New Gloucester High School. Performances will be 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday, Dec. 13, and Sunday, Dec. 14, with a 7 p.m. evening performance on Saturday, Dec. 13. Tickets are just $5 per person, purchase in advance […]
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Winter Sports Preview: Windham
Boys Basketball Coach: Kevin Millington Last year’s record: 6-13 Key players: Kevin Weisser (sr., G); Markus D’Andrea (sr., G); Troy Davis (sr., G); Ryan Gorman (sr., G); Jack Giampino (sr., F); Greg Gledhill (sr., F); Kyle Kilfoil (jr., F) Key games: Cheverus Outlook: “We have senior leadership, all five starters returning,” Millington says, “so we […]
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Gorham Notes – 12/4
Hundreds greet Santa, Mrs. Claus A tree-lighting ceremony and Santa’s arrival in Gorham attracted several hundred on Sunday in Gorham. Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived aboard a Gorham Fire Department ladder truck, one of many in a procession of vehicles decorated with holiday lights. A large throng with many parents holding infants waited for the […]
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Westbrook Notes – 12/4
School to host Wreaths Across America Westbrook High School senior Emily Torrey has announced that the Wreaths Across America procession will stop on Monday, Dec. 8, at Westbrook Middle School for four hours on its way from Maine to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Torrey, the high school’s student director for the project, said the […]
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INSIGHTS: Scarborough deserves more
The Scarborough School Board has reached out to the community with two letters to the editor within recent weeks; both letters, although submitted by different parties, were almost word-for-word duplicates of each other and offered no new solutions to the question of how can Scarborough residents actually voice their opinion to the School Board and […]
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GREETINGS FROM ZIP CODE 04074: I’m thankful, sort of
Thanksgiving is over. I survived. Hallelujah. Relatives gone. Refrigerator rendered useless by now acting as warehouse for 37 plastic containers of peas, summer squash pieces and canned cranberry slices. I’m not just a curmudgeon, though. Here is what makes me grateful as 2014 winds to a close: I’m thankful for Ron Kelly. He has been […]
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Freeport ready to Sparkle
FREEPORT – Julie Yeo of Durham will have the full attention of children and their parents on Saturday, Dec. 6, when she shows them how to make holiday ornaments and other crafts in the Kids Department at L.L. Bean. Yeo’s presentation is among the many activities that will attract thousands to Freeport for FreeportUSA’s annual […]
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Raymond school may get new field
RAYMOND – Last summer, as part of the Pentagon’s Innovative Readiness Training program, an initiative designed to provide real-world training opportunities for members of the armed forces, roughly 420 military engineers built a new parking lot, five new shooting ranges, three new staff cabins and more at Raymond’s Camp Hinds. The reservists also renovated the […]