Archive for ‘News’

  • The question is in the mail

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — A straw poll at the special town meeting in January was not the last time residents would be asked to answer a question about the Casco Memorial School’s fate. Questions continue to be asked. Will elected officials get their answer through an upcoming questionnaire mailing? Will this [...]

  • Black Ghost escapes from lake ice

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer RAYMOND — By high noon on Thursday — after three days of head scratching and brute force labor — a local businessman and a half-dozen of his loyal friends removed the Black Ghost from the grip of ice on Sebago Lake’s shoreline. Already, it had been a feat to [...]

  • Improvements eyed for Shorey Park

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The Community Development Committee faces two rather large hurdles in its goal of making improvements to Shorey Park. The first is money: in a tight economy, plantings don’t quite seem all that necessary. The second is state shoreland regulations: nary a blade of grass can be disturbed in the small [...]

  • Windham man indicted in shooting

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer PORTLAND — A 29-year old man from Windham has been indicted on two felony charges — Class B aggravated assault and Class C reckless conduct — for allegedly shooting a New Hampshire man in the stomach while hunting on Nov. 4, 2011 in Casco. A Cumberland County Superior Court [...]

  • $35,000 for Hacker’s Hill drive

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — End-of-the-year donations brought a boost to the treasure chest for the Hacker’s Hill purchase. Loon Echo Land Trust (LELT) Executive Director Carrie Walia said she almost cried tears of joy when $35,000 worth of checks arrived in the mail during the last weeks of December. “I had [...]

  • Walking powers 48-year friendship

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer Imagine being best friends with someone for nearly half a century. Well, Julie Ledoux Harmon and Sharon Russo Presby don’t have to imagine it — they have been like sisters, since they were four and five years old and living in Westbrook with their respective families. Now, 53-year-old Julie [...]

  • No new information in Dittmeyer case

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer CONCORD, N.H. — The lead prosecutor in the murder of 20-year-old Krista Deann Dittmeyer of Bridgton said Tuesday that the case is “active and ongoing,” but that she could not say more. Dittmeyer was murdered in April, 2011 and her body was found four days after she was reported [...]

  • Railroaded or fast-tracked? Town to appeal DEP conditional order

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer The Town of Bridgton will appeal the conditional order set by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection last month that, in effect, rescinded the minimum requirements approved by voters here Dec. 13 for square foot allowance per lot for bedrooms in the General Development II District in the Shoreland [...]

  • Musher’s Bowl is a go

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer The sled dog races at Five Fields Farm in South Bridgton this weekend are a “Go,” unless the Lake Region receives “a substantial amount of rain on Friday,” organizers said Tuesday. The second part of the Musher’s Bowl Winter Carnival, sponsored by the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of [...]

  • Man indicted in hunting shooting

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer PORTLAND — A 61-year-old man from Windham was indicted last week by a Cumberland County Superior Court grand jury in the shooting death in early November of a Sebago man. William Briggs was indicted Feb. 9 on a charge of manslaughter in the death of 46-year-old Peter Kolofsky near [...]