Archive for ‘News’

  • Plan: Golf course to high-end homes

      By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES – It appears that an iconic golf course that has been in Naples since the 1920’s may be developed into a subdivision of high-end homes with access to Brandy Pond. That is the path that is being taken. This is a prospect that has evoked an emotional […]

  • A La Mexicana brings second restaurant to Bridgton

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer Jose Chavez is expanding A La Mexicana Restaurant — heading north from Raymond to Bridgton with his authentic Mexican cuisine that has a true south of the border taste. The location for his second restaurant is the Flanigan’s Roast Beef Restaurant & Tavern, also known as Beef & Ski. […]

  • Heath parcel purchase heads to Casco town meeting

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — A proposal to purchase two parcels of land on the Heath will head to Casco Town Meeting in June. There is an opportunity “for the town to acquire some pretty important property on the Heath,” Open Space Commission Chairman Keith Morehouse said. “The individuals are selling 14 […]

  • Great Northern Docks aims to buy town land

      By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Land ho! That is what the ship’s watch shouts to alert the crew when land is spotted in the distance. Land ho! That could sum up how Great Northern Docks has experienced a boom in business and has spotted town-owned land it would like to purchase […]

  • Casco considers dangers on Point Sebago Road

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Slow down because one never knows what is around the curve. In the case of Point Sebago Road, a driver is often presented with too many parked vehicles and not enough shoulder to safely pass oncoming cars. During the Casco Board of Selectmen meeting recently, Selectman Thomas […]

  • Selectmen ahead of the curve, approve CDBG funded projects

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Like good students, Bridgton selectmen completed their assignment nearly a month ahead of schedule. The assignment was to make decisions on how to use Community Development Block Grant money from Cumberland County. The estimated grant is $180,000 — of which $125,000 is earmarked for bricks and mortar projects, $30,000 […]

  • SAD 61 rolls out proposed budget

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer With SAD 61 facing “unchartered” waters as administrators and school board members pieced together the next budget, the waves proved not as choppy as expected. One element was to develop a budget without Sebago, which will leave SAD 61 in June. What is lost? State funding will be reduced […]

  • Improv workshops spice up vacation, earn scout Silver Award

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer When her last event was done, Allison Baker made a comment that sounded more like it was coming from an Olympic athlete than a local Girl Scout. “I have the Bronze. I have the Silver now. And, I’ll get the Gold later,” she said. Allison had just completed the […]

  • Blues Fest moves into brick building

      By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The Maine Blues Festival has done the work necessary to make the old town hall into a place for meetings of organizers of the summertime music festival. Additionally, the building should be ready for the public by mid-June — just in time for Blues Fest weekend. […]

  • Sebago working to build its own school system

    By Allen Crabtree Special to The News SEBAGO — Remember the old joke about the dog who was always chasing cars?  Then, one day he caught one and didn’t know what to do with it! Sebago voters have been working for two years to withdraw from SAD 61, but unlike the dog in the joke, […]