Archive for ‘News’

  • Change in thinking: selectmen award CDBG grants

      By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen on Tuesday parted ways with the Community Development Committee in voting to assign $9,500 in Community Development Block Grant Funds to Bridgton Books as a matching grant in the bookstore’s plans to replace its windows and otherwise dress up its storefront façade. The grant decision was one […]

  • Caucus Round-up: Many GOP caucus-goers first timers

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer WINDHAM — By the time the Maine Republican caucus took place, the number of potential presidential candidates had been downsized from 11 to four. By Saturday evening when most of the votes had been tallied, it was apparent that slightly more Mainers favored Ted Cruz (45.9%) over Donald Trump. […]

  • Man struck crossing Main Street by car

    A Bridgton man was seriously injured Monday night when he was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Main Street. Police say James Knox, 84, was crossing Main Street at 6:20 p.m., coming from the northern side at the intersection with Depot Street (entrance near Bridgton House of Pizza), when he was struck by […]

  • Casco assessors updates board on catch-up job

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — It has not been smooth sailing for the Town of Casco’s assessors because the three-person crew was limited to two people for quite a while. That happened when the prior director retired abruptly in October. Within a week, Renee Lachapelle came aboard, at first as the interim […]

  • Supreme Court case galvanizes Fryeburg water activists

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer It was standing-room-only inside the Cumberland County Courthouse Tuesday as the Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard final oral arguments in an appeal on Poland Spring water rights in Fryeburg that has precedent-setting implications in Maine. The six Law Court Justices must decide whether to let stand the Public Utilities Commission’s […]

  • Kent’s Landing payments to spike

      By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Ouch. It is like a very expensive Band-Aid that is being pulled off far too slowly. The cost of Kent’s Landing has just spiked upward. That’s because the annual land purchase payments have come due. The payments are for a loan taken out with Maine Municipal […]

  • Board gives New Age Builders final chance

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Just as the Bridgton Planning Board was about to nullify the application, the board decided Tuesday to give New Age Builders one more chance to seek approval for a medical marijuana cultivation facility in a vacant industrial building on the Portland Road. Code Enforcement Officer Robbie Baker said the applicants […]

  • Stop work order issued on mountainside development

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer DENMARK — A stop work order has been issued by the town of Denmark on any building or plumbing permits on a controversial logging road constructed last fall on the back side of Pleasant Mountain. Selectmen authorized Code Enforcement Officer Mike Lee to issue the order in a formal letter […]

  • Deputy discovers meth lab in Raymond garage

    RAYMOND — For the 15th time this year, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) has responded to a meth lab — this time in Raymond. Drug agents responded Tuesday to 1261 Roosevelt Trail after a Cumberland County deputy discovered the lab in the morning. The deputy was there to check on a probation violation against […]

  • Casco Budget Committee seeks feedback on Grange Hall

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — There was a time when Casco Town Manager Dave Morton had to light a fire in the woodstove of the Casco Grange Hall well before a meeting was to take place there. After all, it took some time to warm up the building. That was a few […]