Archive for ‘News’

  • Bridgton shorts: Town now accepts credit card payments

    The town of Bridgton is now offering Maine PayPort, a credit card processing service that enables the town to accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express credit card payments at the counter. Residents of Bridgton can make payments with a credit or debit card for items such as vehicle registrations, licenses, recreation fees, permits and […]

  • Labor Day: Not a cloud in the sky; no parking spots left

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — So many people had packed up for a day on the shores of Sebago Lake. So many others had stacked up life jackets and hauled their boats there. In fact, so many people showed up that the local state park had to temporarily shut its gates to […]

  • Last ditch effort seeks to save Causeway stones on historic grounds

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen on Tuesday agreed to back a last-ditch effort on grounds of historic preservation to save the granite blocks lining the Moose Pond Causeway on Route 302. The board said it hadn’t previously considered using such an argument to persuade the Maine Department of Transportation not to replace the […]

  • BikeMaine 2015 rolls into town Monday

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Over 350 cyclists from 35 states will camp out on the grounds of the Bridgton Community Center Monday afternoon and overnight, Sept. 14, and Bridgton is ready to give them a warm welcome. The cyclists should start to arrive around 1:30 p.m. after covering around 50 miles on the third […]

  • National speaker to lead local poverty conference

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer During his time as director of Adult and Community Education, Steve McFarland worked closely with individuals trying to overcome various obstacles to move toward a better life. Hearing such plights, McFarland remembered a lecture he heard at a conference by a woman who escaped poverty and today travels the […]

  • Options considered on Fryeburg rundown buildings

    By Emily Butterfield Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — Complaints concerning with the safety and aesthetics of two building in town have prompted both the selectmen and Code Enforcement Officer Katie Haley to discuss what options are accessible to deal with the issue and what they can do in the future. At the August 20 meeting, the […]

  • Loon Echo Land Trust faces shoreland zoning fine

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Code Enforcement Officer Robbie Baker will recommend to Bridgton Selectmen that the Loon Echo Land Trust be fined $1,000 for building a hiking trail parking lot too close to a stream on the side of Pleasant Mountain. Baker said the parking lot, built recently to serve the Blaze Trail, […]

  • Superintendent on Fryeburg school project: ‘Work won’t impact quality of education’

    By Emily Butterfield Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — Although school started for SAD 72 students Tuesday, Sept. 1, construction crews have been working diligently over the long and hazy summer to move the $20 million expansion project along. In June of 2014, district voters approved the new elementary school that is soon to be attached to […]

  • ‘Dead-end road scenario’ at issue with propane tank plans

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer More questions and conflict of interest charges have been raised as residents of a one-way in-and-out subdivision off Route 302 continue fighting to keep Bridgton Bottled Gas from putting a 30,000-gallon propane tank at the end of their road. The Bridgton Planning Board on Tuesday voted to hold a special […]

  • 125-year-old Chapel still going strong

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer RAYMOND — The doors of the little chapel along Webbs Mill Road have swung open and shut — the feet of so many generations crossing its threshold and finding a place of worship, sanctuary and community. Over the decades, the instruments and songs of worshipers have emitted from the […]