Archive for ‘News’

  • Two chiefs will help pick next Bridgton Police leader

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen are hoping to have not one, but two police chiefs serve on the interview panel that will select a new police chief to replace Kevin Schofield, who left on April 10 to become Windham Police Chief. At a Tuesday workshop, selectmen agreed to ask Scarborough Police Chief Robbie […]

  • Sparks fly over late Bridgton Fire Department study

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Sparks flew between Bridgton Selectmen and Deputy Fire Chief Todd Perreault Tuesday when Perreault expressed his frustration that an overdue fire department study was preventing the board from acting on the department’s budget requests. “To put everything…I mean everything…on hold — I think that was wrong,” Perreault said. He said […]

  • Lakers make a splash at robotics competition, headed to Nationals

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Taylor Davis likes to design things. Someday, he would like to be an engineer. Ryan Mccauley had similar aspirations when he was in high school. Today, he is an engineer at Howell Laboratories, Inc., in Bridgton. The two, along with LRHS students Evan Kellough and Galen McLaughlin, developed a […]

  • Casco voters accept business offer at special town meeting

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Welcome to the Village. Watch your water usage. When it was all said and done, the majority of the Casco voters in attendance at Special Town Meeting decided to give a new business the opportunity to move into the bank building — amid concerns that the structure […]

  • Bump signs, streetlights in Casco limelight

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — There are not enough bump signs to go around. The pavement and the dirt roads in Casco have taken such a beating from yet another long snowy winter that there are “not enough bump signs” to alert drivers of all the bumps in town, according to Tom […]

  • Busy weeks for budget committees

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — For those who volunteer their time to local budget committees, the weeks are ticking away until Town Meeting. Really, the deadline to get a finished product before town selectmen comes sooner than that June date. The budget process is not just about crunching numbers. It requires working […]

  • Concerns raised over copied petition signatures

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Resident Mark Lopez was on his feet Tuesday before Bridgton Selectmen could even begin considering whether photocopied signatures rendered a Town Hall citizens’ petition invalid. When it came time Tuesday for the board to order the petition’s placement for a referendum vote in June, Chairman Bernie King said an issue […]

  • Bus service budget needs towns’ aid

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — For years, it was simply a concept on paper: A bus that served the rural towns in the Lake Region and provided residents with a connection to Portland and the destinations in-between. For almost 18 months, the Lake Region bus has been a reality — rolling down […]

  • Stone blocks insufficient for Causeway safety, MDOT rules

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Guardrails will replace the granite stones on each side of the Moose Pond Causeway, despite concerns that the Causeway’s aesthetic beauty will suffer as a result. Bridgton Selectmen had hoped to convince the Maine Department of Transportation to grant an exception to its design criteria and allow the stones to […]

  • Fire destroys Maple Ridge home

    HARRISON — Firefighters from at least a half-dozen towns spent much of their time battling grass fires Tuesday after arriving at the scene of a structure fire at 485 Maple Ridge Road. That’s because the 19th-century house and barn was fully-engulfed in flames by the time water could be brought to the scene via a […]