Archive for ‘News’

  • Musher’s Bowl course most technically-challenging in N.E.

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer For sled dog racers that seek excitement and challenge, nothing in the Northeast compares to the hills and curves of the six-mile course at Five Fields Farm in South Bridgton. “There’s no question that this is not a typical course. It’s probably one of the hilliest courses in the Northeast,” […]

  • SAD 61 Superintendent Beecher to retire

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Kathleen Beecher will retire this June as Superintendent of Schools for SAD 61. The announcement was released on the school board’s agenda for this past Monday night. The meeting was canceled due to bad weather. District officials are working with Maine School Management regarding setting up a search for […]

  • SAD 72, Fryeburg Academy agree on five-year contract

    FRYEBURG — SAD 72 and Fryeburg Academy have reached an agreement on a five-year contract. “I am happy to report that the negotiating committees from Fryeburg Academy and SAD 72 have reached agreement on a five-year contract that will go into effect July 1, 2014, pending voter approval,” said SAD 72 Superintendent of Schools Jay […]

  • Food Fairy update

    Last Friday, at the start of a 12-day school recess, all Stevens Brook  Elementary students left with a 20-ounce snack bag of nutritious goodies, courtesy of the Food Fairy. “We even made up five bags for youngsters with peanut allergies,” said Kirsten  McKenzie-Wears, manager of Food City, who spearheaded the project. A major donation from […]

  • Anna Ham’s far-reaching bequest still bettering lives

          By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer She never lived long enough to see how much good has come from her vision. But visionaries seldom do. When Anna Ham’s husband Kendal died in 1988, she inherited his millions, including one of his two Pepsi-Cola bottling plants, in Lynn, Mass. Together they had decided his […]

  • Fryeburg Police: Crash victim lucky to be alive

      FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Police Department had West Fryeburg Road shut down for over an hour on Monday, Dec. 23 while fire and rescue personnel extricated the operator of a roll over crash. At approximately 9 p.m., 42-year-old Stanley Vladyka of Fryeburg was operating a 1996 GMC pickup truck on West Fryeburg Road when he […]

  • Main Hill traffic issues prompt call for action

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Businesses and homeowners along the Main Hill section of Bridgton’s Main Street are fed up over traffic problems they’ve had to live with for years. Eastbound cars and trucks routinely tend to speed down the hill, not slowing until they reach the bottom of the hill near Craftworks, they say. […]

  • 2013: Year in Review

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer A look back to how 2013 unfolded in the pages of The Bridgton News: January 3 School safety: In the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn. shooting, local school districts take a close look at lockdown procedures and implement physical security measures at facilities. No bully zone: Lexi James was […]

  • Salmon Point Campground — How much is too much like home?

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen are trying to create rules that would make sites at the Salmon Point Campground more  natural and aesthetically pleasing. But some are questioning whether the board is nit-picking the details to the extent that campers will go elsewhere. The effort to create a Campsite Limitations Policy comes after […]

  • Couple transforms home into Christmas wonderland

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — It seems like the North Pole when you finally get there. But, it isn’t quite that far a journey. It’s a Christmas tradition brought to life, passed down from generation to generation, and shared by a couple from Naples, Maine. Come, sit in their living room, which […]