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  • Harrison will elect five to local offices

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer HARRISON — All five of the candidates for local town offices to be decided by voters next Tuesday, June 12, are uncontested. They are as follows: • Board of Selectmen — two three-year seats Bill Winslow is the current board chairman, seeking another term. He was previously on the planning […]

  • Voters to decide first-floor commercial, park funding, clean energy

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Voters will decide whether they want to make sure a mixed use is required for downtown buildings on large lots when they go to the polls next Tuesday, June 12. Voting runs from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Town Hall on North High Street. They will also be […]

  • Bear attack startles seasonal campers

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bob and Lil Brusseau’s recent encounter with a hungry full-grown black bear at a Bridgton campground underscores the fact that the bear population is on the rise in the Lake Region. The Brusseaus, of Littleton, N.H., were sitting inside their motor home around 6 p.m. May 25 at the Bridgton […]

  • Casco selectman race

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — When voters go to the polls this Tuesday (June 12), they will choose between candidates Jeannine Oren and Grant Plummer for a three-year seat on the Casco Board of Selectmen. The News posed the following questions to the candidates (answers in alphabetical order): Q: What in your […]

  • Loon Echo set to close on ‘Hill’

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — The Hacker’s Hill Campaign recently received a $10,000 fundraising boost — just weeks in advance of the purchase of a 27-acre tract to be set aside for public access. The closing date is June 14. The Casco Fire Association handed over a check for $2,500 (money raised […]

  • Naples budget ready for voters

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — On Wednesday, June 6, Naples’ 2012–13 budget will come before the residents at the annual town meeting. The assembly starts at 7 p.m. in the large meeting room in the Naples Town Office. The proposed municipal budget totals $2,836,985. Additionally, in warrant Article 41, community members will […]

  • Medcalf appeals to selectmen — Give Shorey Park beavers a chance

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer At night, Bridgton sleeps, but the beavers in downtown Shorey Park are busy. Heedless of the human habitat they live within, the beavers leave the safety of their lodge on the waterway between Highland Lake and Stevens Brook. Then they do what busy beavers always do. They chew. And chew. […]

  • Teacher Finds writing natural fit

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer NAPLES — Steve Mercer never intended to write a Christmas story in the middle of a hot summer. Florence the Fir Tree seemed to take control over the Lake Region Middle School health teacher. “This was the first book that I had ever written. I had never had the […]

  • Papile gets 50 years in prison

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer OSSIPEE, N.H. — The man who cold-bloodedly killed 20-year-old single mother Krista Dittmeyer in New Hampshire last year by submerging her taped-up body in a snow-making pond at a ski resort in North Conway in late April 2011 says he doesn’t deserve to be forgiven for what he did, […]

  • SAD 61 budget passes overall

    Voters in Bridgton, Casco, Naples and Sebago went to the polls Tuesday and approved, or validated, the $26,119,080 School Administrative District 61 budget passed by those who attended last week’s budge meeting at Lake Region High School in Naples. Voters in Sebago turned down the validation, with 73 in favor and 84 opposed, for an […]