Archive for ‘News’

  • Bigger police presence?

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer HARRISON — Does the Town of Harrison want to spend just over $100,000, in order to have both a full-time deputy and a summer deputy? Voters will answer that question and two others via secret ballot, when they go to the polls on Tuesday, June 12, which will be […]

  • Planners review brewery project

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer The Mount Henry Brewing Company’s proposed microbrewery and taproom, to be located at the former curtain shop and ice cream stand property at 48 Portland Road, began being reviewed by the Bridgton Planning Board, this week. The planning board reviewed all of the 24 performance standards under the Town […]

  • Group targets substandard housing

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The same group of residents who banded together to win passage of a Disorderly Housing Ordinance for Bridgton are now targeting the problem of substandard housing and dangerous buildings. The Bridgton Community Crime Watch Committee met May 16 to begin working on a new ordinance that would give local municipal […]

  • A tenant’s nightmare

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Judy Crowell, a projectionist at the Magic Lantern Theatre in Bridgton, said she lived through a nightmare for nearly a year after foolishly agreeing to rent the house at 16 Walker Street in Bridgton, with her 17-year-old daughter and a friend, in October of 2009. The cellar was a sodden […]

  • Celebration Cements Community

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Two female friends — raised and schooled in Naples, and now retired and wintering ‘away’ — braved this nation’s airports to return to their town of origin for Friday’s festivities. Judy Macdonald and Marilyn Broadhead booked their plane trips north earlier than usual so they could be […]

  • Casco re-awards reval bid

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Public participation was strictly limited to 10 minutes by the time elected officials had tackled some of the tough and emotional issues on the agenda, and the clock’s hands lined up at 9:40 p.m. However, this town’s residents had a liberal amount of time to talk — […]

  • Legal advice on local preference must wait

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Citing deficits already incurred in the budget for legal expenses, the Bridgton Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday to put off asking the town attorney to research a local preference ordinance for affordable housing until the next budget year begins on July 1. The town asked Maine Municipal Association to provide […]

  • Raffle winner waxes nostalgia, claims clasp to change

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The local woman who won the raffle to be sitting in the first vehicle that drove across the new bridge, admits her journey has been much longer than that prestigious but short-lived ride across the bridge. “I have lived in Naples my whole life and when the […]

  • Residents remark on ceremony, bridge

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — On Friday, folks experienced the bliss and necessity of brand-new infrastructure and pristine pavement. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, that first flow of traffic began to travel over the Bay of Naples Bridge and the slightly altered section of Route 302 that crosses it. The project — six […]

  • Goodine’s speech at bridge opening

    Editor’s note: The following is from a speech that Naples Town Manager Derik Goodine wrote and planned to present at the reception on the Village Green following the bridge opening ceremony last Friday. As people approached the Village Green, they were conversing and introducing themselves so Goodine decided he would not deliver the speech at […]