Archive for ‘News’

  • CNA candidates find high touch, high tech balance

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer A few years ago, anyone in the Lake Region who wanted to become a certified nursing assistant had to travel to Portland or Lewiston, after they graduated from their local high school. Today, students from Fryeburg Academy, Lake Region High School, Sacopee Valley High School and home schooled students […]

  • Cuts for a good cause

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Matthew Mayo always thought it would be cool to shave his head. “Then, I could look like my grandpa,” the Stevens Brook Elementary School fifth grader said. “I’ve had buzz cuts before.” Matthew’s parents nixed the idea until their son told them he had a very good reason for […]

  • SAD 72 budget tops $15 million

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer FRYEBURG — Attendance was at a minimum, at last week’s public hearing on the proposed $15,803,563 budget for School Administrative District 72. Budget approval vote May 24 The budget approval meeting on the proposed budget will take place on May 24 at 7 p.m. at the Molly Ockett Middle […]

  • SAD 61 budget passes

    By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer NAPLES — Over 100 people attended the annual budget meeting for School Administrative District 61 Tuesday night, passing a budget that is $14,177 more than the $26,104,903 proposed budget recommended by the Lake Region School District’s Board of Directors. The total amount approved, as amended at the May 15 […]

  • Excitement builds for bridge opening

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES – Not unlike the flurry of the birds and the bees that arrives with spring, the Naples community is chirping and buzzing with the excitement of tomorrow’s ribbon cutting ceremony for its new bridge. Everywhere in town, residents are speaking words of praise about the bridge that has […]

  • Pondicherry Park management plan finalized

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Pondicherry Park, the 65-acre natural jewel of downtown Bridgton, will become an official town park — complete with a dog loop trail — next Tuesday, if Bridgton selectmen agree to accept three documents governing the park’s ownership, management and stewardship. The three documents were the result of carefully-crafted negotiations begun […]

  • New Fire and Rescue Building Proposed for Sebago

    By Allen Crabtree Special to The News SEBAGO — The Town of Sebago is fortunate to have a dedicated core of volunteers, who respond at all hours of the day and night, in all seasons and weather conditions, to help protect the lives and property of our citizens. Members of the Sebago Fire Department and […]

  • Avesta unfamiliar with ‘local preference’

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer None of Avesta Housing’s 1,800 or so affordable apartments in Southern Maine give preference to local residents, Avesta President and Chief Executive Officer Dana Totman said Tuesday. “Our experience is that people choose housing based on wanting to be in the community,” because of familial or work-related ties, she said, […]

  • Casco zone-change hearing heralds confusion, concern

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Since last fall, Camp Sunshine has made public the transfer of the residential property adjacent to the nonprofit’s lakefront spread. In order to move forward with renovations on that parcel, two contract zoning changes must occur. On May 8, the contract zone change public hearing was held […]

  • Local residents comment on Causeway look

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Dawn Merriam, a Naples resident with both business and personal ties to the community, said she and her family have already appreciated the changes on the Causeway. “Some of the things that I am already beginning to enjoy are the new sidewalks that are going down the […]