Lakes Region Weekly

02/19/2025

The Schoolhouse Arts Center is searching for a new location so 'we can truly serve our mission and expand,' according to the director.

02/19/2025

Happy Presidents Day! I hope that wherever you are you stayed safe during the recent spate of storms, and were able to use the long weekend to rest up. It’s been a heck of a week. A quick note about this holiday; it started out as the celebration of one president, our first. That, of […]

02/18/2025

Highland Lake was frozen enough for ice fishing and the Freezing for a Reason charity polar dip.

02/18/2025

The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village's herb house revitalization project faces uncertainty in the wake of the federal grant freeze.

02/18/2025

Concerned residents in Bridgton are trying to reverse the approval of a quarry that they believe would irreparably alter the town's landscape and their quality of life.

02/14/2025

02/14/2025

Bridgton community news.

02/12/2025

Happy midwinter everyone! Finally, we have been getting some decent snow. I am a fan of snow. I love it. I love the soft light of sun through snow and the sense of snuggling in. And is there anything better than a good old-fashioned snow day? For my money, there is literally nothing greater than [.....

02/11/2025

The New Gloucester Select Board debated the controversial idea of outsourcing the town's ambulance services to either the town of Gray or United Ambulance Services.

02/10/2025

Beth Latsey became the inaugural recipient of an award named after herself for her decades-long support of Lake Region High School's girls basketball team.

02/10/2025

A recently-installed power cable connects Frye Island with Raymond, supplementing the aged existing cable.

02/07/2025

Presentation on Sebago Lake The Windham Historical Society will present its first program of the 2025 season, called “Why is Sebago Lake So Deep?” on March 3 at 7 p.m. at the Little Meetinghouse on Route 302 in North Windham. The presentation will be hosted by Don Wescott of Friends of the Presu...

02/06/2025

It was a long two winters prior. For the first time that I can recall, Sebago Lake, not even Jordan Bay, did not freeze. So, no ice fishing or ice fishing derby in 2023 or 2024. But that changed this year! With some bitter cold temperatures and finally a break in the wind, Jordan Bay […]

02/05/2025

Gray's American Legion Post 86 hosted its first monthly community supper of 2025 on Saturday, Feb. 1.

02/05/2025

Standish held a workshop to debate a rent control ordinance that, should it go into effect, would cap rent increases at 10% per year.

02/05/2025

Inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham were given the opportunity in the fall of 2024 to learn alongside seniors at Horace Mann School, an elite private school in New York City.

02/05/2025

Here we are at the start of February and, apparently, the federal government has “canceled” Black History Month? It’s hard to tell exactly what has actually been done about this, or what it means to those of us on the ground, but… yeah. The statement from the government declared that no long...