Lakes Region Weekly

Windham has issued a parking ban in anticipation of the snowstorm due to hit southern Maine overnight. The parking ban will run from noon Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday. Full Story »

A Waterford man was sentenced to eight years in prison, with all but three years, suspended, after pleading guilty to a stabbing in Standish last summer. Full Story »

Investigators from the Maine State Police and Cumberland County Sheriff's Office this morning are investigating a homicide in Gray. Full Story »

Doug Webster, Gray's town building administrator, holds an old air pressure gauge that was used for a dry sprinkler system installed in Pennell Institute in 1954. It is just one of the old artifacts and wall etchings found during the reconstruction currently under way to turn the old building into the new town hall. Full Story »

Katie Whittier, known to many around the Lakes Region as a former standout high school and college basketball player from New Gloucester, won the Miss Maine USA title last weekend. Full Story »

With the Gray Town Council acting as judge and jury, the recently terminated recreation director, Dean Bennett, will appeal his firing in a special public hearing to be held next week at Stimson Hall. Full Story »

Pam Brucker, a special education and reading professor at Southern Connecticut State University, was in Bridgton on Monday for Thanksgiving break and stopped by Bridgton Books to buy a copy of Stephen King’s new release, “Under the Dome.” Brucker, shown here with bookstore owner Justin Ward, is an avid Stephen King reader and bought a ticket on behalf of her son for King’s upcoming book signing ... Full Story »