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Windham routs Portland in A North football final

Windham’s Tanner Bernier carries the ball as Portland’s Jonah Green moves in during the Class A North football championship Friday night at Windham High. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) WINDHAM — Counted out of the championship picture a month ago, Windham High’s football team has found its identity. Fourth-seeded Windham dominated from the start and […]

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A North semifinal: Eagles bend, don't break to knock off top-seeded Eddies

Xzabier Weaver, left, of Edward Little High School reacts after Leighton Girardin was tackled on a fake extra point attempt during the first half against Windham on Friday. Weaver scored the touchdown prior to the failed extra point. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) AUBURN — The opening drive of each half of Friday night’s Class A North […]

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Game of the Week: Rested Red Eddies meet Eagles for trip to regional final

Caden Begos of Edward Little runs the ball behind blocker Dawson Tracey during a game against Windham earlier this season. (Sun Journal File Photo) Top-seeded Edward Little enjoyed a week of rest, but probably not relaxation, last week as their next opponent, fourth-seeded Windham, had to fight No. 5 Cheverus tooth-and-nail in a 12-6 comeback […]

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Windham man sentenced to 6 years after 9th and 10th drunken-driving convictions

Patrick Murphy confers with his attorney, David Bobrow, during Murphy’s sentencing hearing Friday at the Cumberland County Courthouse. Bobrow said after the hearing that Murphy “will use his opportunity while he’s incarcerated to engage in significant treatment and deal with his battles with alcoholism.”  A Windham man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday […]

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H.S. Football: Carson leads Vikings to big win over Eagles

PARIS — Colton Carson and the Oxford Hills Vikings had their best half of the season in  Saturday’s homecoming game with Windham. That is likely not a coincidence. Carson, a junior, threw two second-half touchdown passes to lead the Vikings to a crucial 29-17 victory over the Eagles. “In the second half, we just clicked […]

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Collision on Little Sebago Lake injures three people

WINDHAM (WGME) — A personal watercraft crash on Little Sebago Lake sent three people to the hospital Sunday. Witnesses say they heard a loud boom and then rushed to help. It all happened on Little Sebago Lake in Windham near Sabbady Point Road. Officials say the three people were on two personal watercrafts when they […]

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Charlotte E. Hammond

WINDHAM — Charlotte E. (Aldrich) Hammond, a longtime resident of New Gloucester, passed away in her sleep Thursday, April 13, at Ledgewood Manor in Windham, one day after her 95th birthday. She was born April 12, 1922, in South Paris and was the daughter of Cora Bell Wilson and the Rev. Herbert Aldrich. She was […]

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4-year-old boy dies after Windham crash

WINDHAM —Friends and family say the 4-year-old boy injured in a crash Friday has died. Police say a minivan driven by 65-year-old Dennis Brackley, of New Gloucester, crossed the centerline of U.S. Route 202 on Friday night and smashed into an SUV driven by 33-year-old Adrian King, of Windham. Police say Brackley died at the scene. His […]

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Truck slips on ice, hits tree, burns in Windham

WINDHAM — A driver suffered just bumps and bruises after her truck slipped on a road, hit a tree and burst into flames Saturday night, police say. The crash happened on Nash Road, off Route 302. Police say the driver hit a patch of ice, then slammed into a tree before her pick-up burst into […]