Office hours
The Durham Town Office hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 8: 30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; closed Wednesday; and Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The office will be closed Monday, May 25, in honor of Memorial Day. For more information, call 353-2561.
Meetings
The Durham Board of Selectmen will meet Tuesday, June 2, 16 and 30, at 6:30 p.m., in the Durham Town Office.
Historic commission seeks associate members
The Durham Historic District Commission is looking for associate members. For those interested, applications are available at the Durham Town Office. For more information, call the town office, 353-2561.
Paving under way
Crews are paving Route 125 at the Freeport-Durham town line. Paving will extend 2.78 miles to the Soper Road intersection. It is anticipated all work will be completed by the first week of June. The paving operation takes place Monday through Saturday between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Motorists should expect slight delays when traveling through the work zone that will be controlled by flaggers.
Glidden Excavating and Paving Inc. of Gorham is performing the $659,000 project.
Memorial Day activities
The fourth annual Durham Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 25, starting at 10 a.m. at Davis Road and traveling down Route 125 to the Durham Community School, with stops at the Veteran’s Memorial Park and Sawyer Cemetery. Registration forms can be downloaded from the town website at www.durhamme.com.
Forms can be turned in ahead of time or at parade registration.
The AMVETS 5K Race and Fun Run will be held on Monday, May 25, starting at 8 a.m. at the AMVETS hall. Registration forms can be downloaded from the town website at www.durhamme.com. All registration fees go to the AMVETS and can be paid online.
The Durham Historical Society will have a special open house to coincide with the Memorial Day parade and the Family Fun Fair. The Old Union Church doors will be open from 9 a.m.-noon. The society will also be having a bake sale, and will take donations of food items to sell. They can be dropped off the day of the open house at the church.
Durham Night at the Sea Dogs
On Friday, June 5, join friends and neighbors at Hadlock Field for a night of fun as the Portland Sea Dogs take on the Bowie Baysox. The game starts at 7 p.m. Tickets for the game are $5, with part of the proceeds going to support Durham Youth Baseball. For tickets or more information, call 272-4010 or email baseballhound@comcast.net .
Road-Ride-Riddle fundraiser June 6
Road-Ride-Riddle, a fundraiser for the Lisbon Area Christian Outreach Food Pantry, is Saturday, June 6, rain or shine, starting at the Durham Congregational Church, 773 Royalsborough Road, corner of routes 9 and 136. Registration is from 9:30-10:15 a.m. The fee is $10 or 10 non-perishable food items. Kids under 12 are half price.
Participants take a self-guided ride through Durham, Lisbon, Lisbon Falls and Bowdoin, the towns served by the food pantry. Road-Ride-Riddle is to be solved by the following designated route, where the answers to three questions can be found. The ride will end at the food pantry, located at the MTM Center, School Street (next to the United Methodist Church), in Lisbon Falls, where tours of the facility, free refreshments, and a wide range of prizes will be drawn by participants who have completed the three questions and have entered their names for the drawing starting at 11:45 a.m. Participants must be present to have their names drawn. For more information, call Priscilla at 353-2552.
CEO hours
Hours for Paul Baines, Durham’s codes enforcement officer, are Mondays and Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; and Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. He can be reached at 376-6558 or codes@ durhamme.com. For more information, call the Town Office, 353-2561, ext. 13.
Kindergarten, pre-K registration
Durham Community School kindergarten registration is now available for children who were born before or on Oct. 15, 2015. Online registration can be found at dcs.rsu5.org.
The school is also registering pre-kindergarten students for the 2015-16 school year. The Durham Community School is anticipating a pre-K program designed to prepare students with the basic skills needed to be successful in kindergarten. To be eligible for this program, children must be 4 years old on or before Oct. 15 and reside in Durham. The pre-K program is a partial week, full-day program that follows the RSU 5 school calendar. The program operates in two sessions, a Monday, Wednesday and Friday session, as well as a Tuesday, Thursday session. To find out more about pre-K, see dcs.rsu5.org or call the school at 353-9333.
Town info
Durham puts out a weekly bulletin of all posts, events and meetings for the upcoming week in the town/area.
To sign up for weekly emails, go to durhamme.com and enter your email at bottom of the home page. To get nonprofit information/event or meeting on the website or town channel, email it to durhampublicinfo@gmail.com, or jricker@durhamtown.comcastbiz.net or call 207-353-2561, EXT 16. All town meetings can be seen on demand at http://durhamtown.pegcentral.com.
Cribbage, couponing
The Durham Eureka Community Center, corner of Route 9 and Route 136, hosts cribbage every Tuesday from 9 a.m.-noon.
Couponing for the Community meets at the Community Center two Wednesdays each month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The next meeting is May 27. It is a chance to learn couponing basics including where/how to find and collect coupons; how to organize them; and how to begin using them. Pat Provost heads this project with the hopes that some of the skills acquired will be used to give back to the community by helping families in need. Anyone who already uses coupons or would like to know or learn about ways to coupon is welcome. Those who want more information can call Pat at 212-5156.
Late fee for dog licenses
Dog registration regular fees are $6 for altered dogs and $11 for unaltered dogs. Proof of rabies and first time for neutered or spaying will need to be seen by the registering clerk. This is once-a-year registration. A $25 late fee per dog will now be added to the regular fee. For more information call Town Clerk Shannon Plourde at 353-2561, ext. 11.
AMVETS members
AMVETS supports other veterans, families and the local community. Post 13 in Durham is seeking members. For information, call Chad Burke, 798-0956.
Rent Eureka Center
The Durham Eureka Community Center is available for rent. The maximum amount of people the hall holds for an event is 50. Contact Nancy Decker at 751-1323 or the Town Office at 353-2561.
Food pantry
The Lisbon Area Christian Outreach (LACO) food pantry, which serves the towns of Durham, Bowdoin, and Lisbon Falls, is open Wednesday from 6-8 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m.-noon and Saturday from 8-10 a.m. The LACO Food Pantry is located at the Marion T. Morse School on School Street, Lisbon Falls. The parking lot is behind the Lisbon United Methodist Church, off Berry Avenue. There is also a free clothing bank. For more information, see www.lacopantry.org or call Deb, 240-1637.
Church services
The First Congregational Church of Durham UCC, 773 Royalsborough Road, holds
Sunday worship at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Peter Mercer.
Shiloh Chapel, Beulah lane off Shiloh Road, holds services
Sundays at 10 a.m. Ron Parker is pastor.
Durham Monthly meeting of Friends, 532 Quakermeeting House Road, at the corner of Route 125, every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. The pastor is Douglas Gwyn.
At the Durham Eureka Center Committee plant show last weekend are, from left, Anita Sellars, Pearl Scribner, Kathy Lowe and Martha Lewis. Volunteers Barbara Johnson and Jennifer Fitzpatrick, as well as Lowe and Lewis, were thanked by the committee for their efforts, as was Jeff Decker of JSD Property Maintenance, who picked up eights loads of dump runs as part of the fundraiser, and the Durham Youth Junior Explorers for providing the food and beverages. Courtesy photoSend questions/comments to the editors.
