Poetry reading Poets Mark Melnicove and Cassie Pryun will be the featured guest when the monthly Lowry’s Lodge Poetry Series continues at 7 p.m. March 21 at Continuum for Creativity, One Westbrook Common. Jim Donnelly and Anna Wrobel are hosts. Melnicove is a poet, teacher, editor, publisher and performance artist. His papers are archived at […]
Robert Lowell
Staff Writer
Bob Lowell is Gorham resident and a community reporter for Westbrook, Gorham and Buxton.
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We Love to Eat: March 12
Community meal – Thursday, March 12, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Beef noodle, $5. Baked haddock – Friday, March 13, 5-6 p.m., St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. $10, $5, children can choose fish, pizza or macaroni and cheese. Baked haddock – Friday, March 13, 4:30-6 p.m., […]
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Attempt fails to send $750K Gorham school kitchen to voters
The Town Council takes no action on the issue at its Tuesday meeting, and Councilor Janet Kuech is sworn in.
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Marketplace 2020 taking shape in Gorham
GORHAM — The 23rd annual Marketplace in Gorham is a sure sign of spring and the place to be to meet neighbors and reacquaint with old friends. Admission is free. Gorham Business Exchange sponsors the event and Suzanne Phillips takes the reins this year, her first as the group’s latest executive director. “It’s shaping up […]
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USM student ordered home from Italy
The student was scheduled to leave Tuesday, but the country went into a lockdown Monday as a result of coronavirus.
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We Love to Eat: March 5
Community meal – Thursday, March 5, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Chicken with stuffing, $5. Baked haddock – Friday, March 6, 5-6 p.m., St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. $10, $5, children can choose fish, pizza or macaroni and cheese. Baked Haddock – Friday, March 6, 4:30 – […]
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Gorham school plan for new kitchen stirs controversy
The kitchen at Narragansett Elementary School would be funded with money approved in a referendum for modular classrooms.
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Buxton church holds first service since meth lab found
A cleanup at Buxton United Methodist Church costing more than $100,000 is nearly complete and a suspect is scheduled for trial next month.
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Gorham approves warehouse for Old Canal Way
GORHAM — The Planning Board unanimously approved with conditions a warehouse project for Northeast Contracting Services in Old Canal Way, an industrial park off Mosher Road. The company performs concrete demolition. Among the conditions applied to the approval was dust control. Craig Burgess of Sebago Technics presented the request Monday. Burgess said the project will […]
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Westbrook Notes: March 5
Currier, retired USCG vice commandant, dies Retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant John Currier died Feb. 29 at age 68 in Michigan, according to former Westbrook Mayor Mike Sanphy. A vice admiral, the highly decorated Currier grew up in Westbrook and was once a city police officer, Sanphy said. In 2012, Currier assumed duties as […]