While the Gorham school budget request is rising, student numbers are taking a slight dip. Projections indicate a downturn in district enrollment for the rest of the decade. The School Committee is asking the Town Council to approve a $28 million budget this year over last year’s $26.1 million, a 7.2 percent increase. According to […]

While the Gorham school budget request is rising, student numbers are taking a slight dip. Projections indicate a downturn in district enrollment for the rest of the decade. The School Committee is asking the Town Council to approve a $28 million budget this year over last year’s $26.1 million, a 7.2 percent increase. According to […]

April 1981 Maine Medical Center’s hospital sends four tons a day of waste to the Regional Waste System’s bale-fill on Running Hill Road, Scarborough. Now the hospital is getting an incinerator; cost undisclosed, but the federal government is said to be paying half. It will reduce volume to 5 percent, weight to 20 percent; the […]

The photo on the left is from the late 1960s and it shows George’s Esso Service Center, which was operated by George Glicos at the corner of Main and Stroudwater streets. Cumberland Farms Inc., of Canton, Mass., purchased the business and demolished the building to make way for a Cumberland Farms store. Several years ago, […]

Westbrook Police Detective Tim Gardner and his wife, Carre, are starting a new career together – as missionaries helping Russian orphans and street kids in Moscow. The two plan to quit their jobs and move to Russia, along with their three children, by August 2007. They’re looking to make a lifetime career of it. Over […]

The new budget proposed from the last workshop is partly due to suggestions as to where to cut in order to support services and teachers. The majority of the School Board decided that they’d take some of those cuts and still not support needed positions. What this means is we will get the math specialist […]

The Gorham Republican Town Committee will hold their next meeting on April 26 at 7 p.m. in the Gorham High School library. All Republicans are encouraged to attend. If you have questions, please call Chair Rudy Rudolph at 839-8636.

A Gorham School Committee member is “disgruntled” with a budget that drops three positions and a town councilor wants schools to trim this year’s budget to keep the town’s tax rate down. The school budget would eliminate two teacher positions, most likely one each at Narragansett and Gorham Middle School, and one elementary school ed […]

In the story “Kids find SATs to be ‘rewarding’” in the April 12 edition, the name of the test being replaced by the SAT was misidentified. It is the Maine Educational Assessment.

The warm spring weather brought families out to Riverbank Park last week. Parents and children took advantage of the good weather to get outside and play. Staff photo by Charlie Smith The warm spring weather brought families out to Riverbank Park last week. Parents and children took advantage of the good weather to get outside […]