Gorham family fair breakfast – Saturday, Aug. 20, 7-10 a.m., St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausages, coffee, juice and milk. $5, $2.50; $15, family. Gorham family fair chicken barbecue – Saturday, Aug. 20, 4:30-7 p.m., Gorham Central Fire Station at the Municipal Center, 270 Main St., Gorham. Sponsored by the […]

Atwood new USM director of major and planned gifts Robert “Rusty” Atwood of Gorham, former major gifts officer at Colby College in Waterville, has been named the USM Director of Major and Planned Gifts at the University of Southern Maine. Within this role, his responsibilities include planning and directing the university’s planned giving program as […]

Several Westbrook city councilors were in a spending mood Monday evening as three separate requests from councilors added $250,000 to a $1.25 million capital improvement bond at the last minute. Councilors voted, 5-2, to approve a $1.5 million municipal capital improvement bond with the newly added money earmarked to pay for improvements to playgrounds in […]

Philip and Nancy celebrate 50th Philip and Nancy Curran hosted 15 houseguests over the first weekend in August as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their family at their home on Duck Pond Road. They were special guests at a lobster cookout prepared under a tent by their sons, daughters and grandchildren. Those present […]

Darryl Wright has joined Maine Bank & Trust as the new market manager of the Scarborough Branch. Wright has more than nine years of experience in banking, beginning as a teller in 1996 for Peoples Heritage Bank/TD Banknorth. He held several positions, including branch supervisor, customer service and sales manager, and was business development and […]

A support group for hard of hearing or deaf people is held on the third Tuesday of each month, from 6:30-8 p.m., at the Dana Center, Maine Medical Center, Portland. There is no fee. For more information, call Edna Rollins, 892-6623.

One of the nation’s largest suppliers of work uniforms is eyeing land in a business park on Saco Street as a possible location for a laundry building that could house up to 140 workers. City Administrator Jerre Bryant confirmed this week that Cintas, a publicly traded company that employs 23,000 people at 351 locations in […]

August 1980 Saving energy is cheaper than buying it, Amory Lovins said in a speech at the University of Southern Maine, calling for voting to ban nuclear power in Maine in the referendum coming Sept. 21. “Stop living in sieves and stop being petro-hogs,” said the England-born physicist, economist, author and energy consultant. Ralph Hatt, […]

Gorham Family Fair Schedule 7-10 a.m. – Pancake breakfast, St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. 7:15 – Registration for road races at Gorham High School. Sponsored by Gorham Trails Landtrust. 8 a.m. – 1K race begins. 8:30 a.m. – 5K race begins. 11 a.m. – Parade forms up at Village […]

The three men charged in connection with the beating death of a Westbrook man pled not guilty on Friday. At an arraignment in Cumberland County Superior Court, Wade DePalma, 19, of Bridge Street; Nicholas Lavigne, 19, of Pierce Street and Alexander Layug, 18, of Massachusetts Avenue, Portland, all entered pleas of not guilty to charges […]