The North Gorham Public Library has weekly children’s programs open to the public. The library has a program for babies and toddlers at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. The library also has a story hour program for 3- and 4-year-olds at 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays. For more information, call the library at 892-2575 and leave a […]

The North Gorham Public Library has weekly children’s programs open to the public. The library has a program for babies and toddlers at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. The library also has a story hour program for 3- and 4-year-olds at 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays. For more information, call the library at 892-2575 and leave a […]

In a case of kids helping kids, students from Canal School have put together reading packages for kids who are less fortunate than themselves. This week, the 32 students involved in the project dropped off packages containing a book, a tape of the student reading the book, a bookmark and a personal letter for patients […]

In a case of kids helping kids, students from Canal School have put together reading packages for kids who are less fortunate than themselves. This week, the 32 students involved in the project dropped off packages containing a book, a tape of the student reading the book, a bookmark and a personal letter for patients […]

Emergency consolidation The town of Gorham is considering consolidating its dispatching call center with a neighboring one in either Windham (the county’s) or Westbrook (the city’s) in response to a mandate from the state to reduce the number of emergency call centers in the state. Although this as a good move for Gorham that would […]

In just another month, we will once again be honoring our servicemen and women of Westbrook with a Memorial Day parade. A parade that will wind-up at the monument at the park on Main Street. This monument, unveiled in 2003, was to honor all our veterans, but apparently an oversight was made in that the […]

May 1980 Westbrook is closing Forest Street and Rocky Hill kindergarten centers and sending the children to the Warren Kindergarten Center. The three are the city’s most cheaply heated and operated schools. Mayor William O’Gara walked out of an audit meeting of the Westbrook City Council’s Accounts and Claims Committee. He apologized later to the […]

May 1980 Russell R. Day, Westbrook Republican candidate for the Maine House, suggests playfully that members of the Legislature be allowed to introduce only one new law per term. They could add others if each repealed an old law. Bill Clarke, Maine’s only elected city clerk, was honored at a dinner for his 25 years […]

I am David Daigler. I work for the Maine Community College System and my wife, Karen, works for Bowdoin College. We believe we understand education, the business of education and the direction of education. When I listened to Donna speak, I couldn’t help but think back on when my children were starting out in kindergarten […]

I am David Daigler. I work for the Maine Community College System and my wife, Karen, works for Bowdoin College. We believe we understand education, the business of education and the direction of education. When I listened to Donna speak, I couldn’t help but think back on when my children were starting out in kindergarten […]