Alumni of the Samuel D. Hanson High School will have its annual banquet on Saturday, June 11, at Salmon Falls Restaurant in Hollis. The class of 1955 will be this year’s special guests. For more information, call 929-4337 or 929-5588.

A new children’s book from Maria Shriver I had read about Maria Shriver’s latest book for children, about a child disturbed by her grandfather’s actions, at the start of his Alzheimer’s illness. The book is “What’s Happening to Grandpa?” We know that Shriver was in the Kennedy family and is married to California’s governor, Arnold […]

A new children’s book from Maria Shriver I had read about Maria Shriver’s latest book for children, about a child disturbed by her grandfather’s actions, at the start of his Alzheimer’s illness. The book is “What’s Happening to Grandpa?” We know that Shriver was in the Kennedy family and is married to California’s governor, Arnold […]

The Gorham Town Council will discuss the $24.9 million proposed schools budget and the fire and rescue budget in a workshop at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, in the high school auditorium. The Town Council had not seen the school budget on Tuesday. There will be a public hearing and Town Council discussion of […]

The School Committee directed Superintendent Stan Sawyer to come up with a reorganization plan for the school administration last week. The vote in favor of the reorganization came after the School Committee had worked through one of two pages of cuts proposed by the school Finance Committee. School Committee Chairman Colleen Hilton made the motion […]

Fifth-grade students from the Canal School got a special treat last Friday as their DARE graduation was held at Jokers on Warren Avenue in Portland. After a short ceremony, the kids were given the chance to play some video games and laser tag. The DARE students all wrote an essay on the dangers of drugs […]

Wilmot “Bill” Lewis, 82, rose from his kitchen chair on Monday to feed wood into a black cook stove. Life and comfort inside the farmhouse his father bought 80 years ago is still good for Lewis and his wife, Ethel. From their kitchen, they view cattle in a pasture across Long Plains Road from their […]

Wilmot “Bill” Lewis, 82, rose from his kitchen chair on Monday to feed wood into a black cook stove. Life and comfort inside the farmhouse his father bought 80 years ago is still good for Lewis and his wife, Ethel. From their kitchen, they view cattle in a pasture across Long Plains Road from their […]

April 1980 In high school girls’ basketball, Westbrook, in Class A, and Gorham, in Class B, finished the season with amazing identical records – three years undefeated and state champions. Westbrook Republicans will honor William L. Clarke for his 26 years as city clerk at a dinner May 1 in the Dunn Street Legion Hall. […]

One of the dreaded aspects of growing older is developing arthritis, an often debilitating disease, causing painful inflammation of joints. Although no one can prevent aging, people can reduce the risk of developing arthritis by losing weight, eating the right foods and exercising regularly, doctors say. Osteoarthritis, the most common form, develops as cartilage that […]