Does lazing around the pool and eating and drinking to your heart’s content sound like the ideal vacation? Not for a growing number of health-minded baby boomers who, as they age, are changing the meaning of “R&R.” Boomers who are no longer satisfied with just any trip to the beach are turning leisure time into […]

Buxton voters will decide on charter changes at town meeting in June that would eliminate a pair of elected posts, road commissioner and town treasurer. The Board of Selectmen, which is proposing the changes, have set a hearing for 7 p.m. today, Wednesday, April 6, in the town hall to hear public comment on changes […]

Seniors meal – Wednesday, March 30, noon, St. Anne’s Catholic Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Home cooked meal. Donation, $3. Church luncheon – Thursday, March 31, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Shepherd’s pie, $2.50. Pancake breakfast – Saturday, April 2, 7-9 a.m., West Baldwin Church, Route 113, Baldwin. Pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, […]

Superintendent Ted Sharp rolled out a proposed $26.1 million budget for the coming fiscal year, at a meeting earlier this month. Sharp’s proposed budget represents a $1.2 million hike, up 4.9 percent, over the this year’s $24.9 million spending package. Sharp, who has been on the job seven months, said his proposed budget marked the […]

On Monday night, City Councilors voted to consider adopting a heavy trash disposal program this spring, after the city cut it from the budget last year. Meeting as the Committee of the Whole, councilors voted 3-1 to recommend to the full City Council that the city establish a discount coupon system that would allow residents […]

On Monday night, City Councilors voted to consider adopting a heavy trash disposal program this spring, after the city cut it from the budget last year. Meeting as the Committee of the Whole, councilors voted 3-1 to recommend to the full City Council that the city establish a discount coupon system that would allow residents […]

Daylight-saving time begins on Sunday, April 3, so remember to set your clocks forward one hour before going to bed Saturday night. While changing your clocks, also remember to replace your smoke-detector batteries.

A letter signed by former Mayor Don Esty is at the center of a dispute between the city and developer Tim Flannery over the use of one of the largest public parking lots in Westbrook. The letter promised Flannery the use of nearly half of the so-called “CVS” lot between Main Street and William Clarke […]

While most college kids spend winter break hitting Florida beaches, Michelle Regan of Buxon hammered nails for Habitat for Humanity. A junior at St. Michael’s College in Burlington, Vt., Regan got her tan doing roof construction. Joining nine other students and an adult on the trip in the college’s extended service program, she went to […]

Next year’s proposed school budget will go to the School Committee in early April with a proposed 5 percent increase. The school’s Finance Committee completed work on the approximately $27 million budget last week. The current school budget is approximately $25.5 million. School Superintendent Stan Sawyer cautioned that the figures are only preliminary. The School […]