GORHAM — For more than 100 years, L.L. Bean has been making its iconic Bean Boot in a variety of styles, but never one quite like the boot unveiled last week in partnership with a Gorham-based outdoor gear company. L.L. Bean has teamed up with Flowfold, located on Sanford Drive, in its first ever Bean […]

WESTBROOK — Seven concerts have been scheduled so far at Rock Row and this week, the City Council gave the OK for alcohol to be served at those shows. The council Monday approved 4-0 a liquor license for Waterfront Concerts, a Bangor-based concert company that will be holding up to 16 shows at Rock Row’s Maine […]

A police honor guard Thursday opens the funeral for Gorham’s School Resource Officer Wayne “Pooch” Drown in the field house at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. More than 2,500 people gathered to remember and honor Drown, including family, friends, students and representatives from other police departments. Drown died Feb. 24 at Maine Medical […]

Officer Wayne Drown, right, is on duty at Gorham High School in March 2018. Officer Wayne Drown snaps a salute while representing Gorham at Wreaths Across America in December at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Gorham Police Officer Wayne Drown, pictured here on patrol, died Sunday at age 64. He was a respected school resource […]

WESTBROOK — Members of the Highland Lake Grange in Westbrook and the White Rock Grange in Gorham are teaming up to make quilts for veterans and challenging other grange halls in the area to do the same. Westbrook and Gorham grange members have been meeting once a week since the fall to work on quilts […]

The University of Southern Maine Art Gallery in Gorham. GORHAM — The University of Southern Maine Art Gallery on its Gorham campus retains its federal historical status after passing a recent review by the Maine Historical Preservation Commission. The university successfully restored its art gallery following a publicly denounced renovation. An outcry in 2014 claimed […]

WESTBROOK — Milone & MacBroom has been chosen from a field of 11 applicants to design downtown’s new Westbrook Common. The City Council Monday awarded at first reading a $95,510 design contract for the engineering and consulting firm to redesign the aging Westbrook Common, also known as Blue Note Park. Second reading and final action is set […]

Wayne Drown GORHAM — The funeral for Wayne Drown, a Gorham police officer since 1982 who died Feb. 24, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at the Costello Sports Complex Field House on the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus. A reception will follow the service at Gorham High School, 41 Morrill […]

WESTBROOK — It was a medal-worthy performance for Canal School in this year’s WinterKids Winter Games. Staff from WinterKids, a Westbrook-based organization that helps kids stay active and healthy during the winter, were at Canal School last week to present staff and students with a $1,500 award for earning the bronze medal in the month-long competition. […]

Westbrook native Ralph Allard Jr. is pictured in his World War II uniform. He served in the Pacific during World War II with Company D of the 103rd Infantry Regiment in Maine National Guard. WESTBROOK — The old Westbrook-based Company D that fought in the Pacific jungles in World War II now has two known […]