Recycle to support scholarship Buxton Garden Club is collecting used inkjet cartridges and cell phones to fund a scholarship for a Bonny Eagle High School senior. Collection boxes in Buxton are located at the Buxton Recycling Center, Buxton Town Hall, West Buxton Library, and the Bar Mills Post Office. Boxes in Hollis are at the […]

Oct. 18, 1989 Data General says it is dickering with buyers for both parts of its Westbrook operations, predicts that they’ll be sold before the end of December and says it hopes the new owners will continue to employ many of the plant’s remaining workforce of roughly 400 people. An unnamed international electronics maker is […]

Oct. 18, 1989 Data General says it is dickering with buyers for both parts of its Westbrook operations, predicts that they’ll be sold before the end of December and says it hopes the new owners will continue to employ many of the plant’s remaining workforce of roughly 400 people. An unnamed international electronics maker is […]

Drouin Dancers prep for Macy’s parade Nine student dancers from Drouin Dance Center of Westbrook have just six weeks left before they perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York and televised on NBC. The dancers are Rachael Dyer, Liana Enright, Dianne Fahey, Kayla Fahey, Hannah Herman, Jessica LeVasseur and Alexandria Phelps, all […]

Common Core info meeting planned A public meeting titled Questioning Common Core is set for 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20 in the Town Council chambers at Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St. The program includes Maine Department of Education speakers. Common Core is an educational standards initiative for students in grades kindergarten through Grade […]

Common Core info meeting planned A public meeting titled Questioning Common Core is set for 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20 in the Town Council chambers at Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St. The program includes Maine Department of Education speakers. Common Core is an educational standards initiative for students in grades kindergarten through Grade […]

Three suspects face multiple charges after a lengthy standoff on Oct. 12 at 68 Hurlin Smith Road in Buxton, where police seized several guns. Several Buxton police assisted the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency in the incident, which began with an attempt to search for a stolen laptop and a […]

Westbrook police have arrested a suspect in a shooting incident that occurred shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday. According to Capt. Michael Nugent, officers responded to Carlson Street after a cab driver reported an altercation with a rider. According to the driver, he was taking a man and a woman to a Westbrook residence when […]

Oct. 11, 1989 The Gorham Planning Board denied Peter Vose permission last week to split a 4-acre lot containing two duplexes that he bought from Dewayn Shaw’s daughter Susan Duchaine in June. Vose wanted to sell both duplexes, located on Buck Street, as separate lots. But the lot has quite irregular lot lines, because it […]

Oct. 11, 1989 The Gorham Planning Board denied Peter Vose permission last week to split a 4-acre lot containing two duplexes that he bought from Dewayn Shaw’s daughter Susan Duchaine in June. Vose wanted to sell both duplexes, located on Buck Street, as separate lots. But the lot has quite irregular lot lines, because it […]