GORHAM – Arrested in Gorham in March, a convicted serial rapist in Massachusetts who fled 34 years ago faces sentencing in two weeks. Gary A. Irving, 52, is scheduled to be sentenced at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., according to David Traub, a spokesman for the Norfolk […]

CommUNITY_2CommUNITY_3CommUNITY_4Molly Merifield, a Gorham High School freshman, gives a lesson in history driving her yoke of Shorthorn steers, Chester, on left, and Win. CommUNITY_6CommUNITY_7

CommUNITY_2CommUNITY_3CommUNITY_4Molly Merifield, a Gorham High School freshman, gives a lesson in history driving her yoke of Shorthorn steers, Chester, on left, and Win. CommUNITY_6CommUNITY_7

Westbrook and Gorham schools received passing grades from the state’s first educational system report card. Gorham schools all received a B, except for Great Falls and Narragansett elementary schools, which received a C. Westbrook High School also received a C The schools were graded on an A-F scale based on a variety of standards, including […]

WESTBROOK – As Idexx Laboratories’ $38 million, 107,000-square-foot addition nears completion after breaking ground a year ago, an agreement on quarry rules for neighboring Pike Industries slowly inches forward. The expansion sits next to the 550,000-square-foot Idexx main building in the Five-Star Industrial Park, and company officials said it could bring in more than 300 […]

WESTBROOK – As Idexx Laboratories’ $38 million, 107,000-square-foot addition nears completion after breaking ground a year ago, an agreement on quarry rules for neighboring Pike Industries slowly inches forward. The expansion sits next to the 550,000-square-foot Idexx main building in the Five-Star Industrial Park, and company officials said it could bring in more than 300 […]

WESTBROOK – Behind the back of the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, there’s a small trailer, a portable classroom once used to house a computer class, that now acts as a bike garage for a small group of Westbrook alternative education students. The students spend their afternoons “wrenching” away at bikes that will be donated or […]

WESTBROOK – Behind the back of the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, there’s a small trailer, a portable classroom once used to house a computer class, that now acts as a bike garage for a small group of Westbrook alternative education students. The students spend their afternoons “wrenching” away at bikes that will be donated or […]

WESTBROOK – Abandoned, brightly colored feathers, specks of glitter and high heels litter the Avant Dance and Event Center floor after its newest class lets out on Tuesday night. Burlesque, or the art of the subtle tease, is being taught at the Westbrook studio. Its aim is less about sex and more about helping women […]