GORHAM – The Gorham School Committee is weighing an all-day kindergarten program, despite a study panel’s recommendation Wednesday in a workshop not to implement it because of the financial impact. The school district presently has a half-day kindergarten program. The study panel estimated expanding kindergarten to an all-day program would cost $555,159 to implement and […]

Her moderate politics are sometimes out of step with an increasingly conservative national GOP, but Washington Republicans want her to seek a fourth term.

WESTBROOK – Ellie Saunders has watched the Presumpscot River flow by nearly every day for 93 years. Like Saunders, the city is tied to the river, owing it much credit for the development, both economically and recreationally, of the area itself. “It’s unusual, so many rivers are the boundary line, but ours runs right through […]

WESTBROOK – Ellie Saunders has watched the Presumpscot River flow by nearly every day for 93 years. Like Saunders, the city is tied to the river, owing it much credit for the development, both economically and recreationally, of the area itself. “It’s unusual, so many rivers are the boundary line, but ours runs right through […]

WESTBROOK – Funds earmarked by the city for the schools and a last-minute field trip have left the Westbrook School Committee concerned about proper planning by the administration. During a March 13 meeting, the School Committee unanimously approved an estimated $5,000 trip for the drama club to compete in a statewide competition in Camden, and […]

GORHAM – With figures still in flux, a $32.6 million Gorham school-spending proposal, which cuts several education jobs, would increase the amount Gorham property owners would pay by nearly $1 million. Superintendent Ted Sharp’s first budget rollout at a School Committee meeting on March 13 called for a $33.3 million spending plan. Two days later, […]

PORTLAND – The owners of a Westbrook restaurant were convicted Monday of a series of immigration crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Guillermo Fuentes, 37, of Westbrook, and Hector Fuentes, 39, of Waterville, were convicted following an eight-day jury trial in U.S. District Court in Portland of conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens for profit, harboring […]