GORHAM – Empowering principals to restrict access to school property, Gorham’s School Committee is considering a new policy governing school visits. School officials said this week its proposed policy regulating visitors, based on one developed by Maine School Management Association, is aimed at safety. Police could be called to enforce compliance. “The only reason that […]

GORHAM – Empowering principals to restrict access to school property, Gorham’s School Committee is considering a new policy governing school visits. School officials said this week its proposed policy regulating visitors, based on one developed by Maine School Management Association, is aimed at safety. Police could be called to enforce compliance. “The only reason that […]

WESTBROOK – Construction on the new Westbrook trash transfer station, open more than a month, is unfinished. Casella Waste Systems opened the facility, located off County Road, at the beginning of the year, but a tight deadline and unforeseen problems pushed back the full completion of the site. “We’re open for business and it’s going […]

Middle school student honored Marissa Bates, 10, of Westbrook was recently recognized as Maine’s top youth volunteer in the middle school level by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a national program honoring middle level and high school students for outstanding volunteer service. As an honoree, Bates, a fifth-grade student at Westbrook Middle School, will […]

Feb. 17, 1988 In the 1960s they called it a battle of the bands. Kids in faded bellbottoms cranked out Jimi Hendrix leads while bass and drums thundered off the back walls of a high school gym. Winners were decided by hoots and hollers. Today, it’s a rock-off, and winners, still high school students, are […]

Gorham nabbing drunk drivers Armed with a grant to crackdown on operating under the influence, Gorham police officers have made seven arrests since Dec. 1 last year. Sgt. Benjamin Moreland of Gorham Police Department said in a report that the grant from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety affords Gorham to run enforcement details through […]

Top 10 for Portland store Feb. 4-10: 1. “Flight” (DVD) 2. Jim James, “Regions of Light and Sound of God” 3. “Alex Cross” (DVD) 4. “Here Comes the Boom” (DVD) 5. Mumford & Sons, “Babel: Gentlemen of the Road Edition” 6. “Seven Psychopaths” (DVD) 7. Richard Thompson, “Electric” 8. “Dead Space 3” for X360 9. […]

WATERVILLE — The running joke around the Waterville Senior High School boys basketball team is, when senior center John-Peter Michaud gets a double-double, his coaches and teammates call him by his preferred nickname, J.P. No double-double, it’s John-Peter. It was J.P. on the court Wednesday night, as Michaud and the Purple Panthers played arguably their best game of the season, beating Old Town, 75-33, in the Eastern B preliminary round.

To the owner of a big dog far away from home in central Maine, it was the best of omens at the Westminster Dog Show.