GORHAM – The Gorham Planning Board will take up a developer’s request in June to waive connecting a proposed subdivision to public sewer. Chase Custom Homes & Finance Inc. is seeking permission for a 42-lot cluster subdivision Sawyer Estates on 104 acres off South Street. The applicant’s agent, Les Berry of BH2M in Gorham, said […]

GORHAM – The Gorham Planning Board will take up a developer’s request in June to waive connecting a proposed subdivision to public sewer. Chase Custom Homes & Finance Inc. is seeking permission for a 42-lot cluster subdivision Sawyer Estates on 104 acres off South Street. The applicant’s agent, Les Berry of BH2M in Gorham, said […]

GORHAM – The Gorham Planning Board will take up a developer’s request in June to waive connecting a proposed subdivision to public sewer. Chase Custom Homes & Finance Inc. is seeking permission for a 42-lot cluster subdivision Sawyer Estates on 104 acres off South Street. The applicant’s agent, Les Berry of BH2M in Gorham, said […]

GORHAM – The Gorham Planning Board will take up a developer’s request in June to waive connecting a proposed subdivision to public sewer. Chase Custom Homes & Finance Inc. is seeking permission for a 42-lot cluster subdivision Sawyer Estates on 104 acres off South Street. The applicant’s agent, Les Berry of BH2M in Gorham, said […]

WESTBROOK – With winter finally relenting, snowmobilers are putting their machines away for the season, yet the trails in Westbrook are anything but quiet. Despite signs proclaiming them off-limits, off-road vehicles from bikes to trucks have already begun taking to the muddy trails anyway, causing damage and headaches for law enforcement, landowners and snowmobile enthusiasts. […]

GORHAM – An old-time orchard on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine, once part of an early farm, will bloom again. This week, volunteers set out 20 small trees on a hillside near four sturdy, old apple trees, still standing like monuments after decades on campus. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension […]

WESTBROOK – Art teachers at Westbrook High School put a new twist on the school’s annual interactive art exhibition this year, by offering prizes to artwork selected as the best by students and faculty at the school last week. On Thursday and Friday, April 28-29, each of the school’s art classrooms was filled with displays […]

WESTBROOK – The City Council has nearly closed the book on a busy – and painful – budget season, with the municipal and school sides of the budget passing their first vote. On Monday, the council read and approved for the first time the municipal expense budget, which stands at $24,292,628, an increase of $19,675 […]

BUXTON – Buxton Police Chief Mike Grovo said Tuesday the York County District Attorney’s Office is now emailing police about pending cases to prevent the kind of miscommunication that occurred in March regarding the handling of a puppy mill case. Animal welfare workers and Grovo were unaware of a March 17 hearing in which a […]

WESTBROOK – The city has authorized $300,000 to put together a plan to renovate the current home of the Department of Public Services, as well as adding on to the existing building at 371 Saco St. On Monday, the City Council approved spending $299,600 to hire Westbrook-based engineering firm Sebago Technics to create a full-fledged […]