A CLOSER LOOK Biodiversity Research Institute’s Web site is www.BRILoon.org. Scientists from the institute are available for classroom presentations in schools. Call 839-7600. Although the state advises pregnant women not to eat fish from Maine lakes, a leading researcher at an institute in Gorham that’s been studying mercury levels would take that warning much further. […]

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of stories on historical figures in Westbrook. Howard Parker, an inventor once called “the Thomas Edison of the pulp and paper industry,” got his professional start here in Westbrook – courtesy of a badly aimed snowball. Parker was born in Gorham on April 17, 1863, and at […]

In response to the April 9 article written by Kay Soldier, I have to comment on her feelings that there is a generation of children being raised without knowing how to “dig up worms, go fishing, much around in puddles, catch polliwogs or watch the caterpillar make its cocoon” because she has obviously not met […]

In response to the April 9 article written by Kay Soldier, I have to comment on her feelings that there is a generation of children being raised without knowing how to “dig up worms, go fishing, much around in puddles, catch polliwogs or watch the caterpillar make its cocoon” because she has obviously not met […]

A special screening day will be held Thursday, April 30, at Leavitt’s Mill Free Health Center in Buxton and Southern Maine Medical Center Women’s Center in Biddeford. The 1:30-5:30 p.m. event will provide eligible women with free Pap tests and mammograms on the same day. Women will also receive a $15 gas card to pay […]

Shaw Brothers Construction is rebuilding the portion of Queen Street between Gray and Mosher roads in Gorham. Bob Burns, director of Gorham Public Works Department, said Tuesday the $362,000 project includes improving drainage and ditches and installing driveway culverts. Burns said road pavement would be 22-feet wide and appearance would look similar to other reconstruction […]

Hurray, the circus is in town. Not so for the people that work in office buildings adjacent to the parking lot where the animals are warehoused during their stay in our city. We had a bird’s eye view of the Ringling animals last fall and we didn’t enjoy what we saw – the tiger pacing […]

Though the Warren Memorial Foundation is refusing to help fund services at Walker Memorial Library, the staff at the city-run facility is still hoping to get some extra help. Last week, Mayor Bruce Chuluda received a letter from Bruce Saunders, president of the Warren board, turning down the City Council’s requests to meet with the […]

Walker grant recipient Walker Memorial Library is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities/ALA grant called “Picturing America.” The grant is a gift of more than 20 books, some in Spanish, on the theme of how various people or groups at different times in the history of our country have portrayed the American […]

GB&CE annual lunch meeting Lynnelle Wilson of BOLD Vision Consulting, will speak at the annual meeting of the Gorham Business & Civic Exchange 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, in the conference room at Moody’s on Narragansett Street, Gorham. Wilson’s topic is “How to Use Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) to Market Your Business […]