Gorham will have no shortage of opportunities for thinking about spring this weekend. The 2009 Marketplace sponsored by the Gorham Business & Civic Exchange is Saturday, and the three-day Maine Home and Garden Show will be taking place simultaneously this year at YourSpace, a sports and event center in Gorham. With a theme of “Think […]

GHS alumni at Marketplace The Gorham High School Alumni Association will have a booth again this year at Marketplace 2009 on Saturday, March 28, at Costello Field House on the Gorham campus at University of Southern Maine. It’s an opportunity for Gorham grads to stop by the alumni booth and say hello. Sue Parsons is […]

The Maine Home and Garden Show this weekend will be for the first time at the sports dome at YourSpace Sports and Recreation Complex, 215 Narragansett St. (Route 202), near an intersection with the bypass in Gorham. Adam Sturtevant, president of the executive board at the nonprofit YourSpace, is enthusiastic and hopes the dome will […]

cutline only Bux PWD garage Buxton Public Works Department has moved into its new town garage adjacent to Town Hall. The garage has its own entrance on Portland Road. In a 2007 referendum, Buxton voters approved borrowing $1.8 million for the garage, which replaces the antiquated one on Haines Meadow Road. Staff photo by Robert […]

Many communities have designated gardens to serve their residents, but few give back as much as Matt Brunner hopes Westbrook’s will. Brunner has asked the city to help him find a plot of land where residents can grow and tend to vegetables, but not to keep for themselves. His idea is for volunteers to harvest […]

Despite denials by three of the eight Republican presidential candidates last year, all life on Earth came from the sea. The evidence is overwhelming. (Among other factoids: the percentage of salt in the human body is exactly the same as in the world oceans.) And, to a large extent, the fate of the world’s oceans […]

Supporters of the Warren Memorial Library are planning to rally Saturday in an attempt to keep the library open. Starting at Riverbank Park, the group Friends of the Warren Memorial Library will rally at 11 a.m. on a march to the Main Street library in support of saving the institution, which library board members say […]

“Hand Hygiene: Lifesaving at your Fingertips” is the topic for April’s monthly Mended Hearts meeting for heart-event survivors, their loved ones and anyone interested in staying heart-healthy. Dorothy LaMarre, RN, of Maine Medical Center Infection Control will speak Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. at the Maine Medical Center Learning Resource Center, 100 Campus Drive, […]

Mission Possible Teen Center wishes to congratulate Taylor Scott as the Teen of the Month. Taylor has been an active participant since the beginning of the school year, and we feel fortunate to have him as a member of the center. Taylor is involved in several of the center’s offerings such as our assisting staff […]

To keep the local share of school funding constant, School Administrative District 6 officials are proposing a “mean and lean,” $43 million budget, Superintendent Suzanne Lukas said this week. A district-wide phone system would be put on hold, as well as renovations to the middle school gym entrance and an additional portable classroom. Four vacant […]