The new Buxton police chief, appointed last week by selectmen by a slim margin, has an immediate challenge – filling vacancies. “I’m five people short now,” Chief Mike Grovo, 51, said in his office Monday. He said the department – rocked this year by stinging criticism from departing officers – should have eight on the […]

CLOSER LOOK “The Nutcracker,” Bonny Eagle High School, 700 Saco Road, Standish, Dec. 19 and 20, 7 p.m., $12.50-$15. Call 793-8925. Tickets are also available online at www.nutcracker.synthasite.com, at the door and at the following locations: At Once All Agog, Limerick Friendly River Music, Cornish Good for All Pharmacy, Waterboro Lakeside Market, Waterboro Plummer’s Supermarket, […]

CLOSER LOOK “The Nutcracker,” Bonny Eagle High School, 700 Saco Road, Standish, Dec. 19 and 20, 7 p.m., $12.50-$15. Call 793-8925. Tickets are also available online at www.nutcracker.synthasite.com, at the door and at the following locations: At Once All Agog, Limerick Friendly River Music, Cornish Good for All Pharmacy, Waterboro Lakeside Market, Waterboro Plummer’s Supermarket, […]

CLOSER LOOK “The Nutcracker,” Bonny Eagle High School, 700 Saco Road, Standish, Dec. 19 and 20, 7 p.m., $12.50-$15. Call 793-8925. Tickets are also available online at www.nutcracker.synthasite.com, at the door and at the following locations: At Once All Agog, Limerick Friendly River Music, Cornish Good for All Pharmacy, Waterboro Lakeside Market, Waterboro Plummer’s Supermarket, […]

Seniors meet to eat Westbrook Senior Citizens will be served a baked ham dinner with all the fixings at noon on Monday, Dec. 15, at Millbrook Estates on East Bridge Street. Tom Dyhrberg will entertain following the meal. The seniors are planning to eat at DiMillo’s Restaurant in Portland on Thursday, Jan. 15, and then […]

Westbrook High School band members Antonio Pulsoni, Arika DiRenzo and Molly Ridley play the french horn at Westbrook’s tree lighting ceremony Sunday in Riverbank Park. Three french horns

Front Stage Friday, Dec. 12 “Goodnight Reindeer!” Warren Memorial Library Auditorium, 479 Main St., Westbrook, 7 p.m., $5-$10. Call 857-9002. “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” Schoolhouse Arts Center, Route 114, Sebago Lake Village 7:30 p.m., $12-$14. Call 642-3743. It looks like disaster for the annual Christmas pageant when the Herdman children – not-so-arguably the worst-ever […]

It’s not unusual for Gorham resident Bill Keef to find beer cans in his yard, left behind by one of what he calls the “roaming droves” of students from the University of Southern Maine, who make their way up and down his street late at night. Keef lives on Preble Street, which is also home […]

Gorham High School students and teachers on the School Council were scheduled to meet Dec. 17 to come up with a compromise after rejecting a proposal from the superintendent last month to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning over the intercom. Lauren Cunningham, a senior at Gorham High School and co-chair of the School […]

Westbrook Development Corp. has broken out of the city’s boundaries for its latest purchase – a former school in Portland. At the end of October, the developer affiliated with Westbrook Housing purchased St. Patrick’s School on Congress Street. According to John Gallagher, executive director of Westbrook Housing, the two-story, 15,000-square-foot school will be converted into […]