Marking the midway point of this year’s Festival of Trees, the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party drew dozens of area residents – and their colorful hats – to the Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church Tuesday afternoon. The most popular choice in headwear was the traditional Santa hat, but some tea partygoers stood out by decorating straw hats with […]

Tree lights up, jolly elf arrives After a large turnout saw the lighting of Gorham’s Christmas tree Sunday at the public safety building, Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived by Fire Department ladder truck. The Gorham Recreation Department provided hot chocolate and doughnuts. Phoebe Johnston, 8, was first in line to visit Santa. The weather cooperated, […]

Gorham can claim its second consecutive Miss Maine Teen USA. Jordan Shiers, 16, will represent Maine in the national Miss Teen USA pageant next summer. She won the title Nov. 22, and succeeds Avery Barr, also of Gorham. Shiers, a Gorham High School junior, is readying for appearances beginning Friday with a parade in Freeport. […]

Telephone service to Gorham Police Department has been troubled since about 9 a.m. Tuesday. But Gorham citizens can reach the Cumberland County Dispatch Center on the regular business line at 839-5581. Bill Holmes, director of county communications, said at noon Gorham Police is having problems with its system. Holmes said he didn’t know the cause. […]

Some commodity prices have gone through the roof in the past year or so, and there is widespread resentment. Consumers feel that someone or something should be accountable. The commodity market is a place in which speculators may buy “futures” contracts for certain commodities. Activity in these commodities has increased in the past six years […]

The KKK signs spray-painted by vandals on a Gorham church’s property sometime during last weekend are gone now, but the pastor is outraged. The Rev. David Butler, of the First Parish Church in Gorham, denounced the graffiti that was painted in several places on a shed in the church parking lot on Church Street. “KKK […]

The KKK signs spray-painted by vandals on a Gorham church’s property sometime during last weekend are gone now, but the pastor is outraged. The Rev. David Butler, of the First Parish Church in Gorham, denounced the graffiti that was painted in several places on a shed in the church parking lot on Church Street. “KKK […]

After Pike Industries missed another deadline to have its latest plans for its Spring Street quarry appear in front of the Planning Board, neighboring businesses are ready to put pressure on the city to make a decision about the future of the property. Both Doug Finck, general manager of WPXT and WPME, and Kirby Pilcher, […]

Westbrook police on Saturday arrested a Windham man, who is registered sex offender, for allegedly supplying alcohol to a woman under the age of 21. Police said they arrested Timothy W. Plummer, 48, after seeing him buy alcohol for 19-year-old Holly Pinkham of Windham at the Shaw’s supermarket in Westbrook. Police stopped Pinkham’s car a […]

Students in the University of Southern Maine School of Music who are particularly interested and talented in composition will premiere new works in the USM Composers’ Showcase on Saturday, Dec. 6 under the direction of Dan Sonenberg. The concert gets under way at 8 p.m. in Corthell Concert Hall on the USM Gorham campus. Admission […]