The Westbrook American reported on Nov. 13, 1963, that Mrs. Philip Honan was chairwoman of a public toy party sponsored by the St. Anne’s Women’s Club planned for Nov. 19 in Gorham. Carl Dunn of Buxton was one of three Bonny Eagle High School seniors who qualified for the National Merit scholarship.

Nov. 17, 1983 The proposed new town’s charter for Gorham won support of voters in the village precinct, 719-581, but lost in the rest of the town and was defeated, 1,445-1,373, in last week’s referendum. Frances Harriman, the only member of the Charter Commission who opposed the charter, said she thinks another attempt to write […]

Gorham officials are considering an end to taxes now collected in the form of impact fees on new homes before they’re built and before homeowners even move in. At the behest of the Town Council, the Gorham Planning Board is reviewing the fees and will make a recommendation whether to eliminate two impact fees – […]

The retail project proposed for Stroudwater Street returns to the Planning Board for a public hearing Tuesday. In the past month, the City Council made several amendments to the contract zone proposed by developer Jason Snyder, putting further restrictions on the mix of uses, the size and the impacts of the project. Though the Planning […]

A debate about new design standards for homes built on small lots could be reignited Monday at a public hearing in front the City Council. The city took up the issues of setting new standards for homes on small lots after councilors received complaints that homes being built on so-called substandard lots of record were […]

Bruce Hodgkin was on his knees Tuesday in the former School Street Methodist Church in Gorham. But Hodgkin wasn’t praying. Wearing knee pads, he was applying grout to a kitchen floor for a new sports pub, Thatcher’s Restaurant, which he hopes will open in the old church in January. The restaurant has leased space from […]

Gorham officials are considering an end to taxes now collected in the form of impact fees on new homes before they’re built and before homeowners even move in. At the behest of the Town Council, the Gorham Planning Board is reviewing the fees and will make a recommendation whether to eliminate two impact fees – […]

Coffins and witches Dick and Rose Coffin were in an excellent place to celebrate Halloween – the Witch City, Salem, Mass., where they stayed at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. James Turgeon of Westbrook accompanied them, and Dick’s niece, Susie Coffin, of Bradford, Mass., joined them. There was a parade, on Derby and Essex streets, many […]

Coffins and witches Dick and Rose Coffin were in an excellent place to celebrate Halloween – the Witch City, Salem, Mass., where they stayed at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. James Turgeon of Westbrook accompanied them, and Dick’s niece, Susie Coffin, of Bradford, Mass., joined them. There was a parade, on Derby and Essex streets, many […]

Coffins and witches Dick and Rose Coffin were in an excellent place to celebrate Halloween – the Witch City, Salem, Mass., where they stayed at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. James Turgeon of Westbrook accompanied them, and Dick’s niece, Susie Coffin, of Bradford, Mass., joined them. There was a parade, on Derby and Essex streets, many […]