Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre said he is ready to return to work a little more than a week after slashing his leg with a chain saw. Lefebvre, 56, was cutting debris around 8 a.m. at the Gorham Country Club on Wednesday, July 23, helping clear the golf course after the July 19 storms rumbled […]

River celebration An article in the Portland newspaper told that the Presumpscot River Watershed Coalition and its member organizations were to hold a festival July 19 at Westbrook’s Riverbank Park, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We attended, going to the park on another nice day. We picked up many brochures explaining the groups who […]

Free gazebo concert The Royal River Philharmonic Jazz Band will be in concert 6:30-8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, on the lawn at Gorham Public Safety, 270 Main St. The public is invited to take lawn chairs or blanket and enjoy the concert sponsored by Gorham Recreation Department. University graduates Two Gorham residents graduated this […]

Free gazebo concert The Royal River Philharmonic Jazz Band will be in concert 6:30-8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, on the lawn at Gorham Public Safety, 270 Main St. The public is invited to take lawn chairs or blanket and enjoy the concert sponsored by Gorham Recreation Department. University graduates Two Gorham residents graduated this […]

Three municipal meetings that were scheduled to be held Monday were postponed one week due to the fact that they wouldn’t have been televised. City staff failed to arrange for an employee to operate the city’s cable access station in order to air meetings of the Facilities and Streets Committee, the Committee of the Whole […]

(William Clarke Drive 1) – Joshua Harrington, a Westbrook High School student, crosses William Clarke Drive at Stroudwater Street Wednesday. Harrington said he has nearly been hit at that intersection. “The walk signal should be updated,” Harrington said. Photo by Robert Lowell (William Clarke Drive 2) – Chris Arsenault of Westbrook crosses Stroudwater Street at […]

Shepard service honor grad Airman 1st Class Joseph C. Shepard of the U.S. Air Force was awarded the honor graduate ribbon in recognition of outstanding performance in basic military training. Col. Edward B. Westermann signed the award certificate on July 11. Shepard earned the award for achieving excellence in drill performance and physical training along […]

Shepard service honor grad Airman 1st Class Joseph C. Shepard of the U.S. Air Force was awarded the honor graduate ribbon in recognition of outstanding performance in basic military training. Col. Edward B. Westermann signed the award certificate on July 11. Shepard earned the award for achieving excellence in drill performance and physical training along […]

Bean supper – Saturday, July 26, 4:30-6 p.m., Elm Street Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland. Beans, casseroles, chop suey, coleslaw, hot dogs, pies and beverages. $7.50, $3. Free picnic – Monday, July 28, 5:30 p.m., Dundee Park, off Presumpscot Road, Windham. Fourth annual picnic sponsored by Food and Fellowship. If it is raining, […]

An accident involving a 15-year-old girl, hit by a pickup truck while riding her bicycle on William Clarke Drive in Westbrook Monday morning, is the most recent example of why the city started talking about calming traffic on the corridor almost a decade ago. The girl, whose name has not been released, was taken to […]