The Gorham Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to put a bond for a new elementary school in front of Gorham voters on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The bond would be for $25.8 million, 90 percent of which would be picked up by the state, leaving $2.5 million to be raised from local taxes. The new elementary […]

Turkey supper – Friday, July 18. 5:30-6:30 p.m., Bradley Memorial United Church of Christ, 454 McNeil Road (follow signs from Route 5), Fryeburg Harbor. Ticket go on sale at 5 p.m. Home-cooked turkey supper with all the fixin’s, dessert, coffee and cold drinks. $7, $3. Old fashioned bean-hole-bean supper – Saturday, July 19, 4:30-6 p.m., […]

Traffic on the Maine Turnpike was down 10 percent this past holiday weekend, compared to the first weekend in July one year ago – even with July Fourth thrown into the mix. July Fourth last year fell on a Wednesday, thanks to Leap Year, so apple-to-apple comparisons are tough, said Turnpike spokesman Bruce Pelletier but […]

Traffic on the Maine Turnpike was down 10 percent this past holiday weekend, compared to the first weekend in July one year ago – even with July Fourth thrown into the mix. July Fourth last year fell on a Wednesday, thanks to Leap Year, so apple-to-apple comparisons are tough, said Turnpike spokesman Bruce Pelletier but […]

(cloudy brook) cutline only For the second time in four months, the school department has acknowledged that paint originating from a custodian’s sink at Congin School trickled into a brook that runs from near the school on Bridge Street down into the Presumpscot River. The incident occurred Monday. According to City Council President Brendan Rielly, […]

Longtime legislator Sen. Joe Brannigan of Portland, who spent more than $20,000 in public funds in his run for Senate two years ago, is running a privately funded campaign this year because he thinks the Clean Election’s system caused him and his opponent to overspend in 2006. “Last time my opponent had $20,000 and I […]

Longtime legislator Sen. Joe Brannigan of Portland, who spent more than $20,000 in public funds in his run for Senate two years ago, is running a privately funded campaign this year because he thinks the Clean Election’s system caused him and his opponent to overspend in 2006. “Last time my opponent had $20,000 and I […]

Longtime legislator Sen. Joe Brannigan of Portland, who spent more than $20,000 in public funds in his run for Senate two years ago, is running a privately funded campaign this year because he thinks the Clean Election’s system caused him and his opponent to overspend in 2006. “Last time my opponent had $20,000 and I […]

139/139A The photo on the left shows the old house built in 1810 by Maj. William Valentine, father of the Honorable Leander Valentine, the first mayor of Westbrook. The house is located at 583 Main St., and is currently occupied by a real estate office. For many years a popular belief persisted that Leander Valentine […]

139/139A The photo on the left shows the old house built in 1810 by Maj. William Valentine, father of the Honorable Leander Valentine, the first mayor of Westbrook. The house is located at 583 Main St., and is currently occupied by a real estate office. For many years a popular belief persisted that Leander Valentine […]