Big doin’s Buxton Community Day will be held on Saturday, July 19, at Tory Hill, intersection of routes 202 and 112. Activities include a pancake breakfast, parade, pony rides, amusement rides, entertainment, food, crafts, games for all ages and fireworks. The event is in conjunction with the annual Dorcas Society Fair. For more information, donate […]

Big doin’s Buxton Community Day will be held on Saturday, July 19, at Tory Hill, intersection of routes 202 and 112. Activities include a pancake breakfast, parade, pony rides, amusement rides, entertainment, food, crafts, games for all ages and fireworks. The event is in conjunction with the annual Dorcas Society Fair. For more information, donate […]

The class of 2008 Westbrook High School graduation award winners included: Roy A. Robinson Scholar Award: Amanda Bell, valedictorian, and Adrienne Saltz, salutatorian. Milton A. Philbrook Award, for leadership and unselfish contributions to Westbrook High School and the class of 2008: Joseph Gousse. Roy A. Robinson Award, highest achievement college preparatory course: Ian Levinsky. Roy […]

Southern Maine Astronomers will be offering an evening of public stargazing at the Westbrook High School Saturday. This is the second of five public star parties in the greater Portland area that Southern Maine Astronomers is hosting this summer. The event is being held on the soccer fields at 8 p.m. “We are grateful for […]

Seeking more Friends The Friends of Walker Memorial Library are hoping to increase their membership and are inviting any one who appreciates the library to the next meeting. The Friends of Walker Memorial Library will hold a meeting Wednesday from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Gathering Room. The Friends of Walker Memorial Library supports the library […]

Elderly woes We read in the July 5 New York Times that a 62-year-old lady in Michigan has been receiving Meals on Wheels delivered to her, but is not to continue to receive them because gas prices have made the deliveries too expensive. She is housebound and has been unable to use her left arm […]

I have some buddies from my Air Force days in the ’80s who, although having never served in Vietnam or met a hippie, tend to paint the world in terms of Nixon-era conservatism. “Commie” is still a put down, although it has been supplanted with the term liberal since the fall of the Soviet Union. […]

Friends and family are mourning the death of a Gorham school bus driver who died doing something she loved – riding her motorcycle with her husband and friends. Almost every weekend, they rode together. But on Sunday, in what one friend called “a freak accident,” Rochelle Plummer, 43, of Gray, died during a motorcycle ride […]

Edith “Virgie” Wright, a long-time Buxton resident with extensive involvement in the town, will have the garden at West Buxton Library named in her honor on Saturday at 2 p.m. Wright, born in Greenville on June 15, 1918, is 90 years old. She married her late husband, Charles, in 1942. He died in 1995 after […]

With $1.4 billion and up to 6,000 jobs on the line, there’s no question that a newly announced expansion project from Central Maine Power will benefit the economy. The only question is whether such enormous expansion of high- voltage lines, which will run through communities throughout Maine and at a significant expense to ratepayers, is […]