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45 years ago

The Westbrook American reported on April 17, 1963, that a group of Gorham women were sewing needed items for Maine Medical Center in Portland. Mrs. Horton Gilman was chairwoman of the hospital’s auxiliary and Mrs. Arthur Sprague Jr. chaired the sewing project. Mrs. Dana Elliott of West Buxton was spending a few weeks in Florida.

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Gorham cuts town positions

On the heels of budget cuts that wiped out three top school positions, the town of Gorham could also lose administrators as councilors struggle with a spending plan that would avert a tax hike. In preliminary action Tuesday on a budget prepared by Town Manager David Cole, the Gorham Town Council eliminated several municipal jobs. […]

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Gorham cuts town positions

On the heels of budget cuts that wiped out three top school positions, the town of Gorham could also lose administrators as councilors struggle with a spending plan that would avert a tax hike. In preliminary action Tuesday on a budget prepared by Town Manager David Cole, the Gorham Town Council eliminated several municipal jobs. […]

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Students honored by state

Gov. John Baldacci, left, presents an award for excellence in service learning to, in back from left, Wescott Junior High School health teacher Travis Jalbert and seventh-graders Caitlyn Waldron, Samantha Nealey, Morgan Maxwell, Allison Charlton and Katie Clark and, in front from left, Ben Touchette, Scott Kirkpatrick and Kim Duong. For their service learning project, […]

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Students honored by state

Gov. John Baldacci, left, presents an award for excellence in service learning to, in back from left, Wescott Junior High School health teacher Travis Jalbert and seventh-graders Caitlyn Waldron, Samantha Nealey, Morgan Maxwell, Allison Charlton and Katie Clark and, in front from left, Ben Touchette, Scott Kirkpatrick and Kim Duong. For their service learning project, […]

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Oxford Hills educator to take over at Gorham High

When school opens next fall, Gorham High will have an award-winning, new principal. Last week, the Gorham School Committee approved, 7-0, Christopher B. Record as principal to replace John Drisko, who resigned earlier this year. Record has been assistant principal at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris since 2004. Record, 35, will begin […]

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Oxford Hills educator to take over at Gorham High

When school opens next fall, Gorham High will have an award-winning, new principal. Last week, the Gorham School Committee approved, 7-0, Christopher B. Record as principal to replace John Drisko, who resigned earlier this year. Record has been assistant principal at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris since 2004. Record, 35, will begin […]

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Big check for Congin Congin topped other Westbrook schools in the Hannaford Helps Schools program. On Tuesday, John Parvin, manager in Hannaford’s Westbrook store, gave Congin Principal Peter Lancia a check for $1,000, with the fourth-graders assembled for the presentation. Hannaford and vendors partnered in the help program, in which customers placed coupons in boxes […]

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Big check for Congin Congin topped other Westbrook schools in the Hannaford Helps Schools program. On Tuesday, John Parvin, manager in Hannaford’s Westbrook store, gave Congin Principal Peter Lancia a check for $1,000, with the fourth-graders assembled for the presentation. Hannaford and vendors partnered in the help program, in which customers placed coupons in boxes […]

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Big check for Congin Congin topped other Westbrook schools in the Hannaford Helps Schools program. On Tuesday, John Parvin, manager in Hannaford’s Westbrook store, gave Congin Principal Peter Lancia a check for $1,000, with the fourth-graders assembled for the presentation. Hannaford and vendors partnered in the help program, in which customers placed coupons in boxes […]