The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee has rejected or reduced some of the most controversial proposed cuts in health and human services – from homemaker help for elderly living on their own to domestic violence programs – leaving a big hole in the state budget. Following a series of heart-rending public hearings and an impressive rally that […]

The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee has rejected or reduced some of the most controversial proposed cuts in health and human services – from homemaker help for elderly living on their own to domestic violence programs – leaving a big hole in the state budget. Following a series of heart-rending public hearings and an impressive rally that […]

Gov. John Baldacci turned up the heat on legislators to close a $190 million gap in the budget Monday by asking his staff to prepare an emergency curtailment of spending – the second he’s done in the last three months. “We are preparing to further slow spending until the Legislature acts to bring the state’s […]

An old debate could heat up again when the developer of a neighborhood being built in the Mitchell Farm area comes to the Westbrook City Council Monday. After being turned down last spring by the Planning Board, Andre Bellucci is coming to the City Council to seek a waiver on the requirement to install granite […]

The Gorham Planning Board public hearing on a proposed asphalt plant resumes this Thursday, although comment from the public – a highlight of Monday’s hearing – may not be allowed. The multi-million-dollar project proposed by Shaw Brothers Construction Inc., Gorham, on its 125-acre site on Mosher Road, has met organized opposition from the outset. The […]

A long-time form of government in Buxton faces a change, as petitioners believe time has come to hire a town manager. Andy Townsend, a town firefighter who served as an interim fire chief, is circulating a petition calling for Buxton to hire a town manager by Nov. 1. But what action the five-person board selectmen […]

March 23, 1983 In the first 18 days of March, Gorham police made 18 arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol. “They do their drinking in the bars of Portland or Westbrook, or some place, and then try to make it home,” explained Gorham Police Chief Edmund Hagan “We do get a lot of […]

Bean supper – Saturday, March 22, 4:30-6 p.m., Buxton Center Baptist Church, Route 22, Buxton. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, cole slaw, hot biscuits, dessert and beverage. $7, $3. Take-outs available. Spaghetti and meatballs – Saturday, March 22, 4:45-6 p.m., Highland Lake Congregational Church, 1303 Bridgton Road, Westbrook. Spaghetti and meatballs, […]

As the Iraq War turns 5 this week, a conflict that has killed thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians and left us mired in the country with no definite date of departure could not be further from the minds of many Americans. With the economy in one of the most precarious spots in decades […]

During the past five years, Maine has sacrificed 41 soldiers to the war in Iraq – part of the more than 4,000 Americans who have given their lives to the conflict. This week, Iraq War veterans and surviving family members in southern Maine join with the rest of the country to commemorate the fifth anniversary […]