Schools ready concerts The Gorham High School Chorus and Chamber Singers will present a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the McCormack Performing Arts Center at the school, 41 Morrill Ave. At Gorham Middle School, Weeks Road, the chorus will be in concert at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, and the band at 7 p.m. […]

CUTLINE ONLY A Russian delegation of five people from Greater Portland’s sister city Archangel visited the Mission Possible Teen Center in Westbrook Monday. The visit was sponsored by the Open World program at the U.S. Library of Congress. Talking with Rickie Bogle, teen center program coordinator (back to camera), are, from left, Andre Strukov, Fairfield, […]

The list of risks included the following: Orthopedic injuries, being struck in the face with a paddle (resulting in black eyes or broken teeth) and getting caught up in churning, 40-degree water on a freezing cold December day. However, none of the above swayed a group of Westbrook officials from their plan- rafting down Saccarrappa […]

Everyone, it seems, thought the sale of the Wagner strawberry farm on Libby Avenue in Gorham was inevitable. It’s not that neighbors like Russ Sprague aren’t disappointed. They are. It’s just that, as Sprague said this week, he knew it would happen sometime. Even Nelson Wagner, who spent most of his life raising strawberries there, […]

Many children in the former Soviet nation of Belarus have no future. Those who live in derelict shacks are subject to malnutrition and physical abuse. Others are abandoned and left to the streets, or put in poorly supervised orphanages. Belarus is a landlocked Eastern European country located between Poland and Russia. It received the majority […]

Nelson Wagner died in 2002 after a lifetime of raising strawberries at Dusty Hill Farm on Libby Avenue in Gorham. His widow, Irene, died the following year. They were buried in Eastern Cemetery beneath a strawberry-shaped headstone. “This was his pride and joy. He was born in this house,” their daughter, Coleen Plummer, said of […]

COFFEETREE and 100 5991 Though crazy caps are encouraged for guests of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, held Tuesday as a part of Westbrook’s Festival of Trees, Kathy Smith, top photo, takes the theme even further by dressing herself up as a decorated Christmas tree. Smith says she will be reappearing throughout the week in […]

At just after 1 p.m. Monday, Officer Wayne Drown’s patrol shift had been quiet and routine, which was unusual for such a heavy snowstorm, a time when police are busy responding to accidents and stranded motorists. But after 23 years as a Gorham cop, Drown knows how quickly the pace of a shift can change. […]

At just after 1 p.m. Monday, Officer Wayne Drown’s patrol shift had been quiet and routine, which was unusual for such a heavy snowstorm, a time when police are busy responding to accidents and stranded motorists. But after 23 years as a Gorham cop, Drown knows how quickly the pace of a shift can change. […]

Locality, officers, officers per 1,000 pop., Est. pop. Gorham 21 1.4 15,301 Westbrook 31 1.9 16,109 Windham 27 1.6 16,372 Scarborough 33 1.7 18,898 Uniform Crime Reporting System in Maine data for 2006 courtesy of Gorham Police Chief Ron Shepard