A paid training program will be offered this month for men and women 60 years and over interested in joining the Foster Grandparent or Senior Companion Program with locations throughout York and Cumberland counties. Foster Grandparents volunteer in schools, child development centers and long-term care facilities. Senior Companions are friendly visitors to frail and vulnerable […]

For those readers unable to watch or attend the Sept. 4 Gorham Town Council meeting, I want to report my impressions as one in attendance – the good ole boys doing business as usual. A majority of councilors, though not publicly appearing to know all the ramifications of complex changes to the Land Use & […]

A proposed asphalt plant in Gorham moved closer to approval Tuesday amid an attempt to bar a town councilor from voting. The Gorham Town Council approved amending several changes to the town’s ordinances governing mineral extraction and noise. The amendments impact a proposal by Shaw Brothers Construction Inc., for a quarry and asphalt plant on […]

BEHS welcomes freshmen Bonny Eagle High School welcomed almost 350 new students on the first day of school Aug. 29, reserved for incoming freshman. The freshmen participate in activities, go through schedules, have a picnic lunch, visit classrooms and meet their teachers. The students were welcomed to the high school by Principal Robert Strong. The […]

BEHS welcomes freshmen Bonny Eagle High School welcomed almost 350 new students on the first day of school Aug. 29, reserved for incoming freshman. The freshmen participate in activities, go through schedules, have a picnic lunch, visit classrooms and meet their teachers. The students were welcomed to the high school by Principal Robert Strong. The […]

BEHS welcomes freshmen Bonny Eagle High School welcomed almost 350 new students on the first day of school Aug. 29, reserved for incoming freshman. The freshmen participate in activities, go through schedules, have a picnic lunch, visit classrooms and meet their teachers. The students were welcomed to the high school by Principal Robert Strong. The […]

The Household Hazardous Chemical Collection Day will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29. The date was incorrect in the American Journal’s Community Bulletin Board calendar, published Aug. 30.

Gorham’s fire chief said the two-alarm blaze that destroyed a vacant house in South Gorham Saturday is under investigation. Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre was uncertain of the origin of the fire. “It’s classified as suspicious,” Lefebvre said Tuesday. Firefighters responded to an alarm at 8 p.m. Saturday at 218 Burnham Road. Lefebvre said the two-story, […]

The Westbrook American reported on Sept. 5, 1962, that Mary Nicely of Miami Beach, Fla., was visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicely, Mighty Street. The Salmon Falls Lodge, Route 202 and 202A, Bar Mills, advertised full course dinners for $1.65 and $1 for children under 12 on Thursday family nights.

Stephen Gurney remained in critical condition on Wednesday, a week after he crashed his motorcycle into a turning vehicle on William Clarke Drive in Westbrook. Westbrook police say Gurney, 31, of Windham, was eastbound on a Honda motorcycle with a 15-year-old girl riding on the back when he struck the side of 2007 Honda Accord […]