Youth programs planned Chris Barstow, director of Buxton Recreation Department, has announced a fall foliage trip and a slate of fall programs for youths. A three-day bus trip to Quebec City to view the foliage will leave Buxton town hall at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6, and return at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. […]

Youth programs planned Chris Barstow, director of Buxton Recreation Department, has announced a fall foliage trip and a slate of fall programs for youths. A three-day bus trip to Quebec City to view the foliage will leave Buxton town hall at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6, and return at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. […]

As a child, Ed Fitzpatrick remembers visiting his grandmother at the convalescent home. It was cozy, with a kitchen close by the living room, where residents sat in stuffed chairs and the caregivers seemed more like family than staff. He knew without a doubt that this was grandma’s home. Nursing homes, given today’s highly regulated […]

When a child gets on the school bus in the morning, parents rarely worry about the bus having an accident. But, each year, an estimated 33 children across the country are killed in school bus-related accidents. Such accidents are almost always preventable and require just a few moments of instruction with kids to help save […]

A Gorham business, driven out by the bypass, hopes to relocate to Buxton. “My home and business has been displaced in Gorham,” said Dan Aceto of the family-owned Aceto Construction, now on Waterhouse Road in Gorham. Aceto and his wife, Roberta, have less than two months to vacate their home and property in Gorham, which […]

Westbrook, Windham and Raymond have embarked on preliminary talks about consolidating the three school districts into one, even though two of the districts have enough students to remain autonomous under the state’s new school consolidation law. Westbrook Superintendent Stan Sawyer, along with Colleen Hilton, school committee chairwoman, and Greg Smith, vice chairman, met Aug. 8 […]

Susan Bouchard is an outspoken victim of sexual abuse. She has spent time in front of Maine’s Legislature testifying in support of harsher laws for sex offenders, but feels she hasn’t been heard. Monday, she appeared before the Westbrook City Council to tell her story, and to support the city’s proposed sex offender residency restrictions. […]

Susan Bouchard is an outspoken victim of sexual abuse. She has spent time in front of Maine’s Legislature testifying in support of harsher laws for sex offenders, but feels she hasn’t been heard. Monday, she appeared before the Westbrook City Council to tell her story, and to support the city’s proposed sex offender residency restrictions. […]

Susan Bouchard is an outspoken victim of sexual abuse. She has spent time in front of Maine’s Legislature testifying in support of harsher laws for sex offenders, but feels she hasn’t been heard. Monday, she appeared before the Westbrook City Council to tell her story, and to support the city’s proposed sex offender residency restrictions. […]

Buxton, Gorham and Westbrook are growing, according to the most recent population estimates on the U.S. Census Bureau Web site. With figures based on the 2000 census, Buxton’s population had the largest percentage increase of the three communities as of July 1, 2006. Buxton now has about 8,171 residents, up from 7,452, or a 9.6 […]