Construction has begun with the removal of a house on Reed Street to make way for a new road to the new Clearwater Bend, a 23-unit workforce housing project. The development, in the southwest corner of Route 302 and Reed Street, is being created by Community Housing of Maine, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that develops […]

The new, $600,000 Gorham High School is shown about Aug.1, 1959, as it neared completion. The school approved by voters in March 1958 was on schedule to open for classes in September, 48 years ago. The building committee members were Merle Brofee, Austin Alden, Bernard Rines, Jim Pillsbury, Emery Bowdoin and Walter Stevens. File photo

The new, $600,000 Gorham High School is shown about Aug.1, 1959, as it neared completion. The school approved by voters in March 1958 was on schedule to open for classes in September, 48 years ago. The building committee members were Merle Brofee, Austin Alden, Bernard Rines, Jim Pillsbury, Emery Bowdoin and Walter Stevens. File photo

Matthew Phinney, 4, shows off his first place prize and his frog, Legz, after winning the frog-jumping contest at the St. Anne’s Summer Festival Saturday. He is the son of Mike and Kim Phinney of Gorham. Mike Phinney is a Gorham town councilor. Matthew was confident that Legz would out jump the competition, which was […]

Pancake breakfast – Saturday, Aug. 4, 7-9 a.m., West Baldwin Church, Route 113, Baldwin. Pancakes , sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice. $5, $2.50. Bean supper – Saturday, Aug. 4, 4:30-6 p.m., Hollis Lions Club, Palmer Hall, intersection of routes 202 and 35, Hollis. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, cole […]

Sweeney to head restaurant association Westbrook native Dawn Sweeney takes the helm of the National Restaurant Association in Washington, D.C., as president and chief executive officer on Oct. 1. Sweeney is the daughter of former Westbrook Mayor Don and Catherine Brydon of Westbrook. Sweeney graduated from Westbrook High School in 1977. She majored in marketing […]

The celebrated frogs are back in their ponds and a 4-year-old Gorham boy has bragging rights now that the Gorham Summer Festival’s frog-jumping contest is in the record books. Matthew Phinney, son of Town Councilor Mike Phinney and his wife Kim, won the contest Saturday with his entry, a frog he called Legz. The frog […]

The celebrated frogs are back in their ponds and a 4-year-old Gorham boy has bragging rights now that the Gorham Summer Festival’s frog-jumping contest is in the record books. Matthew Phinney, son of Town Councilor Mike Phinney and his wife Kim, won the contest Saturday with his entry, a frog he called Legz. The frog […]

In the Westbrook column on page 4 of the July 26 American Journal, the engagement of Christy Carmichael and Christopher King should have said Christopher King is the son of Charles and Jane (Kelly) King of Cape Cod, Mass.

In the Westbrook column on page 4 of the July 26 American Journal, the engagement of Christy Carmichael and Christopher King should have said Christopher King is the son of Charles and Jane (Kelly) King of Cape Cod, Mass.