A group of students from Wescott Junior High School launched a boat Friday at the East End Beach in Portland that they had built as a part of an alternative learning program. The students are part of a program for at-risk kids, and the 181?2-foot dory is the product of their participation in The Compass […]

Banner year at Artforms Artforms, 90 Bridge St., marked a milestone on May 11 with more than $3 million in sales for the year. It’s the earliest the company has passed that mark in its 18 years. “A tremendous amount of growth in the past five years,” said Artforms spokesman Kurt Turner. The company designs […]

Everybody loves a parade!

Pancake breakfast – Saturday, June 2, 7-9 a.m., West Baldwin Church, Route 113, Baldwin. Pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice. $5, $2.50 Bean supper – Saturday, June 2, 4:30-6 p.m., Hollis Lions Club, Palmer Hall, intersection routes 35 and 202, Hollis. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, cole slaw and […]

Ruth Knight probably never thought of her life as inspirational, but to her 12-year-old grandson, her story of triumph and tragedy was all that and more. So, when it came time to pick a topic for a Gorham Middle School history project, Forrest Plaisted chose her. Now, his exhibit, “The Triumphs and Tragedies of Ruth […]

The Westbrook American reported on May 30, 1962, that Julia Dodge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dodge of Flaggy Meadow Road, returned to Gorham after studying at Ludwig Maxillian University in Munich, Germany.

The Westbrook American reported on May 30, 1962, that Julia Dodge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dodge of Flaggy Meadow Road, returned to Gorham after studying at Ludwig Maxillian University in Munich, Germany.

The Westbrook American reported on May 30, 1962, that Evelyn Pinkham, Barbara Anderson, Helen Betts, Margaret Eaton Shields and Arlene Wiggin were hostesses at a meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Tory Hill Congregational Church.

The York County District Attorney will not file charges in connection with a traffic accident that killed a Buxton woman last December. The family of Ethel Lewis learned Wednesday from York County District Attorney Mark Lawrence that there would be no criminal charges in connection with her death. Lewis died after she was struck by […]

City councilors voted last week to add a part-time position to assist the city’s director of economic and community development while cutting back on Walker Library’s staffing request at the committee’s recent meeting May 24. Although the library would gain a full-time reference librarian, councilors voted against a request for a full-time circulation director. Other […]