With worshippers flocking to Palm Sunday church services today, cars packed the parking lot at St. Hyacinth’s Church and lined Brown and Walker streets for an early morning Mass. Dave Charest of Westbrook was at the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Hyacinth’s and described attendance as the average. “Its not like the turnouts in the […]

Joe’s Sanitary Market, at left, was located at 846 Main St. for many years. Shown in this 1951 photo, from left, are Philip Vincent, Margaret Chaisson, Laurette (Vincent) Lemieux and Roland Lemieux. The store closed several years later. The building was converted to offices and connected to a new medical and professional building that was […]

A group of University of Southern Maine students spent their spring break helping Habitat for Humanity replace destroyed housing in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. Gail Minichiello of Gorham, Barbara Petit of Saco and Katherine Cyr of Sanford left on March 24 […]

A group of University of Southern Maine students spent their spring break helping Habitat for Humanity replace destroyed housing in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. Gail Minichiello of Gorham, Barbara Petit of Saco and Katherine Cyr of Sanford left on March 24 […]

A group of University of Southern Maine students spent their spring break helping Habitat for Humanity replace destroyed housing in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. Gail Minichiello of Gorham, Barbara Petit of Saco and Katherine Cyr of Sanford left on March 24 […]

A group of University of Southern Maine students spent their spring break helping Habitat for Humanity replace destroyed housing in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. Gail Minichiello of Gorham, Barbara Petit of Saco and Katherine Cyr of Sanford left on March 24 […]

The Taxation Committee has identified more than $200 million in new sales taxes that could be raised to allow a decrease in the income tax to a flat 5 or 6 percent – tax reform that even proponents say will take courage to pass in the Legislature. The list of currently exempt items that could […]

GB&CE breakfast, election set The Gorham Business & Civic Exchange’s annual breakfast meeting and election of board members is slated for Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 a.m. at Gorham Recreation Center, 75 South St. (in the new Gorham Municipal Town Offices). The speaker, Paul Kapothanasis, owner of Prompto’s 10-Minute Oil Change businesses, will talk about […]

Bonny Eagle students study ice fishing, lake A group of seventh-grade students from Bonny Eagle Middle School visited Sebago Lake in mid-March to study ice fishing and the importance of the lake in their lives. Maine Guide Rex Turner accompanied the students along with chaperones Connie Regula, Mark Andreasen, Jeff Myrick, Donna Bilodeau and David […]

Rutter tops on sax; WHS wins jazz gold Jeff Rutter was the outstanding individual musician for the saxophone for Division 1 in a recent high school jazz festival in Millinocket. Westbrook High School won a gold award in the festival. In Division 1, Westbrook High School took third place for jazz combos on March 16. […]