The Westbrook Chamber of Commerce will host a business lunch on Jan. 25 to discuss the city’s recently released parking and traffic study. Westbrook City Planner Brooks More and Tom Gorrill, a consultant working on the project will discuss the results of the study and answer questions. The luncheon will be held at the Westbrook […]
2006
Posted inAmerican Journal
Writing about me, myself and I
Use “THE OTHER COLUMN” logo Several years ago, I made a bad mistake. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t bore you with the details, because my first rule as a columnist is not to blather on about myself. It takes a hell of a writer to overcome the temptation toward self-indulgence and to translate mundane occurrences […]
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Streaking Rams too much for feisty Blazes
Westbrook fought back from a big halftime deficit Friday – handily outscoring Gorham over the last two periods – but the Rams 23-point first-half margin was too much to overcome, and the hosts topped the Blue Blazes, 48-38. The win was the seventh in a row for Gorham after an 0-3 start against the top […]
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Streamlined schedules: Internet site allows school to manage teams more easily
It wasn’t too long ago that visiting the web sites of a dozen different high schools to find athletic schedules would mean reviewing the information in a dozen different formats. In addition, some schools presented schedules that were well out of date, while others had nothing about their athletic programs at all. It was a […]
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A wagon driver stops in Gorham Village to water his horse from this fountain in the town square. The fountain was located on Main Street in front of the present day Amato’s Italian Sandwich Shop. Photo courtesy of George Watson, Gorham Historical Society archivist. Gorham remembered 0118
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Gorham ski report
Jack Prince has finished among the top four racers in Gorham’s first two Alpine ski meets of the season, while the girls’ squad has a pair of second-place finishes behind two top 10 runs from Danielle Moody. With 19 members, the most ever for Rams skiing, the teams are “blasting out of the starting gate,” […]
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Gorham ski report
Jack Prince has finished among the top four racers in Gorham’s first two Alpine ski meets of the season, while the girls’ squad has a pair of second-place finishes behind two top 10 runs from Danielle Moody. With 19 members, the most ever for Rams skiing, the teams are “blasting out of the starting gate,” […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
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Project Cheer at Bonny Eagle Middle School It has become part of the holiday season for eighth grade students in Ethel Atkinson’s class to participate in “Project Cheer” at Bonny Eagle Middle School. This year, the students collected bags from local stores, which included Plummers, Your Country Store, Low’s, and Jongerden’s. The bags were decorated […]
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An open letter to the mayor
For the past few months, each time I pass by the height of land on Saco Street, I think “wouldn’t it be nice if someone, somehow would save it…” I refer to the area and to the tradition of public winter sliding in one narrow area of the old Boivin fields, now destined to be […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
An open letter to the mayor
For the past few months, each time I pass by the height of land on Saco Street, I think “wouldn’t it be nice if someone, somehow would save it…” I refer to the area and to the tradition of public winter sliding in one narrow area of the old Boivin fields, now destined to be […]