GORHAM – Court action this week has temporarily halted Plan-It Recycling from accepting new material at its facility in Gorham, following complaints filed by the town of Gorham and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Gorham claims the recycling operation in the Gorham Industrial Park near the Westbrook line violated town rules, and the town […]
2011
Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster
Hoops season at the midway point
(Ed. Note: For the full South Portland-Deering and South Portland-Thornton Academy boys’ and Scarborough-Cheverus girls’ games, visit theforecaster.net) A high school basketball season that gets more compelling by the day has passed the halfway pole and is heating up. The tournament is less than a month away. With that in mind, here’s a look at […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Westbrook restaurant reinvents itself again with new menu, hours
WESTBROOK – The French Press Eatery on Main Street is no more. Again. The Westbrook restaurant has been closed this week with plastic over the windows obscuring the transformation going on inside. On Tuesday, a sign hung outside the restaurant proclaiming its new name is “Tranchemontagne’s,” named for its owners, brothers James and Andre Tranchemontagne. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Doughboy’s opens on Bridge Street
WESTBROOK – A new restaurant has opened in a spot that has been empty for two years. Doughboy’s Cafe? on Bridge Street, across from the Dana Warp Mill, was opened Jan. 4 by Tina Dougherty and her husband Chris. They are Westbrook residents who moved their business from Portland’s Ocean Avenue, where it was known […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Bridge to snowhere
Tuesday’s snowstorm left the wooden-decked “Black Bridge” between Mill Street in Brunswick and Twin Pines in Topsham quite slippery, as the driver of this car found out when he spun out and ended up blocking the one-lane span. Eventually a friend of the driver arrived and helped free the car. The impact of the crash […]
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Scarborough Police Beat: Jan. 19
Arrests 1/10 at 12:39 p.m. Janette S. Maxwell, 74, of Gorham Road, was arrested on Gorham Road by Officer Ian Theriault on a warrant. 1/11 at 2:41 a.m. Nicholas P. Gaudet, 28, of Stevens Avenue, Portland, was arrested on Ashley Drive by Officer Steven Thibodeau on a charge of operating when a license was suspended […]
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Gorham man faces charges after chase
GORHAM – A Gorham man remained held at Cumberland County Jail without bail this week following his arrest Jan. 13 on charges he led police on a 5-mile, high-speed chase through Standish and Windham. Timothy J. Rosario, 31, 101 Brookwood Drive, faces charges of eluding a police officer, criminal speeding, operating after suspension, operating an […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Gorham PD faces manpower shortage
GORHAM – The New Year got under way in Gorham with the police department facing a manpower shortage due to a pair of key retirements. “We’re incurring some overtime,” Police Chief Ron Shepard said Tuesday (Jan. 18). Sgt. Robert Mailman retired Jan. 6 after 29 years with the department. Mailman, who was the department’s senior […]
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Gorham PD faces manpower shortage
GORHAM – The New Year got under way in Gorham with the police department facing a manpower shortage due to a pair of key retirements. “We’re incurring some overtime,” Police Chief Ron Shepard said Tuesday (Jan. 18). Sgt. Robert Mailman retired Jan. 6 after 29 years with the department. Mailman, who was the department’s senior […]
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Providing Gorham some extra protection
GORHAM – A beefed-up force of citizen volunteers is watching over Gorham. “We’re looking for suspicious activity,” said Jim Osterrieder, the retired head of the FBI in Maine, as he rode through Gorham neighborhoods with histories of burglaries. On patrol, Osterrieder, accompanied Terry Christy and Don Sedenka, are members of Volunteers in Police Service, which […]