Bean-hole bean supper – Saturday, July 20, 4:30 p.m., United Church of Christ at North Gorham, corner of North Gorham and Standish Neck roads, Gorham. Three kinds of beans baked overnight in a bean hole, rolls, cole slaw, salads, brown bread, pies, coffee, tea or punch. $9, $4. Bean supper – Saturday, July 20, 5-6 […]
2013
Posted inAmerican Journal
No power
This outside electrical box at the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook began smoking Tuesday around 4:40 p.m., causing a power outage at the shelter. The building did not have electricity on Wednesday morning, but Patsy Murphy, executive director, said Central Maine Power was working to restore power. In the meantime, Favreau Electric in Brunswick donated […]
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No power
This outside electrical box at the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook began smoking Tuesday around 4:40 p.m., causing a power outage at the shelter. The building did not have electricity on Wednesday morning, but Patsy Murphy, executive director, said Central Maine Power was working to restore power. In the meantime, Favreau Electric in Brunswick donated […]
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Buxton celebrating with fun, food, fireworks
BUXTON – Buxton promises it’s the place to be this weekend as the town celebrates its Buxton Community Days and the annual fair sponsored by the Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton. The annual Buxton Community Days will be held Friday and Saturday, July 19 and 20, at Tory Hill, the intersection of routes 202 […]
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LETTERS: No complaints about access
As you may know, the governor and certain military recruitment offices have been chastising at least seven southern Maine high schools for denying military recruiters from meeting students. I can assure you that this is not the case at Gorham High School. We have had the same policy in place for well over 10 years […]
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Gorham Notes – 7/20
Moshers festival grand marshals Brothers Abbott and Albert Erlon Mosher have been named grand marshals of the parade at the two-day Gorham Founders Festival on Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27. The parade is set for 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, and it lines up at Gorham Village School at 8:15 a.m. Those […]
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Gas station plans upset South Gorham neighbors
GORHAM – A gas station Cumberland Farms is proposing in South Gorham stirred some neighborhood opposition at a Planning Board public hearing on Monday. Cumberland Farms, which already has a store and gas station in Gorham Village, is seeking permission to build a 4,513-square-foot convenience store and gas station at 74 County Road, a site […]
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Greens select Topsham social worker for Senate 19
TOPSHAM The Maine Green Independent Party nominated a Topsham social worker to seek the recently vacated Senate District 19 seat. Daniel Stromgren, 40, won an 8-4 vote by secret ballot Wednesday night and will appear on the Aug. 27 ballot facing one of three Democrats and a Republican. He defeated Alice Knapp, who served on […]
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Revised plans still drawing concern
BATH Neighbors in the South Washington Street area continue to register concerns about the Plant Home’s expansion plans despite a new, smaller design. Those concerns include East Lane traffic and turning hazards, easement issues on a leased section of land, lighting and final specifications on the triplex units on the north side of the property. […]
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Remembering Gettysburg
GETTYSBURG, PA. G ov. Paul LePage paid a visit Wednesday to Little Round Top, where 150 years ago Mainers and Alabamans fought for the high ground and a place in history. LePage, historian Thomas Desjardin, National Guard Gen. Frank Grass, and officers and members of the National Guard and Air National Guard gathered Wednesday at […]