LEBANON — Maine State Police are looking for a missing Lebanon man who is a suspect in a domestic violence case in that town. State Police said on their social media accounts Thursday they are looking for Dale Godfrey, 52, of Lebanon, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public […]
April 27, 2017
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Gorham Police Notes
Arrests Allan D. Piper, 28, Emery Circle, Buxton, on April 1 on a charge of failure to pay fine, on New Portland Road. Caleb M. Price, 22, Primrose Lane, Gorham, on April 1 on a charge of failure to pay fine, in Gorham. Georges L. Dakonsa, 34, Lewiston, on April 3 on charges of violating […]
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Looking Back
April 29, 1992 For the first time in 24 years, Westbrook will be without a city tree-planting program this year. The City Council made that decision last week on the heels of an announcement that Westbrook had been honored as a “Tree City USA” for the 15th year in a row. The decision to hold […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Gorham Notes
The Gorham Police Department honor guard presents the colors during the national anthem Sunday, April 23, before the Portland Sea Dogs game at Hadlock Field in Portland. The Sea Dogs defeated Tenton 6-5. Ed Flaherty Honors for Flaherty The University of Southern Maine and its Athletic Department will name its baseball field in a ceremony […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Southern Forecaster
Still chasing the future
Returning from a speaking engagement in Boston recently, I stopped at the Hampton toll booths to make my contribution, as all Mainers must, to New Hampshire’s overflowing highway slush fund?. Pulling away from the booth on one of the eight or 10 or 12 lanes (too many to count), I had to wonder just how […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Southern Forecaster
Still chasing the future
Returning from a speaking engagement in Boston recently, I stopped at the Hampton toll booths to make my contribution, as all Mainers must, to New Hampshire’s overflowing highway slush fund?. Pulling away from the booth on one of the eight or 10 or 12 lanes (too many to count), I had to wonder just how […]
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I escaped a computer wasteland
One year ago this week, I left what many would describe as a cushy white-collar desk job to become a blue-collar worker who – as the great rock ’n’ roll band The Who sang – gets his back into his living. While I was glad to be ex-officio and out under a blue sky again, […]
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Arts calendar
CONCERTS Saturday, April 29 State Street Traditional Jazz Band, 7 p.m., North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail/Route 302, Windham; part of Music with a Mission concert series, with proceeds benefiting Windham Food Pantry. Tickets at door, $12 for adults, $10 for students, children, seniors. Box office opens at 6 p.m., doors open 6:30 p.m. […]
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Arts calendar
CONCERTS Saturday, April 29 State Street Traditional Jazz Band, 7 p.m., North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail/Route 302, Windham; part of Music with a Mission concert series, with proceeds benefiting Windham Food Pantry. Tickets at door, $12 for adults, $10 for students, children, seniors. Box office opens at 6 p.m., doors open 6:30 p.m. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster
Fed-up member quits Gorham school board
GORHAM — School Committee member Timothy Burns resigned in a lengthy, scathing letter April 13, the day after the board approved a $37.9 million school budget up $1.6 million over last year’s. In the letter sent to School Committee Chairman Darryl Wright, Burns lashed out at budget issues, “self-serving” special interest groups, and a breakdown […]