PORTLAND — Students in the woodworking program at Portland Arts and Technology High School turned a team-building exercise into a community-service project. The students, including Zecharia Hoeflick, a senior from Windham High School, crafted activity boards for residents of The Cedars retirement community. The boards, which include locks and latches, hooks and hinges, lights, colorful beads, […]
2017
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Local food access builds community, panelists say
WESTBROOK — If people don’t have access to healthy locally grown food, a community can’t be expected to thrive. This was the consensus at a panel discussion at GrowSmart Maine‘s summit in Westbrook last week. The Oct. 18 event focused on Westbrook’s growth and development by showcasing local redevelopment, historical preservation and downtown revitalization. The day […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Bottom of the barrel
There are currently 10 Democratic gubernatorial candidates. Which is about 9½ more than necessary. That’s less of a problem than it seems, because the majority of these pols aren’t actually campaigning for the Blaine House, but engaging in a bizarre form of ego gratification that somehow finds fulfillment in making speeches to garden clubs, high […]
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City eyes hotel for downtown park
WESTBROOK — The city is considering some changes for its downtown, including the potential development of a hotel in Saccarappa Park. The city has received two unsolicited proposals, one for hotel and one for a retail space, for the Main Street green space in the past three weeks. The City Council may put out an RFP […]
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Looking Back
Oct. 28, 1992In local elections next week, voters will see questions on the ballot that ask for changes to municipal charters. In Westbrook, a charter amendment proposal, if passed, would require “affirmative votes of a majority of all the members of the School Committee” for any appropriations over $1,000. In March, the committee started to […]
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Looking Back
Oct. 28, 1992In local elections next week, voters will see questions on the ballot that ask for changes to municipal charters. In Westbrook, a charter amendment proposal, if passed, would require “affirmative votes of a majority of all the members of the School Committee” for any appropriations over $1,000. In March, the committee started to […]
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Buxton’s Libby remembered as civic-minded man of integrity
Longtime Buxton political figure and World War II veteran Bob Libby died at age 92. BUXTON — A longtime, local political figure and World War II veteran remembered as a gentleman was buried in Groveville Sunday with Coast Guard honors. Born in Buxton on the Fourth of July in 1925, Robert Libby died at age 92 […]
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Calendar
Concerts Oct. 27 Four on the Floor, Celtic and Acadian music with champion fiddlers Erica Brown and Don Roy, Matt Shipman on guitar, mandolin, banjo or bouzouki, and step-dancing piano accompaniment by Cindy Roy, 7:30 p.m., Raymond Village Community Church, Raymond. Tickets $12, $10 seniors at the door or contact Karen Frager, 939-7947. Oct. 28 […]
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Concerts Oct. 27 Four on the Floor, Celtic and Acadian music with champion fiddlers Erica Brown and Don Roy, Matt Shipman on guitar, mandolin, banjo or bouzouki, and step-dancing piano accompaniment by Cindy Roy, 7:30 p.m., Raymond Village Community Church, Raymond. Tickets $12, $10 seniors at the door or contact Karen Frager, 939-7947. Oct. 28 […]
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Letter: Expanded bus service waste of taxpayer money
Let’s say the distance from Gorham to Portland is 10 miles. Or even 15 miles, it doesn’t really matter. Metro would have us believe that members of the general public, in Gorham and the small, outlying country towns near it, are going to drive their cars to a commuter parking lot in Gorham, wait for […]