Pooch stickers Wayne “Pooch” Drown stickers are available for $10 at the Gorham Recreation Department to benefit Police Department youth programs. Donations of $1 or more are also being accepted to benefit the Drown Memorial Scholarship. Drown, the town’s first high school resource officer, passed away from a heart attack in February 2019. The stickers […]
2021
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Maine Republican Party hypocritical in move to censure Collins
It’s just plain hypocritical for the Republican Party of the state of Maine to indicate that, as a party, they are planning to censure Sen. Susan Collins. Really? Just a few short months ago, the party wholeheartedly supported Collins in a senatorial race against Sara Gideon. So the Maine Republican Party of Maine is casting […]
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Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Brenda E. Smith, Belfast: Moments of rural magic
A thick white sap oozed from the diagonal slash in the bark of the tree. Gravity gently pulled the liquid downward toward half of a coconut shell fastened to the tree trunk to collect this precious resource. I stood in the middle of a rubber tree forest in the rural inland foothills of Sri Lanka, […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Aprillyn Brunelle, Yarmouth: Rural weekend experiences generate lasting memories
As a young child living in Portland in the 1960s, I would be beyond excited when my parents would plan a summer weekend excursion with my brother and me to our great-aunt and great-uncle’s rural farm in Madison. After a nearly two-hour drive, we would finally pull up to the circular, dirt driveway of Uncle […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Judith Robbins, Whitefield: Roadside mailbox marks former city resident’s place in rural world
As a child of the inner city, I was seduced by three manifestations of “rural” and what that meant: yellow school buses, “RFD” on mailboxes and a fifth-grade field trip to Cook’s Canyon, a wildlife sanctuary in Barre, Massachusetts. City buses were ubiquitous in Worcester, a part of the urban landscape as they plied their […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: ‘Blue carbon’ coastal ecosystems provide important path to a green future
The tens of thousands of acres of salt marshes and eelgrass meadows in Maine are serving a vital function in mitigating climate change.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Westbrook Notes: Feb. 18
Tax prep help Free tax preparation and electronic filing is available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St. AARP tax aide volunteers are available for an appointment by calling 518-8579. Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St. has a limited number of 1040/1040-SR federal tax forms and […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
We Love to Eat: Feb. 18
Pre-pay, drive-thru fish dinner – Friday, Feb. 19, 5-6 p.m., St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Baked haddock, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, peas, roll and dessert; $12. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. For more information, visit gorhamknights.org or call 550-1320. Check website for weather cancellation. Drive-thru fish dinner – Friday Feb. 19, 4:30-6 p.m., lower […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
Arts Calendar: Feb. 18
Editor’s Note: To submit your in-person or virtual arts event, create a free City Spark account by going to pressherald.com/forecaster-calendar/ and clicking ‘Add Event.’
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Raymond Joseph Swissler Jr.
SCARBOROUGH –
Raymond Joseph Swissler Jr., 87, formerly of Brunswick, died Feb. 13, 2021 at Maine Medical Center with his daughter by …