GORHAM — When Andrea Shaw left for Georgia on a business trip, she didn’t expect to come home with a famous dog as the newest member of her family. But after an evening of southern barbecue with a coworker and a chance meeting on the street with a group of bicyclists, the Gorham resident wound up […]

PORTLAND — Site work for a housing subdivison has begun on what was once the largest single-family residential property in the city. “We are staying true to the initial vision and excited to get under way,” Michael Barton said July 20 about 98 single-family homes and 25 townhouses planned as Stroudwater Preserve on 55 acres […]

July 28, 1993 The Westbrook School Committee awarded two contracts totaling $675,170 Wednesday to Honeywell Inc., on recommendation of Superintendent Edward Connolly. School leaders decided the next day to schedule a new vote for tonight. When the committee approved the contracts Wednesday, it was the first meeting in which they came up. City voters decided […]

WESTBROOK — Waterstone Properties Group is looking at developments nationwide to find the right look and feel for Rock Row, the ambitious commercial, residential and recreational center planned for the former Pike Industries quarry. “We can’t pick up any one of those and just drop it into the community and expect it to work. It […]

WESTBROOK— Molly Olsen and Andrea Levinsky felt that Maine Girls Academy, as the only all-girls school in Maine, was the perfect place for their annual Girls Leadership Camp. But when the Portland school, formerly known as Catherine McAuley High School, closed last month despite pushback from alumni and current families, Olsen and Levinsky were left […]