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    October 23, 2019

    Buxton officials to decide on election date to replace Harmon

    The town needs someone to serve until next June, when Jean Harmon’s term would have expired.

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    October 23, 2019

    Crowded council race, land buy on Gorham ballot

    Ward polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 5.

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    October 22, 2019

    Sanborn named chief of Gorham Police

    Christopher Sanborn joined the Gorham force in 1989, most recently serving as the deputy chief.

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    October 21, 2019

    Police searching for two Gorham teens

    GORHAM — Police are seeking the public’s help in locating two missing 13-year-old Gorham girls. Nevaeh Joyce and Courtney Taft have been missing since Oct. 20. “They were last seen in the area of Gray Road,” Police Chief Christopher Sanborn said in a press release. Sanborn told the American Journal two officers are assigned to […]

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    October 17, 2019

    Westbrook Notes: Oct. 17

      Poetry series Lowry’s Lodge poetry series continues at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at One Westbrook Common, next to Westbrook House of Pizza. Linda Aldrich and Nick Coulombe are featured poets and hosts are Jim Donnelly and Anna Wrobel. Light fare will be served and a suggested deonation is $4. Seniors to meet Westbrook […]

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    October 17, 2019

    Gorham Notes: Oct. 17

    Gorham grad on Collins’ staff Timothy O’Neill, a Gorham native, has been hired as a staff assistant in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Susan Collins. O’Neill is a 2015 graduate of Gorham High School and is the son of Tim and Diane O’Neill of Standish. “Timothy has an impressive record of achievement and […]

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    October 17, 2019

    Gorham candidates face issues of growth, taxes, new GHS

    Voters will decide Nov. 5 which three of six candidates they want on the Town Council.

  • Published
    October 16, 2019

    Harmon case sparks outrage in Buxton

    Residents call for the chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen to step down after being found guilty in a slapping incident last year.

  • Published
    October 16, 2019

    We Love to Eat: Oct. 17-26

    Community meal – Thursday, Oct. 17, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Shepherd’s pie, $5. Free dinner – Thursday, Oct. 17, 5:30-6:30 p.m., St. Peters Episcopal Church, 678 Washington St., Portland. Chowder luncheon – Friday, Oct. 18, and every Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Bowl of […]

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    October 11, 2019

    60 Years Ago

    The Westbrook American reported on Oct. 14, 1959, that Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hawkes of Conant Street in Westbrook were on a motor trip through Canada. A Gorham native, Herbert J. Lombard, died at age 94 in a Massachusetts hospital. He was born in Gorham in 1864.

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