Community center switches free meals to takeout Due to a rise in cases of COVID-19, the sit-down weekly meal served at Westbrook Community Center will now be distributed as a boxed meal available for takeout from 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays in the parking lot at Trinity Lutheran Church at 612 Main St. “The fellowship of eating […]
Robert Lowell
Staff Writer
Bob Lowell is Gorham resident and a community reporter for Gorham, Buxton and Standish.
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Buxton Notes: Feb. 3
Select Board hiring assistant to support group, town departments The Select Board is hiring an assistant/human resource and welfare director to provide secretarial, administrative and technical support to the board, the solid waste manager and the chairperson of the Budget Committee. The assistant also serves as the town’s insurance administrator. The position is full time […]
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Gorham, Westbrook residents concerned for Ukrainian, Russian family, friends
Locals with ties to the two countries say neither side wants a war.
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Gorham Notes: Jan. 27
Sticking it to winter New Gorham representative sworn in by governor Gov. Janet Mills last week administered the oath of office to Jim Boyle of Gorham, a newly elected Democrat who represents part of Gorham and part of Scarborough in House District 27. Boyle won a special election on Jan. 11 to fill the year […]
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Westbrook Notes: Jan. 27
Library friends making plans for book sale, annual meeting Friends of Walker Memorial Library will have a full agenda when the group meets from 5:30-6:30 Thursday, Jan. 27, in the library at 800 Main St. Among the topics up for discussion will be the 2022 Westbrook High School and tech school scholarship recipient, planning the […]
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Buxton Notes: Jan. 27
Wanted: Residents’ ideas for living it up as they age Residents will explore what they will want and need to age gracefully while living in Buxton at a meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. March 5 in the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. “A Livability Community provides services for people of all […]
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High crash locations, injuries, decrease in Buxton
Main Street and River Road intersection and the Tory Hill intersection of Beech Plains Road, Narragansett Trail and River Road each had 19 crashes in 2021.
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High crash intersections in Gorham drop from 11 to 6
The Bernard P. Rines Bypass and Narragansett Street roundabout led the town’s most dangerous intersections with 19 crashes in 2021
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Special town meeting in Buxton Feb. 2
Buxton will hold a special town meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2, to vote on the use of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds. The town wants to appropriate $58,000 to upgrade the town-wide phone system and to spend $169,984 for improved patient care and transport equipment for the Fire and Rescue Department. A […]
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Gorham Notes: Jan. 20
Town seeks proposals to preserve local rural land Gorham is looking for potentially developable land in the rural district to be preserved from future development, with or without conservation stakeholders. “This request for information provides prospective respondents with enough information to submit a complete request,” the town said in an announcement on its website. Those […]