Free community meal – Wednesday, Dec. 1, 5-6 p.m. Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St., Westbrook. Sponsored by Trinity Lutheran Church and Wayside Food Services. An option for takeout will also be available.
Robert Lowell
Staff Writer
Bob Lowell is Gorham resident and a community reporter for Gorham, Buxton and Standish.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
Gorham public works director shifts gears, takes Windham job
Bob Burns is leaving Public Works after 18 years to become the assistant town manager in Windham.
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Westbrook Notes: Nov. 18
Local dancers to step lively in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Twenty student dancers from Drouin Dance Center of Westbrook leave Nov. 20 to perform in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Millions will see the parade televised on their local NBC affiliate, which is WCSH channel 6 in Maine. The dancers and their […]
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Buxton Notes: Nov. 18
Annual Touch-A-Truck, tree lighting Nov. 28 The town’s annual Touch-A-Truck and tree lighting is set from 5:30-7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, at the Public Works Building, 215 Portland Road. Parking will be available at the adjacent Buxton Town Hall. Christmas lights will be strung on lighted fire engines, dump trucks and police cruisers. Refreshments will […]
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We Love Fairs & Sales: Nov. 18
Christmas fair – Saturday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., West Gorham Union Church, 190 Ossipee Trail, Gorham. Craft tables; bake sale with cookies, breads, pies, whoopie pies and beans to go; swags; raffle for a quilt or $100 gift card to Pit Stop Fuel and a basket full of goodies; RADA knives. Lunch […]
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Gorham Notes: Nov. 18
Middle school team triumphs at Hocktoberfest field hockey tourney Gorham Middle School’s eighth graders last month captured the Hocktoberfest Field Hockey Tournament at Thomas College in Waterville with a 3-2 win in the final over Gardiner. “The game was a nail-biter back and forth, and since we didn’t have a goalie during any of our […]
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We Love to Eat: Nov. 18
Free community meal – Wednesday, Nov. 24, 5-6 p.m., Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St., Westbrook. Sponsored by Trinity Lutheran Church and Wayside Food Services. An option for takeout will also be available. Haddock supper buffet – Saturday, Nov. 27, 5 p.m., Living Waters Church, Parker Farm Road, Buxton. Suggested donation $8; $4, child; $20, […]
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Westbrook Notes: Nov. 11
Evergreen VP joins Discover Downtown board Jere Shaw, vice president of commercial lending at Evergreen Credit Union, recently joined the board of Discover Downtown Westbrook. Discover Downtown, which was the 10th municipality to be named a Main Street Community in Maine, works to make downtown Westbrook a walkable, livable and thriving destination. “We are so […]
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Gorham Notes: Nov. 11
Lions largesse 60 years ago The Westbrook American reported Nov. 9, 1961, that Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Gilman of North Gorham entertained Doris and Rachel Thomas of Quincy, Massachusetts. U.S. taxpayer debt The Bureau of the Fiscal Service reported Oct. 28 that the U.S. public debt was $28,908,820,096,412.53.
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Buxton Notes: Nov. 11
Dorcas Society again cancels traditional Christmas play “The Old Peabody Pew,” a Christmas play traditionally performed every year, will not be staged this holiday season, according to a Facebook post by Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton. The society began producing the romantic comedy in 1916, but it has been shelved for the past two […]