The student was scheduled to leave Tuesday, but the country went into a lockdown Monday as a result of coronavirus.
Robert Lowell
Staff Writer
Bob Lowell is Gorham resident and a community reporter for Gorham, Buxton and Standish.
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We Love to Eat: March 5
Community meal – Thursday, March 5, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Chicken with stuffing, $5. Baked haddock – Friday, March 6, 5-6 p.m., St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St., Gorham. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus. $10, $5, children can choose fish, pizza or macaroni and cheese. Baked Haddock – Friday, March 6, 4:30 – […]
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Gorham school plan for new kitchen stirs controversy
The kitchen at Narragansett Elementary School would be funded with money approved in a referendum for modular classrooms.
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Buxton church holds first service since meth lab found
A cleanup at Buxton United Methodist Church costing more than $100,000 is nearly complete and a suspect is scheduled for trial next month.
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Gorham approves warehouse for Old Canal Way
GORHAM — The Planning Board unanimously approved with conditions a warehouse project for Northeast Contracting Services in Old Canal Way, an industrial park off Mosher Road. The company performs concrete demolition. Among the conditions applied to the approval was dust control. Craig Burgess of Sebago Technics presented the request Monday. Burgess said the project will […]
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Westbrook Notes: March 5
Currier, retired USCG vice commandant, dies Retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant John Currier died Feb. 29 at age 68 in Michigan, according to former Westbrook Mayor Mike Sanphy. A vice admiral, the highly decorated Currier grew up in Westbrook and was once a city police officer, Sanphy said. In 2012, Currier assumed duties as […]
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Gorham Notes: March 4
Seniors hosting dinner The Lakes Region Senior Center, 40 Acorn St., Gorham is hosting a catered boiled dinner at 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 9. The menu includes potatoes, carrots, cabbage, corned beef, beets, turnip and soda bread, along with ice cream and cookies for dessert. For reservations, respond as soon as possible by calling Blanche […]
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Gorham starts planning voter-approved industrial park
An engineering firm has been selected and a steering committee is being appointed for the project at the 141-acre site, which also was the scene of an infamous murder in 1901.
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Gorham Notes: Feb. 27
A Valentine mission The Missions Committee at West Gorham Union Church blessed the Police Department with bags of “survival sweets” for Valentines Day. David and Jennifer McCullough, Becky Phinney and her daughter, Grade 8 student Elizabeth Phinney. delivered the gifts. Each bag included Life Savers for the number of times police have been one; Smarties […]
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Westbrook Notes: Feb. 27
Para dies at 57 Westbrook businessman James Para of Gorham passed away Feb. 19 from a second bout with lung cancer. He owned the Westbrook House of Pizza in the city’s downtown. He was born in 1963 in Albania. At age 25, he and his wife, Flora, fled to the United States from a collapsing […]