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Gorham Notes

A ribbon-cutting event for Carter’s Green Market, 18 Elm St., is set for 9 a.m. Thursday, June 14, with town and business leaders. The store features specialty foods, wine, beer and gifts. It opened last month and has its own off-street parking. Free family fun Cressey Road United Methodist Church, at the corner of Route […]

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Together Days a coming home for children’s musician

WESTBROOK —  Children’s musician Rick Charette has appeared on stages all across the state and country, but none can compare to performing for his hometown crowd at Westbrook Together Days, a two-day festival that took place in Riverbank Park last Friday and Saturday. Charette grew up off Lincoln Street and went to first- through eighth-grade in […]

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Looking Back

June 9, 1993 Peter Eckel, 37, of 16 Walton St., Westbrook, administrative assistant to Westbrook’s mayors since October 1989, resigned Friday and will become New England sales manager for the cellular telephone company Cellular One, working under Kenneth Lefebvre, vice president and general manager. Lefebvre is president of the Westbrook City Council and was acting […]

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Briefs

Change in polling place for votersin Wards 2, 3WESTBROOK — Voters in Ward 2 and 3 will be voting next week in a different location. Because of training scheduled at the Armory, the usual polling location, voters, on Tuesday, June 12,  will be casting their primary ballots for state officials and the school budget vote […]

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We Love Sales and Fairs

Plant, book and yard sale — Saturday, June 9, 9 a.m.-noon, Scarborough Free Baptist Church, 55 Mussey Road, Scarborough. Rain or shine. Flea market — Saturday, June 23, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Raymond Village Community Church, 27 Main St. Raymond. Avon, Scentsy, crafts, tarot card reader, yard sale, silent auction, Andy’s Grill for lunch, bake sale, book […]

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60 Years Ago

The Westbrook American reported on June 11, 1958, that Ann Waterhouse of Westbrook graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. E.L. Whitney, owner of Feeding Acres in Buxton, put the farm’s herd of Hereford cattle up for auction. Cows and calves sold for an average of between $400 and $500. A bull brought $3,000.

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Pride Week adds diversity, draws criticism

PORTLAND — The rainbow flag will extend along Congress and High streets June 16, but Pride Week in Portland is adding some new colors to the celebration. “I feel excited, empowered, and driven – driven by the positive response we have gotten from the community,” PridePortland! Steering Committee co-chairman Luis Rodriguez said Monday. New events […]

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Petition revisits Raymond exit from RSU 14

RAYMOND — The Selectboard chairwoman has started a petition to initiate the process for the town to withdraw from RSU 14, four years after she helped jump-start a similar, unsuccessful effort. After continued concerns about Windham-Raymond school district spending and a frustrated sense that school officials are not willing to discuss those concerns, Raymond Selectboard Chairman Teresa […]