Kathy Wood of Refreshings Paws in Gorham shows a deaf dog, Schy (an acronym for She Can’t Hear You) Saturday, March 31 at Marketplace on the University of Southern Maine campus in Gorham. The annual trade show is sponsored by Gorham Business Exchange. This group of Elite All Stars, a cheerleading and dance group, performs at Marketplace Saturday, […]

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WESTBROOK – Maintenance work on Portland Water District water mains will be occurring throughout the city over the next few months Monday through Friday between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. According to Portland Water District, “customers may notice short periods of water discoloration; however, this program is essential to maintain water quality […]

Traveling Maine’s roads in spring is like taking part in an archaeological dig in some far-off locale. Instead of ancient shards of pottery and fragments of bone, however, the sides of Maine’s back roads, once blanketed by snow and ice from passing snowplows, but now melting in a long-awaited spring thaw, reveal the last six […]

GORHAM — The Planning Board Monday heard Maine Optometry’s proposal for a medical building at the intersection of Main Street (Route 25) and Mosher Road (Route 237). But, the board voted 6-0 (Chairman Edward Zelmanow absent) to postpone action pending a site walk to view the location and further review of plans. Town Planner Tom […]

Red squirrels are definitely Republicans—gray squirrels liberal Democrats like myself. I base these judgments on morning hours spent sitting in a sunny easy chair observing the politics of my own backyard while I am supposed to be writing. The focus of communal life in the backyard is the bird feeder that hangs outside the kitchen […]

I’m worried. No one, myself included, seems to be doing a decent job of having a respectful conversation these days. We either agree (cue the glitter unicorns) or disagree (in which case yelling and sulfur fumes ensue). I am neither the first nor the most articulate to point this out. There are many fantastic articles, as […]

April 7, 1993 The Gorham School Committee wants to build a new middle school to replace the Charles C. Shaw School, where 298 seventh- and eighth-grade students attend. The panel voted unanimously Monday to pursue state approval but gave no estimates of construction costs. The school’s original section was built in 1938 and a back […]