On the Right Lane “It’s when you walk with your head held high that you fail to see the potholes.” Anthony T. Hincks, author.   You know it’s kind of funny because I don’t want to compare towns and yet the time has come that I really have to. That’s exactly where the title of this column comes from […]

Watching students running from their Florida high school on Valentine’s Day as a deranged young man killed 17 of their classmates and teachers with an AR-15 brought tears to my eyes. They were tears of sadness, but also of frustration. Apparently there is just nothing we can do about gun violence in America. If 20 little first-graders […]

Gov. Paul LePage was pretty impressive during his State of the State Address last week. Not only did he deliver a strong speech filled with good ideas, Maine’s pugnacious, unapologetic and slimmed-down top executive delivered it in a way that shows he’s ready to fight to the end. And that end is coming soon, with […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A Standish man was charged Tuesday when the Southern Maine Regional SWAT team Tuesday executed a high-risk search warrant at the Maine Motel. Nobody was injured in the incident, during which four people were arrested in connection with a raft of charges, according to a press release from South Portland Police Department. […]

 a development district town planners are looking to redefine this section of the Bernard P. Rines Bypass leading to the roundabout at Narragansett Street (Route 202) for mixed uses, including residential. GORHAM — A Planning Board subcommittee Tuesday continued its review of potential mixed-use rules that would allow residential units combined with commercial and light […]

Food train gearing up Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is beginning its seventh year of  “Climb Aboard the Food Train,” raising money and food donations for the Westbrook Food Pantry. The pantry is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that helped over 900 people experiencing food insecurity last year. The church said in a press release […]