FREEPORT– School for most students in Regional School Unit 5 begins on Tuesday, Sept. 4, but Freeport High School students in grades 10, 11 and 12 get a one-day reprieve, starting their classes on Wednesday, Sept. 5. “This gives our ninth graders and new students time for an orientation to the new building and schedule […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – There’s something fishy with this story
Since we bought the camp up in Oxford County, I’ve been doing a lot of lake swimming. But I can still recall the last time I immersed my feet into the cool waters of the Gulf of Maine, and still remember the ocean’s body-numbing quality. As a kid growing up on the coast, I’d swim […]
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Bridge inspection to slow Standish traffic
STANDISH – Crews this week will be performing a routine bridge inspection on the Steep Falls Bridge, which spans the Saco River in Limington and Standish on Route 11. This inspection, expected to last from Tuesday through Friday, necessitates an alternating one-way traffic pattern over the bridge, with flaggers assisting motorists. This daytime project is […]
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Tri Town Soccer opening first season
FREEPORT – Tri Town Soccer is celebrating its inaugural season this fall with a full schedule of travel soccer for U11 girls. Any girls age 9 -10 are welcome. Practices are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5- 6:30 p.m. at the Freeport Middle School fields with games, clinics, and whistle scrimmages on weekends. Additional age groups […]
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Gorham Notes – 8/23
Perry observes 90th Barbara Perry of Gorham was honored at a surprise 90th birthday party at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Ralph and Frances Perry, on Sebago Lake Road on July 14. Guests included her two sisters, Abbie Winslow, 96, of Fryeburg and Louise Chaplin, 91, of Naples. Perry’s children, Donna Steen of […]
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Westbrook Notes – 8/23
First Foye golf tourney set Organizers of the first Jim Foye Memorial Golf Tourney are accepting registrations for teams to play, with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Gorham Country Club, 93 McLellan Road, Gorham. The tournament named in memory of Foye, who died in March, benefits the Jim Foye […]
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Strapped teen center stays focused on mission
WESTBROOK- When Donna Dwyer, Mission Possible’s executive director, headed into the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1, she thought she and the popular Westbrook teen center were in good financial shape. What a difference a month makes. By the time she was heading into August, cutbacks from the city and the state had […]
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LOOKING BACK – Aug. 26, 1987
Negotiations are under way with University of Southern Maine officials and two prominent Gorham residents, John B. Alden and Burleigh Loveitt, who seek to develop an 11-building townhouse project to supply accommodations for an additional 400 students at the school’s Gorham campus. The building, which would have six apartments each, would be located on an […]
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Complaints prompt new try at fireworks rules in Westbrook
WESTBROOK- Westbrook officials are drafting a new ordinance regarding use of consumer fireworks in the city after a Committee of the Whole meeting on the subject Monday brought strong opinions from residents in attendance. “I know a lot of the complaints come from noise and litter from the fireworks,” said City Councilor Victor Chau, who […]
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Westbrook moose tranquilized, moved
WESTBROOK – Members of the Westbrook police and Maine Warden Service located the moose that caused a big stir in the area of the Westbrook Arterial and Rand Road near the turnpike during the commute Wednesday morning. The moose was tranquilized so it could be safely moved. A Westbrook dispatcher said police were trying to […]