Last month, 20-year-old John O’Hara was in San Francisco with his classmates from Berklee College of Music at the largest silent film festival in the country. Playing the bassoon in the orchestra, he helped to provide the soundtrack to the evening. For this special performance, and countless others, O’Hara’s family was in attendance – his […]

Jones starts as new police chief Daniel Jones began duties this week as Gorham’s seventh police chief. “Dan started this morning,” Town Manager David Cole said on Aug. 24. Jones, 50, succeeds Ronald Shepard, who retired Nov. 4, 2014, after 19 years as the Gorhan chief and 42 years in the department. Shepard officially retired […]

Library group visits Naples Members of Friends of Walker Memorial Library recently spent a summer day in Naples. Kelly Day, vice president of the group, said they visited a library there and took a two-hour cruise on the Songo Queen. They had lunch downtown at Rick’s and had ice cream while walking around. “It was […]

Aug. 29, 1990 Camden Town Manager R. Paul Weston was hired Monday to become Gorham town manager, beginning Oct. 1. Weston, 38, will receive a salary of $55,000 a year. He had been making $40,460 in Camden since January. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Maine. Before being hired by […]

Lou Ureneck, a Boston University journalism professor and former Portland Press Herald executive editor, will discuss his latest book, “The Great Fire: One American’s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century’s First Genocide,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Freeport Community Library. In “The Great Fire: One American’s Mission to Rescue […]