Open house The open house Sept. 10 at the new Mercy Hospital, overlooking the Fore River, was well-attended. A ceremony dedicating the building was held at 10 a.m., followed by the ribbon-cutting. Refreshments were served and music was played. This short-stay hospital and medical building opens for patients Sept. 22. It includes ambulatory surgery, some […]

When Lt. Jason Cutter returned to Westbrook for the first time in more than a year, he was not expecting the homecoming he got. Seeing his name plastered on business signs up and down Main Street, Cutter didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “I don’t feel like I deserve it,” said the humble […]

Justin Page, a Tarot Card reader and occult scholar from New York City who has lived in Portland for the past five years, is now calling Gorham home after moving here a month ago. Page is well-known in New York City for his accuracy in his readings and says he has conducted thousands of readings. […]

The state’s Dirigo Health Agency says it can and will pay back the money it has borrowed from the general fund to keep the subsidized health insurance program going, having run up a $20 million tab because the assessments charged to cover expenses don’t come in on a timely basis. “If the program were to […]

The University of Southern Maine on Monday re-dedicated its engineering department’s computer lab to reflect the involvement of a national company with Scarborough ties. Stantec, a design and engineering consulting firm based in Edmonton, Alberta, which also has 125 offices throughout North America, recently donated $100,000 to USM’s School of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology […]

Here is a variety of information, gleaned from a variety of sources: Ma, Ma, where’s my pa? Last year, 38.5 percent of the babies born in the U.S. were to single mothers. If the 10-year trend continues, by 2012 the percentage will rise to 50 percent. Dred Scott revisited: Of the 43 Supreme Court justices […]