145a/145b The photo at left, taken in February 1974, shows LaVerdiere’s Super Drug Store occupying 880 Main St., Fifth Regiment Junior Drum-Yankee Brigade Bugle Corps at 884 Main St., and Kourapis Fruit Store and Restaurant, occupying 888 Main St. Central Street intersected Main Street alongside Kourapis. The vacant lot was the site of the Star […]

As the delivery trucks backed up last week, new Gorham High School Principal Chris Record turned his head to get a better look at the vehicles, then abruptly ended his conversation with a person in the guidance office. “They’re here,” he exclaimed, as he quickly exited the office to meet the trucks outside the high […]

The Westbrook American reported on Sept. 4, 1963, that a list of Gorham graduates enrolling in colleges as freshmen included Ralph Foley at Aroostook County State Teachers College and Gertrude Lewry at Washington County State Teachers College. Suzanne Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smith of West Buxton, begins her duties as a teacher […]

In old science fiction movies, life in the future meant flying cars, talking houses and domed cities. The white clad dome dwellers didn’t go out much because the environment outside the bubble wasn’t friendly to life forms and the ones who survived were devolved mutant-types. Odds are the actual future won’t resemble the movie version. […]

On egrets … On our living room coffee table is a lovely book “Nature Trails,” 1982, 144 pages, color nature photos taken by Mary Calvert, born and raised in Madison, a town on the Kennebec River. In her photographic career, she began specializing in nature photography, and won many awards, studying wildflowers and birds. Among […]

I want to request (and maybe that’s not a strong enough sentiment) that you stop at red lights. That may sound ridiculous – everyone knows that you have to stop at a red light, right? I have noticed over the past year or so that more and more drivers are speeding up to make it […]