Gov. John Baldacci says the school consolidation plan presented by the Legislature’s Education Committee last week appears to be too timid and may not go far enough to reduce excess school administration while cutting state aid to local districts by $36.5 million. “I am concerned that they have not gone far enough and that they […]

An animal pound was once located at the southeast corner of the cemetery on South Street. According to Hugh McLellan’s “History of Gorham, Maine,” Gorham voters approved $150 on April 1, 1805, for construction of the pound, built of 2-foot-thick stonewalls. The pound was 30-by-35 feet. Owners of impounded stray animals paid a fine to […]

D. Scott Marr, M.D., FACSM of Falmouth, has been named the new co-medical director for the University of New England’s Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP) in UNE’s College of Arts and Sciences. Marr is a medical orthopaedist at Orthopaedic Associates of Portland and a team physician for UNE, the Portland Pirates Hockey Club, Windham High […]

Frenchtown to host potluck supper The Frenchtown Neighborhood Association will host a spring potluck supper Tuesday, March 20, from 6-8 p.m. at the Elms B&B, 102 Cumberland St. The neighborhood encompasses the area bordered by Bridge Street, Cumberland Street and the Presumpscot River. All Frenchtown neighbors are invited. Those attending are asked to take a […]

The 2007-2008 school budget proposed by Gorham Superintendent Ted Sharp is $29.5 million, a 6.6 percent hike over last year’s $27.6 million – and Gorham hasn’t yet heard how much money the state will kick in. Sharp rolled out his budget for the school committee at a workshop session Saturday. Sharp, who was first a […]

[ital]Associated Press: Bahrain – Vice Admiral Walsh, U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast, announced that the carrier USS Stennis, together with a strike group carrying 6,500 Marines plus mine sweepers and other support craft, would join the Carrier USS Dwight Eisenhower and its task force in the Gulf of Aden through which passes two-fifths of […]

A Cumberland County Superior Court judge ruled this week that a private airstrip in Gorham couldn’t block a public easement over an abandoned road. Court documents said C & C Family, LLC, began construction of an airstrip on its property in September 2001 but complied with a stop work order issued by the town. In […]

The community calendar in last week’s American Journal listed an incorrect date for the Saccarappa School’s teachers workshop day. The school has a workshop on March 30, and there will be no school on that day.