David and Robin Dahms were hoping to move into their dream home on Beaver Pond by Christmas. Built in memory of their daughter, Brittany, who died of cancer last January, the three-bedroom ranch was going to have a deck off the back overlooking the pond, a private back yard where the family could barbecue in […]

George Saad was delayed from joining his wife at her family’s kitchen table one evening last week in Gorham. A lieutenant colonel in the Lebanese Army, Saad was home for Christmas and already busy with one of his first duties on the homefront – giving his children baths. “It was my first assignment,” the 23-year […]

A divided ethics commission decided last week not to subpoena records from the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center to determine if the organization’s efforts on behalf of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights qualified it as a political action committee – a designation that would allow people to get a better look at its finances. Instead, […]

High school students honored Eight Bonny Eagle High School students have been accepted recently for membership in the Foreign Language Honor Society. Each student has earned at least a 90 (B-plus) in at least three levels of a modern or classical language offered at the school (Spanish, French or Latin). The students inducted in a […]