To those of us that look at our expenditures with a critical eye, it seems incredible that we should be writing so many blank checks. This morning a news bulletin came over the airwaves, how fortunate we the state, to receive a large sum of money, targeted for welfare food stamps, from the government. Although […]
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Police arrest two Bonny Eagle students in connection with area burglaries
Police in Buxton and deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department arrested two 18-year old Standish men Monday in connection with a rash of recent home burglaries in Cumberland and York counties. Detective Donald Goulet of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday that the two men who were arrested, Andrew S. Legere and Derek […]
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Local Players win 2006 USSSA State Basketball Championship
Three Westbrook players, Andrew Beckwith, Dominic Borelli and Nicholas Jobin are members of the Maine Gym Ratz, winners of the United States Specialty Sports Association 2006 Maine Championship. The Gym Ratz defeated the Tide of Maine 65-41 at USM on May 14, winning their second consecutive title. USSSA, headquarted in Florida, will be hosting their […]
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A great and vanishing generation
They rode trains, laughed at Sad Sack cartoons, listened to Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, ate Spam and smoked Luckies from boxes of K rations. They stormed ashore at Normandy, North Africa and Iwo Jima; lived in foxholes; fought in the snow and cold in the Battle of the Bulge; and served at previously unheard […]
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Rains push back planting
Besides wreaking havoc with outdoor activities, the torrential May rains that have soaked the area have also delayed planting for market gardeners, dairy farmers and those with home gardens. Dairyman Bill Rust of Gorham looked out his kitchen window on Monday and saw standing water on some of his cornfields. Rust said the weather has […]
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LPGA Teaching Pro to head up Golf Clinic for Women
Andree Martin, named one of Golf for Women magazine’s top 50 instructors the past three years, is coming back home to head up The Southern Maine Women’s Golf Association’s first annual Golf Clinic for Women on June 26. All proceeds will benefit its scholarship fund. The clinic will be held at Biddeford-Saco Country Club and […]
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Raymond support group forms to battle anxiety
In this 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, work-you-to-the-bone world, stress and anxiety are commonplace in people’s daily lives. From slogging it out at work, caring for family and paying the bills, there seems to be plenty to worry about. But when anxiety starts interfering with your life both public and private, that’s when it can become a much […]
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Legislature has a full week ahead
When the Legislature returns next Monday for what is expected to be the final week in a session that just won’t quit, they will have to deal with about 20 bills, ranging from a proposed limit on how long citizens have to appeal building projects in their community to creation of a Taxpayers Bill of […]
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Cutline: Westbrook Players are Maine AAU Basketball Champions
Three Westbrook players – Andrew Beckwith, Dominic Borelli and Nicholas Jobin – are members of the Maine Gym Ratz, the 2006 Maine AAU basketball state champions in the 14U/eighth grade division. The team has earned an invitation to compete in the national AAU championships in Orlando, Fla., during the first week in August. Top row: […]
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Car, school bus collide in Gorham
A Gorham woman sustained minor injuries and was transported to a hospital after colliding with a school bus in Gorham Village on Monday. There were no children on the bus, police said. Lt. Chris Sanborn of Gorham Police Department said Delma Healey, 54, apparently drove into the path of the bus at the intersection of […]