Chip Light owes his life to Leavitt’s Mill Health Center in Buxton. Light, who doesn’t have health insurance, contacted the center after his skin turned yellow, even though he wasn’t feeling bad. Leavitt’s sent him to a specialist, who identified his abdominal cancer. “I’m still alive. They’re a big part of the reason,” Light said […]

Reconsider borrowing Those who have been watching or reading about Westbrook city councilors as they wrangled over the approval of a $1.4 million bond recently have gotten quite a show. First, on a night full of distractions – Wal-Mart and paper streets – councilors approved the bond only after adding three things to it in […]

Great literature will come to life in the premiere of “The Good, The Bad, and the Wilde,” a readers theater production that opens the 2005-2006 season at University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre. Opening night performance is 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, in Russell Hall on the USM Gorham campus. Other performances are […]

Two Westbrook firefighters are upset the city has held up their applications to assist federal relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Westbrook firefighters Kathy Reynolds and James Rogers said they believe the delay could keep them from assisting in the relief. “I’ve gone from trying to get information to them, to being frustrated, to […]

Former Gorham resident Shirley Dorr, right, with an unidentified friend, moved to Louisana about two years ago. Her sister, Teresa Arey of Westbrook said she has heard from Dorr and is happy to report she had ridden out Katrina and was all right. Photo courtesy of Arey

Teresa Arey of Westbrook watched the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina on television last week knowing her sister could be somewhere in the middle of it. Arey’s sister Shirley Dorr, originally of Gorham, moved two years ago to Derryville, La., a town just north of New Orleans about 10 minutes from Lake Pontchartrain. But last […]