The work of the Commission to Study Maine’s Hospitals has resulted in legislation so tame it will have almost no effect on health-care costs going forward. It was so watered down, in fact, the commission’s chairman, Bill Haggett, former chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works, said, “I didn’t want to have my name on […]

Despite a harrowing breakdown in Rhode Island, John and Brielle Merrifield, the Westbrook father and daughter team riding a tandem bike from Maine to Virginia Beach, have reached Washington, D.C., safely and ahead of schedule. Checking in from the road in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon, John Merrifield said the pair reached the nation’s capital on […]

After a rainy spring kept public works employees from their usual mowing rounds in Gorham and vandals damaged Westbrook’s oldest cemetery, both communities are facing the tough question of how to care for cemeteries. In Gorham, Town Council Chairman Burleigh Loveitt has suggested the town consider contracting its mowing out to a private company to […]

Now that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has announced she is retiring, a full blown political campaign is underway. I believe the debate over the next Supreme Court justice should be about the nominee’s qualifications. Many times we have seen those that disagree with this premise resort to personal attacks. Members of the Senate, […]

Tucker Friend spent his freshman year in high school going down hill. The 15-year-old from Gorham was lucky enough, however, to be riding down hills on his snowboard. Friend has been attending Carrabassett Valley Academy, a school that has produced world-class skiers like Bode Miller and Boyd Easley. Located at the base of Sugarloaf Mountain, […]

The priest who has guided Westbrook’s Catholic churches through merger of the city’s three parishes will be leaving at the end of the summer. The Portland Diocese is transferring the Rev. Joseph Manship, the pastor for the Westbrook parishes, to Holy Trinity Parish in Saco at the end of August. Manship’s move to Saco is […]

(Overview 1) – The multi-purpose athletic field is part of Shaw Park, which Shaw Brothers Construction is giving to Gorham. Staff photo by Robert Lowell (dan shaw 1) – Danny Shaw chats with Gorham Recreation Director Cindy Hazelton as Gorham kids get a lesson in canoeing last week at Shaw Park. Staff photo by Robert […]