WESTBROOK – The Westbrook School Department’s proposed fiscal year 2014-15 budget now faces a series of meetings and public hearings heading toward final approval and adoption by the School Committee, which is scheduled to move it to the City Council on April 16. Last week, as city officials unveiled municipal budget numbers, the proposed school […]
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Heat-pump glitch prompts school evacuation
GORHAM – Smoke from a malfunctioning heat pump on March 14 emptied Gorham Middle School, disrupting parent-teacher conferences. Regular classes at Gorham Middle School were not in session that day. Susie Hanley, vice principal, said at the scene that 27 teachers and 35 families were in the building for the conferences. The heat pump issue […]
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Regional green-crab plan inches forward
FREEPORT – The Freeport Shellfish Conservation Commission, at the urging of the Maine Clammers Association, will vote April 10 on a plan that calls for the town to help coordinate a push for a regional shellfish commissioner. At a meeting March 13, Chad Coffin, the clammers association president, accused the town of being unresponsive to […]
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Freeport celebrates Ed Bradley
FREEPORT – Ed Bradley, former Freeport Town Council chairman and father of current Councilor Sarah Tracey, is Freeport’s 2013 Citizen of the Year. On Tuesday, the council presented Bradley, who founded the Bradley Family Fellowship in 1999, with a plaque honoring him. Family and friends then held a celebration at the Freeport Community Center. Bradley, […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: Why civics education must return to public schools
With our school systems under financial stress and national testing standards focusing on English, mathematics and science, civics is increasingly taking a back seat to other subjects in our public and private schools. Our nation faces a “civics recession.” America’s students are in dire need of the education required to become effective, engaged citizens. Think […]
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New school playground a full community effort
FREEPORT – Once again, L.L. Bean has stepped to the plate when it comes to support of the community. In an email sent on March 9 to the chairwoman of the Playground Committee at Mast Landing School in Freeport, L.L. Bean announced it would donate $10,000 to Phase II of a new playground at the […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Why surf when you can wade?
My neighbor says he’s got to expand his satellite system because his current system only lets him choose from up to 300 channels. When I asked him why he needed more than 300 channels, he said, “There’s nothing to watch on the channels I have now.” I was born into a family that didn’t own […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: System upgrade
For a small state like Maine to have any influence on national events, it has to elect exceptional people to the U.S. House of Representatives. Unlike the 100-member U.S. Senate, where arcane rules and an acute partisan split require respectful treatment even for members with the charisma of feral pigs, anybody in the 435-member House […]
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GHS students turn chairs into art
GORHAM – Nineteen Gorham High School art students recently presented 19 chairs they decorated to residents and families at Gorham House on New Portland Road. In a project called “Chair Masters,” art was painted on folding metal chairs. “Students chose an artist whose work they connected with, and I assisted them with the creative problem […]
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Gorham Notes – 3/13
Drug program for parents “Drugs 101: What Parents Need to Know,” a program designed to educate parents about signs and symptoms of drug use and current drug trends, will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, at Gorham Middle School on Weeks Road. “A highlight of this program is a mock teenager’s bedroom […]