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American Journal
News of Westbrook, Gorham,
Vol. 68 Issue 22
Buxton & the region
Class of 2018: GHS grad works through loss to excel By Robert Lowell GORHAM — "Amazing student" Saoirse Herlihy will be missing her father when she walks across the stage to receive her Gorham High School diploma in June graduation exercises. Saoirse Herlihy's father passed away a week into her freshman year. Her mother, Kerry Herlihy, a high school English teacher and this year's graduating class advisor, will be on stage to greet her. "I shall present her diploma," her mother said. "It will certainly be emotional." Saoirse Herlihy will be one of about 208 Gorham graduates in exercises at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 10, at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. The loss of her father, she said, initially prompted her to throw her-
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
City takes new look at parking By Michael Kelley
Saoirse Herlihy perservered after her father died when she was a Gorham High School freshman. Staff photo by Robert Lowell
WESTBROOK — How to manage downtown parking is always tricky for municipalities and Westbrook is no exception. The city underwent a comprehensive look at parking, including analyzing inventory and future demand, in 2006, but now a dozen years later, parking is again a focus. "We put some recommendations in place, but there were as many that we didn't put into place," City Administrator Jerre Bryant said during a committee of a whole meeting on the topic of parking May 21. "Recently the business community came to the city and said we need to do a better job." Bryant said while recommendations like constructing a parking garage on the Mechan-
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Westbrook expands list of drug-free safe zones By Michael Kelley WESTBROOK — A number of parks and recreational areas across the city have long been designated drug-free safe zones, but the City Council has added two more places to the list. Acting on a recommendation from the Westbrook Police Department, councilors May 21 approved adding to the list the playgrounds at the end of the Clear-
water Bend subdivision at 27 Reed St. and at former church property near 2 Walker St. In a letter to city councilors, Westbrook Police Capt. Steven Goldberg said those two locations are "heavily used for recreation and other community events." "By adding these two locations to the list of drug-free zones, it gives the police
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The playground near a neighborhood managed by Avesta Housing at 2 Walker St. is one of the two additional locations the City Council has designated a drug-free zone. Staff photo by Michael Kelley