GREENâS GRANT â Thirty-one Gorham High School seniors enjoyed an in-person commencement at which they were awarded their diplomas at 6 p.m. on Friday evening at the base of Mount Washington, thanks to the generosity of the family-owned Auto Road and Great Glen.
This was the second-year in a row that a far more spectacular venue was used, so that attendees could enjoy the more relaxed social-distancing measures now considered suitable for COVID-19 when outdoors.
The Gorham Police Department, the Sheriffâs Department, Gorham Fire and EMS, and state police escorted the Class of 2021 motorized parade with three vehicles allowed to accompany each family, starting north of town, through downtown, and then turning south on Route 16 to an unpaved parking lot.
GORHAM â A tractor-trailer unit and a Federal Express delivery truck collided Friday afternoon on Route 16, causing some traffic problems but miraculously both drivers escaped serious injury.
Gorham Police received a call reporting the accident at the intersection of Route 16 and White Birch Lane just after noon.
A thorough investigation determined that the Federal Express truck, operated by Katlynn Heimerl, 27, of Whitefield had exited White Lane and was crossing Route 16 to get to Stony Brook Road. At the same time, a tractor-trailer, owned and operated by John Marshall, 53, of Center Conway was traveling north on Route 16.
A report, issued by Gorham police, said the Federal Express truck crossed into the path of the tractor-trailer, which was fully loaded with wood chips and the two commercial vehicles collided. The tractor trailer went off the road, hit some small trees, overturned, and came to rest in a small ravine, parallel with Route 16. The Federal Express truck spun
Pause in J&J shots raises concerns about vaccine hesitancy in Maine
Worry mounts that a clotting problem with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will increase reluctance, but some remain eager and glad to be inoculated.
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Brian Cirone of Windham had an appointment to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday morning but got a call about 45 minutes before his scheduled time telling him it was canceled. Cirone now has an appointment Monday to get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, but says he’d take the J&J shot if the federal government allowed it.
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The pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations in Maine on Tuesday caused many providers and patients to review and in some cases adjust their efforts to inoculate against COVID-19.
COOS COUNTYâ Inexperience was cited by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as the cause in three separate snowmobile crashes that resulted in serious injuries to the operators.
A Massachusetts woman suffered serious injuries when she lost control of her rental snowmobile Saturday morning on Trail 12a near the warming hut in Randolph.
Colleen M. Legros, 43, of North Andover, Mass., told authorities she had been riding for about an hour when the accident occurred.
Legros told authorities she had little experience snowmobiling and was making a turn when she suddenly mistook the throttle for the brake and accelerated abruptly over a snowbank, through the air and into a tree.
Santa Claus is coming to town in Gorham
December 16, 2020GORHAM The members of Gorham Fire and EMS missed seeing everyone during our annual Santa s Workshop. We hope to be able to continue this holiday tradition in 2021. However, Santa Claus, after coming to visit Gorham for so many years, has reached out to Chief Cloutier with something very special in mind for this year.
Santa Claus will be riding around town on Saturday, Dec. 19, starting at 1 p.m. Santa will be riding in the Officers seat of the Gorham Fire Department s newest truck, Tanker 1; waving to children of all ages as we make our way through the streets of Gorham.