GORHAM — The Androscoggin Valley Country Club’s golf course is open for the season, through the efforts of volunteers and club members who have helped rescue part of the land that was covered with water, rocks and mud stirred up from the river in a Dec. 18, 2023, rainstorm.
The storm caused extensive flooding.
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