August 1980

Saving energy is cheaper than buying it, Amory Lovins said in a speech at the University of Southern Maine, calling for voting to ban nuclear power in Maine in the referendum coming Sept. 21. “Stop living in sieves and stop being petro-hogs,” said the England-born physicist, economist, author and energy consultant.

Ralph Hatt, an electrician at the S. D. Warren paper mill, plans a windmill at his home on Willow Drive, Westbrook, to generate electricity.

Henry J. Roshner Jr. will be mill manager at the S. D. Warren mill in Westbrook, succeeding Clarence W. Van Orman, and Van Orman will succeed Roshner as mill mamager at Warren’s mill in Muskegon, Mich. They are swapping jobs.

In 1955 (25 years ago), the number of employees at the S. D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook was 3,125, the first time over 3,000.

Maine restaurants that provide a non-smoking section grew from nine in 1977 to 75 in 1980.

Roland Metivier’s mural at Phil’s Pizza in Westbrook is taking shape, a scene of the Presumpscot River beach at Phil’s Rivermeadow Golf course, writes Anne Foote in “Ramblings.”

South Portland’s City Council voted to ask a court to limit operating hours at Pine State By-Products after hearing citizens’ complaints about the rendering plant’s smells.

Steven Moss, 27, baker, and Carl Bishop, accountant, have bought the bakery at 877 Main St., Westbrook and are opening it as Just Desserts. Moss is a native of Yorkshire, England, and comes to Westbrook from Maui, Hawaii. His wife is the former Katherine Langella of Portland.

Lisa M. Reed, Tallwood Terrace, Gorham, has been elected president of the Senior (1981) Class at Simmons College.

The state is budgeting for designing road improvements in Gorham at the Route 25 and 114 intersection and along Route 25 between the New Portland Road and Route 114.

Scarborough has hired Barry Timmons for advice about erosion of Higgins Beach. He showed beach pictures taken over the decades, starting with one at the Silver Sands Hotel in 1898. The hotel was destroyed in the 1978 storm. The beach is shrinking about 1.5 feet a year these days, he said.

Historic pictures of the Boston & Maine Railroad station in Gorham are included in this week’s advertisement for the new Gorham Station restaurant.

August 1990

Mayor Fred Wescott has asked PACTS, the Portland Area Comprehensive Traffic Survey, for a study of introducing one-way traffic in downtown Westbrook. Lionel Dumond, owner of Show Me. Video, distributed fliers, “Say No Way to One Way,” and most other merchants also oppose the idea, but some, including Roland Albert of the Men’s Shop, were willing to listen.

Eric Syphers, who graduated from Westbrook High School last year, is a lance corporal in the 2nd Marine Division serving to turn back Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

Each home-schooled student earns an $800-a-year credit from the state for his-her school district. However, Westbrook schools are refusing to share textbooks and other materials with a home-schooler.

Paul Malinski, principal of Scarborough High School three years, will become superintendent of the school union centered in Eastport.

Some residents of The Hamlet want Westbrook to adopt a rent “justification” ordinance for mobile homes. They have gathered enough signatures to force a referendum vote of citizens if the City Council fails to pass it as written.

Ralph St. Pierre is new finance director of the city of South Portland. He succeeds Rocco Marzilli, who is new director of finance and administration at Regional Waste Systems.

Among U. S. women with children age 6 or younger, 56 percent work, says the Labor Department.

Windham Police have a new Dictaphone 9000 that lets them record calls on radio and telephone.

Regional Waste Systems requires member communities to deliver all their waste to RWS and to pay the RWS tipping fees, said Eric Root, deputy RWS director. Communities that want to push recycling of waste must deliver the waste to a recycling site picked by RWS.