Nov. 23, 1983

Police took the side of Andy’s Tavern, but Frenchtown neighbors’

tales of vomit, noise, brawls, glass-smashing, pot and more persuaded the Westbrook Mayor and City Council to refuse renewal of its liquor-beer-wine license Monday. The vote was 7-1 with only Alderman Donald Esty Jr. in favor of the license. However, the State Liquor Commission will have the final say. City

Council President Charles Malcolm Roma warned neighbors of the tavern at Brown and North streets that if they want the shutdown to stick, they’d have to have convincing evidence for the Liquor Commission when it holds a public hearing.

Westbrook police motes: Portland police gave the address where a hit-run car from an accident in Portland might be found. The ’69 Impala had damage on its right front and should show yellow paint, Portland police said. Westbrook Police found it there. A citizen was worried about a man in a car who sat and sat and then sprawled out on the seat. He was only waiting while his wife got her hair done. Fireman went to 23 Brown St. after food burning on the stove set off a smoke alarm. A mother asked police to stop her sons from fighting.

Monday’s recount confirmed Wayne Jackson’s victory over Judith

Brann for the Ward 2 seat on the Westbrook School Committee. He ended with 526 votes to her 519. The election-night score was Jackson 526, Brann 522. That also clinched the first Republican majority on the School Committee in 10 years.

The Gorham Town Council voted 5-1 last week for a negotiated

settlement of the zoning violation represented by Stephen Roberts’ body shop on the Weeks Road. Code Enforcement Officer Guy P. Coolbroth said Roberts took out a proper building permit and built a three-car residential garage in a

residential zone, but has been using it as a body shop. A body shop in that zone is not an allowed use. The town took Roberts and his wife to court over the problem in March. But on Nov. 15 the Council went into executive session to authorize the town lawyer, Kenneth Cole, to negotiate with the Robertses’

lawyer for a settlement.

Despite an ordinance requiring it, not enough Westbrook people are saving their paper for the monthly recycling collections. So the mayor’s office has called for suspending both the collections and the ordinance from January until May while a committee studies what to do.

Nov. 24, 1993

Westbrook’s string of car burglaries came to an end when Dennis

Wescott and his wife Denise spotted four young men teaming up to steal from cars in the parking lot at Mill Brook Estates, the old folks’ apartments across the street from their home on East Bridge Street It was 1:15 a.m. Nov. 2. Wescott saw a white car full of people pull into the parking lot as he arrived home with pizza. He mentioned the car to Denise and she took a look and soon saw what they were up to. The sound of a car window breaking drove home the fact that they were raiding cars. Wescott called police, and they were there in “30 seconds,” he said. Chief Ronald Allanach confirmed the story and said car burglaries have been rare since the arrests. Sixteen cars were burglarized in the Saco-Spring streets area Oct. 17, 19 in the Colonial Acres Area Oct. 21, and 45 in Colonial Acres Nov. 2. Police said previously that all the cars were unlocked.

John W. Hay, 795 Main St., Westbrook, has achieved a 60-year perfect attendance record in the Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Club. He joined the Westbrook Rotary Club in June 1932 and has met the attendance requirements of Rotary International since that date. He has attended his own club’s meeting or another Rotary meeting every week. He was honored with an award from Richard E. Clark, district governor, at a meeting of the Westbrook-Gorham Rotary.

Dr. Joseph Py has been appointed by Gov. John McKernan to chair

the Substance Abuse Services Commission. Dr. Py is co-medical director of the Chemical Dependency Treatment, the Eating Disorder, and Minor Emergence Room services at Westbrook Community Hospital. The Substance Abuse Services Commission is a citizen commission for abuse prevention and training, to work with the Office of Substance Abuse, the governor and Legislature.

Scott Paper Co. is closing a plant in Belgium that makes release

papers, and some of its work may come to the S.D. Warren plant in Westbrook, according to mill sources. The Belgian plant was on the market for sale at the time Scott was intending to sell the Westbrook mill. Closing of it will cost 150 jobs.