May 1980

On Memorial Day, Monday, there’ll be parades in Westbrook, South Portland (three divisions), Gorham, repeated in Little Falls-South Windham, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and Windham. Starting times range from 9 to 11 a.m. Among marchers will be members of Cumberland Barracks 469, World War I Veterans.

Westbrook Police Chief Leroy Darling has warned all liquor stores and license holders against selling alcohol to minors.

In referendum Sept. 23, Maine citizens will vote on whether to ban nuclear power plants.

Mary Adams, Garland, says municipal debt for schools has gone up 50 percent in the five years since all school construction came under state control. She called for smaller, more energy-efficient schools. She led the repeal of the uniform property tax and is on the state Board of Education, appointed by Gov. James Longley.

The Westbrook City Council took two steps to help Weyerhaeuser Company add 30,000 square feet of warehouse space to its carton factory on Hawkes Street. The city will move a sewer at a cost of about $30,000, and will let the company borrow $1 million at the city’s interest rate.

Al Hawkes, Westbrook bluegrass guitarist, was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony at Lost Valley, Auburn. Also inducted were Slim Clark, yodeler, and Gene Hooper, radio disc jockey.

Skip Lucareelli, South Portland, plans a $3 to $4 million 10-story apartment house on eight acres at Sawyer, Summit, Lowell and Everett Streets, South Portland.

The top seniors in Gorham High School are, in order, Caroline R. Estes, Zilpha A. Oliver, Joanna M. Morrill, Jonathan C. Edgerton, Kimberly Meggison Fasulo, Katherine Andrew, Suzann M. Milheron, Roberta L. Young, Beth A. Carter and Mark N. Cartonio.

West Gorham and North Gorham fire stations use electric heat, and the cost for this season is $2,000 over budget.

Windham High School’s Proscenium Players will present “The Wizard of Oz” Friday and Saturday.

In town meeting, Windham voters defeated budget cuts and passed budgets of $1,630,657, town, and $4,766,745, school. They reelected Kenneth M. Cole III and Harold Haskell to the Town Council and Susan Attwood to the School Committee. New Members elected are Brian Olson, Council, and Patricia Pettersen, School Committee.

Letter grades will return in September to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grades in Scarborough. “When 710 parents say this is how we’d like you to report…we got reeducated,” said Superintendent Carl Burnham.

Woodfords School (for trainables) wants to lease Scarborough’s idle Dunstan School.

Frank Russo, of Gemini Concerts, Providence, R.I., wants to lease Scarborough Downs for outdoor rock concerts.

Robert G. Fortin Inc., Westbrook, is advertising Lane cedar chests starting at $128.05.

Mrs. Ruby Greenlaw, Pope Road, Windham, caught two trout and a 20-inch salmon at Moosehead Lake and picked a bucket of fiddlehead ferns, reports Elsie Haskell.

Tena Saunders, Sebago Acres, Standish, was honored May 8 on her 99th birthday.

The U. S. Catholic Conference will hold a meeting at St. Joseph’s College May 22 and 23 on issues related to the control and distribution of energy.

Westbrook’s school budget asks for $8,729,954, raising the tax rate $2.55. The School Committee voted cuts that will bring the increase to “above $2.”

May 1990

Westbrook High School has opened its new science wing including the new school library.

The School Committee is urging Scarborough to build a $10-million-plus school to serve many purposes. It turned down buying or leasing the former Herman Shoe factory for school use.

The Edna Libby Handbell Ringers are a dozen fifth- and sixth-grade students from Standish. They’ll join the Cony High School madrigal singers and the Kennebunk High School Band in entertaining in Augusta at the state’s Drug-free Recognition Ceremony. The state’s best drug-free school programs will be honored, and the governor and possibly President Bush will attend.

Don Mannett, the city of Westbrook’s director of engineering, took up two years ago the hobby of carving birds, and has done a variety of remarkably life-like birds, blue jay, puffin, woodcock and more. He takes orders now.

O’Donal’s Nurseries, Gorham, is marking its 30th anniversary.

The Public Utilities Commission has granted the Portland Water District a 27 percent rate hike.

The S. D. Warren Company has given $25,000 to send 10 Westbrook High School students to the literacy program at the Hurricane Island Outward bound program for six weeks this summer.

David J. Perkins, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Cumberland County district attorney, has been endorsed by police chiefs of Westbrook (Ronald Allanach), Portland (Michael Chitwood) and South Portland (Robert Schwartz).

After not-quite seven months as Gorham town manager, John Marcarelli resigned Tuesday, in an executive session of the Town Council.

The Westbrook Veterans Memorial Association will sponsor its annual Memorial Roll Call service Sunday, honoring all Westbrook citizens who have died in the year, 207. The service will be in St. Edmunds Church. The record has been prepared by Philip LaViolet.

The Windham Chamber of Commerce will have a float, “The Rose Garden,” in Windham’s Memorial Day parade.

Susan Julavits, who teaches English at Westbrook High School, is a judge in the national contest for best student literary magazines, held by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Camp Ketcha, the Camp Fire co-ed day camp, is accepting applications for its summer session and riding camp.

Waldo Hayes, Cape Elizabeth; Rita Caron, South Portland; and James Duran, Portland, won trophies at the Southern Maine Toastmasters contest. Caron won the Toastmaster of the Year award.

William Lemke, 43, of Westbrook, a history professor at St. Joseph’s College, is a candidate for Democratic nomination for state representative.

Mayor Fred Wescott gave a quick OK to a woman who asked if she could harvest the dandelions at Westbrook’s Scates Block. This gave the American Journal reason to publish Josephine Oakes’ recipe for dandelion wine – 4 quarts of blossoms (no stems), etc.