WESTBROOK — The Westbrook Children’s Project will celebrate its 10th birthday this year and move forward without the administrative support it has been receiving from the United Way of Greater Portland. Formed in 2009 with the help of the United Way, the Westbrook Children’s Project’s goal was to create a network to support children “from cradle […]
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Carpoolers can get prime parking at concerts
WESTBROOK — Concertgoers heading to the Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row this spring will have an incentive to carpool. Waterfront Concerts, the company behind the events in Westbrook and venues elsewhere, is trying something new. Starting with the first show, Anderson .Paak on May 26, audience members can tap into a Ride Share program that […]
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Concert inspired by rescue animals
GORHAM — Upon hearing “Our Cast Aways,” a musical ode to rescue pets by a renowned Mississippi composer, Jacqueline Townsend knew it was a piece she wanted the University of Southern Maine Concert Band to perform. “She wrote this piece to pay homage to rescued animals, the humans who rescue them, and those that still […]
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Looking Back: Feb. 27
March 1, 1995 The Westbrook City Council voted last week to require tobacco retailers to have a city license, revocable for sales to minors. Close on the heels of that action came an award for the city: the first-ever President’s Award of the American Lung Association of Maine. “It’s kind of ironic,” Westbrook Mayor Kenneth […]
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Looking Back: Jan. 30
Feb. 1, 1995 Students dug in their heels for their right to choose, but a Westbrook School Committee majority Wednesday appeared to favor a permanent policy of holding graduations in the high school. Carrie Brown, president of the senior class, argued for leaving the graduation site to the seniors. The flap over a nude dance […]