School committee suspends state graduation requirements The Westbrook School Committee suspended a portion of the Maine Learning Results program last Wednesday night.////The School Committee has the power to suspend the state program?//// The committee retracted the Learning Results assessment requirements for graduation while the state works out kinks in the program. While they wait for […]

The Gorham Town Council Appointments Committee will be meeting in February to consider applications for appointments to various town boards and committees. There are upcoming and/or current vacancies on all of the town’s boards and committees. Please visit the Town Clerk’s office at 270 Main Street to apply. You may also visit the town’s Web […]

The lives of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated at the University of Southern Maine on Jan. 24 from 4-6 p.m. on the seventh floor of the Glickman Family Library on Forest Avenue in Portland. The event is free and open to the public. The evening will begin with a viewing […]

Gertrude turns 102 Gertrude Jewett celebrated her 102nd birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 11, surrounded by family and fellow residents at Longfellow Place. Her son, Leon LaBrecque, 84, of Gorham, attended the party. She also has another son, Earl of North Dakota. Jewett has 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Jewett once worked in […]

January 1981 Maurice Gleckman, manager of Westbrook Hardware, and his wife Frances, his assistant, will retire Jan. 31. “The Dean of Downtown,” he has been at the store since 1945. Other long-time downtowners include Bill Rocheleau, men’s clothing; Hubert “Storm” Hebert, food; Roland Albert and his father Auguste Albert, Men’s Shop, family clothing; Phil and […]

Spring is the traditional time for sheep shearing in Maine. Ewes have had their lambs and shepherds are preparing their flocks for the pasture season. A hands-on sheep shearing school is planned for Saturday, March 25 at Sun Rise Acres located at 42 Winn Road in Cumberland. The course fee is $20.00 per participant and […]

The Westbrook American reported in its issue of Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1956, that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bachelder of Green Street announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Bachelder, to Warren Bruce Murchie.

The Westbrook American reported in its issue of Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1956, that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bachelder of Green Street announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Bachelder, to Warren Bruce Murchie.

Westbrook City Councilors were expected to confront a developer Wednesday night who they believe has changed plans for a retirement community. Changes to the final plan for Stroudwater Landing, a retirement development on a 53-acre plot between Stroudwater and Spring streets, has sparked controversy among city councilors and some Westbrook residents after Sandy River Health […]

Waltham Street resident Arthur Bragdon has seen two world wars, the coming of electricity and the automobile to Maine, as well as the advent of television and the computer. Bragdon, who turned 100 on Jan. 9, has a little more trouble getting around on his own these days. He can’t hear or see as well […]