Question: Would you invest in a company whose auditor said that there were “inadequate controls over cash management?” How about if the examiner added that “expenditures were included twice” and that there were “overstated expenditures?” Would you trust a company whose audit report said that it “only partially claimed certain payroll expenditures” and that “cash […]

While most Mainers heat their homes with oil, they will still feel the effect of skyrocketing natural gas prices in the form of higher electric bills come March. Maine relies on natural gas, as does the rest of the country, to power more than one-third of its electric-generating plants. New plants were built to be […]

Students at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center hosted a benefit dinner in the school’s dining hall on Sept. 29 to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Westbrook chapter of DECA, the Distributive Education Clubs of America, set out to raise money to assist other student chapters of the national club in the Gulf Coast that had […]

Students at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center hosted a benefit dinner in the school’s dining hall on Sept. 29 to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Westbrook chapter of DECA, the Distributive Education Clubs of America, set out to raise money to assist other student chapters of the national club in the Gulf Coast that had […]

Recent tests at Buxton’s Hanson Elementary School and Bonny Eagle Middle School indicated coliform bacteria was present in the water. However, a school administrator said the presence of the bacteria didn’t warrant alarm and said the water was still safe to drink. “They didn’t find anything worrisome,” such as E-coli bacteria, said Suzanne Lukas, superintendent […]

Leach featured in calendar Pauline A. Leach of Gray Road, formerly of Westbrook, is featured in the 2006 Gracefully Yours “Goes Red” calendar, which helps raise money for the American Heart Association. Leach, 60, and her personal story appear for July in the calendar. She works as a mental health technician and daily combines prayer, […]

Leach featured in calendar Pauline A. Leach of Gray Road, formerly of Westbrook, is featured in the 2006 Gracefully Yours “Goes Red” calendar, which helps raise money for the American Heart Association. Leach, 60, and her personal story appear for July in the calendar. She works as a mental health technician and daily combines prayer, […]

Westbrook’s new Catholic parish of St. Anthony’s has elected to retain the St. Hyacinth’s Church as the parish’s permanent home. Parishioners voted to close St. Edmund’s and St. Mary’s and move into the historic church on Brown Street at a meeting last month. That recommendation now awaits the approval of Bishop Richard Joseph Malone. Last […]

Westbrook’s new Catholic parish of St. Anthony’s has elected to retain the St. Hyacinth’s Church as the parish’s permanent home. Parishioners voted to close St. Edmund’s and St. Mary’s and move into the historic church on Brown Street at a meeting last month. That recommendation now awaits the approval of Bishop Richard Joseph Malone. Last […]

October 1980 Two weeks after Mayor William O’Gara asked Westbrook city department heads to report directly to his assistant Harold Parks, Parks was appointed city manager of Rockland. Parks, 39, has been in the Westbrook job since 1973. He gets $25,000 in Westbrook; the City Council recently capped a raise at $800 for non-union personnel, […]