I’d like to thank everyone who spent six plus hours packed into the Westbrook City Council meeting last Monday night. I was one who was sitting in the hall. I admit to leaving at 9:15 and watching at home on TV till my eyelids simply couldn’t stay open. I was delighted to learn council members […]

Residents on Chestnut Street have recently been awakened by the sound of chainsaws and skidders to a harsh reality: That land behind their house that they’ve been paying taxes on for nearly a decade isn’t really theirs. It now belongs to a housing developer. Why? Well, the city says that’s complicated. The problem dates back […]

The Westbrook Remembered photo in last week’s American Journal appeared with an incorrect caption. The correct photo and caption will appear in next week’s paper.

The Westbrook School Department will be receiving up to $39,800 in federal money as part of a program designed to help boost technology in schools. The program, known as the E-Rate program, was included as part of the 1996 federal Telecommunications Act, and was authored in part by Sen. Olympia Snowe. “I firmly believe that […]

Editor’s note: An incorrect picture ran with last week’s Westbrook Remembered. This is the correct picture and caption.

Ice covers the ruins of the Vallee Block at Main and Bridge streets. An early morning fire on February 13, 1942, swept through the building, and water used to fight the fire quickly turned to ice in the sub zero temperatures. The upper floors of the building were later removed, and the first floor was […]

Three teenagers are free on bail this week after being arrested and charged with manslaughter last week in connection with the death of a Glenwood Avenue man on July 7. Maine State Police Sgt. Walter Grzyb said Wade DePalma, 19, of Bridge Street; Nicholas Lavigne, 19, of Pierce Street and Alexander Layug, 18, of Massachusetts […]

A growing number of older men and women are welcoming newborns. But the real question is: What’s it like to be changing diapers at 50? In the last few years, a slew of celebrities, including Diane Keaton, Joan Lunden, and Sharon Stone, have embraced motherhood in midlife. They are a high-profile reflection of what’s happening […]

You’re invited The Southern Maine Volkssport Association is inviting the public to attend its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St. Everyone is also welcome to attend their American Folk Festival walks in Bangor on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27 and 28. Chopin Club plans upcoming […]

Nothing can take away the pain and grief of a family who has lost a loved one in a tragic traffic accident. Their lives are changed forever. Imagine the despair and shock when you realize that the other driver involved should not be driving at all. Such is the case of Tina Turcotte’s family and […]