The Westbrook Fire Department will be welcoming a new deputy fire chief later this summer. The city has hired Thaddeus Soltys, currently the chief of the Shaker Pines Fire District in Enfield, Conn., to fill the spot vacated by Tim Pellerin, who left the department in March to take a position as emergency management director […]

Shipbuilders will launch a Westbrook-built boat into Portland Harbor tomorrow afternoon for the first time in 172 years. Unlike the last time in 1833, however, the shipbuilders are not professionals; they are students in Wescott Junior High School’s alternative learning program. The students have been working on the boat, a 21-foot dory – a traditional […]

Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is sponsoring a variety show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. There will be several entertainers with a wide variety of talents. You may hear music by the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Broadway show tunes, original compositions, favorite hymns and classical piano. Admission is free, although a free-will […]

Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is sponsoring a variety show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. There will be several entertainers with a wide variety of talents. You may hear music by the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Broadway show tunes, original compositions, favorite hymns and classical piano. Admission is free, although a free-will […]

Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is sponsoring a variety show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. There will be several entertainers with a wide variety of talents. You may hear music by the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Broadway show tunes, original compositions, favorite hymns and classical piano. Admission is free, although a free-will […]

Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is sponsoring a variety show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. There will be several entertainers with a wide variety of talents. You may hear music by the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Broadway show tunes, original compositions, favorite hymns and classical piano. Admission is free, although a free-will […]

After being hit by a car, a Bonny Eagle student, inspired by the memory of two coaches who died, graduated with honors on Friday. Sarah Sargent of Buxton was hit from behind by a car in March last year while running along Route 35 near the high school with her lacrosse team. She suffered a […]

Adams on dean’s list Mallory A. Adams has been named to the dean’s list for the second semester at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. A member of the class of 2006, Adams is the daughter of Marie and Steve Adams. Gouzie excels at Colby Madison C. Gouzie, a first-year student at Colby College in […]

It certainly appears that there has been absolutely no consideration of traffic issues in the Foster Street and Cloudman Street neighborhoods in relationship to the intentions of Westbrook Housing Authority and the city to allow an entrance into the Hay project from the end of the Foster Field parking lot. Having lived in this neighborhood […]

At Merrill Auditorium in Portland on Sunday, speakers urged Gorham High School graduates to be involved, unafraid of failure and to raise the bar. Family and friends of 185 graduates nearly filled the 1,900-seat auditorium for the two-hour ceremony. The graduates marched in to “Pomp and Circumstance,” played on the organ by David Wallace, father […]