This photo shows a Cushman Baking Company delivery truck sitting in front of the old Westbrook Hospital at 537 Main Street. The hospital was established in 1909 by Dr. Felix Barrett and was known for years as the Barrett Hospital. After Dr. Barrett died, it became known as the Westbrook Hospital. This hospital closed in […]

Partnership for Healthy Aging is pleased to offer “Putting the Puzzle Together: Getting Ready to Offer Information, Cure and Support to Older Family Members and Friends” on Wednesdays, June 22 and 29 and July 6 and 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 136 Route 1 in Scarborough. Many of […]

Cutline-Adult ed grads The Westbrook Adult Education class of 2005 celebrated its graduation at ceremonies held on June 7 at the Westbrook High School auditorium. Adult Education Director Jonathan Ross said Jane Farr was named the winner of the Isabelle Leborgne Award. The 38 graduates also got a nice graduation gift from the Cornelia Warren […]

Recently at Walker Memorial Library, a display of photographs of happy, smiling children beamed down from the walls. The kids pictured in the display were of all ages and came from a wide variety of backgrounds, yet they all had one thing in common. They were all children who are waiting for an adoptive family […]

June 1980 Westbrook Mayor William B. O’Gara has retired from teaching after 23 years, the past 19 teaching American history at South Portland’s Mahoney Junior High School. It isn’t fun any more, he said. He is 48, and may look for a job in personnel or public relations. Two men have been found drowned in […]

As I sat in room 114 of Westbrook High School (the city’s council chambers) Monday night watching a plan to close the Stroudwater Street Bridge in Westbrook turn into a heated exchange between citizens, city councilors, the mayor and Maine Turnpike Authority officials, the problem with traffic in the communities to the west of Portland […]

Cutline: The 1955 class reunion committee is planning its 50th. Members of the committee in the front row are, left to right, Paul Irish, Patsy Kimball, June Hayes and Rita Willis. The two in the back row are Janice Weed and Leroy Dixon. A courtesy photo Class of ’55 reunion The Gorham High School Class […]

Cutline: The 1955 class reunion committee is planning its 50th. Members of the committee in the front row are, left to right, Paul Irish, Patsy Kimball, June Hayes and Rita Willis. The two in the back row are Janice Weed and Leroy Dixon. A courtesy photo Class of ’55 reunion The Gorham High School Class […]

Food pantry needs volunteers to help with move The Westbrook Food Pantry is looking for volunteers to help with the pantry’s move from the Dana Warp Mill to the basement of the American Legion Hall on Dunn Street at the end of July Jeanne Rielly, a volunteer at the food pantry, said the pantry would […]

Police are looking for a white male who robbed the Community Pharmacy on Main Street in Gorham at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8. Detective David Bruni said the man stole an undisclosed amount of OxyContin. He said the man fled the scene on foot. Three clerks were on duty in the pharmacy when the […]