The administration has proposed a budget that would reduce Westbrook’s property taxes by 5 percent if the budget were approved in its current form. The 2005-2006 budget proposed by Mayor Bruce Chuluda calls for a tax rate of $22.58 per $1,000 of valuation, which represents a 5 percent decrease of $1.18 from the current rate […]

Making committee appointments at its meeting last week, the Gorham Town Council appointed 21 people to three-year terms that end on April 1, 2008. The appointments are Tom Hughes and Michael W. Parker, Planning Board; Susan Russett-Collett, Board of Health; Joseph Gwozdz and David McCullough, Board of Appeals; Chris Barstow, Deborah Loveitt and Peggy Marchand, […]

A flat-funded School budget would require cutting $1.36 million and lead to the elimination of 34 positions, including administrators, teachers and education technicians. That was the assessment of Superintendent Stan Sawyer Monday night as he reacted to Mayor Bruce Chuluda’s proposed budget at a meeting Monday night. “I would like to respectfully indicate to Mayor […]

After months of waiting, Wal-Mart finally presented its plans to the Planning Board last week. At a meeting on April 5, Wal-Mart presented a sketch plan of the store proposed for the site of the Saunders Brothers mill, after filing its plans with the city in February. The plan submitted by Sebago Technics on behalf […]

April 1980 Westbrook’s City Council voted to send two people to the annual meeting of the National League of Cities in Washington. Instead, five went, using the mayor’s power to spend individual items of up to $1,000 – in this case, $485 each. The five: Mayor William O’Gara, his assistant Harold Parks, and Aldermen Louis […]

The 16th century Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon is famous for his fruitless search for the fountain of youth. But today the percentage of Americans age 65 and older has more than tripled, now representing more than 13 percent of the overall population. Not only are more people living into the second 50 years of […]

The town of Buxton will hold a special town meeting at 7 p.m. today, April 13, in the town hall on Portland Road. Voters are being asked whether they want to approve an amount not-to-exceed $10,000 for a used squad truck for Buxton fire and rescue. The money would be used to buy a truck […]

Pythian Sisters yard sale The Pythian Sisters are sponsoring a two-day indoor yard sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16, at their building in Buxton Center on Route 22. The sale will help raise money for a new stove. Cutline (Ray #1 or 2 editimages) – World […]

This viewpoint is in response to the letter in the American Journal on April 6 titled “Esty Right to offer Parking,” by Ray Richardson. I found Ray’s letter, applauding our former mayor’s actions to provide Flannery Properties with 90 parking spaces in the CVS parking lot without council review, to be appalling. Obviously, Ray shows […]

Cutline (sign of spring -editimages) – Katie St. Onge, on the left, and Katie Lowe take advantage of Sunday’s beautiful weather to sell iced tea by the side of Morrill Avenue. Staff photo by Jim Correale Rummage, perennial sale There will be two days of bargains this month when Trinity Circle sponsors its annual spring […]