Westbrook police arrested a 62-year-old transient on Sunday afternoon after he fled Rite Aid with stolen merchandise. On Sunday, Nov. 22, at 4:13 p.m. Westbrook police responded to the report of an armed robbery at Rite Aid located at 465 Main St. According to Capt. Sean Lally, the suspect, Mark Lyon, concealed merchandise and left […]

No one in the Westbrook-Gorham area needs to be hungry or forgotten on Thanksgiving Day next week. Mister Bagel, 13 New Portland Road in downtown Gorham, and the Stockhouse Restaurant & Sports Pub, 506 Main St. in Westbrook, will both host free Thanksgiving Day meals featuring turkey and all the trimmings, and an invitation is […]

As Thanksgiving nears, dedicated volunteers at food pantries in Westbrook and Gorham are stockpiling goods to give out to needy families, while schools and businesses also lend a hand. This week, longtime Westbrook Food Pantry director Jeanne Rielly and the rest of the pantry volunteers were working to organize the weekly offerings of food. Rielly […]

Portland police responded to the area of Market and Fore streets for reports of gun shots at 12:23 a.m. Monday and discovered a 22-year-old Westbrook man injured from an apparent gunshot wound. According to Portland police Lt. James Sweatt, the man was transported to a Maine Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. An additional victim, a […]

Steven Berry retained his Ward 1 School Committee victory following a recount Saturday. Berry beat eight-year incumbent Alex Stone 278 to 270. The Nov. 3 election results showed Berry winning by just seven votes, 277-270. The original tally showed 45 blank ballots, and after Saturday’s recount at Westbrook City Hall, just one of those ballots […]

Officials from Sappi Fine Paper will host the next in a series of public meetings regarding the removal of the company’s hydroelectric dams at Saccarappa Falls. Sappi has announced its intent to file an application to surrender its license for the dams, part of its agreement to establish fish passage at the site by May […]

Officials from Sappi Fine Paper will host the next in a series of public meetings regarding the removal of the company’s hydroelectric dams at Saccarappa Falls. Sappi has announced its intent to file an application to surrender its license for the dams, part of its agreement to establish fish passage at the site by May […]

Q&A with Louis Phillipe Westbrook musician and record-label owner Louis Phillipe has been performing music at churches since childhood, and has mastered songs to be played at the most difficult of times – funerals. Now, Phillipe has released a new album, titled “The Funeral Singer,” which includes 15 songs that he has played at funerals […]