MPTC hosts annual fundraiser Westbrook’s My Place Teen Center will host the 2015 Fund-A-Kid Celebration and Awards this Thursday, Oct. 1 from 6-8:30 p.m. The event is the organization’s largest annual fundraiser. The event will feature hors d’oeuvres and sweet treats from the Frog and Turtle Gastro Pub, a cash bar with beer and wine, […]

More than 100 people gathered last week to celebrate the official groundbreaking for the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland’s new adoption center in Westbrook. Construction on the organization’s 25,000 square-foot center began last month behind the current site on Stroudwater Street. Last Friday, the shelter’s executive director, Patsy Murphy, led the ceremony – a […]

Regardless of a top-level leadership shift at the Westbrook/Gorham Community Chamber, the Gorham Founders Festival it sponsors remains good to go this year with new fall dates. Darryl Wright of Gorham has temporarily taken the reins of the chamber. The American Journal last week that the organization’s president and vice president had stepped down. “I […]

There are big changes at Westbrook High School, which is forging ahead with a new curriculum model. In Amy Troiano’s sophomore honors biology class last week at Westbrook High School, students wore bright-colored goggles, poured various substances – including blended liver – in and out of glass beakers, and recorded the results. The classroom atmosphere […]

There are big changes at Westbrook High School, which is forging ahead with a new curriculum model. In Amy Troiano’s sophomore honors biology class last week at Westbrook High School, students wore bright-colored goggles, poured various substances – including blended liver – in and out of glass beakers, and recorded the results. The classroom atmosphere […]

A dispatcher at Cumberland County Regional Communications Center said at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday that a stretch of New Portland Road in Gorham was closed. Gorham Public Works Director Bob Burns said the road closed from the roundabout to Bartlett Road is closed due to damage but it will likely open Wednesday night. Eric Dudley, […]

Two leaders of the Westbrook/Gorham Community Chamber have stepped down. Dennis Dalton, the president, and James Tranchemontange, the vice president, announced this week they are leaving the board. Dalton was president for less than a year, following the exit of Andrew Cook. Tranchemontange said Wednesday that he had “philosophical” differences with the chamber, but that […]

A job fair organized by the Westbrook Community Center is aimed at filling local positions with Westbrook residents and clients of the city’s General Assistance program. Melissa Swett, who was hired recently as the city’s general assistance administrator and community outreach coordinator, said this week that she is organizing the event to give local businesses […]

A job fair organized by the Westbrook Community Center is aimed at filling local positions with Westbrook residents and clients of the city’s General Assistance program. Melissa Swett, who was hired recently as the city’s general assistance administrator and community outreach coordinator, said this week that she is organizing the event to give local businesses […]

The international obstacle course event known as Tough Mudder will return to Westbrook this weekend for a second year, bringing thousands of people to Sunset Ridge Golf Links. But whether you’re a “mudder” or a spectator, don’t expect the same course. According to Hilary May, a director of event operations for Tough Mudder, the 2015 […]