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 […]

Sept. 26, 1990 If you grew up in Westbrook, chances are you swam in it, fished in it or rowed your homemade raft in it. Spring-fed Beaver Pond used to be a bonafide swimming hole, complete with swings, docks and floats. That was 20 or 30 years ago. Now, no one swims in it and […]

Insurance company Disability RMS, with some 350 employees, has begun moving out of its offices in the One Riverfront Plaza building, a few months before its lease expires in January. While expected for a year, the impact from the departure from downtown Westbrook won’t be any easier. Employees of the company routinely eat and shop […]

Insurance company Disability RMS, with some 350 employees, has begun moving out of its offices in the One Riverfront Plaza building, a few months before its lease expires in January. While expected for a year, the impact from the departure from downtown Westbrook won’t be any easier. Employees of the company routinely eat and shop […]

Gorham strong for Tuttle A posting on the American Journal Facebook page has announced a benefit for Kenny Tuttle, a Gorham High School athlete and class of 2015 graduate. The posting said Tuttle was recently diagnosed with cancer just before he was to leave for college. Two benefits have been organized for Saturday, Sept. 26 […]

A new event will replace the city’s longstanding Halloween on Main Street, shelved for at least this year. Members of the Westbrook/Gorham Community Chamber, the organizers of Halloween on Main Street, said the Bridge Street bridge construction and associated traffic complicated the annual event, which normally brings thousands into the downtown. Since the late 1990s, […]

Rotary speaker talks on organ donation At a recent Westbrook-Gorahm Rotary meeting, Scott Linscott discussed his medical emergency at at Disney World in May 2011, when he found out his liver had failed and he had only a short time to live, He eventually received a partial liver transplant from his son, and that “started […]

A lawsuit against the city of Westbrook was dismissed last week after a federal judge ruled that the police department did not violate the constitutional rights of a Westbrook couple when evicting them from their apartment in 2013. The couple, Kevin McBride and Anne Blake, had been living on the second floor at 277 Main […]

Among the diverse selection of goods offered each Saturday at the Maine Market in Westbrook are hundreds of colorful hair accessories. While not the traditional produce expected at a local farmers market, Kristin Hayes and her business Kyla’s Bowtique has become a mainstay vendor. James Tranchemontagne, who organizes the Riverbank Park market, said the small […]

Among the diverse selection of goods offered each Saturday at the Maine Market in Westbrook are hundreds of colorful hair accessories. While not the traditional produce expected at a local farmers market, Kristin Hayes and her business Kyla’s Bowtique has become a mainstay vendor. James Tranchemontagne, who organizes the Riverbank Park market, said the small […]