Just after noon on Sunday, 40-year-old Patrick Hanna and his wife were in the checkout line at Rite Aid in Westbrook, when a car crashed through the front of the building, stopping about 2 feet from where they were standing. “I looked back, and the whole wall and debris was coming our way,” he said. […]

Plans for a new building housing a Subway Restaurant and an Aroma Joe’s, to replace the rundown, longtime vacant gas station at 109 Main St. in Gorham, were unveiled Monday. “We’d all like to see this building gone as soon as possible,” Owens McCullough, agent for developer Jon Smith of Great Falls Builders, told the […]

Plans for a new building housing a Subway Restaurant and an Aroma Joe’s, to replace the rundown, longtime vacant gas station at 109 Main St. in Gorham, were unveiled Monday. “We’d all like to see this building gone as soon as possible,” Owens McCullough, agent for developer Jon Smith of Great Falls Builders, told the […]

John Whittenburg, 62, of Gorham, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to six years in prison and six years of supervised release for receiving child pornography. Whittenburg pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 21. According to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II , in April 2012, investigators looking into […]

Half a dozen teenagers were strewn on couches and the floor in Walker Memorial Library recently, browsing laptops and playing games on tablets. It was the first day a group of teens had utilized the new “young adult” room at the library, and three library staffers were overseeing the operation during an otherwise slow day. […]

A dispute involving what entity would head up youth baseball and softball in Gorham remained unresolved early this week. At issue is whether Gorham Recreation Department or a volunteers’ group, Gorham Youth Baseball and Softball, would organize Cal Ripkin Baseball and Babe Ruth Softball programs in the town this year. Cindy Hazelton, director of Gorham […]

Feb. 28, 1990 With a good deal of anguish, the City Council set Westbrook’s sewer rate last week at $3.34 for each 100 feet of water used, a 68 percent increase. Part of the increase was blamed on a wrong guess about how much sewage would come into the Portland Water District’s treatment plant in […]

Fundraiser to save the center Vicki Lloyd, owner-director of the Centre of Movement, announced this week that its Festival of Feet is set for Saturday, April 11, in the McCormack Performing Arts Center in Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Avenue. Lloyd said the show is a fundraiser for a sprinkler system that authorities are requiring […]

Rielly signing books Bowdoin College student Morgan Rielly of Westbrook wqill sign copies of his book, “Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons Learned from Maine’s Greatest Generation,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, at Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, in Portland The book sells for $15.95. “‘Neighborhood Heroes’ is the story of 26 Maine World War […]

Westbook school officials this week unrolled some preliminary conceptual building sketches aimed at easing the space crunch at two of the city’s schools. Money to pay for expansions could be on a November ballot. Parents and residents on Monday nearly filled the Community Room at the Westbrook Community Center to learn the details. School officials […]