Utility workers on Monday re-installed a light pole flattened last week by a car at the corner of Main and Church streets in Westbrook. A fire hydrant and the pole were taken out in the early morning hours of Dec. 23 by a driver who fell asleep. According to Westbrook police the driver was not […]

WESTBROOK – A Westbrook firefighter resigned Monday following assault charges stemming from an arrest in October. Peter O’Hara, 33, was arrested and charged with assault on Oct. 11 at PT’s Showclub in Portland. According to the Portland police report, he was arraigned on Nov. 20, and has a dispositional conference on Feb. 4. Westbrook Mayor […]

WESTBROOK – When Rob Mitchell looks at the Presumpscot River and the Westbrook riverwalk, he sees untapped opportunities that should be attracting people to the city’s natural beauty. But, he said, there are no amenities keeping people here. “Where is everybody?” he said last week about the riverwalk. “What if you want to get a […]

WESTBROOK – It was a mix of emotions at the Westbrook Historical Society Tuesday, as tributes to one of the city’s most beloved residents gave way to a flurry of excitement at the official closing of the bicentennial time capsule. Since June, when Westbrook celebrated its 200th birthday and opened a 100-year-old tin time capsule […]

WESTBROOK – It was a mix of emotions at the Westbrook Historical Society Tuesday, as tributes to one of the city’s most beloved residents gave way to a flurry of excitement at the official closing of the bicentennial time capsule. Since June, when Westbrook celebrated its 200th birthday and opened a 100-year-old tin time capsule […]

GORHAM – With an assortment of Christmas sweets as presents for shut-ins, two Gorham women were busy Monday in a home kitchen filling decorative tins with cookies. Jude Garland and Shelby Zaner have been handling their holiday mission for about a decade in a program sponsored annually by the board of deacons at the First […]

Christmas concerts series LifeChurch in Gorham has teamed up with Connor Garvey and October Road for four, free Christmas concerts in the series “A Light Will Shine” at the church, located at 8 Elkins Road. The concerts with Garvey are at 6 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, and with October […]

City officials have announced Angela Holmes as their nominee to take over the Westbrook city clerk position. The Westbrook City Council will vote to approve the new city clerk at a meeting on Monday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m., in Room 114 at Westbrook High School. Pending approval, Holmes, a four-year city clerk veteran in […]

GORHAM – A Gorham woman who Bridgton police said in October was the driver in a single-car crash that claimed lives of her son and another passenger, has been indicted by a grand jury, the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office reported last week. Candice Tucker, 35, of Gorham faces charges of two counts of manslaughter […]