New logo for Founders festival The annual Gorham Founders Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, has a spiffy new logo on its website thanks to some Gorham High School students. “I thought it was outstanding,” said Darryl Wright, festival director. The two-day event features include a reception for descendants of the […]

June 21, 1989 Patricia A. Grant became the 14th child of Pauline and Allin H. Grant on Sunday to graduate from Westbrook High School. Just as remarkable: the parents and all 13 of the Grants’ other WHS graduates were on hand for the ceremonies. Patricia is the last. “Next will be some grandchildren,” said Allin […]

Food Train supporters thanked Brenda Orach, chairwoman of social ministry at Trinity Lutheran Church, said that AJ’s Market and the Brown Street neighborhood played a leading role in supporting a food drive for the Westbrook Food Pantry last month. Orach said this year’s Food Train delivered more than 125 boxes of food to the food […]

WESTBROOK – The future of the intersection of Route 302 and Hardy and Duck Pond roads was debated this week, as Westbrook officials weigh options for easing safety concerns in the heavily traveled area. City Councilor Mike Sanphy, whose Ward 5 includes the intersection, has been leading city officials in advocating for a traffic light […]

WESTBROOK – The future of the intersection of Route 302 and Hardy and Duck Pond roads was debated this week, as Westbrook officials weigh options for easing safety concerns in the heavily traveled area. City Councilor Mike Sanphy, whose Ward 5 includes the intersection, has been leading city officials in advocating for a traffic light […]

WESTBROOK – Following months of discussion, new conduct rules governing Westbrook student-athletes and School Committee members are set to be approved. With Westbrook School Committee approval on June 25, changes will include the removal of a clause in the student-athlete code of conduct known as “knowingly present” and the timeframe of a first-infraction suspension. A […]

Theater Thursday and Friday, June 19-20 “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not my Mother,” presented by Maine author Elizabeth Peavey, 7:30 p.m., St. Lawrence Center for the Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland $12-$15. 775-5568. Through Friday, June 27 “Much Ado about Nothing,” presented by Lyric Theater, 176 Sawyer St. South Portland, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, […]

A career firefighter, Michael Kucsma, was pronounced dead on June 16 following recreational scuba diving with a group in Casco Bay. Kucsma, 43, of Buxton, was a full-time captain with the Portland Fire Department and a deputy fire chief in Gorham. Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre on Tuesday said that Kucsma was a talented firefighter, […]

Officials say Brothers Guillermo Fuentes, 38, of Westbrook, and Hector Fuentes, 40, of Waterville, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday to knowingly hiring 10 or more undocumented aliens in a 12-month period and making false statements to federal agents. According to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II, court records reveal that the employment […]

Officials say Brothers Guillermo Fuentes, 38, of Westbrook, and Hector Fuentes, 40, of Waterville, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday to knowingly hiring 10 or more undocumented aliens in a 12-month period and making false statements to federal agents. According to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II, court records reveal that the employment […]