WESTBROOK – With Popsicles in hand, students at Westbrook’s Saccarappa Elementary School lined up in the school’s garden Monday to give longtime volunteer Polly Carmichael birthday cards for her 90th birthday. Carmichael – known to the children as “Grammy Polly” – has been volunteering in the Westbrook school system for 22 years, and has been […]

May 24, 1989 Wayne Selleck, Westbrook, remains hospitalized in serious condition after he was pinned against a steel workbench by a van at Chet’s Auto Parts in Gorham May 15. John Durrah, South Windham, the driver of the van, was being directed by Selleck onto the lift for repairs at around 8 a.m. when he […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook could gain another 40 units of independent-living, elderly housing at Millbrook Estates if the city’s contract zone for the senior housing facility on East Bridge Street is revised. The project would add a fourth wing to Millbrook Estates. Completed in the early 1990s, Millbrook Estates has 100 units of elderly housing. The […]

WESTBROOK – Last week’s announcement that Sappi North America would be cutting its national workforce by 5 percent is not a welcome sign for employees of Sappi’s Westbrook mill, but the impact of the layoffs still remains unclear. An official statement released by Sappi last week said that in response to market challenges, the company […]

‘PAPERMAKER,’ A NEW PLAY BY MONICA WOOD WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Mad Horse Theatre, Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St., South Portland HOW MUCH: $10 suggested donation INFO: 774-4148 or madhorse.com

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Sam Spinicci, a 56-year-old Navy veteran, died in a fire Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, that destroyed his Granite Hill Road, Manchester home and left his Kennebec Taxi business closed for now.

Voicemails from various federal agencies regarding the partial government shutdown.

Sunken ship in Italy