Triad to meet Gorham/Westbrook Triad will meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, at 22 Foster St. in Westbrook. A nurse will speak about the abuse of medications with the elderly. City man wins car at casino A posting on the Oxford Casino Facebook page reports that Simon Snyder of Westbrook won a recent […]

Triad to meet Gorham/Westbrook Triad will meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, at 22 Foster St. in Westbrook. A nurse will speak about the abuse of medications with the elderly. City man wins car at casino A posting on the Oxford Casino Facebook page reports that Simon Snyder of Westbrook won a recent […]

WESTBROOK – As Veterans Day draws near, fallen Westbrook U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Lawrence Roukey is being honored this week at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Patriots’ Memorial in Washington, D.C., for protecting the agency’s workers in Iraq in 2004. Roukey, who was killed on April 26, 2004, by a large explosion while performing site security […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH – It was an evening of sound and color as 11 marching bands took to the field at Thornton Academy on Saturday for the 30th annual Maine High School Marching Band finals. South Portland, Westbrook and Old Orchard Beach high schools all took home gold medals – with Westbrook being the only […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook city councilors postponed a vote Monday to sell the former Prides Corner Elementary School to a developer after hearing concerns from neighbors last week. Instead, the council asked the developer to re-examine the proposal. At a neighborhood meeting Oct. 30, Mayor Colleen Hilton and Bill Baker, assistant city administrator for business and […]

WESTBROOK – It wasn’t quite 9 p.m. Tuesday when the upstairs banquet room of Profenno’s Bar & Grill on Main Street in Westbrook exploded with applause. Unofficial election results indicated Democrat Colleen Hilton would serve a third term as Westbrook’s mayor. Hilton won the city’s vote in all five wards, beating a strong challenge from […]

It would specifically apply to plans to kill U.S. citizens working abroad with terrorist groups.

William Potts, 56, says he is seeking ‘closure’ and hopes to convince U.S. prosecutors to give him credit 13 years he spent in a Cuban prison.

Writing a critical letter regarding Noel Gallagher’s Portland Press Herald story “Elementary school kids learn a good run is fun” (Oct. 24) seems almost Grinch-like. After all, what reader can find fault with a program which encourages young children to exercise? My irritation with the article is certainly not about exercise; it is the focus […]