The most tragic example is a death in 1993, when a pyrotechnician was killed during a Bar Harbor show.

The most tragic example is a death in 1993, when a pyrotechnician was killed during a Bar Harbor show.

With grant funding in the amount of $10,000 from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, Westbrook police will be conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the road this summer, starting this week. Westbrook police will be staffing sobriety checkpoints at various locations, as well as having officers […]

With grant funding in the amount of $10,000 from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, Westbrook police will be conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the road this summer, starting this week. Westbrook police will be staffing sobriety checkpoints at various locations, as well as having officers […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook Commons remains underutilized, neglected WESTBROOK – Blue Note Park is easy to miss. The hardscape Main Street park, created in the middle of the Westbrook Commons during urban renewal in the 1970s, was once hoped to be a public gathering space, with seating areas and even a working fountain. There’s not much […]

WESTBROOK – When Maine permitted the sale of consumer fireworks last year, it also issued regulations on their use, but many municipalities, including Westbrook, have deemed the state regulations too loose to govern use within city limits. On Monday, Westbrook city councilors pieced a variety of amendments together into a proposal that would allow residents […]

WESTBROOK – Two new restaurant-bars set to open along busy intersections on Route 302 may spur growth in the area, but it may be too much for one neighborhood. Jacob Simcock and Linda Brabrook, co-owners of a new venture called 250, at 33 Elmwood Ave., off Route 302, heard plenty of opposition to their plans […]

WESTBROOK – Emma Lombardo’s mother is already gathering items for when the soon-to-be seventh-grader starts her own family, and the first item she’s saved for her daughter has special meaning: a keepsake baby journal distributed statewide that includes art work from Lombardo. “I’m saving the book for Emma if she decides to have kids. I’m […]

WESTBROOK – Emma Lombardo’s mother is already gathering items for when the soon-to-be seventh-grader starts her own family, and the first item she’s saved for her daughter has special meaning: a keepsake baby journal distributed statewide that includes art work from Lombardo. “I’m saving the book for Emma if she decides to have kids. I’m […]

WESTBROOK – Emma Lombardo’s mother is already gathering items for when the soon-to-be seventh-grader starts her own family, and the first item she’s saved for her daughter has special meaning: a keepsake baby journal distributed statewide that includes art work from Lombardo. “I’m saving the book for Emma if she decides to have kids. I’m […]