WESTBROOK – Westbrook city councilors have unanimously approved the first reading of a proposal to hire Stantec Consulting Service for $72,000 to design improvements to the Bridge Street bridge area, based on comments made during a public hearing held on Jan. 30. Work on a so-called “multi-use trail bridge” will piggyback onto the Department of […]

WESTBROOK – Phil Bryant said he only needed one word to describe his wife: love. That thought occurred to him during the Celebration of Life held in Susan Bryant’s honor on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Westbrook American Legion on Dunn Street. The event was originally scheduled to help the family raise money for Susan […]

WESTBROOK – A group of retired women is causing a stir in a Westbrook Housing complex by playing bingo. The 15 or so women say they were told last Thursday by Westbrook Housing officials they can no longer play the game in the common room of their apartment complex. “We just want to have fun, […]

GORHAM – Gorham town councilors Tuesday postponed a decision to loan $75,000 to school officials to jumpstart planning for a multi-million dollar upgrade of the town’s high school, to be paid entirely by local taxpayers. The council, in a unanimous 5-0 vote (Chairman Philip Gagnon and Councilor Suzanne Phillips absent), delayed approving the money requested […]

WESTBROOK – There may not be a class to become a superhero, but Westbrook police are offering residents a class to make them into super citizens. The department will hold its second Citizens Police Academy, starting Feb. 20, to help residents understand exactly what the force does and how they can help diffuse potentially dangerous […]

Divided jurors take an overnight break and will resume seeking a verdict Thursday in the case against two Falmouth parents.

Eleanor Morse went to Botswana with her then-husband, a resident of the country, in the 1970s, shortly after graduating from Swarthmore. She worked there for several years. After living in Botswana, she moved to Maine – first the midcoast, then Portland, then Peaks Island, where she now lives. She worked at various jobs but she […]

Files show that Los Angeles archdiocese officials sprang into action over ecclesiastical missteps while ignoring alleged abuse.

Early signs point to a problem in an area that housed electrical and air-conditioning equipment, but a Pemex official says “no line of investigation will be discounted.”

Hard-to-find dental care for 3,000 of the mentally ill and disabled would vanish under the governor’s budget.