WESTBROOK – Westbrook school department officials want to add a bus run for middle school kids after a reconfiguration of the district has left one bus filled to capacity. “Having middle school kids three to a seat, is it safe? Is it legal? Yes. Is it the best way to do that? No,” said school […]

WESTBROOK – Should something be done about the intersection of Hardy/Duck Pond Road and Route 302, and if so, what would be the better way to make it safer: a traffic signal with turn lanes, or a roundabout? These are the questions the state Department of Transportation will be addressing the next few months in […]

Theater Sept. 21 to Oct. 6 “Anything Goes!” Cole Porter classic, at Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer Street, South Portland. Friday and Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. 799-1421. Through Sunday, Sept. 23 “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” presented by Dead Wessex Fair at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Co-sponsored by University of Southern Maine […]

WESTBROOK – A state audit has found that the city of Westbrook and the Westbrook School Department must cover an additional $130,000 in expenses connected to the Westbrook Middle School construction project. Part of that audit includes a bill from the state for more than $83,000. A letter from the Department of Education to the […]

Foye golf tourney raises $7,000 The first Jim Foye Memorial Golf Tournament Sept. 8 at Gorham Country Club raised more than $7,000 benefiting scholarships for Westbrook High School seniors. The tournament in memory of Foye, who died in March, drew 36 teams with a total of 144 players. It was “as good as any tournament […]

Foye golf tourney raises $7,000 The first Jim Foye Memorial Golf Tournament Sept. 8 at Gorham Country Club raised more than $7,000 benefiting scholarships for Westbrook High School seniors. The tournament in memory of Foye, who died in March, drew 36 teams with a total of 144 players. It was “as good as any tournament […]

WESTBROOK – Rina Galan, 40, and her son, Jose David Marroguin, 13, grew up in El Salvador, thousands of miles from Westbrook, and neither of them speak English. But Galan is a mother, and like any mother in any country, she was beside herself with grief and worry when she learned her son had been […]

GORHAM – As GED classes get under way this fall, it marks the start of a shift toward computer-based testing for the high school equivalency test. Beginning in 2014, a new assessment will come into effect with an increased focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills relevant to the real world. The biggest change, however, […]