Over the opposition of a roomful of residents, Westbrook’s City Council voted 4-2 Monday (Wescott, Juniewicz and Lefebvre absent) on first reading to make Turner Street permanently dead end. Final action is due Sept. 21, with another big citizen turnout expected. Opponents focused their criticisms on extra traffic created on Bernadette Street and Huntress Avenue, […]

WESTBROOK – What can the city do to help downtown businesses? Two words: Signs and traffic. That was the message from an open-house event held at Full Court Press at 855 Main St. last Thursday at noontime, where Bill Baker, Westbrook’s assistant city administrator for business and community relations, met with local business leaders. Already, […]

GORHAM – Andrew Wojtal, a Gorham native, performed Sept. 6 at the MTV Video Music Awards with pop singer Taylor Swift. Wojtal took dance lessons and trained at the Dance Studio of Maine in Gorham before graduating from Gorham High School in 2007. He then went on to receive his bachelor’s degree from The California […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook police cited three local retail stores for selling liquor to minors after an Aug. 29 undercover inspection of all 17 licensed retail liquor sales locations. Police Capt. Tom Roth said the state Department of Public Safety’s Liquor Licensing and Inspection unit technically has jurisdiction over such matters, but in 2003, the state […]

WESTBROOK – Milton Gowen was 26 years old on June 6, 1944, when he and thousands of his fellow Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in the largest amphibious assault in history. As he and fellow members of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division began unloading equipment on the beach that day, under […]

GORHAM – An old building that was hauled across the bridge from Windham to Gorham for a library nearly 80 years ago will make a return trip. The Gorham Town Council unanimously authorized paying $3,000 to the Windham Historical Society to remove the former one-room South Windham Library building that Gorham owns. The building rests […]

RAYMOND – The rapid rise in pharmacy robberies this year is causing alarm not only among law enforcement, but those working in the pharmacy field, as well. “The robberies are caused by drug abuse. They’re stealing it because on the street, the values are about a $1 a milligram on oxycodone. So when you steal […]

WESTBROOK – When the 2012-2013 school year began in Westbrook last week, children from Prides Corner Elementary School, which closed, had to move on to other facilities. But now, it looks like one popular part of the Prides Corner School is making the move along with the students. The City Council has given a first-reading […]

Nancy Kelson denied Monday a report that she has sold the Kelson real estate agency in Westbrook. She acknowledged, however, that Alexander Juniewicz, Kenneth Lefebvre and Paul Albert have made an offer to buy it. Juniewicz is the Ward 5 alderman and Lefebvre is the Ward 4 alderman on the Westbrook City Council. Albert, former […]

GORHAM – An early morning fire Monday in a trash bin that evacuated 200 dormitory residents at the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine has been ruled arson. Robert Caswell, a university spokesman, said the office of the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office determined the fire was deliberately set. Caswell said Daniel Young, who […]