WESTBROOK – “Westbrook Idol” organizers have postponed the semi-finals event scheduled for Thursday, March 1, due to the weather, but the latest batch of competitors will only have to wait another week to strut their stuff. On Thursday, March 8, 16 semi-finalists will put on their best performances at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center, according […]

Woman’s club to meet Westbrook Woman’s Club will meet at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, in Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St. Members are reminded to take socks to be wrapped for the domestic violence project. In addition, items will be accepted for sunshine baskets to be filled for delivery to Westbrook seniors. Light […]

A burst water line at Sappi Fine Paper snarled traffic on Cumberland Street for about an hour this afternoon, starting around 3:30 p.m. Police and firefighters had to close off Cumberland from the Main Street roundabout up to the Bridge Street intersection while workers from the Portland Water District came to turn the water off. […]

WESTBROOK – An English teacher from Westbrook who resigned from his position in September of 2011 has pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court to furnishing alcohol to a minor. Police issued a summons in December to Timothy Gillis, 43, of Portland, on charges of furnishing a place for minors to consume liquor, and furnishing […]

WESTBROOK – An English teacher from Westbrook who resigned from his position in September of 2011 has pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court to furnishing alcohol to a minor. Police issued a summons in December to Timothy Gillis, 43, of Portland, on charges of furnishing a place for minors to consume liquor, and furnishing […]

WESTBROOK – Ever since Dianne Brazier, a well-known Westbrook barber, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2009, friends and family have to make sure they do everything they can to prevent Brazier from getting an infection through a weakened immune system. “I have to wipe down the house before she visits,” said her daughter, Melissa […]

WESTBROOK – In the summer, when the Westbrook Fire Department runs its rookie training school for new recruits, Deputy Chief Wayne Jones supervises while the newbies, in full turnout gear, cut their way through vehicles to practice extrication. Eugene Dunn, the longtime call captain, would sit on the tailboard, or the rear platform of a […]

GORHAM – Gorham officials are facing what to do with a pair of aging, former schools that need millions of dollars in repair. Norm Justice, director of the facilities department for Gorham schools, told town councilors in a workshop Tuesday the vacant, half-century-old White Rock School and the nearly 60-year-old former Little Falls School each […]

Two minor accidents happened at the beginning and the end of the day in Westbrook today. At 9 a.m., a pickup truck went off the road, struck a pole, went airborne, and came to rest in front of a home at 637 East Bridge St. “It hit my front steps,” said Gardner Foss, 71, who […]