WESTBROOK – The owners of three popular Maine restaurants, including the Fajita Grill on Main Street in Westbrook, are free on bail after being arrested last week on federal charges of employing illegal immigrant workers. The Fajita Grill re-opened, according to posts on its Facebook page, starting Sunday, but with a limited menu and for […]
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From old Gorham barn, new tunes
GORHAM – Last July, Don Roy stopped at the home of his Gorham neighbors, dairy farmers Eddie and Becky Benson on Plummer Road, after 90-mph winds destroyed their historic barn. “Do you mind, if I look at your beams?” Roy asked them. Sifting through the wreckage, Roy discovered a piece of spruce wood that suited […]
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Fireworks law burns Westbrook councilors
WESTBROOK – With a new state law legalizing fireworks as of Jan. 1, Westbrook city councilors are divided on what sort of municipal laws should be on the books. But there’s one thing they all agree on – the state should not have left it up to local officials to decide. “What you’re going to […]
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Fireworks law burns Westbrook councilors
WESTBROOK – With a new state law legalizing fireworks as of Jan. 1, Westbrook city councilors are divided on what sort of municipal laws should be on the books. But there’s one thing they all agree on – the state should not have left it up to local officials to decide. “What you’re going to […]
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Wounds healing, ranks filling in Westbrook
WESTBROOK – When Rachael Welsh signed up to be a Westbrook firefighter, it didn’t faze her that the department was marred by a sexual harassment lawsuit scandal. Nor did she care that, if hired, she would be the department’s first new full-time female firefighter since the lawsuits. For her, the mindset for joining the team […]
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Westbrook nears OK for appeal rules on Pike blasting
WESTBROOK – The Westbrook City Council has given first-reading approval to a new blast appeals process, including hiring a third-party engineering firm at the expense of Pike Industries Inc. The council voted unanimously to approve the measure at its meeting Monday night. The new process is geared toward helping residents living near a controversial Spring […]
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Four-way council race tops Gorham ballot
GORHAM – Gorham voters will choose a pair of town councilors and three School Committee members at the polls in the municipal election next month. Veteran Town Council incumbents Michael Phinney and Noah Miner are facing challengers Daniel LeVasseur and Suzanne Phillips in a four-way contest with two seats available. Phinney is chairman of the […]
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State official: No danger from uninspected dams
AUGUSTA – The head of the state agency responsible for the safety of about 100 potentially hazardous dams admitted to a legislative committee Monday that the dams are not being inspected when the law says they should be. But he also said he was confident in the assurance he got from the chief dam inspector […]
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Cumberland Fair: ‘They like the french fries and the animals’
CUMBERLAND – Born and raised in Windham – once known more for its farmland than its commercial strip – Cumberland Fair director Mike Timmons knows a thing or two about farm life. As a boy, Timmons milked Stanley Hall’s cows, rising at 4 a.m. to do so. After school, he’d do it again. But at […]
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$5.5 million William Clarke Drive improvement project winding up
WESTBROOK – It’s been a busy summer for work crews on the heavily traveled William Clarke Drive, but the $5.5 million state project, designed to make the road safer for drivers and pedestrians, is nearly finished. The project began last year just after Memorial Day, and resumed in April of this year. It was supposed […]