GORHAM – As the opening day deadline nears, construction workers on the new Great Falls Elementary School in Gorham hustled Tuesday to install floor tiles, roll paint on walls and assemble classroom furniture. School officials and the construction boss say they expect the $21 million elementary school on Justice Way, off Sebago Lake Road, would […]

WESTBROOK – Nick Chanese has made a living analyzing and discussing great works of literature, teaching high school English for the past 10 years, but recently he decided to produce his own work. In March 2010 he published the young adult novel, “The Smile,” in paperback through Createspace, a publisher affiliate of amazon.com. Chanese grew […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook High School math teacher Tim Eisenhart is one of three finalists for the 47th Maine 2012 Teacher of the Year award. Eisenhart has taught and coached in Westbrook since 2003. He joins finalists Ingrid Stressenger, a fourth-grade teacher at Pond Cove School in Cape Elizabeth, and Alana Margeson, an English teacher at […]

GORHAM – Public bus service connecting Gorham to destinations like the Maine Mall, airport and downtown Westbrook and Portland will be the talk next week in a Gorham Town Council workshop. “I think it’s a worthwhile venture to look into,” Gorham Town Councilor Philip Gagnon said Tuesday. Representatives from both Greater Portland Metro and the […]

PORTLAND – Most cats tend to stay out of the rain, not dance in it, but a conspicuous pink cat that was about 6 feet tall showed up in Monument Square in Portland in Wednesday’s noontime drizzle, along with about 35 animal-loving friends, at a “flash mob” put on by the Animal Refuge League of […]

Marc Macisso, 57, is a perfect example of a local boy making good. A Portland native, he spent his middle and high school years living in Westbrook, and developing a talent for guitar, harmonica, flute, clarinet and saxophone. Upon graduating from Westbrook High School in 1972, he took his talent to Boston to study at […]

The Maine Turnpike Authority took no action July 29 following a workshop about whether to finance Phase 2 of the Gorham East-West Corridor Study. The study, undertaken in 2009 at the behest of Gorham, Scarborough, South Portland and Westbrook, is aimed at reducing traffic congestion through the region and improving safety. Transportation and local officials […]

With the work nearing completion on the building exterior, officials at the Walker Memorial Library are now turning to what needs to be done on the inside – and they will need the public’s help, both in dollars and manpower, to get it done. City officials recently reported the extensive repairs and restoration work to […]

Former Fire Chief Daniel Brock will receive a $320,000 settlement from the city, the result of a wrongful termination lawsuit Brock filed after he was dismissed by Mayor Colleen Hilton in 2010. On Monday, the City Council, in its first public reading on the matter, voted unanimously, with Councilor Dorothy Aube absent, to approve the […]

For Tim and Mike White, Westbrook has always been home. The brothers grew up here, went to school here, and have done business here for many years in construction. “Westbrook has always been good to us,” Mike White said this week. So when White Bros., a division of the Lane Construction Co., discovered it had […]