BUXTON – Teachers and students were absent Tuesday, but a clock on a wall ticked in a first-floor classroom in Buxton’s former S.D. Hanson Elementary School. Children’s art was posted on walls, encyclopedias were on the shelves and desks and chairs were lined up. “It looks sad,” Stacey Gagnon, a neighbor of the school and […]

WESTBROOK – Members of the public begrudgingly participated in Saturday’s meeting to discuss Pike Industries’ Spring Street quarry, and did so only after accusing the city of Westbrook of moving forward without regard to legal challenges from neighboring residents and businesses. The city convened the meeting, which marked the first such gathering of a neighborhood […]

WESTBROOK – Members of the public begrudgingly participated in Saturday’s meeting to discuss Pike Industries’ Spring Street quarry, and did so only after accusing the city of Westbrook of moving forward without regard to legal challenges from neighboring residents and businesses. The city convened the meeting, which marked the first such gathering of a neighborhood […]

Police in Westbrook say a man punched and bit an officer while attempting to flee an arrest early Tuesday morning. Eric Mashala Mulamba, 35, of 84 Austin St., Apt. 3, has been charged with reckless conduct, refusing to submit to arrest, violation of conditional release and assault on an officer, Lt. Mike Nugent said in […]

WESTBROOK – It’s not often that history is made at a middle school basketball game. But that is exactly what happened last week when Katelyn Benson of Westbrook stepped on the court to officiate a Westbrook Middle School basketball home game. It was the 18-year-old’s first official game, making her the youngest female basketball referee […]

GORHAM – Improvements at the Gorham Public Safety Building, 270 Main St., are nearly complete with some painting and masonry work on hold until spring. Town Manager David Cole said Tuesday the building has been re-roofed, dormers added and columns in front of the building have been repaired. “The cost will be about $340,000,” Cole […]

GORHAM – Improvements at the Gorham Public Safety Building, 270 Main St., are nearly complete with some painting and masonry work on hold until spring. Town Manager David Cole said Tuesday the building has been re-roofed, dormers added and columns in front of the building have been repaired. “The cost will be about $340,000,” Cole […]

WESTBROOK – Those within the Westbrook Police Department say it will be business as usual come Monday, despite the absence of Chief Bill Baker. Baker announced his retirement the first week of January. Since then, the city has announced fire Chief Mike Pardue would step in on an interim basis to lead both police and […]

WESTBROOK – The words of Westbrook police Chief Bill Baker’s mother rang in his head as he took cover behind a tree in the woods off Methodist Road. “You be careful. It’s the last two weeks of work that something bad happens,” she told him. “Don’t get yourself shot the last two weeks.” Just weeks […]

WESTBROOK – The attendance at free family skate night sponsored by the Westbrook Kiwanis Club Friday was the kind of turnout that made everyone forget that the club nearly folded due to a lack of interest just a few months ago. More than 100 people showed up for an evening of skating, bonfires, marshmallows and […]