WESTBROOK – James Harbaugh, one of three Westbrook firefighters recently put on administrative leave by the city for alleged misconduct outside of work, resigned this week, according to the city. Harbaugh submitted his resignation on Monday, July 12, according to City Administrator Jerre Bryant. Bryant said Harbaugh cited no reason for his resignation. Harbaugh, reached […]

They reportedly have told the president that immigration isn’t a productive issue now.

However, company, city say they are close to an agreement. WESTBROOK–Pike Industries planned on Wednesday to file a lawsuit challenging a Westbrook zoning change approved last month that made the company’s quarrying operation on Spring Street illegal. However, Pike attorney William Hagedorn said that Pike and the city are “very close” on a compromise agreement […]

However, company, city say they are close to an agreement. WESTBROOK–Pike Industries planned on Wednesday to file a lawsuit challenging a Westbrook zoning change approved last month that made the company’s quarrying operation on Spring Street illegal. However, Pike attorney William Hagedorn said that Pike and the city are “very close” on a compromise agreement […]

However, company, city say they are close to an agreement. WESTBROOK–Pike Industries planned on Wednesday to file a lawsuit challenging a Westbrook zoning change approved last month that made the company’s quarrying operation on Spring Street illegal. However, Pike attorney William Hagedorn said that Pike and the city are “very close” on a compromise agreement […]

GORHAM–Unhappy after years of rowdy student behavior downtown, the Gorham Town Council this week ramped up its crackdown on fraternity houses. The town, home to a University of Southern Maine campus, is proposing a ban on any future fraternity houses as well as new regulations regarding two off-campus fraternities. Tuesday’s action follows the town’s seizure […]

Back-to-back advances lift the Dow above 10,000, but analysts don’t see any reason to get excited.

WESTBROOK–The Westbrook City Council this week took a step toward making it easier to relocate the small farmers market in the city, but where exactly the market will move remains to be decided. Suggestions for a new home include Saccarappa Park, Bicentennial Park and Riverbank Park, where the market once flourished some years ago. The […]

WESTBROOK–A rosebush in Westbrook’s Woodlawn Cemetery blooms with beautiful red flowers, but is so overgrown it almost hides the gravestone it was meant to adorn. At other gravesites, green shrubs planted years ago as tidy sentinels to flank either side of the gravestones now tower above them and encroach onto neighboring graves. And on some […]

NEW YORK – Disappointing forecasts from retailers and concern about the government’s financial overhaul package pounded stocks Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 146 points after edging higher Wednesday. Broader indexes dropped for a fourth straight day. Downbeat forecasts from retailers raised concerns that high unemployment and weak consumer spending would stall an economic […]