WESTBROOK – The city administrator and superintendent of schools have been working together on a proposal to hire a shared chief financial planner – a new position that would replace the school department’s business manager and the city’s finance director. The shared position fits into Superintendent Reza Namin’s plan to restructure the school department’s administration. […]

Across southern Maine, people are opening up their hearts and homes to others this Thanksgiving. Ronald Spiller will probably spend Thanksgiving Day at his Westbrook apartment watching television. But he still got a chance this week to eat turkey with people he loves. “Thanksgiving Day is Thanksgiving Day, but all the people here are my […]

WESTBROOK – Pike Industries will be allowed for the time being to excavate and crush rock at its Spring Street site – a court decision that came the day after the city’s Planning Board supported a zone change that would kill the quarrying company’s expansion plans. Chief Justice Thomas Humphrey Wednesday granted Pike’s motion for […]

A section of Duck Pond Road that was damaged during this weekend’s storm will be closed for repairs Tuesday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The section of road that will be closed is located about 300 feet north of the intersection with Elmwood Avenue. On Wednesday, the road will be repaved and traffic will be restricted […]

Sappi, conservationists will square off at a state hearing on fish passageways. The repopulation of fish in the Presumpscot River and the financial impact it will have on Sappi are at stake, as the state holds a hearing this week regarding the requirements for fish passage at the paper company’s Cumberland Mills Dam. Inland Fisheries […]

WESTBROOK – Behind the big glass windows facing Congress Street in Portland, Westbrook High School English teachers Brian Flynn and Cynthia DosAnjos moved in unison across the dance floor. “Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow,” dance instructor Larry Littlefield repeated as the two tangoed for the first time. After an hour of instruction at Maine Ballroom […]

All the boys and ghouls came out to Main St. in Westbrook this afternoon to kick off Halloween weekend. (Staff photos by Leslie Bridgers) Halloween 10Halloween 11Halloween 8Halloween 7Halloween 8Halloween 4Halloween 6Halloween 6Halloween 2Halloween 3Halloween 1

WESTBROOK – Explosive charges about obscene and discriminatory behavior in the Westbrook Fire Department have been made public for the first time in a lawsuit filed last week against the city by two female firefighters. A lawsuit and request for a jury trial, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court, claims offensive conduct in the department, […]