Senate Republicans are whipping themselves into a fighting mode over Judge Sotomayor, Mr. Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Although the argument revolves around how she may interpret the Constitution, the reality is a struggle for power – for that is, after all, where political parties make their bones. Even so, unlike some earlier […]

Rumpf earns B.C. diploma Amanda Rumpf of Buxton recently graduated magna cum laude from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Rumpf earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the university’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. Community Day coming up Buxton Community Day will be held Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25, […]

A few years ago, I was known as the go-to person in the neighborhood, if anyone wanted a kitten. Whichever mother cat I happened to have at the time hardly had a chance to get “fixed”, and I never had a problem giving kittens to kids and their parents. An amazing assortment of colors and […]

Indoor flea market – Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., North Scarborough Grange, Route 22, North Scarborough. A little bit of everything – new, used and old. Refreshments for sale. Nonprofit organizations can send notices of their yard-sale-type fundraisers 10 days in advance to ajbob@maine.rr.com.

The Mill Side Tavern could be the next Westbrook bar to fight the city for its right to serve alcohol. Police are recommending denial of the bar’s liquor license after they said owners and employees refused to cooperate during an investigation into a fight that began inside the tavern and spilled out onto the street […]

The Mill Side Tavern could be the next Westbrook bar to fight the city for its right to serve alcohol. Police are recommending denial of the bar’s liquor license after they said owners and employees refused to cooperate during an investigation into a fight that began inside the tavern and spilled out onto the street […]

At 88 years of age, I thank God that I have lived long enough to have seen and heard Tuesday’s Staples Center tribute to Michael Jackson, unquestionably American television’s most moving and inspirational two-and-a-half hours of well-deserved commendation. Indeed, all the way from Queen Latifah’s “We Had” hymn and the mid-way words that made Brooke […]

Senior Pets for Senior People is new community outreach program geared for seniors ages 55 and older launched by the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. The goal is to help place senior cats in permanent homes with senior people in the community. The outcome will give senior cats a second chance at life, as […]

July 3, 1984 Westbrook body-shop owner Selden VonHerten will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Portland Friday on an indictment charging him with a widespread conspiracy to move stolen trucks and cars across state lines and sell them, sometimes in pieces. Three other persons are named with him, and still others are involved, the […]

July 3, 1984 Westbrook body-shop owner Selden VonHerten will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Portland Friday on an indictment charging him with a widespread conspiracy to move stolen trucks and cars across state lines and sell them, sometimes in pieces. Three other persons are named with him, and still others are involved, the […]