Buffet luncheon ‘outstanding’ The annual salad luncheon buffet of the Woman’s Literary Union was held at 11:30 a.m. on June 12 at the Deering Masonic Hall on Bishop Street, Portland. The luncheon benefited the Eunice Frye Fund. The WLU also presented two scholarships to local high school seniors. It is an outstanding luncheon; the salads […]

Tours to Wood Island Lighthouse will be offered beginning Wednesday, July 1, and continuing through Aug. 29. Tours will leave Vine’s Landing in Biddeford Pool aboard Lightrunner at 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at 1 and 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Reservations are necessary. Tours are run on a donation basis with […]

After a year and half of blogging about all-things-Westbrook, John C.L. Morgan, also known as the Westbrook Diarist, is logging off. Though Morgan, 26, said he’s enjoyed maintaining the Web site (westbrookdiarist.blogspot.com), as a father, a student, an ed tech and a member of the Coast Guard Reserves, he’s simply run out of time. This […]

Yard sale – Saturday, June 27, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. To benefit Bonny Eagle High School scholarships. For more information, call Karen at 642-3508. Nonprofit organizations can send notices of their yard sale-type fundraisers 10 days in advance to ajbob@maine.rr.com.

Yard sale – Saturday, June 27, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. To benefit Bonny Eagle High School scholarships. For more information, call Karen at 642-3508. Nonprofit organizations can send notices of their yard sale-type fundraisers 10 days in advance to ajbob@maine.rr.com.

SAD 57: Maine School Administration District 57 accepted a $25,000 grant Monday from former first lady Barbara Bush to support programs to improve literacy skills of parents and their children. The district was one of 21 schools, libraries and other organizations benefiting from 12 $25,000 grants from The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy’s Maine […]

SAD 57: Maine School Administration District 57 accepted a $25,000 grant Monday from former first lady Barbara Bush to support programs to improve literacy skills of parents and their children. The district was one of 21 schools, libraries and other organizations benefiting from 12 $25,000 grants from The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy’s Maine […]

Due to incorrect information supplied to the newspaper, an inaccurate charge against Jamie Lynn McCarthy was printed in the June 18 American Journal. She was charged with criminal mischief on June 10. James McCarthy was charged with aggravated assault on the same day.

Due to incorrect information supplied to the newspaper, an inaccurate charge against Jamie Lynn McCarthy was printed in the June 18 American Journal. She was charged with criminal mischief on June 10. James McCarthy was charged with aggravated assault on the same day.

Due to incorrect information supplied to the newspaper, an inaccurate charge against Jamie Lynn McCarthy was printed in the June 18 American Journal. She was charged with criminal mischief on June 10. James McCarthy was charged with aggravated assault on the same day.