A CLOSER LOOK Benefit dinner for the Buxton Community Food Co-op, Saturday, June 20, 4:30-6 p.m. at the Pythian Sisters Temple, Buxton Center. The menu includes pot roast, gravy, carrots, potatoes, peas and dessert. Cost is $6, $3 for children. A state police poker raid last month at the Narragansett Pythian Sisters Temple in Buxton […]

It’s been approved by the School Committee and finalized by the Westbrook City Council, and next week Westbrook residents will vote on the School Department budget. The validation referendum, on Tuesday, June 9, will be on only the school’s portion of the budget and not the municipal portion. The development of the school budget begins […]

Now that the Westbrook City Council has given final approval to the city’s $55.8 million budget, it will be up to the citizens to pass the school budget in a referendum Tuesday. The council voted Monday, 6-0, with Councilor Drew Gattine absent, to pass the budget, which represents a 3.1 percent increase over the current […]

cutline only 1859 Sen. Susan Collins reads “Mrs. Rumphius,” by Barbara Cooney, to fifth-grade students at Congin School. Collins visited the school last week, about a month after meeting Gloria Noyes, Maine’s Teacher of the Year and a fifth-grade teacher at Congin, at a conference in Washington, D.C. IMG_1859.jpg

The Westbrook American reported on June 3, 1964, that Mrs. Warren Rust and Mrs. Percy Miller would serve refreshments at the Brandybrook Garden Club meeting in Gorham. Mr. and Mrs. George Elwell of West Buxton were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Jones at their Bonny Eagle Lake cottage.

The Westbrook American reported on June 3, 1964, that Mrs. Warren Rust and Mrs. Percy Miller would serve refreshments at the Brandybrook Garden Club meeting in Gorham. Mr. and Mrs. George Elwell of West Buxton were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Jones at their Bonny Eagle Lake cottage.

It might have been hard to keep a poker face reading the news last week: As originally reported in the American Journal, the Current’s sister publication, Maine State Police raided an illegal Texas Hold ’em tournament at the temple for the Pythian Sisters in Buxton, which is home to a local food co-op that distributes […]

The Maine Department of Transportation will be closing the entire Gorham Bypass for three weeks beginning Monday, June 8, and opening it tentatively on Friday, June 26. The department is installing a new curb at the Route 202 intersection and paving, as well as repairing a section at the bridge on Flaggy Meadow Road, according […]

The Maine Department of Transportation will be closing the entire Gorham Bypass for three weeks beginning Monday, June 8, and opening it tentatively on Friday, June 26. The department is installing a new curb at the Route 202 intersection and paving, as well as repairing a section at the bridge on Flaggy Meadow Road, according […]

Gorham High School graduation is Sunday, June 7, at 1 p.m., at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. Westbrook High School graduation is Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m., also at Merrill Auditorium. Bonny Eagle High School graduation is Friday, June 12, at 6 p.m., at the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland.