Graffam, Brown wed Michelle Graffam and Daniel Brown of Edgewater, Fla., were married on Oct. 12. The wedding, attended by close family members and friends, was at the Pemaquid Lighthouse. The weekend celebration was held at the Bradley Inn, New Harbor. The groom’s close friend Daniel Brinkler officiated. The bride is the daughter of Ralph […]

The 30th annual Westbrook Together Days will be packed with fun and food, attracting thousands of fairgoers to Riverbank Park. In a day for families, fairgoers will stroll through the midway. The aroma of food – hot dogs, burgers and French fries – will draw customers to vendor booths. A variety of entertainment and demonstrations […]

A 24-year-old Westbrook woman has been charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child at a North Yarmouth day care where she worked. Authorities say Meggan Lyn Loker was arrested after another staff member at Caring Place Day care Facility reported the assault on May 15, to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, which […]

History lesson Second-grade students at Prides Corner School in Westbrook recently toured the boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland. The visit was made possible through a grant from the Maine Education Association, which also provided books of Longfellow poetry for the school’s library. Davis on duty Lcdr Wendy Davis works for the U.S. […]

A great-grandmother’s mission to feed the hungry in Buxton is in jeopardy after state police busted up what they suspected was an illegal poker game. The state police gambling unit raided the Narragansett Pythian Sisters Temple on Route 22 in Buxton about 7 p.m. on May 20, said Steve McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine […]

The auction under the tent is always one of the main attractions at Together Days. The action starts at noon on Saturday, June 6. It’s an opportunity for fairgoers to bid on bargains while supporting Westbrook Together Days. Promising to have something of interest for nearly everyone, this year’s will have more than 110 donated […]

Weeks of yard sales – Saturdays, May 30 and June 13, 20 and 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. Used book and DVD sale – Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Windham Hill Church of Christ, 140 […]

Since the first of the year, Tim Layne and his co-workers at CCB, Inc., Construction Services, along with business and residents throughout the community, have been collecting food for the city’s needy. For the past two years, the food drive was just something the staff at CCB did themselves, but, this year, it dawned on […]

An organizer of a Memorial Day parade and ceremony in Gorham said the turnout Monday was one of the best in recent years. George Gerrish, commander of the Gorham Memorial Post 10879 of the VFW, Tuesday estimated numbers as “at least a couple thousand” on Main Street. “(It) was the biggest turnout I’ve ever seen,” […]

While looking through the Historical Society scrapbook marked “Westbrook Together 1980,” I feel a strange rush of nostalgia for my childhood: for simpler times, school picnics, brighter colors, and even crocheted hanging owls. From the square-cut, faded photographs in the pages of that scrapbook, somehow resembling the pictures in my mother’s own albums, the nine […]