A work crew from Portland Water District repairs a leak in a 12-inch water main near the Dairy Queen on Main Street in Westbrook Wednesday afternoon. Rush-hour traffic moved slowly in both travel lanes but Michelle Clements, a spokeswoman for the water district, asked people to avoid the area. The break was reported about 3:30 […]

A work crew from Portland Water District repairs a leak in a 12-inch water main near the Dairy Queen on Main Street in Westbrook Wednesday afternoon. Rush-hour traffic moved slowly in both travel lanes but Michelle Clements, a spokeswoman for the water district, asked people to avoid the area. The break was reported about 3:30 […]

A work crew from Portland Water District repairs a leak in a 12-inch water main near the Dairy Queen on Main Street in Westbrook Wednesday afternoon. Rush-hour traffic moved slowly in both travel lanes but Michelle Clements, a spokeswoman for the water district, asked people to avoid the area. The break was reported about 3:30 […]

Color-coded maps hang on walls, a bank of computers line tabletops, cameras are prohibited and an ID is required before a visitor is granted entry. Welcome not to a war room at the Pentagon, but to the Maine office of the U.S. Census Bureau in Portland, where a retired lieutenant colonel, Patrick H. Burke, 60, […]

April 18, 1984 Alderman Henry Saunders proposed Monday that owners of abutting property pay two-thirds of the cost of any repairs to Westbrook streets. The City Council agreed to study the idea in a Committee of the Whole. Saunders backed off somewhat, however, when his proposal came under attack from Alderman Fred Westcott. Saunders said […]

April 18, 1984 Alderman Henry Saunders proposed Monday that owners of abutting property pay two-thirds of the cost of any repairs to Westbrook streets. The City Council agreed to study the idea in a Committee of the Whole. Saunders backed off somewhat, however, when his proposal came under attack from Alderman Fred Westcott. Saunders said […]

Daffodils sprouting I heard from my friend Joan Ashley last week that she stopped at Saco’s Laurel Hill Cemetery to check out the lovely daffodils there. They were a few inches high, but were not in bloom yet. I have written about them each spring, and some of our readers get out to see them, […]

South Buxton Cemetery Association annual meeting The South Buxton Cemetery Association (Tory Hill) will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. at the Buxton Town Hall, 185 Portland Road. All lot owners, representatives and interested parties are welcome and encouraged to attend. Members in attendance will elect officers and directors; reports […]

A Falmouth man was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run outside Mill Side Tavern earlier this month. Douglas J. Smilie, 47, was arrested April 9 on charges of aggravated assault and aggravated reckless conduct after being identified as the driver who jumped the curb on Cumberland Street and hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk. Police […]

Two RVs were destroyed Tuesday at Wassamki Springs campground in Gorham after a brush fire spread to the campers nearby. No one was injured in the fire, which started at about 1 p.m. after debris from a nearby brush fire struck a camper owned by Gordon and Darlene Junkins, setting it ablaze and burning it […]