Gift benefits local theater Sanford Institution for Savings has presented the Saco River Grange Hall with a check for $2,500. The second annual donation will help the Saco River Grange Hall maintain and continue its schedule of theatrical and artistic events. “During the current difficult fundraising environment, there’s no better time to support the arts […]

The Westbrook American reported on March 25, 1964, that Phil Hill, chairman of Gorham selectmen, and Horton Gilman, owner of Mr. G IGA Foodliner, welcomed Maine Potato Queen Joanne Labrie of Fort Kent to Gorham. Ruby Brackett of West Buxton returned to her home after staying the winter in Biddeford.

March 28,1984 Maine Metal Finishing must clean its Gorham metal plating plant and clean and seal the waste lagoons there when it closes. It will be responsible for providing perpetual are for the sealed lagoons, no matter who owns the property. If it sells the site it must tell any buyer what the land was […]

For school-aged boys, singing in the choir isn’t commonly considered the coolest activity. “There’s a stigma,” said Patrick McCarthy, a music teacher at Westbrook High School. Still, many male singers chose to perform, despite the fact that it might jeopardize their popularity, and McCarthy wants to make sure they’re proud of what they do. Last […]

Americans don’t like to talk about dying. So we’re ill prepared when it comes time to make funeral arrangements. Many of us feel “cheap” if we balk at the price of a casket. But it is time to face the facts and break the taboo if we want to keep the cost of dying from […]

Student musicians win awards The Westbrook High School Jazz Ensemble took second place in Division I last weekend at the Maine State Jazz Festival in South Portland. Four of the 77 groups that performed were from Westbrook High. In addition to the second place awarded to the Jazz Ensemble, which is directed by Phil Rich, […]

175/175a The first post office at Cumberland Mills was opened around 1870 in a one-and-a-half-story building on Main Street at Lamb Street. The postmaster was William W. Lamb. The post office photo on the left was taken in 1914, after it relocated to the Warren Block. The post office later moved to a more spacious […]

As many as 30 positions in the Gorham School Department have been proposed for elimination or a reduction in hours in a preliminary $29.2 million school budget. Superintendent Ted Sharp’s proposed budget would eliminate the equivalent of 12.5 full-time teachers, eight educational technicians and one speech specialist. The budget does not include funding the position […]

As many as 30 positions in the Gorham School Department have been proposed for elimination or a reduction in hours in a preliminary $29.2 million school budget. Superintendent Ted Sharp’s proposed budget would eliminate the equivalent of 12.5 full-time teachers, eight educational technicians and one speech specialist. The budget does not include funding the position […]

For the first time in nearly three decades, the Snell Family Farm in Buxton won’t be producing maple syrup this year and won’t be a host farm for this weekend’s traditional Maine Maple Sunday. With energy costs and other demands in their farming operation increasing, Ramona and John Snell made the decision to stop boiling […]