A Westbrook man was arrested for motor vehicle burglary early Monday morning. Police found Adam Bickford, 28, of Brackett Street, hiding in the garage of a home on Colonial Avenue at around 1:20 a.m. Monday after several cars were broken into on Webster and Colonial avenues. Tracking Bickford’s footsteps in the snow, police took him […]

Construction on the new middle school won’t be complete for another year, but sixth-grade teacher Collette Gagnon knows exactly where her classroom will be. “I’m going to have windows!” Gagnon exclaimed as she toured the new building Friday. Windows, she said, would be just one of the many improvements from her Wescott Junior High School […]

Andrew Paul Cyr of Biddeford has been named to the dean’s list at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., for the fall semester. He is the son of Donna Cyr-Warren of Biddeford and Lance Cyr of Westbrook. He is a member of the class of 2012 and is majoring in political science and history.

Nolan Irish was born more than three months premature, weighing just over a pound. Logan Jordan had a serious heart defect at birth, one that required three surgeries in his first three years. Besides sharing an equally tough start to life, Irish, 6, of Gorham, and Jordan, 15, of Windham, have another thing in common. […]

173/173a On the left is a building once located at 19 Bridge St., which housed a popular restaurant operated by Sammy Porello. The business was expanded to include a bar and dance area. Porello operated the business for many years as The Army & Navy Bar, Porello’s and Sammy’s Bar & Grill. Locals often referred […]

Pike Industries has filed a lawsuit against Westbrook to stop the city from rezoning its Spring Street quarry and preventing the company from building an asphalt plant on the site. The suit was filed just days after Pike was awarded a $35 million contract to rebuild the northbound lanes of Interstate 295 – a project […]

In February, I swallowed my pride (it’s getting easier to do as the years go by), called Joe for Oil (Citizens Energy Corp.), and within two weeks, received 100 gallons of oil, free. I didn’t even give a thought to the political process, or feel at all guilty about it. I know there are many […]

A 19-year-old woman was rushed to a hospital Monday after rescue workers pulled her from a frigid stream in an hour-long rescue near the University of Southern Maine campus. Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre said the woman, who was unidentified, fell through the ice on Tommy’s Brook while hiking with friends about 3 p.m. The […]

A woman whose art is inspired by disasters is creating a piece memorializing the Maine forest fire of 1947 at the Art Gallery on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Michelle Forsyth, who is 37 and teaches at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., has been working six days a week on […]

A female was rushed to a hospital Monday after rescue workers pulled her from a frigid stream in an hour-long rescue near the University of Southern Maine campus. Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre said the female, who was unidentified, fell through the ice on Tommy’s Brook while hiking with friends about 3 p.m. The incident […]