The Crustacean Avengers proved that Maine ingenuity is equal to any other in the country as the Gorham-based flying team won the 17th annual Red Bull Flugtag competition last Saturday. The team, comprising five employees from Gorham’s Transformit (which produces and installs interior tension fabric structures), bested 32 other teams to take home first place. […]

The Crustacean Avengers proved that Maine ingenuity is equal to any other in the country as the Gorham-based flying team won the 17th annual Red Bull Flugtag competition last Saturday. The team, comprising five employees from Gorham’s Transformit (which produces and installs interior tension fabric structures), bested 32 other teams to take home first place. […]

Elected at the age of 18, Westbrook City Councilor Mike Foley turned 21 Tuesday. Serving as a city official isn’t the only one of Foley’s accomplishments that’s rare for someone his age. A dispatcher for the Kennebunk Police Department by day, Foley also has a second job at the Maine Mall’s new Apple computer store, […]

Elected at the age of 18, Westbrook City Councilor Mike Foley turned 21 Tuesday. Serving as a city official isn’t the only one of Foley’s accomplishments that’s rare for someone his age. A dispatcher for the Kennebunk Police Department by day, Foley also has a second job at the Maine Mall’s new Apple computer store, […]

146/146B In the photo at left, Yudy’s Tire Co. occupies the building on the left, with Saco Street intersecting with Main Street and the Westbrook Farmer’s Union Farm Supply Store occupying 968 Main St. Yudy’s Tire Co. went out of business and the building was divided to house several businesses. The Westbrook Farmer’s Union Store […]

Vote reminder Gorham residents will decide Tuesday whether to approve a 20-year bond to build a $25.8 million elementary school off Route 237. Gorham taxpayers would pay for $2.4 million, not counting interest. The proposed kindergarten through Grade 5 school would replace the overcrowded kindergarten through second-grade White Rock Elementary School, built nearly a half […]

PHOTOS IN FOLDER CALLED RIVERBANK FESTIVAL COPY BLOCK The Riverbank Art Festival attracted art lovers and artists alike Saturday to Westbrook for the seventh annual edition of the late-summer favorite. About 35 artists from around Maine, ranging from jewelers to painters to potters, participated, and there was plenty of food and music to round out […]

With so many having lamented TV’s effect on education, it is perhaps ironic that the same medium will elevate the status of a quirky local science teacher to that of celebrity. Later this month, a longtime South Portland resident and Gorham teacher, Bob Crowley, will appear on this fall’s season of CBS’s “Survivor.” Crowley recently […]

When Gloria Noyes was met with a standing ovation as she walked in to the auditorium at Congin School Wednesday morning, she knew the all-school assembly wasn’t for the dedication of a new green space, as she had been told. Surrounded by students and teachers from the past and present, friends, family and city and […]

The Westbrook Superintendent Search Committee will be holding two public forums to share information about the search process and to solicit feedback from the community about the search for a new school superintendent. The two meetings will be held at Westbrook High School in room 114 from 8 a.m.-9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, and 6 […]