The Westbrook Planning Board will hold a public hearing and take a vote Tuesday on the contract zone for Stroudwater Place, the 1.6-million-square-foot retail center proposed for Stroudwater Street. The vote Tuesday will be a recommendation to the City Council on whether to approve the contract zone proposed by Jason Snyder and his design team […]

Time has run out on forming a charter commission this year, with a bid to put it on the November ballot failing Monday in a vote that split along party lines. Some city councilors had hoped to put the questions of whether to form a charter commission and who would serve on it to voters […]

Celtic duo in Buxton concert A Nashville-based acoustic Celtic duo will appear at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Saco River Grange Hall, 29 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. The duo features Scottish guitarist Peter Cairney and Vermont vocalist Deborah Packard. The concert includes slides of the Scottish landscape. Cairney and Packard are members […]

Aug. 10, 1983 Aldermen voted 7-0 to approve three exceptions to their freeze on Westbrook city employment. They will allow the city clerk to replace one employee and the public works director to replace two. Mrs. Ethelyn Eldridge, an assistant in the clerk’s office 28 years, will retire after the Nov. 8 election. City Clerk […]

Cab companies from surrounding communities could get the green light to service Westbrook residents who need rides within the city starting Monday night. The Westbrook City Council gave preliminary approval this week to a temporary ordinance amendment that would allow cab companies licensed in the city where their headquarters are located to drive customers from […]

143/143a The turn-of-the-century photo on the left shows Main Street looking east from Speirs Street. The stairs visible in the right lower corner are in front of the Danish Lutheran Church, which is now the Trinity Lutheran Church. The other buildings in the photo are long gone, as are the trolley car tracks that ran […]

A Westbrook Regional Vocational Center student climbs scaffolding in May as he and his classmates build a house on Everett Street. This week, new building lots were donated by city to the Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Club, which provides real estate for the school’s building trades program. Staff photo by Harmony Motter page 9 cutline

Alice Allen’s 90th On July 27, the 90th birthday of Alice Gamage Allen was observed at the Woodside farm on the Allen family’s Sebago property. It was a beautiful setting for the occasion, on a beautiful, sunny day. About 45 guests attended. The farmhouse is now the summer home of Alice and her late husband […]

Gorham Public Works officials say they have nearly completed cleaning up the town after a brief but severe storm July 18 downed trees and left nearly 9,000 people in the Gorham and Standish areas without power. Crews have been working 50-hour weeks since the storm, said Bob Burns, the town’s director of public works. The […]

When I was working full time, I used to scoff at senior discounts. In 1987, when I was 50, a clerk at a Burger King somewhere in Down East Maine didn’t charge me for a cup of coffee. I asked her why and she said senior citizens received coffee free with a breakfast sandwich. Believe […]