“Southern Maine Panorama: Caren-Marie Michel,” opens Aug. 4 at Little Sebago Gallery & Frame in Windham. The public is invited to a reception to meet the artist, who lives and paints in Westbrook, on Saturday, Aug. 9, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at the gallery. Michel’s acrylic landscape paintings of southern Maine will be installed in a […]

YardScape, a statewide effort through the Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District to reduce the use of fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides, has been particularly beneficial for one Westbrook resident. Margaret Brown’s lawn at her home on Park Road was chosen as a test site for the program. For about two months, Courtney O’Neill, the […]

July 27, 1983 Summer after summer, kids cross Lamont Willoughby’s land to swim inthe Presumscot River in Westbrook. Summer after summer, he tries to keep them off. The contest took a more serious turn last week when Willoughby was arrested for smashing two windows and denting the roof and hood of the car of some […]

Edith “Virgie” Wright has spent more than half a century as an active volunteer in Buxton, and last Saturday, the community showed its appreciation: the flower garden at the West Buxton Library was dedicated to her. “My family and I have loved this town, and we are so pleased we settled in such a lovely […]

CUTLINE ONLY Trudy pointing Ten years later, Westbrook resident Trudy Hartford’s vision of a perennial garden welcoming people into the city from Gorham is finally realized. “I’m so pleased,” she said Tuesday about the garden being planted in the area of open space where Saco Street, Main Street and William Clarke Drive meet. Though Hartford […]

CUTLINE ONLY Trudy pointing Ten years later, Westbrook resident Trudy Hartford’s vision of a perennial garden welcoming people into the city from Gorham is finally realized. “I’m so pleased,” she said Tuesday about the garden being planted in the area of open space where Saco Street, Main Street and William Clarke Drive meet. Though Hartford […]

New environmental violations have put the Westbrook School Department in jeopardy of a penalty from the Department of Environmental Protection – and have left one family drinking bottled water. Neighbors reported July 7 that a brook that runs from near Congin School on Bridge Street down into the Presumpscot River turned a cloudy white color, […]

New environmental violations have put the Westbrook School Department in jeopardy of a penalty from the Department of Environmental Protection – and have left one family drinking bottled water. Neighbors reported July 7 that a brook that runs from near Congin School on Bridge Street down into the Presumpscot River turned a cloudy white color, […]

The Westbrook American reported on July 17, 1963, that Cynthia Gilman was honored on her fifth birthday with a party by parents Mr. and Mrs. Warren B. Gilman. Gertrude Elwell, who had been attending summer school in Waterville, was at home in West Buxton.

City tweaking rules while residents find other rides As Westbrook residents make arrangements to get around without a taxi service, the city is working on changing its ordinance to clarify how Westbrook Taxi – and any other cab company – can operate in the city. Since the city’s Municipal Officers denied relicensing Westbrook Taxi, the […]