The Westbrook City Council heeded the call of property owners who opposed a change in the zoning ordinance that would prohibit building on small lots. The council voted to table the amendment and send it back to the Planning Board Monday, so that the board and staff could come up with design standards that would […]

130/130A The old house in the left photo stood on Main Street at Pleasant Street and was known as the Ricker House. Mobil Oil Co. purchased the house and demolished it to make way for a Mobil service statiion, which was operated for many years by Ray LeTarte. He eventually closed the business. The building […]

Hidden everywhere from homes on Mechanic Street to the Dana Warp Mill, Westbrook’s burgeoning art scene is about to make its debut. Both longtime residents and artists who recently started renting studio space in Westbrook will have their work on display next week for the city’s first Fourth Friday Art Walk, letting both residents and […]

The Westbrook American reported on May 15, 1963, that officers of the Gorham High School Alumni Association included Abbott Mosher, president; Ralph Newell Jr., vice president; Mrs. Sherman Gray, secretary; and Samuel Hoyt Jr., treasurer. Murray Eaton of West Buxton purchased the home of Mrs. Eugene Redlon and would start making repairs.

129/129A At left is a view looking down Central Street toward Main Street. The wooden building on the left was an apartment house and the building to the right of it was the old Star Theater. Both buildings are long gone, and the portion of Central Street between William Clarke Drive and Main Street was […]

Voters in School Administrative District 6 approved a $40.3 million school budget in Tuesday’s referendum 761 to 413. “We’re very pleased with that,” Suzanne Lukas, SAD 6 superintendent, said Wednesday. Buxton Town Moderator Hiram Davis said Buxton voters approved the school budget 206-129 in a low voter turnout. With 5,960 registered voters in Buxton, only […]

Voters in School Administrative District 6 approved a $40.3 million school budget in Tuesday’s referendum 761 to 413. “We’re very pleased with that,” Suzanne Lukas, SAD 6 superintendent, said Wednesday. Buxton Town Moderator Hiram Davis said Buxton voters approved the school budget 206-129 in a low voter turnout. With 5,960 registered voters in Buxton, only […]

Learn about the city’s new middle school project at the Westbrook Community Chamber’s monthly business luncheon series, Business at Lunch, 12-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. Daniel Cecil, architect and partner at Harriman Associates, and Rene Daniel, chairman of the Middle School Building Committee, will provide an overview of the project and answer questions. The program […]

Ida (Betty) Johnston of Gorham was planning to replant a flower garden that she thought of as a memorial for her late husband. But she didn’t get to plant the garden this year. Johnston, 79, died Friday after a traffic accident in Gorham. Her daughter, Judy Johnston of Wells, remembered Wednesday that her mother “loved, […]

Ida (Betty) Johnston of Gorham was planning to replant a flower garden that she thought of as a memorial for her late husband. But she didn’t get to plant the garden this year. Johnston, 79, died Friday after a traffic accident in Gorham. Her daughter, Judy Johnston of Wells, remembered Wednesday that her mother “loved, […]