Equal pay for equal work? Street prostitutes in Chicago earned an average of $27 an hour over a two-year period, nearly 50 percent more than women in retail sales, hair styling, etc. Sunny Italy? Italy’s highest court has ruled that it is permissible to lie in giving testimony about one’s own extra-marital affairs Reluctance to […]

City Council approval could be required for severance payments of more than $3,000 made to Westbrook city employees who leave their jobs. The request for such an amendment to the city’s human resources policies and procedures came about after a disagreement between city councilors and Mayor Bruce Chuluda about whether he was authorized to write […]

City Council approval could be required for severance payments of more than $3,000 made to Westbrook city employees who leave their jobs. The request for such an amendment to the city’s human resources policies and procedures came about after a disagreement between city councilors and Mayor Bruce Chuluda about whether he was authorized to write […]

A Portland Police sergeant who lived in Westbrook is dead after accidentally shooting himself with his duty weapon Monday night while preparing his belt for work the next day, according to Westbrook Police Chief Bill Baker. Westbrook Police responded to an emergency call around 11:30 p.m. Monday night at 31 Deer Hill Ave. from the […]

Mission Possible Teen Center would like to congratulate Kianna Cooper on achieving Teen of the Month! Kianna started coming to the teen center this fall as a new sixth-grader. She was very shy and quiet at first but over the past several months she has been coming out of her shell! Since we first met […]

McLaughlin, who had lived in Gorham about eight years, leaves a widow, Lorraine McLaughlin. They had been married seven years. Laughlin had three children, Alyson Knox of Falmouth, Doug McLaughlin of New Hampshire, and Jessica McLaughlin, 16, who is a student at Greeley High School in Cumberland; and one grandson Elijah Knox, 7. “He could […]

McLaughlin, who had lived in Gorham about eight years, leaves a widow, Lorraine McLaughlin. They had been married seven years. Laughlin had three children, Alyson Knox of Falmouth, Doug McLaughlin of New Hampshire, and Jessica McLaughlin, 16, who is a student at Greeley High School in Cumberland; and one grandson Elijah Knox, 7. “He could […]

Voters like school site Gorham Superintendent Ted Sharp said voters in a straw poll Monday overwhelmingly approved a site for a proposed new elementary schoo,l 54-2. A new elementary school for kindergarten through Grade 5 for 550 students would be located on 26 acres off Sebago Lake Road at Stevens Drive. It would replace an […]

Voters like school site Gorham Superintendent Ted Sharp said voters in a straw poll Monday overwhelmingly approved a site for a proposed new elementary schoo,l 54-2. A new elementary school for kindergarten through Grade 5 for 550 students would be located on 26 acres off Sebago Lake Road at Stevens Drive. It would replace an […]

A group of Westbrook artists and the mayor’s Arts and Culture Committee have planned Fourth Friday Westbrook Art Walks, “a movable feast.” The first Fourth Friday will be May 23 from 5-8 p.m. A dozen artist’s studios will be open in the Dana Warp Mill at 90 Bridge St., as well as a downtown gallery […]