Dyer found I have missed the columns of music critic Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe. But I was very pleased to read an interesting and long article in the April Opera News about the sopranos who had sung the lead in Donizetti’s “La Fille de Regiment” through the years. The article was by Richard […]

Dyer found I have missed the columns of music critic Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe. But I was very pleased to read an interesting and long article in the April Opera News about the sopranos who had sung the lead in Donizetti’s “La Fille de Regiment” through the years. The article was by Richard […]

The First Parish Congregational Church has an extra six months to install the restored town clock in the church. The Gorham Town Council granted the extension Tuesday. The clock, a gift to the town in 1868, was removed from the church steeple in 2006 for repairs after it stopped. The town agreed to return the […]

The Westbrook City Council, resuming an ongoing debate Monday, now wants to know all the options and costs for curbside recycling. The implementation of a recycling program in the city has been stalled due to a disagreement between councilors and Mayor Bruce Chuluda about how the program should be funded. Last year, Chuluda proposed a […]

Thespians place 5th Westbrook High School’s Sock ‘n Buskin Theatre Group came in fifth place out of nine at the statewide one-act festival held at Camden Hills Regional High School on March 21 and 22. The Westbrook students were invited to the state competition after coming in first place at the regional competition earlier in […]

“It’s a real gem of potential park land,” Peter Eliot says as he surveys the Indian Cellar site along the Saco River. Eliot is a member of the Indian Cellar Property Preservation Committee, which is working to save the historic property from development. Staff photo by Harmony Motter page 1 AJ photo and cutline

CUTLINE ONLY R Bernstein B Blackwood jpg Robert S. Blackwood Jr., a longtime resident of South Portland and chairman of the University of Southern Maine Board of Visitors, stands next to Roz Bernstein of Portland, founding chairwoman of the board, as Blackwood unveiled to USM faculty, staff and students on March 20 “A Southern Maine […]

For the second year in a row, Ian Murray, 12, will represent Westbrook in the Maine Geographic Bee, April 4. A seventh-grader at Wescott Junior High School, Murray first had to compete against his classmates in a bee and then take a written test in which he had to have one of the top 100 […]

Leonard Pitts, the Miami Herald columnist, was unable to get a cab late at night in New York because, he assumed, of his skin color. He was probably correct. That is an injustice. But, on the other hand, cabbies have a point of view. Experience has taught them that lone black men are a peril. […]

Leonard Pitts, the Miami Herald columnist, was unable to get a cab late at night in New York because, he assumed, of his skin color. He was probably correct. That is an injustice. But, on the other hand, cabbies have a point of view. Experience has taught them that lone black men are a peril. […]