The Westbrook American reported on March 6, 1963, that Barbara Wood planned to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wood of Hillview Road, the next weekend. She was a student nurse at Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. Ida Foster, West Buxton, was spending the winter with Beatrice Maines of Hollis.

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Arrests Feb. 22 Erica Stilphen, 30, Westbrook Gardens, on Terri Cricle on a charge of disorderly conduct. Amy Fitzgerald, 22, Brighton Avenue, Portland, on a charge of theft. Jessica Rice, 27, Madison Street, on Main Street on a charge of theft. Feb. 25 James Varney, 51, River Street, on River Street on a warrant charge. […]

Jason Snyder has traveled the world as a consultant and investor for well-known international firms, but when it comes his work over the past five years, he’s all about Westbrook. Snyder, 37, who last week announced a proposal for the state’s largest retail, recreation and entertainment development, touts himself as a Westbrook native through and […]

Hungry hoot in town A Barred Owl, likely hoping for lunch, perched a few feet above the snow in a tree all day Feb. 28 in Austin Boothby’s yard on South Street. Boothby thought the owl was hungry and approached it within a few feet to put bread slices in the snow. It didn’t fly […]

Hungry hoot in town A Barred Owl, likely hoping for lunch, perched a few feet above the snow in a tree all day Feb. 28 in Austin Boothby’s yard on South Street. Boothby thought the owl was hungry and approached it within a few feet to put bread slices in the snow. It didn’t fly […]

Back Nippen Road in Buxton might seem like an odd place for a Cambodian Buddhist temple, but, as the chairman of the Watt Samaki temple’s board has explained, the wooded eight acres where it sits is not such an unusual choice. “People like to meditate in forests,” said Pirun Sen, who was born in rural […]

Back Nippen Road in Buxton might seem like an odd place for a Cambodian Buddhist temple, but, as the chairman of the Watt Samaki temple’s board has explained, the wooded eight acres where it sits is not such an unusual choice. “People like to meditate in forests,” said Pirun Sen, who was born in rural […]

March 1 – Mayor’s office hours, 9 a.m.-noon March 3 – City Council, 7 p.m. March 4 – Planning Board, 7 p.m. March 5 – Zoning Board, 7 p.m. March 6 – Westbrook Women’s Club Art Show, Westbrook Regional Vocational Center March 8 – Sixth grade Honors Band/Chorus Festival, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., South Portland High […]

Acorn Productions presents an evening of readings of new short plays on Friday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Acorn Studios in the Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St. The plays were selected as finalists for this year’s Maine Short Play Festival, but for various reasons were not included in the festival itself. The […]