The Westbrook Inaugural Gala will be held Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Centurion Banquet Hall on Larrabee Road, from 6 p.m.-midnight. The evening will include a buffet dinner and dancing to the Bob Charest Band. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased by calling Lisa Chuluda at 615-8263 or Michelle Mecteaux at City […]

Welker coaches BEHS students in ‘financial football’ The office of the Maine state treasurer recently announced that 20 student athletes from Bonny Eagle High School participated in December in an event called “Financial Football” at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots. The team included ten male athletes and ten female athletes, representing the […]

Welker coaches BEHS students in ‘financial football’ The office of the Maine state treasurer recently announced that 20 student athletes from Bonny Eagle High School participated in December in an event called “Financial Football” at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots. The team included ten male athletes and ten female athletes, representing the […]

Members of a Westbrook American Legion post will be lighting up for the last time this month, after the club voted Tuesday to ban smoking. On Feb. 15, smokers will be herded outside and ash trays will be out of sight at American Legion Memorial Post 197 on Conant Street. Initially exempted from the statewide […]

Members of a Westbrook American Legion post will be lighting up for the last time this month, after the club voted Tuesday to ban smoking. On Feb. 15, smokers will be herded outside and ash trays will be out of sight at American Legion Memorial Post 197 on Conant Street. Initially exempted from the statewide […]

Music by masters The Portland String Quartet presented a half-hour concert Jan. 10 at the First Parish Unitarian Church on Congress Street, Portland, playing movements of quartets of Haydn, Beethoven and Chadwick. We wish it could have been a longer concert, for there were many eager music lovers in attendance, a larger crowd than usual […]

Music by masters The Portland String Quartet presented a half-hour concert Jan. 10 at the First Parish Unitarian Church on Congress Street, Portland, playing movements of quartets of Haydn, Beethoven and Chadwick. We wish it could have been a longer concert, for there were many eager music lovers in attendance, a larger crowd than usual […]

Music by masters The Portland String Quartet presented a half-hour concert Jan. 10 at the First Parish Unitarian Church on Congress Street, Portland, playing movements of quartets of Haydn, Beethoven and Chadwick. We wish it could have been a longer concert, for there were many eager music lovers in attendance, a larger crowd than usual […]

Westbrook police are investigating why two Brooklyn, N.Y., men arrested Tuesday were in Westbrook. Jaquil Murray, 21, and Jerry Abkhar, 26, who police say have been convicted of several crimes in New York, were arrested by Westbrook police at 6:40 p.m. for stealing alcohol from Hannaford. supermarket According to authorities, Murray, who has more than […]

The chickens and bees on Chestnut Street in Westbrook are still in limbo after the Committee of the Whole considered ordinance changes to allow the animals to stay under certain guidelines. The committee approved of the guidelines for keeping chickens and bees, which include minimum lot sizes and standards of practice to reduce noise and […]