Sunset Ridge Golf Links on Cumberland Street in Westbrook is carrying on business as usual after the golf shop was severely damaged in a fire last Thursday. The fire began around 11:30 p.m. and wasn’t extinguished until nearly 5 a.m. Friday morning. Sunset Ridge Golf Links owner Jacqueline Edgecomb said on Tuesday that they’re in […]

As John Frasca looked at his yard filled with a York County Emergency Management Agency communications van, a canteen truck, tents set up for animal rescue workers and a line of cars parked on in the grass along his driveway, he heard sirens coming down the dirt road leading to his home in Buxton. “This […]

100th birthday for Louise Campbell Louise Robichaud Campbell celebrated her 100th birthday Aug. 17. Many friends and relatives helped her celebrate the occasion at two open houses held at her home. Campbell was brought up at 9 Ash St. and was employed at the Star Theater in Westbrook for more than 20 years. Campbell is […]

Molly Just comes to Maine from Washington, D.C., where she worked as senior revitalization planner for Arlington County, Va. She lived and worked in Washington and Arlington for 10 years. Just began her career in city planning working for a law firm representing developers and their teams of development professionals, including civil and transportation engineers […]

In reference to the American Journal’s Aug. 16 editorial concerning Westbrook’s proposed restrictions on sex offenders, I think we need to ask some basic questions. Is it the American way to chase released convicts of any type from community to community? In the process of driving them underground, don’t we set up the exact circumstances […]

Mission Possible Teen Center congratulates Matt Foster as September’s “Teen of the Month.” Matt is a recent addition to the center, as he was a member of the Full Tilt program based out of the center this summer. This program was designed to assist with the transition into the sixth grade. Although the program has […]

Vanishings In the Aug. 24 Christian Science Monitor was a detailed and disturbing article by Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, who studies the behavioral ecology of birds and teaches biology at Bowdoin College. A paragraph says, “The song of tens of millions of birds have been silenced. It feels as if the lights are dimming.” He learned […]

CUTLINE ONLY (SAAB) Two people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries Monday afternoon after a collision in Westbrook involving a car and a Maine Department of Transportation pickup truck. Sgt. Mike Sanphy of the Westbrook Police Department said Meaghan Junkins, 19, of Gorham, driving a 1999 Saab, was turning right on Spring Street […]

CUTLINE ONLY (SAAB) Two people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries Monday afternoon after a collision in Westbrook involving a car and a Maine Department of Transportation pickup truck. Sgt. Mike Sanphy of the Westbrook Police Department said Meaghan Junkins, 19, of Gorham, driving a 1999 Saab, was turning right on Spring Street […]

Marsters Motors owned and occupied this building at 511 Main St., left, for many years before going out of business around 1976. Ron’s Vette Center (foreign and domestic used cars) occupied the building for several years before closing his business. Aubuchon Hardware Co. then took over the building in the early 1980s and opened a […]