August 1982 The Westbrook City Council voted first-reading approval for a $2.5 million revenue bond issue for a new Genuine Auto Parts store, machine shop, warehouse and office at 180 Larrabee Road. The new building is expected to bring $50,000 a year or so in additional property tax revenues for the city. The bonds will […]

Gorham town councilors rejected Tuesday a move to amend a new sex offender ordinance to restrict where registered sex offenders could work. “It’s very disappointing,” Town Councilor Shonn Moulton, who sponsored the ordinance last month and proposed the amendment, said Wednesday. In July, Gorham passed a measure prohibiting sex offenders registered for life from living […]

Gorham town councilors rejected Tuesday a move to amend a new sex offender ordinance to restrict where registered sex offenders could work. “It’s very disappointing,” Town Councilor Shonn Moulton, who sponsored the ordinance last month and proposed the amendment, said Wednesday. In July, Gorham passed a measure prohibiting sex offenders registered for life from living […]

A single car crash closed part of New Portland Road in Gorham for six hours during the Monday morning rush hour. Gorham Police said the driver, Amber Brown, 20, of Gorham, didn’t sustain injuries when her gray, four-door Chevy rolled over, landed in a ditch and snapped a utility pole at 5:35 a.m. “She saw […]

Since 1995, the Mitchell Institute has given out $5.7 million to graduates of Maine high schools who are going on to college. What’s remarkable, however, is not the total amount of money given out, in and of itself a notable achievement, but what’s come with it – mentoring and support. Founded by Sen. George J. […]

A single car crash closed part of New Portland Road in Gorham for several hours during the Monday morning rush hour. An unidentified woman driver apparently was unharmed after her gray, four-door Chevy rolled over, landed in a ditch and snapped a utility pole about 5:45 a.m. The woman, whose name has not been released, […]

Gorham’s town council Tuesday turned down a request to re-zone a large tract on lower Main Street from office commercial to roadside commercial. Don Dolloff, who had a customer for a 10-acre parcel, said Monday he didn’t anticipate that the zoning would be changed because of abutter opposition. “We’ll be looking for another buyer,” Dolloff […]

An Afghani fixer named Javed finding work building steel playgrounds for his country’s orphans might not sound like the outcome of a local microbiology researcher going “adventure bicycling” during the 1991 coup in Haiti. But that’s the story of Scarborough resident, Westbrook businessman and global photographer Charles Carpenter. Carpenter, 57, whose large-format photographs are on […]

An Afghani fixer named Javed finding work building steel playgrounds for his country’s orphans might not sound like the outcome of a local microbiology researcher going “adventure bicycling” during the 1991 coup in Haiti. But that’s the story of Scarborough resident, Westbrook businessman and global photographer Charles Carpenter. Carpenter, 57, whose large-format photographs are on […]

What will happen to the old Wescott Junior High once it has seen its last student exit its doors? Members of a committee charged with looking at the reuse of the aging building – which will close in 2010 when a new middle school opens – met Tuesday to discuss the possibilities for the future, […]