I have to tell you about this dream I had. What is strange is that it felt so real, so vivid. I dreamed I was living in this real nice, small college town that was mostly rural, with a village center that was not yet overgrown. I lived in a modest house near the village, […]

“Coach Paul went far beyond our expectations!” Kind, caring, welcoming, enthusiastic, generous and warm, these are just a few of the superlative descriptions ascribed to Paul Amundson, owner and director of The Maine Academy of Gymnastics in Westbrook, Maine. The students from the Extended School Year Program (ESY) were treated to a morning of imaginative […]

“Coach Paul went far beyond our expectations!” Kind, caring, welcoming, enthusiastic, generous and warm, these are just a few of the superlative descriptions ascribed to Paul Amundson, owner and director of The Maine Academy of Gymnastics in Westbrook, Maine. The students from the Extended School Year Program (ESY) were treated to a morning of imaginative […]

The Westbrook City Council is expected to hold a public hearing Aug. 13 on whether to reduce the city clerk’s pay from $49,000 plus benefits to $5,000. The move to reduce the clerk’s pay comes a little more than two months after voters rejected changing the clerk’s position from an elected to an appointed one. […]

The Westbrook City Council is expected to hold a public hearing Aug. 13 on whether to reduce the city clerk’s pay from $49,000 plus benefits to $5,000. The move to reduce the clerk’s pay comes a little more than two months after voters rejected changing the clerk’s position from an elected to an appointed one. […]

Neighbors of a proposed Gorham stone quarry and asphalt plant told the town planning board at an emotional public hearing Monday that ordinance changes under consideration would alter the nature of the town. Planners, at the direction of the town council last month, are listening to public comment and making recommendations about proposed amendments to […]

Neighbors of a proposed Gorham stone quarry and asphalt plant told the town planning board at an emotional public hearing Monday that ordinance changes under consideration would alter the nature of the town. Planners, at the direction of the town council last month, are listening to public comment and making recommendations about proposed amendments to […]

In reference to the July 26 editorial, “Spare state another tax debate”: In the first place it is not the state that antes up with the money, it is the taxpayers. The very last paragraph is where you missed the boat! Nowhere did I see anything about cutting spending. Now wouldn’t this accomplish the same […]

The staff at Mission Possible Teen Center honors Travis Meserve as August’s Teen of the Month. Travis is a recent addition to the center as a member of the Full Tilt Program, which provides those entering the sixth grade with the tools necessary for the transition into Wescott Junior High. Travis’s strengths and wonderful qualities […]

After nearly a year of debate over a city ordinance that would regulate hobby farming in Westbrook, city councilors sent a proposed ordinance back to the Westbrook Planning Board Monday. The city’s Committee of the Whole, which consists of all seven city councilors, continued Monday to work through the details of the proposed ordinance to […]