The Gorham Town Council has passed an ordinance limiting where registered sex offenders can live in the town. The ordinance prohibits sex offenders from living or loitering within 2,500 feet of a school and 1,000 feet of a child-care center. Councilor Shonn Moulton, who sponsored the ordinance, said the ordinance applies to the campus of […]

The Gorham Town Council has passed an ordinance limiting where registered sex offenders can live in the town. The ordinance prohibits sex offenders from living or loitering within 2,500 feet of a school and 1,000 feet of a child-care center. Councilor Shonn Moulton, who sponsored the ordinance, said the ordinance applies to the campus of […]

The Westbrook American reported on July 11, 1962, that Mr. and Mrs. Percy Meggison had celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary on June 26 with a family dinner at the Marshview Restaurant. They were married in Westbrook by the Rev. Harry Townsend.

While a rainy day is a good time to enjoy a relaxing book, staff members at the Walker Memorial Library have been spending their rainy days protecting many of the more than 53,000 books in their collection. “People have wanted to donate money for furniture and stuff, but we can’t do anything with the roof […]

Some of the migratory species of fish that could be restored to the Presumpscot River with the removal of the Cumberland Mills Dam are blueback herring, shad, alewife and Atlantic salmon. There also could be new opportunities to bring in sea-run brown trout.

Child-care providers concerned about how new rules regulating pools at day cares will affect their businesses packed a hearing room in Augusta Monday night to protest the changes the state adopted after 3-year-old Andrew Thurston drowned at Koala Child Kare in Westbrook. While it’s good child-care providers are letting regulators know the impact of these […]

Rick Poitras tossed bread Tuesday evening to ducks floating in the Presumpscot River, as he sat on a bench on the bank. Hearing news of plans to remove a dam, Poitras thought water quality would improve. “It will be healthier without dams,” Poitras said about the river. “But it will certainly be smaller.” In the […]

A Sanford man suspected in three armed robberies over the weekend was arrested on a warrant by Old Orchard Beach police Sunday afternoon. Michael Pomerleau, 27, of 8 Dale St., was stopped by police at 12:45 p.m. on Ocean Park Road in Old Orchard Beach after a complaint of erratic driving. Further investigation by the […]

It is time to admit that efforts to improve Westbrook’s abysmal recycling program this year have met with stunning failure. I chaired citizen task force that took its charge very seriously, a group that put (literally) 300-plus person hours into a report on solid waste and recycling. We recommended that Westbrook implement curbside recycling, coupled […]

It is time to admit that efforts to improve Westbrook’s abysmal recycling program this year have met with stunning failure. I chaired citizen task force that took its charge very seriously, a group that put (literally) 300-plus person hours into a report on solid waste and recycling. We recommended that Westbrook implement curbside recycling, coupled […]