Their experience last week at Westbrook’s emergency shelter has inspired a mother and daughter to help keep boredom at bay for future evacuees. Escaping the Patriot’s Day storm to the safety of the shelter, set up at the Westbrook High School gym, a 10-year-old Congin School student, Taylor Mary Driscoll, and her mom, Ellen Driscoll, […]

Second Trimester High Honors – Grade 8 Stephanie M. Brown, Brittany R. Davis, Sydney L. Hebert, Tate K. Herbert, Ian N. Karby, Thomas J. Lemay, Lagu J. Luka, Ayantu T. Regassa, Jenna R. Rodrigues, Kathryn D. Violette. Second Trimester Honor Roll – Grade 8 Benjamin J. Arsenault, Christopher A. Aube, Emily K. Ayers, Ciera M. […]

Federal officials removed 21 seals and terminated the authority of the Marine Animal Lifeline to rescue and hold seals last week. The surprise inspection showed that the well-known Westbrook-based organization failed to test the animals for a deadly virus that could potentially wipe out thousands of seals, according to a spokeswoman from the National Marine […]

Legislators will begin a marathon review of proposed changes in the state’s sex-offender law when they return from spring break next week, including the constitutionally thorny issue of prohibiting where offenders can live once they get out of jail. The scores of bills proposed stem largely from the case of Joseph Tellier, a convicted sex […]

Church luncheon – Thursday, April 19, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Bean supper – Saturday, April 21, 4:30-6 p.m., E. Baldwin Church, Baldwin. To benefit Brown Memorial Library. $6, $3. Bean supper – Saturday, April 21, 4:30-6 p.m., Saco Grange No. 53, 168 North St. (Route 112), Saco, Two kinds of beans, […]

April 1982 When renovations are completed, all business or emergency phone calls made to the Gorham Public Safety office will be tape recorded because many times, according to Chief Edmund Hagan, people who call in emergencies are excited and consequently fail to leave complete addresses, names or other important facts. Bailey’s Market got the registration […]

A Westbrook man convicted of sexually assaulting children has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. William Blanchard, 18, was convicted of four counts of gross sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact and visual sexual aggression of a child in Cumberland County Superior Court last Wednesday. The court sentenced him to 15 years in […]

A sense of humor helps On East Valentine Street in Westbrook, David Schuster and Bill Langlais were working Tuesday morning to cut up a tree that had fallen on a car, smashing the driver’s side window and denting the roof. Schuster, who lives in the apartment owned by Langlais’ fiancae, said he was home Monday […]

Vickie Chuluda, 61, wife of Westbrook Mayor Bruce Chuluda, died early last Wednesday morning at Maine Medical Center after a two-year battle with cancer. A long-time librarian at Saccarappa School in Westbrook, she was also active in the community at the Walker Memorial Library and in such groups as the Westbrook Woman’s Club. “She’s just […]

The Westbrook American reported on April 18, 1962, that a son, Louis Herbert Emery Jr., was born to parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis Emery on March 30 at Mercy Hospital in Portland. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Emery of Buxton and Mrs. Allie Amnott of Sanford.