After years of battles, there will be no Wal-Mart on the site of the former Saunders Brothers dowel mill in Westbrook. The 27 acres are being sold to a Portland real estate holding and development company, which plans to use the site for a combination of office, warehouse and manufacturing space. Vincent Veroneau, president and […]

I would like to take this opportunity to openly thank everyone who took the time to help my son and I while my wife Dianne was bravely battling cancer. We were all very humbled by Charlie Smith’s articles in the American Journal (Feb. 15 and Feb. 28) and the attention it brought to our situation. […]

Thanks to a gift from the Westbrook Masonic Lodge, the Westbrook School department has four new defibrillators. At a March 28 school committee meeting, members of the lodge presented the machines to Westbrook School Superintendent Stan Sawyer. The defibrillators were purchased with a $6,000 donation from the lodge. The machines, known as automated external defibrillators, […]

Buxton police are investigating an accident involving a Buxton fire truck and a rescue unit that happened at 8:55 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Portland Road and Route 202 in Buxton. Responding to a report of a fire at Long Plains Road, the Buxton ladder truck, driven by Andrew J. Stevenson, 27, of Acton, […]

The drowning of a 3-year-old boy at a Westbrook day-care center was tragic. Our condolences go out to the parents of Andrew Thurston. No parent should have to attend a funeral for a child, as they did, but to lose a child so young to a tragic accident like this one is among the most […]

The following cases were handled in Cumberland County Superior Court in December: Paul B. Woodcock, 22, of Buxton violated probation on two charges of burglary and one charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer in Gorham on Aug. 1, 2003, and was sentenced to Cumberland County Jail for 12 days, probation partially revoked, probtion […]

The Westbrook American reported on April 4, 1962, that Carla Berry, Lois Royal and Linda Treworgy were home from Farmington State Teachers College for a week’s vacation.

Church luncheon – Thursday, Thursday, April 5, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Smothered beef, $3.50. Bean supper – Saturday, April 7, 4:30-6 p.m., White Rock Community Club, Wilson Road (off Route 237), Gorham. Beans, hot dogs, biscuits, salads and homemade desserts. $6, $3. Bean supper – Saturday, April 7, 5 and 6 […]

The staff at Mission Possible Teen Center would like to honor Corey Bowden as April’s “Teen of the Month.” Corey has been coming to Mission Possible since September and has grown a lot since he first attended. Corey loves to play poker while at Mission Possible and is known as a poker enthusiast. Upon Corey’s […]

CAPTION ONLY: Second-graders at Prides Corner School in Westbrook show off a first-issue stamp each received, featuring a pictorial postmark commemorating the 200th birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The students, who earlier in the fall visited the Longfellow House in Portland with teacher Cathyellen Hebert, include, from left, back: Victoria Gagnon, Jenna Driscoll, Jack Haggerty, […]