//////Robin Dahms and her family were hoping to move into their dream home on Beaver Pond by Christmas. Built in memory of her daughter, Brittany, who died of cancer last year, the home was going to be beautiful. The white colonial was going to have a hard-wood deck that looked out over the pond and […]

Cumberland County Equestrians 4-H took a basket of horse treats that the club made to the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals Open House on Dec. 9. The kids brought homemade horse cookies and brought a basket of apples and carrots. We toured the barn and were left with wanting to do more. […]

These cases were handled in Cumberland County Superior Court during September 2006: Jessie Pierce, 44, Westbrook requested a jury trial on a charge of assault in Portland on July 2, 2002. Jessica Pike, 25, Buxton, was found guilty on a charge of failing to report in Portland on July 25, 2003, and was sentenced to […]

Mark St. Germain, who owns St. Germain and Associates on Main Street, said parking used to be easy in the public parking lot behind his business. Not any more. Since new businesses are moving in, it’s getting harder all the time. St. Germain is one of many business owners in downtown Westbrook who think the […]

Benefit bottle drive for Bushey A bottle drive on Jan. 6 will benefit a Westbrook School Department bus driver, who has suffered an illness. Penny Esposito, transportation director, said the drive is for Carol Bushey, who drove bus No. 18. “She has suffered a catastrophic illness and has not been able to work this school […]

Toppan Robie, one of Gorham’s leading citizens in the 1800s, paid $500 for the Howard Clock Co., and gave it to the town after the Civil War. Historian Hugh McLellan recorded in his “History of Gorham” that Robie paid $500 for the clock. Robie came to Gorham from New Hampshire in 1799 as a teenager […]

This building at 942 Main St., left photo, was constructed by the Portland Railroad Co. as the Westbrook Trolley Barn, replacing an earlier structure at the location that was destroyed by fire on New Years Eve, 1905. The Portland Railroad Co. closed the barn in 1931 for economic reasons. This photo shows the building as […]

This building at 942 Main St., left photo, was constructed by the Portland Railroad Co. as the Westbrook Trolley Barn, replacing an earlier structure at the location that was destroyed by fire on New Years Eve, 1905. The Portland Railroad Co. closed the barn in 1931 for economic reasons. This photo shows the building as […]

This building at 942 Main St., left photo, was constructed by the Portland Railroad Co. as the Westbrook Trolley Barn, replacing an earlier structure at the location that was destroyed by fire on New Years Eve, 1905. The Portland Railroad Co. closed the barn in 1931 for economic reasons. This photo shows the building as […]

Westbrook’s fight against underage drinking yielded results again Saturday as police broke up a house party and cited 11 minors for underage drinking. One man was arrested for assaulting an officer. The bust was the latest in the department’s efforts targeting house parties in Westbrook since the summer, when police began special details to prevent […]