Despite the preponderance of negative campaign ads this year, real campaign rhetoric has lost the vigorous tone of an earlier America. Rather than the muscular insults which used to color politics, modern debate is puny. From the days when slander, character assassination, and gross insult enlivened political campaigns, we are reduced to faint fault finding, […]

Legislators rounded out their picks for leadership Monday when House Republicans chose Rep. Josh Tardy of Newport for minority leader and Rep. Robert Crosthwaite of Ellsworth as his assistant to get them through the next two years, when they will be heavily outnumbered by Democrats. As the count now stands, there are 89 Democrats and […]

Larry Roukey, the Army Reserve sergeant who was the first U.S. Postal Service employee in the nation to lose his life in Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq in 2004, was honored at a Veterans Day ceremony Saturday at the new Southern Maine Processing and Distribution Center in Scarborough. Julius Locklear, Maine district manager, dedicated the […]

Math night at BEMS The 17th annual School Administrative District 6 Title I Family Math Night was attended by 190 parents, students, and staff from across the district on Nov. 14, at Bonny Eagle Middle School. The goal of math night was to demonstrate math games and activities that parents and students could learn at […]

The Festival of Trees will celebrate the season from Dec. 1-9 at Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church with the decoration of over 50 Christmas trees. The festival, now in its sixth year, will also include a host of entertainment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. every day. The Festival of […]

Westbrook residents got a chance to express their opinions Thursday night to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection about Sappi Fine Paper’s plan to burn construction debris. At a public hearing at Westbrook High School, some residents told Department of Environmental Protection representatives that burning waste would harm residents and bring back the days of […]

Sappi Fine Paper could get a decision from the state within the next two months on its controversial application to burn construction debris to create steam power. Judging from the comments at a packed Maine Department of Environmental Protection hearing last Thursday, many Westbrook residents remain wary of the plan – despite assurances from experts. […]

Sappi Fine Paper could get a decision from the state within the next two months on its controversial application to burn construction debris to create steam power. Judging from the comments at a packed Maine Department of Environmental Protection hearing last Thursday, many Westbrook residents remain wary of the plan – despite assurances from experts. […]

An hour before the Westbrook Food Pantry began giving out turkey dinners on Tuesday, people were already lined up outside the door at St. Hyacinth’s Church on Brown Street. Under one of the first cloudless, sunny skies in a week or more, most of them were wearing smiles on their faces. Westbrook residents who need […]

The looming debt for health-insurance benefits promised to retired state employees, teachers and now municipal police and firefighters is going to be substantially higher than the $1.2 billion projected three years ago. But the full extent of the bad news won’t be known until the second week in December. State Controller Ed Karass told the […]