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 […]

The Gorham Town Council has a new look and will hold the first public meeting in the town’s new municipal center the day it opens for business Tuesday, Dec. 5. Norman Justice, who was unanimously chosen as chairman of the Gorham Town Council, was handed the gavel last week by outgoing chairman Mike Phinney. The […]

The Westbrook American reported in its issue of Nov. 7, 1956, that Edith McCauley would direct “The Little Dog Laughed,” which the high school seniors chose as their the annual presentation. The first performance was scheduled for Nov. 29.

The Westbrook City Council has given preliminary approval to a contract zone change on a parcel of land purchased by the city as a site for a new junior high. While the city and state have yet to finalize whether a new junior high would go on the site, the city is taking the step […]

Christmas fair – Friday, Nov. 17, 3-8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., North Congregational Church, Church Hill Road, Buxton. Highlights include antique jewelry table, red hat corner, and cookie walk. Refreshments Friday and coffee and doughnuts plus luncheon Saturday; hot dogs served both days. Hollydaze Christmas fair – Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 […]

Sen. Carol Weston of Waldo County, with the assistance of Sen. Richard Rosen of Hancock County, will be leading Senate Republicans in the upcoming Legislature as they try to do the most in a chamber where they are in the minority by one vote. Weston beat Sen. Richard Nass of York County for the minority […]

This photo of Main Street, left, looking East from Bridge Street, was taken around 1970. Notable in this photo is the Westbrook Congregational Church, which stood on Main Street at Brackett Street since 1834. Hub Furniture Co. was in the old Brackett Block, which was built around 1850 and was once part of the Underground […]

Army Reserve Pvt. Faith C. Hammond has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program. The program allows students between their junior and senior year of high school to attend national guard or reserve weekend drills while still in […]

Army Reserve Pvt. Faith C. Hammond has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program. The program allows students between their junior and senior year of high school to attend national guard or reserve weekend drills while still in […]

Nov. 8, 7:30 a.m., Coreen Wiese seen at Bonny Eagle High School Nov. 8, 11-11:30 a.m., seen near Limington bridge Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m., parents report daughter missing to Buxton police Nov. 9, noon, Warden Service notified Nov. 9, 1 p.m., Warden Service begins search at Bonny Eagle High School. Nov. 9, 8 p.m., Warden […]