The Westbrook Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its seventh annual business appreciation picnic on Aug. 17 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Riverbank Park on Main Street in Westbrook. All Westbrook businesses and their employees are invited to attend the picnic. Anyone wishing to be eligible to win a door prize should bring a […]

After all the work prospective Eagle Scout Kyle Goan did on the Westbrook Food Pantry’s new space near St. Hyacinth’s, the volunteers at the food pantry are decidedly grateful. Goan is happy to have been able to help, and now he’s hoping the work he did will earn him his Eagle Scout badge. It was […]

Gorham kicked an Australian rugby team out of the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday. Under a scorching sun in Gorham, 1,489 people at the town’s annual fair donned Groucho glasses, with the signature eyebrows, nose and mustache, to erase a world’s record of 1,437 set last year. Groucho Marx fans traveled to Gorham […]

Katherine (Kay) T. Miller, 70 Avid reader, and loved crafts Katherine (Kay) T. Miller, 70, of Pinnellas Park Fla., died Thursday, July 27, 2006, at Northside Hospital and Heart Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla. Kay will be missed by her many friends and family. She was born March 5, 1936, in Lewiston, and moved to Florida […]

The Gorham Town Council will hold a televised workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 22 to discuss a transfer of development rights proposal aimed at preserving open space in the town. The proposal would allow developers to increase the number of lots allowed on new developments served by public water and sewer in exchange for a fee. […]

It’s been said there are two things that are certain in life, death and taxes. One other thing that death and taxes have in common is that both are something nobody looks forward to. While death is something that can’t be controlled, people do have a measure of control over their taxes. And while no […]

After 13 years riding the annual 192-mile Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike-a-thon, Westbrook resident Bil Chase doesn’t view the event as a token charity ride. In fact, he never did. Chase wasn’t an avid cyclist before his first ride in 1994 and didn’t even own a bike then. Today, he gets on his bike only to train […]

I was doing my ironing this morning when I realized something was very wrong with regard to the jersey I was doing. Yep, I iron! My daughter says that if I took the clothes out of the drier as soon as they are done, all I would have to do is hang or fold them […]

August 1981 Twenty-four boys and girls from Maine are going to Taiwan to play basketball in an international tournament, including Lisa Blais and Tom Jackson of Westbrook, Kelly Butterfield of Gorham, Dan Costigan, of South Portland, and Liz Houghton of Cape Elizabeth. The Westbrook School Committee voted 6-0 to require 10 seconds of silence at […]