The Westbrook American in its issue of Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1956, congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hanson on the birth of a daughter the previous week.

Family and friends of a Buxton man, who died last year, will meet Friday, Aug. 4, in Belgrade Lakes to share memories and create new ones while benefiting his children left behind. Paul Haug, leaving a widow and three children, died unexpectedly at 46 last October. “We miss him beyond words,” said his wife, Norma […]

Family and friends of a Buxton man, who died last year, will meet Friday, Aug. 4, in Belgrade Lakes to share memories and create new ones while benefiting his children left behind. Paul Haug, leaving a widow and three children, died unexpectedly at 46 last October. “We miss him beyond words,” said his wife, Norma […]

An attempt to earn a place in the Guinness Book of World records marks this weekend’s first three-day St. Anne/Gorham Days Festival in Gorham. The festival gets underway at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 28, with carnival rides, entertainment and plenty of food on the midway on the lawn at Gorham’s Municipal Center and at […]

Damon Harmon at R.G. Eaton Woodworks said he’s been doing millwork for almost 50 years, and making the new windows for the Portland City Hall clock tower is one of the hardest things he’s worked on in his career. “It’s up there,” he said. Eaton Woodworks on Rochester Street won the bid for reproducing the […]

John Jack S. Archibald, 70 Partner of The Wise Group John Jack S. Archibald, 70, died Friday, July 21, 2006. He was born March 13, 1936, in Portland, a son of Herbert and Cora (Morton) Archibald. John served in the Maine Army National Guard for two years. On Feb. 19, 1955, he married Esther Sferes […]

This is a view looking up School Street from the square in Gorham Village, but date of the photo is unknown. Now heavily traveled with thousands of cars daily, the square is the present day intersection where routes 202 and 25 overlap and converge with Route 114. Photo courtesy of George Watson, Gorham Historical Society […]

The Westbrook City Council could delay a move to eliminate trash pickup at certain apartment buildings after hearing from landlords upset by the move at a workshop Monday night. Every landlord that spoke at the workshop spoke out against the elimination of trash pickup at apartment buildings with four to nine units. After hearing them, […]

A Westbrook summer tradition continues again this year with the annual “Summer Concerts in the Park” music series. On Wednesday evenings throughout the summer, there will be a series of free concerts at Riverbank Park. All concerts run from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 2-Sly Chi Aug. 9-Terry White Band Aug. 16-Flashback Aug. 23-Tony Boffa

It’s time to say thanks to so many of the Westbrook community who have helped the Food Pantry move from Lincoln Street to the old St. Hyacinth School on Walker Street. Thanks to the City Council and President Brendan Rielly, Mayor Bruce Chuluda, and City Administrator Jerre Bryant for the financial support of the move […]