Advertising agency P.Doc Creative Partners has just moved into a space in the Dana Warp Mill and is another unique business in Westbrook’s growing downtown. P.Doc partners Sheldon Perkins and Taja Dockendorf said they left Portland because they needed to grow. They looked around in Portland but didn’t find anything that fit them. And, as […]

The Gorham Town Council was to consider on Tuesday, July 11, whether the town should ask the school department to hand over the Little Falls School on Acorn Street. Town Councilor Matt Robinson sponsored the proposal, but action on the measure came after the American Journal’s deadline. The 50-year-old Little Falls School, a former kindergarten, […]

With all the rain this summer, organizers are hoping the weather cooperates for Buxton Community Day on Saturday, July 22. “Hopefully, it will be a good day,” said Chris Barstow, director of the Buxton Recreation Department. The daylong activities will take place at Weymouth Park, Helen Bruce Park and at Tory Hill Church, all at […]

July 1981 Bernard and Selma Shub, Marblehead, Mass., are asking the Bankruptcy Court to let them reorganize Hamlet Coach Park, Westbrook. They list assets of $2,370,108 and debts of $3,035,085. The 59 1/2-acre park has spaces for 241 mobile homes. Of these, half are taken. The Shubs own 78 acres in Gorham, but it’s not […]

The Westbrook police are investigating an attempted robbery at a Main Street secondhand clothing store that is the latest in a rash of robberies they believe are drug-related. Police have investigated eight robberies of commercial places in the last month and a half, which they believe are by drug-addicted persons attempting to acquire cash to […]

TruChoice Federal Credit Union will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Buxton branch, scheduled to open early next year, at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 6. The groundbreaking will be at the branch’s future location at the corner of routes 202, 4 and 22. “Opening a branch in Buxton provides an exciting opportunity for […]

This week the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition released the results of a public records audit it performed in May. On the day of the audit, auditors visited 89 town offices, 40 police departments and 44 school superintendent’s offices, including those in Westbrook and Gorham. The purpose of the visits was to test how officials […]

Gorham Planner Deborah Fossum said the Gorham Planning Board would hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 10, at Gorham High School about an ordinance amendment allowing a transfer of development rights program. The Town Council unanimously sent the measure last month to the Planning Board.

Gorham police said last week that they found a local teenage girl who had been missing for nearly 24 hours. Lt. Chris Sanborn of the Gorham Police Department said Allison Beaumier, 16, was found at 5 p.m. on June 27 at a residence in Gorham. Sanborn said the girl hadn’t left the greater Portland area. […]

The Westbrook American reported in its issue of Wednesday, July 11, 1956, that Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ford of Flaggy Meadow Road had celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on July 7 at their home.