Dec. 13, 1995 Resistance to the proposed changes to some Westbrook street names and numbering was so obvious in a public hearing Monday that Mayor Kenneth Lefebvre soon announced that the city doesn’t have to do it. But, Lefebvre said, he wants the decision to be made by this City Council, which leaves office at […]
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Looking Back: Dec. 3
Dec. 6, 1995 A proposed winter sludge storage facility off Fort Hill Road on property belonging to Norman Martin III won final approval from the Gorham Planning Board Monday – but not in time to have the site ready for this winter. The facility will be a 24,000-square-foot concrete pad with a 25-foot high metal […]
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Looking Back: Nov. 26
Nov. 29, 1995 The City Council voted Monday to change 35 Westbrook street names and renumber some of them and others. However, final action won’t come until a special meeting next month. Aldermen agreed to send notice of name changes to those affected. They didn’t want a final vote until citizens have a chance to […]
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Looking Back: Nov. 19
Nov. 22, 1995 Ann Rita Dancoes of Westbrook, her brother Tom and two college friends bicycled from Seattle to Westbrook this summer. They returned home on July 23 after biking 4,120 miles. “There are so many genuinely generous people across this country. Our experience helped reaffirm my belief that there are more wonderful people in […]
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Looking Back: Nov. 12
Nov 15, 1995 Kenneth M. Lefebvre carried four of the five wards in winning reelection as Westbrook mayor last week over challenger Alfred E. Porell, independent, 3,321 to 2,530. Lefebvre led the Democrats to a near sweep of the City Council. Steve Crocker, Westbrook’s newest police officer, will graduate first in his class at the […]
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Looking Back: Nov. 5
Nov. 8, 1995 Westbrook’s Planning Board is in a hot battle with Duck Pond Corner neighbors over a proposed auction house and function hall the board OK’d Oct. 24. The neighbors are now taking the board to court. They fear noise, lights, late hours, liquor, many more cars, dust and vandalism. A key figure in […]
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Looking Back: Oct. 29
Nov. 1, 1995 With nowhere to go in Gorham, skateboarders have been clashing with businesses, schools and police this fall, prompting officials to propose turning the ice rink by the Narragansett School into a skate part in the warmer months. “None of them are bad kids,” Officer John Reed said. Police say the ice rink […]
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Looking Back: Oct. 22
Oct. 25, 1995 “Beer cans and baggies” were combed out of the woods between Westbrook High School and Canal School last week as the city’s Public Works crews, along with volunteer jail inmates, cleaned brush from a favorite student hangout. School authorities will now have a better view of what goes on there. About 100 […]
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Looking Back: Oct. 15
Oct. 18, 1995 A squirrel died and took out electric power for 2,400 Westbrook and Gorham customers at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday. The squirrel was scurrying across wires in the Saccarappa substation on Mill Street when it bridged two live ones. Debra Hebert, working on a yard sale in the recently close Hebert’s Market across […]
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Looking Back: Oct. 8
Oct. 11, 1995 Mayor Kenneth Lefebvre hailed two Westbrook business expansions in his remarks to the City Council last week. Both went before the Zoning Appeals Board Wednesday for review. Jordan’s Foods plans a distribution warehouse at its plant in the Col. Westbrook Executive Park on County Road. Portland Welding Supply plans a tank filling […]