May 17, 1995 Heavy equipment being used to set up for a carnival being held May 17-21 is damaging Westbrook’s Riverbank Park, several residents complained Tuesday. Two days of rain softened the ground there and was causing carnival workers significant problems, including a large grader they were using getting stuck in mud. The Smokey’s Greater […]

May 10, 1995 An impromptu crowd of some 25 people lined the fences of Randall’s Farm Friday to welcome one of Westbrook’s newest residents, Clover the baby cow. Clover was born about 20 feet from Stroudwater Street at 5:59 p.m., prompting 20 cars to line the road for 100 feet on each side. “The first […]

May 3, 1995 Gorham developer Susan Duchaine is about to create 18 new farms, ranging from 2 to 10 acres. Irish Farm Estates, off Route 25, will subdivide a 100-acre farm into 18 home lots. An unfulfilled market niche exists in the Portland area for homes with full suburban amenities but with country surroundings, she […]

April 19, 1995 Tom Howard, Westbrook High School’s 1994 state champion in the 2-mile run, won the Patriots Day road race in Westbrook Monday for the second year. His time for the 2.2-mile course along city streets was 10 minutes 37 seconds. The girls race also was won by a Westbrook runner, Laura Welch, in […]

April 12, 1995 The massive Dana Warp building in downtown Westbrook has been sold to John Allan of Harrisville, Rhode Island, for $250,000. In the 1980s it sold for $1.8 million. Allan bought it from Peoples Heritage Bank, which owned it by foreclosure. A native of Great Britain, Allan owns a number of businesses, including […]

April 5, 1995 Westbrook Community Hospital, in the midst of an expansion and a fund drive to pay for it, is the latest institution to experience the generosity of Richard E. Dyke of Windham. The hospital said a “sizeable” donation from Dyke has helped put the fund drive at $300,000. The hospital’s $1.3 million project […]

March 29, 1995 Westbrook Mayor Kenneth Lefebvre told the City Council last week that the new owner of the S.D. Warren paper mill, Sappi of South Africa, has assured him the mill can be 99% odor-free. Lefebvre said conquering the paper mill odor would raise property values in Westbrook and promote the recreational value of […]

March 22, 1995 All was far from quiet in the Westbrook High School gym Wednesday evening. More than 1,300 people, including musicians, were gathered for the All-City Concert by school bands from the fifth and sixth grades, directed by Philip Rich; seventh and eighth grades, directed by Charles McLaughlin; and the high school, directed by […]

March 15, 1995 The Westbrook High School girls basketball team defeated Morse High, 55-42, to win the Western Maine championship last Saturday. They play undefeated Cony High School in Bangor this Saturday for the state title. The City Council’s upcoming vote on a tax increment financing district for Acadia Insurance and Portland Glass will also […]

March 8, 1995 Gorham students staged a sit-in to protest threatened teacher layoffs on the eve of the introduction of Superintendent Timothy McCormack’s budget. Several students said they were told by teachers that 12 teachers would lose their jobs if McCormack’s budget meets the Town Council’s demand to freeze tax levies at the 1994-95 rate. […]