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Westbrook Notes: July 23

Sister city forum rescheduled Westbrook’s sister city of Archangel, Russia, has postponed until July 2021 an international forum about wooden ship building planned for this month. The forum will involve organizations from Finland, Norway and Sweden and will focus on the history, traditions, skill, restoration and tools used centuries ago to build wooden ships, Dennis […]

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Maine Bicentennial: Westbrook

James Winslow, the first Quaker in what is now the greater Portland area, built the house in 1748. The first school in Westbrook was held at the Winslow house in 1794 and the teacher was also a Quaker, historians say. In 1830, a great-granddaughter of Winslow, Sarah Winslow, married a farmer, Benjamin Boody, and the […]

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Looking Back: July 23

July 26, 1995 An unnamed tipster who was stopped at Church and Main streets in Westbrook saw three men running from behind Peoples Heritage Bank after it was robbed of $16,430 on July 17. Then, on Bridge Street, the tipster saw the same three running into the park at Saccarappa Falls. He saw two of […]

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Westbrook’s Pride Preserve now a reality

WESTBROOK — The Pride Preserve is now part of the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust, thanks to a successful four-month campaign to raise $80,000. The 188-acre preserve off Duck Pond Road is now the largest protected forest in Westbrook, doubles the city’s amount of protected land and is the largest preserve in the region. The fundraiser […]