Residents 70 or older who participate in the Maine Property Tax Fairness Credit program and have lived in the city for at least 10 years are eligible to apply for a refund of up to $500.
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Ducks invade downtown Westbrook
Westbrook police are asking the public to leave the wandering birds alone.
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12-screen theater signs on for Rock Row
WESTBROOK — Cinemark Holdings Inc. has reached an agreement with Waterstone Properties Group to build a 12-screen theater at Rock Row. The theater, which would be part of the mixed-use development proposed for the old Pike quarry site on the Portland line, still needs approval from the Westbrook Planning Board. It is scheduled to open in […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
City OKs tax relief plan for seniors
WESTBROOK — The City Council Monday put into place a local property tax program to refund up to $500 to qualifying seniors as early as this fall. Residents who are 70 or older, participate in the state’s property tax fairness credit program and have lived in the city for at least the last 10 years […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster
No glitches in student pitches
WESTBROOK — It wasn’t ABC’s Shark Tank, but students got a chance this week to pitch their business ideas before a panel of business professionals as part of Westbrook Regional Vocation Center’s INCubatoredu entrepreneurship program. Westbrook seniors Sebastian Johns, Gabe Larson and Alek Opacic took the top prize for their idea to reduce the amount of […]
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60 Years Ago
The Westbrook American reported on May 13, 1959, that two workers lost their lives in separate accidents in less than three days at S.D. Warren Company in Westbrook. Jeremiah Cote was killed by a blast of steam and Cyril Holmes was dragged by a bark feeding mechanism from a bin into a furnace. Mr. and […]
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Community program revenues pooled to help pools
WESTBROOK — When the Westbrook Community Center opened a decade ago, city administration decided each program there should be responsible for covering its own costs. All programs have been self-supporting except for the operation of the swimming pools. Aquatic passes, rentals and user fees have not covered the cost of operating the Davan Indoor Pool and […]
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Looking Back
May 18, 1994 The students in the Forest Street School in Westbrook are there for the arts, not the three R’s. Through most of its years, the two-story brick building, erected in 1894, was the neighborhood elementary school for the eastern part of Westbrook. More recently, it was home to the Westbrook schools’ Enrichment Center. […]
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Westbrook Notes
Did Old Man Winter leave this footprint on the city, or using a Maxwell Smart catch phrase from the old TV comedy “Get Smart,” would you believe, Bigfoot? Tom Robinson, financial services representative at TD Bank in Westbrook, discovered this big, shoe-shaped pothole behind the municipal lot between TD Bank and Bank of America near […]
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Whittled school budget ready for voters next month
WESTBROOK — City Councilors are hoping the $40.3 million school budget that they approved Monday will be one voters can support at the school validation vote June 11. The school spending plan is part of an overall $69.8 million city budget for fiscal year 2020, which runs July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. Taxpayers […]