Pat Gallant-Charette, a member of the Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, is hoping to become the oldest woman to swim across the Cook Strait in New Zealand.
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Black Dinah closes its Blue Hill tasting room
Want chocolate? You’ll have to go to Westbrook
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Posted inCops & Courts
Man who robbed 11 businesses to feed his addiction gets nearly 6 years in prison
Travis Card pleaded guilty to the series of holdups last spring in southern Maine, crimes that the judge says ‘involved a lot of fear.’
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Credit union wins naming rights for Westbrook venue
Maine Savings will have its name on the performance pavilion under construction at Rock Row.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Looking Back: Feb. 27
March 1, 1995 The Westbrook City Council voted last week to require tobacco retailers to have a city license, revocable for sales to minors. Close on the heels of that action came an award for the city: the first-ever President’s Award of the American Lung Association of Maine. “It’s kind of ironic,” Westbrook Mayor Kenneth […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: A place for Bigfoot and Wessie
Check out the cryptids at Portland’s Cryptozoology Museum.
Posted inCops & Courts, News
Man arrested in connection with Westbrook robbery
Michael Gray, 30, was apprehended after a string of incidents in three communities, police say.
Posted inFeature Obituary
Featured obituary: Daniel J. Desmond, 73, prominent Westbrook attorney
He served on hospital and legal boards and was the ‘best father,’ his family says.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Special zoning is only 1 piece of puzzle to solve Portland’s affordable-housing crisis
The city should also encourage off-peninsula development and consider different sources of public funding.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Business cluster inside a Portland thrift store offers hope to budding entrepreneurs
The space, inside Threads of Hope thrift store, offers business development resources and below-market rents.