Project GRACE volunteers have spent this week sorting and wrapping gifts for some 70 families who are in need this year. On Monday, dozens of piles were starting to accumulate for different families. Everything from stuffed animals to snow boards were labeled and waiting at St. Maximilian Kolbe in Scarborough. “I’d say there are thousands […]
2006
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Bonny Eagle and Westbrook open wrestling seasons
High school wrestling teams from throughout southern Maine opened their seasons at the 20th annual Westbrook Invitational on Saturday. A strong Massabesic team finished first with 197A?1?2 points, while last year’s Class B State Champions, Mountain Valley (151A?1?2), took second. Bonny Eagle (90) and Westbrook (74) finished fifth and sixth respectively out of the tournaments […]
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Assessment cap seen as easing tax burden
Gov. John Baldacci will ask the incoming Legislature to put a cap on property assessments for those who call Maine home as his answer to tax relief – a proposal that was defeated several times in the last legislative session and already is drawing fire. The proposal, which would require a change in the constitution […]
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Scarborough DARE winners
CAPTION ONLY: This poster by Merrill Porterfield and Karli An Gilbert, sixth-graders at Scarborough Middle School, has won the state DARE Officers Poster Contest. The students, who as fifth-graders had won the local poster contest, each received a total of $250 in prize money. The poster has been framed and is on display at the […]
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Hockey teams have successful starts
It took 15 minutes for the Cape Elizabeth hockey team to start playing the way they wanted in the season opener at Lake Region on Saturday. And then the defending Class B state champions rallied from a 3-1 first period deficit to ease past the Lakers for an 11-4 win at the Bridgton Academy ice […]
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Correction
A photo credit in the Westbrook Notes, in last week’s American Journal, misspelled the name of Marc Mailhot.
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Shopping spree to benefit Toys for Kids
Westbrook firefighters spent Friday night at the Wal-Mart in Windham, buying toys for Westbrook children in need. The shopping trip was part of the annual Westbrook Toys for Kids effort. Ten firefighters, along with Chief Gary Littlefield and his wife, shopped for 40 families with children ranging in age from 1 to 14 years of […]
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Car crashes into newspaper building
Ann Duddy was sitting at her desk at Current Publishing on Main Street Monday afternoon when she heard a car crash outside. She turned to see a car careening toward the building. Duddy, a sales associate, sits beside a glass-door entrance to 840 Main St., and she said she thought the car was going to […]
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Scarborough Police Logs
Lost and found On Nov. 26, at about 11 a.m., a Little Tyke’s toy car, valued at $70, was stolen from a yard on Fowler Farm Road. The toy was later found down the road. Stolen goods On Nov. 27, at about 1:30 p.m., a television was stolen from a home on Two Rod Road. […]
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Landry was more than wins and losses
Hundreds of friends and well-wishers descended on the Elks Lodge in Saco on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. They were all there to support former football coach Mike Landry. It made two years since the legendary coach started his battle with melanoma and he told everyone at the gathering how he felt the end was near. […]