We would like to extend our deepest thanks to St. Hyacinth’s and all the volunteers who made our benefit spaghetti supper a success last weekend. With the help of more than 100 members of our community, we raised $1,500 for the Keep ME Warm Fund, which helps families right here in Westbrook pay their heating […]
2006
Posted inAmerican Journal
Legislators pleased with response to fundraising dinner
We would like to extend our deepest thanks to St. Hyacinth’s and all the volunteers who made our benefit spaghetti supper a success last weekend. With the help of more than 100 members of our community, we raised $1,500 for the Keep ME Warm Fund, which helps families right here in Westbrook pay their heating […]
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City rebukes inspector, police chief
Westbrook’s Administration reprimanded the city’s fire inspector this week for removing a shotgun and shells from an unlocked police cruiser in January and rebuked the police chief for allowing his top officers to arrest him. The city has decided not to take disciplinary action against either Fire Inspector Lt. Chuck Jarrett or Police Chief Paul […]
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Learning from history
Last week some kids at the Gorham Middle School got the rare opportunity to get a history lesson from someone who lived through it. Julia Skalina, a native of Czechoslovakia who moved to the United States in 1975, spoke about her experiences during one of the most horrifying periods in modern world history, the Nazi […]
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USM hosts poverty discussion
A panel focusing on the effect that living in poverty has on education and learning will be hosted by USM’s College of Education and Human Development on March 8 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., in Room 301, Bailey Hall, on the Gorham campus. “Understanding Poverty and Its impact in Maine: Voices from the Community” […]
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Gorham Republicans to meet
The Gorham Republican Town Committee will meet on March 15 at 7 p.m. at the Gorham High School Library. All Republicans are invited to attend. For further information, please contact Chairman Rudy Rudolph at 839-8944 or Secretary Carolyn Gilman at 894-5063.
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It is time to recycle
The Westbrook City Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole on Feb. 22, again took up the issue of recycling trash. Having spoken to the council on many occasions during the past two years about this, and it was heartening to me that the issue of whether Westbrook should be recycling residential waste seems to […]
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City memo reprimands police chief
The following is the text of a memo dated March 6 from Westbrook City Administrator Jerre Bryant to Westbrook Police Chief Paul McCarthy. Through the course of our investigation of the January 18, 2006 incident at the Public Safety Building involving Fire Lieutenant Jarrett, we have reviewed the investigation and arrest of Lt. Jarrett by […]
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Learning about the Holocaust
Julia Skalina observed the Jewish Passover on March 25, 1945, in the bleak barracks of a German concentration camp. “Most of us were crying,” she said about the group of girls in the barracks. Days later, Skalina would be free but alone, as her immediate family had all been killed. They were victims of the […]
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True to the game: Lake Region father and son share the bench
When Harry True tells the story of how he chose his wife, Sandra, the setting is, of course, a basketball court. “She is the only one who could beat me in 21,” the 78-year-old True says, “so I married her.” Family and basketball are still intertwined for the man who has been teaching the sport […]