The Maine Economic Growth Council, which Democratic leaders praise as a fair and unbiased source, red flagged the state’s continued number one ranking in state and local tax burden and rising health care costs in its annual report card. In all, the state got four red flags and three gold stars on economic performance indicators […]

The Westbrook American reported on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1956, that the Gorham Fire Department had nominated Wiley P. Chandler for fire chief and Paul Neal as assistant chief. The selectmen were to consider those nominations after the town meeting in March. In other news in that issue, Lizzie M. Brackett of Brackett Road had celebrated […]

Fearon on dean’s list Katherine Fearon has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at New England College in Henniker, N.H. SMCC dean’s list Several students from Gorham have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Southern Maine Community College. They are: Devonshire Bear, Elizabeth Borek, Eric Burnheimer, […]

The photo on the left was taken in 1960 and shows Main Street when Brackett Street once connected to it. The church is the Westbrook Congregational Church which was built in 1832. Brackett Street ran between it and the building to the right, which was the Brackett Block built around 1810 by Zachariah Brackett. Urban […]

Westbrook police and fire department are searching for leads in a series of car fires that occurred in the early hours of Feb. 8. The fires are reminiscent of a series of unsolved crimes that took place last September. In the early morning hours last Wednesday, three cars were broken into and set ablaze in […]