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IRS Opens 2006 filing season

More e-services than ever will be available from the Internal Revenue Service this year for Maine taxpayers and tax preparers including a newly redesigned Web site, improved online tools and enhanced electronic services. In addition, Maine taxpayers will have an extra day to file their tax returns. The filing deadline is normally April 15, however […]

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Brothers plan to save church

A 30-year old entrepreneur is hoping to hurdle parking problems to build his family business in a historic church in Gorham Village. Michel Salvaggio Jr. of Falmouth returned to Maine last June from Denver, Colo., to head up Four Brothers, LLC., a family partnership. “I wanted to be there for my family,” said Salvaggio, the […]

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Brothers plan to save church

A 30-year old entrepreneur is hoping to hurdle parking problems to build his family business in a historic church in Gorham Village. Michel Salvaggio Jr. of Falmouth returned to Maine last June from Denver, Colo., to head up Four Brothers, LLC., a family partnership. “I wanted to be there for my family,” said Salvaggio, the […]

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Westbrook Remembered 0118

This is a picture of the S. D. Warren Mill Band, Spring, 1940. Members pictured are: 1st row: Ovila Chretien, C. Edwin White, Tony Ingerowski, Malcolm Chick, John Gooch, David Wellman, Noe Harnois, Leo Larrivee, Lawrence Deschaies. 2nd Row: Leader Samuel Guimond, Arthur Fluett, Fred Chick, Adelbert Foss, Albert Verrill, Kenneth Wright, Jerry Tourangeau, Charles […]

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Conflicted about Dickinson

Editor’s note: This letter is in response to Editor Brendan Moran’s Jan. 11 editorial on former convict Norman Dickinson. You sounded conflicted in your piece, Brendan. I know I’m feeling conflicted. On one hand, there’s this big, bad monster named Norman Dickinson who lives in my city when he should be living “anywhere else.” He […]

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Ramblings 0118

A letter from Williamstown I received a letter recently from Frank Wellcome, formerly of Westbrook, now living in Williamstown, Mass. He graduated from Westbrook High School in the class with my brother-in-law, H. Merrill Luthe, and Camille Huard, whose name later was Larry Brooks, the famous Broadway singer and actor. Larry had the lead in […]

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Chamber to discuss parking

The Westbrook Chamber of Commerce will host a business lunch on Jan. 25 to discuss the city’s recently released parking and traffic study. Westbrook City Planner Brooks More and Tom Gorrill, a consultant working on the project will discuss the results of the study and answer questions. The luncheon will be held at the Westbrook […]