The Westbrook City Council is going to discuss Monday a zone change that would allow Sandy River Health Systems to build a retirement community off Stroudwater Street. Sandy River is asking the city to rezone more than 50 acres of land to allow it to build a 200-unit community that would include condominiums for independent […]
2006
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Charges reduced in beating death
The state has decided to drop manslaughter charges against three teenagers charged in the July beating death of a Westbrook man. Last Thursday, Wade DePalma, 19, of Bridge Street; Nicholas Lavigne, 19, of Pierce Street and Alexander Layug, 18, of Massachusetts Avenue, Portland, pled not guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court to charges of aggravated […]
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January 1981 Maurice Gleckman, manager of Westbrook Hardware, and his wife Frances, his assistant, will retire Jan. 31. “The Dean of Downtown,” he has been at the store since 1945. Other long-time downtowners include Bill Rocheleau, men’s clothing; Hubert “Storm” Hebert, food; Roland Albert and his father Auguste Albert, Men’s Shop, family clothing; Phil and […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Personal bests fall at Cape pool
There must’ve been something in the water other than chlorine Friday at Richards Pool in Cape Elizabeth because personal best records were dropping faster than stones in the deep end. The Capers beat Westbrook in the boys meet (109-66) and also in the girls meet (140-43), but the real story of the day was the […]
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Gertrude turns 102 Gertrude Jewett celebrated her 102nd birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 11, surrounded by family and fellow residents at Longfellow Place. Her son, Leon LaBrecque, 84, of Gorham, attended the party. She also has another son, Earl of North Dakota. Jewett has 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Jewett once worked in […]
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USM celebrates King and Parks
The lives of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated at the University of Southern Maine on Jan. 24 from 4-6 p.m. on the seventh floor of the Glickman Family Library on Forest Avenue in Portland. The event is free and open to the public. The evening will begin with a viewing […]
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Gorham looking for volunteers
The Gorham Town Council Appointments Committee will be meeting in February to consider applications for appointments to various town boards and committees. There are upcoming and/or current vacancies on all of the town’s boards and committees. Please visit the Town Clerk’s office at 270 Main Street to apply. You may also visit the town’s Web […]
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School committee suspends state graduation requirements
School committee suspends state graduation requirements The Westbrook School Committee suspended a portion of the Maine Learning Results program last Wednesday night.////The School Committee has the power to suspend the state program?//// The committee retracted the Learning Results assessment requirements for graduation while the state works out kinks in the program. While they wait for […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
The Good Word: The trials of technology
It’s taken me several years to be able to sleep late (well, until 7:30 a.m. anyway) without feeling guilty. This morning, I was so comfy, under several quilts and dreaming about the carefree days of living in Boston, when I awoke to a conversation being held right in my own room. Someone was yelling. I […]
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The Good Word: The trials of technology
It’s taken me several years to be able to sleep late (well, until 7:30 a.m. anyway) without feeling guilty. This morning, I was so comfy, under several quilts and dreaming about the carefree days of living in Boston, when I awoke to a conversation being held right in my own room. Someone was yelling. I […]