January 1982

The Westbrook City Council elected Roderick Boutot over Beverly Farley as Westbrook city auditor Monday, 4-3. For two years, Farley has been the most active auditor in the city’s history. Boutot is an active Democrat and former Democratic candidate for city clerk. Now in the insurance business, he is a former assistant manager of King’s

department store, South Portland.

A 14-year-old boy was drunk and running in front of traffic on Stroudwater Street at 10:30 p.m., New Year’s Eve. He had been a resident of the Little Brothers Home, but the home wouldn’t take him back while he was drunk. Also on New Year’s Eve, police were told that an independent taxi driver was “so drunk he was all over the road and his speech was impaired.” Sgt. McCarthy located the cab and took the driver to Gorham for an intoxylizer test. At 2 a.m. a 30-year-old woman was taken to the Osteopathic Hospital with a possible broken jaw after she was hit in the face.

A cross-country skier, Carla Lizatte, 34, was rescued from the woods off Cumberland Street after she hurt her leg in a fall. Four members of the Rescue II team were treated for exposure after the rescue. The next day, Herbert Davis, 16 was taken to Mercy Hospital by Rescue I after he was hurt in a fall while skiing off Duck Pond Road.

Westbrook Public Works Director Kenneth V. Eastman, 54, of South Street, Gorham, remained in intensive care in the Maine Medical Center’s Cardiac Unit this week after being stricken Wednesday in City Hall.

The Gorham Town Council unanimously approved a substitute order last week authorizing the council’s Capital Improvements Committee, the town manager and the White Rock Fire Station Committee to design a preliminary plan for the White Rock Fire Station, and report back to the council by the February meeting.

Westbrook High’s wrestling squad finished third Saturday in the seven-team Gardiner Invitational Tournament. Blazer grapplers won two gold ribbons: Chris Esty won in the 132-pound class, and Mike Rawding in unlimited.

The Westbrook High girls basketball team maintained its unbeaten streak, knocking off South Portland, 35-31, and Portland, 52-42.

A proposal that calls for increased veto power over the Gorham School Department’s budget was rejected by the Gorham Town Council. The action, which was postponed indefinitely, called for the setting of a public hearing date for consideration of a charter amendment that would increase the existing budget’s 13 expenditure lines to 27.

January 1992

In order to protect drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants the Sebago Lake Station boat landing in Standish closed and has ordered the Portland Water District to continue to work with the town toward achieving that. The water district agreed to work toward providing another landing farther from its intake and closing the boat ramp. It’s one of the requirements of working to keep the water clean, under its recently granted exemption from having to build a $20 million water filtering plant, otherwise required under the 1986 federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

All Westbrook city workers may lose five days of work before the end of June to help the city make ends meet, Mayor Fred C. Wescott said as he took office for his second two-year term. The five furloughed days would cut the city’s payroll $60,000, the mayor said. Though he spoke of ways to save money, Wescott’s second inaugural speech had some upbeat themes, especially on commerce and industry

A decision by the Gorham Police Department to assist Maine State Police with truck inspections during November and December has led to a petition circulated among trucking interests in the town in an attempt to end what they say is a simple case of harassment. Dana Lampron, owner of Lampron’s Enterprise, and other truck owners and drivers initiated the petition in response to three separate inspection pullovers that took place on routes 114 and 25, two major routes through the town. Sixty-one summonses were handed out by Gorham police for “various infractions and misdemeanors,” according to Police Chief Edward Tolan.

At 9 p.m. on the day after Christmas, two women were fighting hysterically on East Valentine Street and threatening to kill each other. One of them, age 21, was arrested by Portland Cumberland County Jail.