The business recently closed its stores in Portland, Yarmouth and Topsham.
2011
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LePage transition team posts donors
Donations from individuals and businesses were solicited to help pay for transition costs and inaugural festivities.
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Documents detail Ariz. suspect’s college outbursts
Fifty-one pages of police reports provide a chilling portrait of Jared Loughner’s last school year.
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Gorham factory closing
GORHAM – A tire plant in Gorham is closing, putting 61 employees out of work. Maine Industrial Tire, with corporate offices in Wakefield, Mass., manufactures off-road tires in its plant on Laurence Drive in the Gorham Industrial Park. “Yes, it’s closing,” Matthew Turnell, company spokesman, said Monday about its Gorham facility. Turnell said employees were […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Public safety shakeup in Westbrook
WESTBROOK – The pending retirement of Westbrook’s police chief is bringing about monumental changes for both his officers and the city’s firefighters, who are all about to experience a major departmental shakeup. Police Chief Bill Baker announced his retirement late last week, and on Monday, Mayor Colleen Hilton held a press conference to announce the […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Public safety shakeup in Westbrook
WESTBROOK – The pending retirement of Westbrook’s police chief is bringing about monumental changes for both his officers and the city’s firefighters, who are all about to experience a major departmental shakeup. Police Chief Bill Baker announced his retirement late last week, and on Monday, Mayor Colleen Hilton held a press conference to announce the […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Toy blocks help build real home
WESTBROOK – It is hard to imagine a scenario in which LEGO blocks would be helpful in building an actual home. But the plastic multicolored children’s toy is a crucial material for Habitat for Humanity as it continues its work on a house in Westbrook for a single mother and her three children. Habitat for […]
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Winter Harvest: Healthy start to a new year
Some people have a difficult time around the holidays and this year, I could relate. I turned 35 in December and spent my first holiday without parents. Instead of being angry or depressed about aging or outliving my parents, I gave myself permission to enjoy whatever made me happy. Food and drink! I ate out […]
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Young pastor heads Prides Corner church
WESTBROOK – After two years with no settled minister, Prides Corner Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, has its new leader. The Rev. Kelli Whitman recently moved to the area with her husband to take the open post. At 26 years old, she said some in the congregation found it hard to believe she is […]
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Kennebunk junior named state’s girls XC runner of year
The Gatorade award goes to Abbey Leonardi for the third year in a row