WESTBROOK – Ann Brown was surprised when she saw all of her volunteer activities compiled in a single list. “You don’t realize how much you’ve done until you write them all down,” she said Monday, referring to a list of more than 15 volunteer activities she has under her belt. In acknowledgement of that work, […]
May 2014
Posted inAmerican Journal
Efforts of tireless volunteer to be celebrated
WESTBROOK – Ann Brown was surprised when she saw all of her volunteer activities compiled in a single list. “You don’t realize how much you’ve done until you write them all down,” she said Monday, referring to a list of more than 15 volunteer activities she has under her belt. In acknowledgement of that work, […]
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Westbrook Notes – 5/8
Poetry series at gallery The Lowry’s Lodge Poetry Series continues at Saccarappa Art Collective, 861 Main St., at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, featuring Annie Finch and David Moreau. Finch is a poet, translator and professor. Moreau is a poet and humorist. Jim Donnelly and Anna Wrobel will host the event, which includes refreshments […]
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Night Vision
Projected on the side of Westbrook’s Disability RMS building, an art project known as “Presumpscot: Restoring the ‘Rough Places’” is celebrating life on the Presumpscot River and recent advances to restore natural fish passage. The shows will also run for the next two weekends at dusk on either Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather. […]
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South Windham’s Keddy Mill added to list of Superfund sites
Federal regulators will now launch an environmental review to identify the responsible parties and get them to pay for the cleanup.
Posted inMaine, News
Widow of inmate killed at Maine State Prison awarded $100,000
As part of the settlement, Janet Weinstein, whose husband, Sheldon Weinstein, was beaten to death in 2009, agrees to drop a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections.
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Westbrook budget accord reached
WESTBROOK – Following tense debate between city and school officials and a vote to decline the 2014-15 school budget last week, the Westbrook City Council reconsidered the decision Monday – on the condition that the two sides work more closely in the future. The council voted 4-2 to approve the budget, with councilors Michael Foley […]
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LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]