WESTBROOK — More than a decade after opening the Frog & Turtle Gastro Pub, James Tranchemontagne and his co-owners want to buy the building, build a second floor and expand. Guy Cote, a partner in Vallee Square Holding, the owner of the restaurant, said the plan is to add an outdoor deck and glassed-in lounge […]
2019
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We Love to Eat
Community meal – Thursday, Jan. 10, noon Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Baked chicken, $5. Bean supper – Saturday, Jan. 12, 5-6:30 p.m., Casco Masonic Lodge, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth. Three kinds of beans, hot dogs, coleslaw, macaroni & cheese, homemade biscuits and pies. $10, $4. Boy Scouts spaghetti supper – Saturday, Jan. 12, 5-6:30 p.m., […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Going under
Everyone wants to live by the water. They look forward to finding a flooded river flowing through their living room. They like the idea that the lake is slowly turning their front yard into a swamp. And they can’t wait for the day when the ocean’s rising tide will officially claim their property as part […]
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Looking Back
Jan. 12, 1994 Westbrook aldermen voted Monday to set the election of Westbrook’s mayor for June 14, the day of Maine’s primary elections. That will leave City Council President Kenneth Lefrebvre as acting mayor for 5½ months and through most of the city and school budgets. Patrick Rossi and a co-worker from the E.G. Oleson […]
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The Universal Notebook: Farewell to failure
The older you get the more fleeting the present. It’s frightening how fast eight years of Paul LePage went by. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I joined hundreds of others in Augusta to protest one of LePage’s first boneheaded moves: ordering the removal in 2011 of the mural in the Maine Labor Department […]
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60 Years Ago
The Westbrook American reported on Jan. 14, 1959, that Mr. and Mrs. Albert Verrill of Westbrook had left to spend the winter in Florida. Mrs. Ione Barton of Brown Street in Westbrook bought the Brown Street School property from the city with a $2,200 bid. The school was destroyed by fire the previous March.
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Westbrook Community Center price hike put on hold
WESTBROOK — A proposed hefty rate hike for memberships at the Westbrook Community Center stalled this week when city councilors decided they wanted to first hear from a mayoral committee charged with reviewing community center operations. Acting Director of Community Service Greg Post said the proposed rate increase is needed because some program offerings are […]
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Arts Calendar
Theater Jan. 25 “Zac Stearn Live: The King of Keys,” one-man show, stories and original music, 7 p.m., Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, Standish. Tickets $12, schoolhousearts.org, 642-3743. Music Feb. 2 J & J’s Big Nite O’ Blues, acoustic and electric blues/roots music with Jere “Lunchpail” DeWaters, Jeff Christiansen and their band, 7 p.m., Village […]
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Gorham 'kicks around' proposed pet pig policy
A land use amendment would allow pet pig Wilbur to remain at his Gorham home. GORHAM — The fate of a Gorham family’s pet mini-pig has been farmed out once again, this time to the Planning Board’s ordinance subcommittee. At issue is whether the town will amend its land use code so Wilbur, a pet […]
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Mayor's caucus change request falls short
WESTBROOK — The city will retain the caucus system to nominate candidates for municipal offices despite a request from the mayor to do away with it. Mayor Mike Sanphy asked the City Council to consider amending the charter to replace the caucus system in September with a primary system in June. Sanphy said the primary is […]