WESTBROOK — Dog toy maker Planet Dog has been acquired by an out-of-state pet products manufacturer and distributor. Planet Dog was acquired in October by The Kyjen Co., a Denver-based portfolio company of J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston, according to a news release. Kyjen does business under the name Outward […]

WESTBROOK — The city’s economic development director, Daniel Stevenson, has had a busy first year on the job. And he plans to have a busy second year as well. Stevenson has helped set up a program to improve downtown building facades, implemented new parking lot signage, assisted businesses and developers large and small looking to […]

WESTBROOK — Bill Holmes of Westbrook, director of the Cumberland County Regional Communications Center for the last 16 years, lost in his bid to unseat Tom Coward on the Cumberland County Commission for District 4. As of Wednesday morning, Coward had pulled in 11,909 votes to Holmes’ 7,903. Each candidate did well in his hometown with […]

GORHAM — The Planning Board Monday voted to postpone its review of a proposed 16-unit condominium development on about four acres off South Street. Neighbors aired several concerns at Monday’s meeting, including snow and trash removal, wildlife, size of the parcel, and stormwater runoff. Plowman Development Group had requested preliminary approval for the project, Grady […]

The Westbrook American reported on Nov. 12, 1958, that Carl Estes of Gorham attended a three-day office training course at the headquarters of the Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange in West Springfield, Massachusetts. He was assistant manager at the Exchange’s Westbrook Store. Mrs. Samuel Aceto of Westbrook visited her daughter, Joan, at Syracuse University.