WESTBROOK —  Music streamed, albeit briefly, out of the 114-year-old pipe organ at St. Hyacinth Church during a service last week for the first time in five years. “The congregation applauded on the way out,” said Paul Concannon, a member of the church and chairman of its building committee. The organ is on its way to […]

WESTBROOK — Westbrook Middle School teacher Ekhlas Ahmed is hoping the World Refugee Event she is planning this Saturday will help help bring the community together and shed some positive light on the many cultures of the city’s residents. “This is a celebratory event for the immigrants and refugees who sacrificed do much to find safety […]

WESTBROOK — After working 10 months under an expired contract, the teachers and other staff members in the Westbrook Education Association will end the school year with an updated contract in place. “From what I understand, it was almost a unanimous vote of the teachers and was a unanimous vote of the School Committee. I […]

Growth in Gorham will be a Town Council topic at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26.  GORHAM — Town councilors next week will hold a workshop to discuss ways to cope with the impact of the town’s residential growth on school costs and enrollments and other demands on municipal services. Residential growth and its impact on Gorham schools is […]

WESTBROOK — The Westbrook Historical Society has reaped the benefits of work being done to rehabilitate the original section of Walker Memorial Library. As part of the decade-long project to update the original Walker Memorial Library, which opened in 1894, the library has donated much of its local history collection housed there, including a quilt made […]

WESTBROOK — Beth Paulsen-Olmstead’s family has been farming land at 123 Methodist Road since the 1930s, but as the area around her property has developed, farming has becoming increasingly difficult, she says. Stormwater runoff from the abutting Fieldstone subdivision pools on her field, Paulsen-Olmstead told city councilors at a committee of the whole meeting last […]

WESTBROOK — As teachers and staff members clean out their classrooms for the summer, some are saying goodbye to the district as they enter the retirement portion of their educational career. “To the retirees, thank you for your years of service. We appreciate all you have done and all the roles you have had in your […]

WESTBROOK — The Westbrook City Band, which dates back to the 1880s, will be kicking off the Wednesday night Riverbank Park Summer Concert Series once again this year. This year’s lineup includes several old favorites along with bands that haven’t played in the park before: Westbrook City Band on June 27, followed by Hambone, a […]