Buxton Town Clerk John Myers and Ruth Scheibenpflug, assistant clerk, unpack election materials about 5 a.m. Tuesday. Polls opened at 6 a.m. in Buxton.

A ribbon-cutting event for Carter’s Green Market, 18 Elm St., is set for 9 a.m. Thursday, June 14, with town and business leaders. The store features specialty foods, wine, beer and gifts. It opened last month and has its own off-street parking. Free family fun Cressey Road United Methodist Church, at the corner of Route […]

WESTBROOK —  Children’s musician Rick Charette has appeared on stages all across the state and country, but none can compare to performing for his hometown crowd at Westbrook Together Days, a two-day festival that took place in Riverbank Park last Friday and Saturday. Charette grew up off Lincoln Street and went to first- through eighth-grade in […]

June 9, 1993 Peter Eckel, 37, of 16 Walton St., Westbrook, administrative assistant to Westbrook’s mayors since October 1989, resigned Friday and will become New England sales manager for the cellular telephone company Cellular One, working under Kenneth Lefebvre, vice president and general manager. Lefebvre is president of the Westbrook City Council and was acting […]

Change in polling place for votersin Wards 2, 3WESTBROOK — Voters in Ward 2 and 3 will be voting next week in a different location. Because of training scheduled at the Armory, the usual polling location, voters, on Tuesday, June 12,  will be casting their primary ballots for state officials and the school budget vote […]

The Westbrook American reported on June 11, 1958, that Ann Waterhouse of Westbrook graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. E.L. Whitney, owner of Feeding Acres in Buxton, put the farm’s herd of Hereford cattle up for auction. Cows and calves sold for an average of between $400 and $500. A bull brought $3,000.

WESTBROOK — After 35 years in school nutrition, including the last seven in Westbrook, Director of School Nutrition Barbara Nichols will be retiring at the end of the school year, but not before figuring out a plan to reduce some of the debt students owe on their school lunch accounts. Nichols, who came to Westbrook […]

Bates signs with Lions Free agent linebacker Trevor Bates of Westbrook recently signed with the Detroit Lions, the team announced May 23. A former University of Maine standout, Bates previously had been with the New England Patriots and New York Giants practice squads. The Lions did not disclose terms of Bates’ contract, according to the […]

WESTBROOK — A grant from a foundation run by New England Patriots superstar Rob Gronkowski will help make youth football in the city a little safer. Westbrook Youth Football recently received a $10,000 grant from the Gronk Nation Youth Foundation to purchase Riddell Speed helmets for the youth tackle program. Westbrook Youth Football President Amanda […]