WESTBROOK — Four people were arrested on drug charges May 25 after police executed a search warrent at 156 Bridgton Road. Louise Dorazio, 51, who lives in the Bridgton Road home, was arrested and charged with two counts of misdemeanor drug possession.  The suspected drugs were crack cocaine and suboxone, according to Westrook police. Erin […]

WESTBROOK — The gravestones of more than 1,500 veterans across the city have been adorned with American flags in advance of Monday’s Memorial Day holiday and community leaders are getting the final details settled for the city’s annual Memorial Day parade down Main Street. Members of the Stephen W. Manchester American Legion Post 62 on […]

Gorham Code Enforcement Officer Freeman Abbott, left, and his new assistant Thomas Hohn of Long Island. GORHAM — Filling a vacant spot, Thomas Hohn is the town’s new assistant code officer and building inspector. Hohn joined the code office team in mid January. “He’s doing a great job,” Code Enforcement Officer Freeman Abbott said. The Gorham […]

WESTBROOK — A small resale business he started two years ago has paved the way for Westbrook High School senior Ryan Shackley to attend Babson College, one of the top business schools in the country. “It was ranked really high in entrepreneurship, business and international business and all the different aspects of business,” Shackley said […]

WESTBROOK — For close to 40 years, Westbrook Together Days has been bringing families together in the city’s unofficial kickoff to summer, with rides, food and entertainment. This year’s festival, which is organized by the Westbrook-Gorham Chamber of Commerce, kicks off at 4 p.m. at Riverbank Park on Friday, June 1, with opening remarks followed by […]

Historians to tour brewery Gorham Historical Society will tour Sebago Brewery, 616 Main St., when the society meets at 6 p.m. Monday, June 4. The group will resume its regular monthly meetings in September. Its archives, at 28 School St., are open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursdays but will closed during the month of July. […]

May 26, 1993 Less available surplus money, and a $1 million increase in debt payments mean that Regional Waste Systems needs to increase the incinerator disposal fee by 16 percent – from $43 to $50 a ton for most member communities. And if the proposed recycling center and landfill in Gorham is built, the fee […]

The Westbrook American reported on May 28, 1958, that Fred Oleson of West Pleasant Street, Westbrook, returned home after celebrating his 96th birthday while visiting relatives in Massachusetts. Douglas E. Parker of Mosher Road in Gorham operated a TV and radio repair service adjacent to his home. A feature article said he also repaired car […]

Westbrook officers graduate academy Officers Nathan J. Mandeville and Joshua M. Morrow of the Westbrook Police Department graduated May 18 from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. After 18 weeks of study and training, they are among 65 of the state’s latest graduates. Most will begin patrolling immediately for Memorial Day weekend enforcement efforts, […]