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Looking Back

Sept. 23, 1992 S.D. Warren’s top union reps in Westbrook were called to meet with the mill manager Monday to gear an announcement – reportedly, that Westbrook is losing its sheeting operation. Speculation was the parent Scott Paper Co. was giving the unions its timetable for constructing and opening a new sheeting mill in Allentown, […]

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Football: Greely rumbles past Westbrook

CUMBERLAND—Westbrook QB Eli Higgins hooked up with receiver Kyle Champagne for a late-second-quarter touchdown at Greely on Friday night, Sept. 15, but the strike would prove the Blazes’ only of the night. The Rangers, meanwhile, hung five TDs on their guests and ultimately claimed the victory, 31-6. “Oftentimes, we were kind of just one little […]

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Field Hockey: Westbrook falls narrowly to top-ranked Scarborough

WESTBROOK—The Storm crashed the field vs. the Blazes on Friday afternoon, Sept. 15, riding an early wave of dominance to the game’s lone goal, a Lauren Topchik strike. Westbrook pushed back from there, turning the game into a great back-n-forth tussle, but couldn’t even things out in the end and ultimately fell 1-0. “This was […]

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Council passes Highland Lake moratorium

WINDHAM — “Nobody has said ‘no’ to anything. What we’re saying is ‘whoa.’” That’s what Windham Town Councilor Donna Chapman said Tuesday night before the council voted 6-0 to enact a 180-day emergency moratorium on development in the Highland Lake watershed. The move appears to have effectively stalled new construction around the lake for the time being […]