Community TV changes Westbrook Community TV reminds residents that if they are looking for televised City Council and School Committee meetings, they now have to look in a different place. In late November, Spectrum shifted local meetings from channels 2 and 3 to channels 1301 and 1302. In order to see those meetings, or other […]
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Editor's Notebook: Awards are nice, your letters are better
To call 2018 a challenging year for newspapers would be a major understatement. Ownership consolidations, revenue and circulation declines, rising newsprint costs, attempts to manipulate public opinion through disinformation, lies, propaganda and “alternative facts” all made this a year we’re glad to put in the rear-view mirror. At The Forecaster, American Journal and Lakes Region […]
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We Love to Eat
Community meal – Thursday, Jan. 3, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Meatloaf, $5. Bean supper – Saturday, Jan. 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Hollis Lions Club, intersection routes 202 and 35, Hollis Center. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, coleslaw and desserts. $8, $3. Bean supper – Saturday, Jan. 5, 4:30-6 p.m., White […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Go south, old man
Outgoing Republican Gov. Paul LePage has issued a warning that if he doesn’t like the way incoming Democratic Gov. Janet Mills handles the job, he’s prepared to run against her in 2022. We can be sure LePage means what he says, because he never makes these kinds of stupid promises without following through on them. […]
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Regional transportation planner retires after 36 years
PORTLAND — After 36 years of transportation planning, it’s time for John Duncan to hit the road. “A lot of people have been invested a long time and I will miss being with them and their regional involvement,” Duncan said this month before his last day at the Greater Portland Council of Governments on Dec. […]
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The Universal Notebook: Mr. Trump, tear down this wall
As the Trump presidency careens out of control – government shutting down, stock market plummeting, top advisers abandoning the sinking ship of state – Donald Trump’s supporters are still convinced that unless the United States builds a wall along the southern border this country will be overrun with illegal immigrants taking their jobs, living off […]
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Looking Back
Dec. 29, 1993 After hearing complaints from several citizens about two 5 percent raises for Superintendent Edward Connolly, the Westbrook School Committee shut off further debate and approved the new contract. He will be paid $65,625 this year, retroactive to July 1, and $68,906 the each of the following two years. Westbrook will inaugurate Fred […]
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60 Years Ago
The Westbrook American reported Dec. 31, 1958, that George H. Irish, 82, died at his home in Gorham where he was a lifelong resident. He was born March 31, 1876. In a review of the year, an article noted that Gorham had voted for a town manager form of government and Elden Shute had been […]
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Maine connections lure Luke’s Lobster founder back to South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — For Luke Holden, building an international chain of 43 lobster restaurants all began with hunger, homesickness and a Google search. In less than a decade Luke’s Lobster has grown from one, seven-seat lobster shack in Manhattan’s East Village to a global restaurant and wholesale lobster business. Next summer, it will open its second […]
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Protect South Portland earns 'Local Hero' status
SOUTH PORTLAND — An organization founded five years ago to keep tar sands from being piped through the city wrapped up a busy year of environmental activism by being named Maine’s Local Hero by the Conservation Law Foundation. The award was a first for both Boston-based nonprofit CLF and the winner, Protect South Portland. Sean Mahoney, […]