The legal mess engulfing ranked-choice voting will continue to slosh around the state’s political digestive system for some time. But regardless of how it comes out, you’ll get to vote on the issue in June. In a perfect world, you’d find a question on your ballot that would read something like this: “Do you favor […]

Pictured is a scene Monday at the intersection of Main Street with New Portland Road. Maine Department of Transportation April 4  received just one bid – $7.45 million from Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc. – in a re-bidding process to rebuild a 1.5-mile stretch of Route 25 through Gorham Village. GORHAM — A rebuild of Main Street in […]

WESTBROOK – Shoppers have been recycling cans and bottles through CLYNK at Hannaford Supermarket on William Clarke Drive for years, but following a trend at other stores, the supermarket may be moving the operation to a different location. The new location would not be far. In fact, it would be only a matter of feet […]

How about building an 80-foot dock in Portland’s Back Cove that leads to a 900-square-foot floating platform with walls that raise and lower with the tides? Nothing if not clever if it works, right? I’m all for it. The Portland nonprofit TEMPOart has proposed commissioning Massachusetts artist Matthew Mazzotta to do just that: design and […]

Community meal – Thursday, April 12, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Baked ham, $5. Free dinner – Thursday, April 12, 5:30-6:30 p.m., St. Peters Episcopal Church, 678 Washington St., Portland. Chowder luncheon – Friday, April 13, and every Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Bowl of […]

The Westbrook American reported on April 16, 1958, that Pierre Harnois of Portland was named Westbrook police chief. Either Steve Gain or Rick Dolloff was to be the starting pitcher for Westbrook High School in the team’s first game of the season at home against Sanford High School.