Feb. 3, 1993 There will be no heavily muscled Marine ordering kids around in Westbrook Junior High School, Superintendent Edward Connolly told the School Committee Wednesday. The committee went on to vote to hire a disciplinarian “with an ego” for the school. Connolly said he was angered by a cartoon in the American Journal showing […]

The Westbrook American reported on Feb. 5, 1958, that James Adams, son of Nina Adams of Gorham, had enlisted in the Marine Corps and was training at Parris Island in South Carolina. In Westbrook, Mrs. Norman Dyhrberg was general chairwoman of the Forest Street School PTA’s Cabaret Dance that was planned for Feb. 15.

The other day I got a call from a reporter at a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. He had bought a copy of my book “Down the road a piece – A storyteller’s guide to Maine” at a yard sale here in Maine last summer. He said he wanted to ask me a few questions about […]

Matt Albrecht, owner and founder of River Drive Cooperage-Millwork in Buxton, prepares a barrel he imported from Hungary for shipment to Michigan. Rehabbing barrels is a growing business for Matt Albrecht of River Drive Cooperage-Millwork in Buxton. Moving a 1,000-liter beer barrel to be shipped to Michigan. BUXTON — A business that markets rehabbed wooden […]

Ball wins 4th geo bee Ryan Ball recently won another geography bee at Westbrook Middle School, according to a school announcement. It marked Ball’s fourth consecutive win in a field of nine contestants in grades 5 through 8. “Ryan now will take an exam that is sent to California,” his mother Kathy Decker said in […]

Community meal – Thursday, Feb. 1, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Baked chicken, $5. Free dinner – Thursday, Feb. 1, St. Peters Episcopal Church, 678 Washington St., Portland. Chowder luncheon – Friday, Feb. 2, and every Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Bowl of haddock chowder […]

Drug use is one of those subjects like religion that begets endless hypocrisy. Lately, politicians in Maine and D.C. have been turning themselves inside out trying to deal with the fact that 64 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. Naturally, moralizing hypocrites stand in the way. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” Jeff Sessions infamously declared […]

GORHAM — A former University of Southern Maine student claims she was sexually assaulted twice in USM dormitories six years ago. Although she says she reported both assaults to campus police, she claims the university didn’t investigate as required by law. The woman, now 25, filed a lawsuit Jan. 15 in U.S. District Court in […]