WESTBROOK — It wasn’t ABC’s Shark Tank, but students got a chance this week to pitch their business ideas before a panel of business professionals as part of Westbrook Regional Vocation Center’s INCubatoredu entrepreneurship program. Westbrook seniors Sebastian Johns, Gabe Larson and Alek Opacic took the top prize for their idea to reduce the amount of […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster
60 Years Ago
The Westbrook American reported on May 13, 1959, that two workers lost their lives in separate accidents in less than three days at S.D. Warren Company in Westbrook. Jeremiah Cote was killed by a blast of steam and Cyril Holmes was dragged by a bark feeding mechanism from a bin into a furnace. Mr. and […]
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Community program revenues pooled to help pools
WESTBROOK — When the Westbrook Community Center opened a decade ago, city administration decided each program there should be responsible for covering its own costs. All programs have been self-supporting except for the operation of the swimming pools. Aquatic passes, rentals and user fees have not covered the cost of operating the Davan Indoor Pool and […]
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Looking Back
May 18, 1994 The students in the Forest Street School in Westbrook are there for the arts, not the three R’s. Through most of its years, the two-story brick building, erected in 1894, was the neighborhood elementary school for the eastern part of Westbrook. More recently, it was home to the Westbrook schools’ Enrichment Center. […]
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Westbrook Notes
Did Old Man Winter leave this footprint on the city, or using a Maxwell Smart catch phrase from the old TV comedy “Get Smart,” would you believe, Bigfoot? Tom Robinson, financial services representative at TD Bank in Westbrook, discovered this big, shoe-shaped pothole behind the municipal lot between TD Bank and Bank of America near […]
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Whittled school budget ready for voters next month
WESTBROOK — City Councilors are hoping the $40.3 million school budget that they approved Monday will be one voters can support at the school validation vote June 11. The school spending plan is part of an overall $69.8 million city budget for fiscal year 2020, which runs July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. Taxpayers […]
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Missing Westbrook girl found safe
Westbrook police had issued a public alert about the missing 15-year-old but said Friday afternoon she had been found in Portland.
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Maine Voices: Rolling toward renewal along the Presumpscot River
Removal of the Saccarappa Dam in Westbrook will open the river to sea run fish not seen in more than century.
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Westbrook Notes June 21
Millie Hawkins Honors for Hawkins Millie Hawkins of Millbrook Estates in Westbrook, born in 1919, turned 100 on May 2 and was honored with a party hosted by Dianne Hood and Roma Ritchie. Family, friends and Millbrook residents celebrated with her. Country singer Jose Duddy sang and danced with her. Mayor Michael Sanphy read a […]
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Young Maine developer builds a career after tragedy
Tyler Hall, whose terrible mistake landed him in prison, built a commercial real estate business and shares his life lessons with others.