The effort is part of the American Red Cross public safety awareness campaign Sound the Alarm, a nationwide push to install 100,000 free smoke alarms in more than 100 cities this spring.
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Plant-based health products get green light at Top Gun pitch-off in Lewiston
Start-ups Plant Botanicals, which has a seaweed skin care line, and Healing Harbors, which sells a cannabis-based oil, head to the finals on May 23 to battle with others for a $25,000 prize.
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Westbrook police rescue dog from roof, but how did it get there?
A Westbrook police employee sees the strange sight and calls for help.
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Stolen car crashes into Westbrook building, 2 men arrested
The driver of the vehicle tried to run away but was apprehended, police say.
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Revised retail development would add 750 apartments in Westbrook
A Massachusetts builder overhauls a previously approved plan for the former Pike Industries site, unveiling a 1 million-square-foot venture that would integrate housing and commercial interests.
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Westbrook council OKs budget despite concerns about spending increase
The combined municipal budget, if voters approve the school portion next month, would increase the property tax rate by 5.6 percent.
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Police standoff with armed suicidal man ends peacefully in Westbrook
Officers negotiated with the man, who was at a home on Bridgton Road and reportedly had knives, and he surrendered after near 4 hours, a police captain says.
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Westbrook bookstore dumps books by author accused of sexual harassment
Quill Books & Beverage is identified in national news reports as one of two bookstores pulling titles by Junot Diaz.
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Idexx reports increased revenue, net income in the first quarter
The Westbrook company plans to break ground on a $62 million headquarters expansion.
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Westbrook council takes final budget vote Monday
If approved by voters next month, the budget would carry the largest tax rate increase in nine years.