Westbrook will be enacting a Snow Emergency Parking Ban on all City streets from 11 p.m. Wednesday night through 7 a.m. Thursday. Any cars parked on city streets during the ban will be ticketed and in most cases, towed. “Please help ensure the safety of our roads for plow crews and drivers alike and make […]
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LETTERS: Don’t wait to donate
There is an old house with ice forming on the electric outlets. You know the kind of house. Each window covered with white frost and thin smoke determinedly rising from the chimney. It is a tough winter for all of us, and harder still, for some of our neighbors. It is time, again, to step […]
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Tri-Town Weekly wins chamber honor
FREEPORT – Just a year and a half after launching, the Tri-Town Weekly has made a distinct impression with the bustling Freeport business community. During its annual meeting on Jan. 27, the Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce honored the newspaper with its Business of the Year award. Tri-Town Weekly publisher Lee Hews smiled broadly as […]
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Durham News – 2/5
Office hours Regular Durham Town Office hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Wednesday closed and Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Meetings The Durham Board of Selectmen will meet Tuesday, Feb. 11 and 25, at 6:30 p.m., at the Durham Town Office CEO available The Durham codes enforcement officer will be at the town […]
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No one hurt in Finley Road fire
WINDHAM – Firefighters from Gray, Raymond, Standish, Gorham, Westbrook and Windham gathered on Finley Road in Windham Tuesday night to battle an apparent chimney fire that burned a home owned by Jean Finley. No one was injured in the fire. According to Windham Fire Chief Charlie Hammond, Finley was in Massachusetts, and her son, Mark, […]
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IT HAPPENED IN WINDHAM: South Windham was busy, busy
More than 160 years ago, before the Civil War, Meschach Larry, a South Windham blacksmith put up a new shop at the corner of Main and Mechanic streets. In those days, Mechanic Street was named “Smith Avenue,” because Edward Tyng Smith (grandson of Parson Smith) had just moved here, as an apprentice to Elijah Varney. […]
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Looking Back – 1/30
Feb. 1, 1989 Clifford Knight, Methodist Road, went to a Westbrook City Council armed with two big pieces of the rubbish – a piece of plastered wall and a chunk of metal – he said litters his street, dropped from trucks on their way to Rocky Hill, the dump for demolition debris and other big […]
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Quad wrestling meet unfolds at Biddeford HS
The Biddeford Tigers, along with the Thornton Academy independents who wrestle alongside them, hosted their counterparts from Sanford, Deering/Cheverus and Windham last Saturday morning, and nearly every possible pairing of athletes played out. Biddeford/TA beat Deering/Cheverus, 60-24; Sanford 50-26 and Windham 71-16. Sanford beat Windham 54-23. And Windham beat Deering/Cheverus 48-23. Windham head coach Jason […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Some notions are just bird-brained
Years ago we had a neighbor named Tink Billings, who always had a flock of hens running around his place. At night, his hens would go in the barn to perch somewhere and Tink provided them with a few laying boxes for when they felt the urge to lay an egg. Most of the time, […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: Don’t dare
Supporters of legalized marijuana have a serious medical problem they need to address. There’s now scientific evidence that the mere mention of repealing laws against possession and use of pot makes Maine politicians go squishy in the head. In tests conducted by a team of researchers (please note: The preceding phrase is subject to credibility […]