Indian restaurant, ice cream shop open The Dancing Elephant and Catbird Creamery are now open for business. The Dancing Elephant offers traditional Indian food and luncheon buffets in the space formerly occupied by Tranchemontagne’s restaurant on Main Street. The restaurant opened last week. Also opening last week across the street, Catbird Creamery offers homemade ice […]
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Westbrook School Department central office emerges as a City Hall alternative
WESTBROOK – The Westbrook School Department’s central office building could play a new role – City Hall. As the city explores options for selling or leasing the building that now houses City Hall, the subsequent move would also involve combining city and school offices under one roof. The frontrunner for a new City Hall is […]
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Westbrook museum to unveil new home
WESTBROOK – The days are counting down to the Westbrook Historical Society’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 7 at its new home in the Fred C. Wescott Building, and there’s still plenty of work to do. Members this week are working to catalog and organize the thousands of pieces of Westbrook-related memorabilia, from posters to photographs […]
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Westbrook teacher jailed for five days in plea deal
WESTBROOK – A Westbrook High School teacher spent five days in jail this week after pleading guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court to a charge of furnishing a place for minors to consume liquor. A second charge against Timothy Gillis, 43, of Portland, furnishing liquor to a minor, was dismissed, according to court documents. In […]
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After a tough loss, Bonny Eagle boys look ahead
PORTLAND – Former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Laker coach Phil Jackson once said, “Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.” While Jackson’s quote may work on athletes getting paid millions of dollars, It doesn’t quite apply universally to the game of basketball. Perhaps Jackson […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Beware monsters of moolah
A very, very tiny number of wealthy Americans are playing an ever-increasing role in financing our politics. It appears that 1/10th of 1 percent of Americans are spending more on political campaigns than 75 percent of the entire population. The Sunlight Foundation recently issued a report showing that 1 in 10,000 givers ponied up one […]
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Agreement reached on religious signs at Hacker's Hill
CASCO – The religious signs and statues atop Hacker’s Hill in Casco will need to come down before state funds are used to purchase the site, but the naturally formed cross can stay. The compromise was announced Monday in a letter from the board of Land for Maine’s Future, a state program that is making […]
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New cancer treatment gives Westbrook family hope
WESTBROOK – Ever since Dianne Brazier, a well-known Westbrook barber, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2009, friends and family have to make sure they do everything they can to prevent Brazier from getting an infection through a weakened immune system. “I have to wipe down the house before she visits,” said her daughter, Melissa […]
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Westbrook officials clash over school funding gap
WESTBROOK – A sometimes tense preliminary budget session between the Westbrook City Council and School Committee last week might have set the tone for the next several weeks as both panels struggle with how to keep taxes level in the face of a $2.2 million school funding gap. Last year, after prolonged sessions, a last-minute […]
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Pipeline debate comes to Maine
PORTLAND – As a proposal to build an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast has emerged as a contentious issue on the national political scene, a similar debate has started locally, regarding an existing pipeline that runs from the tank farms in South Portland and through the Lakes Region. President Barack Obama last […]