GORHAM – In a cost-saving measure, the Gorham School Committee has voted 5-0 (Kyle Currier and Sara Nelson absent) to reward eligible teachers to retire. Gorham’s district has 12 teachers eligible to retire with a $10,000 bonus. “We don’t anticipate all 12 would retire” under the program, Gorham Superintendent Ted Sharp said. The plan to […]

WESTBROOK – Westbrook Mayor Colleen Hilton addressed some of her critics, directly and indirectly, in her inaugural address Monday night, and while she promised to continue to bring change to the city, her speech lacked the controversy prompted by the one she gave the first time she took office. “We simply cannot afford to be […]

WESTBROOK – Of the thousands of items in the vast collections of the Westbrook Historical Society, none mean more to Mike Sanphy, society president, than the genealogical records. The records, stored in dozens of neat volumes, contain certificates of birth and death, photographs, and other documents and heirlooms donated by some of the most well-known […]

WESTBROOK – Three decades ago, Betty Lou Trufant caught a cold and lost her voice. Like most of us, she suffered through the sniffling, the sneezes, the coughing and the laryngitis that often comes with the seasonal illness. But while the cold went away, her voice never returned. Until a new treatment allowed her to […]

WESTBROOk – Firefighters started the new year with two separate incidents involving fire and ice that looked more destructive than they actually were. On Saturday, at 8:25 a.m., icy, slick roads led to a multi-vehicle pileup on Route 302 at the Dock Pond/Hardy Road intersection, according to Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Jones. “They just started […]