The Gorham Town Council met in executive session Tuesday to discuss the town’s litigation with Plan-It-Recycling. Last year, the town claimed the company’s facility located in the Gorham Industrial Park had violated town rules concerning piles of recyclable material and filed for court intervention. Earlier this year, a judge temporarily stopped the company from accepting […]
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Company gives back
For Tim and Mike White, Westbrook has always been home. The brothers grew up here, went to school here, and have done business here for many years in construction. “Westbrook has always been good to us,” Mike White said this week. So when White Bros., a division of the Lane Construction Co., discovered it had […]
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‘Westbrook Idol’ finalists make new music
WESTBROOK – Two contestants in last year’s ‘Westbrook Idol’ competition may not have taken home the grand prize, but they may have found something better in a new musical partnership. Ever since they appeared in the local talent competition, Ingrid Ayer-Richardson, a Westbrook resident who works at Unum in Portland, has brought Patrick Colgan, a […]
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Bridge work brings bonus for Westbrook
WESTBROOK – Work has now begun on two state-run bridge projects, causing more delays and detours for drivers, but the city has gained an unexpected benefit that officials say will make a troublesome intersection safer. The state Department of Transportation is doing bridge replacement work on the Mill Brook Bridge and Little Bridge, according to […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Stats and such for consideration
Cut and pasted from various sources are these factoids: Efficiency rewarded: Since 1972 the productivity of U.S. workers has increased 114 percent. During that same period wages have declined by 6 percent. Where the money goes: CEOs in 299 U.S. companies earned $3.4 billion in 2010 – an increase of 23 percent from 2009 – […]
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West wins Lobster Bowl thriller
BIDDEFORD – The motto for the annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic is “strong legs run so that weak legs may walk.” That motto, which reflects the fact that the annual contest benefits the Shriners Hospitals for Children, was especially apt for the 22nd edition of the game Sunday at Biddeford’s Waterhouse Field as Portland’s […]
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ON THE RIGHT LANE – Lights on, anybody home?
If one wants proof that as far as government is concerned that the light is on but nobody’s home, just look at the law that Congress passed that does away with Thomas Edison’s invention, the incandescent light bulb. Oh yeah, it sounds good to do away with a light bulb that produces 90 percent heat […]
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Gorham mulls more big spending
GORHAM – Costly capital improvement projects that could be decided by local voters were topics when the Gorham Town Council met with school department representatives Tuesday. School officials presented three priority projects topping its list of needs for capital improvements. The list comes after town voters in June rejected a $3 million plan that included […]
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Westbrook, Brock nearing lawsuit settlement
WESTBROOK – Parties on both sides are hoping within the next few weeks to settle the lawsuit by former Fire Chief David Brock. “I anticipate we will bring forward a settlement agreement,” City Administrator Jerre Bryant said, indicating such an agreement, which requires City Council approval, could be on the agenda for the council’s next […]
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Westbrook spill cleanup takes all day
WESTBROOK – Area firefighters spent most of the day Sunday at a Westbrook swimming pool equipment dealer cleaning up a 60-gallon chemical spill there, according to the Westbrook Fire and Rescue Department. Firefighters responded to the Namco Pool, Patio and Gameroom Superstore at 100 Larrabee Road at 9:43 a.m. after getting a report of a […]