The Warren Memorial Foundation was created in 1929 when a group of prominent citizens met with Portland Attorney Robert Hale to accept funds from the estate of Susan C. Warren for the purpose of maintaining a foundation for educational purposes, including the fine arts. Although other activities have been supported, since 1929 the primary focus […]

After a year of research into a 1987 unsolved murder, Mark Swett has his theories about how Alice Hawkes died. “It’s always been in the back of my mind,” said Swett, who couldn’t help but think about Hawkes when he passed her former Westbrook apartment on his way to work or going to the mall. […]

174/174a The old house on the left, built in 1825 by Nathaniel Wakefield, was located on Main Street next to the Walker Memorial Library. Bryce M. Edwards acquired the house and lived there for many years. Edwards operated a hardware and dry goods business on Main Street at Bridge Street. The house was occupied in […]

Some 40,000 tires that had been stockpiled since the 1980s have finally been removed from a privately owned, 15-acre site on Rocky Dundee Road in Buxton. The tires, according to a Maine Department of Environmental Protection cleanup agreement with the landowners, were stockpiled on the wooded property now owned by John and Linda Holman. The […]

March 7, 1984 A Planning Board concerned about the national debt struck a blow for holding it down last week. The Westbrook board voted against a plan to use an estimated half-million dollars of federal money to fix up Cumberland Mills, and thereby played a major role in at least delaying that plan. Maurice Seneschal, […]

This week’s coffee shop discussion centered on political party platforms. Lucius Flatley opened the dialogue by arguing that party platforms were originally intended to be a contract with the voters, but now seem to have little or no connection with reality. “Office holders certainly pay them scant attention,” he said. “They consist of paragraphs of […]