However attractive Stroudwater Place may be to many, it comes with costs and impacts that ought to be known beforehand, not come as a surprise later. This development is huge, as are the impacts. Taxes generated by this development can be offset considerably by impact costs. Such costs and impacts can be reasonably predicted based […]

ALL PHOTOS IN GROUCHY KIDS FOLDER Staff photos by Harmony Motter Sesame Street Magazine has noted Oct. 15 as National Grouch Day. So in recognition of the one day that everybody is able to be grouchy and get away with it, and out of respect for Oscar the Grouch, the American Journal photographer hit the […]

Concert held Whenever I read that pianist Frank Glazer is to play in the Portland area, I must attend. He is a renown musician who made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1949, and has performed as soloist with the world’s greatest orchestras. He is in his 29th year as artist in residence at Bates […]

After 35 years, The Wise Guide, a weekly shopper, rolled out its last issue Monday. Based on Main Street in Westbrook for the past eight years, The Wise Guide circulated 28,000 papers throughout southern Maine, from Sanford to the Sebago Lake area. According to owner Dee Battista, “a little bit of everything” is to blame […]

The Westbrook American reported on Oct. 9, 1963, that Dr. Clifford Nelson of Flaggy Meadow Road, Gorham, left for Milan, Italy, where he was to participate in an international symposium about electrophysiology of the heart. Mrs. Frances Sands of Bar Mills was a patient at Webber Hospital in Biddeford.