The City Clerk’s office is in the process of reviving the farmer’s market that once thrived many years ago. The market will be open from now until Nov. 30, operates on Thursdays and Fridays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located in the municipal parking lot along William Clarke Drive next to CVS. […]

March 30, 1983 A fire that was almost a carbon copy of the Jan. 19 Fruitland fire swept through the second and third floors of a three-story apartment house at 593 Main St., Westbrook, Sunday night. All the tenants were left homeless. The fire started when cooking oil caught fire in a second-floor front apartment […]

Kathy Shaw never used to think twice about using her debit card. However, that was before March 17 – when the Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain announced a three-month breach in its security system, resulting in the theft of 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers. “I canceled my cards, and changed my prescriptions to Rite […]

James L. Berke, 45, remained in Cumberland County Jail Tuesday after his arrest Sunday in Gorham on charges of violation of privacy and endangering the welfare of a child. Berke’s bail has been set at $5,000 cash. Berke was arrested on a warrant by Gorham police, who executed a search warrant at 5:40 a.m. Sunday […]

Stroudwater Street closed Saturday Stroudwater Street will be closed to through traffic from 9 a.m-5 p.m. Saturday as the Westbrook Fire and Rescue Department conducts training. Firefighters will perform a live burn on the DeWolfe house at 471 Stroudwater St. The property was purchased by the city as the site of the new middle school. […]

Westbrook residents will get their first opportunity to speak out about a high-end retail, restaurant and recreational development proposed for Stroudwater Street next week. The Planning Board is holding a workshop on the development at its meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in room 114 at the high school. Though it is not a public […]

Once, American Indians stored supplies in the safety and cool of a cave in the rocks along the untamed Saco River. Part of the historic Salmon Falls area, where salmon once migrated up the Saco River to spawning grounds, the cave was flooded when a dam was built downstream. Today, the section along the river […]

The Public Services Department has begun its annual spring street sweeping operations. Once the weather breaks and the opportunity presents itself, sweeping units are brought out of storage, dusted off, thoroughly checked over, and put into service. You may have already seen the sweepers out earlier this month. The department likes to get a jump […]