Following support from the public at a community meeting last week, a committee will continue its study of the idea. Prospects for an arts and cultural center in Freeport have a pulse. Following a well-attended community meeting hosted by the Freeport Community Arts Steering Committee on April 28, a working group will meet sometime in […]

Office hours The Town Office, at Mallett Hall, is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday 8:30 a.m.-6:30 and closed Friday. Meetings The Pownal Board of Selectmen will meet Monday, May 18, at 7 p.m., in Mallett Hall. Planning Board ordinance review workshops are Tuesday, May 12, 19, 26, at 8 a.m., at […]

May 2, 1990 Flags will fly over Westbrook veterans’ graves at city expense again this year, unless the City Council suffers a major change of heart. And they won’t be picked up after Memorial Day to be used again in 1991. “Maybe it’s a lean year, but I don’t think it’s that lean,” said Mayor […]

Chad E. Poitras is running unopposed in the municipal election in June for a three-year term on the Board of Selectmen in Buxton. Poitras, now a Planning Board member, is seeking the expiring term of Penny Booker, the board’s vice chairwoman, who is not seeking re-election. Three other candidates for boards are also unopposed on […]

Food train to roll Sponsored by Trinity Lutheran Church, the food train this weekend will pick up boxes of food in the city-wide drive to benefit the Westbrook Food Pantry. The drive is the fourth annual “Climb Aboard the Food Train.” Church members will pick up jars and boxes of food on Friday, May 1, […]

Within weeks, the inactive Mountain Division line rail bed stretching from South Windham to Westbrook will open for pedestrian use, provisionally completing the Sebago to the Sea Trail. The 28-mile pedestrian trail, which starts at Sebago Lake in Standish and sticks close to the Presumpscot River as it flows through Gorham, Windham, Westbrook, Falmouth and […]