Beach Weather at the Walker Memorial Library. Troy and Amelia Peterson of Westbrook stopped to browse at the

A few years ago, I ran into Scott Link, then the leader of the alt-country band Diesel Doug and the Long Haul Trackers, in a Portland bar. Link’s often-turbulent love life had just undergone another upheaval. “Did you dump her,” I asked, “or did she dump you?” “I dumped her,” he said. “Too bad,” I […]

The Westbrook American reported on Aug. 1, 1962, Sgt. 1st Class William and Rose (Mains) Butler and their son, Billy, were spending a 28-day leave with her sister, Mrs. Edwin Strout, Gray Road. The Butlers had been stationed in Germany three years.

A combined plant and bird-supply sale and car wash, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the George E. Jack School, Route 35, Standish, will benefit Project Graduation at Bonny Eagle High School. The sale includes perennials priced $1-$5, seven raffles, blue hydrangea, red rose bush, large autumn joy sedum, five bags of […]

A month and a half after Kevin Foley was shot to death, police continue to work on finding a suspect and are still releasing few case details. But the lead detective says police have a “positive outlook” that the case will be solved. Foley was found the morning of June 22 next to his car […]

A class reunion The 1936 Deering High School class had its 71st reunion at July 28 Verrillo’s Restaurant, Riverside Street, Portland, with 27 present. Reunion Committee members are Harold Griffith, Eleanor Berry Beal, Anne Blanchard Foote, Betty Halloran Kennedy, Jane Drew Sampson and Alicia Wilbur Watson. Hal greeted the guests, and John Jezzi, who attends […]

The new, $600,000 Gorham High School is shown about Aug.1, 1959, as it neared completion. The school approved by voters in March 1958 was on schedule to open for classes in September, 48 years ago. The building committee members were Merle Brofee, Austin Alden, Bernard Rines, Jim Pillsbury, Emery Bowdoin and Walter Stevens. File photo