Muggle level 1. What is the last name of Harry’s aunt and uncle? 2. What are the names of Harry’s parents? 3. What is the full name of Harry’s school? 4. From what London train station does the Hogwarts Express leave from? And what is the platform number? O.W.L. Level 1. What position does Harry […]

Many people think if they don’t live near a river or the coast, they are not in danger of flooding, but that’s not true. In recent years, remnants of tropical storms and heavy spring and summer rainfalls have caused serious flood damage all across Maine. This means everyone lives in a potential flood zone and […]

Opening tax bills his fall, Gorham property owners will see a 29 percent hike in their valuations, and a likely tax hike of about 7 percent. The town’s assessing department is upping property values equally, across the board, to comply with state law. “We’re not doing a revaluation,” Mike D’Arcangelo, Gorham’s tax assessor, stressed this […]

Camren Baker napped in the living room the day he turned 6 months old while his mother, Jaime Swan, 20 years old and 12 weeks pregnant, smoked a cigarette on her apartment’s fire escape, shooing her 4-year-old nephew away from the smoke. Doctors, Swan was explaining, had told her that Camren might have permanent blind […]

July 1982 Westbrook aldermen listened quietly and then voted to place on file a citizen’s petition for a nuclear freeze. It asks the president and the congress to propose to the Soviet Union immediately a mutual freeze on testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems with verification safeguards. U.S. Rep David […]

Residents this week will receive some of the most expensive tax bills Westbrook has seen, while the Assessment Review Board – expected to see hot activity after the recent revaluation – has at least three of its seven seats vacant. The Assessment Review Board is responsible for handling citizen appeals of their home’s valuations. After […]

Local developer C. Sam DiBiase constructed this building at 716 Bridgton Road in 1975 as an office and warehouse. DiBiase was well known for the many Westbrook homes he constructed in the Colonial Acres project, as well as Lori Lane, Anne Terrace and Temple Street. He eventually sold this building and, over the years, several […]