For the last week or two, residents and visitors driving through Westbrook have probably seen a couple of those portable scrolling message trailers around the city, flashing the phrase: “click it or ticket,” alerting us to the enforcement of the state’s seat-belt law. To our west, in New Hampshire, there is some consternation in having […]

Daniel T. Collomy is asking voters in Tuesday’s election for another three-year term as selectman. Collomy, 75, has served seven years on the board and is currently its chairman. Not one to jump to conclusions, Collomy said he likes to look at both sides of issues and he sees things as going well in Buxton. […]

Gorham polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. District 1 votes at the Little Falls School on Acorn Street; District 2, Masonic Building on Cressey Road; District 3, Gorham Middle School, Weeks Road; and Central District, Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St., next to Baxter Memorial Library. Central District is for voters who are […]

Chase award nominee Ethelyn S. Chase will be nominated by the Westbrook Woman’s Club for the Jennie Award contest through the General Federation of Women’s Club/Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs. One member will be selected from the state to be nominated for the New England region contest. Chase, Liza Harmon Drive, joined the Westbrook club […]

The wife of the late crooner Rudy Vallee captivated a Westbrook audience Monday as she told his story. Eleanor Vallee, who lives in Los Angeles, said her late husband was eccentric and “full of the dickens.” He was also “a real icon. He was the Elvis Presley of his day,” she said, or, as she […]