The statistics released last week by the Maine Department of Public Safety are disturbing. In a state where most people feel safe at any time of the day, even in the largest city, bank robberies and armed robberies are on the rise. Bank robberies hit an all-time high in this state earlier this month with […]

Returning Senate President Beth Edmonds and new House Speaker Glenn Cummings used their remarks at swearing-in ceremonies last week to call for a focused legislative effort to turn recommendations on improving Maine’s economy, outlined in a Brookings Institution report, into law. The report, released a month before the election, contains a lot of ideas, but […]

December 1981 City Engineer Edward Reidman presented the Westbrook City Council with an ultimatum from the Portland Water District Monday: raise the Westbrook sewer-users fee 16 percent, effective Jan. 1. Aldermen balked at the orders, but as a concession voted to table action until they met with Russell Day, Westbrook’s Water District trustee, and other […]

It amazes me that some of the idiots that run this city can’t support a $25,000 tax-neutral position at Walker Memorial Library but support a $20 million junior high school. Penny wise and pound foolish. I rest my case. Marc P. Mailhot Westbrook

Westbrook firefighters spent Friday night at the Wal-Mart in Windham, buying toys for Westbrook children in need. The shopping trip was part of the annual Westbrook Toys for Kids effort. Ten firefighters, along with Chief Gary Littlefield and his wife, shopped for 40 families with children ranging in age from 1 to 14 years of […]

Thirteen Cheverus High School students from Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland have been inducted into the school’s National Honor Society. They are: Seniors: Michael A. Connerney and Nathan J. Laxague of Scarborough, and Paul M. Hinman of South Portland. Juniors: Martin K. Duval, Caitlyn S. Hurley and Karin M. Renger, Cape Elizabeth; Devin G. […]

Gov. John Baldacci will ask the incoming Legislature to put a cap on property assessments for those who call Maine home as his answer to tax relief – a proposal that was defeated several times in the last legislative session and already is drawing fire. The proposal, which would require a change in the constitution […]