A photo credit in the Westbrook Notes, in last week’s American Journal, misspelled the name of Marc Mailhot.

Ann Duddy was sitting at her desk at Current Publishing on Main Street Monday afternoon when she heard a car crash outside. She turned to see a car careening toward the building. Duddy, a sales associate, sits beside a glass-door entrance to 840 Main St., and she said she thought the car was going to […]

The governor’s special commission on the Dirigo Choice Health Plan is trying to meet a December deadline to decide alternative ways to fund the state’s subsidized insurance plan going forward, with the unpopular fee on private insurance – approved for 2007 at $34 million but currently on hold – lurking in the wings. The decision […]

Lifelong Westbrook resident Peter Plowman said he and his wife, Jeanne, donated Westbrook its new Christmas tree because they wanted to honor his mother. On Sunday evening, they got to see it light up at Riverbank Park. First came carols played and sung by Westbrook High School band members and carolers during a visit by […]

Southern Maine Volkssporting Assoc. invites you to attend its regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 7 PM, at Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main Street, Westbrook, Maine. All members and non-members are invited.

The Westbrook City Council has approved a parking plan to use as a guide in coming years to ease downtown parking troubles. The plan, approved Monday night, could include metered parking spots, a city employee hired to enforce ticketing, more public lots and possibly a parking garage. The city will look to implement the plan […]

Westbrook High School is finally getting a new school resource officer after spending half the school year without one. Beginning Jan. 2, Westbrook patrolman James Farrenkopf will take over the full-time school resource officer position. Westbrook school officials are pleased to have the position filled, which has been vacant since former school resource officer Dan […]

The Gorham and Portland campuses of the University of Southern Maine have been evacuated following a bomb threat at 4:10 p.m. Monday. Bob Caswell, a university spokesman, said a call, threatening bombs on both campuses, was received at the library in Bailey Hall on the Gorham campus. Caswell said all classes were canceled for the […]

A 76-year-old Buxton woman, who was struck by a hit-and-run driver at 6:10 a.m. today (Dec. 4) on Long Plains Road, has died in a Portland hospital. A spokeswoman at Maine Medical Center in Portland said that Ethel Lewis of 743 Long Plains Road (Route 22), passed away at 1:15 p.m. today. At 4:30 p.m. […]