Due to racetrack conditions, the scheduled return this weekend of popular sled dog races at Sunset Ridge Golf Links in Westbrook has been canceled. The races were slated to take place this Saturday, March 21, and Sunday, March 22, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. As part of the city’s Winter West festival, sled dog races took […]

Krebs is named Spring Harbor president Mary Jane Krebs has been promoted to president of Spring Harbor Hospital, southern Maine’s only nonprofit, private psychiatric hospital providing child and adult inpatient services for acute mental illness and dual disorder treatment. Spring Harbor Hospital is a division of Maine Behavioral Healthcare, part of the MaineHealth system. Dennis […]

March 21, 1990 Westbrook Together Days is several months off, but the spirit of togetherness was never more felt than last Saturday evening. Over 400 people gathered at St. Hyacinth parish hall for what has become a community effort to save the life of a 9-year-old boy. Marc Amoroso, the son of local policeman Bob […]

Just before a major auction of the late Ellie Saunders’ possessions on Saturday, the historical society sorts through her donation of 211 scrapbooks. A new collection has seemingly taken over the Westbrook Historical Society – and it’s been 94 years in the making. Hundreds of scrapbooks – 211, to be exact – created over a […]

Ever since they owned the Pownal cafe and sandwich shop they call Edna and Lucy’s six years ago, co-owners Sabrina Warner and Steph Dexter have made space available to a “featured artist” for six weeks. The artist is almost always local, as is the case with the current artist, Annette Fox of Durham, and the […]

Just because Ed Warden lived alone in a tent all winter at the Bradbury Mountain State Park campground, doesn’t mean he’s been isolated. Warden gets a ride to town regularly to purchase groceries and see newspapers. And from what he has seen, he didn’t have it all that bad in his tent. “I saw all […]