Every year Westbrook firefighters distribute toys to kids in the city whose families can’t afford to buy them much for Christmas. File photo
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'Peabody Pew' a Buxton holiday tradition
The Buxton-Hollis Dorcas Society knows a lot about tradition. The group has produced a two-act play, “The Old Peabody Pew,” written by children’s author Kate Douglas Wiggin, every year since 1916. Marking its 90th anniversary, “The Old Peabody Pew” takes the stage at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Tory Hill Church, at the intersection […]
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Congin kids get the hang of the tree-festival spirit
Congin School third-graders got to lend a helping hand to this year’s Festival of Trees on Monday by decorating a tree sponsored by the Animal Refuge League. The Festival of Trees will celebrate the season from Sunday through Saturday, Dec. 9, at Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church with the decoration of over 50 Christmas trees. The festival, […]
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Westbrook Then and Now
This photo, left, of Main Street looking west from the area of Mechanic Street, was taken in the 1850s. The two small buildings to the right were demolished to make way for the three-story brick building at 901 Main St. This building served as an armory, canning factory and garage before being converted to its […]
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Race for District 102 continues
Unofficially, Rep. Gary Moore, R-Standish, is the winner of the House District 102 race. Officially, however, the race is still undecided. On Monday, Nov. 21, a recount was held at the Augusta Public Safety Building to determine a winner in the race between Democratic challenger Michael Shaw and the incumbent Moore. During the recount, Moore […]
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Lakers' Maher selected as league all-star
Lake Region High senior Lee Maher was selected to the Campbell Conference Class B all-star football team. The end-of-season Campbell Conference football banquet took place Sunday evening in Portland. Maher played at halfback and defensive back for the Lakers. The rest of the Class B Campbell Conference All-Stars were: Devon Freitas, Jon Lavallee, Nathaniel Lavallee, […]
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Women honor past presidents Past presidents of the Westbrook Woman’s Club were honored guests at a recent meeting. Those who attended were Constance Kimball, Judith Reidman, Marjorie Eames, Marcia Willock, Margaret Robie, Nancy Curran, Frances Fogg, Evelyn Meserve and Elaine Spiller, presiding officer. The Maine Federation of Woman’s Club state president, Gloria O. Leveille, of […]
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Willis best defensive player
This is an extended cut for photo “willis1” Jen Willis, Gorham High class of 2004, was recently selected to the all-conference first team in the NorPac Field Hockey Conference and she was also named Defensive Player of the Year for the conference. Jen is a junior at Davidson College. Willis started all 21 games and […]
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Justice state’s top clerk State senators Phil Bartlett of Gorham and Lynn Bromley of South Portland recently presented Scarborough Town Clerk Tody Justice of Gorham with a legislative sentiment recognizing her for being selected as this year’s Clerk of the Year in Maine. Women’s business group A new women’s business group in Gorham, called Gorham […]
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Today's insults no match for earlier era
Despite the preponderance of negative campaign ads this year, real campaign rhetoric has lost the vigorous tone of an earlier America. Rather than the muscular insults which used to color politics, modern debate is puny. From the days when slander, character assassination, and gross insult enlivened political campaigns, we are reduced to faint fault finding, […]