The old post office building at the south end of Westbrook Commons, considered an important piece to downtown revitalization, is about to get a long-awaited facelift. After more than a year of vacancy, the building has changed hands from a local development group to a banking institution with branches across southern Maine. Ocean Communities Federal […]

In a story that appeared in last week’s paper regarding the state’s sex offender registry, the disposition of a case involving William Thurber, 31, of Waldo, was incorrectly reported. Thurber pled no contest in Florida to lewd and lascivious behavior with a child under 16 – a plea the court accepted with no finding of […]

September 1981 Westbrook aldermen got a letter they weren’t supposed to get, and learned from it that the city’s non-union, non-management employees have formed a union and joined the AFL-CIO. Mayor William O’Gara then acknowledged knowing about the new union. Kids again were throwing things at cars from the Westbrook Arterial’s footbridge. As the school […]

Chestnut Street resident Bob Ledoux has kept chickens as pets for the last 10 years. He’s disabled and can’t work, so having the chickens keeps him busy. “For me, I could watch chickens all day long,” said Ledoux. “It’s very calming.” Unfortunately for Ledoux, he’ll soon have to trade his chickents in for a pet […]

The number of elementary schools meeting the requirements under No Child Left Behind has improved, with only 51 of the 516 schools tested failing to better their scores for 2006, as compared to 92 the year before. What’s missing in the results released by the state Department of Education Monday are the scores for the […]