The owner of a local ice cream parlor is the latest victim in a rash of robberies in the Lakes Region, the victim of an early morning burglary. The burglary occurred July 17, exactly three years after the store’s first day of operation. Troy Locke, owner of the Ice Cream Dugout on Route 302 in […]
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Standish woman's lawsuit against Wendy's draws to an end
The attorney for Diane Roney, a Standish woman engaged in a lawsuit against Wendy’s restaurant, said a verdict was expected on Thursday, Aug. 3, after this newspaper’s deadline. “I think we’ll have a successful verdict,” Attorney Michael Maxwell, said Tuesday. Roney, 58, took her case to U.S. District Court on Monday after being hospitalized in […]
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Standish youth raise money for Katrina victims
Children from the Standish Recreation Department summer camps gathered last Friday to clean up the town and raise money for another children’s recreation program in Slidell, Louisiana, a town that was devastated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year. “I thought it would be a good thing to give back to our community as […]
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'Oliver!' auditions, Aug. 4-6
Auditions will be held in early August for Windham Center Stage Theater’s presentation of Oliver!, debuting on stage in November. Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and Oliver! is just such a show. Based on the Charles Dickens novel, “Oliver Twist,” it engages the audience with its pathos and drama, while delighting […]
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Gorham van crash hospitalizes driver
A woman was injured when a van landed beside a house on Narragansett Street after she lost control of the vehicle on July 24. Lt. Chris Sanborn said Aasine Karlsen, 33, of Bedford, N.H., was traveling towards Gorham Village on Narragansett Street (Route 202) at about 10:30 a.m. when her van went off the road, […]
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we love to eat
Pancake breakfast – Saturday, Aug. 5, 7-9 a.m., West Baldwin Church, Route 113, Baldwin. Pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice. $5, $2.50. Bean supper – Saturday, Aug. 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Hollis Lions Club, Palmer Hall, intersection of routes 202 and 35, Hollis. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, coleslaw and […]
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American Journal obituaries
Katherine (Kay) T. Miller, 70 Avid reader, and loved crafts Katherine (Kay) T. Miller, 70, of Pinnellas Park Fla., died Thursday, July 27, 2006, at Northside Hospital and Heart Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla. Kay will be missed by her many friends and family. She was born March 5, 1936, in Lewiston, and moved to Florida […]
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City considering smoking ban
The Westbrook City Council and administration are considering an ordinance change that would make smoking illegal in certain areas of the city. The new nonsmoking zones would most likely be located in public parks and open spaces such as Riverbank Park and along the Riverwalk. In a meeting of the council’s Facilities and Streets Committee […]
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Gorham goes Groucho
Gorham kicked an Australian rugby team out of the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday. Under a scorching sun in Gorham, 1,489 people at the town’s annual fair donned Groucho glasses, with the signature eyebrows, nose and mustache, to erase a world’s record of 1,437 set last year. Groucho Marx fans traveled to Gorham […]
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Westbrook Then and Now
The photo on the left shows the old Boston & Maine Railroad station that was located in the present day municipal parking lot facing William Clarke Drive, originally known as Wayside Drive. William Clarke Drive was built over the location of the railroad tracks that once branched off the tracks in Cumberland Mills and ran […]