It’s Maine’s hottest, stickiest, most humid week of the year. It must be football season. Thankfully, it only lasts a week. Many of the state’s best, recently-graduated high school football players will wrap up their short season, and perhaps their careers, at the annual Shrine Lobster Bowl, played Friday at Waterhouse Field in Biddeford. Pre-game […]
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Bridge closing draws heat
The Maine Turnpike Authority’s plan to close the Stroudwater Street bridge for up to a year has raised the ire of Westbrook residents, but it appears the project is going to go on despite their objections. The Turnpike Authority held a public meeting last week to discuss the issue. At that meeting, the approximately 45 […]
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Golf tip
Scott Mayer is a PGA-certified teaching professional who works at Nonesuch River Golf Course in Scarborough. He has written two instructional booklets, A Golfing Philosophy to Play A-Round With and Golf is a Concept and produced an instructional video, The Fundamentals of the Mind. In the spring of the 2004 he was named the State […]
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WHS class of ’75 reunion The Westbrook High School class of 1975 will have its 30th reunion from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, in the Westbrook Room at Embassy Suites Hotel in Portland, near the jetport. The event includes a light buffet, music, dancing and a cash bar. The committee is searching […]
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Business appreciation picnic
The Westbrook Community Chamber is seeking donations and financial support for its sixth annual Business Appreciation Picnic Aug. 18 in Riverbank Park. Businesses with an item to donate as a door prize should contact Sonya O’Malley at Acadia Insurance at 874-5725 or [email protected]. A co-sponsorship of $250 is still available. Co-sponsors will be used in […]
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Watered-down bill has little effect on hospitals
The work of the Commission to Study Maine’s Hospitals, under fire a year ago when its chairman suggested merging facilities and laying off staff, has resulted in legislation so tame it will have almost no effect on health-care costs going forward. It was so watered down, in fact, the commission’s chairman, Bill Haggett, former chief […]
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Marriage ( PHOTO ) William Robert Tom and Jennifer Marie Morrell were married June 19 at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth with Pastor Darren Bonneville officiating at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Karen Shepard of Otisfield, Maine and John Morrell of Windham, Maine. Parents of the groom are Barbara and Mainard Tom […]
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Sappi selling equipment
As part of an effort to rid itself of equipment no longer being used at the mill, Sappi has reached an agreement to sell components from the Westbrook mill to a Mexican company. Jeffrey Pina, director of corporate communications for Sappi North America, said the company has reached an agreement in principle to sell the […]
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Hospital reform lacks teeth
The work of the Commission to Study Maine’s Hospitals has resulted in legislation so tame it will have almost no effect on health-care costs going forward. It was so watered down, in fact, the commission’s chairman, Bill Haggett, former chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works, said, “I didn’t want to have my name on […]
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Council delays votes on Wal-Mart, police station
The Westbrook City Council has decided to delay taking any action regarding the pending sale of the old police station in Cumberland Mills. In addition, at a meeting on Monday night, the council also elected to postpone first reading on a series of revised standards for large retail projects, such as a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter, […]