A proposed ordinance change to limit access of new residential homes onto major roads in Gorham fell by the wayside this week. Gorham Town Council Chairman Burleigh Loveitt declared the item “dead” on Tuesday when council members failed to make a motion in support of the amendment, after a group of landowners criticized the affect […]

As Westbrook High School Principal Marc Gousse presented his budget to the School Committee this year, he had to answer to a couple of people most principals wouldn’t include in their deliberations – two students. “They had questions about my budget,” said Gousse. “And I had to justify my budget. I had to justify it […]

An AARP Driver Safety Course for drivers 50 years of age and older will be presented at the Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St., Westbrook, Maine, on Monday, June 13, and Tuesday, June 14. Classes, which are sponsored by the library, will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on each of the two dates. […]

Cutline (941) – Riley Murphy of the Hanson School demonstrates how his Sub-Kopter works. Cutline (944) – Travis Harmon calls his invention “RefHat” because it protects the official on the field from injury. Annual inventors banquet The annual inventors banquet was held recently at the Frank Jewett School in Buxton. Students in Ilse Burn’s gifted […]

As I sat in room 114 of Westbrook High School (the city’s council chambers) Monday night watching a plan to close the Stroudwater Street Bridge in Westbrook turn into a heated exchange between citizens, city councilors, the mayor and Maine Turnpike Authority officials, the problem with traffic in the communities to the west of Portland […]

Democrats presented their plan to get rid of $250 million in borrowing in the state budget Tuesday, making good on a promise to cut about $120 million and raising the rest through a $1 a pack hike in the cigarette tax. Their proposal delayed a cut in the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement (BETR) program for […]