Some have questioned the fairness of the School Department’s code of conduct in light of the fact that students on European trips are allowed to drink with meals. The questions come a month after seven members of the Westbrook boys varsity basketball team were suspended for allegedly attending a party where students were drinking. School […]
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Respect legislative branch
This viewpoint is in response to the letter in the American Journal on April 6 titled “Esty Right to offer Parking,” by Ray Richardson. I found Ray’s letter, applauding our former mayor’s actions to provide Flannery Properties with 90 parking spaces in the CVS parking lot without council review, to be appalling. Obviously, Ray shows […]
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Cutlines 114 0408 The section of Route 114 washed out by Sunday night’s flooding opened for traffic on Thursday morning. The repairs still call for asphalt and guardrails to be added, but traffic was speeding over the road once again. Picture of the new culvert exiting from the roadbed of Route 114 at Sticky River. […]
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Windham names new Parks & Rec director
Brian Ross was named Windham’s new parks and recreation director at a special meeting of the Windham Town Council on Tuesday night. The department has been without a director since the end of August in 2004 when longtime director Mark Robinson left to accept a job as town manager in Fayette, Maine. The official starting […]
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'Stinking Benjamins' and swimming memories
I’ll bet my old friend Ken Cole has written about pussywillows, those delightful fuzzy little catkins which grow in ditches and at the edge of roads at this time of year. I hope he and his good wife saw the three-foot-long stems for sale at a local store for over $3 each! Countless bunches of […]
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Remembering why
It seems so long ago now – a contentious presidential election, political commercials at every break in our favorite television program, political signs fighting for our attention at every intersection. And, what was her name? Oh yeah, Carol Palesky. As the snow undergoes its annual transformation into dirt and sand at the roadsides and local […]
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VFW to meet Gorham Memorial Post 10879 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, at the West Gorham Fire Station. McCullough to speak on massacre David McCullough will speak about the Bryant cabin massacre 250 years ago when the Gorham Historical Society meets at 7 p.m. on […]
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This photo shows the U. S. Post Office branch office on Cumberland Street in the Warren Block. For many years, mail sent from this office bore the Cumberland Mills cancellation stamp. This branch also had Post Office Boxes where residents and merchants received their mail. This branch closed when the new Post Office on Main […]
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Government should allow drug importation
With prescription drug prices spiraling out of control, I feel compelled to do something to mitigate prescription drug expenses so that Mainers, whether they be elderly, poor, uninsured or on a fixed income won’t have to make life threatening decisions based on the affordability of their prescribed medication. I am also a registered nurse. My […]
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Students to walk for cure
Westbrook’s elementary school students will be outside enjoying the spring weather tomorrow morning by taking a one-mile walk to raise awareness of the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society’s efforts to find a cure. The idea for the walk, dubbed the “Kids TeamWalk,” comes from Timothy Walker, the school department’s director of student services. Walker will be […]