Westbrook performers in show Featuring Westbrook cast members, the Southern Maine Performing Arts Collaborative presents a traveling musical, “Songs for a New World,” in two performances this week at Westbrook High School on Stroudwater Street. The shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16. Westbrook performers are […]
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American Journal Arts Calendar – 8/15
Theater Aug. 15-16 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” presented by Maine State Ballet, 348 US Route 1, Falmouth, 7 p.m. and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays. $17-$23. 781-3587 or www.mainestateballet.org. Aug. 22-24 “Seussical Junior,” presented by the children of the Schoolhouse Arts Summer Theater Camp, 16 Richville Road, Standish. 642-3743 or www.schoolhousearts.org. Saturday, Aug. 23 49th […]
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Donahue gets Hall of Fame nod
“It was pretty unbelievable,” says Westbrook native and current South Portland resident Matt Donahue of getting the big news. Donahue, now 62, was a Maine basketball superstar in his high school years, and will be among the inaugural class of inductees to the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame in a gala at the Cross Insurance […]
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Tri-Town Calendar – 8/12
Upcoming events “You Can Get There from Here – How Transportation Defined Freeport,” Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Freeport Historical Society Harrington House, 45 Main St., Freeport. $3 donation suggested. Exhibit open through Feb.1, 2015. For more information, see www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org. Community Spay-Neuter Clinic, offering $20 spay/neuter rates for pit bull terrier-type dogs during August, during PetSmart […]
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Barbara Cole joins newspaper to lead advertising sales staff
A sales executive with many years of local experience has joined Current Publishing as sales manager. Barbara Cole, who lives in Freeport, will be responsible for the management and leadership of the company’s advertising team, taking on the roles of leader, coach, mentor and salesperson. Cole has been a broadcast sales executive for more than […]
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LETTERS: Honor and integrity
Pownal, Durham and North Yarmouth residents are now combined together in Maine House District 46. This is due to the recent legislative redistricting and means we will elect a representative together for the first time ever this November. Last week, I met the person who I think it the right one for us. Durham resident […]
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Pilot survives plane crash in Standish
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, Standish Fire/EMS, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded to a plane crash on Northeast Road in Standish late Sunday afternoon. According to the sheriff’s office, the crash involved a single engine bi-plane being flown by Williams J. Worth, 43, of Indiana. Worth had left Frenchville, Maine, on a flight path […]
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LETTERS: ‘Neighbors’ raise money for winter
The hot days of August seem to insolate us from the all-too-familiar biting cold that lies ahead this coming winter. It’s because of the upcoming bone-chilling days and freezing nights that Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors must raise funds now so that we can help those neighbors who are in difficult situations and need emergency heating […]
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Military pulls out of Camp Hinds
RAYMOND – After a three-month occupation, the military has pulled out of Camp Hinds. In their wake, the roughly 420 engineer reservists that cycled through the camp this summer left a new parking lot, five new shooting ranges, three new staff cabins and more at the 87-year-old Raymond Boy Scouts camp. The reservists – more […]
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Missing Westbrook dog found after three-week search
A three-week search for a missing golden retriever that went viral ended happily Wednesday after the dog, Ruger, was found in South Portland. Owner Jamie Gaudreau said Thursday that Ruger, who had been missing from her Westbrook home since July 13, was found in South Portland following a thunderstorm Wednesday afternoon. Gaudreau said that Ruger […]