Avita senior couples to renew vows Avita of Stroudwater, a new assisted living community at 320 Spring St. in Westbrook, will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a vow renewal ceremony at 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, and sweetheart dance at 2:30 p.m. Two couples, collectively representing 123 years of marriage, will renew their vows in […]
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American Journal We Love to Eat – 2/13
Community meal – Thursday, Feb. 13, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Shepherd’s pie. Suggested donation $5. Sweetheart dinner-dance – Saturday, Feb. 15, 5-6:30 p.m. (dinner), Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton, Bar Mills Parish House, Route 4, Buxton. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit the Dorcas Society scholarship and donations to local […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: Debt reaches crisis mode
Times are hard out there. We are in a time of economic crisis, a time of austerity, a time where poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer at a faster pace than any other time in recent U.S. history. During all of this, the situation has greatly affected college students, who are […]
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Q&A with Tom Acousti of Freeport
FREEPORT – Freeport’s Tom Acousti covers soup to nuts, pretty much, in the music business. He’s a songwriter, performer, teacher and even a producer. He also spent a couple years managing the Freeport Performing Arts Center. He grew up on Cape Cod and, as an adult, has lived in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles – […]
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Looking Back – 2/6
Feb. 8, 1989 Fred C. Wescott, the city councilor from Ward 3, is seriously considering seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor of Westbrook in November. If he won in the Democratic caucus, his opponent probably would be Mayor Philip D. Spiller, Republican, who confirmed recently that he will seek a fourth two-year term. For the […]
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St. Joseph's students arrested for detonating acid bombs
The State Fire Marshal’s Office has charged two students from Saint Joseph’s College in Standish with throwing acid bombs from their dormitory room Wednesday. According to Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, the two males are accused of throwing three of the devices from a second-story window to the ground below. Two of the […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: A chilling truth about tomatoes
I don’t spend a lot of time wondering what the average entomologist is thinking from one minute to the next, and I doubt if entomologists spend much time wondering about my thoughts. But recently I did see something in the paper that got me to thinking about people who think about bugs. Only a state […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: Student debt reaches crisis mode
Times are hard out there. We are in a time of economic crisis, a time of austerity, a time the where poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer at a faster pace than any other time in recent U.S. history. During all of this, the situation has greatly affected college students, who […]
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LIFE IN THE SUBURBS: Don’t love them to death
Okay, here we go again. I will get into trouble for this column. It raises the annual question of Scarborough’s adolescent boys, how we treat them, what we expect of them, and what they will become. Scarborough is a fabulous town in which to raise a girl. Opportunities great. Resources great. Encouragement great. Expectations high. […]
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Gorham enacts parking ban
Due to the snowstorm, the town of Gorham has enacted a parking ban on public streets from 11 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday.