November, 1980
The Portland area Council of Governments wants the Maine Board of Environmental Protection broken up into regional boards. It took that position after the BEP first rejected, then permitted development of an industrial park in Scarborough that borders on the big Scarborough Marsh.
The Society of Southern Maine Craftsmen is presenting its seventh annual Christmas craft show and sale in the Stevens Avenue Armory, Portland.
LaVerdiere’s drug stores are offering seniors 10 percent off on everything on Tuesdays, and 10 percent off on prescriptions every day.
Ronald Reagan, Republican, defeated Jimmy Carter, Democrat, for President.
In seven of Maine’s 16 counties, voters were asked to approve formation of county charter commissions. They said Yes in Cumberland County and No in all the rest.
David Emery, Republican, defeated Harold Pachios, Democrat, for U. S. Representative.
A dinner in St. Hyacinth church hall will honor Bill Folsom, Westbrook High School’s basketball coach 14 years. He retired this summer to become the school’s athletic director. In Westbrook and two previous schools, his teams won 392 games and lost 177.
The Westbrook Recreation Department will hold its fourth annual Thanksgiving Fun Run.
McDonald’s is advertising for a director of activities such as birthday parties.
November, 1990
A new bandstand will rise in Westbrook’s Riverbank Park, where the bandstand was torn down at least 15 years ago after being vandalized. The new one will be of concrete and steel, with wooden roof. The S. D. Warren Co. has given $5,000 for it, Sebago, Inc. has given $2,000, and the Knights of Columbus have raised $4,000.
Tom Andrews, Democrat, defeated David Emery, Republican incumbent, for U. S. representative for Maine’s First District, 312,835 – 196,214.
Lewis Beckford is asking that South Portland restore a seniors-only period at its indoor swimming pool and reduce its fee for senior swimmers, which now is $1 a day. Seniors swim free in Cape Elizabeth and Westbrook, and have a seniors-only period in Westbrook. Beckford said the new rules have changed what was a social event much like what the Roman baths must have been.
Jack Gordon wants to expand his five-acre gravel pit on Mighty Street, Gorham.
Close after the election of Julie Conroy to the South Portland Board of Education, a set of rules for members appears on tonight’s agenda. It would restrict members’ contacts with the press and voters. Conroy has been a leader of the South Portland Concerned Taxpayers Association. Reginald MacDonald, school superintendent, could not be reached for comment.
In a letter, George H. Merrill defends candlepin bowling against ten-pin bowlers’ claims of “real” bowling.
An Armistice Day program of the British Broadcasting Company tells World War I stories, including atrocities inflicted on British soldiers captured by Turks and force-marched to Baghdad.
Workers have placed the final roof panels on the new Springbrook nursing care center in Westbrook.
Superintendent Edward Connolly is proposing that the Westbrook School Committee send two of its members to the meeting of the National School Boards association in San Francisco.
Dorothy M. Locke will take a sabbatical leave next year from her job as librarian of Westbrook High School to study at Simmons College for her second master’s degree, this one in children’s literature. She delayed her leave a year during completion of the high school’s $1 million library.
Nadia Eadle and Anne Varney, teachers, are starting a monthly newspaper at Westbrook Junior High School. They expect from 20 to 30 students to spend three hours a week working on it.
Westbrook schools are introducing world geography in Grade 7 and U.S. history in Grade 8.
Standish may lease land for five years at $1 a year from the Portland Water District to park another 250 cars at the Otter Pond Road parking lot that served the Sebago Lake ballfield.
Barbara Strout, Republican incumbent, lost to Carol Kontos, Democrat, for election as state representative from Windham. It was Kontos 1,891, Strout 1,787.
For state representative for Westbrook, it was Bill Lemke, Democrat, 1811, over Phil Curran, Republican, 1,704.
Elected to the Scarborough Town Council are Judith Murray 2,573, Gary Lorfano 2,153, and Edward Wheeler 1,656.
An advertiser is offering 6×7-foot ice shacks for $25.
This week’s recipe from Anne Foote is a turkey and broccoli casserole.
Blanche and Jim Jordan have lived at 919 Spring St., Westbrook, 38 years and for the first time Saturday their house was surrounded by the waters of Blanchette Brook. The city placed sandbags that protected their house until the water went down.
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