February 1981
South Portland beat Westbrook 61-54 in high school boys’ basketball in Westbrook, and with 26 police officers standing by there was no after-game fighting. Fights had been predicted. Three weeks earlier, in South Portland, it was Westbrook 60, South Portland 58. In high school girls’ basketball, it was Westbrook 73, South Portland 60.
Forty-three speakers will talk about energy in a public forum from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday at Windham High School. The forum title is “The only course is an alternate course.”
A letter written by Corrine Libby, laments that Scarborough’s new post office is on a side street, not Route 1.
Bruce and Gail Small have a new passive solar house in Windham, angled to catch the sun’s heat. The house also has a big woodstove.
John F. Graves of Gorham, retired Friday as senior vice president of Northeast Bank in Westbrook. He started in 1946 as a teller for the bank’s predecessor, the Westbrook Trust Co.
Theresa Dyer, a Westbrook High School senior and member of the WHS band is also taking three French courses and a literature course at the University of Southern Maine. Richard Getchell, WHS principal, told the School Committee about her (without naming her in urging more attention to especially gifted students.)
South Portland is switching from membership dues to greens fees to support its municipal golf course.
The Gorham Garden Club marked its 50th anniversary
Lamaze childbirth preparation classes will be held throughout the year in the School Street Methodist Church, Gorham. The course is recommended for the final six to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Deborah and Gregory Toher, Falmouth Road, Windham, are busy with their new family, triplets Gregory Jr., Philip and Jessica, born Jan. 8 in the Maine Medical Center, their first children.
Windham is introducing a new science program for grades K-6.
New York sirloin is $1.89 a pound at Shaw’s.
A 19-inch RCA color TV is $439.95 at Seavey’s.
Byron Rogers urged the Westbrook School Committee to choose a new burner for the high school that can use No. 2, No. 4 or No. 6 fuel oil and be converted to burn gas.
A letter signed by 55 residents at Higgins Beach, Scarborough, objects to the continued parking of a tractor-trailer truck there.
Scarborough Police are going from a teletype machine, $25 a month, to a computer, about $350 a month.
Scarborough Town Manager Carl Betterley said the town is moving its records to a computer for the first time. He wouldn’t estimate the cost.
February 1991.
Highland America, Inc. of Rhode Island has two sites under consideration – Claremont, N.H., or Windham, for a $60-$80 million newsprint recycling plant. The Windham site is on the River Road.
The S. D. Warren Co. has a plan for managing the level of Sebago Lake that it has developed through study of past records. Though the new plans appears satisfactory to boating interests, it is criticized by shore side landowners who have complained of damage from high waters.
Builders of the Westbrook Housing Authority’s 100 new senior citizen apartments on East Bridge Street are taking 10 percent of their pay in the form of shares in ownership of the apartments, which means a $214,000 share for the general contractor, Donatello Builders. Six subcontractors will own shares totaling $126,600. The financing involves federal income tax credits earned because some of the apartments are for low-income elderly. In arranging the deal, James Smith, the WHA’s executive director, has created the Westbrook Development Corporation, owned by Smith and the members of the Westbrook Housing Authority.
Edna Libby School, Standish, and Bonny Eagle Junior High School have new programs to recycle high-grade white paper. A student, Mathew Hinds-Aldrich, grade 3, is credited with pushing the idea. Teacher Nancy Burnham said, “Students today know very much about our world and are concerned about it – deforestation, and endangered species, the deteriorating ozone layer, the greenhouse effect.”
Allen Hadley, principal of bonny Eagle High School, has moved to end the assignment of Larry Ferrante as full-time police officer in the school.
On this weekend, Porteous, Mitchell and Braun is closing its five-story department store in downtown Portland, and the Guy Gannett Publishing Co. is closing down the Portland Evening Express. Porteous has been the Express’s best advertiser for decades.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has the flu and there’ll be no Doonesbury comic strip this week.
The Westbrook City Council will hear a proposal for one-way traffic downtown, one way on Main Street, the other way on Wayside Drive.
Ronald Henderson has been appointed deputy chief of the South Portland Fire Department.
Cynthia Hazelton, Sanford, is Gorham’s new community services director.
In observance of Boy Scout Anniversary Week, Troop 39 will construct a winter campsite on the lawn of the Elwood Bessy School, Scarborough. The boys will live there all week.
Mrs. Elsie R. Jackson, 34, Cole St., South Portland, was honored on her 90th birthday.
Gorham beat Fryeburg 86-35 in high school boys’ basketball.
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