March 1981
Hannaford Brothers Co., which owns Martin’s Shop ‘N Save and other stores, has taken an option on the Gorham racetrack.
Automobile safety seats for children will be explained in a meeting Saturday in the West Scarborough United Methodist church.
In a letter to American Journal readers, the Windham Chamber of Commerce calls for adding three patrolmen to Windham’s seven-man police force, citing the town’s growth.
Larry and Betty Johnson, 31 Churchill Road, South Portland, have installed a wood-burner in place of the old coal furnace converted to oil. He predicts the development of wood pellets to standardize fuel quality and permit automation.
Westbrook police were called to a Walker Street apartment house at 12:45 a.m. to evict a man who wouldn’t leave. They didn’t find him, but in a vacant apartment found two copies of a book, “How to Build Bombs and Place Mines and Explosives.”
Alexander Landry, Westbrook, is new president of the Windham-Gorham Rod & Gun Club.
Scott Paper Co. announced last week that it will produce a new cheaper grade of S. D. Warren papers at its Somerset mill.
Boy Scout Troop 84 marked its 50th anniversary. Fred Collins is scoutmaster.
On Ash Wednesday, Bishop Edward C. O’Leary called on Maine’s Roman Catholics to use the 40 days of Lent to strengthen their religious lives.
Councilman Ralph Kilgore sat in as South Portland’s mayor in this week’s City Council meeting when Mayor Sidney Schwartz, Councilmen Frank Morong and Sam DiPietro and City Manager Ronald Stewart were attending a National League of Cities conference in Washington.
Supermarket News reports that the food industry is preparing to use containers sealed with carbon dioxide and nitrogen in warehouses to preserve meat, fish and eggs as fresh over long periods. They already do it with apples.
March 1991
Gorham’s Planning Board is continuing to fear traffic problems if Hannaford Brothers Co. goes ahead with development of a shopping center at its racetrack site on Narragansett Street.
John H. Rich Jr., Cape Elizabeth, long-time foreign correspondent for MVC, sees a parallel to the Korean War in the Gulf War now underway. When the momentum favors the U. S., peace talk rises. But in Korea, he notes, more Americans were killed while peace talks were under way than died before the peace talks began.
South Portland has released the salaries of all city employees to the Concerned Taxpayers Association after at first objecting that it would hurt morale.
The Westbrook Housing Authority wants the city to abate the $100,000 sewer hook-up fee for its senior citizen housing on East Bridge Street.
Mayor Fred C. Wescott wants to hear from anyone who is related to any of the 15 men who were elected to Westbrook’s first city government 100 years ago.
Silvex, Inc., the metal-plating factory on Thomas Drive, Westbrook, got the Westbrook City Council’s endorsement last week as it seeks to borrow $158,000 from the state’s Community Development Fund and from Coastal Enterprises, Wiscasset. Silvex would use the money to expand production and land a contract for plating 300,000 dozen pieces of flatware over five years.
Brian Welch, a Westbrook High School junior, won the state Class A 152-pound wrestling championship.
The Department of Environmental Protection has approved plans for the Colonial Marketplace Mall in Standish.
Workers at the S. D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook demonstrated with a big flag and a sign in support of our troops in the Gulf War.
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