April 1981
Maine Medical Center’s hospital sends four tons a day of waste to the Regional Waste System’s bale-fill on Running Hill Road, Scarborough. Now the hospital is getting an incinerator; cost undisclosed, but the federal government is said to be paying half. It will reduce volume to 5 percent, weight to 20 percent; the ash will go to Running Hill Road. Several other hospitals also send their wastes there. Maine Medical Center sends a ton of needles a month to Windham to be burned after they are run through shears.
Westbrook High School students got the day off Friday as their teachers gathered to consider what they can do about students’ use of drugs and alcohol. They talked about how to get students to seek help. Thirty teachers of business-related courses went to Freeport to see how L. L. Bean operates.
Westbrook aldermen voted 4-3 against a pay raise for non-union city employees. Mayor William O’Gara, disappointed, accused Alderman Louis P. Blanchette of going back on his promise to vote yes, and got angry when Blanchette denied such a promise.
With the temperature at 35 yesterday, a Gorham-Greely girls’ high school softball game was postponed.
Easter Sunday was bright, and churches were crowded.
April 22 is Earth Day, the 11th anniversary of what became the rallying point of the decade of the environment.
Someone broke a light in Westbrook’s Saccarappa Falls Park.
Stanley D. Estes has retired after 15 years at The Men’s Shop, Westbrook, the past three as manager.
Michael Cooper resigned as Westbrook’s assistant city solicitor effective April 29 to work for Amerling and Burns, a Portland law firm.
Breakdowns have been causing odors at the S. D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook two weeks. The lime kiln, which burns odorous gasses, has broken down. Also, a black-liquor oxidation system is 60 or 70 percent effective until new equipment arrives.
At a math fair in South Portland, high honors went to Cathy Nugent and Emily Wilson for their history of numerical systems.
Linda Boudreau is a candidate for the South Portland Board of Education. She served on the schools’ Long Range Planning Commission. She and her husband Guy have a son Tom, 10, and daughter Elizabeth, 8.
Leroy A. Taylor, 51, is a candidate for the South Portland Board of Education, on which he previously served seven years, including a year as chairman. He is assistant comptroller-revenues for the Maine Central Railroad. He and his wife Evelyn have seven children, Roy, Kerry Norton, Keith, David Stephen, Wendy and Cristen.
By vote of the Town Council, Windham will revive Old Home Day on July 4.
Scarborough has 798 street lights. A study recommends dropping about 300. Lights would be left at hazardous intersections, hills, and places of public assembly. A one-time closing cost of $50,000 would bring yearly savings of $66,000, said Town Manager Carl Betterley.
The Westbrook Rod & Gun Club added 110 brook trout to the Presumpscot River between Saccarappa and Congin Falls. The trout are 8-20 inches long.
Robert, Peter and Kristy, triplets of David M. and Joan (Smith) Smith, 20 Harrisburg Ave., Westbrook, had their fourth birthday March 3.
No. 2 heating oil is $1.119 a gallon at Paul’s.
April 1991
Robert E. McAvoy is retiring as president of the S. D. Warren Co., a division of Scott Paper Co. J. Richard Leaman, Jr will succeed him.
The Men’s Shop, a mainstay of downtown, Westbrook’s retail area for decades, is going out of business. Its store in Saco also will close. Roland Albert, president, said part of the reason is that banks have shortened the time that retailers have in which to sell merchandise. At the same time, costs of all kinds were rising. The Men’s Shop closed its North Windham store last year. The Men’s Shop was opened in 1923 by August Albert, Hormidas Vincent and Emile J. Thuotte.
Because of lack of orders for paper, two paper machines at the S. D. Warren mill in Westbrook now sit idle on the night shift.
Windham High School’s concert and jazz bands are on a five-day visit to Florida.
The blockhouse built 38 years ago as an information center on Rte. 1 in Scarborough is available to anyone who will move it off the small piece of land owned by the Scarborough Chamber of Commerce.
The Oakmont Development Corporation, Falmouth, has donated 20 acres of marshland in Scarborough to the Scarborough Land Trust for permanent protection from development.
Ken Fengler won the 2.2-mile Patriot’s Day road race in Westbrook, an annual race sponsored by the Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Club. Kristin Lindhom was the first girl. There were 29 boys and 20 girls.
In retirement, Lawrence E. Nickerson, Cottage Road, Windham, has made a number of model ships.
About 60 people greeted Jeremiah D. Smith, White, Rock Road, Gorham, as he returned from serving as an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division in Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf. Organizers offer to do the same for any other returning veterans.
Paintings by Jamie Wyeth are on exhibition at Gould Academy, Bethel. The artist flew in by helicopter for the opening.
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