July 1981
Bernard and Selma Shub, Marblehead, Mass., are asking the Bankruptcy Court to let them reorganize Hamlet Coach Park, Westbrook. They list assets of $2,370,108 and debts of $3,035,085. The 59 1/2-acre park has spaces for 241 mobile homes. Of these, half are taken. The Shubs own 78 acres in Gorham, but it’s not zoned for mobile homes.
Fred Kelley has retired after 24 years at Windham High School teaching building construction trades and cabinetmaking. He’s turning to a long-time hobby of building small boats, as did his father in Milbridge.
The Greater Portland Building Fund is negotiating to sell its 46 acres in the Colonel Westbrook Industrial Park at Spring Street and County Road, Westbrook, for a single industry. The Westbrook city government is ready to borrow $1 million for roads and sewers in the industrial park, half of which is owned by the Building Fund and half by Allied Construction Co.
It’s boards, not stone, that “Old horse, old horse” carted “from Sacarap to Portland Pier,” in “Two Years Before The Mast,” says Philip Farley, 50 Oakland Ave., Westbrook, His grandfather, Donald Pride, owned a livery stable on Fitch Street.
Westbrook City Council President Charles M. Roma is in the Osteopathic Hospital for surgery to correct a stomach hernia. He expects to be at Monday’s meeting.
The Gorham Planning Board approved subdivisions – five lots on Gray Road and three each on Brackett Road and Fort Hill Road. The developers are Philip Bartlett, Linwood Farrar, and Hidden Acres Associates.
The Superior Court said Hallie W. and Laska Warren had the right to put a modular home on their land on Highland Avenue, Gorham. Now the Maine Supreme Court says no, the town was right in forbidding it. Hallie died in December. Laska will have to remodel or build new.
In two ways, Gorham voters defeated a proposal to increase the school budget by over $107,000. They voted no 996-459, and, by a margin of 16 votes, not enough of them voted to make it a valid referendum.
John M. Rose, 21, and his wife Helene, 20, of Haven Road, Windham, were killed when their car collided head-on on Route 302 at the Pleasant River Bridge with a car driven by an unlicensed 15-year-old boy. The 15-year-old and his passengers, boys 16 and 15 survived.
Pamela Kourapis was married to George L. Brewster III in St. Dometrios Greek Orthodox Church, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Odie Kourapis, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Westbrook.
July 1991
Central Maine Power wants Gorham to lease the small beach and picnic area at North Gorham Pond for public use. Otherwise it will close the area to the public to avoid liability.
Scarborough’s Planning Board has approved a Wal-Mart store for Spring Street. It will be Maine’s first Wal-Mart. It will be 114,324 square feet and cost $5,323,000, with a 22.4-acre site.
Westbrook High School students have built another house. This one, at 12 Village Lane, is the first built on site in several years, after years of modular houses built at the school. Financing is by the Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Club. The students are in the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center’s building construction trades program.
The Standish Historical Society is sponsoring a doll show in the Old Red Church, Oak Hill Road.
Smoke tests are under way to determine why sewers of the Portland Water District in the Little Falls area are overloaded.
Costumes from the collection of the Center State Theater were put to good use to add variety to Windham’s 4th of July parade.
The White Rock Community Club float won first place in the North Gorham Day parade.
Notices will go into the mail this month of new property values in Westbrook.
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