August 1981
Twenty-four boys and girls from Maine are going to Taiwan to play basketball in an international tournament, including Lisa Blais and Tom Jackson of Westbrook, Kelly Butterfield of Gorham, Dan Costigan, of South Portland, and Liz Houghton of Cape Elizabeth.
The Westbrook School Committee voted 6-0 to require 10 seconds of silence at the start of each school day in all grades. Catherine Sullivan, head teacher in the high school English Department, predicted “numerous infractions.”
Schools in Westbrook and SAD 6 will open for the fall Wednesday, Sept. 2. Others will wait until Sept. 8 or 9, after Labor Day.
Dahlov Ipcar is pictured painting wildlife scenes on the walls of Gorham’s new elementary school.
Howard F. Stultz, 102, Westbrook’s oldest citizen, is recuperating at his home, at 538 Main St. after surgery.
A billboard on Main Street, Westbrook, advertises a national brand of liquor and invites retailers to add their names and addresses. Since it’s a monopoly in Maine, that part was removed after a few days.
Stan Marzul’s photo shows one boy diving and four jumping into the sluiceway from the dam on the Presumpscot River at Saccarappa Falls Park.
The York-Cumberland Housing Development Corporation is proposing to convert the Sampson House on South Street, Gorham, into rental housing. The building was formerly the office of the school superintendent. The non-profit corporation wants to borrow $25,000 from the town to remodel it.
Ed Bennett and Timothy Sanborn are proposing the Pro Skate Center on Route 115 in North Windham. Opponents include 141 residents who signed a petition.
Windham’s Town Council voted for a $25,000 expansion of the town garage to serve maintenance of both town and school vehicles.
David Jensen, of Yankee Piping, Inc., plans to open the Lake Region Driving Range next spring just south of Foster’s Corner on Route 302, Windham.
Regional Waste Systems has voted to accept asbestos waste from its four member communities at its landfill on the Running Hill Road, Scarborough. RWS board member John Griffin, a member of Scarborough’s Town Council, said he thinks Scarborough will give its approval, which is necessary.
Ana Eugeniania Cordero, 12, of Mexico City, has been the guest of Philip and Jane Candelmo and daughters Terri, 19, and Laruie, 18, of Cannon Lane, Scarborough.
Of Scarborough’s 700 streetlights, 502 are to be removed, under standards adopted a year ago by the Town Council. Keepers are at known danger spots and intersections, public buildings and parking, and railroad crossings.
Marie Senechal, Westbrook, who worked at Barton’s Florists for 15 years, has developed a specialty of arranging dry flowers. She grows and dries 90 percent of them herself.
The 12th annual August Craft Fair will be held at Cumberland Fairgrounds.
Scott Ronald Garland, son of Ronald and Janet Garland, Duck Pond Road, Westbrook, celebrated his eighth birthday at a party.
With the world watching, Prince Charles and Lady Diana were married in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Manchester Post will represent Westbrook, Gorham and Windham in the state American Legion baseball tournament.
An open house will honor Dr. Margaret Millard, Windham, who is retiring from practice and going back to school.
Steven Webster of the Maine Audubon Society will present a slide show on nuclear power.
The Greater Portland Nuclear Referendum Committee plans a “nuclear-free chicken barbecue blast”.
Westbrook’s former mayor Elmer Currier and his brother Philip Currier are pictured at an open house at the S. D. Warren paper mill’s new biomass boiler.
Eclairs are half price at Dunkin’ Donuts.
August 1991
Helen Perley’s White Animal Farm, at 40 Seavey Landing Road, Scarborough, is the subject of a children’s book, several magazine articles, and frequent newspaper references. At age 87, she continues to shelter some 4,000 caged animals – mostly rats and mice.
The Portland Water District is proposing to ban ice-fishing shacks from an area extending two miles above the intakes in Sebago Lake.
Tuffy Laffin is offering a $100 reward to find out who turned a pellet gun on the birds in Westbrook’s Woodlawn Cemetery? Killed or wounded were ducks, geese, a grackle, a pigeon and a seagull.
Robert L. Harnois is beginning his third five-year term on the Westbrook Housing Authority’s board. He is the longtime chairman.
Under a new Westbrook ordinance, the Roman Catholic Church will pay Westbrook $150 a day ($200 weekends) for work done in St. Hyacinth Cemetery by city workers.
Westbrook staff lawyer Richard Sullivan has ruled against a City Council practice of barring discussion before a vote to table a question. Sullivan says it’s really a motion to postpone a decision and can be debated.
Westbrook’s new real estate valuations will go out next week. Most are more than doubled, meaning higher tax bills. However, the S. D. Warren paper mill’s value means its owners will see a cut of almost $1 million in their tax bill, and there’ll be no taxes this year from Unitrode and Data General.
Westbrook put liens on 600 pieces of real estate for first-half taxes, unpaid May 13. That’s the highest number in her 13 years with the city, said Finance Director Susan Fitzpatrick.
Windham’s Town Council has voted against leasing Raymond’s Jones Beach. The cost would have been about $12,000.
The sweet corn is ripe.
Paul Corbeau, Scarborough, was honored at two parties after he retired from his 35-year career at the S. D. Warren paper mill.
The Scarborough Kiwanis Club will hold its third annual Pine Point Bluefish Tournament Aug. 24-25.
A loader operator at a Gorham gravel pit was indicted for theft after his employer was tipped that he was selling gravel at bargain prices and pocketing the cash.
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