August 1981
The Westbrook School Committee cut 14 items totaling $100,000 from the school budget. Superintendent Carl Knowlton suggested many of them.
Gorham High School’s smoking area will close. A ban on employees’ smoking needs their approval.
Dr. Margaret Millard, a native of Bristol, England, has closed her office on White’s Bridge Road, Windham, and retired after 40 years of medical practice.
Voted the prettiest pet in the pet show at Westbrook’s Walker Memorial Library was Muffin, the West Highland white terrier of Elaine Roy.
Westbrook is putting a new streetlight at the Emery Street turnaround to discourage night parties.
The Maine Labor Relations Board has ruled against the Westbrook policemen’s union in a case involving Paul McCarthy. The union challenged his promotion to sergeant, but the MLRB ruled that the point system the union used is invalid.
Westbrook wants to direct Webster Avenue storm water across land on Colonial Road, over owner objections.
Federal funds will pay for sidewalks and curbs on these streets on the river side of Westbrook’s Brown, River, Reserve, King, North and High streets.
The Westbrook Art Alliance, of which Craig Dame is president, has presented two paintings and a silkscreen print to the Westbrook Community Hospital. They were prizewinners in the Art Alliance’s sidewalk show. Artists are June Hawkes, Corinne Turgeon and Carol Peterson.
Residents of a dirt road in Gorham have made it plain that they don’t want it paved. It’s Buck Street between Shaw’s Hill Road and Spiller Road.
The athletic field at Gorham’s White Rock School will be dedicated Saturday as the Conrad E. Knight field.
Robert Nunley of the Windham School Committee suggests a limit of four foreign exchange students at the high school. This year there were nine. They form their own group, defeating the exchange purpose, and become a burden on Windham taxpayers, he said.
Stanley Armstrong, D.M.D., has opened a dentist office on Route 302, North Windham. He was born in fort Fairfield, graduated from the University of Maine, Orono, and from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
The former King’s Department Store in Scarborough is back on the market. It was to be developed as the New England Factory Outlet Center, but those plans have been dropped.
Ronald E. Nelson, 30, has joined the Scarborough Police Department as a patrolman. He is a lifelong resident and a graduate of police training at Southern Maine Vocational Technical Institute. He has worked for his father as a carpenter.
Mr. and Mrs. Audway Treworgy, Flaggy Meadow Road, Gorham, were honored on their 45th wedding anniversary by a gathering of 92 family members.
Albert E. Rogers, 436 Bridge St., Westbrook, hosted the Machias High School Class of 1923 reunion.
August 1991
A donation of $1,000 by the Gorham Savings Bank has resulted in the restoration of two volumes of Gorham town records of the 1860s. Town Clerk Brenda Caldwell is hoping for further donations with which to continue with other old records.
A photo shows Miss America 1991, Marjorie Vincent, with Stephen Berry of Westbrook High School, Maine’s high school automotive service technology champion, at the convention of Vocational Industrial Clubs of America in Louisville, Ky.
In reporting sales and earnings for the second quarter, Scott Paper Co. did not include the Westbrook mill or any other “properties to be divested.”
The petitions about dogs at Higgins Beach will go to the Scarborough Town Council tonight. One would ban dogs on the beach April 1-Sept.30. The other would let them run free, except that they must be leased 10 a.m.-4 p.m., May 15-Sept. 15.
The Westbrook City Council failed to overturn Mayor Fred Wescott’s veto of a street-opening permit that would have allowed Goodwill Industries to have a group home for the mentally challenged on Arlington Avenue. About 20 residents of the street opposed the home.
In a letter, Robert and Judy St. Onge call for caution about comprehensive planning “regional government run by appointed bureaucrats,” and the Northern Forest Lands Study.
Cable TV coverage of Westbrook City Council meetings began Monday. Public Cable gave $40,000 to provide the four cameras and new lights and microphones in the Council chambers in the City Hall basement. There was some grandstanding by city officials and the public.
The state wants as much as 100 tons of soil removed from the site of the laboratory of Gorham International on Route 237 near the Little River Bridge in the belief that the soil is contaminated by chemicals. The situation came to light after a grass fire hit a storage area.
Lisa Kent chose fluorescent lighting for her new Kent Stables in Gorham, saving about $5,000 in electricity over the next seven years. Her choice won her a check for $1,560 from Central Maine Power, which is trying to reduce demand.
Dennis Steinert has opened Steinert Plumbing and Heating Co. in North Windham.
The Retirees Association at USM has asked that the gymnasium at the Portland campus be named for James V. Sullivan, chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, now retired.
Helena Rush, Ridge Drive, Windham, is a judge in the national afghan contest in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by Better Homes and Gardens magazine.
In the next year, Maine will spend $798,342 (lowest of six bids) for new signs on Interstate 295 and adjacent roads in Scarborough, Portland, South Portland and Falmouth.
The Land Use Regulation Commissioner regulates 10 million acres of Maine. It’s holding hearings but not hearing much from the public. LURC’s Carolyn Elliot told one hearing that sporting camps are disappearing rapidly while condominiums are coming in.
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