September 1981
Westbrook Democrats nominated William B. O’Gara for a fifth two-year term as mayor. Republicans nominated Lyle Cramer over Alderman Louis P. Blanchette, 37-23. Donato Corsetti, Independent, also will be on the November ballot for mayor.
A Gorham group is suing the town council to compel better handling of two trust funds to benefit the poor, the Huston and Waterman funds.
A photo shows that a tree planted by the Westbrook Urban Renewal Authority blocks the view of Rocheleau’s Clothes Shop, and of its sign announcing that it is closing.
A 33-year-old man who was arrested Saturday for burglary at the Hay and Peabody funeral home in Scarborough and ordered to court went to the Yarmouth home of his sister and murdered her, her husband and their son, police say.
Westbrook police broke up a party on Lamb Street at 9 p.m. after two complaints of noise. They said 25 or 30 cars were there.
The Westbrook Housing Authority plans to build 25 apartments for the elderly on lower Main Street, around an un-roofed open courtyard, with no corridors, all opening directly outdoors. The design is still under study.
The Town of Gorham paid $27,000 seven years ago for a Burroughs computer. It can get only $200 for it today. It’s “antiquated” and it would cost about $4,000 to re-program it for other use. A new computer in Town Hall has taken over its functions.
Four daughters of Charles and Sandra Sendzik, Spiller Road, Gorham, earned 4-H ribbons for gardens this year: Stacey, 8, and Michele, 13, for flowers and Gina, 10, and Tamie, 11, for vegetables.
Carol Sawyer, daughter of George Sawyer, Nash Road, Windham, and Leon Pride, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pride, Nash Road, were married Saturday.
Elizabeth Rouner is new director of the Salmon Falls School in Hollis, an independent school for Grades K-12. She has 24 years’ experience in schools in New York, Boston, England and New Zealand.
Frank Woodbury, 41, of Cumberland, a harness race driver 20 years, is pictured as he waits to take out a horse at Cumberland Fair.
Donald F. and Harriet Caron, 89 North St., Westbrook, went to a reunion in Buffalo, N.Y., of the World War II crew of the battleship Missouri.
The annual lowering of the Presumpscot River revealed riverbank improvements going back to the 1800s, such as a stone pier in downtown Westbrook.
Standish Women’s Extension will meet tomorrow in the new Edna Libby School in Sebago Lake Village, and will do counted cross-stitch.
September 1991
An editorial takes issue with a state law that makes the cause of death secret. Hiding the cause of death deprives the living of vital lessons, it says.
A letter from Ella Clement, County Road, reports that last year the Westbrook School Committee adopted a policy forbidding use of students for political purposes, yet someone rallied 150 students to attend a recent school budget meeting.
In caucus, Westbrook Democrats re-nominated Mayor Fred Wescott and six aldermen: Paul LeConte, Kenneth Lefebvre, Frank Donahue, Don Richards, Elmer Welch, and William Loring. Paul James was nominated for Ward 2 alderman, now held by Terry Quinlan, Republican.
Ray Dumont has the leading role in the Lyric Theater’s season opener, “George M.,” about the career of George M. Cohan. Prominent parts are played by Newt Curtis Jr., his wife Rosemary and their daughter Jennifer.
A New Hampshire man was caught attempting to steal construction equipment and materials worth $22,445 from the Little River bridge job in Gorham.
David Grysk, Standish, has resigned as Gorham’s code enforcement officer.
Gorham Savings Bank advertises, “Growth with safety since 1868.”
Clayton Haskell, chairman of Windham’s Planning Board, said he will run for the Town Council in June after the Council failed to re-appoint him to the Planning Board, on which he has served eight years.
A 16-acre parcel at Two Trails, Standish, sold for $75,000, “dirt cheap,” at auction Wednesday. John Blake, Standish was high bidder. Peoples Heritage Bank, which holds a mortgage, was the only other bidder.
The two-story, 1950s Dickson house on Route 25 was up on blocks Friday to be moved to Route 114, Scarborough, making way for the Marketplace Mall with a Shop ‘n Save.
The Windham-Gorham Rod & Gun Club will present a minstrel show on successive nights in March in Windham, Gorham and Westbrook.
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