June 1982
J. Robert Carrier, 315 Bridge St., Westbrook, is seeking re-election as state representative. One of the senior members of the House, he is completing his seventh term. He is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. He has served on at least eight of the major joint select legislative committees over the years and is the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
Joseph Grange, Ph.D., will speak and show slides and photographs on the island communities of Casco Bay at the Warren Memorial Library, Westbrook. It will be the first of a dozen programs to be given this summer in Portland and its suburbs on the subject, “Island Living, Past, Present and Future.” Funds from the Maine Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities support the series, free to the public.
Joseph Thomas, former director of research at S.D. Warren Co., spent three months in Brazil this year helping a Brazilian textile chemical company expand into the pulp and paper business. He was sponsored by the International Executive Service Corps, an organization which helps businesses in underdeveloped countries. Thomas was accompanied by his
wife, Alma. Former residents of Westbrook, they live in Sun City, Ariz.
Paul A. Severino is the new owner of Baillargeon’s store at Bridge and Cumberland streets, the Westbrook City Council learned on Monday. It issued a victualer’s license to the store, now Severino’s Variety.
As a result of the growing interest in manufactured housing and a state request that towns review their handling of manufactured housing, the Gorham Planning Board is taking a serious look at how mobile home and single-unit modular homes should be regulated in Gorham.
A Gorham woman with needle marks in her arm was arrested for assault and disorderly conduct at midnight near the village square. Her father said he didn’t want her back at his residence.
An Alaskan malamute and a golden retriever were seen chewing on a chicken on Route 237 near the Wilson Road. They were gone upon the arrival of the police.
New England Telephone is adding new switching equipment to its central office on Church Street in Gorham to increase calling capacity. The work is expected to be completed by mid-July.
Thanks to a group of local citizens, for the first time in 73 years an American flag and a sate of Maine flag are flying from Hillside Cemetery on the Huston Road in the Little Falls section of Gorham. In addition, a plaque was dedicated on Memorial Day to Ernest Smith, a local man who faithfully served the cemetery association for over half a century until his death in 1981.
June 1992
Frans Jongerden, 20, of 9 Cumberland St., Westbrook, was in critical condition in the Maine Medical Center with a brain injury suffered when he fell through a skylight of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Westbrook. Police said he fell 25 feet to the church floor, where he was found at 6:15 a.m. The hospital’s physicians were using medicines that induce coma in an attempt to reduce swelling and relieve pressure on the brain, it was reported. Police were awaiting results of blood alcohol tests.
As the Westbrook City Council gave final approval to an agreement on how to keep rainstorms from washing sewage into the Presumpscot River, the council got word that just the planning for the sewer changes already has cost $232,000. That word came in Mayor Fred Wescot’s report that the Department of Environmental Protection will pay back $58,000, a fourth of the total spent to date.
Westbrook’s Ward 3 voters, who have cast their ballots for years in the Knights of Pythias Hall on the New Gorham Road, will vote in a new location. The new official Ward 3 polling place is the Mechanic Street Fire Station.
Mayor Fred Wescott threatened to veto the 1993 Westbrook appropriation for overtime pay in the police and fire departments. Aldermen cut the police overtime account from $116,000 to $100,000. They cut $12,000 from the $108,000 fire department overtime account. Wescott and both chiefs warned the council of serious problems in dealing with emergencies as a result of the cuts. Deputy Fire Chief Byron Rogers said that unless at least $7,000 is restored for fire overtime, the Pride’s Corner station can’t be fully manned.
Gorham High School seniors who have been accepted to colleges, armed services or employment are Beth Pitman, New England Baptist School of Nursing; Peter Lord, Lisa Forgione and Chris Lawrence, Bowdoin College; Jeff Morrow, MIT; Aaron Gold and Matt Tiffany, University of Maine at Farmington; Jen Blood, Wheelock College; Wendy Currie, University of Utah; Brian Lippert, Todd Brunson and Leigh Merriman,
University of Central Florida.
Lyle J. Cookson, who graduated from Westbrook High School in 1987 and Boston University’s College of Engineering as an electrical engineer, is leaving to work for Sanyo Electric Co., near Tokyo, Japan. He will design microcomputers to control stereos, TVs cars, etc. He will join his sister, Lyla Cookson, who has been there with Sanyo a year. She designs circuits for TVs.
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