Oct. 27, 1982
Westbrook aldermen voted to direct Mayor William O’Gara to stop paying Daniel Palmieri $394 a week from funds held to make sure street openings are properly repaved. If the mayor wants to keep the veteran Democrat in city employ, the aldermen said, he should find a vacancy in a payroll account. Finance Committee Chairman Norman Conley said the only obvious possibility is a foreman’s job in the Public Works
Department that has been vacant more than two years since the death of Barry Newell. The job still was budgeted.
Four persons were arrested at the Westbrook-Portland football game Oct. 15. Patrolmen working at the game said there were “numerous” groups starting fights on the field and in the parking lot at 9:45 p.m. A McDonald’s restaurant employee said someone had passed out in the front seat of a car
in their lot at 10:45 p.m. A drunken person was directing traffic at Main and Forest streets in Westbrook at 11 p.m. Police took him home.
Building permits issued in Gorham in September totaled $391,095. Dwelling permits were issued to Gerald Hillock, County Road, $75,000; Mark White, Weeks Road, $52,000; and P. Samuel Hoffses, Dingley Spring Road, $46,000. The town of Gorham was issued a building permit for construction of a fire station on Wilson Road, $156,690.
From the police log: Cindy Hooper reported the theft of $120 from the glove compartment of her car while it was parked in front of LaVerdiere’s at 4:10 p.m. Both car and glove box were locked. Someone painted graffiti on the panels on the right side of the high school. Someone attempted to break into John Ross’s residence on Alden Lane. No entry was made but rocks by the house’s rear door were knocked over. Two kids had a fight after they got off the school bus at the Shaw’s Mill Road, Dingley Spring Road intersection at 2:32 p.m. A drunken young man got into an argument with his brother-in-law. The young man loaded a shotgun, but left it and fled into the woods before police arrived. Police removed all guns from the residence.
The Westbrook City Council gave its approval Monday to
turning over all Westbrook rubbish collection services to SCA Services of Maine Inc., low bidder on a three-year contract. Jonathan Carter, the mayor’s administrative assistant, and Public Works Director Kenneth Eastman said the city would save $46,300 a year.
Westbrook School Committee members failed to reach agreement on choice of anacting superintendent in two executive sessions Monday and scheduled another for next week.
Oct. 28, 1992
The Westbrook School Committee was asked to approve the purchase of a Freon recycling machine from Genuine Auto Parts, Larrabee Road, Westbrook, at a cost of $4,109. The machine is to be used at the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center. The school committee voted Oct. 14 to buy a power washer for the vocational center from J & S Equipment
Sales for $4,167.
Westbrook City Council exempted three condominiums when
it voted against city trash collection at condominiums. The three have been getting city service and were “grandfathered” for it by the council. They are LaBella Villa, Route 302; another Route 302 condo group; and Everett Court.
David Garland, West Buxton, lowest of four bidders, is getting a $1,500 contract to repair the radio tower at Westbrook’s Cumberland Mills fire station.
Mayor Fred Wescott is asking the Westbrook City Council for $1,500 to pay for psychological testing of seven candidates for reserve police officers and two candidates for reserve police sergeant positions.
Children over 10 years old who participated in “Read to Discover” at Warren Memorial Library are Abby Davis, Marie DuBois, Steve Francoeur, Jesse Hautala, Kristine Huntley, Mathew Ireland, Krista Marcigliano, Jamie Paradis, Marc Provencher, Elizabeth St. Clair and Roseann Vokey.
The Westbrook School Committee has held up action on hiring two full-time nurses and a half-time child care technician after a member made the point that the committee still doesn’t know how to carry out a $74,446 budget cut ordered in June by the city council. The new staff would cost $34,560 just for the rest of the school year.
Town officials welcomed Gorham’s first natural foods store to State Street last week. Sarah Simpson, co-owner of The Natural Grocer, cut the ceremonial ribbon while her partner, Paula Easton, and a host of dignitaries cheered her on. Town Manager R. Paul Weston was pleased to see the downtown area gain a new store. “For several years now a portion of the Masonic Building has been unused,” he said. “We are very concerned as a Town Council about the climate and health of our business people downtown.” Gorham is pro-business and “we’re trying to help in any way we can at the municipal center,” the town manager added.
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