May 1981
Vallee Square Associates proposes a six-story apartment house on the Scates Block site in the Urban Renewal area of downtown Westbrook.
A Page 1 photo shows the boy-and-dog statue near the river in Westbrook that is a memorial to John E. Warren.
Uncle Sam is giving $200,000 for maintenance and improvements in Westbrook parks.
Westbrook High School’s bands will give a thank you concert before they leave on a $22,000 trip to Toronto, Ontario, for a music competition.
The Westbrook schools’ annual citywide art exhibition will be May 19-21.
Nason’s Paint & Wallpaper, Brighton Avenue, Portland, is having a 15th anniversary sale.
South Portland’s City Council has received from Corporation Counsel William Dale a five-page proposal for a code of ethics for council members and city employees.
Dyer and Small Schools in South Portland no longer have enough low-income students to qualify for federal funds and so may lose their special classes in reading.
Frank Morong and Sam DiPietro were re-elected to the South Portland City Council. Newly elected to the Board of Education are Sandra Coyne, Robert Hanson and Linda Boudreau.
South Portland voters approved a charter change that will require voter approval of all bond issues except those for emergencies. They defeated a proposed lid of 5 percent on year-to-year budget increases.
Kelly Boothby is the top-ranking student in Gorham High School’s Class of 1981. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boothby, and plans to attend Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Windham High School’s 1981valedictorian is Lynn Wilmot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilmot. She plans to attend Texas A&M University.
Pinea Rebekah Lodge, Windham, honored eight mother-and-daughter sets, all of whom are members.
Brian King has resigned as principal of Windham Junior High School.
Army Sgt. Janet Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Robinson, New Gorham Road, Westbrook, will leave for a year’s duty in Korea. She expects to attend a university.
Three, six and 12-month U. S. Treasury bills are paying 17 percent, advertises a brokerage.
Gorham’s School Street Methodist Church marked the 100th anniversary of its present building in ceremonies April 25.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Jalbert, 32 Cole St., South Portland, marked their 25th wedding anniversary May 5.
Dr. Robert L. Woodbury, president of USM, will speak on “The Influence of the ‘Hill’ on Our Community.”
Ducks may be host to a tiny parasite that causes swimmer’s itch at Sebago Lake beaches, it is suggested. One answer: Don’t feed the ducks.
May 1991
Sebago, Inc. shoemaker, laid off 51 workers in Westbrook and four in Bridgton, 8 percent of its work force.
Westbrook’s Mobile Home Rent Justification Board is taking a close look at the fee charged by Michael Liberty, David Cope and Katahdin Corporation for their services in the purchase of Hamlet Coach Park.
In a Memorial Day ceremony, Gorham rededicated its 125-year-old Civil War monument.
Alderman Don Richards, chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee, wants the school department to explain why it has to have two more buses at a cost of $114,937.
Ron Usher, chairman of Westbrook’s Recycling Committee, dumped a ceremonial bag of waste newspapers to launch Westbrook’s first recycling bin, set up on the Wayside Drive side of the city parking lot behind LaVerdiere’s.
South Portland City Councilor Kevin Glynn is proposing new rules that would reduce or eliminate the red ink that accumulates at the municipal swimming pool. The city runs Willard Beach well, he says.
Leaks in the Little Falls sewers let in groundwater, more than twice the design capacity. It serves parts of Gorham and South Windham in the Portland Water District system.
The Scarborough Historical Society now has a museum, in what once was the Portland Railroad Company’s substation next to the town’s Fire Station 6 off Route 1 in Dunstan. Last week, Earl Shettleworth, director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, sent word that it has been entered in Maine’s register of historic places.
At Gorham High School, a People Power Promenade will raise money for the Special Olympics. Kennie Sands and Andrew Horton are entering a bicycle built for four. James Becker and Ian Dunn will have a jet-powered go-cart. Jen Maxwell, Wylie Murch and Josie Carbone will be skateboarding. Others walk and run the three miles.
Sayne True, Jr., son of Wayne and Susie True, High Street, Windham, had a weekend visit by his pen pal, Scott Metayer, Saudi Arabia.
Alice Pike, formerly of South Street, Gorham, now of the Bridgton Health Care Center, was honored on her 90th birthday April 27 at a party given by her son and his wife, Kenneth and Phyllis Pike, Peabody Pond, Sebago.
The Blue Point Congregational Church, Scarborough, recently bought property at 5 Seavey’s Landing Road that includes a house. The church is offering the house free to someone who will move it.
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