April 1981
Westbrook’s City Council refused to change the junior high school to make room for the sixth grade, and refused to close Forest Street School, changes which had been sought by Superintendent Carl Knowlton.
Scarborough’s school board voted 4-1 to close the student smoking area in the high school, and to ban student smoking on all school property. The ban doesn’t affect employees.
Janine Kaserman is pictured with three 10-day-old spring lambs at the family’s farm in Gorham.
Brunswick’s Town Council turned down an ordinance that would have required dealers in secondhand goods to hold them at least 10 days before reselling.
Fifteen students of Biddeford High School came to watch a session of the Westbrook City Council and mayor. They are in Charles Pruden’s course in municipal government.
As it turned out, a woman whose car got stuck in mud in Westbrook’s Woodlawn Cemetery saved the cemetery garage. The gravediggers she asked for help found the garage full of smoke, “ready to blow the roof off,” and called firefighters.
Capt. Greg Peters and Lt. Clyde Chapman of the Westbrook Fire Department used scuba masks and tanks to rescue John Sinclair, 49, from a fire in his home at 89 McKinley Ave. He is getting skin grafts on his arms. A cigarette is blamed for the fire.
Robert Hanson, 68 Highland Road, is a candidate for an at-large seat on the South Portland Board of Education. Sandra Coyne, 69 Cleveland Circle, is a candidate for the District 4 seat.
The South Portland Housing Authority won’t say who the tenants are in its new 100 apartments at 1700 Broadway, but has sent the American Journal’s request for the names to Washington.
Two snowmobile clubs, the Windham Drifters and the Covered Bridge Family Riders, are giving their eighth annual dinner for landowners whose lands their trails cross.
Scarborough is asking the Department of Environmental Protection for an OK to dig 200 cubic feet of sand from under the float at the town landing at Pine Point.
Edward Yates, 63, of the Chute Road, Windham, who rides his bicycle everywhere, was riding past Stop ‘N’ Go, North Windham when a car pulled out and hit him. He has a broken collarbone, a bruised ear and knee, and no bike. He’ll get another bike.
Anne Foote’s Ramblings column headline: “Parsnips and Peepers.”
Catherine C. MacDougall, Mitchell Hill Road, Cape Elizabeth, is engaged to wed Bruce W. Danie, Main Street, Gorham. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. James A. MacDougall and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Danie.
April 1991
Gorham has asked for an engineering study of its municipal center’s roof, which is “leaking like a sieve.”
“Centennial Capers” tonight in Westbrook High School continues the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Westbrook’s city government.
A petition in Standish seeks a referendum vote on returning to selectman town government. Standish switched to a Town Council in 1987.
The day after Scarborough voters refused to approve a new town hall, the floor of the main meeting room in the present Town Hall dropped a few inches, then bounced back. Collapse of a rusted beam is blamed.
If you can’t mention God in Westbrook High School’s graduation exercises, you can hold a separate church service in graduation week, Westbrook clergymen are telling the School Committee.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Westbrook, plans a three-story addition on the rear of its 110-year old Main Street building. Roger Knight spoke for the building committee.
The Rev. Richard L. Bennett, Wolfeboro, N.H., is new minister of the Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church. His wife is Linda.
Rick Brooks is a new patrolman for Windham Police.
In Windham, the state has made major changes at the intersection of River Road, Windham Center Road and North Gorham Road. Several trees were cut, including two huge pines.
Schooner Fare will perform in concert at Bonny Eagle Junior High School at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Father James E. Knox will observe the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood April 11 at Holy Cross church, South Portland. He is 66.
Stephanie May, 13, of South Street, Gorham, has a 13-year-old friend, Trooper, a retired standardbred race horse. With the help of her mother Audrey, Stephanie rides Trooper in gymkhana classes.
The Maine Historical Society will present four free lectures, “Maine and the Civil War.”
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