July 1981
Public Cable Company has begun cable casting public events in Gorham, calling itself GO-CAT 20. Volunteers do the work.
The state license for the S. D. Warren paper mill’s biomass-fired boiler in Westbrook is 40 pages. When at least 50 percent of the fuel is from the forests, the rest can be coal of higher sulfur content.
Amilee Peterson, 8, of Akron, Ohio, is pictured wading in the water that covered 16 parking spaces in the Windham Mall after Saturday’s rain. She is the granddaughter of George and Ida Stiles, Wood Road, Gorham.
Kids were jumping off the roof of the power station into the sluiceway at Saccarappa Falls Park, Westbrook.
Rivermeadow Golf Course, Westbrook, advertises that it takes Canadian money at face value – no discount.
Union Mutual Life Insurance co. is among donors to the Westbrook Rescue Unit.
Westbrook has agreed to sell the Warren parsonage to the Rev. John MacDuffie for $1. His was the only bid. He plans to move it to Seavey Street. The city bought it with the former Warren Congregational Church.
Gorham is leasing 20 acres for five years on the Huston Road to Claude Daigle and son, who will grow potatoes there. On the land are the town garage and dump. The Daigles will pay $20 an acre a year.
Peter Fulton and Michael Denbow are new Windham police officers.
Large groups of young people are using Ferry Beach, Scarborough as a hangout, and that will be discussed at a public meeting Aug. 5.
An 18-year-old man from Winthrop, Mass., was water-skiing nude on Collins Pond, Windham. Chased by a police officer in a borrowed boat, he was arrested and his stepsister and a man were charged with interfering in his arrest.
July 1991
Burglars stole $6,570 worth of beer and cigarettes from Sawyer’s Variety, 833 Gray Road, Gorham.
Standish will vote in November on whether to end its town council-manager government.
Gorham’s Planning Board has approved plans of Regional Waste Systems for a landfill and recycling center on the Ross Grant property at Mosher’s Corner.
Two petition drives are under way in Westbrook. One would return to 13 (instead of 7) members of the City Council. The other would end the city’s membership in the Council of Governments. Alfred E. Porell is a leader in the petition drives.
Cumberland Farms denies a rumor that it is selling stores in this area to Irving Oil.
The contractor is fixing roof leaks and window leaks in the new addition to Westbrook’s Walker Memorial Library.
Someone dumped paint down the drain at Tom and Jerry’s, Westbrook.
The landmark Hawkes Television walking man on Route 302, Westbrook, is being changed to fit the new tenant, Custom Design Wood Products.
The $4.5 million Springbrook Nursing Care Center at 300 Spring St., Westbrook opened Friday. It is owned by the Sandy River Alliance Nursing Care Centers.
Using a torch, someone cut loose and stole the axles of a trailer being remodeled by the Gorham Fire Department. The trailer is intended for use to teach children what to do if they encounter smoke in a building.
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