Westbrook News

The students at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland raised salmon eggs in class and released the fish into a stream near Highland Lake in Westbrook as part of the "Fish Friends" program.

Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have given school boards the authority to decide whether their superintendents should be required to live in the communities where they work.

Shirley Leighton, of Falmouth, was walking to the telephone Friday, intending to call a psychiatric facility in Westbrook to have her son Andrew committed, when he shot her in the back of the head with a gun he had bought the day before, according to a Maine State Police affidavit.

Rockport Dance Conservatory returned with great results from their performances in the Step Up 2 Dance Competition held May 4th & 5th in Westbrook, Maine.

Rumford attorney and zip line park proponent Thomas Carey pitches a last-minute presentation to selectmen Thursday night for an article on the annual town meeting warrant.

Executive Director Dan O'Shea said the small business lost too much money over the past three years, including $180,000 in funding from the state, and it could not afford to continue.

Hymn writer Charlotte Elliott wrote "Just As I Am" in 1834, while sick and miserable and feeling useless at home in Brighton, England.

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Peter Cyr, an attorney defending murder suspect Anthony Pratt, questions the reliability of prosecutors' evidence tying him to the death of Margarita Fisenko Scott, a 29-year-old Westbrook woman whose body was found abandoned at a Portland Motel 6 in January.

A New York City man charged with killing a Maine woman and leaving her body in a vehicle in a Portland motel parking lot is back in Maine.

Work started this week to illuminate the Memorial Bridge, after $80,000 was transferred to a new trust set up by the city of Portsmouth for the project.

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