Westbrook News

Come celebrate what you helped accomplish! Dedication Ceremony for Habitat's 'Green' Four Lot Subdivision in Portland All four homes have received NGBS, Silver or LEED-H, Gold certification.

A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they should be.

In the midst of a crisis hitting the nation's dairy industry a group of organic farmers in Maine, dropped by their big distributor, are joining together to create their own brand and save their family businesses.

James W. Bliss, 62, died Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. He was born in Glen Cove, N.Y., the son of Eleanor L. Bliss of Westbrook, Maine, and the late Walter H. Bliss.

Westbrook police are asking for help identifying a woman connected to credit card thefts in the city.

Bob Marley's new CD is called DROP IT HAAHD! and can be found in local book and music stores around Maine, as well as at Bob's kiosk in the Maine Mall.

The Maine Turnpike Authority plans to close the northbound on-ramp from the Falmouth spur at Exit 52 for a year during reconstruction of a bridge that spans the Presumscot River.Bob Driscoll, of project designer HNTB Corp.

L.L. Bean's plan to leave Congress Street next year has raised the question: Just what does Portland need downtown? City officials said they will work with the building's owners, their retail brokers, the Portland Downtown District and others to take a good look at the market and what might work at 542 Congress St., for a potential business and for ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the owners of a dump truck that caused a fatal 20-vehicle wreck in Avon, in a dispute over whether there was insurance coverage on the truck at the time.

Heavy rain associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved through Maine Saturday, prompting flood warnings and road closures.

Fugitive David Sanborn turned himself in to law enforcement officials around 1 p.m. Wednesday near the Gray exit of the Maine Turnpike.

School Stuff Submitted by Westbrook Schools on 2009-11-12.   Provided by Westbrook Schools Westbrook High School students Michael Cormier, Harlan Toussaint, Andrew MacMillan, Arianna Cote use the school's newly acquireed super safe table saw.

Even Maggie Gallagher points out , "There are not very many Mormons in Maine, or black people, either, so they cannot blame this loss on either minority group.

Like many of the local men and women who volunteer as troop greeters at Bangor International Airport, Chuck Knowlen is inspired to greet flights because of the experience he had when he returned from his U.S. Army service in Vietnam.

Dan Coyne of Westbrook was hired at the Maine Center for Economic Policy as a fiscal policy analyst.

Machine Vision Products today announced it would be demonstrating the award winning Supra Series AOI Solutions at Productronica 2009 in Munich from November 10th to 13th.

Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:22pm. Maine Media Woodward joined the BDN in 1971 as a reporter.

Nancy Watson, the daughter of Sandra and Perley Goodrich Sr., says the mental health system failed her family in allowing her brother Perley Goodrich Jr.

A man suspected of driving erratically led police on a chase through several towns before spinning out.

They sold their confections from the parlor of their house on Forest Avenue in Portland, Maine .