Westbrook News

Fire crews are on the scene of a fire at 136 Day Rd. in Gorham. The call came in around 5:15a.m. Monday.

United Mid-Coast Charities is pleased to announce Catherine Robbins-Jolliffe and Andrew Clement as newly elected members of their Board of Directors.

The Westbrook Interfaith Community of Churches , a compilation and partnership of some Westbrook churches, will be hosting a citywide Westbrook Cares Resource Fair at Mission Possible Teen Center, 755 Main Street, Saturday, February 27 from 10 am - noon.

Todd Goodwin of South Portland has been hired as Mid-Coast Mental Health Center's chief executive officer.

Businesses in the city's Five Star Industrial Park responded favorably Tuesday to the City Council's decision to postpone a vote on a controversial zoning change and seek an agreement that would let Pike Industries continue operating.

Supporters of Pike Industries and the neighbors and businesses that oppose its quarrying operation in the Five Star Industrial Park packed a hearing room Monday night as city councilors considered rezoning the park.

THE HEARING will begin at 7 p.m. today at Westbrook High School. RESIDENTS WILL be given three minutes each to speak, followed by 60-minute presentations from Pike Industries officials and representatives of Westbrook Works, a coalition of businesses that support rezoning.

A call center in Westbrook, Maine, has shut its doors, putting 100 people out of work.

A call center in Westbrook closed its doors overnight, leaving its employees stunned and upset.

The first organic milk produced by a Maine-owned dairy company is about to appear in dairy cases.

With the Maine Legislature back in full swing, the overriding theme is the state's budget shortfall, estimated at more than $430 million.

About 100 students are spending the night at the high school in Westbrook because school officials say the blizzard has made it unsafe to send them home.

Maine's Own Organic Milk -- MOOMilk -- is available in grocery store dairy cases this weekend throughout Maine and in selected stores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

MOOMilk, which is organic and produced right here in Maine, will be hitting store shelves this weekend in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

By Jeremy Kirk, Techworld Router manufacturer D-Link admitted that some of its routers have a vulnerability that could allow hackers access to a device's administrative settings, but it has issued patches.

The impact of a devastating earthquake in Haiti can be felt in Maine, where friends and families with ties to Haiti anxiously await information about loved ones.

A closely watched $14 million effort to clean up stormwater runoff in the Maine Mall area is moving quietly from theory to reality.

ITEMS FOR DATEBOOK must be submitted in writing Tuesday to be considered for publication the following Sunday or Tuesday.

A former Westbrook firefighter and convicted arsonist has been indicted on charges he set fire to a vacant building in Portland last summer.

It was about two years ago that Dana Humphrey was struck by a comment he read in a newspaper suggesting the University of Maine System start teaching aerospace engineering.