Westbrook

A large hole in the side of a church in Westbrook, Maine, is now covered in plywood after a car drove through the walls of a room in that building Sunday. According to Gary Wagner, assistant fire chief for the City of Westbrook, a boy who is roughly 10 years old was behind the wheel of the car at the…

“What goes around, comes around,” is a saying that really rings true in Westbrook, Maine. An ice disk — a round, frozen circle of water in a river in the middle of the city — is back after capturing viral fame on the internet in 2019. The new disk was first noticed by local business owners this week and was…

A giant ice disk first seen in a Maine river in 2019 has returned amid the recent stretch of frigid weather. The ice disk was spotted in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook this week, three years after it made its first appearance, according to News Center Maine. It’s in about the same location as it was before. The ice disk…

Even the fastest birds need to hitch a ride sometimes, it seems. A curious roadrunner was found in a moving van that had traveled from Las Vegas to Westbrook, Maine, this weekend, police said. A surprised father and his son spotted the bird — the one made famous by the coyote-evading Looney Tunes cartoon — in the back of their…

A convention center with a price tag of $75 million could be built within the next few years in Westbrook, Maine. The facility would be located at the Rock Row development just across the city’s border with Portland. Renderings released to the public this week by Waterstone Properties, the developer of Rock Row, show plans for glass high-rise buildings, elevated…