- The Westbrook Trail Blazers, a fledgling snowmobile club based in the Paper City, has finished constuction on a new network of snowmobile trails in Westbrook. (January 3)
- Collin Alexander Dupliss, a baby born to Westbrook parents at 12:36a on January 1, was the first baby born in Maine in 2009, therefore becoming the first "Alfond Baby" since the college grant program bearing the Grandpa of Maine's name was expanded statewide. (January 2)
- Westbrook Police are searching for twenty-three-old Heather Eldred after her grandmother reported her missing. (January 2)
- The Portland Press Herald announced Elizabeth Strout's novel Olive Kitteridge is the first pick in its "Read Around Maine" virtual book club. (December 31)
- Westbrook Police concluded the death of a twenty-five-year-old Naples man on Westbrook's Rochester Street was caused by a self-inflicted knife wound to the chest. (December 30)
- State Senator Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland County) retired from his job as executive director of the Shalom House after serving in that post for thirty-four years. State Sen. Brannigan is one of Westbrook's two state senators. (December 27)
- Shaw's Supermarkets announced it will donate $.10 (out of $1.50) of its sales of a Polar Bear reusable grocery bag to Maine Audobon, as well as five other New England-based environmental advocacy groups. (December 26)
- John C.L. Morgan
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