York Town News
There's a message being sent from local businesses to their neighbors around town and to the visitors soon to arrive for the summer season: York Beach is open.
Of the town's 10,149 registered voters, a total of 4,001 - or roughly 40 percent - filled out absentee ballots or headed to the polls on Saturday to decide budget requests, land proposals and who will lead the town in the years ahead.
There is an old adage about dark clouds having silver linings, and despite the flood damage and the work that lies ahead, there was a lot of good to be talked about at Monday night's Board of Selectmen meeting.
When the waters subsided from the rain-soaked businesses, residents and roads here in town, those affected by the Mother's Day weekend flood began at once thanking those who were there to help: especially the town's two fire departments and the police.
If there was an upside to the Mother's Day weekend storm that sent floodwaters flowing across the town, it was an increase in firefighters who bunked in at the York Village station and were on hand when a two-alarm blaze broke out in the middle of the night.
If your home was one of the many in town that sustained damage during the Mother's Day deluge that flooded an array of neighborhoods across town, then the York Police Department wants to hear from you.
After seven months of undercover police investigation involving York and Kittery police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, 17 individuals have been charged with state and federal drug offenses.
This Monday, May 29, York residents will be able to line the streets and pay tribute to men and women who died in military service for their country as the annual Memorial Day parade marches through town.
When Christie Hazen arrived in town five years ago, the School Department's new Horizons program was just beginning to take shape.
The votes are in, and by a margin of almost 2 to 1, local residents have supported a plan to purchase six acres near the center of town.
By a margin of 411 votes, local residents have denied a request for $5.85 million toward a proposed arts wing addition and new auditorium at York High School.
Whether your passion is landing a triple axel, protecting the goal in a hockey game, perfecting the butterfly stroke or all of the above, you may soon have just what you're looking for at the town's land on Bog Road.
Hiroko Harada has come from Japan!
For the third straight meeting, the Appeals Board had to deal with the question of consolidated lots.
The York Land Trust announced this week that it has been granted a conservation easement for a 30-acre tract of field, forest and ocean frontage near Raynes Neck.
Suzanne Heyland and Nancy Merrill are putting their talents and dedication together for two good causes.
The York Parks and Recreation Department and York Hospital have announced the return of one of the town's favorite races.
Among the many businesses reopening for the season at this time of year, one of those we most look forward to revisiting is Lee Regan Jacks' Dusted Things and Daisies, the little antique shop located on Old Post Road, just a curve or two away from Route 1.
Carrie McKie and her mother, Linda Jellison, have been pounding the pavement in preparation for the 2006 Avon Breast Cancer Walk, set for June 3 and 4 in Chicago, Ill.
For Faith Towle, 67, of Raymond, probably the most thrilling moment of her life in recent years occurred on a May evening in 2005 when a doctor poked his head inside the door of her room at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and said, "We have a heart for you."
For the third year in a row, Maine police agencies are teaming up to convince motorists to use their safety belts.
Officials at the Maine Emergency Management Agency and York County Emergency Management Agency announced that additional water testing kits will be available for residents whose wells may have been impacted by the recent rain and flooding events.
This year's Hazardous Waste Clean-up Day will be held on June 3 at the York Recycling and Composting Facility, located on Witchtrot Road.
The Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County has offered its appreciation for the many sponsors who contributed to the success of this year's fundraising event.
