York Town News

A 1982 ordinance banning ice cream trucks from the town's streets has been called into question by a nine-year-old girl and her friends. If all goes well there will be sidewalks from River Road to the campground in Cape Neddick when the new Passaconaway Bridge is built on Shore Road. For two decades, the Center for Wildlife has been there to help birds, reptiles and mammals that could not help themselves. The Harbor Board's purchase of Strawberry Island is moving along smoothly. On Thursday, Aug. 3, at 5:45 p.m., the York Hospital Breast Cancer Survivor Group will have the opening ceremony for its Seventh Annual Walk for Hope. - The chief of police has refuted claims by Selectman Torbert Macdonald Jr. based on allegations from at least one surfer that police were harassing surfers and confiscating their boards. They're teenagers. It will soon be possible for teachers in York's schools and the youngest of students right on up through those preparing for college to access library materials from virtually anywhere in the state. Whether your passion is building sandcastles, shopping for special craft items or seeing spectacular fireworks displays, the organizers of the 24th York Days Celebration are promising to have something you'll love. Walsh has an idea that he was born, as he puts it, "a couple of hundred years too late." It's the perfect time to be a kid at Old York Historical Society.

York Public Safety News

Two parties attended by minors were broken up by the York Police Department during the past two weeks, resulting in two charges of furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol and multiple charges of illegal possession of liquor by minors. The professional and volunteer firefighters who staff the York Beach Fire Department can now breathe a little easier, thanks to a grant secured by one of their own.

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Planning Department Monthly Report: By Town Planner Steve Burns