From the Editor
Thank you Mark Badger
The 17 years of service that Mark Badger gave the town of York were certainly not easy ones. News coming from Town Hall that Badger had resigned from his post as Senior Managing Code Enforcement Officer came after a long absence due to stress-related illness. While the years during which Badger served were sometimes fraught with turmoil, we will remember him as a community servant who sought to do his best to calm the waters and respond to community concerns. As just one example, we recall most recently that it was Mark Badger who took the lead role in attempting to right the wrongs that had been done by the town to the Miller family's property in Cape Neddick. A former builder, Badger has said that he hopes to leave behind the recent years of stress and go back to working with his hands. Wherever that may take him, we thank him for his years of service and wish him wellSee you on the beach
Good news came to us last week at York Beach where the EPA praised the efforts of the York Parks and Recreation Department and numerous local volunteers for their work in keeping York's beaches clean and healthy. According to both the EPA and officials of the Maine Healthy Beaches Program, York's beaches exemplify the goals of state and federal programs to keep beaches free from closure due to unhealthy levels of pollution and other contamination.York's success is a community success, and comes as the result of diligent monitoring by Mike Sullivan and the York Parks and Recreation department, Head Lifeguard Jeff Patten, the Cape Neddick River Association and numerous other volunteers. And diligence, we think, is the key word here.
York is, in comparison with most towns, by and large a responsible community environmentally. But a professed responsibility has little meaning without dedicated and diligent monitoring by committed workers and volunteers. Here in York, this dedication and diligence is paying off and big thanks are in order, we say, to all those involved.
