York Town News
STUDENT OF THE MONTH. York Middle School seventh-grader Gregory Arthur Filias was recently honored with the York Rotary Club's Student of the Month Award. Pictured is Filias receiving the award for October Student of the Month from Rotary Club President Ray Bald.
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The Ogunquit Board of Selectmen was scheduled to meet last night, Tuesday, Oct. 17, to discuss sending a letter to York Superintendent of Schools Dr. Henry Scipione regarding the York School Department's recent offer to accept Ogunquit students on a tuition basis.
Discussions of what has been described as a major subdivision at Highland Farm on Cider Hill Road continued at last week's Planning Board meeting, while a final plan to raze the York Beach Cinema for a new commercial building received the board's support.
It wouldn't be an Appeals Board meeting if there weren't controversy about the town's contiguous lot ordinance.
With donations at what may be an all-time low for the York Community Food Pantry and other service organizations, local residents are invited to join with parishioners from several area churches in making strides to help those in need as part of the Seventh Annual CROP Walk this Sunday.
Anthony Musante of the University of New Hampshire Department of Natural Resources will be giving a lecture and slide show entitled The Moose in Northern New England.
York Public Safety News
The York Police Department, the Haverhill, Mass., Police Narcotics Unit, Essex County Drug Task Force Cross Boarders Initiative, Kittery Police Department, Portsmouth, N.H., police and federal drug enforcement agents have worked together on a tri-state drug investigation that resulted in three arrests in Haverhill last week.
Briefs
Come meet some area celebrities at Food & Co. and have some fun on Friday and Saturday
Ongoing
Planning Department Monthly Report: By Town Planner Steve Burns
The Cape Neddick Light, which may well be the town's most famous landmark, has caught the eye of a national door and window company and is a finalist in a nationwide search for a special lighthouse in need of renovation.
The public is invited to meet candidates seeking to represent the citizens of Kittery, Eliot, York and South Berwick, at the county, state and federal levels on Oct. 23.
The closing of the York Beach Cinema last month marked the end of an era.
