York Town News
PASTOR KNIGHT GOES TO AUGUSTA. Rev. Richard B. Knight of the First Parish Church in York delivered the morning prayer at the Maine House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 30, as the guest of State Rep. Windol Weaver, R-York.
Photo by Diane Johanson
YORK ELKS PRESENT AWARDS. Mary Andrews of York has received the Elks "Citizen of the Year" Award from the York Elks. The Elks hailed Andrews as a tireless worker for her community who served eight years in the Maine Legislature as well as devoting herself to many town committees and charities. Pictured here with Andrews are Past Lodge Presidents Steve Morse and Jack Clines, who was also recognized as Elks Officer of the Year. Frank Heller received Elk of the Year honors. Others receiving appreciation awards were York Elks Lodge members Dana Putnam and Bob Carr. Sam Horne, for the York Beach Fire Department, as well as the York House of Pizza, received awards for their continued support of Elks youth programs.
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The future of local education is now in the state’s hands.
Leon and Louise Works were known throughout town for their unfailing generosity to the York Ambulance Association when it was an all-volunteer organization.
The town’s surfing community is moving forward with a grassroots petition for an unrestricted beach with no designated surf area.
The members of the all-volunteer Workforce/Affordable Housing Committee have had their work cut out for them.
With just two weeks left in the school year, it is a time of endings and beginnings for students and teachers at Coastal Ridge Elementary School.
Imagine growing up in Croatia, where simply playing outside on a sunny day puts children in perilous danger due to abandoned minefields that linger long after a war's end.
Editor’s note: this is the second report in a special series on York’s Blaisdell Farm.
Remember when the Coastal Clovers 4-H Club began raising those wonderful worms earlier this year?
A regional meeting on issues related to a national movement on impeachment will be held at the Dunaway Center Auditorium, 14 School St., Ogunquit, this Thursday, June 7, at 7 p.m.
A little more than a year after the Mother’s Day storm that doused the local communities with flooding and destruction, the Small Business Administration is back in town, this time assisting residents and business owners with property damaged in the Patriots Day storm of this past April.
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Come to the Spring Fling on Saturday, June 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. George's Episcopal Church.
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Editor’s note: this is the first report in a two-part special series on York’s Blaisdell Farm.
After 20 years of service to the York School Department, Coastal Ridge Elementary School Principal Jane Stephenson will retire at the end of the current school year.
By Town Planner Steve Burns
