York Town News
As director of York’s Wild Animal Kingdom, Mika Nurmikko said that about eight years ago he started taking a different approach to taking care of the 100-plus species that live on the zoo's 85 acres.
From the town’s growth cap to how to address an expected 100-percent increase in the cost of curbside garbage collection, the Board of Selectmen has plenty of work to do in the months ahead.
When the Budget Committee met last week, the discussion turned from whether plans will move forward for a new Town Hall to the continuing search for a site for a public safety complex.
Before the ballots went to publication for the May Budget Referendum, a project to add arts instructional space at York High School, which had won the full support of the School Committee and the endorsement of the Budget Committee, had to be pulled from the warrant.
It was the news no one in the York School Department — from administrators to staff to students — wanted to hear.
Upon reaching the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor that a Boy Scout can earn, Matt Wagner said that more than anything else, he felt relief.
There’s a new face at the Ogunquit Playhouse beginning this month, though she’s a familiar face to fans of the Old York Historical Society.
York Public Safety News
With school out of the season and an influx of visitors to town, police are urging parents to be aware of their children’s activities and, at all times of the year, to exercise caution when it comes to their children’s safety.
On Friday afternoon and evening, firefighters worked to find and extinguish a fire on the top of Mount Agamenticus’s Third Hill, an area that is thickly wooded and accessible only by trails.
Although talk of possible shark sightings off the local coast has people talking, there have been no substantiated reports this season, according to public safety officials.
Briefs
Representatives Bonnie Gould, R-South Berwick, and Windol Weaver, R-York, have been named to the Joint Select Committee on Prosperity.
After about five years of silence, the York County Domestic Violence Task Force is stepping up once again in the fight against domestic violence.
