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Animal Control Update: Fall 2022

At last week’s Public Safety Subcommittee meeting, Sanford Police Department Animal Control Officer Lauren Masellas provided a quarterly update on her work. She was happy to report that they had a 100% return rate on stray dogs during the quarter from July 1 through September 30. Dogs Of the 76 dogs who were reported at large, 14 were found by their owners before Animal Control got there. 27 were found by the ACO, identified by their tags or microchips, and…
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Kids Can Grow! 2022 Wraps Up with Graduation

by Kevin McKeon The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s York County Kids Can Grow! 4-H program for 2022 held its final class Saturday, September 24, 2022, at their classroom and learning center at the David & Linda Pence Ecology Center, part of Mousam Way Land Trust’s McKeon Reserve in Springvale. This learning program, in its 23rd year, provides children with a positive first experience with gardening and growing their own food. Frank Wertheim, now retired from his position as UMaine Extension Professor after over…
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Trail Partnership to Connect Springvale Natural Areas

At its meeting on September 20, 2022, the City Council voted to authorize Parks and Recreation Director Brady Lloyd to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the City with the Three Rivers Land Trust (3RLT) and the Massachusetts-based Native Plant Trust (NPT) to build a connecting trail, over a proposed joint recreational easement issued to the city and 3RLT, across private property. The trail will connect 3RLT's 550-acre Sanford Community Forest to NPT's 56-acre Harvey Butler Rhododendron…
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Are You Running a Wildlife Motel?

by Lauren E. Masellas, Animal Control Officer Tis the season…for our local wildlife to find a “winter rental” before the snow flies. Now if you can’t get enough of those adorable skunks, raccoons, opossums and the like – yeah, more power to ya! But, if like most people, you prefer to enjoy the local wildlife from a distance, then it is time to close up the areas of your home that make great winter retreats for them. I can tell…
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Cooperative Extension Offers Training Programs

Press Release University of Maine Cooperative Extension in York County is accepting applications for the 2022 Master Gardener Volunteer training that begins October 24. The 2022 Master Gardener Volunteer training includes self-paced online learning modules along with live virtual sessions with horticultural experts from across the state. Designed to train volunteers for horticulture and food system-related community service projects, topics include vegetable and fruit production; plants for the Maine landscape; soil health and composting; pesticide safety; and food security. Participants…
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