Category: People Around Town

Longtime Sanford Stylist Hangs Up His Scissors

Rodney LaPierre. Photo: Zendelle Bouchard By Zendelle Bouchard After 49 years in the hairstyling business, Rodney LaPierre is looking forward to retirement. The 75-year-old proprietor of The Best Little Hair House in Town on Main Street in Sanford will hang up his scissors at the end of this week. As a young man, LaPierre had originally planned to go into the medical field. After serving as a medic in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, he got a…

People Around Town

Compiled by Zendelle Bouchard from Facebook posts Families at the YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day on April 20 got to meet and greet farm animals from the Hillbilly Homestead. Thom Gagne of the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum shows toys from the Museum’s collection to young attendees at the YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day. Having a blast at the Goodall Library’s Slime Making Workshop. The Sanford Regional Communications Center’s Facebook page has been featuring the dispatchers who serve our community. Chelsey Breton, pictured here,…

Husband and Wife Rescue Man from Burning Car

Stanley Grenier, center in photo, with command staff at York County Sheriff’s Department Photo: York County Sheriff’s Department Compiled from Facebook posts by Lee Burnett, Submissions Editor Good Samaritan Stanley Grenier of Springvale credits his wife Brandy Kelly Grenier for making him turn around and go back to a burning car off the road on Long Swamp Road in Lebanon Tuesday night. “As I slowed down, took a look and saw others there to help. I began to leave, thinking…

Houseal Leaving Early

By Lee Burnett, Submissions Editor Friday April 12 was Ian Houseal’s last day of work as Sanford's Community Development Director. Houseal has worked for the city for the past seven years and has been its point person in expanding housing and upgrading substandard housing. During Houseal’s tenure, the city increased housing density in the urban core, allowed accessory dwellings on any residential lot, regulated rental housing and recycled vacant and dangerous buildings back onto the housing market. Houseal spoke against…