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Y Honors Volunteers, Staff at Annual Meeting

YMCA Director Andy Orazio, center, honors Merilee Perkins and Jonathan Mapes, winners of the Pillars of the Community Award. Photo: Jack McAdam By Jack McAdam The Sanford-Springvale YMCA shared highlights of the past year during its annual meeting May 1 at the Y. Over a Cinco de Mayo breakfast, Board President Kimberly Stewart and Executive Director Andy Orazio thanked volunteers and young staff for carrying out the Y’s core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. They bestowed honors on…

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…

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