Planning Update: January 2024 

Railroad Avenue and Ridley RoadPhoto: City of Sanford Planning Department    By Kendra Williams  Fletcher Farm: A public hearing was held by the Planning Board at its January 3 meeting for the application from Patterson Companies, LLC for a 5-lot subdivision and private way located at Jagger Mill Road. (Tax map R15, Lot 79A). There were questions from the assistant city engineer about the retention pond, which seem to have been addressed. There was also a question about four lots…
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Does Sanford Have a Museum? 

Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum Photo: Wikipedia   By Lawrence Furbish and Harland Eastman  Overheard in the checkout line of a Sanford grocery store: "Museum? What museum?"  Well, yes indeed, our city has the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum located at 505 Main Street in Springvale. It was built in 1873 as the second Town Hall in Sanford and as a public meeting hall. It served as such until 1908, when the current Town Hall in Sanford opened. It then was used in a number of capacities…
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NEWS NOTES

Crystal Callahan, receptionist at the Partners Bank main office in Sanford, stands at the bank’s Coats for All donation drive table. All winter clothing collected during the six-week drive, which ended Jan.12, was donated to The Salvation Army.  Photo: Partners Bank  Compiled by Carolyn Cadigan Winter clothing drive helps those in need battle the cold: Partners Bank held a Coats for All donation drive, benefiting The Salvation Army, between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 12, 2024. Conducted at the main…
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PASSAGES

L-R: Rose Marie "Rosebud" Ryan, Cindy Shaw Compiled by Rev. Susan Murphy Rose Marie “Rosebud” Ryan, 73, dedicated teacher, wife and mother, died on Jan. 17, 2024, after a well-fought battle with brain cancer. She was born in Pittsfield, Mass., on Sept. 16, 1950, the daughter of veterinarian Dr. Winthrop and Marie (Geoffrion) Brielman of Holmes Road. She would grow up with her two brothers and two sisters on Abby Lodge Farm, a working dairy farm, doing the traditional chores…
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Real Estate Transactions

18 Kimball St. (1/12 closing date, listed below)  Photo: Google  Compiled by Carolyn Cadigan 1/12, 18 Kimball St., 11-room Colonial, 3 bed/2.5 bath, primary bedroom with full bath and balcony, formal dining room with built-in hutch, office, family room, laundry on first floor, finished walk-out basement, attic, deck, corner lot, $390,000 (pictured above)  1/12, 32 Walker’s Ridge Dr., 6-room Cape, 4 bed/2 bath, two bedrooms on first floor, unfinished basement, screened porch, private backyard, .86 acre in quiet neighborhood, $335,000   1/12,…
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