Mainers Ready to Kick Off 2022 Season

June 2nd 2022
Sports

The Sanford Mainers are getting ready to roar into Goodall Park for another season of great collegiate baseball. The team has practices scheduled for Saturday, Sunday and Monday before they kick off the season with their home opener against the Upper Valley Nighthawks on Tuesday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, June 8-10, the team will be on the road before returning to Sanford for a doubleheader on Saturday, June 11 against the Vermont Mountaineers at 4:00 and…

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Charter Amendments Proposed

June 2nd 2022
City Council, City News

The Charter Review Committee (CRC) will hold a public hearing on June 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. for input on the proposed changes to Sanford’s City Charter. Some of the changes will clean up or clarify language in the Charter, while others are of a more substantive nature. The biggest proposed change to the Charter is to expand the Budget Committee from seven to seventeen members. The Budget Committee would include all seven members of the City Council and five…

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Civil War Veteran’s New Stone to be Dedicated Sunday

June 1st 2022
History, People

Civil War veteran Stephen Farnham, who is buried in the Farnham-Dorr Cemetery adjacent to the new Convenient MD by the South Sanford roundabout, has a new headstone thanks to the efforts of local residents who wanted to see him properly memorialized. Stephen Farnham was born in South Berwick in 1841. The 1850 census finds him living in Wells with his parents, Ralph (a laborer) and Phebe, and older siblings. By the 1860 census, Stephen and his brother Nathaniel were working…

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Southern Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery – Memorial Day 2022 Exercises

May 31st 2022
Special Events

Front row: Mayor Mastraccio, Gov. Mills, Sen. Woodsome, Rep. Heidi Sampson, Al Mastraccio, Rep. Harrington Governor Janet Mills US Coast Guard Commander Luann Kehlenbach Mayor Anne-Marie Mastraccio WWII veterans Leon Tanguay and Don Littlefield WWII veterans Leon Tanguay and Don Littlefield Laura Latinski Leon Tanguay with Governor Janet Mills

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