YCSP Food Pantry Anticipating High Demand for Thanksgiving Meals

by Nancy McCallum As Thanksgiving approaches, York County Shelter Programs’ Food Pantry faces a daunting task. Last year the pantry gave out 920 boxes of food to individuals and families through its Thanksgiving Basket Program. Since March, the YCSP Food Pantry has seen an increase of 40% in the number of patrons coming to the twice-weekly food distribution, said YCSP Executive Director Megan Gean-Gendron, who believes believes the pantry may have requests for upwards of 1400 Thanksgiving food baskets this…
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Learn to Cook with Chocolate in Free Webinar

Springvale Public Library and Goodall Memorial Library are teaming up to present two wonderful live cooking webinars, funded by the Nasson College Alumni Association. Chef Liz Barbour from Creative Feast will present her first program, Cooking with Chocolate - Sweet and Savory, this Thursday, November 5 at 6:00 pm via Zoom. Learn about the different types of chocolate, how to select chocolate based on its fat and sugar content, and how to use chocolate as the main ingredient in recipes that…
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City Awarded 2nd Grant to Continue Cleanup of Goodall Brook

by Mindee Goodrum, York County Soil & Water Conservation District The City of Sanford has been awarded a second consecutive Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Grant (319) funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. This funding is administered by the Maine DEP in partnership with the EPA with efforts aimed at to continuing to clean-up and rehabilitate Goodall Brook which runs through the western side of the City and merges with…
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Covid Update: October 30

Covid-19 cases are surging across the country, and Maine is not immune. At his regular press briefing on Thursday, October 29, Dr. Nirav Shah, Director of Maine CDC, announced a new one-day high of 80 new cases in the state. The previous one-day high of 76 cases was recorded just one day earlier. The state’s positivity rate is now at 0.8%, which is nearly double what it was just two weeks ago. Earlier in the pandemic, cases were clustered in…
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Eco-Luxury Comes to Littlefield Pond

At its regular meeting on October 21, the Planning Board gave approval to a 5-lot subdivision located at 196 Elm Street in Springvale. The 13.69 acre property will be used to construct luxury "eco-camps" for the personal use of the owners, as well as for part-time rental under the company name Purposely Lost. One of the owners of the property, Peter Valcourt of Portland, described the project's focus on minimizing impacts to the environment. The structures will all have electric…
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