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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Ash Trees Sold in Sanford May Be Infested

Officials from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry are trying to locate green ash trees that were sold at Lowe's stores in Maine, including the Sanford location, earlier this year. The trees came from an area infested with emerald ash borers, a wood-boring beetle native to Asia that spreads rapidly and kills the trees. All of York County is currently a quarantine area for the insects, which have killed hundreds of millions of trees across North America. The…
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Last Minute & Election Day Voting

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. If you haven't had a chance to vote early, there is still time, or you can cast your vote at the polls on Election Day. You may request an absentee ballot without a reason until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 30. However, if you have already received your absentee ballot, you can deposit it in the drop box behind City Hall any time until 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. The drop box is emptied…
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