Tenters Disperse, Outreach Continues

Public works crews start the cleanup of the former encampment. Photo: Lee Burnett By Lee Burnett, Submissions Editor Mental health outreach workers continue to be in touch with people uprooted by the closure of a large tent encampment in the Mill Yard this week, City Manager Steven Buck told the Sanford City Council this week. Dozens of people were uprooted by the long-announced closure that began Monday morning. Some 22 people accepted offers of assistance through the resource hub at…
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Sanford Community Adult Education Holds Graduation Ceremony

2024 SCAE Graduates Photo: Sanford School Department By Sam Bonsey, Sanford Schools Communication Coordinator "Go do good things." Advice from a father to his graduating daughter decades ago became a message for adult learners as they celebrated their own educational milestone on Wednesday, June 12, at Sanford Community Adult Education's graduation ceremony in the school’s library. SCAE Director Jayne Perkins passed on her father's words of wisdom urging the Class of 2024 to carry this simple yet powerful message into…
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Sanford Team in All-Female Pilot Competition

Sue Tholen, Marisa Jordan and Lenora Lewis sit on the wing of a Diamond DA40 before takeoff. Photo: Allison Navia Southern Maine Aviation, operator of Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport, is sponsoring a team in the nation’s oldest race of female pilots. Sue Tholen and Lenora Lewis, who work at Southern Maine Aviation, and teammate Marisa Jordan, competing as Southern Maine Loonatics, are among 46 teams in the Air Race Classic, a race launched in 1929 with famed pilot Amelia Earhart…
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Young Reporter Has News, Civic Engagement in Her Blood

Renée Morin sports an old-fashioned press hat, a gift from co-workers at the Sanford Springvale News. Photo: Gail Burnett By Gail Burnett Renée Morin understands why many people – including most people of her generation – don’t follow the news, or don’t trust what mainstream news outlets tell them. But she’s OK with being an exception. Morin, 19, of Sanford, says the stakes are just too high in this election year for citizens to ignore what’s going on with their…
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News Notes

Blaine Boudreau, Partners Bank president & CEO (center), and Kimberly Stewart, AVP – mortgage consultant (right), present an $80,000 check to the Sanford-Springvale YMCA’s Matthew Ouellette, youth and family services director (left), to support the organization's Early Learning Center expansion. Photo: Partners Bank Compiled by Carolyn Cadigan Donation to YMCA supports expanded childcare program: Partners Bank has pledged to donate $80,000 to the Sanford-Springvale YMCA to support the expansion of its Early Learning Center. This new 2,800-square-foot space will enable…
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