Accessible Garden Beds Coming to Community Garden

With accessible garden beds, gardeners can work sitting down. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report By Kevin McKeon, Master Gardener Volunteer Thanks to the generosity of a local bank, the Mousam Way Land Trust this year is building something new at the Sanford Community Garden – accessible beds that allow gardeners to tend plants while seated in wheelchairs. A Kennebunk Savings Bank grant has enabled the trust to construct a 20 by 50-foot deck that will eventually house six…

School Notes

Boomer’s Bookworms student reading challenge isn’t over yet. Compiled by Carolyn Cadigan There’s still time to read your way to the ballpark: Less than three weeks remain for Boomer’s Bookworms preseason reading challenge. Students are urged to keep logging in their reading hours to get free tickets to a Sanford Mainers home game this summer. For those kindergarten through grade 8 students who haven’t joined yet, there is still time to sign up at Springvale Library, Zippy Copy Center or…

Sports Notes

Tanner McCann has helped lead the SHS Baseball team to a 9-4 record Photo: WMTW Screenshot Compiled by Sam Bonsey, Sanford Schools Communications Coordinator Sanford Lacrosse Senior Scores 200th Career Point Sanford senior Ayden Lockard scored his 200th career point for the Noble/Sanford Varsity Boys’ co-op lacrosse team against Morse on Friday, May 17. Lockard has helped lead the boys’ lacrosse team to a 7-3 record as of Wednesday, May 22. SHS Senior Named WMTW Scholar-Athlete of the Week Sanford…

Passages

by Rev. Susan Murphy Aurore Beland, 99, of Springvale, passed away on May 14, 2024. She was born in Springvale on July 17, 1924, the daughter of Francois and Aurore Sevigny. She was educated at Notre Dame School and Sanford High School. Prior to her marriage to Renaud Beland she worked at the Sanford Goodall Mills. She and her husband owned and operated a restaurant and a superette store for 20 years in Springvale. Aurore was a member of St.…

Real Estate Transactions

Photo Credit: Google Compiled by Carolyn Cadigan 5/2, 6 Sidetrack Lane, #6, Springvale, 6-room Condominium, 3 bed/2.5 bath, end unit, primary bedroom with ensuite, laundry on second floor, slab, attached 1-car garage, porch, patio, built in 2008, $330,000 5/10, 22 Montreal St., 7-room Bungalow, 3 bed/1 bath, new kitchen and bathroom, bonus room, hardwood floors, 3-season porch, unfinished basement, detached 1-car garage, deck, intown, $335,000 5/14, 1 Frost St., Springvale, 4-room Ranch, 2 bed/1 bath, remodeled, open concept living area,…

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