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Waterboro selectmen amend costly driveway ordinance

WATERBORO – On Tuesday, selectmen amended Waterboro”s driveway entrance ordinance because they felt it was costing taxpayers too much money. In 2015, the Waterboro Board of Selectmen approved an ordinance that outlined the method for installing new driveways, detailing the permit process, construction standards and more. Under the terms of that ordinance, the owner of […]

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Waterboro teen injured in Tuesday night crash

NORTH WATERBORO – A 17-year-old Waterboro youth was taken by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland Tuesday night after his vehicle crashed on New Dam Road in Waterboro and caught fire. York County Sheriff William L, King Jr., said Dylan Tardif of North Waterboro is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. Late Wednesday afternoon, […]

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Who is condemning Denmark?

Editor, Mark Aberletain stated in a recent Letter to the Editor that “we are now condemning Denmark because the prime minister there, Mette Frederiksen, expressed the sentiment that the country did not want to sell Greenland to the United States.”   “Expressed the sentiment?”  That characterization is not even close to accurate. The Prime Minister’s actual […]

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Gary Scott Smith: Patrick Henry, Patriot

Among America’s amazing pantheon of founders, Patrick Henry stands out for his stirring speeches and fervent commitment to liberty, virtue, and small government. The Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician strongly denounced Great Britain’s political and economic control of the American colonies and played a leading role in the movement for independence. More controversially, Henry’s love […]

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Hospice chorus seeks new members

YORK COUNTY — Harbour Singers, a hospice chorus serving Southern Maine, is accepting new members in September. Singing in small groups, chorus members offer the healing gift of song at bedside to people nearing the end of life, in care settings such as hospice, nursing facilities, or at home. The choral group has sung bedside […]