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Sanford is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. On November 6, 2012, Sanford voters approved a new charter to re-incorporate Sanford as a city and replace the town meeting format with a city council/mayor/strong manager form of government, along with other changes. The new charter took effect on January 1, 2013. [3]
SANFORD, Maine — Last year at around this time, approximately 40 people were identified as homeless in Sanford, according to police Maj. Matthew Gagne.
The newly formed Sanford-Springvale Historical Society converted the 1873 Sanford Town Hall, later home of the Sanford-Springvale Youth Athletic Association, into the museum and opened the place ...
The town was also the site of a cottage industry in textile manufacture in the early 19th century. In 1867 Thomas Goodall, an English immigrant who had established a successful mill in Troy, New Hampshire, arrived in Sanford, purchased a number of the mills and associated water rights, and enlarged an existing flannel mill. Goodall successfully ...
The Sanford-Springvale Historic Museum is located at 505 Main Street (Maine State Route 109) in the Springvale village of Sanford, Maine.It is located in the Former Sanford Town Hall, built in 1873 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, and is operated by the Sanford-Springvale Historical Society.
SANFORD, Maine — A local couple has filed a lawsuit against Bibber Memorial Chapel for allegedly mishandling the remains of their late infant daughter and compounding their grief and trauma by ...
Although the Ku Klux Klan is most often associated with white supremacy, the revived Klan of the 1920s was also anti-Catholic.In the U.S. state of Maine, with a small African-American population but a burgeoning number of Acadian, French-Canadian and Irish immigrants, the Klan revival of the 1920s was a Protestant nativist movement directed against the Catholic minority as well as African ...
The Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library is the public library serving Sanford, Maine. [1] It is located at 952 Main Street, in an architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival brick building built in 1937, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.