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Friday, May 19, 2017
Volume 13 • Issue No. 20
Public Safety Facilities Celebrated with Open Houses Ribbon Cutting at New Police Station in York YORK Chief Douglas Bracy makes his opening remarks at the York Police Station Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Friday, May 12. Shown at the ceremony is left to right, Project Manager Geoff Aleva of Civil Consultants, President of Benchmark Construction Kevin Reilley, Chief of Police Douglas Bracy, Municipal Police Building Committee Chairman Wayne Martin, and Chairman Board of Selectmen Robert Palmer Jr. The event was well-attended by
Concept rendering of the combined Public Safety Facility Planned for Wells.
Wells Public Safety Open House and Tours
the community and the York Police Department expressed gratitude for their continued support.
WELLS All are welcome on Sunday, May 21 from 11:30-2:30 for Open House tours of the existing Police and Fire Stations and for discussion on the upcoming June 13 vote regarding funding for replacement Public Safety facilities. The combined Public Safety Facility is planned as a 20-30 year plan. Total budget for the program is projected at $14,242,071. Summarized for Post Road, totaling 40,300 sq. ft: 20,499 sq. ft. Police Program; 1,852 sq. ft.
Facility Service Areas; 16,601 sq. ft. Fire Department Program; 1,348 sq. ft. Facility Support Areas. Summarized for Route 109: 5,300 sq. ft. Fire Sub-station; Consolidates High Pine and the Branch Sub Stations into the new substation; Location on Town land across from Bragdon Road. The Board of Selectmen and Budget Committee examined this issue closely with the Town Finance Director and Town
Manager. A 20-year Financial Model was developed by the Finance Director and can be found at www.wellstown.org/578. It modeled the municipal budget with all expectations taken into account with the increase debt payment for 20 years. The results showed that the project debt payment was able to be programmed into the municipal budgets for the duration of the bond and have the budget be under the LD-1 State Tax Cap while costing on average annually over the 20year period $27.46 per $100,000 assessed property value.
Maine Resident Gives Two College Commencement Speeches OGUNQUIT Late spring is traditionally a time filled with school commencements and awards cer-
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emonies. For Ogunquit resident Donato Tramuto, the founder of the Maine-based Tramuto Foundation, that tradition continues as he prepared to deliver two college commencement speeches, earn an Honorary Doctorate degree in Science and receive a prestigious award for his global philanthropic work with children. On Saturday, May 13, Tramuto, the CEO of Tivity Health, a leading provider of fitness and health improvement programs, traveled back to his childhood
hometown to deliver the commencement address to more than 1,000 graduates of the State University of New York at Fredonia. “This was an emotional journey for me,� Tramuto said. “Like most people, I have experienced my share of challenges and success in life. My handicap as a young boy made my childhood years challenging, but I have some wonderful memories of growing up in Western New York State and I See SPEECHES page 5...
Knights of Columbus Donates Veterans’ Memorial to First Parish YORK The York Knights of Columbus Star of the Sea Council 11940 is donating the first permanent memorial for the men and women who served in the Armed Forces of the United States and are buried at the historic First Parish Cemetery in York.
The new Veterans Memorial Monument will be dedicated on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 20, with a 10 a.m. public ceremony held in the cemetery where Memorial Day ceremonies are conducted each year. Rev. Scott Mower, Pastor of the local Parish of the Ascension
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State University of New York at Fredonia President Virginia Horvath with Ogunquit resident and SUNY Fredonia commencement speaker, Donato J. Tramuto, just prior to the Saturday, May 13 commencement.
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of the Lord, will conduct the religious portion of the ceremony. The Knights of Columbus Star of the Sea Council meets at St. Christopher Church in York, one of three local churches that make up the parish. The two other churches are St. Raphael in Kittery and Our Lady of the Angels
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Back view of the Veteran’s Memorial Monument donated by the York Knights of Columbus Star of the Sea Council.
in South Berwick, each of which has its own Knights of Columbus affiliation and history. See MEMORIAL page 4...
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