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Jean and Alton King’s first Santa, pictured in December 2019. File photo
Santa and friends were fine as they greeted Route 218 travelers Nov. 30, a little over two weeks before Santa’s disappearance. File photo
The yard without its Santa Claus Dec. 17. Courtesy of Jean King
UPDATE: Alna Snowmobile Club is giving its inflatable Santa Claus to the family whose Santa was stolen from a yard display, selectmen and a club spokesman confirmed the night of Dec. 17, hours after Jean and Alton King III reported the apparent theft.
“We are so excited and grateful to the snowmobile club for the Santa,” Jean King told Wiscasset Newspaper. “As soon as he arrives we plan to set him up right away and continue to enjoy this holiday season.”
Town’s food pantry on the move
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Alna selectmen said Dec. 17, they might give voters a second option to change shoreland rules. Ralph Hilton’s proposal via his petition this fall will be on the March town meeting warrant, and so might another article, Second Selectman Doug Baston said.
Selectmen voted to hold the petitioned article over to the annual town meeting, planned for March 26 for elections, and March 27 for the open meeting, if pandemic conditions allow one then. “We’ll have to cross that bridge when we get there,” Third Selectman Greg Shute said in the Zoom meeting.
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After a 3-2 planning board vote on Zoom Thursday night, Dec. 10, if he gets any other agencies’ permits he needs, Alna’s Jeff Spinney can roll a mat down to the Sheepscot River as a boat ramp; he can also replace some earth with gravel. But with his previous ramp request headed for mediation Dec. 16, he was not sure what project he will choose for his Golden Ridge Road property.
“I’ve got multiple things going on and I’m going to see them probably through to the end on all aspects, and then evaluate what’s the best thing to do. And if the other items drag out for a long time, then I can always fall back to this (mat) option while I’m battling with the others,” Spinney said in a phone interview minutes after the vote. He will also look at which items need Maine Department of Environmental Protection or other approval. And he noted, abutters who opposed his latest proposal to the planning board can appeal Thursday’s outcome. “I’m not foo