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YORK, Maine Voters headed to the polls Saturday at York High School, where the final ballots are being cast in the town s annual budget referendum and election.
In addition to deciding the outcome of contested races for the Board of Selectmen, Budget Committee and York School Committee, pandemic-weary residents will either accept or reject each component of a 3.9% budget increase local leaders have proposed.
Polling place hours and absentee voting
During the first hour of in-person voting, about 90 people cast their ballots, according to Town Clerk Mary-Anne Szeniawski. If that pace continues until polls close at 8 p.m., about 1,000 people will vote in person, she said.
YORK, Maine Family, friends and colleagues remember Edward Ted Little as a good friend and hardworking community leader.
Little, a current member of the York Budget Committee and former longtime member of the town s Board of Selectmen, died Sunday morning at 80 years old, according to Sue Little, his wife of 57 years. He leaves behind four children. He was a wonderful husband, and he was a wonderful dad, Sue Little said.
In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic was a gift of more time spent together, she said.
Along with his public efforts to serve the community, Ted Little helped in more subtle ways. One small example, Sue said, is that he would often give rides to people without cars. He was very gentle, she added.
YORK, Maine Rhonda and Dana Rohrabacher, a couple known for their work in GOP politics at the federal level, have begun involving themselves in the political process at the local level here in their new hometown ahead of this month s nonpartisan municipal election.
The couple bought a home here in 2019 after Dana Rohrabacher, who garnered a reputation as a leading defender of Russia during his 30 years in Congress, lost his 2018 bid for reelection as a U.S. representative for California.
In a Facebook post about their move, Dana Rohrabacher praised York as having a much more traditional lifestyle with its colonial/patriot culture and raw natural beauty still intact.
YORK, Maine Jeff Jellison, a York native with more than 20 years of experience in real estate, said he hasn t seen anything quite like today s local housing market.
Demand has been exceptionally high in recent months, and the inventory in York is at an unprecedented low, spurring rapid-fire deal-making in an environment that clearly favors sellers, he said. Any time a nice house comes on the market, there s a mad dash for it, said Jellison, a broker and residential real estate developer with Century 21 Atlantic Realty. That demand is just going to continue .
it can t level out until the inventory starts to rise, he said.