Late-February opening projected for mass vaccination site
Sanford site is collaboration between York County government, Southern Maine Health Care and the county s municipalities.
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SANFORD The mass COVID-19 vaccination site at a vacant storefront in the Center for Shopping in Sanford is poised to open the latter part of next week.
That was the word Monday from York County Emergency Management Agency Director Art Cleaves.
“(It is) looking like end of next week, as we continue to pull together the furniture and ensure all the utilities are in order, as well as making sure the registration system is fully functional,” said Cleaves in an email.
Grant funding helped municipalities with election expenses
The grants ranged from $50,000 to more than $260,000.
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A voter inserts a ballot into a ballot box at Tiger Gym in Biddeford on Nov. 3, 2020. Biddeford, along with several other York County communities, applied for and received grant funding to help pay election expenses during this pandemic year from the Chicago-based nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life.
Tammy Wells Photo
A nonprofit agency has distributed grants to 2,500 communities across the country, including several locally, to help pay for COVID-19 election related expenses like additional voting booths, outside ballot boxes, personal protective equipment, laptops, wages, cleaning, and more.