The Sanford city manager said 71-year-old William L. Thyng was killed by a city-owned bucket truck Monday.
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Police investigate death of Sanford city worker who was hit by truck he had been driving
The man, who has not been identified, and another city employee were using the bucket truck to hang Christmas wreaths outside Springvale District Court on Main Street.
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After 121 years, Jagger Bros. will cease making yarn in Sanford
Forty employees are affected by the decision to end operations, likely by the end of March. The company will maintain a wholesale division for niche markets.
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Vietnam veteran from Springvale receives overdue medals
Richard Lebrun is awarded the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm and the Vietnam Service Medal with Bronze Service Star 55 years after he served in Vietnam.
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Subject of intense FBI manhunt heads to trial Jan. 7
Joshua Weldon was arrested in Springvale in November after eluding authorities for weeks.
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More than 100 apartment units sold in Sanford
The transaction is the largest single transfer of dwellings in the city’s recent past.
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Technology uncovers a 150-year-old railroad mystery at the bottom of Springvale pond
A rail flat car that disappeared into the peat bog in 1871 has been located with the help of technology normally used to locate underground utilities.
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Crew chief with famed Tuskegee Airmen to be buried
James Sheppard Jr., a former resident of Westbrook and South Portland who died Aug. 19, was a member of the military’s first black aviation unit.
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Meet Kimberly Ridley, who teaches nature writing
Come September she’ll be doing it at Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary.
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Man, woman arrested in York County fentanyl bust
Freddy Michel Peguero-Matos, 27, of Boston and Laurie A. Fantasia, 45, of Nashua, N.H., had about 350 grams of the powerful drug in their possession when arrested in Springvale, the sheriff says.