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It’s summertime! Everyone loves Sorrento! Please help keep our roads clean for walkers and bicycles Pick up your dog's poop! NOTICES Special hours July 1st 8-3pm, 2nd 9-5pm, 3rd 7-12pm Starting July 7th NEW REGULAR HOURS : Mon 8-3, Wed 9-5, Fri 7-12. (If Mon is a holiday we will be open Tues 8-3) Select Board Meetings first/third Wednesday of each month. 7 pm in the Sorrento Community Building and via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86535623920?pwd=d010ajZHVE9sbStmQXpZSG M rZkNwUT09 Passcode : 307652 Planning Board Meetings first Thursday of each month. 6 pm in the Sorrento Town Office Rapid Renewal is available for all re-registrations. If you have trouble accessing it please contact the Town Clerk. Expiration Dates TRAILERS: Can be registered for 1 or 2 years, same month, except over 2000 lb. Large trailers expire in Feb. (1 year only) BOATS: Expire Dec. 31st ATVs: Expire June 30th SNOWMOBILES: Expire June 30th MOTORCYCLES: Expire March 31 of every year, except antique CALENDAR OF EVENTS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN The Comprehensive Plan, also known as a general plan, master plan, or land use plan, is a document designed to guide the future actions of a community. It presents a vision for the future, with long-range goals and objectives for all activities that affect the local government. For more information on Sorrento's plan see aphilson.wixsite.com/sorrentocompplan NOTES FROM THE CHAIR Summer is here! One thing that means is More Traffic on our narrow roads. PLEASE drive mindfully! Just because the speed limit says 40 mph in many places, it really is OK to drive, say 35, or even 30 mph instead of 40. We have to share the roads with walkers and runners and bikers and strollers and dogs and children... so Please be careful out there. Thank You! READ MORE >> ITEMS OF INTEREST August 2025 NEWSLETTER The public bidding window for the Sorrento Shoreline Stabilization project is officially closed! Proposed Sorrento Shoreline Stabilization plans are available here CONTACT Tel: (207) 422-6889 Fax: (207) 422-3737 79 Pomola Avenue Sorrento, ME 04677 townoffice@sorrentomaine.org TOWN OFFICE HOURS Monday: 8 am- 4pm Wednesday: 8 am - 4 pm Friday: 8 am - 12pm

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HOME >> NOTES FROM THE CHAIR June - 2025 - Notes from the Chair Summer is here! One thing that means is More Traffic on our narrow roads. PLEASE drive mindfully! Just because the speed limit says 40 mph in many places, it really is OK to drive, say 35, or even 30 mph instead of 40. We have to share the roads with walkers and runners and bikers and strollers and dogs and children... so Please be careful out there. Thank You! On Monday, June 16th, we concluded Annual Town Meeting, which began with the municipal election on June 10th. Our Fire Chief and Road Commissioner Joey Clark was re-elected, and we elected a new Select Board member: Sue Macey. We thank Diana Gazis for her term on the Board. We passed a Budget for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. You can read the details elsewhere on the website. We plan to commit taxes early in August. Then, for the first time in our Town’s history our taxes will be due in 2 installments: half due Sept 30, 2025, and the other half due March 31, 2026. Of course you are welcome to pay it all in full in September! Our 2024-2025 fiscal year ends June 30th, and 2025-2026 begins July 1. Our Town Audits are (finally!) up to date and our Auditor, Jim Wadman, gave us a clean bill of health. He suggests getting the books from this year to him by the end of August and he can start the 2025 audit then. We have one Bulky Trash Day planned for this year: Saturday, August 9th from 8-3. We are trying something different this year: It will be held in the Town Center parking lot and you must Pay before disposal. There will be 2 Free Metal-Only Pickup Days this summer: Tuesday, July 15, and Tuesday August 5th. Please put Any Metal items at the end of your driveway by 8 a.m. This includes things as small as Clean soup can and as large as an Appliance. The full list of what Will and will Not be picked up will be Posted in the July Newsletter coming your way on July 1st. We understand that our Ocean Avenue repair work has been approved by FEMA (with the Walsh Engineering Plan) and the money is obligated and in the pipeline. We have a contractor Whitcomb, lined up to do the work, beginning in August. (Many thanks to Rick Knowlton for his help with All the above.) Also! The work on Ocean Avenue means parts of that road will be CLOSED. And that means CLOSED to Everyone except the working vehicles. No walking, running, biking or non-working vehicles may pass through. Please respect the signs that say Closed. This is for your Safety. Thank You! Meanwhile, may we all have a Good and Healthy Summer. Whether you are a seasonal visitor or get to live here year-round, Sorrento is a beautiful place to spend some time. April - 2025 - Notes from the Chair April is National Volunteer Month! And as you know, Sorrento functions better because of the kindness of our Many volunteers. We, the Select Board, are grateful for each one of them. Here below are the things that Volunteers do to help our little Town: - Serve on the Fire Department - Serve as Ballot Clerks and Election Warden - Serve on Town Committees: Budget, Planning Board, Comprehensive Plan, Community Building, Town Buildings, Shellfish, Roads Group, Harbor, Board of Appeals, Climate Resilience and SALT (Schoodic Area League of Towns). - Work at the Pollinator Meadow Project - Helped get the CB backroom ready for renovations - Built 1 and donated 2 Little Free Libraries - Helped with Eagle Scout project to build and give a games lending and food pantry shed to Town - Help with the municipal sewer system - Help with our FEMA needs - Organize and participate in Earth Day roadside cleanup - Organize and participate in Halloween Trunk or Treat - Organize and participate in Christmas cookie giveaway - Serve as local Health Officer - Host Friday morning coffee hour - Work on fundraising - Maintain town website And all of those who do receive regular town paychecks Also go above and beyond their hours and job descriptions to “do what needs to be done” for Sorrento. Thank You! January 10, 2025 Notes from the Chair: It is one year since sections of our Ocean Avenue were hit hard by the first of the January Storms! Since then we have contracted with Walsh Engineering to design the plan for Shoreland Stabilization, and we’ve been working with FEMA and MEMA (who have to approve everything so we can get 90% reimbursement after all the repairs and mitigation is done). Walsh is applying for the necessary permits this month and if you live within 1000 feet of Ocean Avenue you will soon receive a notice. Then the bidding process begins, and then the repair work can start (depending where we are in the queue with other Towns that also need work from available contractors). We appreciate that everyone is still driving mindfully on the one lane and damaged parts of Ocean Ave. and your patience will continue to be needed all spring/summer as this work progresses. In other Town news: our audits are getting done! The fiscal year 2023 (which ended June 30, 2023) is finally finished and a few copies are available for you to look at in the Town Office. Please do not take one home! Now our Auditor is working on FY 2024 (year ended June 30, 2024) and that will finally bring us up to date. This audit should be completed much faster because of TRIO. As you know, Annual Town Meeting begins with Town (municipal) elections. This year the election is scheduled for June 10, 2025, which is the same date as our State election. Nomination papers will be available from the Town Office by March 10, 2025 so you can run for office! Papers must be returned to the TO by April 9, 2025. This year we will be electing 1 Select Board member, Fire Chief, Road Commissioner, and Public Safety Officer. If you are interested in running for the Select Board, I encourage you to attend our twice monthly meetings (usually 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 7 pm, unless holidays, weather, or illness/injury intervenes). And you can always ask me what the job entails. I can tell you that it helps to really care about Sorrento, and you can make between 2 and 12 dollars per hour! (That depends on how much time you give to the job.) You will not get a designated parking space at the Town Center, nor at the Town Harbor parking lot (only the Clerk and the Harbormaster get those). At the very least the Select Board is responsible for all Town assets, and must be careful stewards of the taxpayers money. You will have to deal with all kinds of people and personalities, and most of them are friendly and appreciate the work we do. If it turns out you are the only one on the ballot for any office, please do Not assume that you will win! In a Municipal election write-in candidates do not have to declare their candidacy. Even if you do not want to run, registered voters can write you in, and you might win. If you want to run for office it is worth campaigning, to let the voters know who you are. Stay tuned for more good news coming soon! And may this New Year be a Healthy and Peaceful one for all of us in our little Town. May 15, 2024 , From where I sit this is a banner day! If you are reading this, you know our long awaited Town of Sorrento website has finally come to fruition! We had one hired consultant, Diana Zenzano, (mostly paid for by donations), and Hundreds of Hours of Volunteer Labor. Neither the consultant, nor the volunteers were available to work on the website consistently, so there were many long gaps, and it all took much longer than we had hoped, and it is still a work in progress. Nonetheless, here is what we have now. A Thousand Thanks to those who put in the most time: Ann Hoffner, Darla Crocker and Daphne Preuss. And thanks to Sam Younger, Wendy Worrell, Gianna Settin, Crosby Noyes, Matt Gurin, Rob Wilpan, Mike Gurtler and Marc Perry. And thanks for photos from: Trina Wellman, Lisa Heyward, Ted Preuss and Lucian Sharpe. Your generous volunteering is one of the many reasons I love Sorrento! And apologies if I forgot to mention someone. Please let me know. As of now, small changes can be made in-house. Bigger things, like taking credit card payments, will have to come about in Phase 2. If you want new content, or re-worded content, please write it up and email to: Webmaster@sorrentomaine.org for review, and the Select Board will consider the changes. Meanwhile, please enjoy your tour through the website for Our Town of Sorrento! Sincerely, Hilly Chair of the Sorrento Select Board

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OUR TOWN & RESOURCES >> HOSPITALS & MEDICAL CLINICS Hospitals & Medical Clinics Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital https://northernlighthealth.org/Our-System/Maine-Coast-Hospital 50 Union Street Ellsworth, Maine 04605 207-664-5311 888-645-8829 Northern Light Primary Care, Gouldsboro Eleanor Widener Dixon Memorial Clinic 37 Clinic Road Gouldsboro, Maine 04607 Phone: 207-963-4066 Fax: 207-963-7723 ConvenientMD Urgent Care https://convenientmd.com/locations/ellsworth-me-urgent-care/ 235 High Street Ellsworth, Maine 04605 207-412-5200 207-412-5201 Mount Desert Island Hospital https://www.mdihospital.org/ 10 Wayman Lane Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 207-288-5081

TOWN GOVERNMENT >> TOWN OFFICE & DEPARTMENTS >> UTILITIES UTILITIES Water Sorrento has no municipal water supply. All locations are served either by a private well or by the Long Pond Water District, a separate public corporation. Long Pond Water Long Pond Water District supplies clean and safe drinking water from Long Pond, a spring-fed lake located in a nature preserve, to the towns of Sullivan and Sorrento, Maine. https://www.longpondwater.com/ 259 Punkinville Road North Sullivan, ME 04664 operator@longpondwater.com 207-422-3499 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 207-214-1829 Municipal Sewer The Town of Sorrento has a very small Municipal Sewer District that serves 15 customers in the downtown area. It was established in 1988 per order of the Maine DEP to bring these properties in compliance with the Clean Water Act.

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