Thursday, May 23, 2013

Kate’s Butter on slippery slope in OOB

OLD ORCHARD BEACH – If the town of Old Orchard Beach decides to revoke the business license for Kate’s Homemade Butter, owner Dan Patry said this week it would put the 32-year-old creamery at risk – just as the Patry family is constructing a new facility in Arundel it hopes to open in July.

On Tuesday, after the Sun Chronicle’s deadline, the Old Orchard Beach Town Council was set to discuss a recommendation by the town’s Administrative Board of Review to revoke the business license for Kate’s Butter and to schedule a formal revocation hearing.


“The concerns of the neighborhood are of grave concern (to the town) and it is imperative that the Town Council work with the citizens to figure out this problem,” Town Council Chairwoman Sharri MacDonald said this week.


While Kate’s Butter is a success story by any measure, its success is also what’s causing conflict with the creamery’s neighbors, who say the business has outgrown its location in a crowded, residential neighborhood off Saco Avenue with narrow streets.


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