the forecaster, mid-coast edition, december 9, 2011

December 9, 2011 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 7, No. 49

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Bowdoin’s winter season underway5

Freeport joins Topsham, Bath in weighing Brunswick Explorer bus servicePage 2

Selectmen endorse emergency services planPage 3

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Index Meetings ........................19Obituaries ......................12Opinion ............................7Out & About ...................18

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Frosty’s Donuts to be sold, may reopen soonBy Emily Guerin

BRUNSWICK — Fans of the piping hot, glazed twist at 4 in the morning may not have to wait much longer.

Frosty’s Donuts is under contract to be sold and could reopen early in 2012.

The beloved doughnut shop closed in July fol-lowing the death of co-owner June Frost. Hours at the shop had been sporadic for years, as the COuRtESy ShiRlEy WEdEll

The late June Frost works the counter at Frosty’s Donuts in Brunswick in an undated photo.

Brunswick weighs alternative to fireworks banCouncilors OK Navy housing plan

Tots and trees in Bath

AlEx lEAR / thE FORECAStERAs part of the Bath Area Family YMCA’s 17th annual Festival of Trees celebration, a “Tots & Trees” event was held Tuesday at the Winter Street Center in Bath. Children got to see a lush array of Christmas trees, decorate

cookies, hear stories and hang out with Santa and Mrs. Claus. John Solak of Harpswell brought his grandsons – Levi Riggs, 3, and William Riggs, 2 – to the event.

AG’s office scrutinizes private meeting of Amtrak advisory groupBy Emily Guerin

PORTLAND — Members of an advisory group formed to dis-cuss the design and construction of an Amtrak Downeaster lay-over facility in Brunswick said their first meeting went well.

Representatives of the Bruns-wick West neighborhood group, which formed in opposition to Northern New England Pas-

By Emily Guerin BRUNSWICK — Fans and

foes of a proposed fireworks ban made their points to the Town Council on Monday, but coun-cilors delayed a vote while they consider enacting restrictions

instead of an outright ban.The council also voted 7-1 to

approve a disposition plan for former U.S. Navy housing.

That move will allow the Midcoast Regional Redevelop-ment Authority to proceed with

the sale of the land beneath the homes to Auburn developer George Schott, who bought the buildings last fall, pending ap-proval of the plan by Topsham’s Board of Selectmen on Dec. 15.

FireworksMonday’s public hearing

brought out both sides of the

debate over whether to allow the sale and use of consumer fireworks in Brunswick.

A state law legalizing con-sumer fireworks takes effect Jan. 1, 2012, but municipalities are allowed to enact local restric-tions. The Bath City Council approved the first reading of a

fireworks ban Wednesday night. The Topsham and Harpswell boards of selectmen are both scheduled to discuss bans on Dec. 15; both towns have com-munity opinion polls on their websites.

senger Rail Authority’s decision to build a 60,000-square-foot building near their homes, met with NNEPRA staff, Brunswick town councilors, engineers and state officials on Dec. 2 to dis-cuss how to best mitigate the impacts of the proposed facility.

The meeting at NNEPRA’s

Bath council OKs armory renovationbond, Skatepark moveFireworks ban advances, ‘smart’ meter moratorium continuesBy Alex Lear

BATH — The City Council on Wednesday approved bor-rowing funds for renovation of the former National Guard Ar-mory, endorsed a fireworks ban and continued a moratorium on wireless “smart” electric meters.

In a 3 1/2-hour meeting that also saw the council support the armory becoming the home of the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark, councilors unan-imously approved borrowing $308,000 for a basic renovation of the Old Brunswick Road building that the city purchased last year for $175,000.

The Skatepark, which has operated in the soon-to-be-demolished former YMCA on Summer Street, also plans to share the armory with the the

Box 19 Club, which would like to house antique fire trucks.

A last-minute addition to the agenda, which the City Coun-cil approved 5-4, established a city-owned corporation to oper-ate the armory. The Parks and Recreation Department would continue to run the Skatepark program.

Councilors Steve Brackett, Meadow Rue Merrill, Kyle Rogers, Ruthe Pagurko and Chairman David Sinclair voted in favor of the corporation, while Vice Chairman Sean Paulhus and Councilors Bernard Wyman, Mari Eosco and Andrew Win-glass were opposed.

Youth who regularly used the now-closed Skatepark crowded

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Freeport joins Bath, Topsham in weighing Brunswick Explorer bus serviceBy Amy Anderson

FREEPORT — The Town Council nar-rowly agreed Tuesday to explore the exten-sion of the Brunswick Explorer bus service to Freeport.

After a 4-3 vote, and with questions raised about the bus service’s viability and necessity, Freeport will join Bath and Topsham and spend $5,000 from its Traffic and Parking Reserve Fund to study extend-ing the service.

Councilors Sara Gideon, Kristina Egan and Rich DeGrandpre voted against partici-pating in the study.

The Brunswick Explorer is a bus service that runs from Cook’s Corner through downtown Brunswick to McKeen Street. It has been in service for a year, and Town Planner Donna Larson said it has been “somewhat successful.”

Freeport’s $5,000 will be added to the $15,000 contributed by Topsham and Bath.

Larson said the bus service will provide transportation for employees and shoppers coming from and going to Brunswick. She

said the the study will look at the number of riders, frequency of trips, proposed route, and cost of providing the service. It is being conducted by the Midcoast Economic De-velopment District and should be completed next spring.

Although Gideon asked if the bus service will be viable after passenger train service is in place next fall, Larson said she sees the bus and the train as “two separate services serving two separate clienteles.”

“There certainly could be some overlap between the two, and that is something we would certainly have to look at,” Larson said.

The cost of riding the train would be more expensive than a $1 bus ride, she noted.

Egan said she doubts the bus will encour-age many people to leave their cars home as they run errands around town.

“It’s not that I don’t support looking at it, but it’s very difficult to shift people out of their cars with limited schedules,” she said.

DeGrandpre noted the ongoing debate

over Metro’s Falmouth Flyer bus service, which Falmouth recently extended for another year, and said the Freeport bus would have to be convenient if residents are to use it.

“It’s not so much that we are in love with our cars, it’s that the bus doesn’t come to my house,” he said. “If I have to drive a mile and a half or two miles to park my car and ride the bus, and it doesn’t take me to the door of my work (and) I have to walk a ways to get there, it’s taking the conve-nience away from it.”

According to information released in September by Lee Kraker, executive direc-tor of Coastal Trans, the Rockland company that operates the Explorer, in its first year the service provided 17,513 rides. Riders used the bus to get to work, to medical ap-pointments and to shop; its most popular destinations were the Hannaford supermar-ket on Elm Street in downtown Brunswick and Walmart on Bath Road.

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With the Amtrak Downeaster scheduled to begin service next fall, the council also voted unanimously to accept a sublease be-tween the town and the Northern New Eng-land Passenger Rail Authority for a train platform and to accept a municipal station agreement between Freeport, NNEPRA and Amtrak.

Town attorney Peter Van Hemel said the sublease is a uniform agreement for all train platforms, with variations based on owner-ship. Some are less formal than others, but all have a relationship with NNEPRA and Amtrak, he said.

In other business, the council agreed to spend $3,000 from the Village Open Space fund to create a seasonal ice skating rink on Depot Street near Freeport Community Services, in what is now a parking area for Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen and Topside Tavern at 88 Main St.

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HARPSWELL — Big changes may be coming to the way the town provides emergency medical services.

The Board of Selectmen on Dec. 1 unanimously endorsed a study that rec-ommends the town hire Mid Coast Hos-pital for daytime, weekday paramedical services at an estimated annual cost of at least $123,000.

Harpswell’s volunteer EMTs would continue to be responsible for nights and weekends, when the town would continue to use Mid Coast for paramedic support.

The town would also have to construct a centrally located garage to house a vehicle and paramedic between emer-gency calls, an estimated cost of about $200,000.

Cundy’s Harbor Rescue Capt. Cricket Tupper told selectmen the changes are necessary to ensure adequate medical coverage during the day, when many volunteer emergency medical techni-cians are at work outside of Harpswell.

“We have arrived at a crisis state in all of our rescue services in terms of having enough volunteers to reliably provide responses,” she said.

Fire and Rescue Committee members, who authored the study, also hoped that having a paramedic on call would help attract more volunteer EMTs, whose declining numbers pose a challenge to maintaining the all-volunteer service.

Ed Sparks, rescue chief for the Orr’s and Bailey Islands Fire Department, said a paramedic would be able to ride along with a patient to hospitals as far away as Maine Medical Center in Portland, freeing up volunteers to return to work.

Selectman Alison Hawkes noted that volunteers spend a lot of time on admin-istrative duties, something that is unap-pealing to those considering joining the Fire Department.

“When young kids see how much work that is ... and you’re doing it all for nothing, that could be a deterrent,” she said.

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the burden on volunteers and possibly attract more of them.

Even if the garage isn’t built right away, Tupper said she and the other rescue chiefs want the service so badly that the Orr’s and Bailey Islands depart-ment is offering a garage bay to house the vehicle.

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succeeded in finding a short-term solu-tion, but failing to address the funda-mental issue facing all three Harpswell emergency medical services: the town’s growing elderly population and shrink-ing young and middle-aged population.

A contract with Mid Coast Hospital will be presented to voters at the annual Town Meeting in March. Board Chair-woman Elinor Multer warned residents to be prepared for a larger budget next year.

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Topsham selectmen seek fireworks input via online pollBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — The Board of Select-men is seeking residents’ input about local fireworks regulations through an online questionnaire.

The survey, available at topshammaine.com/survey, is prompted by a state law that takes effect Jan. 1, 2012. That law legalizes consumer fireworks, but allows municipalities to enact local restrictions on use and sale.

The poll asks residents whether Topsham should ban or regulate the sale or use of fireworks, or rely on the state to regulate their sale or use.

The Board of Selectmen discussed the matter with the town’s public safety officials in a workshop Dec. 1. Between now and the May 2012 Town Meeting the town will

develop an ordinance likely to allow the conditional use and sale of fireworks, Town Manager Cornell Knight said Monday.

He said conditions could be that fire-works would only be allowed on private property, away from buildings; would not be allowed on dry days, when there is an increased fire hazard, and would be allowed to be sold or used in only specific parts of town.

Knight said the Board of Selectmen will discuss the survey at its Thursday, Dec. 15, meeting.

“If there were a strong indication (in the survey) that the community didn’t want use and sale, then the board could take action sooner than May,” Knight said.

Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

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The plate – Maine’s first specialty motorcycle license plate – would con-tinue the cause promoted by pink ribbon automobile plates. More than 15,000 of those have been issued, raising more than $400,000 since October 2008 for breast cancer support and research.

The driving force behind the automo-bile and motorcycle plates is state Rep. Meredith Strang Burgess, R-Cumberland, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 and finished treatment a year and a half later.

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fee would still apply, and renewals would cost $15.

Burgess said she hopes to gather all the reservations by the end of this month, so that the plate can be finalized during the 2012 session of the Legislature, which starts in January. The plate could be un-veiled in May or June 2012.

She said interest in the plates is high,

and not just with women. Burgess said many motorcycle organizations have raised money for the breast cancer cause.

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On Thursday, the 35 Maine schools that met the bar received the USDA’s HeathierUS Schools Challenge awards.

Kevin Concannon, the undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Ser-vices, will be at Hannaford Hall at the University of Southern Maine to honor the schools for their efforts to reduce child-hood obesity by improving lunch menus and increasing physical activity.

The winners include Falmouth’s Plum-mer Motz and Lunt elementary schools; Freeport’s Mast Landing and Morse Street schools; Portland’s East End, Hall, Reiche, Longfellow, Nathan Clifford, Peaks Island, Presumpscot and Riverton elementary schools; South Portland’s Brown, Dyer, Kaler, Skillin and Small elementary schools; Yarmouth’s Rowe and Yarmouth elementary schools; North Yarmouth’s Wilson and North Yarmouth Memorial schools; and Scarborough’s Blue Point, Eight Corners, Pleasant Hill and Went-

worth Intermediate schools.Schools in Westbrook and the Lakes

Region also won awards.Only about 1 percent of schools nation-

ally qualify as HealthierUS Schools.Heidi Kessler, school nutrition coordina-

tor at Portland nonprofit Let’s Go!, began pulling school nutrition directors together in 2007 to help encourage them to choose healthier lunch options for their students.

“We started to push them to reduce French fries, and increase vegetables and fruit,” Kessler said. The group decided it would be good to have a goal and chose the USDA program as something to work toward.

The program requires schools to provide a different vegetable every day of the week, and at least three of those must be dark green or orange. Schools must offer at least one serving of dried beans and must have at least three whole-grain foods per week. Only skim and 1 percent milk is allowed, although sweetened chocolate and strawberry milks are still OK.

Kessler said changes to the menus came much easier than changes to school poli-cies about rewards.

“You can’t keep kids in for recess if they didn’t do their homework,” she said.

Another challenge was convincing school groups not to undermine the pro-gram by selling junk foods for fundraisers.

In Freeport, the schools used to offer cupcakes to students on their birthdays. Now, the students get a coupon for time in the activity room, which boasts a dance video game, rowing machine, jump ropes, Hula Hoops and stability balls.

“Anyone in the school has the ability to give a student a coupon as a reward,” Kessler said.

She said the Let’s Go! model could be utilized by other school groups hoping to make a difference.

“It’s been really special to have (school nutrition) directors sitting around the table for five years,” she said. “Some of this stuff is really technical, and we’re able to help them sort through it.”


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he counsels his client against making any public conces-sions about their drug. Alain argues that 11-year-olds are incapable of real malice, that what happened is just boys being boys, and he observes that the original rule of law was that might makes right.

Annette goes further and accuses Bruno of being a gang member who provoked the fight by calling Ferdinand a snitch. Both Houllies point out that if anyone was a snitch it was Bruno for telling his parents. By this point, it doesn’t seem like there are any adults in the room.

The negotiations deteriorate to the point where every-one starts drinking, clothes loosen, and Annette pukes on Veronique’s coffee-table art books. In the process, Michel admits to having belonged to a gang himself as a kid, and to abandoning his children’s beloved hamster, which he always reviled, to an awful fate in the streets of Paris. Michel gets the last word as he asks who knows how to resolve such disputes.

It’s not a pretty picture. The only thing saving us from despondency is that much of the dialog is hysterically funny, as we laugh in recognition of our common experi-ence and all the unseemly impulses we resist.

Coincidentally, at the same time that Portland Stage was playing “God of Carnage,” Acorn Productions was per-forming “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in Westbrook. Woolf is the 1962 Edward Albee play set in that bastion of American civilization, the small New England college.

As I remember that plot, history professor George is married to the college president’s daughter, Martha. An established couple, they invite a new biology professor named Nick, and his wife Honey, over to their house after a party and quickly repudiate all social conventions. Rather


Rails or roads? Do the math

Ya gotta have artPortland Stage Company’s production of Yasmina Reza’s

“God of Carnage” is set in a lofty, austere, modern apart-ment in Paris, with all that city connotes about culture and civilization and art.

Veronique and Michel Reille have asked Alain and An-nette Houllie over so that they can mediate a play-ground fight between their 11-year-old sons: Ferdinand Houllie hit Bruno Reille in the face with a stick and knocked out two teeth.

Veronique is an art lover and writing a book about the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan. Her hus-band is a hardware salesman. Veronique wants to resolve the boys’ conflict with an apology that comes from the heart of bullish Ferdinand.

Annette has dragged her husband to the negotiations. Alain is an attorney in the midst of counseling a drug-manufacturer client experiencing a public relations disaster because of the harmful side-effects of one of its pharma-ceuticals. His attention is constantly being diverted by calls from his client to his cell phone.

As a counterpoint, Michel is regularly interrupted by calls from his mother, for whom he affects an all-is-well-with-the-world bonhomie, which is only tested when she confides that she has been taking Alain’s client’s medicine.

When focusing on the negotiations at hand, Alain instinc-tively objects to any admission of guilt by his son, just as

than show the young couple hospitality, George and Martha humiliate each other, drink, argue, fight and play malicious games that eventually turn on their guests. Martha tries to seduce Nick. The play ends with Martha admitting she’s afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Woolf was a member of The Bloomsbury Group of intel-lectuals that gathered in London in the early 1900s. She is widely credited with inventing modernist styles of fiction, such as impressionism and lyricism, and techniques such as stream of consciousness. The group rejected the conven-tions of Victorian life in favor of the unrestrained pursuit of knowledge, truth, beauty, art, love and pleasure. Woolf in particular believed in the power of art to transform life.

The plays and Bloomsbury Group make me wonder whether we human beings can be responsible, can govern ourselves and our passions and do something positive, or whether we are instead destined to pursue short-sighted self-interest to meaningless oblivion.

Greece, a cradle of western civilization, can’t support its level of social spending. The European Community is reluctant to bail it out. Arab oligarchs, heirs to the Islamic Golden Age, won’t give their people any freedoms. Russia seems to be going backwards. Here at home, Washington can’t do anything. The supercommittee is just as ineffec-tive as any other. Even that sacred cow, college football, is tainted by scandal, arrogance, irresponsibility and worse.

Maybe art is the answer. It’s the quintessential job creator, passionately pursuing some inspiration. Making something out of nothing. Something intrinsically beauti-ful and transcendent. And taking satisfaction from it. Or at least getting a laugh.

Halsey Frank is a Portland resident, attorney and former chairman of the Republican City Committee.


By Tony DonovanThere are legitimate questions as to whether the U.S.

made correct decisions around transportation since the 1960s, particularly the decisions to sub-sidize highway systems while regulating and penalizing the railroads.

Let’s say for the benefit of the doubt that an average car costs $25,000. Eight cars cost $200,000, 80 cars $2 million and 800 cars $20 million. Twenty million dollars represents the number of cars in less than one hour driving on an interstate highway, or the number of cars around you in a rush-hour traffic jam.

A 2005 Maine Department of Transportation cost feasi-bility study shows that reconstruction of the state-owned rail between Portland and Yarmouth costs $25 million, in-cluding rebuilding the East Deering railroad trestle bridge. Stations and operating equipment, e.g. rail cars, bring the total cost to $35 million for a commuter passenger rail service operating parallel to I-295 (on which every morning there are 5,000 cars driving into Portland).

Rail construction is $1 million dollars a mile. The recon-struction of the one-third-mile Martins Point auto bridge between Portland and Falmouth is a cost to taxpayers of $38 million. According to MDOT, the cost of reconstruct-ing a roadway, which is needed every eight to 10 years, is approximated at $200,000 per lane mile. Include lanes,

domestically) that transports thousands of commuters, consumers and taxpayers to service communities along the routes.

The goal is to operate a robust regional commuter pas-senger rail system on Maine-owned railways, capable of traveling in excess of normal highway speeds, serving

service center communities in the region.Maine owns two railway corridors out of Portland: the

Mountain Division from the Portland Transportation Center to North Conway, N.H., and the St. Lawrence & Atlantic from Portland’s waterfront to Auburn, eventually terminat-ing in Montreal, Canada.

What is a higher return on investment: rebuilding roads every 10 years for tens of millions of dollars? Or a “road” for $25 million that lasts 50 plus years? There are private developers and there are market needs that can be matched if and when government funds are invested in a robust regional commuter passenger system. Proof can be found in the 10 years of operations of the Amtrak Downeaster, where hundreds of millions of private dollars have been invested.

It’s train time.Tony Donovan is a Portland Realtor and president of the

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shoulders, crossing and signaling systems and the cost to taxpayers is $50,000 per mile every year.

A railroad built for speeds that compete with or exceed auto speeds will last more than 50 years, requiring only minimal annual mainte-nance. An auto-road requires expensive/extensive maintenance every year and a complete rebuilding every 10 years.

One mile of rail: $1 million every 50 years. One mile of road: $500,000 every

10 years. Rail: $20,000 per mile per year. Roads: $50,000 per mile per year.

The investment in a modern, 21st century transportation system (inherited from the 19th century) could realistically allow commuters and consumers to live with one car, a $25,000 savings. Additionally, consumers would save the $8,000 to $10,000 required to operate their cars annually.

Automobiles depend on roads. Roads in turn are de-signed around an oil-based pavement system, requiring government subsidies. Taxpayers are just wrapping up a $1 trillion investment in the Mideast, so that firms like Exxon can acquire oil in distant lands like Iraq.

Local, state, federal and household budgets are going broke supporting a system that is simply not sustainable. We should be seeking the greatest return on taxpayer in-vestments. Rail offers a common-sense approach that uses a system running on steel, wood and rocks (all available


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has coastline. It also has Portland, with a wonderful arts community and fabulous array of restaurants and shops. Particularly the shops in the Old Port. Fancy little bou-tiques, quaint bookstores and toy shops with finely crafted treasures.

When I first visited Port-land, it was holiday time. December. I remember walking down Commercial Street and up through the maze of streets that make up the beloved Old Port.

I was taken in by the cobblestones, festive lights and the smell of the sea. It was magical. I wandered in and out of shops, browsing and buying trinkets for my children’s Christmas stock-ings. I think it may have even been snowing. It was like a fairyland to me – a scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” It felt like “home.” That was when I knew I could live here.

I’ve now been a Maine resident for nearly seven years, and have spent seven holiday seasons trying to spend my shopping dollars in the Old Port. And I realize one thing: Portland does not want my money.

For six years and nearly five months, I have been as-saulted by those blue stickers that admonish us to “Buy Local.” Let me say here and now, in the presence of God and all of The Forecaster readers, “I would happily buy local if I could find a few stores that would stay open past dinner time.”

Every holiday season, I look forward to one or two holiday shopping trips in the Old Port. I’m not a mall person, and love the romance of Christ-mas shopping outdoors, wandering around while sipping a steamy hot cocoa. If it happens to be snowing, so much the better. Bring it on, I say.

But Portland seems to want me to shop at the dreaded mall. Or drive to New Hampshire or Massachusetts, where stores seem aware that staying open past din-ner time during the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas means you may attract holiday shoppers. Which – hello! – equals holiday profits. Economics 101.

That was the week that was your right to knowIf you’re an advocate for freedom of information and

Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, it was a pull-your-hair-out kind of week.

In Brunswick, town councilors and the town manager held an unannounced, private meeting with representa-tives of the Brunswick West neighborhood group. Then in Freeport, town councilors had to be reminded that their personal email accounts are not immune to FOAA requests. And finally, in Scarborough, the School Board was poised to increase public information document fees that – guess what? – already exceed the legal limit.

What the heck is going on? Unfortunately, it’s the same old thing: the people we trust to honor the public’s right to know are either ignorant of state law, or choose to dwell in its gray areas, when it comes to providing public information.

Maine’s FOAA is clear: a gathering where three or more members of an elected government body, like a town council, convene to discuss municipal business is (with only specific exceptions) a meeting that must have advance public notice and must be open to the public.

But that didn’t happen Nov. 28 in Brunswick, where Town Council Chairwoman Joanne King, three other councilors and Town Manager Gary Brown met privately and without public notice with the board of Brunswick West. Their topic was the neighborhood group’s continu-ing opposition to an Amtrak Downeaster layover facility.

After The Forecaster’s Emily Guerin learned who at-tended the meeting, councilors tried to spin the private meeting the best way they could. It was a Brunswick West meeting, they said, not a council meeting. Or they were there only to listen, not discuss.

Those arguments fail the straight-face test.The councilors were there because the issue is one

that has been front and center in Brunswick for several months, and because they hoped – as Brown later said – to establish a “dialog” with the angry residents. In fact,


I remain befuddled by the entire situation. And I’m tired of the whining about buying local.

Last December, a friend and I got together for some spontaneous Christmas shopping and a dinner. As we wandered through the Old Port, darkness set in. But since that occurs around 4:15 in December, it wasn’t exactly time to roll up the sidewalks.

We saved our favorite shop for last, and as we turned the doorknob, were greeted by an anxious looking saleswoman who informed us they were closing. A handful of other shoppers were still milling about. The saleswoman jingled her keys like a prison guard as we almost apologetically said we’d just take a quick peek. I’d barely made it to the back of the store when another saleswoman hit the lights, thereby leaving a fellow shopper and me in semi-darkness.

They obviously wanted us gone.Heaven forbid they stay five minutes longer and make

a sale. Never mind that – when did it become good man-ners to throw customers out on the sidewalk? I imagine they didn’t own the store. At least I pray not, because that would be truly tragic.

I’m not proposing 24-hour shopping. Or Walmart hours. But I might suggest it would be profitable to stay open long enough for people who get out of work at 5 to have sufficient time to then spend some of the money they’ve just earned.

As we left, the saleswoman with the keys smiled awkwardly and said in a hushed tone, “Please do come back.”

To which I silently replied, “I wouldn’t wait up, sweetheart.”

I have accepted that my only local grocery store closes at 8 most evenings. Honestly, I think it promotes family togetherness. But please, it’s Christmas. I don’t know the numbers, but I imagine quite a large percentage of yearly retail profits are racked up during the happy holiday season.

So let’s get with the program, Portland. Take my money. Please!

Or I’m going to use those “Buy Local” stickers to decorate the gift boxes of the presents I just bought in Newburyport. At 8 o’clock at night.

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Councilor Debbie Atwood said she left the meeting when the residents refused to hear what she had to say.

A skeptic might suggest that, like shoppers with cart-loads of groceries who can’t count past 12 at the express checkout, Brunswick’s town councilors need a lesson

in arithmetic. We hope not, because that would suggest they truly were winking at the law. What they really need is a refresher course in Maine’s Freedom of Access Act.

Freeport’s town councilors got just that on Nov. 29, when their lawyer

urged them to use the town email system instead of their own, private accounts, when they conduct town business. Apparently, some of them may still mistakenly believe their private emails are safe from FOAA requests.

Keeping all electronic records on a town server will make things easier not only for members of the press and public who request records, but for the councilors and town employees who will eventually be asked to produce the records. It will also reduce the time and expense required to comply with public information record requests.

Which brings us to Scarborough, where the School

Board on Dec. 1 was prepared to enact fees as high as $50 an hour for School Department compliance with records requests – until The Forecaster’s Mario Moretto pointed out that state law caps those charges at $10 per hour. Not only that, it turned out the town’s existing fees already exceed the statutory limit.

To its credit, the board removed the item from its agenda and was expected to consult an attorney. But there shouldn’t be much consultation needed: Scarbor-ough’s fee structure, which now varies from $10 an hour to $30 an hour, should quickly be revised and brought in line with the FOAA. Although the School Depart-ment said it has never charged anyone the inflated fees, refunds should be provided to people who can produce receipts that show they were overcharged for public documents.

From one end of The Forecaster’s coverage area to the other, last week proved there’s still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to local government compliance with Maine’s Freedom of Access Act – and plenty of need for vigilance by the public and the press.

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The 10 best films of all timeSeeing Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” a few

weeks ago reminded me what I like so much about Woody Allen. He’s an existentialist. His imagination and humor are rooted in reality.

I’ve never cared at all for sci-fi, fantasy or horror in books or movies, but Allen’s shifting of time, sending contemporary characters back to 1920s Paris, works because, other than the willing suspension of disbelief required to enjoy any motion picture, it’s realistic.

Everyday reality, as opposed to the fantastic or the dramatic, permeates my favorite movies, as does a focus on iconoclasts, anti-heroes, nonconformists and outsiders – people at odds with the prevailing orthodoxy. I suppose my Top 10 list argues a fundamental shallow-ness on my part when it comes to cinema, but, hey, when I go to the movies I just want to be entertained and amused. These movies amuse me no matter how many times I watch them.

“Hannah and Her Sis-ters” (1986) is Woody Allen’s best movie as far as I’m concerned. The dysfunctional fam-ily dynamics set against the background of New York City and existential dread at holiday time are priceless and, ultimately, comforting.

“As Good As It Gets” (1997) is my favorite Jack Nicholson movie, the story of an obsessive-compul-sive misanthrope forced to become “a better man” to win the love of a good woman who teaches him a lesson in compassion. Cranky old conservatives seem to identify with Nicholson’s manic Melvin Udall, perhaps not realizing Udall is a very sick man and Nicholson himself is a liberal.

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) is a wonder-fully slapstick screw-the-system comedy. If you can’t identify with Ferris and his anti-authoritarian determi-nation to enjoy his own life, you’re probably an ISTJ (introversion, sensing, thinking, judgment) on the Myers-Briggs charts.

“Empire Records” (1995) features two of my favorite actresses, Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger, in a

comedy about an independent record store’s fight for survival. Empire Records gave the world the concept of “Rex Manning Day,” meaning the best day ever. In our family, for example, the day the annual bonus is announced is referred to as Rex Manning Day.

“Rancho Deluxe” (1975) is an anti-western about a couple of loser cattle rustlers in modern-day Montana. Based on a novel by Thomas McGuane, who also gave us “92 in the Shade” and “The Missouri Breaks.” Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston are superb.

“Desperately Seeking Susan” (1985) is the only thing Madonna has ever done that I liked, but it’s enough. The revenge-of-the-bored-suburban-house-wife movie of all times.

“Good Will Hunting” (1997) is Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at their best in an offbeat town-gown story that is perfect for Boston: MIT janitor solves math problems the profs can’t.

“War of the Buttons” (1994) is one I bet you haven’t seen. Rival gangs of Irish kids fight a parochi-al little war, the leaders of the two gangs discovering they have more in common than not. From a French novel, but it works well in the Irish countryside.

“The Graduate” (1967) came out the year I gradu-ated from high school. It is the great nonconformist movie of my youth, giving voice and vent to the sense of disillusionment and alienation that swept across my generation in the 1960s. Whatever happened to Dustin Hoffman? He hasn’t been in anything good since “Tootsie” (1982). I just want to say one thing to you, Dustin: “Kung Fu Panda.”

And finally, “A Christmas Story” (1983), very possibly the pitch-perfect American movie. Jean Shepherd’s story lovingly sends up every consumer Christmas convention there is in this affectionate yet irreverent tale of a 9-year-old boy’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun. Let’s face it, we’re all Ralphie Park-ers.

And there you have it. All this time you probably thought I was an angry old man. Now you know I’m just an old softie addicted to chick flicks and romantic comedies.

Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

Disagreeing with Beem on tar-sands oil

I heartily disagree with Edgar Allen Beem in his essay against the extraction of oil from tar sands in Alberta and the pipeline to bring it to Texas. Until the time

we can rely on wind power, s un powe r, natural gas and other sources, this country needs a reliable

source of oil to heat and light our homes and factories, and run our transportation system.

We do not need Canadian oil if we increase our imports from Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, but I believe our neighbor to the north is a much more reliable supplier.

The pipeline will be safe and I doubt that 100 percent of those trees will be cut down to extract the oil. As for the increase in carbon dioxide, that should come to zero as the same amount of oil will be consumed whether it comes from overseas or Canada. The pipeline should lower the cost of oil and gasoline, provide thousands of jobs, and I am 100 percent in favor of it.

Richard D. LevinJupiter, Fla.

Candidate appreciates voters’ support

I want to express my thanks to the 5,617 voters who supported my campaign for Cumberland County commissioner, and my theme of thoughtful, moderate governance. We received a respectable 45 percent of the vote. I am particularly humbled by the 85 percent vote of support in Gray from those who know me so well after my years of service to its citizens.

It was interesting to see that more voters in Brunswick left their ballots blank than voted for either candidate. Perhaps I was unsuccessful at getting out my message to its residents that I believe someone independent of party connections can be well-suited to bring reform, moderation, and teamwork to government. In any case, I congratulate Commissioner-Elect Gorden – I am confident that he will serve the public responsibly and competently.

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11/27 James Kenney, 47, of Getchell Street, was arrested by Officer Jason Aucoin on Getchell Street on a charge of domestic violence criminal mischief.

Summonses11/29 Kara Overmiller, 18, of Old Stage Road, Woolwich, was issued a summons by Cpl. Marc Brunelle on Washington Street on charges of illegal transportation of drugs by a minor and sale or use of drug paraphernalia.12/3 A 16-year-old boy, of Bath, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on Lincoln Street on a charge of illegal possession of liquor by a minor by consumption.

Get the smores12/2 at 11:10 a.m. Officer Andrew Booth responded to the report of a small amount of toilet paper having been burned in a boys' bathroom at Morse High School. Nothing else was burned.

Fire calls11/28 at 8:27 p.m. False alarm on Front Street.11/29 at 6:23 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Congress Avenue.

12/2 at 4:31 p.m. Motor vehicle accident at Route 1 and Middle Street.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 39 calls from Nov. 28 to Dec. 4.

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11/28 at 11:14 a.m. Richard Allen Ward, 47, of Old Bath Road, was arrested by Of-ficer Julia Gillespie on Federal Street on two warrants.11/29 at 10:55 a.m. Joshua Kane, 19, of Smokehouse Road, Harpswell, was arrested by Officer Justin Dolci on Harpswell Road on a warrant.12/1 at 1:23 a.m. Martin Olson, 28, of Bruns-wick, was arrested by Officer Daniel Sylvain on Gurnet Road on a warrant and on charges of refusing to submit to arrest or detention and violating a condition of release.12/1 at 12:26 p.m. Stephen A. Gemme, 41, of Cumberland Street, was arrested by Officer Justin Dolci on a warrant and on a charge of possession of scheduled drugs.12/1 at 3:37 p.m. Julie R. Crowe, 33, of South Pleasant Street, Bowdoinham, was arrested by Officer Edward Yurek on Elm Street on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.12/1 at 5:06 p.m. Joshua R. Knight, 28, of Casco Road, was arrested by Officer Daniel Sylvain on Pleasant Street on a charge of operating under the influence with 2 priors.12/1 at 7:55 p.m. Joshua R. Knight, 28, of Casco Road, was arrested by Officer Thomas

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P. Stanton Jr. on Federal Street on charges of violating condition of release and aggravated criminal mischief.12/1 at 11:21 p.m. Jose G. Rodriguez, 26, of Dunning Street, was arrested by Officer Thomas Stanton on Maine Street on a war-rant and a charge of failure to provide correct name, address and date of birth.12/4 at 12:35 p.m. Jason B. Abbott, 37, of Glenview Drive, Sabattus, was arrested by Sgt. Joel Bruce on Merriconeag Road on a charge of operating under the influence with 2 priors.

Summonses12/1 at 11:01 p.m. Raymond E. Bourgoin, 44, of Tufton Street, was issued a summons by Officer Jason McCarthy on Gurnet Road on a charge of operating after suspension.12/2 at 12:43 p.m. John H. Chapman III, 18, of Alna Road, Alna, was issued a summons by Officer Paul Plummer on Gurnet Road on a charge of operating after license suspension.12/3 at 6:29 p.m. Steven Pinette, 49, of Union Street, was issued a summons by Officer Brandon Ingaharro on Elm Street on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and criminal trespass.12/3 at 6:29 p.m. Gerald Sanford, 51, of Harpswell Road, was issued a summons by Officer Brandon Ingaharro on Elm Street on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and criminal trespass.12/4 at 9:16 p.m. Brent Davis, 40, of Main Street, Lincoln, was issued a summons by Officer Keith Norris on Pownal Road on a charge of violating condition of release.

Fox on the rocks11/28 at 1:18 p.m. An L.L. Bean employee called to report an injured fox was seen near the company's warehouse on Industrial Parkway. The next morning at 8:28 a.m., the fox entered the building and employees again called the police. The animal patrol officer responded but the fox was nowhere to be found.

Watering the plants?11/28 at 2:48 p.m. A Wadsworth Road resident called to report a man urinating on her lawn. Officers responded and found the man, who by that time had finished his business. Although the man became bel-ligerent with the officers, no charges were pressed because the caller didn't want to file a formal complaint.

Catch, release, catch again12/1 at 5:06 p.m. Joshua Knight, 28, of Casco Road, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence after crashing his car on Pleasant Street. Less than three hours later, immediately after making bail, Knight exited the police station and began to slash the tires of a police cruiser. When confronted by an officer, he reportedly threw the knife under the car and claimed he hadn't done it. He was arrested again, this time on charges of violating condition of release and aggravated criminal mischief.

Fire calls11/29 at 3:49 a.m. Vehicle crash on Route 1.11/30 at 11:54 a.m. Fire on Gilman Avenue.11/30 at 5:40 p.m. Detail/training on Harpswell Road.12/1 at 7:42 a.m. Vehicle crash on Post Road, Freeport.12/1 at 8:52 a.m. Vehicle crash on Harding Road.

12/1 at 2:53 p.m. Vehicle crash on I-295.12/2 at 9:52 p.m. Medical emergency on South Campus Drive.12/4 at 7:29 a.m. Vehicle crash on I-295.12/4 at 8:34 a.m. Vehicle crash on I-295.12/4 at 9:35 p.m. Vehicle crash on River Road.

EMSBrunswick emergency medical services re-sponded to 50 calls from Nov. 28 to Dec. 4.

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11/28 at 2:08 p.m. Peter Merrill, 40, of Cushing Street, Brunswick, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Robert Ramsay on Main Street.11/28 at 4:40 p.m. Terry Couture, 27, of Lewiston Road, was arrested by Sgt. Fred Dunn on Lewiston Road on charges of do-mestic violence assault and criminal mischief.

Summonses11/29 at 11:45 a.m. A 14-year-old girl, of Bowdoin, was issued a summons by Officer Robert Ramsay on Eagles Way on charges of assault and criminal threatening.12/1 at 1:28 p.m. Nathan Kane, 28, of Smokehouse Road, Harpswell, was issued a summons by Officer Randy Cook on Topsham Fair Mall Road on a charge of operating after suspension.12/3 at 11:47 a.m. Bill Haines, 25, of Preble Road, Bowdoinham, was issued a summons by Sgt. Frederick Dunn on Lewiston Road on a charge of operating after suspension.12/3 at 3:08 p.m. Tammy Catlin, 49, of Preble Road, Bowdoinham, was issued a summons by Officer Alfred Giusto on Topsham Fair Mall Road on a charge of theft.12/4 at 10:52 a.m. Jessica Stedt, 33, of Ted-ford Road, was issued a summons by Officer Robert Ramsay on Lewiston Road on a charge of operating after suspension.

hot wheels12/1 at 8:45 a.m. Officer Alfred Giusto responded to the report of a burglary at Tri-Sports on Gray Street. The back fence to the repair shop had been cut open, and a yellow Suzuki dirt bike and blue Yamaha Raptor were stolen. The ATVs, which were being serviced for customers, they were stolen sometime between 11 p.m. the previous day and 8 a.m. the day of the call, according to police.

Fire calls11/28 at 11:52 a.m. Fire alarm on Meadow Road.11/28 at 2:34 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Lewiston Road.11/29 at 9:36 a.m. Fire alarm on Topsham Fair Mall Road.11/29 at 11:52 a.m. Fire alarm on Nuthatch Drive.11/30 at 9:45 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Main Street.12/1 at 5:29 a.m. Fire alarm on Turkey Run.12/1 at 6:19 p.m. Mutual aid to Bowdoinham.12/2 at 9:07 a.m. Fire alarm on Fairfield Lane.12/2 at 12:59 p.m. Mutual aid to Bowdo-inham.12/3 at 2:11 p.m. Fire alarm on Munroe Lane.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to 20 calls from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6.

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Demetra Koulouris, 58, died Dec. 1 at Midcoast Hospital.

Born in Stoneham, Mass. on Jan. 1, 1953, she was the daughter of George and Ethel Scruftis Koulouris. She attended Wake-field, Mass. schools and was a graduate of Wakefield High School. She received a bachelor of arts degree from the honors program at the University of Maine in 1976.

In 1973 she married Vernon Campbell Grant, then of Bar Harbor, and they had two children together; they later divorced in 1987. On June 30, 1990, she married Edward L. Hawes, then of Springfield, Ill. at his home on Cobscook Bay near

Lubec.From 1978 to 1982, Koulouris taught

in Freeport elementary schools. From 1981 to 1986, she was the assistant direc-tor, and later director, of the Haraseeket Project, a major living history program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She became the en-vironmental studies coordinator at Bow-doin College in 1988, serving there for 15 years. After working at Bowdoin, she managed special projects for the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and the Brunswick/Topsham Land Trust.

Koulouris was an accomplished grant writer and helped various organizations obtaining project funding from the Maine Humanities Council, Quimby Family Foundation, Maine Community Founda-tion’s Belvedere Fund, The Land Trust Alliance, Maine Society of Landscape Ar-

chitects, Maine Department of Agriculture and the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust.

At the time of her death, Koulouris was a board member of the Merrymeet-ing Arts center and was active in exhibit development for Lubec Landmarks’ His-toric McCurdy’s Herring Smokehouse site. She also served on the board of the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes from 2005 to 2010.

Her family and friends will remember her as a fantastic cook who loved redis-covering her ancestral Greek culinary traditions. As a member of the women’s society at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Lewiston, she enjoyed helping prepare pastries for the Greek Festival in August and the December sale.

Kourlouris is survived by her husband Edward Hawes of Brunswick; children Nicholas Coleman Grant and his wife

Mary Oliver Wolfe of Cambridge, Mass. and Anne Shields Hopkins and her hus-band Rafi Hopkins of Eastport; brother Paul Koulouris of East Sandwich, Mass.; sister Joan Sparks of Wakefield, Mass.; and granddaughter Cecilia Maree Hop-kins of Eastport.

A memorial service for Koulouris will take place in the next several weeks. The family requests that memorial donations be sent to either the Downeast Coast Conservancy, P.O. Box 760, Machias, ME 04654 or Lubec Landmarks, P.O. Box 422, Lubec, ME 04652.

Donald J. Murchie, 92BRUNSWICK — Donald J. Mur-

chie, 92, of Brunswick died Nov. 30 at Parkview Hospital.

He was born in South Portland on May 30, 1919, the son of William and Alma Murchie. He g r a d u a t e d f r o m Woodbridge High School in New Jer-sey and the R.C.A. Institute in New York as well as from the Air Corp Pilot training program.

During WWII he was a B-52 pilot and a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.

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Predeceased by his wife Edith, he is survived by his sons Donald John Mur-chie Jr. of Sackville, N.B. and William Thomas Murchie of Richmond, Va.; daughter Rev. Linda Lachesnez of High-land Park, N.J.; five grandchildren; and one great granddaughter.

No funeral services will be held. Donations in Murchie’s name can be

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Burman Lee ‘Bill’ Morris, 86BATH — Burman Lee “Bill” Morris, 86,

died on Dec. 3 at Mid-Coast Hospital sur-rounded by his family.

Born Ju ly 21 , 1924, in Thurman, Iowa, he was the son of Arthur and Maire Weight. He grew up on his grandfather’s farm before enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served in the Pacific during World War II aboard the light cruiser U.S.S. Richmond, and he often spoke of spending his 21st birthday shooting down Japanese kamikaze planes while serving at a gun station.

Following his honorable discharge in Feb. of 1946, he moved to Plattsmouth, Neb. and worked in the machine shops of Union Pacific for 38 years, retiring in 1984. On Nov. 11, 1952, he married the love of his life, Lillie Josephine Svik, of Clarkson and Omaha.

Morris is survived by his wife, Lillie, of Bath; daughter Patricia Lee Morris Clark and her husband Jeffrey of Bath, and their children Jocelyn of New York, N.Y. and Erin and her husband Stephen Zaremba of Andover, Mass.; son Carl and

his wife Sally of Clifton Park, N.Y. and their children, Anthony and his fiancee Rebekka Skerker of Colonie, N.Y., and Christina and her husband Ed Pickett of Balston Spa, N.Y. and their children Corey, Olivia and Hanna.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Dec. 6 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bath. A private viewing service preceded the service at Desmond Funeral Home.

Donations in Morris’s memory can be made to St. John’s Catholic School, 500 South 18th St., Plattsmouth, NB, 68048.

Natalie O. Morgan, 81BRUNSWICK — Natalie O. Morgan,

81, died Dec. 3 at Sedgewood Commons in Falmouth.

Morgan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 7, 1930, the only child of Clif-ton and Lila Merrill. At the age of three, her family moved to Medford and later Reading, Mass.

After graduating from Reading High School, she attended the Chamberlain School of Retailing in Boston and later became one of the first female tellers at

the Seaman and Others Bank, now Salem Five. Her intelligence and wit won over her doubters, proving that she was just as capable, if not more, than the traditional male tellers.

In 1955, she married Calvin E. Mor-gan, with whom she shared 57 years of adventure, fun and love. Together they raised two daughters and shared an uncommonly rich relationship. Their marriage was a true partnership that sur-vived and flourished even after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease nine years ago; her husband was a tireless and devoted caregiver until the end.

Morgan was a strong and independent woman, who faced life with pragmatic resolve. Her nature was to be a quiet and encouraging force, who was unfailingly non-judgemental and kind, always letting others shine ahead of herself.

Those who knew her will remember her as a talented musician and artist. But more importantly, she was a gifted cre-ative thinker, well ahead of her time, and she encouraged others to be the same. She will be remembered for her sharp wit and ability to bring people to their knees with a well-timed quip. As her other fac-ulties failed, Morgan’s laughter and dry sense of humor stayed with her.

Over her desk Morgan kept this quote from John F. Kennedy: “In our bodies we have the exact percentage of salt as exists in the ocean. Therefore we have salt in our blood, in our sweat and in our tears. And when we return to the sea to watch it or to sail on it, we are going back from whence we came.” She found her spiritual fulfillment on and at the edge of the sea and that is where she has chosen to be.

Morgan is survived by her husband Cal; daughters Tracie Morgan and Nan-cie Bogart; son-in-law Bruce Bogart; grandchildren Amanda MacQuarrie and her husband Brett, Heather D’Alessio, Nathan D’Alessio, Molly Bogart, Hannah Bogart; and great grandchildren Piper and Elijah D’Alessio.

The family wishes to extend their thanks to the staff of Sedgewood Com-mons for their extraordinary care, friend-ship and compassion. They will hold a celebration of life in January to honor Morgan’s memory. In keeping with her tradition, the family requests that anyone wishing to do so, make an anonymous donation to a deserving individual, family or charity of their choosing.

Arrangements are by Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.

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Sandra E. Chase, 71BRUNSWICK — Sandra E. Chase, 71,

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Chase is survived by her husband, Bob; children Wendy, Randy, Tammy, and Jeffry, and their spouses and children of Richmond, Bowdoin, and Auburn.

Visiting hours were held on Dec. 7 at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Coastal Hu-

man Society, 30 Range Road, Brunswick, 04011.

Shirley H. Murphy, 91PHIPPSBURG — Shirley H. Murphy,

91 died Dec. 1 at Mid-Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

Born on July 8, 1920 in Phippsburg, she was the daugh-ter of Henry W. and Estella (McKenney) Alexander.

She married Arthur F. Murphy on Jan. 16, 1938.

Until her retirement she worked at the Sebasco Freezer, dug clams and work at Auback Shoe.

In her spare time she enjoyed knit-ting, crocheting, driving her car and spending time with her family. She was also a member of the Sebasco Nazarene Church.

Murphy was predeceased by her hus-band, Arthur; son Alexander; daughter Joann Murphy; great granddaughter Stephanie Westrum; and many brothers and sisters. She is survived by daughters Josephine Chaney and her husband Merle Jr. of Phippsburg and Ivirna Termblay of Bath; brothers Lendell Alexander of Topsham, Richard Alexander of West

Bath, Russell Alexander of Phippsburg and Henry Alexander of Phippsburg; sister Edith Burgess of Phippsburg; half-brother Duane Alexander of Palermo; half-sister Ruth Dionne of N.H.; three step brothers; one step sister; seven grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; one great great grandson; and many nieces and nephews.

A graveside service was held on Dec. 8 at the Sebasco Cemetery followed by a gathering of family and friends at the Se-bascoo Nazarene Church. Memorial con-tributions may be made to the Sebasco Nazarene Church, P.O. Box 36, Sebasco Estates, Maine 04565, c/o Bill Rollins.

Arrangements by Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath.

Betty Landell, 87TOPSHAM — Betty Landell, 87, died

on Nov. 23 at home in her sleep.Born on Nov. 17, 1924 in Philadelphia,

Pa., Landell attended Lower Merion, Pa. schools and later Rol-lins College and Bryn Mawr College.

In 1945 she mar-ried Dana Fernald and lived in Rose-mont, Pa. for many years while raising their three children.

In 1986 she was remarried to Harper Landell, and after his retirement, they moved to Juniper, Fla. Several years after her husband’s unexpected death in 1997, Landell moved to Maine to be near her daughter, living in Topsham for the past 11 years.

An accomplished decorative painter, she has been a member of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration since 1982, working in the techniques of freehand bronzing, country painting, theorems and reverse painting on glass.

Artistic in many mediums, Landell most recently worked in pastel as her eyesight became limited due to macular degeneration. Her artwork was exhibited locally at People Plus and The Highlands.

A lover of the natural world, she mar-veled at its beauty with her family and friends. She was an avid gardener and flower arranger, active in The Gardeners during her many years of residence in the Philadelphia area. In addition to her love of gardening, she designed and sewed clothing for herself and her family, while exploring many forms of needlework and providing needlepoint-finishing expertise to many.

As an animal lover, Landell always shared her life with her dogs and cats in-cluding Blackie, Pepper, Dina, Tina, Jig-gles, Morris, Beri, Star, Wicket, Honey, and Honey Two. Her friends and family will remember her as a generous, humble, thoughtful and loving person who readily expressed appreciation for the smallest kindnesses. Affectionately known as “the cookie queen,” she loved to bake and give away different types of cookies, a joy she passed on to her daughter.

A survivor of numerous surgeries and losses during her long life, she was a courageous woman with remarkable resilience. She was predeceased by her devoted husband Harper Lindell, her first husband Dana Fernald, two of

her three children, Lynn Fernald and Rob Fernald, and daughter-in-law Amy Fernald.

She is survived by her daughter Lisa Williams and her husband Rick of Yarmouth; step-daughter Lynne Landell Wooler and her husband Bob of The Vil-lages, Fla.; step-son Rick Landell and his wife Theresa of Philadelphia, Pa.; four grandchildren, Hillary Dana Williams of Des Moines, Iowa, Evan Calder Wil-liams of Santa Cruz, Calif., Erika Kelley of Medical Lake, Wash., and Rhiannon Bakk-Hansen and her husband Erik of Hoffmann Estates, Ill.; two great grand-daughters Liesel Elena Bakk-Hansen and Berit Elizabeth Bakk-Hansen; and a great grandson due to join the Bakk-Hansen family in early December.

Landell’s daughter would like to thank Dr. Christopher Meserve of Mid Coast Medical Group, Denise Jasmin, and Penny Gimpel for their help in the care of her mother. A celebration of Landell’s life will take place in mid-December.

Donations can be made in Landell’s memory to the Juvinile Diabetes Re-search Foundation, 175 Ammon Dr., Suite 201, Manchester, NH, 03103 or at jdrf.org.

Judith Costain Walsh, 75BRUNSWICK — Judith Costain

Walsh, 75 died on Dec. 1 in Bath.Walsh was born in Bath on Dec. 29,

1935 and was the daughter of George T. and Grace E. (Messier) Costain. She grew up in Bath and graduated from Morse High School in 1953 and later graduated from Fisher Junior College in Boston.

After graduating from Fisher Junior College in 1955, she stayed in Boston for several years, working first for N.W. Ayer and later Bill Creed Associates. She met her future husband, Vincent, while they were both living on Boston’s Beacon Hill. They married in 1966 and moved to Hamilton Square, N.J. a few years later.

While in New Jersey, she worked for Switlik Parachute until retiring in 2000. After her husband died in 2008, she moved back to Maine where she greatly enjoyed visiting with friends and fami-lies, exchanging stories and discussing current events. She loved to read, watch movies and spend time at her family’s summer cottage at Mere Point in Bruns-wick.

She was predeceased by her parents; husband, Vincent; sister Camilla Costain; and brother G. Thomas Costain Jr.

She is survived by her son Thomas Walsh of Portland; sister Kateri Costain; cousins Jeannine Powers and her husband Bob and their family and Jacqueline Mi-nott, all of Brunswick; and many other relatives and friends.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Dec. 10 at the David E. Desmond Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath, and will be followed by a burial service at St. John’s Cemetery and a reception in Brunswick.

Donations in Walsh’s name should be sent to either the Bath Food Bank, P.O. Box 65, Bath, Maine, 04530; Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, 84A Union St., Brunswick, ME 04011; or Home-front, 1880 Princeton Ave., Lawrencev-ille, N.J. 08648.

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The men’s basketball team stands at 5-2 with wins in its last two outings, 96-66, over visiting U. Maine-Presque Isle and 72-44, at Maine Maritime. The Polar Bears have been led in scoring by Will Hanley (19.3 per game) and Ryan O’Connell (14.6). O’Connell had 20 points in the win over UMPI. Hanley had a team high 20 versus Maine Maritime. Hanley also leads the squad with 13 re-bounds per contest. Bowdoin returns to action Friday night at Colby and hosts Bates Sunday.

On the women’s side, the perennially strong Polar Bears fell to 3-2 on the year after recent losses at the University of Southern Maine (63-49) and at Colby (56-41). Jill Henrikson (the team’s leader in scoring with 15.6 per game) had 16 points and seven rebounds in the loss to the Huskies. Kaitlin Donahoe finished with a team-high 12 points against the Mules. She’s averaging 13.8 points per contest. Bowdoin hosted Husson Tuesday and Bates Thursday and is at Emerson Saturday.

Men’s hockey is 3-2-1 overall, 1-2-1 in the NESCAC after last weekend’s 4-3 home loss to Colby. John McInnis scored twice for the Polar Bears, but the Mules rallied with three late goals. Jordan Lalor leads the team with nine points to date. Bowdoin was at USM Tuesday, hosts Tufts Friday and Connecticut College Saturday.

The Polar Bear women sit at 1-2-1 (1-1 in conference) following last weekend’s tough 2-1 overtime loss at Colby, just 24 hours after they beat the visiting Mules, 5-0. Stephanie Ludy had two goals to spark the victory. Kim Tess-Wanat had the lone goal in the setback. Dominique Lozzi is the team leader in points with four. Bowdoin goes to Salve Regina Fri-day and visits Norwich Saturday.

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both came in fifth in the seven-team MIT Invitational last weekend.

Bowdoin freshman John Swords goes up for two of his 13 points in last weekend’s men’s

basketball victory over the University of Maine-Presque Isle.

BrIan Beard / For The ForecasTerAbove: Bowdoin senior Jordan Lalor, the team’s leading scorer, battles Colby in last weekend’s showdown, won by the Mules, 4-3. Below: Bowdoin senior Dominique Lozzi battles a pair of

Colby defenders during Friday’s 5-0 home win for the Polar Bears. Lozzi had two assists and is the team’s leading scorer.

Local soccer stars named all-state

The all-state boys’ and girls’ soccer teams were announced last weekend and Brunswick, Morse and Mt. Ararat have players who were chosen. The boys’ Eastern Maine squad included Brunswick senior midfielder Mitchell Black and Mt. Ararat senior back Nick Oram. Morse se-nior forward Tori Field was named to the girls’ Western Maine team. Field was also selected as an All-New England standout.

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Bangor Savings Bank recently hired Danielle Donnini as assistant vice presi-dent, payroll development officer for the greater Portland area. She graduated from Salve Regina University and will work out of the bank’s Brighton Avenue branch.

Promotions

The Maine National Guard has pro-moted the following individuals: Bar-rett Strout of Portland, staff sergeant; Henry Bindbeutel of Portland, special-ist; Shawn Weaver of North Yarmouth, private first class; and Grace Miller of Portland, private.

Bath Savings Bank recently promoted Justin Dionne and Tyler Zamore, both of Brunswick. Dionne, who began his career as an intern in Bath Savings’ loan department, is now a consumer lender at the Bath Branch. Zamore has been pro-moted from customer service representa-tive to consumer lender at the Brunswick branch.

Sea Bags, a green manufacturing company in Portland, recently promoted Jessica DiBiase of Falmouth to custom design associate. They also promoted Portland resident Lisa Cebrian to retail manager. Cebrian will now oversee op-erations in Portland and at the corporate flagship store in Freeport. Additionally, Jennifer DeChant has been promoted to the public relations manager position.

Awards

Julia Furtado recently won the Miss Maine 2011 pageant and will compete in the Miss America Pageant which will be aired on Jan. 14, 2012 on ABC. Furtado is a sophomore majoring in applied ex-ercise science at the University of New England. For winning the Miss Maine competition she will receive an $8,000 scholarship and a minimum of a $3,000 scholarship for her participation in the Miss America Pageant.

Playwright MK Wolfe received a $1,000 grant from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust to help her promote the production of The Christmas Bride, a holiday musical based on Charles Dick-ens Christmas Story. She plans to use the grant for promotional expenses including paid advertising.

Briggs Advertising of Bath recently won gold at the Ad Club of Maine’s Broderson Awards Show. The award was given for website design - for profit to recognize the Gifford’s Ice Cream website; it was the only gold awarded in this category.

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Becky McKinnell, president and founder of iBec Creative in Portland, was recently announced the winner of the Stevie Award for Women in Business - Best Young Entrepreneur. She is the first person in Maine to bring home this award.

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Christmas concerts, Jewish dramaBy Scott Andrews

The holiday season continues on the arts and entertainment front, with inter-esting Christmas concerts slated for this weekend and an intriguing Jewish drama playing in Westbrook.

Two choral concerts are scheduled for Saturday. Mid-afternoon in South Port-land is the annual holiday performance of Musica de Filia – “daughters of mu-sic.” Led by Jaye Churchill, Musica de Filia embraces girls from second grade through adult women.

The Freeport Community Chorus gives two performances of its annual holiday program this weekend. The first is on Saturday in Freeport, with the program repeated Sunday in Yarmouth.

On Dec. 13, St. Mary Schola, one of Maine’s few early music ensembles, performs its annual Christmas concert in Portland.

In the drama department, Acorn Pro-ductions has mounted the world premiere of “The Wandering Beggar,” a specially commissioned stage adaptation and translation of classic Yiddish tales about a pious Jewish mendicant in 19th-century Russia.

Musica de FiliaFor more than a dozen years our

region’s cultural landscape has been enriched by Musica de Filia, an organi-zation that is entirely devoted to female voices directed by Jaye Churchill, a pro-fessionally trained singer and graduate of the University of Southern Maine School of Music.

For some years in the 1990s, Churchill directed the Boy Singers of Maine. When she sensed a desire for a parallel

A pious mendicant (Hal Cohen) confronts a learned rabbi (David Handwerker) in “The Wandering Beggar,” running through Dec. 16 at Acorn Studio Theatre in Westbrook.

ensemble of girls, she took the initiative and started it herself.

Musica de Filia is an auditioned training and performance program that includes five separate choral sub-units. These begin with girls in second and third grades and progress to the Women’s Choir, which is open to ages 18 and older.

This year’s 13th annual holiday concert will feature all five ensembles. Perhaps the most intriguing single item on the program will be Colin Britt’s contem-porary setting of “There Is No Rose,” a 15th-century poem from the Trinity Col-lege Library in England. The composer is the son of Susan Britt, a member of the Women’s Choir.

“It’s quite rich and quite complicated and very beautiful,” says Churchill. “It’s one of the most difficult pieces I’ve ever

done with the Women’s Choir.”Catch Musica de Filia’s holiday

concert at 2 p.m. Dec. 10 at the South Portland Auditorium, 637 Highland Ave. Call 807-2158.

Greater Freeport Community Chorus

Christmas is a beloved time for people who love choral music, both from the point of view of the singers and the listen-ers. Among the former are the members of the Greater Freeport Community Chorus, who have been performing Christmas concerts since 1994. This year’s Christmas program will be given twice under artistic director Virgil Bozeman.

“Our music is a blend of serious and fun pieces and audiences can tell how much fun our members are having when

they attend our concerts,” member Sandy Banas said.

“Our program has a holiday theme, but the music is varied. We begin with Josef Rheinberger’s ‘Abendlied’ (‘Evensong’) and Felix Mendelssohn’s ‘How Lovely are the Messengers.’ In addition to three lovely Christmas carols by composer, John Rutter, is Rutter’s exciting and fun tune, ‘Good Ale.’”

Rutter is perhaps the most popular 20th-century composer of choral music. “His music, characterized by inventive melody and well-crafted arrangements, indicates a keen sense of what human voices to best and love most,” Bozeman explained.

Another intriguing piece is Stephen Chatman’s “Blow, Blow the Winter Wind,” a setting of a text excerpted from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

Two performances are planned. First is Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Jude Church, 134 Main St. in Freeport. The concert repeats Dec. 11 at 2:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St. in Yarmouth. Call the chorus at 751-6301.

St. Mary ScholaEarly music, defined roughly as com-

positions dating from before the 18th century, is a wonderful special branch of classical music. But regrettably there are few practitioners in Maine.

One happy exception to that generality is St. Mary Schola, an ensemble of 20 professional singers and instrumentalists based in Falmouth. Most ensemble mem-bers have formal classical training and several teach music in various schools and venues.

On Dec. 13 they’ll give their annual Christmas concert in Portland. Titled, “Prepare the Way,” the concert will artistically journey to England, France and Germany. Director Bruce Fithian, a professor of music at the University of Southern Maine, has selected a program that includes composers Heinrich Schutz,

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Mid Coast Benefits Friday 12/9Talent and Variety Show to benefit Bath Area Food Bank and the Phippsburg Congregational Church, $10/$6 students and chil-dren, Phippsburg Congregational Church, 10 Church Ln., Phippsburg, FMI 389-1770.

Bulletin BoardSaturday 12/10Christmas Gift Collection, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Bath City Hall, FMI 443-4707.

Tuesday 12/13Mid Coast Retired Educators As-sociation breakfast, 9 a.m., The Highlands, Elm St., Topsham, FMI 721-0659.

Wednesday 12/14Sea Glass and Wearable Art Workshop, 1 p.m., $20, Spectrum Generations, 521 Main St., Damar-iscotta, FMI 563-1363.

Call for DonationsAniMeals is accepting dog and cat food donations for homebound se-niors that receive Meals on Wheels, to donate or volunteer, call Sarah, 729-0475.

Call for VolunteersMidcoast CA$H Coalition, seeks volunteers for free tax prep and financial asset coaching. Training, early Dec. and Jan. 2012. FMI Sha-ron Ross 373-1140, [email protected], visit cashmaine.org/locations/midcoast.

Dining OutSaturday 12/10Public Baked Bean Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., Brunswick United Methodist Church, Brunswick, $8 adults/$4 children, FMI 725-2185.

Getting SmarterThursday 12/15Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table Lecture, Tom Des-jardin, “The effect of Civil War on Maine,” 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, FMI 729-9520.

Health & SupportSaturday 12/10Daoist Qigong Program, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., also on Dec. 11, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Shambhala Arts Center, 19 Ma-son St., Brunswick, pre-registration required, $125, FMI 998-4809.

Wednesday 12/14Lady in the Red Cloak Lunch and Learn, 11:15 a.m., Spectrum Gener-ations, 521 Main St., Damariscotta, FMI 563-1363.

Just for SeniorsBath Area Senior Citizens, bridge club, cribbage, crafts, line dancing, bocce, bingo and more, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.

Chair Yoga, Shannon Elliott, Tuesdays 10:30 a.m., $10/class or pay what you can, Spectrum Generations, Topsham, FMI and to preregister, 729-0475.

Meals on Wheels, delivery avail-able for homebound seniors and disabled adults, offered by Spec-trum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

Money Management Program, help low-income seniors with rou-tine financial matters, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

People Plus Community Center, multipurpose multigenerational facility provides recreational, so-cial, informational, educational and personal services to seniors as well as people of all ages, 35 Union St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

The Retired and Senior Volun-teer Program seeks volunteers age 55 and over for various opportuni-ties, 396-6521.

Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center, support groups, lectures, socials, activi-ties, 521 Main St., Damariscotta, for daily schedule, 563-1363 or spectrumgenerations.org.

Spectrum Generations Southern Midcoast Community Center now open for classes, activities, trips, health & wellness, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475, or [email protected].

Topsham Merry Meeters Senior Citizens, all ages 50 and over welcome, bring a dish to share for potluck meal, noon, Westrum House, Union Park Road, Topsham; 729-7686 or 725-2425; meets third Tuesday except July and August.

Kids and FamilySaturday 12/10Candy Cane Train, runs Dec. 10-11, 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., Bath Train

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Greater Portland BenefitsChristmas Tree Sale, South Port-land & Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club, Mill Creek Park, [email protected].

Friday 12/9About Face to benefit Merrill Me-morial Library, 6 p.m., 215 Main St., Yarmouth, FMI 725-9436.

Sunday 12/11Wishing Tree fundraiser for Seeds of Independence, 2-5 p.m., Sanc-tuary Holistic Health Center, 50 Forest Falls Dr., Yarmouth, 846-1162.

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Parents in Stepfamilies Work-shop, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Kids First Center, 222 St. John St., Suite 101, Portland, $60 per per-son/$100 per couple, FMI and to register 761-2709.

Tuesday 12/13Staying the Course, 7:15-9 a.m., Italian Heritage Center, 40 West-land Ave., Portland.

Friday 12/16Basic Computer Training, 1-4 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 708.

Women and Wealth Semi-nar, 6-7:30 p.m., 12 Portland St., Yarmouth, FMI and to register 729-3526.


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We are a Toys for Tots location now through December 19

Out & Aboutfrom page 18

Dietrich Buxtehude, Michael Praetorius and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

French Christmas carols of the 17th century, English Advent music from the Renaissance and German Baroque music composed for the Emperor in Dresden will be interspersed with text readings appropriate to the Advent season and the period of the music.

St. Mary Schola Early Music Ensemble will perform “Prepare the Way” at St. Luke’s Cathedral, 143 State St., Portland on Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

‘The Wandering Beggar’Acorn Productions, a professional

theater company based in the Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook, is observing Hanuk-

kah by instituting an annual series of plays on Jewish themes.

This year’s choice is the world pre-miere of “The Wandering Beggar,” a series of dramatic sketches that were specially commissioned by Acorn im-presario Mike Levine, one of the most active members of Maine’s theatrical community.

The inspiration came from director Harlan Baker, who fondly recalled a Yid-dish language book written about a fic-tional beggar in 19th-century Russia by Solomon Simon, published in the 1930s. With the assistance of the author’s son, the stage script was penned by Howard Rosenfield of Brunswick.

The story line is minimal. In the open-ing scene, “Simple Shmerel” is sent “into the world” to beg bread and lodging from

kind-hearted folks. Each subsequent scene is a vignette depicting the charac-ter’s interaction with lowly townspeople, wealthy tradesmen and haughty princes.

In each case, Shmerel’s naive wisdom proves superior to his social and eco-nomic betters, and his simple faith in God’s goodness makes a positive mark wherever he travels.

The early episodes are light and hu-morous, but the drama turns serious in the second act when Shmerel confronts the deadly pogroms of Czarist Russia – and successfully challenges the per-petrators.

I liked Hal Cohen in the title role. His grizzled beard, rough manners and ragged clothing contrast with a gem of a human being whose simple goodness shines through the dross. He’s supported by a cast of 11, directed by Baker.

The “Wandering Beggar” runs through Dec. 16 at Acorn Studio Theatre, located in the Dana Warp Mill, 75 Bridge St. in Westbrook, with 7:30 p.m. performances Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sun-days. Call 854-0065.

Bus servicefrom page 2

The council agreed to give the businesses 25 parking credits from Dec. 1 through March 31, while the rink is in operation.

Larson agreed that lighting improvements and a management plan may be needed for the skating rink. The town will be respon-sible to set up, take down and maintain the rink during the winter.

Councilors accepted donations for the skating rink from the Rotary Club, Nordica Theatre, and Freeport Fire & Rescue Associ-ation, and construction materials from War-ren Construction and Zachau Construction.

The council also set a public hearing for Dec. 20 to discuss a proposal for Habitat of Humanity to purchase town-owned property on West Street.

The proposal is to build eight housing units in four, duplex structures. Habitat would have to build a road, and bring water, electricity and sewer to the site.

Amy Anderson can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter:

@amy_k_anderson.

Celebrate the Seasonwith the Maine Historical Society!

November 19-December 31, 2011

Maine Historical Society489 Congress Street, Portland, 774-1822

Visit www.mainehistory.orgfor a complete

schedule of events

Music in the HouseLongfellow House Tours with live music

played on the 1843 Chickering PianoNov 26, Dec 3, 10, 17, 1-3 pm

Call 207-774-1822 for ticketsAdults $12

Seniors, Students with IDs,and AAA Members $10

Carols in the LibraryChoral Art Society

December 11 and 18, 2-3:30 pm


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“That’s the best news I’ve heard all day,” one wrote. Another hoped that the new shop will be half as good as the old Frosty’s, which has been at 54 Maine St. since 1970.

Frosty’s owner Bob Frost confirmed Tuesday that he may have found a po-

tential buyer. He described the buyers as a local couple interested in running the doughnut shop, but wouldn’t go into more detail.

Frost did say that once the sale is com-pleted he will be training the new owners, who he said will use his old recipes and probably keep the name of the shop.

He said the shop is likely to reopen after Jan. 1, but there is no firm schedule for finalizing the sale or reopening the business.

Realtor Shirley Wedell of Century 21 said she’s hoping to close the deal this month, but wouldn’t comment on any other aspect of the sale.

Frost dropped the sale price to $450,000 in August, but wouldn’t say what the price is now. The building and land are assessed at just over $187,000.


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For those who can’t wait for a taste of Frosty’s, a recently posted video may hit the spot. Made in 2003 by Don Bernier, the video shows the Frosts rolling, glaz-ing and serving donuts at their shop. The camera also pans to the Frost’s many religious displays, including a shelf of Christian pamphlets and a large framed picture of Jesus Christ.

Bernier, a San Francisco-based film-maker who was born in Brunswick and grew up in Topsham, said he was a fre-quent Frosty’s customer as a child and vividly remembers “the smell of glazed donuts, burnt coffee, and thick cigarette smoke in the air.”

On a trip back home a few years ago, he said he asked June Frost if he could make a short film about the shop. He posted the video this fall after learning about her death. It can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/30359455.

When asked about the possibility of a new era of Frosty’s Donuts, Bernier was optimistic.

“The idea that it could reopen as an independent donut shop is promising,” he said in an email, “but they’ve got some big shoes to fill for sure.”

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the Council Chambers and lined up to speak about the organization’s virtues.

Zachary Pilgrim said he served on the original committee to establish the

Skatepark more than a decade ago, and has been a longtime user of the facility.

“I think the real value to the commu-nity is that every kid that’s in there, you don’t have to be a skateboarder, you don’t have to ride a BMX bike, you can go in there and hang out, and it’s free,” Pilgrim said. “It’s just a safe place that anyone can go into, it’s a neutral environment, and I think one thing it provides, that you don’t get a lot of nowadays, is human in-teraction. You actually get to talk to your friends; you’re not typing online.”

The council previously authorized the Parks and Recreation Department to move the existing assets of the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark to the Old Brunswick Road armory for storage, until a use for the building was determined.

With interest included over the life a 10-year loan, the estimated cost of the $308,000 bond is between $35,000 and $40,000 a year. Parks and Recreation Director Steve Balboni has said the Skatepark board is willing to give up its $40,000 annual subsidy from the city so that the cost of the borrowing would not fall on taxpayers.

He has also expressed confidence in the board’s ability to replace the subsidy through fundraising.

Balboni has said he expects the Skate-park’s revenue and use to increase if it moves to the armory, since that building is closer to Bath Middle School, which many of the Skatepark’s young patrons

attend.Smartmeters,fireworksbanThe council voted 5-4 to extend by six

months a moratorium on the installation of smart meters. It will vote a second and final time in a special meeting Dec. 19, the day the moratorium expires.

The council voted 5-3 on June 1 for a 180-day moratorium on the installation of smart meters by Central Maine Power Co. without prior approval of property owners. Residents who want the devices could still have them installed.

CMP had threatened to sue if the city did not reverse the temporary ban, but as of this week the company has not taken legal action, City Manager Bill Giroux said Wednesday. He said installation of smart meters has been continuing for property owners who want the devices.

On Wednesday, Sinclair, Brackett, Merrill, Rogers and Pagurko voted to continue the moratorium, with Paulhus, Wyman, Eosco and Winglass opposed.

Eosco said the majority of people with whom she has spoken favor ending the moratorium.

The city fireworks ordinance, which must receive final passage next month, would prohibit the use and sale of con-sumer fireworks.

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Freeport, Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth and Yarmouth have already banned fireworks, while Scarborough, Gray and Westbrook have allowed them.

Pyrotechnic proponent Randy Dumont criticized what he called the expansion of “the nanny state,” and encouraged coun-cilors to think of the economic benefit of fireworks stores opening in Brunswick.

“There are going to be fireworks sold, so why not have it in your community, regulated and legal,” he said.

Hunter Johnson asked the council to let Brunswick residents prove they can use fireworks safely before banning the sale and use.

But Sue O’Dell cited figures on prop-erty and bodily damage resulting from fireworks, and, like two other residents who spoke, asked the council to ban them.

Jim Chase criticized the council for waiting until what he called the “11th

offices was closed to the press, despite objections from three reporters who asked to be admitted. The state attorney general’s office is examining that deci-sion by NNEPRA, which is a public transportation authority created in 1995 by the Maine Legislature.

Anna Nelson, spokeswoman for the neighborhood group, said NNEPRA of-ficials were willing to answer questions and supplied the neighbors with more detailed information about noise levels and air quality, and provided a prelimi-nary sketch of the building, which will be used for light maintenance and overnight housing of trains.

“It was a very open forum for ques-tions,” she said, “I’m confident and hope-ful that we’ll actually be able to effect some change.”

hour, 10 minutes before the bill becomes law,” before considering a fireworks ban.

Picking up on the sense of urgency, Councilor Ben Tucker, who introduced the proposed ban, also encouraged the council to act.

“We’re up against a deadline, the state law will allow the sale and use of fire-works in Brunswick starting in January. If we don’t act tonight then that could kick in,” Tucker said.

But other councilors wanted more time to consider amending the proposed ordinance to require residents to get a permit from the Fire Department to use fireworks, similar to a burn permit.

The amendment, which was not pub-lished on the town’s website prior to the meeting, was proposed by Councilor Ger-ald Favreau, who said fireworks would be limited to rural areas in town.

In order to give everyone more time to consider the amendment, councilors voted to table the item until their Dec. 19 meeting.

Former Navy housingBefore proceeding with the agreement

that will give Schott the land beneath the former Navy housing units, MRRA had asked both Brunswick and Topsham to endorse the plan.

But Brunswick councilors were un-comfortable with that because they believed they had little control over the plan. They delayed the vote until Mon-day.

In the interim, town staff drafted a new resolution that offered support for the community goals expressed in the hous-ing disposition plan.

The new language satisfied all coun-cilors but one, Benet Pols, who voted against adopting the resolution.

On Tuesday Pols said he was con-cerned that the recommendations of a 2009 MRRA housing study were being abandoned to expedite the agreement with Schott.

“The same skepticism I had about it then still exists,” he said. “All the seman-tic changes they made to the question of endorsing it didn’t really do anything

for me.”

Scott Howard, a consultant for Schott, said Tuesday that he was very pleased with the council’s support and hopes Topsham’s Board of Selectmen would do the same thing at their Dec. 15 meeting.

Once the agreement is signed, Schott would be able to put 19 of the homes in the McKeen Street development on the market – probably before early spring. Those homes, which all face McKeen Street, are already connected to the town’s utilities.

The rest of the homes are on sewer and water lines that are owned by MRRA and must be upgraded before they can be sold, Howard said.

Howard reiterated Schott’s intent to sell the homes in phases, rather than putting them all on the market at the same time.

“We’re going to see what the market demands are,” he said, before trying to sell any more than the initial 19 homes.


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Nelson said she had some concerns that the Federal Transit Administration’s noise standards, which NNEPRA is us-ing, are not as strict as her group would like. She said the neighborhood group is working with engineer Charles Wal-lace to come up with its own estimates of noise levels, which she plans to share with the advisory group.

Councilor John Perreault, who repre-sents the neighborhood that surrounds the proposed location, said overall the meet-ing was very technical and data-heavy, but went well.

“Both sides went in with an open mind, listening to each other,” he said.

Although reporters were not allowed to enter the meeting, NNEPRA Chairman Martin Eisenstein invited two elected officials who are not advisory group members: state Sen. Stan Gerzofsky,

D-Brunswick, and Brunswick District 7 Town Councilor Benet Pols.

Gerzofsky argued unsuccessfully for the reporters to be admitted for at least part of the meeting. Afterwards, he said there was no business conducted that warranted a closed-door meeting.

Pols arrived late and was initially told he couldn’t join the meeting. But Eisenstein relented after Pols explained that he was only there to listen, not to participate, so that, as an elected official, he could be more informed.

Eisenstein maintained that the meeting was not public, however, and that Pols’ status was different than the reporters’. He also told the reporters their interpreta-tion of Maine’s Freedom of Access Law was incorrect.

A written statement provided by NNEPRA after the meeting on Dec. 2 said NNEPRA’s advisory group meetings are not “public proceedings,” as defined

by the law, because they are not meetings of the rail authority’s board.

Chief Deputy Attorney General Linda Pistner said in an email Wednesday that she is seeking information from NNEPRA before responding to inquiries about whether the rail group violated the Freedom of Access Act.

The advisory group meets again Jan. 12, 2012. In the meantime, members of the Brunswick West neighborhood group said they will continue to share their ideas with NNEPRA’s consultants about how to lessen the impact of the train facility.

The advisory group is scheduled to meet six times before the end of April 2012, when they will present their rec-ommendations to the NNEPRA board, which will make a decision about how to proceed with the layover building.


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the forecaster, mid-coast edition, december 9, 2011

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