the forecaster, mid-coast edition, february 24, 2012

By Gillian GrahamFALMOUTH — A few

years ago Donna Williams didn’t know how long she’d be able to call herself a book seller.

“I finally have confidence I’m going to be able to retire as a book seller,” she said last week in her office at The Book Review, the shelves

behind her overflowing with books.

Williams said her increased confidence is due to a surge in business after the liqui-dation of Borders in South Portland last summer and a particularly busy holiday season.

Williams is not alone.The owners of Royal River

Books in Yarmouth and Gulf of Maine Books in Bruns-wick say they, too, have seen increases in business that can be attributed in part to the demise of big-box bookstores.

These local book sellers are bucking a national trend that saw a dramatic decline in

February 24, 2012 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 8, No. 8

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Bowdoin women advance to NESCAC semis3

Topsham selectmentable tax break for militaryPage 3

Selectman candidates have different priorities for HarpswellPage 4

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Melting ice spells end of smelt season in Mid-Coast MaineBy Emily Guerin

BRUNSWICK — Smelt season ended early this year for Deasy Edwards.

Last Sunday afternoon, wearing a T-shirt and jeans, Edwards weaved around patches of thin ice as he pulled his smelt shack from the Andro-scoggin River near Baybridge Landing.

Although he put his shack out less than a month ago, warm temperatures and rain forced the Pownal resident to call it quits

ANDREW CULLEN / THE FORECASTER Deasy Edwards pulls his ice fishing shack off of the Androscoggin River at Baybrindge Landing in Brunswick on

Sunday, Feb. 19, after a disappointingly short season. A typical season could last well into March, but on the river “it’s getting so sketchy,” he said, pointing at patches of rotting ice just a few dozen feet from the fishing shacks.

Roger Robbins, left, and Tom Page wait for smelt to bite in their ice fishing shack on the Androscoggin River near Water

Street in Brunswick on Sunday, Feb. 19. The ice beneath their shack was at least 8 inches thick, but towards the

middle of the river, thin ice was easily visible. Many local fishermen had already pulled their shacks from the ice as the

season comes to an early end.See page 5

Local bookstores buck national trend with increased sales

GILLIAN GRAHAM / THE FORECASTER

Employee Kate Winn straightens a row of books at The Book

Review in Falmouth, one of the local independent

book sellers enjoying increasing sales. Donna

Williams, owner of The Book Review,

said she saw a boost after Borders in South Portland closed last

summer.

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Bill makes it easier to exit consolidated school districtsBy Emily Guerin

AUGUSTA — A bill that would make it easier for towns to withdraw from consolidated school districts is heading to the Maine House of Represen-tatives.

The bill is especially relevant now because as of Jan. 1, towns that formed consolidated school districts three years ago are able to begin the withdrawal process.

Expensive and time-consum-ing, it begins with a petition to hold a referendum to start the process. If that passes, a town must produce a study detail-ing how it will provide for the educational needs of all its students. Once completed, the

Durham residents want out of RSU 5By David Harry

DURHAM — Simon says it is time to consider withdraw-ing from Regional School Unit 5, and more than 250 residents agree.

Milton Simon, a member of the town Budget Committee, has submitted 255 signatures asking the Board of Selectmen to initiate the process of sepa-rating from RSU 5, which also includes Freeport and Pownal.

“I’m saying if the door is open, we ought to look at it,” Simon said about initiating the

protracted process that requires two local votes, formation of a local committee to create a with-drawal plan, and approval of the plan by the commissioner of the state Department of Education.

Town Clerk Shannon Plourde has certified the signatures, and Board of Selectman Chairman Jeff Wakeman said voters will likely be asked in a June 12 ref-erendum if they want to begin actions to withdraw from the RSU formed in 2009.

plan must be approved by the commissioner of the Department of Education and then, after a public hearing, the town would have to approve withdrawal by a two-thirds majority vote.

But if LD 1742 becomes law, a town could withdraw with only a simple majority in that final vote.

The change would apply to the recently formed regional school units and the older school administrative districts.

The prospect is good news for North Yarmouth resident Mark Verrill, who is collecting signatures to start the process of

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BRUNSWICK — Ever wanted to dis-cover a new star or planet, or get lost in the vastness of the galaxy, or search for alien life?

A program organized by Cornerstones of Science, and offered at area libraries, will help you channel your inner Galileo by lending out telescopes.

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Maine libraries adding telescopes to their collectionsBrunswick seeks input on school budget cuts

BRUNSWICK — The School Board is hoping members of the public will turn out at the first public forum on the 2012-2013 budget.

Brunswick is facing a nearly $2 million decline in tuition dollars and state and fed-eral aid over last year. Faced with another challenging budget season, officials and administrators want to hear from residents about their priorities.

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Bath man charged with stabbing girlfriendBy Alex Lear

BATH — A Washington Street man was arrested Monday morning for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend in the neck several times.

Matthew T. Wycoff, 28, was charged with the Class A crime of elevated ag-gravated assault.

Bath teenager’s death under investigation

BATH — The death of a 17-year-old boy is being investigated by the state medical examiner’s office.

Police and rescuers responded to a High Street apartment complex at 9:07 a.m. Sunday for a call about a person who was not breathing. They found the 17-year-old – whose name police did not release – dead in a bedroom.

The Academy Green apartment belongs to the boy’s 20-year-old girlfriend.

Although police said they do not consider the death suspicious, the cause of the boy’s death remained unknown on Wednesday.

Brunswick and Raymond Village Library will have telescopes available for patrons to check out, just as they would books.

The program, which is already in place and thriving in New Hampshire, will part-ner with local astronomy clubs to teach patrons how to use the telescopes.

“The local astronomy clubs, who will serve as the caretakers for the telescopes, will come in and host sky gazing parties,

Police said they responded to a call at a Washington Street apartment at 6:54 a.m. Monday morning and found the 38-year-old woman with serious stab wounds in her neck. The officers learned from her and witnesses that Wycoff, described as her live-in boyfriend, attacked her with a knife after an argument and drove off in a black Kia SUV.

Wycoff’s description was circulated to area law enforcement agencies, and at 7:34 a.m. Topsham Police Officers Randy Cook and William Collins found Wycoff at Gibb’s gas station on Main Street in Topsham. They arrested him and turned him over to Bath Police Officer Andrew Booth.

Topsham police “did such a great job

finding him so quick-ly,” Bath Police Lt. Stan Cielinski said lat-er Monday morning.

The victim, who police would not identify, was trans-ported to Maine Med-ical Center in Port-land with stab wounds to her neck and shoulder. Police said she was in serious, but stable condition.

Cielinski said she is “very lucky to be alive,” noting that the knife blade actually broke while Wycoff allegedly attacked the woman.

Wycoff’s bail was set at $100,000 cash. He was being held at Two Bridges Re-gional Jail in Wiscasset.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen last week unanimously tabled an excise tax exemption proposed for residents on active military duty.

Town Manager Cornell Knight said at the board’s Feb. 16 meeting that the exemp-tion used to apply to non-resident military personnel stationed in town. But a state law that took effect Jan. 1 allows municipalities to exempt vehicles owned by Maine resi-dents on active military duty – people who are either stationed permanently out of state

Board kills West Harpswell village district proposalBy Emily Guerin

HARPSWELL — A proposal that would have concentrated development in West Harpswell has failed due to overwhelming opposition from neighbors.

The plan would have created a “village district” centered around Mitchell Field, where smaller lots could be carved out of

existing properties. The idea behind the zoning change was to encourage lower-income and working families back to town by making land more affordable.

The Comprehensive Plan Implementa-tion Committee, which worked on the plan, also hoped to focus future construction into already developed areas and preserve more rural parts of town.

But many West Harpswell residents op-posed the idea on the grounds that it would hurt their property values, alter the char-acter of the area and unfairly target their neighborhood.

The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 on Feb. 16 against putting the proposal on the warrant for the March 10 annual Town Meeting.

At the Feb. 16 meeting, Jim Knight, a former selectmen who lives in West

or deployed for longer than 180 days, but still want to register their vehicles in Maine.

“We really don’t know how many people that involves,” Knight said. “It could be a few, it could be many, many.”

He said the impact the exemption would have on the town’s revenue is unknown, “so I would be concerned about making a decision.”

Donald Russell, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, pointed out that the state does not reimburse municipalities for the revenue loss incurred by the exemption.

A notice on the matter from the Maine Municipal Association, included with the meeting materials, stated that only a few municipalities have opted for such an ex-emption.

Ultimate approval of the exemption would be up to Town Meeting.

“On the face of it, it sounds like a won-derful idea,” Selectman Andrew Mason said, noting that the exemption could poten-tially be a tool to attract people to Topsham.

“I don’t know that this is something that we shouldn’t consider,” he said “... We just don’t have enough information right now.”

Manager’s reviewFollowing an executive session on

Knight’s annual job review, the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a 2 per-cent pay raise for the manager. The funds had already been appropriated in the fiscal

2012 budget.“It was a very positive review, and we’re

all happy with the job that our town man-ager did for us,” Russell said, adding that the board is “looking forward to another successful year with him.”

Knight, now one year into the job, was hired at an annual salary of $93,000, plus benefits. The increase boosts his salary to nearly $94,900.

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

HARPSWELL — Two candidates are vying to replace Road Commis-sioner Bob Venard, who is not seek-ing re-election on March 10.

The road com-missioner is tasked with coordinating snow removal and road maintenance, hiring and over-seeing contrac-tors, and planning long-term street maintenance.

Candidate Paul Standridge, 75, moved to Harpswell three years ago and said he hopes to “pay back” the community for the services he has received. He served for 12 years as a county com-missioner in North Carolina, is the vice chairman of the Planning Board and chairman of the Harbor and Waterfront Committee.

Standridge’s background is in trans-portation and distribution, and he has worked at Dow Chemical and a cement factory in South Dakota.

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Selectman candidates have different priorities for HarpswellBy Emily Guerin

HARPSWELL — From resolving in-town rivalries to reducing town staff, incumbent Selectman Elinor Multer and challenger C. Mat-thew Rich will have very different priori-ties if elected to the Board of Selectmen on March 10.

Multer, 84, is fin-ishing her first term as selectman. She moved to Harpswell in 1976 from New Jersey, where she worked as a news-paper reporter, col-umnist, and public relations director at a community col-lege. She has four adult children and is divorced.

Currently the board chairman, Multer presided during a three-year term marked by the drawn-out discussion of whether to close West Harpswell School, and the on-going bitterness over that decision.

“My biggest concern, really, is the per-vasive sense of rivalry between different

Standridge, Ponziani running for road commissioner

sides of Harpswell. And I hope that we can facilitate policies that will help to ameliorate that,” Multer said, although she said she didn’t have anything specific in mind.

Rich, 60, has been living in Harpswell since 2002, but has owned land in town since the 1960s. He was in the U.S. Coast Guard and is now an attorney. He is mar-ried, has three adult children, and ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the state House of Representatives in 2002 and 2004, and also lost a bid for select-man in 2005.

If elected, Rich said one of his priori-ties will be to change staffing levels in town government to better reflect Harp-swell’s declining, aging population.

As selectman, he said, he believes he could provide a fresh look at staffing and come up with new ideas, like having elected officials help share the workload of town employees by becoming better-versed in tax assessing, codes enforce-ment and zoning ordinances.

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Standridge said he would try to prevent situations like the ones that hap-pened during the early Halloween and Thanksgiving snowstorms, where town roads were unplowed and icy.

During a storm, he said, he will be “in contact with the contractor to put their emphasis on the areas where it’s needed, like bus stops, bus turn-arounds, bad curves, areas known to collect water and ice.”

His opponent, Ronald Ponziani, owns a construction business. He ran unsuc-cessfully for road commissioner in the 1980s and said he is running again be-cause it’s the kind of work he has done for many years.

“I’m not really what I call ‘running’ for road commissioner. I’ve offered my ser-vices based on my experiences,” he said.

Ponziani, 65, who has lived in Harpswell his entire life, said under his watch there will be no more snow-plowing “fiascos” like the ones that happened this fall. He said he doesn’t have any priority areas to address, but said people know who he is and where to find him.

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Candidatesfrom previous page

to-day activities,” he said. “We’ve lost that.”But he said he doesn’t think the select-

men, or anyone, could do anything to re-verse Harpswell’s population trend.

Multer said she also doesn’t see many ways for elected officials to woo young people back to town, although she said she preferred Harpswell when it was less homogeneous.

Recognizing that Harpswell is aging, Multer said she’d like to see the former West Harpswell School turned into senior housing or sold, but said the ultimate deci-sion is up to the voters.

“(The building) costs a fair amount to operate and it’s going to need major system upgrades,” she said, noting that the school will cost $70,000 a year in operating costs alone.

Rich said selectmen have taken a long time to decide what to do with the school, and asked “are the taxpayers expected to

fund the continued maintenance and op-eration of the school as this board thinks about it?”

He said he supports the idea of recre-ational fields or facilities on the current site, but doesn’t “see keeping 50-year old building as a positive.”

Rich also supported the idea of recre-ation at Mitchell Field, and said whatever development goes in should generate tax revenue. But he was reluctant to offer spe-cifics, and said selectmen have gotten ahead of themselves by designing a boat launch before the Mitchell Field infrastructure study has been completed.

Multer said she likes the idea of a boat launch at Mitchell Field, but wants to find a way to bring down its current $300,000 cost. She questioned the idea of building affordable workforce housing, as suggested in the Mitchell Field Master Plan, noting that similar projects in town have failed to sell out.

She said she hasn’t taken a position on the idea of building a marine-themed char-ter school in Harpswell. Neither has Rich, who said he’d like to know how much it

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ter as selectman, he said he has no qualms with her leadership style or decisions.

“Everyone’s entitled to competition,” Rich said. “I have a difference in style than Ellie does. Ellie happens to think town staff is doing very well and that it should stay on the staus quo. I happen to think that’s one of the areas that has to be changed.”

Multer said people should vote for her “if they’re reasonably satisfied with what I’ve done and with the direction it looks like I’m going.” She said she tries to strike a balance between “watching the taxpayers’ purse and meeting their needs, and if they think I’m doing reasonably well at that I’d welcome their support.”

Joanne Rogers, who has served on the School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors for 26 yearrs, is running unop-posed for re-election.

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Smelt seasonfrom page 1

a full month before the official end of smelt season on March 15.

“It’s getting so sketchy,” he said, pointing to a jagged break in the ice less than 100 feet from the closest shack.

Edwards isn’t the only fisherman to de-clare a premature end to smelt season.

At the ice fishing camps at Water Street and Baybridge Landing, the footprints of ice shacks – long rectangles cut in the ice where fishermen hung their hooks – now outnumber the shacks that remain. And some commercial smelt camps, like Jim’s in Bowdoinham and James Eddy in Dresden, have already closed.

“The rivers are opening up. There’s a lot of open places on all the rivers, and there’s no frost in the ice, so it’s really not safe for anybody to be out there,” said Sharon James, whose sons own James Eddy.

James said she likes to have 6 inches of ice to let people into the shacks, but there are only 3 inches right now. With rain pre-dicted this week, she said it just didn’t make sense to keep the camp open.

Not only is the 2012 season ending early, but James Eddy didn’t open until Jan. 19 – about a month later than normal.

Recreational fishermen also got a late start.

Roger Robbins, of Portland, said Sunday was his first time out this season. Robbins, who has been ice fishing for over 50 years, said the ice needs to be at least 4 inches thick for him to put a shack out. Usually that happens before Jan. 1, but many fisher-

men said they couldn’t get their shacks on the ice until late January.

But the ice is better in the Mid-Coast than farther south. Sebago Lake didn’t even freeze this year, causing organizers to cancel the annual fishing derby and driving Tim Brown, of Gray, to Brunswick to fish on the frozen Androscoggin River.

Jeff Clay drove even farther. He traveled three hours from Alton, N.H., to fish Mer-rymeeting Bay six times this year because the ice never arrived where he lives.

“New Hampshire rivers are not safe at all,” he said.

Despite the short season, Clay said this year has been pretty good for ice fishing, especially on Super Bowl Sunday. Ev-eryone was listening to the game on their radios, and he almost filled three five-gallon buckets with smelt – about 120 pounds.

But the smelt weren’t biting this past Sunday, when Clay and his fishing buddy Bill Carlin, of Lebanon, were hunkered down behind Baybridge Landing in their collapsible tent. Instead of filling buckets with smelt, they tossed in empty coffee cups and pizza boxes.

Despite the slow day on Sunday and the encroaching open water, Durham resident Tom Page and his son, Luke, were still having a good time out on the ice near Wa-ter Street. They played football, skidding across the river as they waiting for the smelt to find their hooks.

“There’s not a lot of action here, but I got to be honest,” Page said. “The action is secondary.”


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Bookstoresfrom page 1


bookstore sales at the end of 2011. Preliminary numbers released last week

by the U.S. Census Bureau show nation-wide bookstore sales in December fell 15.6 percent, the largest decline in 2011. Overall, bookstore sales for the year were down 0.8 percent to $15.53 billion.

Williams opened The Book Review with her brother, Stephen Fournier, 32 years ago. At the time it was the only independent bookstore in town, a position they regained last year when Books, Etc. closed.

Williams said her store in the Falmouth Shopping Center has weathered many changes over the past three decades, most notably in the way people shop. When she first opened, people seemed to gravitate to libraries and small bookstores, but that changed as large chain stores opened in the area, she said.

“That had a great impact on independent bookstores,” she said. “In the end I think people chose different shopping experi-ences. Some people were looking for a better price, but other people did choose an alternative, which was smaller, more close to home and more personal attention.”

“I think definitely for us Borders having finally closed ended up having a positive impact on us in the sense people were look-ing for alternatives,” she added.

Williams said the sales increase her store experienced beginning last summer helped offset loses she attributes to the rising popu-larity of e-books. She said fiction sales have softened as readers turned to e-readers, but nonfiction sales have remained strong.

Another factor The Book Review has had to contend with is location. When the shop opened, the Route 1 plaza was full of businesses and shoppers. Now, half of the plaza is empty and the number of people who wander in to peruse the shelves has diminished, Williams said.

“The traffic is vastly diminished since the shopping center was full. It used to be the shopping destination for this whole area,” she said. “It was kind of like Falmouth’s downtown. It’s one of the things I miss the most since we first started.”

Like The Book Review, Gulf of Maine Books is adjusting to being the only book-store in town. Beth Leonard, who opened

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Author inspired by her childhood in BathBy Alex Lear

BATH — Using threads from the people and places she knew in Mid-Coast Maine, Morgan Callan Rogers wove a tapestry in her debut novel, “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea.”

Set in a 1960s Maine coastal village called The Point, her coming-of-age story has earned rave reviews from publications like Entertainment Weekly and Portland Monthly. The book is available on Amazon.com and at local bookstores.

Callan Rogers, 60, who grew up in Bath and now lives in Portland, will return to her former city next week to read from and sell copies of her book at Patten Free Library, where she was an employee from the mid-1970s to early 1980s. The reading is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29.

Along with being a librarian, Callan Rog-ers has also been a journalist, an editor, an actress and a teacher. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of

HEATHER PERRYMorgan Callan Rogers of Portland, who grew up in Bath. Her first book is “Red Ruby Heart in a

Cold Blue Sea.”

Southern Maine.“Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,”

which Callan Rogers called “a love letter to the people I grew up with,” tells the story of no-nonsense coastal Mainer Flo-rine Gilham. Florine’s rite of passage into womanhood is triggered after her mother disappears. The resulting grief tears her from her father, but unites them as well.

Rogers said on Monday that she and the character of Florine are “very opposite,” noting that she is introverted and quiet while Florine is “in your face, although by nature she is shy. She comes from one of the fishing villages that are all up and down the coast of Maine, and it’s a pretty insular community.”

Florine is helped through her trials by a tight group of friends, and she becomes a strong, honest and fearless young woman.


Bath museum showcases Portland’s ‘ship-shaped history’By Alex Lear

BATH — Back in 1775, when George Washington decried the British bombard-ment of Portland early in the American Revolution, the city was actually part of a much larger Falmouth, and Maine a part of Massachusetts.

“An Outrage exceeding in Barbarity & Cruelty every hostile act practiced among civilized Nations,” Washington wrote to John Hancock, 14 years before becoming America’s first president. The quotation was pulled from history and put on display for the Maine Maritime Museum’s “Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History” exhibit.

The gallery – previously on display at the Portland Public Library, and up at the 243 Washington St. museum until May 13 – showcases Portland’s history from the

perspective of the ships that have coasted off the city’s shores in past centuries.

Maine Maritime Museum took over the financially strapped Portland Harbor Mu-seum in 2010, and absorbed its collections and membership.

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One of the many reasons I love Maine is it hasn’t been completely taken over by the mass culture/franchise system.

Los Angeles has some good qualities, but the constant barrage of slick consumer-ism wears you down. Sure, there are still successful unique small businesses, but you have to look for them as you drive by Starbucks, McDonald’s, Lamps Plus, Burger King, Bed Bath & Beyond, Star-bucks, Men’s Wearhouse, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Mc-Donald’s, Bed Bath & Even Further Beyond.

You get the idea. Every-thing repeats itself over and over, like the background in a Max Fleischer cartoon (obscure reference; worth looking it up. Just sayin’.).

Now, because it’s Los An-geles, you can have unique experiences in some of those little business-es. There’s a popular hot dog place, Pink’s. Not the one that’s shaped like a hot dog, and it’s franchised now, but it was a one-off then. Very down market; you eat on picnic tables, and the rich and famous have to stand in line to order their chili dogs and cheese fries with us poor and obscure people.

The first time I went there, I had the kind of experience that made Los Angeles inter-mittently tolerable. I was standing in line; I heard a familiar voice, turned around and saw Kiefer Sutherland. Donald’s son. Jack Bauer on “24.” Two feet away from me. No big deal.

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I’m not going to lie to you: we made eye contact. That’s right, a famous guy knows I exist. Again, no big deal. He gave me his apprehensive “Please let me buy a dog like a normal person” look. I gave him my “Oh, are you supposed to be somebody? Because

I’m still ahead of you in line” look. Later we sat at the same table.

I usually don’t relate celebrity sightings because I am not impressed by ce-lebrity. However, I make an exception for people who have saved the free world repeatedly. I’m sure Kiefer Sutherland puts his shoul-der holster on one arm at a time just like the rest of us, unaffected by being the offspring of a cultural icon and unscarred by the bully-ing his parents invited when they albatrossed him with

the name “Kiefer.” He was polite. Used a napkin. Not very chatty, but it was still comforting sharing a bench with somebody who could take out a terrorist with a plastic fork, should the need arise. ‘Cause he’s Jack Bauer.

OK, maybe I’m a little impressed by celebrity.

Forgive the digression. My original point was that in Maine, unique businesses with personalities of their own are more the rule than the exception. I’m sure a lifelong resi-dent would say Maine, or at least Portland, is as corporatized and franchised as any-where, and maybe it’s headed there. Right

Brunswick School Department fails to plan, plans for bailoutBy Pem Schaeffer

The Brunswick School Department is in full five-alarm posture over the budget for the coming school year.

A full three months before town budget hearings begin, they’re knocking on doors, sending out emails, sched-uling public meetings, and otherwise doing everything they can to convince tax-payers the sky is falling, and falling worse than ever before. The School Board’s Political Action and Media Committee scored four worri-some front-page articles in the local daily in little more than a week.

Why? Because they’ve suddenly dis-covered the revenue outlook for the com-ing fiscal year is fraught with challenges, challenges they want us to believe caught them completely by surprise, and now put the entire school system at intolerable peril.

Regrettably, there isn’t a single change in their revenue stream that wasn’t predict-able for a very long time, and should have been planned for years ago. But it’s always much easier to deny reality and then come pleading to a pliant public just before the

storm hits.This is the same behav-

ioral model used when it comes to keeping school buildings in good working order. One way or another,

they’re never able to budget sufficient an-nual funds to keep buildings in good repair. But then “suddenly,” deferred maintenance crises arise, leading often to campaigns to build new schools, because that’s “more cost effective.” Funny how that works.

Before examining the details of the cur-rent arguments, there is one overriding reality: Brunswick’s enrollment peaked at

now, though, there is a critical mass of more interesting businesses that indicate Mainers are not quite as programmed to be mindless consumers. In most places I’ve lived, it felt like people bought stuff because somebody told them they needed it. Here it seems like there are a lot more people who buy stuff so they can use it.

Look at the number of places aimed at selling bicycles to grownups. Portland must have the record for bike shops per capita. In L.A., bike riders travel in packs on expen-sive racing bikes – hedge fund managers and agents who spend all week working as hard as they can and all weekend “having fun” as hard as they can, in both cases by going around in circles with a lot of other guys dressed just like them. In Portland, the bike riding demographic seems to skew heavily toward people who want to go somewhere.

Forest Avenue has a little of everything. There’s a KFC and a Burger King – and a hydroponics store, for people who grow things scientifically as a hobby. Presumably. I may be a little cynical, but I can’t drive by the hydroponics store without thinking of the kid in my college dorm who was always bringing grow lights into his room. You know the type: Kept to himself, windows blacked out and walls papered with Reyn-olds Wrap. Smelled like sweetish smoke and Doritos. I’m sure I’m betraying my age, associating a hydroponics store with what we used to call the counter-culture. For all

I know their big customers are lobstermen growing vegetables on their boats. Either way, it’s an interesting business. People go there to get things so they can do other things.

A little farther down there’s a brewing supply store, another example of how Main-ers are into process as much as results. If all you want is a beer, you can get a six-pack anywhere. If you want something with a little more character, you take advantage of the city ordinance prohibiting a distance exceeding a hundred yards between mi-crobreweries. There are also several non-microbreweries. I’m told they’re known as “breweries” in the trade.

Finally, the supply store is next door to a Portland institution that prides itself on selling every beer ever made since the first semi-nomadic tribesman dropped his bread in the barley water by mistake. Clearly, the supply store is not serving the standard beer consumer. Their clientele are aficionados. Micro brewing isn’t enough for them. They’re nanobrewers.

So I think Maine is for producers more than consumers. Hey. Maybe they should put something about that on the big sign at the state line: “Maine. Where People Do Stuff.”

In your face, Kiefer Sutherland.Portland resident Mike Langworthy,

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No Gathering Place without the churches

May I offer a few comments relative to your article about The Gathering Place? First, and most significantly, the community ought to be made aware of the enormous generosity of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, whose willingness to lend their space gave The Gathering Place a home. Without the Adventists, there would be no Gathering

Churches a key part of The Gathering Place

We would like to thank you for the article about The Gathering Place in your Mid-Coast edition.

I want to reiterate a point made in the interview, but which did not appear in the story. That point is that The Gathering Place is not at all “the brainchild “of three in-dividuals. It is the result of leadership, collaboration and support from eight area churches, as well as from the Brunswick Area Interfaith Council. Of especial importance is the generosity of the Brunswick Seventh Day Adventist Church, which has generously allowed The Gathering Place to use their community service center.

While many of the social service agencies in the area receive some of their support from local churches, The Gathering Place is unusual in that it receives 100 percent of its funding from churches and individual donors, and none from state or federal or other public sources. In an era of shrinking federal and state budgets, such leader-ship and support from the faith community for all kinds of programs will become ever more critical if services are to be provided to those who cannot otherwise afford them. Federal and state funds will continue to shrink, and the faith community will have to fill the gap. This is the significance of the leadership shown by the churches in the case of The Gathering Place. To ignore this is to miss a very critical aspect of what is happening in our society.

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Schools must make better decisions

Gillian Graham and Emily Guerin recently reported on school budget cuts in the Mid-Coast area. None of us want to eliminate what we consider to be important out of our budget; however it seems to me that the schools have a more pressing problem than their budgets.

Over the past several years, the report card for the schools in SAD 75 (i.e., No Child Left Behind) shows that students have struggled in math and reading. Parents should be outraged that their students are lacking the necessary math skills and are unable to read at their grade levels. It is time for adults to hold the school district accountable

for what they are supposed to be doing – educating children. I feel that this is not a matter of money as it is choosing pro-grams that teach students the necessary skills and seeing that they are at grade level before promoting them to the next grade. It is my intent to work with the

schools in the area to find a solution to this problem which will not in fact cause an increase in the budget.

Patricia WaldenTopsham

Thanks for supporting Bath sister-city program

On behalf of the board of the Bath-Tsugaru Sister City Exchange Program, thank you to the many community members who contributed to the success of our first Japan culture celebration.

And to the people who enthusiastically attended many of our diverse events, yes, we are already planning next year’s second annual culture weekend.

This exchnage program with our sister city in Japan is an extraordinary asset for Bath and its residents, cultivating international friendships and understanding.

Dr. Deborah Patten, presidentBath-Tsugaru Sister City Exchange

Nothing crazy about Ron Paul’s beliefs

With regard to our “Crazy Uncle” Ron Paul, if Edgar Al-len Beem were nearly as bright and informed as he’d like us to think he is, he would make a case for his “liberal Demo-crat” brand. But, obviously, the extent to which he has stud-ied the meaning of that phrase is on a par with the depth of study that he has achieved with most of the other subjects that he pontificates and babbles about. Ridicule and sarcasm are the tools of the intellectually bankrupt. It is especially ludicrous that Beem considers himself learned and wise enough to mock and deride Paul, a truly great American.

For over a hundred years now some have thought it styl-ish and sophisticated to express views that seem progres-sive and to the “left” of the accepted views of the times. The most prominent of those – Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler – all insisted that their goals and behavior were devoted to the very notion that Beem presents: “It’s for the public good.”

There is nothing in our Constitution about a public good. There is much about our rights to be free. Nothing in the history of the human race is as noble and elegant as the Fourteenth Amendment’s “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

There is no doubt as to where Ron Paul stands on this subject.

Tom CrottyFreeport

Place, and we are all indebted to them.Secondly, The Gathering Place was conceived, and has

been supported and sustained by a number of area church-es, united in their desire to open their hands and hearts to their neighbors.

Thirdly, there were many people who conceived the idea of The Gathering Place, certainly too many to list. But on the occasions when I answer the phone at TGP, more often than not the person on the other end wants to know, “Is Bunny there today?” The rest of the time they’re looking for Chick Carroll. (A friend asked me, “Chick? Bunny? What is this, some kind of Easter basket?”) Bunny Fazekas was one of the “Founding Mothers” and remains a source of energy, enthusiasm and abiding optimism.

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The LePage administration’s education agenda, it should come as no surprise to anyone, comes straight out of the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council playbook, by way of the ultra-conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center, by way of the ultra-conservative Commissioner of Edu-cation Stephen Bowen, who is former director of MHPC’s Center for Education Excellence.

The most dramatic proposal of the LePage education agenda, which in an act of Orwellian double-speak is called “An Act to Remove In-equity in the Funding of Certain Schools,” would remove the prohibi-tion against supporting religious schools with public tax dollars.

The constitutional principle of the separation of church and state would seem to preclude funding private religious schools with public tax dollars, but parents in Maine towns without high schools who tuitioned their students into public and private schools were able to use tax money to send their kids to reli-gious schools from 1903 to 1983. So there is precedent for sending tax dollars to religious schools in Maine.

But that doesn’t make it a good idea.People who chose to send their children to private

schools will often argue that it is not fair for them to have to pay taxes to support public schools from which they derive no benefit. That’s a specious argument. First, everyone in a civil society benefits from a system of public education. Second, it’s an argument that could be used by anyone who does not have children in school.

The reason to oppose “An Act to Remove Inequity in the Funding of Certain Schools,” however, is more political than economic.

While most Americans believe in the separation of church and state, the ultra-conservatives who are pressing for public aid to religious schools (and other aspects of the LePage-Bowen educational agenda, such as open school choice) believe in the separation of school and state. It is their ultimate aim to turn educa-tion into a business run by churches and corporations. All you really need to know about the new breed of conservative activists is that they are pro-corporation and anti-government.

If Mainers approve public funding of religious schools (and open enrollment in the school of your choice), they will lose local control of education. And

the last thing we need right now is a plan that will siphon off funding for public schools.

Fortunately, the proposal to fund religious schools with our tax dollars isn’t going anywhere. There’s simply no good reason to do it and plenty of reasons not to.

What I do see coming after the religious funding act fails, however, is a back-door attempt to do the same thing with tax credits. Eight states already have some form of tuition tax credits.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Ari-zona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn that Arizona taxpayers who objected to their state offering tax credits to people who donate to school tu-ition organizations, which in turn provide scholarships to students who want to attend private or religious schools, have no legal standing and refused to hear the case.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito – the same five conservative activists who decided in Citizens United that corporations are people entitled to spend unlimited amounts of money on negative ads in an attempt to buy American elec-tions – based their decision on the argument that there is a difference between a tax appropriation and a tax credit.

“This novel distinction in standing law between appropriations and tax expenditures has as little basis in principle as it has in our precedent,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent. “Cash grants and targeted tax breaks are means of accomplishing the same government objective – to provide financial support to select individuals or organizations. Taxpayers who op-pose state aid of religion have equal reason to protest whether that aid flows from the one form of subsidy or the other. Either way, the government has financed the religious activity.”

I wish I could believe that LePage and Bowen are making a good-faith effort to improve public education in Maine, but I can’t. These are people who have no faith in public education.

Citizens United, Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization and now “An Act to Remove Inequity in the Funding of Certain Schools” are part and parcel of the same conservative plan to turn America over to private corporations. All the flag waving and freedom talk is just noise and distraction. Don’t let them take your tax dollars out of our public schools and spend it on their inferior religious schools.

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


LePage, Bowen let down public schools

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3,372 in the 2004-2005 school year, when the budget was $27.7 million. Currently, enrollment is 2,456 and the budget is $33.3 million. Hence, in seven years, the budget has grown by 20 percent, while enrollment has declined by 27 percent, bringing new relevance to the concept of “upside down.”

Here are the “revenue shortfalls” justifying the current “budgetary crisis:”

• Loss of one-time stimulus funds of $693,000. This was clearly a one-time windfall; factoring it into the revenue baseline for operations is irresponsible beyond belief.

• Reduction in state-provided General Purpose Aid of $1.2 million (and mention of 55 percent “mandate.”) I am not aware of any such mandate; it has always been described as a “promise,” whatever that means in legisla-tive terms. If a school department raises their budget by 20 percent, do they really think the state will automatically send them 20 percent more? Moreover, it’s clear the state formula uses enrollment as a key parameter; declining enrollment equals declining GPA.

• Reduction in federal impact aid for U.S. Navy depen-dents of $100,000. During the peak enrollment years, the system educated 660 military dependents, and received something more than $1 million from the Navy to offset the cost. That works out to less than $2,000 a student in a system that spends well in excess of $10,000 per student. Accordingly, the loss of the military dependents can be seen as a revenue windfall, eliminating a huge operating loss.

• Reduction in Durham student tuition of $150,000. Here again, this change has been known about for several years, and like the military dependents, eliminates a per-student operating loss.

Not a single circumstance the School Department faces can be called unexpected or otherwise unforeseeable. In con-trast, here are the realities associated with system operation:

• In the last few years, three schools have been closed and replaced with one new, purportedly extremely cost-effective building.

• Budget levels have stayed flat despite continuous, sig-nificant enrollment decline.

• GPA has grown to $4,765 per student in the current year from $3,432 per student in 2005-2006, an increase of 38 percent.

• Now the worst part: annual per-student costs have grown from $8,230 in 2004-2005 to $13,559 in the current year, an increase of $5,329, or 65 percent.

The result is a cumulative cost of $176,000 this year, compared to $123,000 five years ago, and $93,000 10 years ago – an increase of 89 percent.

We have every right to expect that those responsible for administering the system in the public trust should have identified and prepared for fiscal certainty. Somehow, though, reality is not a popular commodity for those spend-ing other people’s money.

Brunswick resident Pem Schaeffer writes a blog, The Other Side of Town.

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Patrick J. Vaillancourt, 78BOWDOINHAM — Patrick J. Vaillan-

court, 78, died Feb. 20 at his grandson’s home.

He was born in Fort Fairfield on June 26, 1933, a son of An-thony Smart and Clara Vaillancourt.

He attended North Primary and Morse High School. He served in the U.S. Army and in 1948 his father purchased Smarts Auto Body Shop in Bath. He moved to Connecticut where he became Chevrolet certified and worked as a painter and detailed cars on the side. He returned to Bath and was employed at Bath Iron Works and Pratt & Whitney.

On May 7, 1991, he married Claire M. Cyr.He was a 50-year member of the Knights

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Richard D. Wyckoff Sr., 67: Energetic and charismaticWISCASSET — Richard D. Wyckoff Sr.,

67, died Feb. 14 at his home.He was born in Newport, R.I., on Aug.

26, 1944, son of Wil-liam D. and Ruth F. Wyckoff.

He attended Culver Military Academy and Miami of Ohio Univer-sity. On July 15, 1967, he married Katherine E. Partridge. He served in the U.S. Navy sub-marine service during the Vietnam War.

Wyckoff was employed at Maine Yankee, then for many years in instrumentation and controls, and retired as a senior consultant for IBM. As a second career he indulged in his long-held fascination with automobiles by establishing a used car parts division for a local dealer. He expanded and reno-vated his home doing all plumbing, heat-ing and electrical as well as carpentry. He was always willing to share his wealth of knowledge.

His family and friends will remember him as an energetic and charismatic man.

Doris May Bailey, 83BRUNSWICK — Doris May Bailey, 83,

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26, 1928, the daughter of George and Gertrude Raymond Libby. She graduated from Greenville High School in 1946 and from Maine General School of Nursing in Portland in 1949.

In April of 1950 she began working at Bath Memorial Hospital, first as an operating room nurse and later as a 3-11 supervisor. In 1970 she resumed work in the operating department and be-

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Wyckoff was predeceased by one of his brothers, Robert D. Wyckoff. He is survived by his wife, Katherine E. Wyckoff, of Wis-cassett; son, Richard D. Wyckoff Jr. of Los Angeles; daughter, Elizabeth Bouinachova and her husband, Ivan, of Lake Arrowhead, Calif.; brothers, William R. Wyckoff of Anthem, Ariz., and Jonathan W. Wyckoff and his wife, JoAnn, of Portsmouth, N.H.; grandson, Nikolas William Bouinachova; and many nieces and nephews.

Private services will be held at a later date.

garage and spending time with his family and friends. He was a great storyteller and could remember everything he’d ever done.

He was predeceased by his parents; sis-ter, Joan Smart Vaillancourt; and his wife, Claire M. Vaillancourt.

He is survived by three stepsons, Jim Caron of Richmond, Robert Caron of Liver-more and Gary Caron and his wife, Jes-sica, of Richmond; one stepdaughter, Carol Clark of Virgina; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several cousins.

Visiting hours took place Feb. 23 at Daigle Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Feb. 24 at All Saints Parish, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Lincoln Street, Bath.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1 Bow-doin Mill Island, Suite 300, Topsham, ME 04086.

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came supervisor for that department. She retired due to ill health in 1982 after 32 years of service.

In 1985 she and her husband Clayton began spending winters in Largo, Fla., and after his retirement they traveled all around the country. She greatly enjoyed traveling and visiting with family and friends.

During her spare time she enjoyed cook-ing, reading, playing cards and bingo. After her husband’s death, she enjoyed spending her winters in San Diego with her son and his family and their dog Mackenzie, who was her constant companion.

Her beloved husband, Clayton, died on July 6, 1991. She was also predeceased by her parents; her brother, Francis G. Libby; and sister, Octavia M. Gallagher.

Bailey is survived by her son, Richard C. Bailey and his wife, Barbara, of San Diego; daughter, Cynthia D. Frazier and her husband, Randall, of Lisbon Falls; four granddaughters, Jennifer L. Caron and her husband, David, of Brunswick, Jessica A. Layne and her husband, Dennis, of Mesa, Ariz., Joanna M. Adinolfi and her husband, Richard, of East Northport, N.Y., and Julia M. Bailey of San Diego; and two great-granddaughters, Arianna E. L. Caron and Amelia C. Adinolfi.

Visiting hours took place Feb. 21 at the David E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath. Burial will be in Grover Cemetery in Woolwich.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Bath Area Food Bank, c/o Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Wash-ington St., Bath, ME 04530 or the Coastal Humane Society, 30 Range Road, Bruns-wick, ME 04011.

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Changle, China, on Nov. 6, 1968, a daugh-ter of Qiuyuan and Fengjin Li and was educated in the local schools. She graduated from Fujian Teachers University in China with her bachelor’s degree. She taught at Sajing Middle School as an English teacher before moving to the United States.

On Aug. 2, 2005, she married Jay Bishop and was united with her husband here in December 2006.

Bishop worked at Hannaford in Topsham as a cashier and taught Chinese to the chil-dren at Woolwich Central School. She was an active member of Small Point Baptist Church.

She loved spending time with her fam-ily, working in her rose garden, candies, reading, sitting at the beach, Bejeweled and playing Spades with her husband and his parents.

Bishop is survived by her husband, Jay, of Phippsburg; her parents of China; her daughter, Shuning “Ann” Chen of Phippsbug; stepdaughters, April Bishop of Laconia, N.H., and Tabitha Bishop of Bath; stepson, Paul Biship of Brunswick; sister, Aixian Li of China; brothers Xiankai Li and Xiandi Li, both of China; father and mother-in-law, Ray and Dian Bishop Sr., of Sebasco Estates; and six grandchildren, Mathis Crompton, Isis Skoby, Angelo Sawler, Olivia Bishop, Tyler Stewart and Darius Goulette.

Visiting hours were held Feb. 22 at David

Barbara K. Wilson, 88HARPSWELL - Barbara K. Wilson, 88,

died on Feb. 14.She was predeceased by the love of her

life, Roy W. Wilson. She is survived by her daughter Gale and her husband, Michael A. Doyle; grandson, Justin R. Allen; several nieces; and one nephew.

A celebration of her life was held Feb. 18 at the West Harpswell Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, donations in Wilson’s memory can be made to the American Cancer Society, One Bowdoin Mill Island, Suite 300, Topsham, ME 04086.

Edward S. Thompson, 82BATH — Edward S. Thompson, 82,

died Feb. 18.Thompson was

born in Bath on March 15, 1929, to Edward K. and Edna Dunton Thompson.

H e l iv e d a n d worked in the Bath and West Bath area all his life. He was an excellent mechanic who put his skills to work for the Bath Bus Service, Dodge Chevrolet and Bath Iron Works. He enjoyed woodworking, camping, his cats and just “puttering” around the house.

Thompson was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Barbara Thompson, and son, Keith Thompson.

He is survived by daughters, Karen Al-lard and her husband, Roger, of Cundy’s Harbor and Gail Dill and her husband, Gerry, of Ellsworth; brother, Perry Thompson of Virginia; six grandchildren, Roger, Jolene, Amy, Cathy, Amanda and Melissa; and 12 great-grandchildren.

The family wishes to thank the staff at HillHouse who lovingly cared for Thompson and became his extended family.

A graveside service and time of re-memberance will be held at a later date at Orchard Hill Cemetery, West Bath.

Richard A. Lay, 80BRUNSWICK — Richard A. Lay, 80,

died Feb. 12 at Mid Coast Hospital.He was born in Long Beach, Calif., on

Sept. 21, 1931, the son of Hiram and Ruth Gray Lay.

Lay graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., in 1949 and later entered the U.S. Air Force at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. He served in Guam and was honorably discharged in 1955.

On July 19, 1958, he married Arline Pennell.

After serving in the military, Lay went to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in meteorology. For three years he worked as a meteorologist in Long Beach, Calif., and then was transferred to San Fransisco International Airport, serving as a marine meteorologist from 1967 to 1986. It was during this period that he was head meteo-rologist for the 1984 Olympic Games. From 1986 to 1992, Lay was the lead forecaster for marine meteorology in Hawaii, where he accurately predicted the path of Hurri-cane Iniki, which struck the island of Kauai. He proudly received a meteorology award for this from NOAA. In 1993 he retired to Brunswick.

He was a member of the AMA, Navy

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Memorial contributions may be made to the Small Point Baptist Church Memorial Fund.

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Lay is survived by his wife of 54 years, Arline; two sons, Dwight Fairbanks Lay of Long Beach, Calif., and James Lay; daugh-ter, Eve Hladky and her husband, Timothy, of Brunswick; sister-in-law, Nancy Pennell of Brunswick; and nephew, Samuel Pennell of Brunswick.

A memorial service was held Feb. 23 at First Parish Church in Brunswick with Rev. Geoff Parker officiating.

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2/12 at 11:40 a.m. Richard Hilton, 34, of Bluff Road, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Richard Ross on Bluff Road.2/13 at 1:20 p.m. Travis Winchenbach, 19, of Tarbox Street, was arrested by Officer Richard Ross on Tarbox Street on a charge of violation of bail.2/19 at 1 a.m. Sean Boynton, 44, of Oak Street, was arrested by Officer Jason Aucoin on Oak Street on charges of two counts of assault on an officer, refusing to submit to arrest, violation of conditional release and terrorizing.

Officer Heidi Nelson on Federal Street on a charge of having a dog at large.2/16 at 11:46 p.m. A 16-year old boy, of Bow-doinham, was issued a summons by Officer Patrick Scott on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

Sore throat, sweet tooth2/14 at 2:25 p.m. A Walmart employee allegedly caught Marilyn Rogers, 59, of Harpswell Island Road, Harpswell, stealing from the store. Rogers reportedly tried to steal a Valentine’s Day card, eight Russell Stover coconut eggs, Tylenol and cough drops.

Outrageous and contagious2/18 at 1:12 p.m. A Walmart employee al-legedly caught Lisa Williams, 52, of Lisbon Road, Lisbon, trying to steal jeans, DVDs of “Contagion” and “Outrage,” and nail fungal remover.

Fire calls2/16 at 8:26 p.m. Smoke detector on Lar-rabee Farm Drive.2/16 at 9:12 p.m. Electrical problem on Casco Road.2/17 at 2:40 p.m. Lines down on Old Port-land Road.2/17 at 4:32 p.m. All other miscellaneous complaints at Topsham Annex.2/18 at 12:20 p.m. Medical emergency on Union Street.2/18 at 6:57 p.m. Inspections on Intrepid Circle.2/19 at 6:54 a.m. Medical emergency on Thomas Point Road.

EMSBrunswick emergency medical services re-sponded to 32 calls from Feb. 13-20.

TOPSHAM Arrests

2/13 at 9:55 p.m. Frederick Beem, 36, of Main Street, was arrested by Sgt. Frederick Dunn on Main Street on a charge of operating after suspension.2/14 at 8:12 p.m. William Adkins, 30, of Carriage Street, Dresden, was arrested on a warrant by Sgt. Frederick Dunn on the Interstate 295 on-ramp.2/16 at 9 p.m. Barry Lubee, 33, of Foreside Road, was arrested by Officer Robert Ramsay on Foreside Road on charges of domestic violence assault and criminal mischief.

Summonses2/14 at 12:05 p.m. A 17-year-old boy, of Topsham, was issued a summons by Officer William Collins on Republic Avenue on a charge of theft.

Fire calls2/14 at 8:28 a.m. Alarm activation on Wax-wing Drive.2/14 at 5:39 p.m. Mutual aid to West Bath.2/15 at 5:59 p.m. Odor of gas on Main Street.2/17 at 3:19 p.m. Alarm activation on Fair-field Drive2/17 at 3:54 p.m. Odor in residence on Congress Circle.2/18 at 7:43 a.m. Smoke detector activation on Chamberlain Street.2/19 at 1:30 p.m. Smoke detector activation on Chamberlain Street.2/19 at 6:46 p.m. Cooking fire on Elm Street.2/20 at 6:21 p.m. Cooking fire Heron Drive.2/20 at 6:21 p.m. Furnace malfunction on Wilson Street.2/20 at 6:27 p.m. Medical assist on Foreside Road.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to 21 calls from Feb. 13-20.

HARPSWELL Arrests

No arrests or summonses were reported from Feb. 13-20.

Summonses2/13 Andrew Jones, 40, of Adams Road, Brunswick, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on Water Street on a charge of failure to give notice of an accident by the quickest means.2/16 A 15-year-old girl, of Bath, was issued a summons by Officer Andrew Booth at Morse High School on a charge of assault.2/17 A 16-year-old boy, of Bath, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel at North and Washington streets on a charge of possession of a usable amount of marijuana.

Unfazed by the Tase2/19 at 12:15 a.m. Officers Jason Aucoin and Brett McIntire responded to an Oak Street apartment concerning a family fight. Upon arrival they could hear what sounded like someone destroying the apartment. They announced themselves and resident Sean Boynton, 44, allegedly shouted profanity at them and refused to open the door. Soon afterward, Boynton's teenage son left the apartment, seemingly frightened by the situa-tion, and the officers entered to find Boynton intoxicated and belligerent, the living room in

disarray, apparently from Boynton's behavior. Learning that Boynton was in violation of his conditions of release, the officers told Boynton he was under arrest. Boynton report-edly became extremely aggressive and when he pushed the officers, Aucoin deployed his TASER stun gun, which reportedly did not connect enough to affect Boynton. A violent struggle ensued, culminating with Boynton's arrest. He was charged with two counts of assault on an officer, refusing to submit to arrest, violation of conditional release and terrorizing.

Fire calls2/13 at 11:02 a.m. Broken water pipe on Elsinore Avenue.2/13 at 6:02 p.m. False alarm at Washington House.2/14 at 2:40 p.m. Outside fire in Woolwich.2/14 at 5:30 p.m. Structure fire in West Bath.2/15 at 6:50 a.m. Kitchen fire in Phippsburg.2/15 at 5:03 p.m. Propane leak on Middle Street.2/17 at 6:10 p.m. Furnace malfunction on Washington Street.2/19 at 7:16 p.m. Stove fire at Washington House.2/20 at 10:11 p.m. Smoke scare on Hinkley Street.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 40 calls from Feb. 13-20.

BRUNSWICK Arrests

2/14 at 2:25 p.m. Marilyn J. Rogers, 59, of Harpswell Island Road, Harpswell, was arrested by Officer Justin Dolci on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.2/15 at 2:58 p.m. Timothy Patrick Fraser Jr., 20, of Weymouth Street, was arrested by Detective Richard Cutliffe on Cushing Street on a warrant.2/16 at 3:41 p.m. Lena Pelkey, 44, of Gurnet Road, was arrested by Detective Richard Cutliffe on Medical Center Drive on a charge of violating condition of release.2/18 at 1:06 a.m. Jill C. Kennedy, 47, of Dy-ers Cove Road, Harpswell, was arrested by Officer Daniel Sylvain on Routes 1 and 196 on a charge of operating under the influence.2/18 at 1:46 a.m. Dwan N. Russell, 24, of Heath Lane, Bath, was arrested by Officer Patrick Scott on Pleasant Street on a warrant.2/18 at 7:20 a.m. Davil Arthur Campbell, 52, of Park Street, Mechanic Falls, was arrested by Officer Terry Goan on Old Portland Road on a charge of operating under the influence.2/18 at 1:12 p.m. Lisa Williams, 52, of Lis-bon Road, Lisbon, was arrested by Officer Gretchen Paxton on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.2/19 at 1:57 a.m. Dana W. Lord, 42, of Quimby Street, Bath, was arrested by Officer Robert Lane Jr. on Federal Street on a warrant.2/19 at 2:02 p.m. Destiny Mae Oppedisano, 37, of Columbia Avenue, was arrested by Offi-cer Jonathan O’Connor on Columbia Avenue on a charge of domestic violence assault.2/19 at 7:13 p.m. Joshua Knight, 28, of Casco Road, was arrested by Officer Kristian Oberg on Boody Street on charges of operating after license suspension and violating condition of release.2/20 at 12:13 a.m. John McCosker, 55, of Wildwood Crest, N.J., was arrested by Officer Kristian Oberg on Maine Street on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses2/13 at 9:32 a.m. Alan James Barry, 44, of Perkins Road, Burnham, was issued a sum-mons by Officer Justin Dolci on Bath and Old Bath roads on a charge of operating a vehicle without a license.2/16 at 3:44 p.m. Susan Lamdin, 57, of Quarry Road, was issued a summons by

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Postseasonpalooza in the Mid-Coast(Ed. Note: We’ll recap the swimming

and skiing state meets in next week’s edition)

Mid-Coast winter sports teams have been very busy over the past several days and the fun’s not over yet.

Boys’ basketballThe Hyde boys’ basketball team, which

didn’t win a single game in 2010-11, went 18-0 this winter and ranked first in Western Class D. The Phoenix opened up the tournament Saturday with a 60-40 win over No. 8 Buckfield and advanced to meet No. 5 Vinalhaven in Wednesday’s semifinals.

Brunswick qualified for the Eastern A tournament with an 11-7 mark, good for the No. 6 seed, but had to face No. 3 Mt. Blue in the quarterfinals Saturday and the Dragons’ season came to an with a 72-47 loss.

Girls’ basketballMt. Ararat’s girls’ team, after a 12-6

regular season, earned the No. 5 seed in Eastern A. The Eagles sprung a mild upset over No. 4 Messalonskee last Friday in the quarterfinal round, 52-46, and advanced to set up a showdown with undefeated, top-ranked Cony in the semi-finals Wednesday night.

Indoor trackBrunswick and Mt. Ararat’s boys’ in-

door track and field teams both finished six points shy of the state champions Monday. The Dragons and Eagles both had 40 points (as did Bonny Eagle), which left them third behind Scarborough (46) and Deering (45).

Mt. Ararat won the 3,200 relay (Seth Bryant, Will Hirnak, Nick Oram and Ryan Smith, 8 minutes, 15.40 seconds) and McKenzie Gary in the long jump (22 feet-0.5 inches).

Brunswick’s lone individual champion was Alex Nichols in the 400 (51.05 sec-onds).

On the girls’ side, also won by Scarborough with 66 points, Brunswick tied Cheverus for fourth with 45. Mt. Ararat (12 points) finished 12th.

Brunswick’s Alexis Dickinson set a new record in the 55 (7.22). The Eagles were led by Kelly Lynch, who was fourth

Bowdoin women advance to NESCAC semis

Right, Bowdoin’s Amy Hackett drives around a Wesleyan defender during the Polar Bears’ 53-37

win in a NESCAC quarterfinal Saturday. The Polar Bears, who have never lost a NESCAC tournament

game at home, improved to 19-6 on the season.BrIan Beard / For The ForecasTer

Jill Henrikson, above, finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds as the Polar Bears advanced to the

NESCAC semifinals for the 12th year in a row, where they will face Tufts Saturday in Amherst, Mass.

in the mile (5:21.09).Wrestling

Morse had the top showing at the wres-tling state championships held Saturday.

The Shipbuilders came in fifth in Class B with 69 points (Camden Hills was first with 169). Gary Stevens was the cham-pion at 126-pounds. Wyatt Brackett won at 145.

In the Class A meet, Brunswick (20 points) tied Cheverus for 13th, while Mt. Ararat (12.5) was 16th. Marshwood (167)

was the champion. Brunswick’s Jared Jensen was the 152-pound champion.

HockeyThe playoff run of the Brunswick girls’

hockey team came to a sudden end last Wednesday in the East Region Final when the Dragons lost to Greely for the third time this year, 7-2. Top-ranked Brunswick’s final record was 15-4-1.

On the boys’ side, Brunswick will be in the playoffs despite a five-game los-ing streak. Last week, the Dragons fell

at St. Dom’s, 7-0, and at Cony, 1-0. They wrapped up the regular season at Poland/Gray-New Gloucester Wednesday. If cur-rent seeds hold, seventh-ranked Bruns-wick would play at No. 2 Bangor in the quarterfinals Tuesday.

Mt. Ararat will fall short. The Eagles fell to 5-11-1 and 10th in the Eastern A standings after losses at Maranacook (3-2), Lake Region (4-0) and Massabesic/OOB (4-3, in overtime). Mt. Ararat’s season concluded Thursday at Cony.

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Hats off to the King of SwingBy Scott Andrews

There’s quite a wide range of very interesting music available this weekend and the coming week in a territory that spans Portland to Brunswick.

The interesting music starts Friday at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where Henry Lebedinsky will play an all-Rus-sian program on the clavichord, one of the modern piano’s predecessors.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra switches to Pops mode this Saturday and Sunday with “A Benny Goodman Tribute” that features clarinet virtuoso Dave Bennett as the guest soloist and the orchestra led by guest conductor Teresa Cheung.

There’s an All-Star lineup at One Longfellow Square on Feb. 29 as five prominent members of local string bands combine into one “super group” in a fundraiser for Portland’s topnotch nonprofit arts presenter.

Henry LebedinskyScholarly lecture or crowd-pleasing

clavichord concert? That’s an obvious question posed by this Friday’s appear-ance of Henry Lebedinsky in a free pub-lic performance hosted by the Bowdoin College music department in Brunswick.

The answer is a bit of both.Let’s start with the scholar-performer

in his own words: “I am a historical key-boardist and composer living in Minne-sota, and am currently serving as interim director of music at St. Clement’s Epis-copal Church in St. Paul. For the past 18 years, I have played continuo with numerous orchestras and early-music en-sembles and have given solo recitals on clavichord, harpsichord and organ across the U.S. and United Kingdom.

“I studied historical performance at Bowdoin College and the Longy School of Music, where I was a student of Pe-ter Sykes. My major research areas are 17th-century Italian nun composers and 18th-century Russian keyboard music, and I have led master classes on early-music performance and rhetorical play-ing at Davidson College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Appalachian State University.

“My publications of music by Isabella Leonarda, Maria Peruchona and Barbara Strozzi have been performed across the globe, most recently in Lebanon, France and South Korea.”

The clavichord is the oldest form of keyboard instrument. It flourished from the 15th through early 19th centuries and was one of the predecessors of the mod-ern piano. Lebedinsky’s Friday program is titled “The Birth of Russian Keyboard Music.” Musical selections will feature several obscure Russian composers of

Dave Bennett is a clarinet virtuoso who travels around the country performing “A Benny Goodman Tribute” on pops programs with symphony orchestras. He’ll be the Portland

Symphony Orchestra’s guest on Saturday and Sunday.

the late 18th and early 19th centuries who preceded the more famous Russian Romantics of the mid-19th and 20th centuries. In addition to playing pieces by these composers, Lebedinsky will also explain their historical importance – in layman’s terminology.

The program is slated for Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Studzinski Recital Hall on the Bowdoin College campus in Bruns-wick. Call 725-3375.

Portland Symphony OrchestraEight decades ago, American clarinetist

Benny Goodman was widely hailed as “The King of Swing,” leading his epony-mous orchestra to a series of top-selling records and world tours. His name and his exquisitely smooth sound – character-ized by melodic inventiveness and techni-cal excellence – epitomize the Big Band style that dominated American popular music for a generation.

In the past five years, an exquisitely talented clarinetist from the Detroit area has re-created Goodman’s style in a tribute act that has been appearing with symphony orchestras around the U.S. Dave Bennett, 28, has been widely hailed as the “next best thing” to the King of Swing himself. These comments have been made by people who ought to know, such as Bill Hyland, trustee of the Benny Goodman estate.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra has engaged this young man to headline its February 25-26 Pops program. Bennett will be accompanied by a coterie of his own musicians – a pianist, bassist, drum-mer, guitarist and female vocalist – plus of course the musicians of the PSO. The arrangements for symphony orchestra were created by Paul Keller, who is best known for his work with jazz singer Diana Krall.

The PSO will be led by guest conduc-tor Teresa Cheung. Not to be confused with the actress of the same name, Cheung is the maestro of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and the Bard College Orchestra in New York. Cheung is equally adept at the classical core of the symphony orchestra as well as pops programs, where she is in much demand as a guest conductor.

Bennett is certainly a hero in his home town. Kendra Whitlock, director of pops and special programs for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is among Bennett’s boosters. “Dave’s Goodman Symphony Pops show is absolutely spectacular,” she said. “Dave Bennett wowed the audience and brought the house down.”

Michael Krajewski, a conductor who leads symphonic pops programs in Texas, Florida and New Hampshire, adds his

ringing endorsement: “Clarinetist Dave Bennett’s extraordinary re-creation of the sound and artistry of Benny Goodman brings the Swing Era back to life in all its splendor.”

This weekend’s program of Goodman favorites includes most of the biggest and best-remembered hit tunes: “Let’s Dance,” “Bugle Call Rag,” “Why Don’t You Do Right,” “These Foolish Things,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Slipped Disc,” “And the Angels Sing,” “Blues in the Night,” “Goody Goody” and “Sing Sing Sing.”

Catch the Portland Symphony Or-chestra’s “A Benny Goodman Tribute” this weekend at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. There are two per-

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celebrated in special ways, and One Longfellow Square, Portland’s top small venue for singer-songwriters and roots musicians, is celebrating Leap Day with an All-Star String Band, a quintet drawn from local acts which have played the venue in the past.

Leap for Longfellow! is also a fund-raiser for One Longfellow, which became a nonprofit organization last year. All the musicians will donate their time and talent.

Here’s the lineup: Mandolinist Joe Walsh plays with the Gibson Brothers and Crow Molly, fiddler Darol Anger plays with Yulegrass and Republic of Strings, fiddler Brittany Haas plays with Crooked Still and Republic of Strings, guitarist Courtney Hartman plays with Della Mae, and bassist Amanda Kowalski also plays with Della Mae.

I’ve been attending One Longfellow Square events for years, and deeply ap-preciate the fact that this venue brings in national touring acts – primarily singer-songwriters and small ensembles specializing in roots and Americana – and strongly supports local musicians or all stripes, ranging from bluegrass to classical.

This benefit concert is slated for One Longfellow Square (corner of State and Congress in Portland) at 8 p.m. Feb. 29. Call 761-1757.

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Monday 2/27Professor Dykstra Eusden, dis-cussion, 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242.

Wednesday 2/29Lunch at the Library: Virtual Li-braries, 12 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141.

Morgan Cullen reading from “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” 6:30 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Sum-mer St., Bath, 443-5141.

GalleriesFriday 3/2Debra Arter, Artist Reception, 5-7 p.m., Gallery Framing, 12 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 563-7100.

Wednesday 3/7”Little House meets Little Dog,” Mon.-Sat. 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m.-6 p.m., Little Dog Coffee Shop, 87 Maine St., Brunswick, runs through March 31, 725-8820.

MuseumsInuit Art Exhibition from the col-lection of Rabbi Harry Sky, runs through April 16, Peary-MacMil-lan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, 725-3416

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Wednesday 2/29Bath Area Family YMCA Annual Meeting, 5:30-7 p.m., Mae’s Cafe, 160 Centre St., Bath, RSVP by Feb. 27, 443-4112.

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By the end of June, Cornerstones of Sci-ence plans to have telescopes in all 22 of its partner libraries across the state, each work-ing with astronomers like Ron Thompson of the Southern Maine Astronomy Society.

“I can’t think of a better way for the libraries to reach out to the community and introduce astronomy to folks who wouldn’t get into it because they can’t afford it or who have never tried it before,” Thompson said.

After hearing a presentation about the program, Thompson jumped on board and put together a presentation for each of the libraries.

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BUSINESS RENTALS

CLASS-A OFFICE SUITES - 1to seven offices available.(155sf -210sf); Prime location,80 Leighton Rd, Falmouth exit53 off the ME Turnpike. Ampleparking; individual signageavailable. Shared kitchenette &conference room; opportunityfor shared secretarial supportservices. Add’tl storage spaceavailable on site. Call Betsy orTracy@878-1751 to view/addt’ldetails.

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College Students w/ID $7Children over 13 $7Kids 12 & under $5

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FUNDRAISER

PANCAKE BREAKFAST-GIRL SCOUTS 100th Birthday.Applebee’s, 1032 BrightonAve, Portland. March 11, 2012.8am-10am. Sponsored by316th bn Infantry AssociationBenefit: Troops 2051 & 1712.Contact CSM Joel Chapman.775-0284 for tickets.

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HEALTH

Alcoholics Anonymous Fal-mouth Group Meeting TuesdayNight, St. Mary`s EpiscopalChurch, Route 88, Falmouth,Maine. 7:00-8:00 PM.




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Everyone Needs SomeoneWe need your help to make a difference in the lives of older adultsin Cumberland County. We are looking for proactive, flexible people,who are looking for a challenging and satisfying part-time job.If you love the idea of being a “difference maker” call today toinquire about joining our team of non-medical in home CAREGivers.Part-time day, evening, overnight and weekend hours.Currently we have a high need for awake overnights and weekends.

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Town of Chebeague Island192 North Rd.Chebeague Island, ME 04017Attn: Eric Dyer, Town AdministratorPhone: (207) 846-3148Website: www.townofchebeagueisland.org/

Qualification are due by 4pm on March 7 inthe Chebeague Island Town Office at the aboveaddress; envelope clearly marked “ConsultingCivil Engineer RFQ”. Qualifications will bereviewed by the Town Administrator and Boardof Selectmen. Qualified consultants will remainon file with the Town and may be hired directlyon smaller projects or be placed on a short list ofRFP recipients for larger projects. Qualificationpackages will be acknowledged by March 14th.Consulting work for upcoming road projects maybe awarded at a meeting of the Board of Selectmenon March 14 and consultants interested in thiswork are invited to attend a planning meeting andhearing on February 29.

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the store 33 years ago with Gary Law-less, said 2011 began with a trend toward lower sales.

“Then the Brunswick Borders closed and sales picked up,” she said. “Overall it was a good year.”

Leonard said she has seen the number of people turning to e-books and online sales “growing by leaps and bounds.”

“We’re challenging ourselves to get special orders to our customers in the same or less time they’d get them from an online book seller,” she said.

Beyond that, Leonard said Gulf of Maine Books will continue to “just do what we do” because loyal customers appreciate the store’s inventory and the community created there. To that end, the store will celebrate its 33rd year in busi-ness with a birthday party on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m.

“We’ve fostered a bit of a community here. People like to come and meet and be here in person,” she said. “As long as there are books, I think there will be bookstores.”

Amy McNaughton, owner of Royal River Books, said sales were up nearly 200 percent from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 and

were up 75 percent in January. She at-tributes the “major increase in business” to picking up Borders customers and to changes she made in the store.

To attract more customers and better fit the needs of the community, McNaugh-ton expanded the children’s section, added story times and craft sessions, and added items such as candles to her inventory.

When McNaughton opened her store four years ago, she knew she’d be com-peting against online sales and the grow-ing popularity of e-readers.

“Everyone I knew thought I was nuts for opening a bookstore, but I knew those

were the obstacles I’d be up against,” she said.

McNaughton said she believes she can keep her business viable by being creative and diversifying her inventory as needed. She has also tried to create a space where community members can gather.

“My goal is to serve the community,” she said. “I hope to be a good resource for the area for buying books, for getting together.”

Gillian Graham can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter:

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SCENIC TUSCANY- Charm-ing 1 bedroom apartmentequipped, old world patio,backyard, great views. Historichillside village, ocean and Flo-rence close by. $725.00 week-ly. 207-767-3915.

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Authorfrom page 6

“She’s what I would call ‘in life,’” Cal-lan Rogers added. “As a writer, I’m an observer. ... (Florine) is probably a little more like my sister and her friends, who went to parties and had a ball and got in a little trouble and got out of it, and they’re still die-hard friends 40 years later.”

Although the book was released in the U.S. just last month, a German version debuted in 2010 and has sold more than 100,000 copies, and earned a Reader’s Choice award in general literature. The book has also been released in Australia and will be available in Spain and Italy.

“It’s just been kind of a fairy tale story,” Callan Rogers said. “... I knew we had something special, because (Florine’s) voice was really authentic” – so much so that the character sort of guided the author’s path in writing the story.

“It was just a joy to write,” she said. “It was just an organic experience as a writer.”

When not living in Portland, Callan Rog-ers spends her time in South Dakota, where her partner runs an art gallery.

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

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Circulation of withdrawal petitions became legal Jan. 1, as part of the Re-organization Law passed by the Legisla-ture in June 2007. The petitions require signatures from at least 10 percent of the number of local voters who cast ballots in the last gubernatorial election, and

Plourde said Simon got about 85 more signatures than needed.

Simon said it took less than two weeks to gather the signatures, and he could have gathered more but wanted to get the petition in front of selectmen for their meeting this month.

He said he has not taken a position on whether the town should withdraw, but said revisions to the school reorganiza-

extracting the town from School Admin-istrative District 51, which it has shared with Cumberland for more than 40 years.

“It could be a game changer,” Verrill said on Tuesday when he learned about the bill. “There’s a huge difference in that final vote if you only need 51 percent versus 66.”

Rep. Peter Johnson, R-Greenville, said he introduced the amendment that reduced the necessary majority because he wants it to be just as easy for a town to get out of a consolidated district as it was to join one.

“I believe (the amendment) was justi-fied because when the state passed the

consolidation law we had system of pen-alties that coerced a lot of communities into joining consolidated units,” Johnson said.

He said he proposed the amendment after hearing from several towns, par-ticularly in Aroostook and Washington counties, that were unhappy with their new regional school units.

But in order to gain votes on the Edu-cation and Cultural Affairs Committee, Johnson added a “sunset clause” on the amendment. Towns will only have two years from the date the bill goes into ef-

tion law could return local control and reduce the local tax burden.

The petition is the first step in a process that could eventually require two-thirds of Durham voters to approve leaving the RSU. A bill pending in the Legislature may reduce that majority to a simple one; it has been moved out of the 14-member Education and Cultural Affairs Committee with an “Ought to Pass” recommendation.

The provision allowing a simple major-ity for withdrawals from RSUs would last for two years, but votes in both houses of the Legislature have not been scheduled.

Wakeman said selectmen will discuss allocating funds to pay for the withdrawal process with the idea of placing a fund-ing request on the warrant for the Town Meeting in April. A public hearing will be scheduled before the June referendum.

The reorganization law says if voters approve going forward, selectmen will be required to notify RSU 5 Superintendent Shannon Welsh and explain why with-drawal is justified.

A local committee of one selectmen, one petitioner, a Durham School Board member and a member of the gen-eral public must then convene to create a withdrawal plan subject to approval by the commissioner of the state Department of Education.

Welsh, the Durham school superin-tendent before the formation of RSU 5, attributed the withdrawal petition to small groups of residents who may be unhappy over a perceived loss of local control of schools and increases in property taxes.

The 11-member RSU 5 School Board has six Freeport members, three Durham members and two from Pownal, and Welsh said it is very rare that the six Freeport members hold sway over the other towns.

She also noted the increases in taxes in Durham stem largely from a bond to pay for construction of Durham Com-munity School in 2010. RSU 5 budget documents show more than $1.4 million debt service on the school in each of the last two years.

Since the formation of RSU 5 in 2009, Durham voters have rejected the annual school budgets each year. Simon said the lack of support for RSU budgets in

Durham and Pownal indicates a desire for local control, but the budgets still pass because of support from Freeport.

Jane Blais, a School Board member representing Durham, said RSU5 has provided more access to educational opportunities for Durham children. She said her voice and opinions have not been ignored on what she called a “high-functioning” school board.

“Withdrawal from the RSU would be detrimental to the education of Durham’s students and, in the long term, to the wallets of our citizens,” Blais said in an email.

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fect, assuming it passes the House and Senate, where they can withdraw with a 51 percent majority vote. After that point, the final vote will again require a two-thirds margin to pass.

According to Phil McCarthy, the com-mittee’s legislative analyst, the sunset clause allows towns that really want out an opportunity to do so.

“It is a window of opportunity for those folks who are interested in doing this right now,” he said.

Although the bill survived the commit-tee, it did not have unanimous support. Rep. Steven Lovejoy, D-Portland, one of the two dissenters, said he is concerned that reversing consolidation will make education more expensive in small, rural towns.

“A lot of these places have very small numbers and if they go back to having their own district and superintendent, it will create more costs in education rather than less,” Lovejoy said. “And I’d much rather see the funds going into students and education than into administrators.”

He also noted that if towns begin the withdrawal process, but don’t complete it before the two-year sunset, “they lose that opportunity.”

Shannon Welsh, superintendent of RSU 5 (Freeport, Durham and Pownal) said it makes sense to give towns an opportunity to re-evaluate whether they want to stay in their districts. But she said consolida-tion in her district has been successful, both financially and educationally, and making it easier to withdraw “takes the focus off our educational mission.”

If LD 1742 passes, the bill could aid 255 Durham residents who recently signed their a petition that would start the process of withdrawing that town from RSU 5. Durham Board of Select-men Chairman Jeff Wakeman said the referendum would be held in June.

The bill was also of interest to Harpswell resident Robert McIntyre, who has led two unsuccessful campaigns to get Harpswell out of SAD 75 and has previously said he may try a third time.

“If this becomes a law it will defini-tively require careful thinking,” McIntyre said. “It certainly is provocative.”


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Harpswell, disagreed with the commit-tee’s finding that his neighborhood is the most suitable in town for increased development and density.

“My local community is a rural district and I want it to remain that way,” Knight said. He used posters and data from the assessing office to argue that West Harpswell is actually more rural than other parts of town.

Former Selectman Gordon Weil, who also lives in West Harpswell, said there isn’t enough new development happen-ing in Harpswell to require a growth district. He also argued against the un-fairness of the situation.

“This is discriminatory,” Weil said. “This is really singling out a specific part of town and zoning that part of town differently ... probably over the objec-tion of the people in that part of town.”

And Bill O’Connell disagreed with the committee’s assumption that if the area is zoned differently, families will move in.

“Just because we have this system doesn’t mean people are going to be able to afford the housing,” he said.

Only one resident, Mary Ann Nahf, defended the district proposal at a Feb. 16 public hearing. She agreed with the committee’s assertion that West Harpswell, due to soil and water table characteristics, could better handle de-

velopment than other parts of town.Because of the barrage of criticism

at the Feb. 16 meeting and one on Dec. 13, 2011, Selectmen Jim Henderson and Alison Hawkes moved not to put the zoning change on the Town Meet-ing warrant. Chairwoman Elinor Multer said she disagreed with the proposal, but thought the town should have a chance to vote on it.

Reached after the meeting, Chris Hall, the chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee, was sur-prised and disappointed by the board’s decision.

“The selectmen have been aware of what we’ve been doing and what direc-tion we’ve been going, and if that wasn’t the direction they wanted things to go in, then they had ample time to discuss with us what other direction they wanted,” he said.

Hall said he was frustrated that both public hearings on the village districts were dominated by Weil and especially Knight, whose arguments he called “half-truths” and “personal opinions.” He said he regretted not interrupting to correct what he said were inaccuracies in Knight’s presentation.

Even though the current iteration of the village district proposal is dead, Hall said he still hopes there could be a growth zone in Harpswell. But he wasn’t sure where it would be.


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AlEx lEAr / ThE ForEcAsTErThis model of the SS Portland is among a variety of items displayed at the Maine Maritime

Museum in Bath as part of its exhibit “Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History.” Behind the model are newspaper accounts of the steamer’s sinking in 1898.

presence in the Portland area.”Part of the Bath exhibit’s focus is the SS

Portland, a steamer launched from Bath in 1889 that wrecked off Cape Cod in 1898, with 192 crew members and passengers aboard.

The museum also showcases an 18-piece silver service set from the USS Portland, presented to the Navy cruiser when it vis-ited its namesake city in 1934.

The Navy loaned the silver collection to

the city of Portland in 1957, and it recently transferred the set’s custodianship to the Maine Maritime Museum.

The collection further adds to the array of materials the museum can offer in exhibits like “Port of Portland.”

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