the forecaster, southern edition, october 21 2011

October 21, 2011 News of South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth Vol. 10, No. 42

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Football: Capers win; Red Riots, Red Storm lose5

Wentworth supporters on the hot seatPage 3

Index Meetings ........................21Obituaries ......................12Opinion ............................7Out & About ...................20

People & Business ........13Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................32Sports ............................15

Arts Calendar ................19Classifieds .....................27Community Calendar .....21

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Ashes to ashes, sawdust to sawdustElsa, Scarborough’shistoric elm, is goneBy Mario Moretto

SCARBOROUGH — She was a silent sentinel over Oak Hill for generations, surviving disease, lightning strikes and a road wid-ening that nearly left her without roots.

But Elsa, one of the last remain-ing giant elms in Scarborough, is gone now, removed Saturday by workers from Bartlett Tree Ex-perts, Scarborough Public Works and Northeast Crane Service. By

MARiO MOREttO / thE FORECAStERElsa, Scarborough’s approximately 200-year-old giant Elm, was felled

Saturday, Oct. 15.

‘Risky bet’?By Mario Moretto

SCARBOROUGH — Sup-porters say it would be a boon to the economy and the tradition of harness racing in Maine. Opponents say it would make its owners a fortune, but have a negative effect on local economies.

Either way, officials in Scarborough say Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot could create a great opportunity to redevelop prime property along Interstate 95 and Route 1.

The referendum will ask voters throughout the state to allow two proposed har-ness racing tracks – one in Biddeford and one in Wash-ington County – to also offer slot-machine gambling. If the referendum is approved, Scarborough Downs, a 60-year-old harness racing track off Route 1, will close and move to Biddeford.

COntRiButEd A preliminary sketch design of the proposed Biddeford Downs harness racing and slot-machine resort, or “racino.” Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot will ask Mainers whether they approve the construction of the racino in Biddeford, and

another in Washington County.

Question 2 would add 2 racinos in Maine, create opportunity in Scarborough

In Scarborough, that could mean the redevelopment of the 485 acres now owned by Scarborough Downs.

“The Downs is part of Scar-

borough’s heritage,” said Harvey Rosenfeld, president of the Scarborough Economic Develop-ment Corp. “As you lose some-thing like that, you take some-

thing away from the commu-nity historically, which I hate to see. But as Scarborough continues to attract residential growth, we have to find a way to pay for the services people want. The development pos-sibilities there are beneficial to that end.”An investment in Maine

Last November, Biddeford residents approved the con-struction of a racino in their city.

If voters statewide approve the racino question this year, proponents promise 800 tem-porary construction jobs to build the facility and another 500 full-time positions to staff the Biddeford racino and ac-companying resort hotel and entertainment facility.

Crystal Canney, a spokes-woman for the Yes on 2 cam-paign, said the full-time jobs

New ownership, same faces: Rudy’s to reopen next weekBy Amy Anderson

CAPE ELIZABETH — Cus-tomers who have gone without fried clams, seafood chowder, or a lobster omelet from Rudy’s on the Cape will not have to wait much longer to satisfy their desires.

The restaurant is expected to reopen early next week, with most of the same staff and a new owner. AMy AndERSOn / thE FORECAStER

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Location divides backers of S.P. Farmers MarketMarket poised to continue throughout winterBy Mario Moretto

SOUTH PORTLAND — The city is moving toward allow-ing the South Portland Farmers Market to continue throughout the winter.

But for many involved in the project, thoughts and concerns are already drifting to next summer.

Vendors say that business at the market at Thomas Knight Park, which opened for the first time on July 14, limped along after a relatively successful first month.

Rainy weather on many Thurs-days hasn’t helped, they said. But according to Caitlin Jordan, busi-

ness manager of Alewive’s Brook Farm in Cape Elizabeth and head of the South Portland Farmers Market Association, the less-than-stellar turnout has one root cause.

“Like any business,” she said, “it’s location, location, location.”

Jordan said she is concerned that Thomas Knight Park, beneath the Casco Bay Bridge where Wa-terman Drive and Ocean Street

meet, is just too far removed from the heavier traffic on Broadway, Cottage Road and Ocean Street.

The farmers market began with fanfare this summer, with vendors hoping to peddle their goods to a market hungry for local food and the city hoping the market would revitalize Knightville.

Elaine Harris-Lowell, manager Catie Fairbanks-Cliffe and Darleen Griffin take a break Wednesday from sanding shelves,

ordering food and cleaning the floors at Rudy’s on the Cape. The restaurant has been closed since Oct. 1 and is expected to reopen early next week under new

ownership.

Rudy’s, at 517 Ocean House Road, changed hands in July and is now owned by developer Paul J. Woods Jr., a longtime town

resident who also has plans pend-ing with the town to expand the business.

The restaurant was previously owned by Mary Page, who leased it to Chuck Barnes for the past three years. Woods purchased the restaurant after the lease expired.

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South Portland bans consumer fireworks

SOUTH PORTLAND — Despite a new state law legalizing consumer fire-works, sale and use of the products will remain illegal in South Portland.

The City Council OK’d the ban on Monday, saying the city’s population density makes safe usage of the products nearly impossible.

Councilor Tom Coward, who voted for the ban, said he hopes the council will still entertain business proposals from fireworks sellers if one has a suitable plan

Out on the limbs in South Portland

Diane HuDson / For THe ForecasTerHigh school students Ali Schwartz, Ehan Benevides and Gabriella Salce remove tree

limbs and other debris from a path at Clarks Pond on Oct. 15 during the South Portland Land Trust’s annual fall trail clean-up.

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“It’s a legal product,” Coward said.”We’re a premier shopping area in the state, and that’s something we should look into if the time comes.”

Closures on tap for Veterans Bridge

SOUTH PORTLAND — Veterans Memorial Bridge is scheduled to be closed from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 24, through Friday, Oct. 28, ac-cording the the Maine Department of Transportation.

Construction crews will be install-ing underground communication cables around the new bridge being built next to the existing span between Portland and South Portland.

There will be detour signs and message boards to alert drivers about alternate routes. Commuters are advised to plan ahead and allow more time to get to their destinations.

The closures were originally scheduled to start Sunday, but were delayed to ac-commodate a shipment of 40,000 tons of

road salt scheduled to be trucked over the bridge to the Sprague Energy Terminal this weekend.

Scarborough eyes Haigis Pkwy. fees

SCARBOROUGH — Town Councilors on Monday gave initial approval to im-pact fees for development at the Haigis Parkway/Route 1 intersection and a re-duced impact fee for development near Dunstan Corner.

Impact fees are charged to develop-ers to fund improvements to roads and infrastructure.

The Haigis/U.S. Route 1 impact fee would charge developers $990 per ve-hicle trip estimated to be generated by their development.

The Dunstan Corner impact fee or-dinance, established in 2006, would be reduced to $1,402. The town will need to figure out a way to reimburse businesses already assessed the higher impact fee, said Town Planner Dan Bacon.

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Critics put Wentworth supporters on the hot seatBy Mario Moretto

SCARBOROUGH — Supporters of a plan to build a $39 million Wentworth In-termediate School took the heat Monday night as residents not sold on the project grilled them at Scarborough High School.

More than 100 people attended the forum where town officials and members of the Wentworth Building Commit-tee, which drafted the plan for the new school, answered questions about their proposal.

Scarborough voters will decide wheth-er to approve the $39 million bond on Election Day, Nov. 8.

Though many in the audience were supportive of the new school, responding to positive comments with applause, most of the people who addressed the panel had questions about the size and scope of the plan.

Several asked why the school need replacement rather than renovation, and committee Chairman Paul Koziel repeat-ed throughout the night that renovation is not an option.

“This school is a Ford Explorer with 500,000 miles on it,” Koziel said. “The repair costs just keep adding up. ... It would be an exercise in futility to con-tinue trying to renovate that school.”

Cramped classrooms, asbestos and air-quality problems, moldy underground tunnels, leaks, a lack of restrooms, poor temperature controls and the absence of a sprinkler system are some of the reasons given to replace Wentworth.

Todd Jepson, facilities manager for Scarborough schools, said $1.4 million has been spent on “Band-Aid” fixes over the last few years. He estimated more than $3 million would be spent in the coming years and said Wentworth costs

64 percent more for natural gas than Scarborough Middle School.

Other residents were concerned about the cost of the proposal. A bond would be issued for up to $39 million, but debt service could bring the total cost of the school up to $66 million, assuming a worst-case-scenario 4.5 percent interest rate, although Town Manager Tom Hall said it could come in lower than that.

“Money doesn’t grow on trees out here,” resident David Green said. “It doesn’t fall like leaves to the ground.”

Green asked why the committee in-sisted on building a new school if the cost of renovating is, by their own estimates, 85 percent of the cost to build new.

Koziel responded that building new al-lows less disturbance to the school sched-ule, because the new building would be built next to the existing Wentworth while school is in session. He also said new costs could emerge in renovation from problems no one knew about until contractors started digging.

Earlier in the night, Kelly Noonan-

Murphy, who a member of the building committee and a School Board candidate, took a different approach to the cost question: she said the town has estimated that the average increase in property taxes to Scarborough residents would be $150 per year.

“There’s nothing you can do for $150 per year to your own home that would increase its value like a new school,” she said. “... We all want this to be as cheap as it can be. We’re all taxpayers.”

The surprise concern of the night – and one likely to take up many meeting minutes if the bond is approved – came from Sue Foley-Ferguson, a former town councilor and critic of Central Maine Power Co.’s “smart meter” program.

Foley-Ferguson, who has a daughter at Wentworth, questioned how committed the building committee members really are to student safety, since they plan to install ubiquitous Wi-Fi Internet access in the new school.

She said WiFi signals are dangerous for children, citing a World Health Or-ganization paper in May that said radio frequency radiation is a possible carcino-gen. Another woman said her children do not attend Scarborough schools because she doesn’t want to expose them to WiFi.

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Uncontested elections fill South Portland ballotBy Mario Moretto

SOUTH PORTLAND — Six candi-dates. Six uncontested elections.

It’s a breezy election year, where the winning city councilors and School Board members will likely take office without debates or competition.

Incumbents occupy most of the city ballot. The other candidates are not exactly unknown names, either.

Barring an unannounced, successful write-in campaign, here’s a look at who the winners will be on Nov. 8.

City Council, District 1Incumbent City Councilor Thomas

Coward is seeking a second term.Coward, 57, lives on Woodbury Street

with his wife, Deborah. He has lived in South Portland since 1982, and his three adult children all graduated form South Portland Schools.

Coward is a licences Realtor, legal director for Keller Williams Realty and runs his own law office. He serves on the South Portland High School Build-ing Committee and the Comprehensive Plan Committee, and served one term as mayor two years ago.

“I’m interested in strategic, long-term planning,” Coward said, “not temporary,

stop-gap fixes for problems as they arise.”

Coward said he’s happy to continue serving with a mostly unchanged coun-cil.

“We have a very effective council at the moment,” he said. “Everyone is re-ally active. We work well together.”

City Council, District 2Incumbent City Councilor Patti Smith

is also seeking a second term.Smith, 49, is director of strategic ini-

tiatives, domestic sales and operations at Planet Dog in Portland. She and her partner, Susan Chase, live on Parrott Street and have been South Portland residents since 2008.

She said her experience with munici-pal government was sparse before she ran for the council in 2008, and that the learning curve her first year in city government was steep. Before moving to Maine, Smith was the women’s field hockey coach for 19 years at the Univer-sity of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

“That type of leadership experience, understanding what motivates people,

how to bring a group together, are now things I’m strong in,” she said.

Smith said she plans to continue advocating for open space in South Portland, and said she is proud of the work she’s done to help advance more funding to purchase land in the city for that purpose.

“We live right across the bridge from a compact, dense city in Portland,” she said. “People choose to live in South Portland because there’s a little more breathing room.”

City Council, District 5Gerard Jalbert is running uncontested

for the council seat now held by Coun-cilor Jim Hughes. Hughes is termed out of office.

Jalbert, 54, is a 50-year resident of South Portland and a loan officer for MetLife Bank. He is serving his first term on the Planning Board and on the Long Creek Watershed District. Before that, he was on the Zoning Board of Appeals for 12 years. He lives with his wife, Laurie Holtzman, on Rhode Island Avenue.

He said he’s not running for the coun-cil to champion any particular cause, but is worried about making sure the city

can balance its checkbook, metaphori-cally speaking. He said he’s concerned about fiscal responsibility.

“The ability to pay, in particular for the things we really need, is going to be a big issue at least for the next 10 years,” he said.

“We need to have a strategy on how to pay for all of this while keeping rea-sonable property tax rates and keeping other services at expected outcomes. Part of my business experience can lend to that.”

School Board, at-largeIncumbent Karen Callaghan and

newcomer Jeffrey Selser are running uncontested for two at-large seats on the School Board. Selser will take the seat currently held by Chairman Ralph Baxter Jr., who decided not to seek an-other term.

Callaghan, 54, has served two terms on the School Board. She is a 27-year resident of South Portland, where she lives on Alfred Street with her husband, Patrick. Her two children both gradu-ated from South Portland schools. She works on the circulation desk at the public library.

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Candidates share ideas at Cape Elizabeth forumBy Amy Anderson

CAPE ELIZABETH — The five uncontested candidates for the Nov. 8 municipal election shared their opinions Wednesday night in a forum organized by Cape Elizabeth High School students.

The Nov. 8 municipal elections are uncontested, barring any write-in can-didacies.

The candidates answered questions posed by the members of the Advanced Placement government class, the audi-ence and residents watching on cable TV who called in from home.

In the School Board elections, two first-time candidates, Elizabeth Scifres of Longfellow Drive and Joanna Mor-risey of Old Fort Road, are seeking three-year terms. Current board Chair-woman Mary Townsend of Pearl Street will run unopposed for the two years remaining in the term previously held by Kimberly Monaghan-Derrig, who was recently elected to the state House of Representatives.

In the Town Council election, Chair-man David Sherman of Hunts Road is unopposed for another three-year term. School Board member Kathy Ray of Spurwink Avenue is unopposed for the other open seat on the council. She would replace Councilor Anne Swift-Kayatta, who is not seeking re-election.

School BoardHigh school senior Will McCarthy

moderated the School Board discus-sion. He gave the candidates a chance to provide opening and closing statements, to answer open-ended questions and to participate in a lightning round with only yes or no responses.

All three candidates said they hope to maintain current programs given the impending cuts to state aid to schools. But they agreed they didn’t know what programs or services they would cut if necessary.

Townsend said with there are many transitions this year, with a new super-intendent and a new director of instruc-tional support. She said her goals for the coming year are to support the new superintendent, work on the budget and update the district’s mission and vision statement.

Since they would be first-time board members, Scifres and Morrisey said their goal is to learn as much as they can about school issues, to work with other board members and the community.

They all said they would not support cutting the laptop computer program at the middle school. They said rather than take away the technology, they would find ways to address problems like cyber bullying at schools, in the home and on a community level. They also said they would not favor pulling laptops in the district as a way to increase attention in class.

“Technology is a part of our world now, and our students need to learn how to balance that,” Townsend said.

During the lightning round, Morrisey said she is satisfied with the current educational climate in the schools, while Townsend and Scifres said they were not. All candidates said they were not satisfied with the progress made by the schools in literacy education.

Scifres and Morrisey said they do not support parking fees at the high school,

while Townsend said she does.All candidates said they support us-

ing metal silverware in the high school cafeteria and would defer to the admin-istration on whether dances should be banned.

“I think a good idea is to put the onus put back on the students, if the students want to have dances, the students can figure out a way among themselves how to have appropriate behavior,” Scifres said. “If students want to do something, they will figure out how to have their peers do what needs to be done.”

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dent Emily Muscat served as moderator. Both Ray and Sherman said they do

not support access fees at Fort Williams

Park, but they would be willing to inves-tigate other use fees, like the food ven-dor program or fees for wedding venues.

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staff writer Emily Parkhurst have received a prestigious Publick Occurrences Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

The award was presented for a series of stories that illuminated the use of thera-peutic physical restraints on students in Maine public schools.

The stories, published over several months last year, revealed questionable practices by school officials, the schools’ failure to report instances where students had been physically restrained, and the impact on students and parents.

The stories also led to a review of the practices by the state Department of Education, which resulted in proposed

new regulations now being prepared for presentation to the Legislature.

Parkhurst’s series also won NENPA’s annual awards last February for educa-tion reporting and social interest feature writing, and her work received a Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative report-ing last month from the national Society of Professional Journalists – the only such award presented to a weekly publication in the U.S.

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newspapers.The award was established in 1990 to

recognize individual and team merit at New England newspapers to mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper published in America. Four days after it appeared in Boston in 1690, Publick Occurrences was suppressed by the royal governor.

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Wentworth is a vote for Scarborough’s future

Scarborough’s Wentworth Intermediate School is barely functional, much too small and – most impor-tantly – not safe for students or for staff. To further delay its replacement would be a disservice.

Asbestos, radon and mold are prevalent. Less than half of the building has sprinkler systems. There are 25

ways in and out of Wentworth, which means the facility is not safe or secure.

Interest rates are at historic lows, and construction costs will only go up when the recession recedes.

Rather than settling for the status quo or minimum standards, the current design’s classroom sizes and over-all capacity ensure an optimal educational experience and allow for inevitable future growth.

The people using this sick building are our friends, neighbors, and our future – our future community mem-bers in every sense. An investment in their health and well-being is an investment in their futures and ours.

Please vote for a new Wentworth.Katie FellowsScarborough

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The letter from a Scarborough citizen deeming Edgar Allen Beem’s column about the effects of smart meters as wrong is just plain misinformed. His example of put-ting a person in a room, while in another room transmit-ting at random times and challenging that “sensitive” person to feel the transmission, is ludicrous. That’s like smoking one cigarette and dying on the spot from lung

Vote yes on Question 2 for Maine’s horsemen

I’ve been training and driving standardbred horses on racetracks for 25 years. It’s what I love best, and it’s pretty much all I know. If I have a choice, I’ll continue working with horses for as long as I can. There are plenty of others within the harness racing industry who feel the same way.

That’s why I’m asking you to vote yes on Question 2 on Nov. 8. If we ap-prove this referendum, it will allow a brand new racino, with an all-weather racetrack, in Biddeford.

We need a racino in southern Maine to compete with other states. We can do that with the Biddeford Downs project. Besides the racetrack, the project will have a resort hotel, restaurants and other entertainment. It will create jobs and will be a big draw in this region.

Please help Maine’s horsemen and women compete. Vote yes on 2.

Drew CampbellScarborough

Yes on 2 to protect jobs, heritage

I urge the citizens of Maine to vote yes on Question 2. This referendum question allows Mainers to support economic development without having to approve ad-ditional borrowing through the issuance of bonds.

Job opportunities will be created for the men and women in York and in Washington counties who are desperate for work. A yes vote will support a weakened construction industry during the building phases and then bolster the creation of new jobs.

A yes vote will support a segment of Maine’s agri-cultural community that has a strong heritage and will protect thousands of acres of open lands. As a profes-sional farrier (horseshoer) for 30 years, my entire work-ing life has been spent in the equine industry. My wife and I own and operate an equestrian center. Question 2 is about job creation and helping to maintain a way of life which is rooted in Maine’s history.

John W. TraftonBrunswick

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I understand that some people are opposed to slot machines. Let me ask you this: What is the difference between spending a dollar on the lottery and spending a dollar on the slots, or placing a bet on a horse? There is no difference.

Others say a racino will lead to more crime, drugs and vices of all kinds. Those are scare tactics. Biddeford Downs is a solid project backed by dependable, family-owned companies.

We should vote yes on 2 and let them get to work.Matthew McNally

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cancer. RF exposure does not work that way.Dr. David Carpenter, a Harvard Medical School-

trained physician who headed up the New York State Department of Public Health for 18 years, administer-ing a program for electromagnetic fields, states that although there haven’t been studies of living with smart meters for long periods of time and what illnesses they may cause, there is a “substantial” amount of evidence showing that radio frequency radiation causes many illnesses such as cancer, nervous system disorders, re-productive disorders, etc.

Another expert in the EMF department, Dr. Magda Havas, claims the radiation from cordless phones causes heart arrhythmia and tachycardia and alters the sympa-thetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. She is con-cerned with the biological effects of electromagnetic pol-lution including radio frequency, radiation, and EMFs.

I would like to see the letter writer’s information that proves his statement of “once you understand that there is no such thing as radio transmission sensitivity and that there are no valid health risks, all arguments against smart meters fade away.” National and international experts would strongly disagree.

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some houses, less for others, like houses at our “price point,” as our agent put it, I suspect in an attempt to depersonalize a deeply personal transaction. It becomes more personal as time goes by without much “market activity,” speaking of depersonalizing.

You can’t help but take it personally, though. No matter how well your brain understands the vagaries of a difficult economy, your heart just can’t understand why nobody seems to want something you liked so much you were willing to make it your biggest single purchase.

The longer the process goes on, the harder it is to take. And our process went on, and on. You know your house has been on the market a long time when the “For Sale” sign starts to tilt. It’s not surprising. It wasn’t meant to be a permanent fixture. Never-theless, it’s depressing to see the smiling faces of your Realtors slowly start to lean until they resemble an election poster glued to the Tower of Pisa. By the way, if this ever happens to you, God forbid, don’t try to fix it; you’ll just make it worse. Not that my wife warned me and turned out to be right.

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sell is how much time you have to realize what you’re giving up. We really do have a great house in a great neighborhood, and it’s going to be hard to leave. We moved to the East Coast to be near our son while he was in prep school, but we fell in love with Portland, and our street, and our neighbors. We live near the airport. In return for hearing maybe two planes a week, we have a two-minute drive whenever we have to fly, plus we get to be on the part of the power grid that gets restored first after an outage.

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Back to the moviesLately, Carolyn and I have taken to going to the

movies at the Nickelodeon in Portland on Tuesday nights when admission is only $5. We go with our good friends and fellow empty-nesters Don and Colleen. Even watching the latest hit films, there’s something very old-fashioned about actually going to the movies.

Going to the movies with friends is itself kind of an odd thing to do, since you can’t really social-ize during a movie. You can go out for a drink afterward, but we’re old farts now and head home to bed at 9 or 10. We just sit there in the dark together, shar-ing a bag of popcorn and a vicarious screen experience.

Fifty years ago, I was watching movies in Portland alone.

Back in the late 1950s, my Nana Gib-son, who lived on High Street, would some-times give me a quarter and send me two blocks up to Congress Street, where I could take my pick of the State, the Strand, the Empire or the Civic. You just kind of wandered in to continuously playing double features, watched matinee show-ings of kiddie flix like “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” and “The Shaggy Dog,” and wandered out again when they got to where you came in. Can’t imagine sending an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old kid to the movies alone today.

In the 1960s, going to the movies became a so-cial occasion. Every kid I knew in junior high went to the Star Theater in downtown Westbrook. It hardly mattered what the movie was. We were 12, 13, 14 and getting to sit in the dark next to a girl, strategically slip an arm around the back of her seat, and maybe even get to kiss her was the main attraction. Come Monday, who sat with whom, who made out and who broke up was big news.

The only time the wild boys of Westbrook stopped our cinematic seduction of the opposite

sex was when there was a movie in town that fu-eled our shared male fantasies. After seeing “The Hustler,” every kid in town fancied himself a pool shark and wanted a pool table for Christmas. When “The Cincinnati Kid” came to the Star, every kid in town became a poker player with an ace up his sleeve. (Why aren’t there any Steve McQueen movies on TV anymore?)

Movies mostly make sense for dating these days unless you’re a film buff who can’t wait for the DVD. Until our daughters grew up and fled the nest, I much preferred watching movies at home, where I could stop and start them at will. Funny now to think how VCR technology baffled me when I first experienced it in the early 1980s. How was it possible to watch a movie that wasn’t in a theater, to watch it anytime you wanted, and on your own television set? Incredible!

In those early days, we actually rented the vid-eocassette recorder at the supermarket along with the videocassettes. I guess I’m a late adopter, but the technology of film is constantly changing. VHS begat DVD, Netflix by mail turned into streaming Netflix and Hulu. I’m sure I’ve never even heard of whatever (or however) hip techies are watching these days. That’s another reason I’ve gone back to the movies.

The “Bowling Alone” phenomenon was well documented a decade ago. We are losing real civic associations and social life to the anti-social virtual reality of email, text messaging, chat rooms and online “communities” of “friends” we don’t know and never see.

So as I sit in the dark with my lovely wife, a couple of my best friends and a bunch of strangers, watching famous people on the big screen pretend-ing to be people they are not, I take some small satisfaction in thinking that I am doing my part to preserve a great American pastime, not to mention my own past time.

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

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snow blower were digging us out. He seemed embar-rassed when I went out to thank him.

“Well, I had to do my driveway anyway, so ... .” Yeah, Tony. You had to get up, put on a ton of uncomfortable clothes, go out into the freezing cold to do a lot of work anyway, so why not do twice as much? He may believe I would do the same for him. I’d like to think so, but I wouldn’t want to test the hypothesis. Of course, this was not an isolated incident.

Even more heroically, they are unfailingly gracious about our two miniature dachshunds, Ruby and Blackie, 20 pounds (combined) of atavistic canine fury who seem to live for the sole purpose of terrorizing Tony’s beauti-ful, friendly golden retriever. According to our dogs, Brady is not only not allowed in our yard, he’s not al-lowed in his yard when Blackie or Ruby are in our yard. They are not above taking a nip to enforce their will.

Despite this shabby treatment, Becky and Tony have said things like, “Brady knows he’s not sup-posed to be over here,” or “You’d think he would

have figured out by now that Blackie and Ruby don’t want to play with him.” Or that they’re borderline psychotics about their territory. OK, dogs probably don’t psychoanalyze other dogs. My point is that Tony and Becky handle an awkward situation gracefully.

You don’t want to give up being surrounded by people like that, and when the house doesn’t sell, you kind of fool yourself into thinking maybe you won’t have to. Then a few weeks ago the house went under contract. Moving became real again.

Last weekend a nonprofit that owns and oper-ates group homes for special needs adults, Port Resources, came to collect some furniture we were donating. Three of the movers: Tony and his sons. They happened to be home, they wanted to help out, and, oh yeah, Tony is on their board.

We’re excited about our move, but we’re also sad. We’ll find other neighbors, just not better ones.

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10/8 at 7:29 p.m. Liam O'Reilly, 28, of Dur-ham, was arrested on Maine Mall Road by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and carrying a concealed weapon.10/19 at 1:29 p.m. Mark W. O'Brien, 38, of South Portland, was arrested on Madison Street by Officer Steven Connors on charges of burglary of a motor vehicle, violating conditions of release, theft (two priors) and on a warrant.10/10 at 10:05 p.m. Herber Dorr, 51, of South Portland, was arrested on Ocean Street by Officer Andrew Nelson on a warrant.10/10 at 11:55 p.m. Jaime L. Maietta, 29, of South Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Officer Kevin Theriault on a charge of operating under the influence.10/11 at 8:30 p.m. Justin Vadas, 32, of Gray, was arrested on McKinley Street by Officer Erin Curry on a warrant.10/12 at 5:43 p.m. Ian Nono, 18, of South Portland, was arrested on Townhouse Drive by Officer Patricia Maynard on a warrant.10/15 at 2:53 a.m. Daniel C. Galloway, 25, of South Portland, was arrested on South Kelsey Street by Officer Kevin Theriault on a charge of operating with a suspended license.10/13 at 11:32 a.m. Ismail M. Awad, 22, of Portland, was arrested on Gannett Drive by Officer Adam Howard on a warrant.10/14 at 4:27 p.m. Kirsten E. Lade, 41, of South Portland, was arrested on Philbrook Avenue by Officer Philip Longanecker on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.10/14 at 11:48 p.m. Deena S. Metzler, 24, of South Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Officer Jake Hall on a charge of operating with a suspended license.

Summonses10/8 at 3:10 p.m. Kurt A. Butkiewicz, 41, of Gray, was issued a summons on Maine Mall Road by Officer Patricia Maynard on a charge of failure to stop for a police officer.10/10 at 8:49 a.m. Two 16-year-old South Portland boys and two 12-year-old South Portland boys were issued summonses on East MacArthur Circle by Officer Shane Stephenson on charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespass.10/10 at 12:47 p.m. Justin Brady, 24, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Fessen-den Avenue by Officer Steven Connors on a charge of sale or use of drug paraphernalia.10/10 at 12:47 p.m. A 17-year-old South Portland boy was issued a summons on Fes-senden Avenue by Officer Steven Connors on a charge of possession of marijuana.10/11 at 1:01 a.m. Daniel W. Fitzsimmons, 19, of Falmouth, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Shane Stephenson on charges of possession of marijuana and car-rying a concealed weapon.10/11 at 1:59 a.m. Ian A. Strout, 20, of Lim-ington, was issued a summons on Kirkland Avenue by Officer Shane Stephenson on charges of illegal transportation of alcohol by a minor, refusing to submit to arrest or deten-tion and failure to stop for a police officer.10/11 at 1:59 a.m. James D. Brown, 21, of Scarborough, was issued a summons on Kirk-land Avenue by Officer Shane Stephenson on a charge of refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

10/12 at 12:49 p.m. Natasha L. Dionisio, 21, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Philip Longanecker on a charge of operating with a suspended license.10/13 at 5:05 a.m. Concetto J. DiBiase, 58, of Portland, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Kevin Theriault on a charge of failure to register a motor vehicle.10/13 at 12:55 p.m. Patrick A. Ricci, 45, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Scott Corbett on a charge of displaying a fictitious inspection sticker.10/14 at 6:10 p.m. A 14-year-old Portland boy and a 15-year-old Portland boy were issued summonses on Maine Mall Road by Officer Jeffrey Pooler on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

not too sharp10/8 at 7:29 p.m. Officers responded to a call from an employee at a Maine Mall store for a reported theft. Upon arrival, Officer Rocco Navarro identified the suspect as Liam O'Reilly, 28, of Durham. O'Reilly had allegedly stolen a cell phone SD card valued at about $50. Navarro also allegedly found O'Reilly to be in possession of two pocket knives and one box cutter. He was arrested and charged with theft and carrying a con-cealed weapon.

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Fire calls10/11 at 2:23 a.m. Dumpster or other outside trash receptacle fire on Western Road.10/11 at 5:54 a.m. Smoke alarm, no fire, on Foden Road.10/11 at 7:12 a.m. System malfunction on Westbrook Street.10/11 at 2:47 p.m. Motor vehicle accident, no injuries, on Philbrook Avenue.10/12 at 4:14 p.m. Unauthorized burning on Keswick Road.10/13 at 12:32 p.m. Detector activation, no fire, on Broadway.10/13 at 3:53 p.m. Motor vehicle accident, no injuries, on Broadway.10/13 at 5:09 p.m. Carbon monoxide incident on Chase Street.10/13 at 5:26 p.m. Carbon monoxide incident on Margaret Street.10/13 at 5:28 p.m. Motor vehicle accident, no injuries, on Western Avenue.10/14 at 5:46 a.m. Smoke detector activation due to malfunction on Gorham Road.10/14 at 9:37 a.m. Telephone of cable wire down on Pleasant Street.10/14 at 7:54 p.m. Smoke alarm, no fire, on Gorham Road.10/14 at 10:11 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm, no carbon monoxide, on Clemons Street.10/15 at 2:22 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm, no carbon monoxide, on Wermuth Street.10/16 at 8 a.m. Motor vehicle accident, no injuries, on Broadway.10/16 at 6:24 p.m. Motor vehicle accident, no injuries, on Maine Mall Road.10/16 at 9:47 p.m. Smoke alarm, no fire, on Maine Mall Road.10/16 at 11:38 p.m. Alarm system activation, no fire, on Hoyt Street.10/17 at 2:41 p.m. Aircraft standby on

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EMSSouth Portland emergency medical services responded to 55 calls from Oct. 10 - 18.

Scarborough arrests

10/10 at 11:59 a.m. Randall G. Dill II, 29, of Gorham Road, was arrested on Brown Hill Lane by Officer Robert Moore on a warrant.

Summonses10/11 at 4:40 p.m. Joshua M. Jacobsen, 22, of Middle Road, Kennebunk, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Craig Hebert on a charge of theft by unau-thorized taking or transfer.10/12 at 12:33 p.m. Peter F. Harlow, 68, of Yarmouth, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Officer Shawn Anastasoff on a charge of driving to endanger.10/14 at 12:35 p.m. Stephen S. Foster, 25, of Keswick Road, South Portland; Dusty W. Leo, 20, of Portland Road, Saco; and Shawn R. Berbue, 22, of Freedom Road, were issued summonses on Payne Road by Officer Eric Lippincott on charges of theft by unauthor-ized taking or transfer.10/14 at 1:21 p.m. Sara M. Garvin, 27, of Pettengill Road, Windham, was issued a summons on Payne Road by Officer Steven Thibodeau on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.10/15 at 4:43 p.m. Clement E. Bolduc, 40, of Clearview Drive, was issued a summons on Interstate 295 northbound by Officer Garrett Strout on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.

Fire calls10/10 at 8:03 p.m. Structure fire on Piper Road.10/11 at 10:55 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Pillsbury Drive.10/11 at 3:15 p.m. Stove fire on Surrey Lane.10/11 at 8:26 p.m. Chimney fire on Holmes Road.10/12 at 8 a.m. Masterbox alarm on Went-worth Drive.10/13 at 12:28 p.m. Tree over power line on Black Point Road.10/14 at 12:43 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Winding Way.10/14 at 1:12 p.m. Odor investigation on Saco Street.10/15 at 8:47 p.m. Wires, mulch, burn or smell on Sophia Avenue.

EMSScarborough emergency medical services responded to 30 calls from Oct. 10 - 16.

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There were no arrests reported from Oct. 11 - 17.

Summonses10/14 at 10:09 p.m. Zachary Labbe, 29, of Cape Elizabeth, was issued a summons by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on Scott Dyer Road on a charge of possession of marijuana.

Fire calls10/11 at 10:29 a.m. Fire investigation on Hunts Point Road.10/12 at 6:55 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Killdeer Road.10/13 at 7:58 a.m. Fire alarm on Scott Dyer Road.10/16 at 12:37 p.m. Water problem on Brent-wood Road.10/16 at 5:29 p.m. Fire alarm on Resolution Place.10/17 at 11:58 p.m. Fire alarm on Ocean House Road.

EMSCape Elizabeth emergency medical services responded to 15 calls from Oct. 11 - 17.

GORHAM — Gregory Dwight Schlieper, 49, died Oct. 13.

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He is survived by his partner, Anne Dionne of Gorham, his daughter Donna Marie of Waltham, Mass., his parents Col. David and Nancy Schlieper of Topsham, his brother Steven and his wife, Nathalie of Bowdoinham and his sister Lisa Williams and her husband Timothy, of Jericho, Vt. He is also sur-vived by several nieces and nephews.

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Crossroads for Women, a comprehensive substance abuse and mental health treat-ment facility, made the following hires and promotions: Carol Rico of Scarborough joined the senior management team as the agency finance director; Allyson Gold-man-Putnam of South Portland was hired as a client services counselor at Greater Portland Counseling Center; Kiely Foley of South Portland, and Cindy Amrogne-O’Toole of Scarborough, were hired as outpatient clinicians at Kennebunk Coun-seling Center; Teresa Bendokas-Heinfeld of Freeport was promoted to outpatient practice manager and will oversee the administration of Crossroads for Women’s

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“Ultimately, it’s going to be a struggle for a few years if we stay down in Thom-as Knight Park,” Jordan said.

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“You’d have to close off traffic com-pletely, and you’d be right in the face of Hannaford, who’s been a great business partner to the city,” De Angelis said. “That’s just not smart.”

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love it here,” the mayor said. “There’s so many factors. A market doesn’t make itself in one year.”

De Angelis said she’s willing to consider other locations, but that there

really aren’t many public places in the city big enough to host a farmers mar-ket. Mill Creek Park was taken off the table for fear the market would damage the grass.

While street closures aren’t preferred, De Angelis said she has floated an idea to close the stretch of road where Water-

man Drive meets Ocean Street to give the vendors more space and to allow easier access for the elderly and small children, who have struggled on the cobblestones in Thomas Knight Park.

“I would feel sad if the farmers market was not willing to give it another year at Thomas Knight Park,” she said. “We just

need to give it some time.”De Angelis also said she’d like to see

the farmers market put in more effort to attract shoppers. She said much more could be done to promote the market, from signs to handbills to newspaper calendars.

“The city supported the farmers mar-ket by doing posters, the banner and signs to promote the market,” De Ange-lis said. “Now there’s a responsibility on the part of the Farmers’ Market Associa-tion to begin advertising.”

Melissa Coriaty, chef and owner of Verbena, a cafe on Ocean Street just a short walk from Thomas Knight Park, said it’s unfair to point all the blame at Knightville.

“It’s too easy to compare it to the Portland market, which has been go-ing on so long,” Coriaty said. “For its first year, I think it’s done well. The main problem has been the weather: it has rained for five out of the last seven Thursdays.”

Coriaty, who is also a vendor at the farmers market, said the business and residential communities in Knightville are happy to have the farmers market in their neighborhood, and that no matter where the market was established, it wouldn’t have been an overnight suc-cess.

She also said the market has created more visibility for her business and oth-ers in the area.

“If the farmers market is going to work, it needs the continued support of the public, the continued commit-ment from the vendors and the belief in a positive outcome from everyone involved,” Coriaty said.

While Jordan is concerned about how the location has affected the market, she said she still has hope turnout will im-prove. She said vendors are working to accept debit and credit cards and SNAP benefits, better known as food stamps.

“There’s a lot of potential in South Portland,” she said.

The South Portland Farmers Market will continue to operate Thursday after-noons through the end of October. If an ordinance change passes a Town Council second reading on Oct. 26, the first win-ter market will be held Sunday, Nov. 6, in the old Hamlin School, now the city’s Planning Department, on Ocean Street.

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Playoffs galore in Forecaster Country

(Ed. Note: For the complete Scarborough-Windham field hock-ey and Cape Elizabeth-Falmouth girls’ soccer game stories, please see theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

If the postseason is your thing, you’ll have no shortage of excite-ment over the next couple weeks.

While football enters the final week of the regular season (please see story), field hockey and vol-leyball’s postseason have begun, cross country’s regional meets are Saturday, golf’s season has com-pleted and soccer’s playoffs begin this weekend.

Here’s a glimpse at where things stand as we make the turn into the latter half of October.

GolfThe Maine Principals’ Associa-

tion held individual golf champion-ships for boys and girls Saturday at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.

In the Class A boys’ competi-tion (won by Deering’s Joe Walp and Sanford’s Ben Bell with a 75), Scarborough’s Dan Slavin shot an 84 to finish in a tie for 15th. Team-mate Hunter Sackville placed 35th with a 95. Zach Pelczar was one stroke back in 36th.

In Class B (won by Lincoln Academy’s Oliver Malcom, 73), Cape Elizabeth’s Reese McFarlane shot a 79 to finish in a tie for sixth. Teammate Xander Schonewolf tied for 29th for with a 93. Connor Logan shot a 97 and tied for 35th.

In the girls’ division, won by Ali Prescott (87), South Portland’s Elizabeth Canarie came in 24th (110). Scarborough’s Kathleen Huffines (111) was 25th.

Field hockeyScarborough’s powerhouse field

hockey team earned the top seed in Western Class A for the third year in a row. The Red Storm blanked visiting Kennebunk, 5-0, in the regular season finale last week to wind up 13-0-1. Senior Shauni Cowan, normally a defender, stole the show with the first two goals of her career. Scarborough hosted No. 8 Windham (6-7-2) in the quarter-finals Wednesday. On Oct. 1, the Red Storm won at the Eagles, 2-0. The teams have no playoff history.

A win would send Scarborough to the semifinals Saturday, where they’d host either No. 4 Massabesic (11-3) or No. 5 Marshwood (11-3). The Red Storm won, 2-1, at the Hawks on Sept. 16. They didn’t face the Mustangs in the regular year.

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Scarborough senior John Blaisdell, above, goes up for a header during

Saturday’s 4-0 home win over Sanford. Scarborough senior Andrew

Jones, right, blows past a Sanford defender during Saturday’s win, the

Red Storm’s 10th of the year.

Capers win again; Tough losses for Red Riots, Red Storm

(Ed. Note: For the complete Scarborough-Thornton Acad-emy game story, please visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

Instead of Friday night under the lights, all three local foot-ball teams took the field under Saturday afternoon sunshine last weekend, but only one left the gridiron victorious.

That was Cape Elizabeth, which won its sixth in a row and improved to 6-1 with a 29-6 victory at Fryeburg. A Connor Maguire to Bill Brooks TD pass, Donald Clark TD run and Matt Ross field goal built a 17-0 lead at the half. Clark and Derek Roberts had scoring runs in the second half to ac-count for the final score.

The Capers (third in the lat-est Western Class B Crabtree Points standings) host 6-1 Mountain Valley in the regular season finale Friday night. The winner will get the No. 2 seed for the playoffs. A year ago, Cape Elizabeth lost to the Fal-cons in Rumford, 25-0.

Scarborough lost its fourth in a row Saturday, 28-14, at Thornton Academy. The Red Storm did welcome back se-nior standout running back Scott Thibeault, who had 112 yards on 12 rushes, but it wasn’t enough. Scarborough took a 7-0 lead on a Thibeault 52-yard TD scamper and went up 14-7 at halftime, thanks to Ben Greenberg’s 10 yard scor-ing pass to Charlie Raybine. The Golden Trojans would dominate the second half, how-

r. sTeVen sharP / For The ForecasTerSouth Portland senior quarterback Michael Salvatore turns the corner on a run during Saturday’s thriller at Windham. Despite a valiant effort, the Red Riots’ five-game win streak ended with a 20-19, triple overtime loss to the

Eagles.

ever, scoring twice in the third period and once more in the fourth to drop the Red Storm to 2-5.

“I think our kids played hard,” Scarborough coach Lance Johnson said. “They have all year. They’re great kids. It’s not the season we wanted, but they come to practice every day and work extremely hard. They’re ex-tremely dedicated and do a great job trying to prepare. We just haven’t performed on game day.”

The Red Storm are 11th in the latest Western A Crabtrees, but only eight teams qualify for the postseason. The team believes it’s still alive entering its finale at 4-3 Gorham Friday.

“I think there’s hope,” John-son said. “It’s been a funny season. It depends on who wins and loses. There are a couple 4-4 teams I think we can slide in front of with our strength of schedule.”

A year ago, host Scarborough blanked Gorham, 33-0.

As painful as the Red Storm’s loss was Saturday, South Portland’s was worse.

The Red Riots, riding a five-game win streak, went to des-perate Windham and lost in a triple overtime classic, 20-19.

The game was actually scoreless at halftime and South Portland was down 7-0 in the fourth quarter before drawing even on a short TD pass from quarterback Michael Salvatore to Zach Compton and it was on

Looking ahead, the regional finals are Tuesday of next week at Thornton Academy. The state games are at Yarmouth High this fall, on Saturday, Oct. 29.

South Portland missed the play-offs with a 2-12 mark, but closed with a 3-2 home win over Noble last week. Elizabeth Albert, Bri-anna Bower and Jaclyn Salevsky had the goals.

Cape Elizabeth just missed the playoffs in Western B after closing with a 1-0 win at Wells to wind up 3-10-1. The Capers finished 11th, but only the top 10 teams qualified.

VolleyballScarborough’s volleyball team

wound up 12-2 and finished third in the Class A standings behind Greely and Mt. Desert Island. The Red Storm wrapped things up with a 3-1 (14-25, 25-20, 25-12, 25-22) home victory over defending state champion Biddeford. Brittany Bona had 15 kills, 14 digs and five aces, Emily Robbins 33 aces, Mary

Cleary 11 kills and three blocks and Meghan Bickmore 11 digs and three aces.

Scarborough hosted No. 6 Ells-worth (8-6) in the quarterfinals Wednesday. The teams didn’t meet this year. If victorious, the Red Storm will travel to No. 2 MDI (13-1) Saturday in the semifinals.

Cape Elizabeth closed with a 3-0 home win over Lake Region to finish 5-9. The Capers wound up eighth in Class A, one spot out of the playoffs.

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Cross countryCape Elizabeth’s cross country teams

took part in the Western Maine Conference championship meet last weekend. The meet was scheduled for Falmouth’s Community Park Friday, but poor conditions moved it to Saturday and St. Joseph’s College in Standish.

There, the girls (ranked fifth in the latest coaches’ poll) won Division I with 48 points, 10 better than Falmouth. The Capers were paced by Ellen Best (sixth, 22 minutes, 12.98 seconds). Emma Inhorn (eighth, 22:24.21) and Noelle Webster (ninth, 22:25.41) also placed in the top 10.

The boys came in fifth (Falmouth was first). Peter Doane (sixth, 17:51.92) was the fastest Caper.

Scarborough and South Portland, mean-while wrapped up their regular seasons last weekend.

The Red Storm hosted Bonny Eagle, Gorham, Westbrook and Windham. The boys (ranked second by the coaches) came in first with their first five runners in the top six spots. Nick Morris won the race in 16:29.73. The girls were third. Kat Gadbois finished fifth (21:45.70).

The Red Riots took part in the city cham-pionships at McAuley, which also featured Cheverus, Deering and Portland. The boys (ranked sixth) took first place as Thomas Sal-amone wound up fourth individually (17:46). The girls came in second behind Cheverus. Nyajock Pan finished third (20:35).

The regional championships are this Saturday at Twin Brook in Cumberland. Scarborough and South Portland’s girls com-pete in the Class A meet at 10 a.m. The Class A boys run at 10:35 a.m. Cape Elizabeth’s girls vie for Class B honors at 12:20 p.m. The boys start at 12:55 p.m.

The state championship meet is the fol-lowing Saturday, Oct. 29, also at Twin Brook.

Boys’ soccerAll four local boys soccer teams have

legitimate title aspirations as the playoffs begin.

While Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth have the pedigrees, South Portland has been truly superb in the latter half of the season, never more so than Saturday night. Forty-eight hours after their originally scheduled contest was postponed by rain, the Red Riots hosted defending regional champion Port-land and ultimately prevailed in a 2-1 double overtime thriller. Junior Caleb Elsemore tied the game in the second half and senior Jack Lano won it.

Tuesday, South Portland finished the regular season with a 1-1 tie at Marshwood (senior Akiba Davis had the goal), extending its unbeaten streak to eight games and im-proving to 9-2-3. The Red Riots will be the No. 5 seed for the Western Class A playoffs and will host No. 12 Thornton Academy (5-7-2) in the preliminary round Saturday at 1 p.m. South Portland won, 2-0, at the

Golden Trojans on Oct. 11. The teams have no playoff history.

If the Red Riots win Saturday, they’ll go to No. 4 Gorham (11-3) next week for the quarterfinals. South Portland beat the visit-ing Rams, 2-1, on Oct. 8. The Red Riots were eliminated from last year’s playoffs by Gorham, 2-1, in the quarterfinals.

Scarborough, meanwhile, capped its ninth straight regular season with 10 or more vic-tories with wins over host Biddeford (11-0), visiting Sanford (4-0, behind two goals from senior Andrew Jones) and host Massabesic (6-0, behind two goals from junior Kenny Hodgdon). The Red Storm (11-1-2) finished first in Western A for the eighth year in a row. They’ll host either No. 8 Greely (7-6-1) or No. 9 Marshwood (9-4-2) in the quarter-finals next week. Scarborough doesn’t play the Rangers in the regular season. They beat the host Hawks, 5-0, back on Sept. 6.

Cape Elizabeth bounced back from last week’s surprising loss at Waynflete with a 3-1 home win over Greely. Senior Tim Lavallee had two goals and junior Charlie Laprade, one. Tuesday, the Capers finished at 7-4-3 after a 2-2 tie at Falmouth. Laval-lee scored both goals. Cape Elizabeth will be the No. 7 seed for the playoffs and will host No. 10 Kennebunk (7-4-3) in the pre-liminary round Saturday. The teams don’t play in the regular season. The last playoff meeting between the teams came in the 2005 preliminary round (a 2-0 Capers’ triumph). If Cape Elizabeth advances, it will go to No. 2 Windham (12-2) in the quarterfinals next week. The teams don’t play during the regular season.

In Western D, Greater Portland Christian School lost to Richmond last week, 5-1, then edged A.R. Gould, 1-0 (on Jordan Peters’ goal) to finish the regular season 8-6. The Lions are sixth and go to No. 3 Pine Tree Academy (13-0) in next week’s quarterfinals. GPCS lost, 7-1, at Pine Tree in the opener on Sept. 2.

The quarterfinals will be played Wednes-day, semifinals next Saturday and the region-al finals Nov. 2. All rounds will be played on the fields of the highest remaining seeds. The Class A and D state championship games are Saturday, Nov. 5, at Falmouth High School.

Girls’ soccerOn the girls’ side, Cape Elizabeth was on

track for the top seed in Western A for the first time since 1998 after a 1-0 win at Gree-ly Saturday. Sophomore sensation Melanie Vangel had the goal. Tuesday night, against visiting Falmouth, the Capers had their chances, but couldn’t score and the Yachts-men broke a scoreless tie with an overtime goal to win, 1-0, dropping Cape Elizabeth to 11-1-2 (its best record since 1999) and second behind Gorham in the Heals.

“If you told me at the beginning of the season we’d have 11 wins, I’d have grabbed it with both hands,” said Capers first-year coach Luke Krawczyk. “The first half, (the Yachtsmen) were better. The second half, we came into the game. A minute before, we could have scored. We didn’t and they did. We look at it like a friendly game before the playoffs. It was a very good game. Not many people expected us to even tie with them the first time. It’s not bad at all.”

Cape Elizabeth will host a quarterfinal Tuesday for the first time since 2002 against either No. 7 Sanford (9-3-2) or No. 10 Deering (6-6-2). The Capers didn’t play ei-ther team this year. Last fall, Cape Elizabeth edged the Rams, 1-0, in the preliminary round. The Capers have never faced the


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to overtime.Neither team could score in the first

overtime (the Red Riots missed a field goal), so it was on to a second. There, the visitors got to the brink of victory on a scoring run from Joey DiBiase, but they missed the extra point. Windham answered with a score and also missed the PAT, so it was on to overtime number three tied at 13-13. The Eagles then scored a TD and got the extra point, putting all

R. Steven ShaRp / FoR the FoRecaSteRSouth Portland senior Logan Gaddar leaps to make a reception during Saturday’s game. The Red

Riots finish the regular season at Portland Friday night.

the pressure on South Portland. The Red Riots rose to the occasion, scoring on a 10-yard DiBiase run, but on the subse-quent two-point conversion, Salvatore’s pass was tipped at the line and fell in-complete and Windham held on for the thrilling victory.

South Portland is now third in the Crab-trees, behind defending state champion Cheverus and Thornton Academy. The Red Riots are at dangerous 2-5 Portland Friday night for the latest installment of the Battle of the Bridge.Sports editor Michael hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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Redskins in the postseason.“We’re happy to be in the playoffs,”

Krawczyk said. “We’re even happier to not have to play a prelim. We’ll try to keep winning. There are good teams out there. I know the girls really want to play here and it’s good for the town and it’s good for us, because it’s cheaper on gas.”

Defending Class A champion Scarborough blanked Westbrook (7-0) and Biddeford (4-0) last week. Senior captain Haley Carignan and sophomore Hadlee Yescott both scored twice versus the Blue Blazes. Carignan added two more against the Tigers. Tuesday, the Red Storm capped the regular season with a 3-0 home win over Massabesic Carignan and seniors Jes-sica Broadhurst and Meghan Tyson scored) to wind up 11-1-2 and third in the region. Scarborough will host either No. 6 Cheverus (9-2-3) or No. 11 Marshwood (5-7-2) in the quarterfinals Tuesday. The Red Storm blanked the visiting Hawks, 8-0, in the opener back on Sept. 7. Ten days later, they tied the visiting Stags, 1-1.

In last year’s semifinals, Scarborough eliminated Cheverus, 2-1. Two years ago, Marshwood upset the Red Storm in the quarterfinals, 2-1, in overtime.

South Portland made the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The Red Riots dropped a 4-0 home decision to Thornton Academy last Wednesday, but bounced back to blank host Portland, 2-0, Saturday.

Tuesday, South Portland ended the regular season with a 1-1 home tie against Marsh-wood (sophomore Shae O’Brien scored) to wind up 6-6-2 and ninth in the region. The Red Riots will go to No. 8 Windham (11-3) Saturday at 4 p.m. in the preliminary round. The Eagles won the regular season matchup, 3-2, Sept. 22 at Windham. The only prior playoff meeting between the teams came in the 2000 second round (a 1-0 triple OT vic-tory for the Eagles). If South Portland wins at Windham, it will go to top-ranked Gorham (14-0) in the quarterfinals. The Red Riots lost, 5-1, at the Rams Oct. 5.

In Western D, GPCS lost, 4-2, to Buck-field Monday to drop to 0-13. Elaine Beech had both goals in defeat. The Lions fell short of the playoffs.

Looking ahead, the quarterfinals will be played Tuesday, semifinals next Saturday and the regional finals Nov. 2. All rounds will be played on the fields of the highest re-maining seeds. The Class A state champion-ship game is Saturday, Nov. 5, at Falmouth High School.

Sports editor Michael hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on twitter: @foresports.

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Southern Maine Community Col-lege sophomore golfer Tommy Stirling earned medalist honors at the USCAA national championship match in State College, Penn. Teammate Alex McFar-lane was fifth and joined Stirling in be-ing named an All-American.

Baseball’s regular season ended last week with a 1-0 loss to UNH in the championships game of a tournament in Old Orchard Beach. Softball lost, 4-0, to New Hampshire Technical Institute in the semifinals of their tournament. Men’s soccer culminated its regular sea-son with a 2-1 win over Unity Saturday. The Seawolves (10-2-1 overall, 10-0-1 in conference) earned the top seed for the upcoming conference tournament.

The women’s season ended at 5-5 after a 3-2 overtime loss to Unity Saturday.

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Field hockey premier team holding tryouts

The Katahdin Field Hockey Club, one of the top travel teams in Maine, is hold-ing tryouts Nov. 12 from 1 - 4 p.m. and YourSpace Sports and Recreation Com-plex in Gorham and Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to noon at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. Players are encour-aged to attend both dates if possible. Registration is $30 or $35 at the door. FMI, katahdinfieldhockey.com.

Casco Bay Sports fall offer-ings

Casco Bay Sports has several leagues upcoming. A Monday co-ed dodgeball league starts Oct. 24. Sunday co-ed bas-

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Red Claws holding benefit game in Scarborough

The Maine Red Claws NBA De-velopmental League team will hold a fundraising intrasquad scrimmage Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Scarborough. There will also be a performance by the Lady Red Claws dance team. Tickets are $5. FMI, 730-5000.

Cape Elizabeth coaching openings

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Freeport Historical Society, seek-ing 6-8 actors for its “Ghosts of Freeport’s Past” event held Oct. 21-22, 27-29, FMI, Katie, [email protected], 865-3170.

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Books & AuthorsSunday 10/23”A Life Turned Sideways:” The Breast Cancer Diaries, Ann Murray Paige, 4-5 p.m. talk, book signing 5-6 p.m., UNE’s College of Pharmacy.

Tuesday 10/25The Yarmouth Historical Soci-ety Book Group, 7 p.m., Yarmouth Historical Society, 3rd Floor, Mer-rill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, discussion of “The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience” by Kirstin Downey.

ComedyFriday 10/28”An Evening of Comedy” to ben-efit the Cancer Community Center, 8 p.m., USM Abromson Center, Portland, $35 reserved, $25 gen-eral admission.

FilmSunday 10/23”Soul Surfer,” Community Movie Night, 5 p.m., First Parish Fellow-ship Hall, 116 Main St., Yarmouth, open to the public, suggested donation, $3/person, $10/family, drinks/goodies provided, pizza slices $1.

Thursday 10/27“Travels by Canoe in Alaska’s Western Arctic,” wilderness jour-ney of words and photographs by emmy award-winner and docu-mentary filmmaker Richard Kahn, 7:30 p.m., 39 Harpswell Road, Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center, free, 725-3396.

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Films by Women, 4 p.m., $5, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland.

GalleriesFriday 10/21“The Artisans Collective,” mixed media group exhibit and sale, 5-7 p.m. public reception, Royal Bean, 18 Yarmouth Crossing Dr., off Main St., Yarmouth, FMI, 846-7967.

Saturday 10/22”Drawing the Line #9” opening reception 3-5 p.m., June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St., Portland, ex-hibit runs through Nov. 18.

Maine Artisans and Crafters Exhibit, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Falmouth American Legion Hall, 65 Depot Road, Falmouth, Rita Pomarico, 712-2788.

Friday 10/28Exhibit opening at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St., two days only, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m. and Oct. 29 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Susan Amons, Todd Bezold, Kate Chappell, Lindsay Hancock, Pat Hardy, Robin MacCarthy, Gail Page, Michael Stasiuk, Michael Walek, Diane Bowie Zaitlin.

Saturday 10/29Carlo Pittore: Day of 1000 Draw-ings, sale/silent auction; award ceremony for the Carlo Pittore Foundation’s artists’ grants win-ners; and a screening of the trailer for the upcoming film “Carlo Pit-tore: Maine Master,” 12-5 p.m., Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick (in the Winter’s Farmer’s Market space; look for signs), carlopittorefounda-tion.org/news/ or 809-9670.

MuseumsThe Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Garden, guided tours through October, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 12-4 p.m. Sun-day, $12 adult, $10 senior/student, $3 child, garden is free to the pub-lic, Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822, mainehistory.org.

Friday 10/21”Tales of Terror from Victoria Mansion,” Lynne Cullen shares stories from nineteenth-century writers as the lights are dimmed to gaslight levels, “The Telltale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker, Oct. 21 and 22, 6 and 8 p.m., tickets orders at victoriamansion.org/events_rent-als/events.aspx, 772.4841 ext. 10.

Sunday 10/23Family Fright Night, ”King o’ the Cats” by Joseph Jacobs and other spooky folktales for kids 10 and under, 6 p.m., ticket orders at vic-toriamansion.org/events_rentals/events.aspx, or 772.4841 ext. 10.

Thursday 10/27”Gather up the Fragments:” The Andrews Shaker Collection, on view through Feb. 5, 2012, the

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MusicFriday 10/21Portland Early Music Festival, with 15 Early Music Specialists, through Oct. 23, Memorial Hall, Woodford’s Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, 775-3356, schedule at portlandconservatory.net.

Saturday 10/22Taylor’s Grove, American roots music, 3 p.m., free, South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, 767-7660, sponsored by Friends of the South Portland Public Library, FMI, 767-7660.

Wednesday 10/26Standard Issue performing at Grace Restaurant, 15 Chestnut St., Portland, 6-9 p.m., no cover, all ages welcome.

Sunday 10/30Portland String Quartet 2011-2012 Season Opening Concert, Woodfords Congregat ional Church, 202 Woodfords St., Port-land, 2 p.m., pre-concert lecture 1 p.m., PSQ and special guest Earle G. Shettleworth will present the World Premiere of a string quartet by Portland native John Knowles Paine, composed in Portland c.1855. Also on the program is Walter Piston’s String Quartet No. 1, and Charles Ives’ String Quartet No. 1, “A Revival Service.” Reception will follow the concert.

Theater & Dance”Hansel & Gretel,” presented by Maine State Ballet, Oct. 22; 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, $15, Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, mainestatebal-let.org, 781-3587.

“The Jungle Book,” presented by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, Oct. 14-23; Fridays 4 p.m., Saturdays 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Sundays 4 p.m., $8-$9, Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 ext. 231, kitetails.org.

”The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” presented by Mad Horse Theatre, Oct. 6-23; Thursdays 7:30 p.m.; Fri-days and Saturdays 8 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m., $22 adults / $20 students and seniors, pay-what-you-can Thursdays, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, tickets, 899-3993, lucidstage.com.

”The Morini Strad,” presented by Portland Stage Company, daily performances Sept. 27 - Oct. 23, tickets $15-$39, Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, for tickets and showtimes, 774-0465, portlandstage.org.

”Snow White,” presented by The Theatre Company at Falmouth, Oct. 21-23, 7 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, tickets at door, $5 students and seniors/ $7 adults, Falmouth High School Theater, 74 Woodville Road,

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Thursday 10/27”Tigers Be Still” at the Studio Theatre at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, through Nov. 6, $10-$20 with premium tickets also available, dramaticrep.org or 1-800-838-3006 for ticket infor-mation.

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hours of sunlight are getting you down, you might try a sensationally funny musical com-edy as a psychological antidote. “Spamalot,” the funniest musical I’ve seen in years, is coming to Portland’s Merrill Auditorium for two performances, Oct. 20-21, as Portland Ovations hosts a national touring company.

There’s plenty of fine music this weekend. The Portland Symphony Orchestra continues its Sunday Classical season on Oct. 23. The Portland Conservatory of Music launches a new annual happening this fall, an early mu-sic festival that runs Friday through Sunday.

And Malcolm Holcombe, a gravel-voiced singer-songwriter, appears Oct. 27 at Port-land’s One Longfellow Square.

‘Spamalot’Between 2005 and 2009 one of the hot-

test tickets on Broadway was “Spamalot,” a wildly funny and very tuneful musical com-edy based on the film, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” With a libretto by Eric Idle and music by John Du Prez and Idle, “Spa-malot” was nominated for 14 Tony Awards, winning three, including “Best Musical.”

I’ve seen it several times, and plan to see it again as Portland Ovations launches its Broadway series when a national touring company visits Merrill Auditorium.

Idle’s book is solidly based on the legends of King Arthur, the knights of the Round Ta-ble and the search for the Holy Grail, but his

‘Spamalot’ is a laugh riot

Scott SuchmanA comic quest for the Holy Grail is the plot line for “Spamalot,” the 2005 Tony Award-winner for best Broadway musical that plays Portland

Oct. 20-21.

send-up of the oft-told tale and his uncanny ability to find hilari-ously comic twists in familiar characters is a truly amazing piece of comic craft.

The story arc fol-lows King Arthur from the early years of his reign to his successful recovery of the Grail. Accompa-nying Arthur’s quest are his long-suffering sidekick and three very errant knights.

Lady of the Lake is the leading female in the cast. She has sev-eral incarnations, in-cluding a wonderfully funny parody of Cher. Following Monty Py-thon practice, several of these actors also get to demonstrate their talents in secondary and tertiary roles. Plus there’s a flying cow and a vicious killer rabbit.

Several of the songs are infectiously melodious. Examples are “The Song That Goes Like This,” a send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s style of composition, and “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,”

which is the show’s most memorable song.

Portland Ovations presents “Spamalot” with two 8 p.m. perfor-mances Oct. 20-21 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Portland Sympho-ny Orchestra

The Portland Sym-phony Orchestra con-tinues its Sunday Clas-sical series on Oct. 23 under the baton of maestro Robert Moody in a program that fea-tures works by two well-known 20th-cen-tury American compos-ers, plus the symphonic masterpiece of one of the 19th century’s Eu-ropean giants.

This Sunday’s con-cert opens with American composer Samuel Barber’s enthralling one-movement “First Essay for Orchestra.” Second on the pro-gram is Ernest Bloch’s “Suite Hebraique,” which spotlights PSO principal violist Laurie Kennedy as the soloist. Bloch was born in Switzerland and emigrated to this country during World War I and finished his life as a mainstay of our country’s musical culture.

Following intermission, the afternoon wraps up with Franz Schubert’s majestic Symphony No. 9 in C Major. Innovative and highly melodic, No. 9 is widely considered Schubert’s greatest work.

Principal violist Laurie Kennedy is cel-ebrating her 30th season with the PSO. Kennedy is well known as a chamber music artist throughout the northeast, plus she’s also the long-time artistic director of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, a sum-mer chamber music series in Harrison.

Portland Symphony Orchestra plays at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Portland Early Music FestivalMaine has a very vibrant classical music

scene, but the state’s experience in the sub-genre of early music – Renaissance, Baroque and other styles that pre-date the late 1700s – is far less successful. Several fine ensembles have come and gone over the past 20 years, and aficionados such as myself have to make do with the occasional visit by a touring en-semble – or make the trek to Boston, which is a global center of early music.

I’m hopeful that that’s about to change. The Portland Conservatory of Music is launching its inaugural Early Music Fes-tival this weekend, featuring three public concerts Oct. 20-23 plus a menu of other presentations.

The artistic director is Tim Burris, a me-dieval lutenist and a PCM board member. He and 14 other musicians he’s engaged will treat audiences to music once played in the courts and salons of 16th, 17th and 18th century Europe.

The sounds of the lute, harpsichord and viola da gamba will reverberate once again. Tenors, basses and sopranos will describe the Baroque Age in song. Featured compos-ers include Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbal, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Henry Purcell.

All events take place at PCM’s digs at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. in Portland. Friday’s 7:30 p.m. concert focuses on English songs accompa-nied by lute. Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. program features music from 18th-century Saxony, while Sunday’s 4:30 p.m. presentation is titled “The Soul of Italy,” and explores the music of the birthplace of Baroque. Call PCM at 775-3356.

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elly baritone voice and a guitar are the twin instruments he uses to weave musical stories. That’s the quick summary of singer-songwriter Malcolm Holcombe, a native of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina who’s made a living for a couple of decades traveling around the country with his music. On Oct. 27 he’ll visit Portland with a one-night stand at One Longfellow Square.

This year’s tour is in support of “To Drink the Rain,” his eighth full-length album which was recorded in Austin, Texas, and released last February. Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke characterized the CD: “Not quite country, somewhere beyond folk, Hol-combe’s music is a kind of blues in motion, mapping backwoods corners of the heart.”

I’m spinning the CD as I write this, and heartily concur. Holcombe is both a percep-tive writer and a skillful interpreter. Plus there’s lots of variety on the album. I like the rollicking jug band style of the open-ing number, “One Leg at a Time,” and the modern take on the time-honored train song genre expressed in “Behind the No. 1.” And it’s not all country. “Comes the Blues” la-ments the legacy of some unfortunate urban experiences. The concluding song on the CD, “One Man Singin,’” exudes a positive and uplifting personal touch.

Catch Malcolm Holcombe at 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at One Longfellow Square, corner of Congress and State in Portland. Call 761-1757.

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The Rat Pack, tribute concert to benefit CASA, with Mickey Joseph as Joey Bishop, Drew Anthony as Dean Martin, Kenny Jones as Sammy Davis, Jr., and Brian Duprey as Frank Sinatra, 8 p.m., $45/$35, State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland, tickets, 1-800-745-3000, statetheatreportland.com.

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”It’s Time to Pick Apples for Charity,” 8-10 a.m, Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester; picking fee waived for up to 18 people pick-ing apples for the Good Shepherd Food Bank.

Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction, for Bob Roy, co-owner of Frank’s Truck-Kaps, fundraiser to help pay for his cancer treatment, 4-7 p.m., $10 adults/ $5 children, Val-Halla

Golf & Recreation Center, Greely Road, Cumberland, donations of dessert appreciated, tickets at Corsetti’s Market in Windham, Windham Automotive, and Val Halla, FMI, Joe Mains, 892-3130.

“Easy as Pi” Road and Trail Race, fundraiser for The Woodard & Cur-ran Foundation, 3.14-mile course, with kids Fun Run, pie, music, 8:30 a.m., Fun Run for Kids 10 and un-der, 9 a.m. Race Start, Woodard & Curran, 41 Hutchins Dr., Portland, registration, $15 through Oct. 20; $20 Race Day registration, FMI, woodardcurranfoundation.org or Althea Masterson, 774-2112.

SailMaine Soiree Auction, to benefit local community sailing programs, 7-10 p.m., silent auc-tion, live music, food, $30 advance/ $40 door, Portland Yacht Services, Portland, sailmaine.org or Sarah Helming, [email protected].

Ghoulwill Ball: A Benefit for Good-will’s Supported Employment Services, costume contest with cash prizes, 7-11 p.m., $25 tickets, $40 for two, Port City Music Hall, Portland, tickets, goodwillnne.org/ghoulwill.

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Friday 10/28Fall Card Party to benefit the Falmouth Historical Society, 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., the Holy Mar-tyrs Church, 266 Foreside Road, Falmouth, reservations, Mary

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Saturday 10/22”Twilight in the Park” memo-rial candle ceremony, 5:30 p.m., Footbridge at Deering Oaks Park, Portland.

Educational Shabbat Service fo-cusing on the educational needs of Maine’s recent immigrants, 7:30 p.m., 81 Westbrook St., all are wel-come, FMI 879-0028.

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Portland Mayoral Candidate Fo-rum, 6-8:30 p.m., cafeteria East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland.

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Yarmouth Pumpkin Run, regis-tration 7:30 a.m., Yarmouth High School, $20/5k, $10/1K, $45/family, $10 per dog, prizes for top finish-ers and best costumes, proceeds benefit West Side Trail, Yarmouth.

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Thursday 10/27Cape Elizabeth Community Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, Two Lights Road, Cape Elizabeth, presenting donors re-cieve $5 gift card to Panera Bakery, appointment, 1-800-RED-Cross, redcrossblood.org.

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Saturday 10/29Scarborough Marsh Fall clean up, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Audubon Nature Center, volunteers will be closing up the nature center, collecting litter and preparing the center for winter.

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Public Baked Bean Supper, 5-6 p.m., First Parish Church UCC, 9 Cleaveland St., Brunswick, $7/adults, $3/children ages 6-12, chil-dren under six free.

Tuesday 10/25Food Safety Training, for those involved in handling food at fund-raising events, two separate 5-hour workshops, Oct. 25 and Nov. 9, UMaine Cooperative Extension, 75 Clearwater Dr., Suite 104, Falmouth, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m, to register or FMI, 781-6099, 1-800-287-1471.

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”Twilight in the Park,” public me-morial candle ceremony to honor veterans and other loved ones, hosted by Hospice of Southern Maine, 5:30 p.m., foot bridge at Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 289-3640, hospiceofsouthernmaine.org.

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big-box stores, but would like to con-tinue to enhance the ability for busi-nesses to succeed by creating ordinances to allow more business opportunities, on farmland as well as in the Town Center. He said he likes the idea of a lo-cal Chamber of Commerce to get local businesses involved in finding ways to attract more businesses to Cape.

Sherman said he would support the construction of a new Thomas Memo-rial Library over renovating the existing building, while Ray said she would need more information on the plan before she could formulate an opinion.

Ray said her last eight years on the School Board will serve her well on the council.

“I’ve learned that no one individual makes a decision for the others, they act as a group,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot about the schools and I understand the budget of the town having lived here my whole life.”

Sherman said his prior experience on the council has helped him better under-stand the issues facing the community

and has taught him how to gather infor-mation, listen to residents and seek the opinions of fellow councilors.

He said serving six years as a Plan-ning Board member gave him an under-standing of the zoning ordinance and his four years on the Cape Elizabeth Education Foundation board – including one year as president of a campaign that helped raise $750,000 for the schools – has taught him about the schools and how to raise private funds.

During the lightning round, both Sherman and Ray said they would support the conservation of more open

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public land, and agreed the educational benefits of a possible iPad program at the high school would outweigh poten-tial distractions.

Sherman and Ray said they would both support adding a full-time paid rescue position. Sherman said he would not support bringing police dispatchers back to the community, and Ray said she did not know.

The candidate forum will be rebroad-cast on CETV Channel 3 on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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“It has taken longer than expected, but we are eager to reopen,” Woods said Wednesday. “We want to keep the conti-nuity and not change a lot of the details.”

He said 90 percent of the decisions about the restaurant have been driven by the staff. “Collectively, they are an essential part of the soul of Rudy’s,” Woods said.

Restaurant manager Catie Fairbanks-Cliffe said she can’t wait for the business to reopen.

“The employees have been here every day cleaning, putting the menus together and helping out,” she said. “And as much as the employees feel like family, the regulars are (family), too.”

She said every day since the restaurant closed on Oct. 1 for cleaning, residents have been stopping by to check in and ask questions. People want to know what’s happening, what will be different and what will be the same, she said.

“Even though everything will be the same when we open, we are starting from scratch,” she said.

In addition to the deep cleaning, Rudy’s “face lift” has involved building shelves, painting the walls and trim, and defrosting the coolers, walk-in refrigera-tor and freezer. There is new track light-ing, but the interior and menu will remain the same, she said.

One significant change is Aaron Libby, the new chef.

Fairbanks-Cliffe said Libby is from Cape Elizabeth, has worked at Gritty McDuff’s in Portland and will be a great

addition. She said he is familiar with the type of food Rudy’s is known for and has already joined the staff for cleaning duties.

Another employee, Elaine Harris-Low-ell, said even though she has worked at Rudy’s for a short time, she feels like she is a part of a close-knit group of people.

“It’s exciting to see the enthusiasm,” she said. “It’s important for everyone to have a part in this.”

And Fairbanks-Cliffe agreed that the employees — who she noted remained through the transition — have taken ownership of the restaurant and exhibit a great deal of pride.

Darleen Griffin has worked at Rudy’s for six years, and said the restaurant is her home away from home. She said it feels comfort-able and welcoming, not only for the employees, but for customers.

“This is a place where you can find locals and tourists, lobstermen, lawyers and doctors sitting and talking,” she said.

And even though there is a change in ownership, Griffin said she appreciates

that Woods isn’t trying to come into an established restaurant and make a lot of changes.

“He understands that the restaurant went on before us and will continue on after we are gone, and that it is the town’s,” she said. “Mr. Woods is looking to keep Rudy’s like it is, keep it comfy.”

She said she likes that the employees have been invited to offer their opinions and feedback about the restaurant. In turn, she said it makes her feel more “a part of it.”

“I feel listened to, heard and my ideas are put into effect,” she said. “And as much as it is our place, it is the custom-ers’ place, too.”

Fairbanks-Cliffe said food is expected to arrive this weekend, and the staff will be working to prepare for the reopening early next week.

“The coffee pot will be on all week-end,” she said, “and we look forward to seeing our regulars again.”

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She said it’s her goal to get all South Portland residents involved in decisions about the school system, and to protect the district’s budget.

“I feel schools are the one place you can’t slash and cut,” she said. “There has to be enough to give the kids the best education they can have.”

Callaghan said she’s honored to have the chance to serve another term.

“Being on the school board is a privi-lege,” she said. “I’m giving back to a community that I’ve gotten a lot out of.”

Selser, 40, is a newcomer to political elections in South Portland, but not the school district. He’s served as spokesman for Renew South Portland High School, a political action committee formed last year to advocate for the $41 million bond to renovate the high school. He also coaches soccer and lacrosse.

Selser, an attorney at Verrill Dana in Portland, lives on Summit Street with his wife, Julie, and their two daughters – one at Small School and one at Mahoney Middle School.

He said his goal on the board is to involve residents in the budget process from the beginning. Currently, public comment sessions are held after the board drafts a budget. Selser said he thinks the board should see what resi-dents want out of their schools first.

“The school system is part of this great social compact,” Selser said. “When we’re in school, the people who

are not in school pay for us. After we are out of public education, we have an obligation to pay for the people after us, to make sure they get the education they deserve.”

School Board, District 5Incumbent Tappan Fitzgerald, 43, is a

lifelong resident of South Portland. He lives with his wife, Lisa, and their two daughters on Massachusetts Avenue.

He’s running to finish the last year of the District 5 vacated by Alan Livingston, who served one year on the School Board before being elected to City Council. Fitzgerald was appointed to fill in for Livingston until the next election.

Fitzgerald, a community relations specialist for Hannaford Bros., said he’s excited to jump in and tackle the upcoming budget, which he says will be a tough one because of expiring federal stimulus money.

“We are actually going to be starting at a significant deficit over where we started last year,” he said. “That’s where the tough decisions are going to come in. It’s literally hundreds of thousands of dollars we got this year that we won’t get next year.”

But Fitzgerald said he’s confident the schools can find creative ways to handle the cuts, since they’ve been able to plan for the decrease in outside funding.

Still, “it’s going to be an interesting year,” he said.

Mario Moretto can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

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Elsafrom page 1

11:30 in the morning, all that was left was a giant stump along Route 1.

The felling of Elsie, as she was com-monly called, was surgical: an arborist in a bucket lift cut portions of limbs, one at a time, sending sawdust raining down on observers below.

A crane operator lowered each branch to the ground in a giant sling. There, workers would cut the small twigs and branches and send them to a wood chipper. Larger pieces of wood were put in a dump truck, and even larger pieces – like a trunk log that weighed in at 12,000 pounds – were put on a flatbed trailer.

The town decided the tree had to come down for safety’s sake. Elsa – its exact age unknown, but believed to be between 150 and 170 years old – was clearly dying, and its root structure was crumbling.

The town believes Elsa posed a risk to the pedestrians and motorists passing the busy intersection of Route 1 and Black Point and Gorham roads.

A crowd of about 20 spectators watched the tree’s demise from bleachers set up across the street. Passing motorists slowed down and craned their necks to watch the work.

“I almost don’t want my name attached to this,” said Tim Lindsay of Bartlett Tree Experts. “I didn’t want to be be the guy who brought Elsie down.”

Lindsay, who had been working with the town to plan Elsie’s fall, took twig samples from some of the higher branches. He planned to send the samples to Bartlett’s lab in Charlotte, N.C., where they would be

tested for Dutch elm disease. He pointed to a dark ring on the outside perimeter of each twig, one of the signs of the disease.

“This is a bad sign, but we won’t know whether she had Dutch elm until the lab results come back,” he said. “Either way, this isn’t what killed the tree. It was just one nail in the coffin.”

In the early 1990s, Elsie was saved from certain doom by supporters who success-fully persuaded the Maine Department of Transportation that the tree didn’t have to be cut down to make way for a widening of Route 1. Although many of her roots were removed, the town built a small rock wall to keep Elsie from tipping over.

Around the same time, Elsie got her name. According to documents provided by Yvonne Spalthoff of the Elm Research In-stitute, William Stroud – one of the residents who fought to save Elsie during the widen-ing – registered the tree with the institute in February 1992. The institute designated the tree a historic landmark “to be honored and preserved for future generations.”

Stroud was there Saturday when Elsie came down, along with his partner, Ger-aldine Clough, who he said named Elsa after a lion cub in the movie “Born Free.” He was pragmatic about the need to bring down the tree.

Stroud and Clough said that when they had worked to save Elsie in the ‘90s, she was healthy and beautiful. They recognized that now it’s a different story.

“This had to be done before someone got hurt,” Stroud said. “No one likes to see her go, but it’s for the safety of everyone around.”

The usable lumber from Elsie is set to be processed at Hillside Lumber in Westbrook. Like Yarmouth’s historic elm, Herbie, which was cut down last year, Elsie’s wood will be offered to woodworking artists and craftsmen. Proceeds for Elsie-made goods will benefit a new town fund created to sup-port tree planting in Scarborough.

The town hopes to plant a new elm at the site where Elsie stood for so many years, but first must determine whether the tree was infected with Dutch elm. If it was, the land would have to be treated before another elm could be planted.

In the meantime, residents can still pay their respects to Elsie: Public Works Direc-tor Mike Shaw said he doesn’t anticipate pulling the stump until next spring.

Mario Moretto can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

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Question 2from page 1

will offer an average salary of about $35,000 per year and health benefits.

Scarborough Downs and its racino part-ner, Ocean Properties LLC, say their racino will attract customers from throughout northern New England and Canada, and will boost business for local restaurants, hotels and shops.

Proponents also argue that their racino proposals would support Maine’s harness racing industry with purse supplements and by protecting the need for 1,500 jobs in harness racing and accompanying industries – people like stable employees, hay farmers and veterinarians.

In Maine, a portion of net slot machine income is earmarked for various state funds. According to a May report from the Legis-lature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs, the two racinos are expected to con-tribute more than $10 million to supplement harness purses and more than $3 million to support agricultural fairs in the state.

Supporters also say hefty sums will be awarded to various state programs. More than $2 million is expected for University of Maine scholarships, more than $1 mil-lion for community college scholarships, and $34 million is slated for the state’s General Fund.

The committee also said it doesn’t expect the presence of two additional racinos to reduce business at Maine’s only operating racino, Hollywood Slots in Bangor.

Canney said racetracks that have com-bined other forms of gaming in states like Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New York have flourished. Hollywood Slots raked in $61.6 million in net slot income in 2010, according to documents filed with the state Gambling Control Board. Of that, $28.3 million was earmarked for state funds.

Ed McColl, attorney for Scarborough Downs, said he’s seen the booming business that combined racinos attract.

“I went to the original Penn National race course (in Grantville, Pa.) last January,” McColl said in a recent interview. “They recently added a gaming facility and have a full-fledged racino. They knocked down and rebuilt their grandstand with tiered din-ing and seating. I showed up at a Saturday evening and asked for a table for two, and I couldn’t get it.”

A raw deal for Maine?Opponents of Question 2 say the com-

plexes are a threat to local economies and question whether the money raked in by the proposed racinos will really do anything to help Maine’s struggling harness racing

industry.“We’ve heard all of these arguments in

2003 (when voters approved the racino in Bangor), about how this was going to be an economic engine in Bangor and revive harness racing,” said Dennis Bailey, spokes-man for CasinosNo!, a group lobbying against casino expansion in Maine.

“It’s a scam for these owners to get a lot of money out of people,” he said.

State harness racing bets and attendance are down, even after the opening of Hol-lywood Slots in 2008 and the money it pumped into the harness racing industry. Since 2007, the Bangor racino has contrib-uted more than $35.1 million to the harness racing industry in Maine. That money has supplemented purses and gone to general funds used to boost the sport.

Despite all that money, live bets in Maine dropped 43 percent from 2003 to 2010. Money bet on Maine races at off-track bet-ting facilities also dropped, by 50 percent, since 2003.

Charles Colgan, an economist at the Uni-versity of Southern Maine, also wondered whether slot machines would do much to meaningfully help the struggling harness racing industry.

“You’ve got a product with a falling de-mand, and you try to diversify around it to increase the attractiveness of it,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s one of the oldest strategies in the book.”

But, he said, the demand for gambling opportunities in Maine is relatively stable, and the supply to meet that demand keeps growing with each new casino allowed in the state – not to mention the lotteries, bingo and travel to other “destination” ca-sinos, like Foxwoods in Connecticut.

“If there were no other gambling except at horse racing tracks, as there once was, then adding slot machines would clearly be a boon,” Colgan said. “But today, with the population of gamblers not growing and more competition coming up, it’s a risky bet.”

Bailey also said people should think twice before agreeing to allow the racinos because of the promise of money for the state.

“It’s a misnomer to think the state makes out well here. It’s the track owners and horse owners,” he said. “It’s just a bribe. It’s pennies compared to what the track owners will get.”

Last year, Maine’s harness racing indus-try received more than $9.8 million from Hollywood Slots revenue, according to the state Gambling Control Board. Money sent to other state-designated funds totalled

$17.9 million.The one area where CasinosNo! says it

agrees with backers of the proposed plan is on job creation.

“There’s no question that it’s jobs,” Bai-ley said. “... I don’t know any other business that comes to town and must immediately devote money to the addiction programs.”

An opportunity for the futureScarborough town officials and

Scarborough Downs owner Sharon Terry have been in talks to develop a plan that fits in with the goals set in the town’s Com-prehensive Plan and also makes the parcel attractive to potential buyers.

Currently, most of the Scarborough Downs land is in the town’s B2 Business zone, which allows for large-scale retail and strip malls. Town Manager Tom Hall said that when the zoning was done 10 years ago, that was the direction the economy was headed. But with the recession, he said a new approach is needed.

“The economy has turned 180 degrees,” Hall said. “Ten years ago, big boxes were the thing. But they’re not building them anymore.”

Scarborough Downs is in an area the Comprehensive Plan calls “The Crossroads Mixed Use Development District.” The plan describes the district as “the new heart of Scarborough,” and calls for the develop-ment of efficient neighborhoods, small re-tail (and no big-box stores), municipal and community service uses, recreational facili-ties and business and professional offices.

“This is an opportunity that the town has been looking forward to,” said Ed McColl, Scarborough Downs’ attorney. “A largely blank 500-acre canvas right by the Maine Turnpike gateway to town with an owner who’s willing, if she’s relocating, to work with the town to help paint a picture for the development they want.”

Hall said the location of the Downs, the operation of which takes up about a quarter of the parcel in the center of the property, has made it hard for Terry to sell other portions of the land to developers. If Question 2 passes and the Downs moves to Biddeford, development becomes easier.

“The nostalgia and history of having Scarborough Downs in Scarborough is legendary in the state,” Hall said. “That will be a loss. But from a development point of view, it may ready the site for quicker development than it might be otherwise.”

Over the past five years, Scarborough Downs has paid nearly $600,000 in prop-erty taxes. That’s a large sum, but falls far short of Piper Shores, the town’s No. 1 taxpayer, which paid nearly $770,000 just last year.

“It’s not insignificant, but I don’t believe it’s even in the top 10 of our tax payers,”

Hall said. “The plan we’re talking to them about has the potential of adding vast ad-ditional value.”

Colgan, the USM economist, agreed that Scarborough may be in the best posi-tion to benefit if Question 2 is passed and Scarborough Downs moves to Biddeford.

“It’s a fast-growing, essentially urban community with a lot of office space and commercial industrial space,” he said, “so that land will probably be used pretty quickly once the economy gets going again.”

Mario Moretto can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follo him on Twitter: @

riocarmine.

Wentworthfrom page 3

bestos and mold out of the school, but getting ready to install WiFi.”

Rob Willey, who worked on the tech-nology proposals for the school, told Foley-Ferguson the building committee had worked with the EPA and other state and federal agencies on WiFi, and that teachers and staff are adamant about having ubiquitous Wi-Fi.

“The health risks that might be as-sociated with that don’t overcome the educational benefits that come with it,” he said.

Koziel told the audience that specifics such as whether the school has ubiqui-tous WiFi will be made in the planning process, but only if the bond passes. He urged Foley-Ferguson and anyone else with specific building concerns not to let those worries dictate their overall assessment of whether a new school is needed.

“I’m not saying I’m persuaded by what you’re saying,” he told Foley-Ferguson, “but we have time to look at it together.”

Panel members also tackled the criti-cism that the proposed school would be larger than the norm, or larger than Scarborough needs.

Contrary to what some critics have suggested, project architect Dan Cecil said there is no state standard for square feet per student. The state does offer rec-ommendations, he said, on total square feet for classrooms and other rooms.

“The Wentworth project has rooms that meet but do not exceed those rec-ommendations,” he said. “I assure you, the committee beat on that floor plan very hard.”

Mario Moretto can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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Portland, Maine 04102207-879-0303 X105

(c) 207-749-3459Fax 207-780-1137

www.MorrisonRealtors.com

SCOTT SCHENKEROffice: (207) 846-4300 x103

Cell Phone: 838-1284

Outstanding Agent, Outstanding Results!

Each office is independently owned and operated

Heritage

765 Route OneYarmouth, Me. 04096

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Open HouseSat/Sun12 to 2

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Roxane A. Cole, CCIMMANAGING MEMBER/COMMERCIAL BROKER

Roxane A. Cole, CCIMRoxane A. Cole, CCIMNewly Listed For Sale in Portland

RareWest End Commercial Condominium with exposed brickand natural light. Completely renovated. Flexible layout with

striking finishes. Perfect for a variety of commercial uses.Own for less cost than leasing.

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Karen Jonescell: 207-756-1855

office: [email protected]

53 Baxter BlvdPortland, Maine 04101

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Unique setting on the banksof the Presumpscot River for

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include HW floors, natural trim,front porch, eat-in kitchen and

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Don [email protected]

Earle W. Noyes & SonsMoving Specialists, Inc.

Over 20,000 Moves, with a 99%“Willing to Recommend” Customer Rating

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Brian WilsonReal Estate Agent

Heritage765 Route One

Yarmouth, ME 04096Office 207-846-4300 x114

Toll Free (800) 393-2372 x114Fax (207) 846-0412

Email: [email protected] Office independently Owned and Operated.

Outstanding AgentsOutstanding Results

Rob WilliamsReal Estate

Bailey Island, ME 04003 207-833-5078baileyisland.com

BaIlEy Island

BAILEY ISLAND WATERFRONT ~ Spectacular open ocean,crashing surf site in quiet neighborhood. Renovated shinglestyle, 3 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths, fireplace, covered porch, hugemaster bedroom suite with private covered deck, attached 2 cargarage. $1,570,000

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