The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 9, No. 15

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Developer seeks time to fine-tune 47-home projectPage 3

IndexObituaries ................... 12Opinion ........................ 7People & Business ..... 16Police Beat ................. 10

Real Estate ................. 31School Notebook ....... 14Sports ........................ 15

Arts Calendar ............. 17Classifieds .................. 25Community Calendar . 18Meetings .................... 18 Pages 19-22

Howard Bliss, hunger prevention superstar

ROGER S. DUNCAN / FOR THE FORECASTER

Howard Bliss, right, greets clients in Brunswick last week at the Mid Coast Hunger

Prevention Program, where he is also on the

board. “I love it,” Bliss said. “There’s something different each day and I’m always on the go.”

Unsung HeroesOne in a series of profiles by Brunswick writer

David Treadwell about people who quietly contribute to the quality of life in greater Portland. Do you know an Unsung Hero? Tell us: [email protected]

By David TreadwellBRUNSWICK — Claudia Adams, vice

president of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, thinks Howard Bliss is “awesome.”

“This guy does everything,” Adams said.Bliss began helping out at what was then

called the Food Bank in 1997, when he hauled boxes of food from the Hannaford Bros. super-market to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Today, at age 82, he’s still going strong.

And when Adams says he “does everything,” she’s not exaggerating.

Here’s just a partial list of Bliss’ numerous volunteer activities on behalf of an organization dedicated to providing food to citizens in need: Doing intake, organizing food boxes for elders, keeping track of delivery records, making signs

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LePage: No decision on minimum wage increase

By Whit Richardson and Matthew StoneBangor Daily News

BRUNSWICK — Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday he hasn’t made a final decision on whether to veto a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $9 by 2016, then boost it annually in proportion with

increases in the Consumer Price Index.

The bill, LD 611, faces one more vote in the Senate, where it previously has passed 19-16 along party lines.

During an appearance at a Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber luncheon at the Inn at Brunswick Station, LePage said

he had concerns about the bill and wanted to better understand what types of workers are actu-ally earning Maine’s minimum wage of $7.50 an hour.

“I don’t see the point of having the highest minimum wage in the country when our

DYLAN MARTIN / THE FORECASTER

Gov. Paul LePage, center, speaks with Steve Wallace, left, president of the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber, outside The Inn at Brunswick Station Wednesday before addressing business owners and town officials.

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Brunswick school budget could increase nearly 6%By Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — Superinten-dent of Schools Paul Perzanoski is proposing a nearly 6 percent budget increase for fiscal year 2014.

The School Board was ex-pected to make a decision on the proposed $35 million budget Thursday night, and will have to send it to the Town Council by April 17.

The board discussed possible reductions and ways to shift

costs at public budget forums on Wednesday and April 4.

Perzanoski on Tuesday said he was not able to provide the ex-pected impact on property taxes from his spending plan.

The largest budget increases are attributed to increases in costs for special education, sal-ary, benefits and technology, according to the school chief.

Together, the expenditures ac-

RSU 1 tax hikes range from 6% to 24%By Alex Lear

BATH — The total tax assess-ment in Regional School Unit 1 could increase 7.09 percent next year, to $18.6 million.

The increase, up from the 6 percent estimated late last month, is due in part to larger-than-anticipated health-insur-ance costs.

The district had planned for a 4 percent hike in those costs, but now faces an 11 percent in-crease. RSU 1 had also expected to receive an estimated $8.6 mil-lion subsidy from the state, but

now looks to get $8.46 million.The total projected budget

of $27.7 million for fiscal 2014 could increase 6.6 percent from this year. After offsetting revenues are subtracted, the remaining $18.56 million must be raised through taxes.

Under a new cost-sharing formula that will assess the RSU 1 communities on a per-pupil basis, Bath, West Bath and Woolwich could see significant school tax increases: 6.2 percent

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Benefit raises $12K for Harpswell girl recovering from ski accidentBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — More than two weeks after a near-fatal skiing acci-dent, a 6-year-old girl is out of inten-sive care and beginning to show signs of recovery.

“She’s feeding herself. She loves ice cream. She does not like apple sauce. She knows the difference and that’s very important,” Jessica Walker’s aunt, Liz Simpson, said April 5.

Walker suffered three skull fractures and brain trauma when she crashed head first into a tree on March 25 while skiing with her family at Sugarloaf Mountain.

A helmet saved her life, Simpson said.

As of Tuesday, Walker’s feeding tube had been removed, according to a recent update from her Facebook support page, and she has been showing other signs of progress.

Simpson said while Walker is not yet talking, she has found other ways of communicating. She also likes riding around the hospital in her wheelchair, and enjoys a good laugh, too.

Community comes togetherWalker has not only had the support of her fam-

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swell, too.More than 400 people gathered at

Harpswell Community School on April 5 for a benefit dinner and silent auction to support the Walker family’s expenses.

“Everyone’s prayers and well wish-es are giving us the strength to get through this,” Simpson said.

The benefit raised $12,000, Simpson said.

The family has also been accept-ing donations through the Fishing Families for Harpswell group, which helped organize the fundraiser. The silent auction, which began at Friday’s dinner, concludes online at the end of the week.

Some of the auction’s donated items include a 13-foot kayak, an 18-foot canoe, two iPads, an au-tographed football jersey, a stay at a fishing camp and other items.

“It’s incredibly humbling,” Lori Hodell, one of the event’s organizers, said of the event’s success. “It’s really a testament to our community and town.”

Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Elinor Multer was present, along with several other town officials. She attributed Harpswell’s tight community, in part, to its town meeting form of government.

DYLAN MARTIN / THE FORECASTER

More than 700 people turned out at an April 5 fundraiser at Harpswell Community School to support 6-year-old Jessica Walker and her family.

They raised $12,000 for Walker, who is recovering from a near-fatal skiing accident. Volunteers Tom Allen and Sara Merryman, above,

collect and count donations.

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Developer seeks time to fine-tune 47-home projectBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — A proposed 47-lot housing development off Mallett Drive may go before the Planning Board next month for final subdivision approval.

The board was scheduled to take up the matter Tuesday, but the applicant requested a postponement to make modi-fications, according to Planning Director Rich Roedner.

Developer Dan Catlin – who has projects in town on Winner’s Circle and Topsham Fair Mall Road – wants to build Mallett Woods, a subdivision of 47 single-family homes.

The project will be an open-space development, with about 8 1/2 acres of the 26-acre property conserved in open space.

The Planning Board found last year that the proposal fits within the guide-lines of Topsham’s open space ordinance, which requires a minimum of 30 percent of the property to be set aside as open space.

Catlin has indicated to the town that he would like to start the project as soon as possible, Roedner said on Monday. The subdivision is to be developed in four phases; Catlin has received preliminary approval for all four, but is seeking final

approval for only the first one, Roedner explained.

Wetlands are minimal on the site, and exist primarily in open-space areas, Rod Melanson, the town’s assistant planner, said last December. “What we call in our ordinance the primary conservation areas of the site – streams, wetlands, steep slopes – all of those things are being preserved on-site,” Melanson said, so any impact on wetlands would be minimal.

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Portland travel agency still flying high after 20 yearsBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Travel agencies may seem like an endan-gered species, but don’t tell that to Pa-mela Hurley Moser.

Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 full-ser-vice, local agencies in Maine, said Hur-ley Moser, founder of Hurley Travel Experts. Records show most were in the Portland area.

Today, the Portland telephone directory lists fewer than a dozen. Only three are in the city.

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The agency, headquartered at 415 Cumberland Ave., has seen its sales grow from $24 million in 2011 to $40 million last year. This year, Hurley Moser is pro-jecting sales of $50 million.

And after launching her one-person business in 1993 at the age of 25, the Harpswell resident now employs a staff of 48, including a six-employee branch in Naples, Fla.

Instead of being threatened by the travel websites, Hurley Moser said her business welcomes them. Online travel booking frees agencies from being “order takers,” she said, and helps educate peo-ple about their travel choices and costs.

“Clients are coming to us now with more information,” she said Sunday.

“They’re further along in the process.”But there’s still a need for the inside

knowledge and perspective that a travel agent brings, according to Hurley Moser. Her “experts” help by getting clients to focus on the overall goals of a trip.

“We ask them to paint a picture, we ask them what they really want,” she said. “Our job is then sometimes to introduce them to something they didn’t know existed.”

Travel agencies such as Hurley also help their clients by using experience and resources to get better travel deals, she said. For example, Hurley leverages the bargaining power of its membership in Virtuoso, an invitation-only association of 330 luxury travel agencies around the world.

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commercial space flights through Virgin Galactic, the airline offshoot owned by mogul Richard Branson. Ticket prices for a suborbital spaceship trip start at $200,000.

Hurley Moser hasn’t sold any trips since becoming an “accredited space agent,” but said she’s more focused on serving her earthbound clients, some of whom have been with her since the agency’s founding two decades ago.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Hurley is launching an online auction to benefit community nonprofit groups. The auction, called “20 for 20,” will put 20 trips and travel-related products up for bid, most with values of around $3,000. The auction starts May 1 and runs through the next year.William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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Small businesses invited to seek marketing grantsBy Alex Lear

BATH — Small businesses in four Maine counties could receive a small marketing boost through a contest going on this spring.

The Women, Work, and Community mini-grants program will award a grant of up to $400 to aid entrepreneurs in pro-moting their businesses through targeted

marketing projects, according to a March 25 press release.

The contest is open to men and women.

Business owners in Sagadahoc, Lin-coln, Knox and Waldo counties, with four employees or less, are allowed to make a pitch. They will do so before a panel of judges at University College Bath/Brunswick, 9 Park St., from 9 a.m. to noon on May 7. Entrepreneurs must

express interest in the contest and sign up for a slot by April 30, and the grant will be awarded about a month later.

WWC invites applications from in-dividual entrepreneurs and small busi-nesses, along with business partnerships. Nonprofit groups are not eligible.

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HARPSWELL — A Harpswell Islands Road man was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury on 32 counts of gross sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.

Amos Johnson, 38, is one six area resi-dents whose indictments were handed up April 4. An indictment is not a finding of guilt, but a determination there is enough evidence to prosecute.

Johnson was arrested Feb. 26 after an investigation by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office found that he had alleg-edly sexually abused a young girl, who is now 13, over a two-year period.

The abuse allegedly happened between March 19, 2011, and Feb. 1, 2013.

Johnson’s live-in girlfriend, Holly Colfer, 33, was arrested March 1 on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child. She was released the same day on

$1,000 bail.Johnson is being

held at Cumber-land County Jail on $50,000 cash bail. His next court date is April 23.

Nicholas Miller, 27, of MacMillan Drive, Brunswick, was indicted on two counts of Class B aggravated assault.

Miller was arrested March 5 for alleg-edly shoving a friend down a staircase at Freeport Village Station.

Miller and the 25-year-old male friend reportedly had a disagreement at the friend’s store. The friend left work, Miller pursued him, and allegedly push-ing him down a long, granite stairwell.

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Other indictments were:• Nathaniel Manchester, 23, of Lincoln

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Manchester received a summons on Jan. 14 after his 25-year-old live-in girlfriend complained that he allegedly struck her on the head, damaged a tele-vision set, threatened her when she tried

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• Tyler Bryant, 22, of Brunswick, for a charge of Class C theft (value greater than $1,000).

• Christopher McKenney, 21, of Brunswick, on two counts of Class E possession of scheduled drugs and Class E violation of conditions of release. McKenney is being held at Cumberland County Jail without bail.

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Clammers, wormers hope for compromise to avoid legislationBy Beth BroganBangor Daily News

BRUNSWICK — Despite angry words and a few veiled threats, worm diggers and clam harvesters will try to work together to find common ground and al-low the two groups to harvest the same flats without interfering with each other’s livelihood.

The decision to work toward an agree-ment was reached during last week’s meeting of the Brunswick Marine Re-sources Committee, at which members of both industries turned out to discuss proposed legislation requested by the committee and submitted by Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick.

The bill, which is on hold pending a memorandum of understanding, would allow any municipality in Maine to request that the Department of Marine Resources prohibit worm harvesting in an area closed by the town’s marine resource committee for conservation reasons, and would fine violators between $300 and, for repeat offenders, $1,000.

But the two parties only have until May 15 to reach that agreement, Gerzofsky said.

The bill has been placed on hold pend-ing the outcome of that working group, according to Ericka Dodge, communica-tions director for Senate President Justin Alfond.

“The bill has not been withdrawn, it just hasn’t been referred to commit-tee,” Dodge said Tuesday. “On May 15, if nothing happens (with the working group), the Senate will refer it to com-mittee,” and the legislative process will move forward.

Worm diggers say the bill would give control of their industry to the clam dig-gers. They argue that the bill is premature

because they haven’t been asked to avoid the high-density seed areas and that a law forced on them isn’t the way to achieve their goal.

In the summer of 2010, harvesters noticed a “huge influx” of worm diggers in northern Casco Bay, according to Ma-rine Resources Officer Dan Devereaux. Bloodworm diggers are allowed to har-vest anywhere because they aren’t subject to any public health laws.

At the same time, Brunswick was on the verge of reopening “The Bullpen,” a long-closed harvesting area that was full of clams.

Devereaux said the flats, where har-vesters had concentrated their conserva-tion efforts by laying seed clams, were “severely impaired” by the worm diggers.

In an effort to prevent such a situation

in the future, Devereaux and Marine Resources Committee Chairman Mark Latti met with Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher earlier this year, and then the committee lobbied Gerzofsky to sponsor the cur-rent bill.

While Devereaux said Wednesday that the intent of the legislation is to only close smaller, specific areas of “high-density seed clams,” he acknowledged that the language of the proposed bill doesn’t state that.

Bloodworm diggers last week said the proposed bill was just another assault on their livelihoods, and argued that just because Brunswick might manage their flats responsibly and make reasonable requests to the DMR doesn’t mean other communities would do the same.

“Not every town is run like (Bruns-wick),” said Dan Harrington of Wool-wich, a worm digger who said he “har-vests just about every species” on the flats. “Your legislation gives this control to them.”

Worm digger Brian Chadwick of Wool-wich said he worries about a “snowball effect,” noting, “if it starts in Brunswick, it could go to Freeport and Belfast and before you know it every town in Maine doesn’t want worm digging in their town.”

“Somebody is always trying to get us kicked out of their town,” said Phil Har-rington, a worm dealer for 25 years.

“You guys are talking like you own these flats,” James Campbell, a worm digger for nearly 30 years, told the com-mittee. “You don’t own the state. ... The clam diggers aren’t the only ones work-ing these flats.

“No one has asked us worm diggers for help,” Campbell continued. “You guys want your conservation, we’re right here, we’re willing to help. In 30 years of digging, never have I seen a sign say-ing ‘Seed flat, keep out.’ ... I say to your committee, you guys are going about this the wrong way. ... It seems like you guys are coming after us worm diggers.”

Campbell added, “Science does not support blaming the worm diggers (for the decline of the clam flats).”

Will Ambrose, a Bates College profes-sor of marine ecology who has studied the impact of worm digging on soft-shell clam growth since the 1990s, said Camp-bell is right.

“The impact worm digging has on clams has probably been overstated,” Ambrose said.

Ambrose said the controversy between

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#{newline}Worm digger Dale Kimball of Dresden counts and sorts his daily take of bloodworms Feb. 15 at Phil Harrington Bait in Woolwich.#{newline}

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Last weekend, my hus-band and I took our almost-5-year-old daughter and our 18-month old son to the Camden-Rockport region for one night. My husband found a great rate at the Sa-moset Resort, and I jumped at the idea he nervously presented. He made the reservation. I packed cloth-ing, gear, and toiletries that would ensure my children’s comfort in the event of bliz-zard, heat wave, locusts, a measles outbreak, and/or famine.

My husband forgot his swimsuit, prescription medica-tion, and a change of socks.

We timed our departure so that it would coincide with our son’s nap time. We over-stimulated our daughter with promises that she could watch, for the very first time, a DVD on the car’s built-in screen. Our son fell asleep within 15 minutes, right around the time my husband realized that the DVD we brought suffered from a large, incapacitating

scratch through its center.Our car’s navigation system took itself rather seriously

by agreeing to remain functioning after we typed in our destination. The trip is essentially: take Interstate 295 north to Route 1. Then take Route 1 north. Congratulations, you will arrive at your destination.

The scenery along those two thoroughfares is reason enough to take the trip. You will never see a more confident and persistent concentration of (a) car dealerships; (b) gas stations; or (c) chiropractor offices. It appears everyone north of Brunswick has terrible posture from all the gas they manually deliver to their 13 automobiles.

Bird watchers might particularly enjoy the drive. Not be-cause I saw a lot of birds to recommend, but because I saw some of the largest American flags I have ever encountered. I can only imagine how impressive they’d be when viewed through binoculars.

If none of that sounds tempting, allow me to inform you that somewhere near the McDonald’s without the golden arches, you can visit an establishment that allows you to rent puzzles. Is this a monthly-membership enterprise, or are walk-ins welcome? What is the penalty for the inevi-table lost corner piece? These discoveries and more are all yours for the undertaking.

Upon arriving at the Samoset, my road warriors and I enjoyed not twisting our ankles on the resort’s rocky beach. We ventured into Camden, which is best described as a European village nestled into a seaside bay. We ate dinner at Cappy’s Chowder House, where my son confirmed to us that a decision to bring him into public spaces is a decision

taken at our own risk.By the time we left, my husband could only repeat “I

need to lie down.”As a family, we enjoy extreme sporting. For example,

we often test who can be quiet for the longest. True to this form, the kids and I spent the next morning in the hotel pool while my husband hid behind the Sunday paper. We then proceeded to the Camden Hills State Park. My hus-band had heard rave reviews about a gentle hike we could enjoy with our dead-weight offspring.

Twenty minutes later, I was bent over at a 90-degree angle, pushing my daughter up the face of a cliff in a Graco stroller as my husband gave himself early-onset herniated disk thanks to the son he had dangling in a backpack. With sweat streaming down our faces and swears forming at our lips, we both agreed we were having a wonderful time and that the hike was exactly as advertised.

At the summit, we debated which chiropractor to stop at during the return trip.

Our return home left us nostalgic for the 24 hours just survived. True, it was a vacation without any relaxation or selfish decision-making. Somehow, though, it still felt special, like the beginning of a tradition we would all look back on fondly.

But maybe that was just the PTSD talking. I don’t know. I still haven’t learned what parts of the family travel experi-ence I should trust.

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Contrary to right-wing opinion, the world is not flatThe refusal to accept hard facts, truths that stare us in

the face, has become the hallmark of the political right in the nation, and in Maine.

The insistence by right-of-center political leaders (Gov. Paul LePage is one among many) on policies that ignore facts and truth is stifling the U.S. and Maine economies.

Which policies? What untruths have we suc-cumbed to? Here are some examples:

• “Cutting taxes for wealthy individuals and corporations will stimulate the economy and create jobs.”

Not true. The federal tax rate on individuals making more than $400,000 was recently increased, but fed-eral income tax burdens re-main at a 60-year low. The massive (2001-2003) Bush tax cuts did not ward off the 2007-2009 recession; they did not bring us out of the recession. These cuts simply increased the nation’s debt.

Although the U.S. corporate tax rate (35 percent) seems high, the effective rate (by virtue of exemptions, loopholes, and tax credits) is less than half that. We rank 21st out of 25 industrial nations in corporate tax burden. This low effective rate did not prevent the recession – it has not facilitated a rapid recovery from recession. This low rate also raised the national debt.

In Maine, the LePage tax cuts – roughly $150 million dollars annually, largely benefiting the wealthy – have not turned the economy around. Maine’s job growth is non-existent; unemployment has not gone down; the quality of life is declining. The only effect these

cuts have had is to produce revenue gaps that make it increasingly difficult to adequately fund schools, road maintenance, other infrastructure needs, and the needs of the poor, the elderly, and the handicapped.

These are the facts. They speak loudly. At national and state levels of government, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations do not create jobs; they do not turn an economy around.

• “Austerity budgets and debt reduction will stimulate the economy and create jobs.”

Not true. The lessons of Europe – England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy – shout out to us. For years, all of these nations have been drinking the Kool-Aid of austerity budgeting. All of them are mired in recession or double-dip recession. Unemployment in these countries has been prolonged, and higher than in the U.S. (in many cases much higher).

In the U.S., austerity budgeting in the form of the “sequester” will reduce the nation’s debt slightly. But all economists agree it will slow down the rate of economic recovery. People will remain unemployed, and for lon-ger periods. We failed to distinguish between long-term debt reduction that must eventually be fashioned, and short-term debt that must grow to provide the needed stimulus to get out of recession.

In Maine, LePage’s austerity budgeting began by sharply reducing state employee and teacher retirement benefits; it moved to tightening eligibility for a wide range of welfare benefits; it is now focused on cutting off municipal revenue sharing, flat funding education, and allowing almost all of the state’s regulatory pro-grams and infrastructure to deteriorate over time. He would allow municipalities to fund (where the state leaves off) what they choose to fund – but he knows that few municipalities have the resources to do so.

Again, these are the facts. Austerity budgets do not re-vive an economy; they do not produce jobs. Indeed, the evidence is to the contrary: in Europe, the U.S. and in

Maine, austerity budgets prolong economic downturns and high unemployment.

• “Avoiding debt (bonding) during recessionary peri-ods is good economic policy.”

Not true. Contrary to the view of most economists, the governor (without any supporting evidence) has taken the position that bonding is inappropriate during tight fiscal times. It makes no sense.

The facts are that interest rates are low; that Maine is not overburdened with debt; that countless projects throughout the state are ready to go; that construction firms hit hard by the housing downturn, need and want the work; that bid prices on the few projects that have moved forward were well under engineering estimates. In spite of these facts, the governor blocked a bond package during his first two years in office and has frozen $100 million in approved bonds.

In sum, bonding to build needed infrastructure over the last several years would have been anti-recessionary: It would have reduced unemployment, and enabled us to acquire this infrastructure at write-down prices. We’ve lost these opportunities because of LePage’s “no-bonding” policy – a policy contrary to common sense and good economics.

The governor and the political right cannot continue to advance policies built on asserted facts that are untrue, essentially asserting the world is flat. In each of the examples I’ve cited, there is overwhelming evidence that the assertions made (and constantly repeated) are incorrect.

Maine is paying a heavy price for this obdurateness. It needs to end.

Orlando Delogu of Portland is emeritus professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law and a longtime public policy consultant to federal, state, and local government agencies and officials. He can be reached at [email protected].

Despite Beem’s belief, we thrive on competition

I often wonder if resident guru, now prophet, Edgar Allen Beem rereads his pieces, wishing he could hit “delete.”

Please read his last, egotistically dubbed “Universal Notebook.” It’s deletion worthy. Beem prophesied the end of our human world this century. Why? Competition. The competition which has reduced prices (when logically adjusted for currency inflation) of everything from Apple computers to those $4 prescriptions.

Or, think Hubble photos and a competitive space race with the (defunct) Socialist USSR. Yes, originally competitive – not cooperative.

He actually said, “If the 21st century is not to be the last century in human history, cooperation must replace

competition as our local, national and global modus operandi.” The title of this anti-capitalism rant: “Cooperate or perish.” How typical of his ilk to be dispiriting and demeaning. How apprecia-tive is his liberal congregation,

however. (Pardon my assumption that defenders of Beem’s “universal” knowledge are usually hand-wringing, appre-

hensive, progressive, well-meaning liberals. They just are, unabashedly.)

Competition, Beem claims, is useful for sporting events, game shows and amusements – fun, but meaningless. He adds, “the entire global economy is far too important to be left to competitive gamesmanship.” He must agonize that socialist economic experiments of “cooperation for the common good” just keep failing. Their misguided leaders ultimately succumb to human nature. Meanwhile, capital-istic competition, Schumpeter’s “creative destruction,” and fearlessly entrepreneurial humans will continue to raise standards of living – universally, including, thanklessly, his.

Bill GardinerYarmouth


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Edgar Allen Beem

Be it ever so humble …My grandmother lived in the same house in Portland for 47 years. I have now lived in the same house in Yarmouth for 31, far longer than I have ever lived anywhere in my life. I’ve been thinking about all the houses I’ve lived in – about 20 by my count – as Carolyn and I start thinking about what comes next, now that the girls are grown and out of the house.

Strange to think of all those houses, rooms, yards that were once so familiar, that were once “home,” now dim recollections long since inhabited by others.

The Hollanders have lived in my grand-mother’s old house for decades now, but I still think of it – buttermilk yellow in memory, lilac in fact – as Nana’s house. My friend Tanya tells me the old slate-bed pool table with the leather pockets is still down there in the basement where I played on it the 1950s and 1960s. I forgot to ask whether the antique black slate sink is still in the kitchen. I hope so.

The fact that my family moved a great deal when I was growing up is probably the reason I haven’t moved much since. I lived in more than a dozen homes before I graduated from college. My daughters lived in one, two in the case of our oldest. Because my father was in the Navy and then got transferred a lot by Met Life, I lived in Brunswick, Waterville, Fal-mouth, San Diego, Mechanic Falls, Lewiston, Auburn, Groton, Mass., and Pawtucket, R.I., before we more or less settled down in Westbrook in 1960.

In 1966, unhappy as a salesman, my father went back to sea in the merchant marine and my mother took up real estate to pass the time. She quickly became one of her own best customers, such that my father used to joke that he was never sure where “home” was when he came home. My parents owned five different homes in Westbrook at one time or another with a few rentals interspersed.

My father, having graduated from Maine Maritime Academy and served aboard liberty ships in World War II, was in his final year at Bowdoin College when

I was born in 1949, so my first home was an apart-ment in the building that is now the Elks Lodge on the Brunswick town green. Daughter Tess will be graduat-ing from Bowdoin herself next month. It is the fact that the last of our three girls will be out of college (so we theoretically may have a little more money) that has us thinking about whether to move somewhere, and if so where.

When I suggest winterizing the camp up on Thomp-son Lake in Otisfield, Carolyn just rolls her eyes. Not only would she have to commute more than an hour each way to work in Freeport, but she probably can’t imagine living up at the lake with me. Then again, maybe she can.

So how about trading our little cape in Yarmouth for a big old Georgian townhouse in Richmond? You can get a lot more bang for your housing buck if you move out of the preferred suburbs. Or maybe we should move back into Portland. We lived in the Park Street row-houses when we first got married and loved it. We were both born in Portland and Carolyn grew up there. She’s the only Portland High graduate I’ve ever met. So moving back into Portland (Buy? Rent? Single-family? Apartment building? Condo?) would be like going home again.

But of course, you can’t go home again. And, anyway, I’m not sure we can afford Portland. The row house we lived in sold for $100,000 in the 1980s. I’m sure it would fetch more than a million today.

We have three little grandchildren now and another on the way, so maybe we should move out into the country, buy a big old farm with room for the little ones to run around in the fields and play in the barn. Plant a big garden. Maybe raise a few chickens and ducks. Get a goat.

On second thought, probably not.Carolyn, who is fun-loving, adventurous and gener-

ally up for anything, would move in a heartbeat, but I’m afraid I’m kind of an old stick in the mud. So chances are we’ll just stick it out here in the mud, maybe make a few long-overdue improvements to the old place.

With 31 years’ worth of cultch and accumulation, this little house somehow seems smaller now than it did when there were five of us living here. Yes, that’s it – we’ll just stay right here where we belong.

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

Tax increases stifle U.S. energy companies

The president is talking about reducing the federal deficit without crippling the budget – great promises on an extremely important issue.

However, instead of talking about spending cuts, he’s attacking the oil and gas industry and planning to raise taxes on energy companies.

The so called “stimulus” bill that is being circulated by President Obama includes provisions that would skew the global playing field against U.S.-based oil and natu-ral gas companies. He wants to do this by changing exist-

ing “dual capacity” r u l e s , the t ax laws that grant tax credits to

American companies generating income in foreign countries that enables them to use taxes they’ve already paid abroad to offset additional domestic taxation on that same foreign income.

By eliminating dual capacity, Obama’s measure would double-tax our domestic oil and natural gas producers, putting them at a competitive disadvantage with foreign operators. This is unacceptable to me. As a Mainer, I firmly believe that President Obama and Congress should work to maintain our domestic industries’ com-petitive edge.

The federal deficit should be tackled with reduced spending and an increase in job production, not punitive tax increases on proven job creators.

Jon StinsonPortland

Beem trips over the competitive edge

I was flabbergasted by Edgar Allan Beem’s latest fan-tasy regarding the ineffectiveness of competition (“Co-operate or perish,” April 1, 2013). Since he’s probably still using a rotary dial phone, perhaps he missed the fact that thanks to intense competition most of us now carry telephones in our pockets that have more computing power than desktops did a few years ago. Or perhaps the fact that in response to rising gasoline prices, car makers are falling all over themselves selling more ef-ficient cars that customers demand. Southwest Airlines didn’t achieve success because it got its employees to cooperate – it created an entirely new flying experience that lured customers from competing airlines. I could go on, but why bother? Beem has become so detached from reality I suggest it’s time The Forecaster beam him to a more suitable planet.

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ObituariesJulie A. Freeman, 52: Always lent a helping hand

PHIPPSBURG — Julie A. Freeman, 52, died peacefully April 2 after a coura-geous battle with cancer, surrounded by her loving family.

She was born Nov. 17, 1960, in Port-land, the daughter of William and Julia Sprague. She moved to Machias with her family in 1977, graduating from Machias Memorial High School in 1979. She loved the ocean, gardening and baking, and was always there to lend a helping hand to others. She also had a great love of the Boston Red Sox and was even able to attend a game last July with her son.

In addition to her parents, she is sur-vived by her hus-band, Stephen Free-man, of Phippsburg; daugh te r s Dawn and Jennifer of Ma-chias; son Courtney (Corky), of Dresden; stepchildren Derek and his wife Natasha, of Phippsburg, and Stephanie of Topsham; brothers Buddy, of Monmouth, Tim, of Topsham, David, of Machiasport, and Andy and his wife Kristen, of Millbury, Mass.; sister Beth

and her husband Harold, of Bowdoin; mother and father-in-law Madelyn and Donald Freeman, of Phippsburg; brothers-in-law Ernie and wife Margaret, of Phippsburg and Herb, of Bath; grand-children Hannah, Alyssa, Richard, Skyler and Curtis; and many nieces, nephews, extended family members and special friends.

She enjoyed working for many years at Bisson’s Center Store in Phippsburg, where she considered her co-workers part of her family. The family extended a heartfelt “thank you” to Roland and Dianne Bisson for all their help, and to

Dr. Tashima and his staff for the excellent care Freeman received.

A graveside service will be held at a later date this spring.

Edward Eric Butler, 90BRUNSWICK — Edward Eric But-

ler, 90, died Monday at his home on Casco Bay in Brunswick, surrounded by his three children and his faithful dog, Caddy.

He was born Aug. 18, 1922, in Cam-bridge, Mass., to James Percival Butler and Katherine Elinor O’Donnell Butler.

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ObituariesFollowing his gradu-ation from Kimball Union Academy, he entered the U.S. Army and served his country throughout World War II in three theaters of opera-tions. In the midst of the war, he was re-united with his brother for a few hours on the shores of Guadalcanal as their respec-tive units briefly crossed paths.

Butler left the Army when the war end-ed and immediately enrolled at Bowdoin College. He met his beloved wife, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Butler, on the steps of his fraternity, Psi Upsilon. They married in June 1947 at Mary’s family home in Topsham, and began their married life at the Bowdoin Apartments while Butler was still a student.

After graduating from Bowdoin in 1949, Butler started his career at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. He went on to positions of increasing seniority over the years, in-cluding roles with DuPont. He and his wife lived in Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Michigan and their beloved Mere Point.

Butler relocated to Massachusetts to work for the New England Telephone Company and then the First National Bank of Boston. He spent most of his career with the bank, while he and his family lived in South Natick and Marble-head, Mass.

Throughout his career, Butler was known for his love of people. He enjoyed helping good employees get into good jobs where they could thrive. Every year, his mailbox was filled with holiday cards from people keeping in touch and thank-ing him for his help.

In 1986, Butler and his wife retired to Brunswick, where he pursued his love of sailing and German short-haired pointers. He was devoted to his family, St. Paul’s Church, Bowdoin College, Mere Point, and his many friends from the Bowdoin track and field community. He used to spend many hours browsing through boatyards along the Maine coast.

Butler’s life was marked by an unfail-ingly happy and grateful attitude; his daily greetings were positive and hopeful expressions. When asked how he was, he invariably would answer, “Every day is a day of grace.”

Butler was deeply saddened by the death of his wife, Mary, in October 2012, after 65 years of marriage. He also was predeceased by his brother, James Per-cival Butler.

He is survived by three children, Kath-erine, Elizabeth and Edward Eric “Jay” Butler Jr.; his beloved grandson, Ben-jamin Allen Butler; and six nieces and nephews, James P. Butler, Dorothy But-ler Burns, Arthur B. Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson Kellenberger, Lewis C. Johnson and Paul T. Johnson.

A memorial service will be held Sat-urday at 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Church in Brunswick. Visiting hours will be held Friday from 2-4 p.m. at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick. Burial in Riverview Cemetery, in Topsham, will be held later this spring.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Coastal Humane Society, 30 Range Road, Brunswick, ME 04011.

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for upcoming events, picking up govern-ment food in Wiscasset, serving food to guests, establishing recycling guidelines and taking recycled items to a recycling center, making notices for upcoming Food Mobiles, and on and on.

Bliss also is a member of the board of directors of MHPP, and serves on the

Volunteer Relations Committee and the Education Committee.

“Oh, golly. There are no words,” An-nette Muttell, the soup kitchen coordina-tor for MHPP, said of Bliss. “Howard is engaged in everything we do. He is unbelievable, just priceless.”

Bliss is also on the board at the Bath Area Food Banks, as a representative from his church. His duties there include organizing volunteers to staff the Food

Pantry; doing intake; keeping records of client visits, and more.

He has not always been a superstar hunger prevention volunteer.

Bliss spent two years in the Army during the Korean War, graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, and then spent the bulk of his career at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut, where he taught letterpress printing to students and oversaw most of

the school’s printing requirements.When you talk with Bliss about his im-

mense contributions on behalf of hungry citizens in the Mid-Coast area, you learn that he gets as much as he gives.

“Every day is different,” he said, “and there’s no opportunity that I don’t look forward to. I really like getting to know the clients as human beings. They’re just like you and me, with the same fears and aspirations. “

One would think that Bliss has little free time to pursue other activities, along with spending good time with his wife Nancy, his two children and four grandchildren. But one would be wrong: he enjoys pastel painting, woodworking, boating, classical music and singing in his church choir.

Clearly, Bliss has discovered the secret of living a long and meaningful life. In fairness, he comes from good stock. His father Daniel, a Congregational minister who lived to be 103, wrote a memoir called “Two Worlds Apart: An Ameri-can’s Intimate Account of Growing Up in the Arab World of 1902-1923.”

His father wrote the introduction to the book in 2001, when he was 101. So don’t be surprised if Bliss’ unselfish service continues for many more years.

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“Whatever happens in this town is a joint concern,” Multer said. “It’s what I like about living in Maine.”

‘This will come full circle’While Walker makes her recovery, her

family is planning to send a larger mes-sage: helmets save lives.

Simpson said there are no details, but the Walker family hopes to make an im-pact on other families.

“We need to get the word out that people need to wear a helmet,” Simpson said. “... This will come full circle.”

For continuing updates on Walker’s recovery, follow her Facebook support page at www.facebook.com/Jessica-GraceWalkerRoadToRecovery.

Fishing Families for Harpswell is ac-cepting donations on the Walker family’s behalf at P.O. Box 465, Harpswell, ME 04079.Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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Silver linings exist for Sox fansBy Bryan O’Connor

Sun shines cordially on the brim of your cap, a welcome respite from the biting cold in the nearby shade. Meticu-lously manicured grass sparkles proudly, unaware that the last patch of snow is clinging for its life in your yard back home. Familiar songs blare from the loudspeaker as grown men stretch and toss on the field be-low. April has come to rescue us from another dismal winter and baseball makes spring’s arrival official. There’s no better time to be alive than the beginning of baseball season.

Unless, of course, you’re a Red Sox fan.

It’s been an ugly couple of years in New England. In 2011, winter came early, as the Red Sox lost 20 of their last 27 games after starting 83-52 and looking like a solid bet to win another World Series. In 2012, summer never came, as Boston started 1-5, sputtered to a .500 record at the All-Star break, then fell apart and shipped off two of their prize acquisitions from the 2011 offseason.

Rather than retooling with another cadre of elite free agents or rebuilding with low-cost talent, the Red Sox took a rather unsettling middle road in the offseason. They brought in Mike Napoli despite a harrow-ing medical report that com-pletely reshaped his contract. They signed Shane Victorino, perhaps hoping he can duplicate Cody Ross’s 2011 performance for the next three years despite signs that he’s slowing down. They added veteran starter Ryan Dempster, who’s had a handful of great years in the National League, but struggled in a brief stint with the Rangers last sum-mer. They added relievers Joel Hanrahan and Koji Uehara, who should be upgrades, but neither will pitch more than 75 innings in 2013. And Johnny Gomes is on the team for some reason.

Throw in a David Ross here and a Stephen Drew there and this is not a bad team, but it’s not the Manny-Ortiz-Pedro jug-gernaut we’ve become accus-tomed to in Boston. The pitch-ing is still thin, with Jon Lester regressing at an alarming rate, Clay Buchholz never having pitched 200 innings or struck out 130 batters in a season and

the mere thought of John Lackey on the mound more terrifying in Massachusetts than the prospect of a Sarah Palin presidency.

Furthermore, the American League East has been a gaunt-let for a decade and with the Orioles winning 93 games last year and the Blue Jays claiming available talent over the winter like Bobby Jenks claiming hors d’ouvres at the postgame buf-fet, the Red Sox seem far more likely to finish last than first in 2013.

But are the chances of a divi-sion title really that bleak?

The Yankees listen to Law-rence Welk in the clubhouse before games. Most Yankees spent this offseason wagging fingers and yelling at kids to stay off their lawns. Some Yan-kees even remember when Clint Eastwood’s diaper wasn’t visible through his pants. Even with C.C. Sabathia and Robinson Cano, can they hold up for 162 games?

The Orioles won a lot of games last year, but they only had two players worth as many as three Wins Above Replace-ment (per fangraphs). For refer-ence, the Rangers, who won the same number of games, had six. No pitcher on the 2012 Orioles has a track record of Major League success, yet they made no moves to strengthen the staff, or for that matter, the lineup, which batted just .247 last sea-son and was below average by just about any metric.

The Rays have one of the game’s best rotations, but their starting first baseman and desig-nated hitter early this season are James Loney and Shelley Dun-can, who might have been the neighbors on “All in the Fam-ily.” If Evan Longoria struggles to stay on the field, as he has in recent years, this could be a truly impotent lineup.

The Blue Jays are the favor-ites to win the division. With Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera setting the table, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion provid-ing clout in the middle of the order, and four aces in the rota-tion, Toronto is a popular pick to win the World Series. But R.A. Dickey has never pitched well in the American League, Josh Johnson and Brandon Mor-row are more familiar with the trainer’s room than the pitcher’s

mound and Mark Buehrle gave up 26 homers in the National League East last year. Further-more, the bottom of the lineup isn’t as strong as Boston’s, at least as long as Adam Lind is wasting at-bats like real-ity shows taking primetime TV spots.

Boston’s lineup might not be the best in the division this year, but as long as all the Yan-kees you’ve heard of are on the disabled list, it’s not far behind Toronto for second. The bullpen doesn’t have a Mariano Rivera, but it should be the best in Bos-ton in years. And the rotation- well, it could be bad, but who’s to say it can’t be good? Lester is still just 29, looked solid this spring, and was a legitimate number one starter as recently as 2010. Buchholz pitched well down the stretch last year and has a career ERA under four. Dempster has over 550 strike-outs over the last three seasons, and Felix Doubront struck out 167 in 161 innings as a rookie last year. It’s even possible that Lackey is healthy for the first time in a Red Sox uniform and could pitch more like the ace he was from 2005 to 2007 than the joker he’s been since 2010.

And perhaps best of all, the bumbling reign of Bobby Valen-tine is over. Former Sox pitching coach John Farrell has the same luxury FDR had in succeeding Hoover: things can only go up from here.

On paper, this Red Sox team has something like 85-win tal-ent. It’s easy to see the pitching falling apart, Lester and Jacoby Ellsbury getting traded mid-season and another sub-70-win finish. But it’s also possible that Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia are two of the best players in baseball again, as they were in 2011, that a stacked bullpen holds leads turned over by an adequate rotation, that Jackie Bradley, Jr. continues to elec-trify fans throughout his rookie season and that no other team in the AL East has a great year.

Red Sox fans who came of age in the current millennium are accustomed to expecting more than a sliver of a chance at the division if everything breaks right. But maybe this is the way baseball is supposed to be. A team with a few stars and a lot of decent role players faces an uphill battle. This is what baseball is like most years in Chicago and Cleveland and Mil-waukee and Seattle. Fans start with hope, catch a few breaks and hit a few snags along the way, and more often than not, start dreaming of next year by midsummer.

But if the games still count when the shade is a welcome break from the sun, when the grass, no matter how meticu-lously manicured, shows evi-dence of cleats chasing fly balls in the gap, when snow is as dis-tant a memory as Ted Williams’s

swing or Cy Young’s fastball, it feels not like a birthright, but like a miracle.

Bryan O’Connor lives in South Portland, where he ob-sesses about sabermetrics and the Hall of Fame in the offsea-son. Read more of his work at Replacement Level Baseball Blog (http://replacementlevel.wordpress.com) and High Heat Stats (http://highheatstats.com).

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Olympic legend to appear at Fosbury Track Camp

Olympic Gold Medal winner Tommie Smith will join teammate Dick Fosbury on the staff of the Dick Fosbury Track Camp to be held at Bowdoin Col-lege June 24-28. Smith won the gold in the 200 meter dash in Mexico City in the 1968 Summer Games and was immortalized for his silent gesture of raising his fist with his black glove on the award stand. Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump at the same Olympics. FMI, slovenski-camps.com.

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Good Deeds

People’s United Community Founda-tion, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank, has awarded $3,000 to Community Financial Literacy. Founded in 2008, CFL empowers refugees, im-migrants and low-income individuals in the Portland and Lewiston/Auburn areas through financial education. The organi-zation offers three free financial literacy courses, and one-on-one free financial counseling. To date, CFL has helped more than 600 people. The foundation also awarded $7,500 to Maine Housing and Building Materials Exchange. The grant will support the BME Building Materials Supply Fund, which offers new and recycled roofing, exterior doors and heating systems at an affordable price to low-income homeowners, allowing eligible participants to maintain, repair and improve their homes.

Mechanics Savings Bank donated $500 to the Bath Area Family YMCA Freedom Tour Program. The program teaches eighth-grade students how his-tory and culture have influence in social behavior, impact the world today, and focuses on building leadership, self-esteem, and conflict resolution skills. The program concludes with a week-long trip to Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and New York City.

Recognition

Mid Coast Senior Health Center’s Mere Point Long-Term Nursing Home and Bodwell Nursing and Rehabilitation Facil-ity were recently recognized in the 2013 US News and World Report’s Best Nursing Homes list for being among the highest rat-ed in Maine. The list is comprised of those facilities with a rating of five stars from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for their overall performance in health inspections, nurse staffing, and quality of medical care. About 30 percent of Maine nursing homes earned an overall five-star rating, and Mid Coast’s Mere Point is one of two facilities in Mid-coast Maine that received the highest possible rating.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap recognized the Merriconeag Grange in Harpswell for achieving 100 years of in-corporation during its March 1 anniversary celebration.

Six attorneys from Lambert Coffin, a law firm with offices in Portland and Blue Hill, where it does business as Lambert Coffin Hanley, have been named in the 2012 New England Super Lawyers publication. Those designated as Super Lawyers include John

F. Lambert Jr., for civil litigation; Samuel K. Rudman and Peter Del Bianco, for gen-eral litigation; and Philip M. Coffin, for medical malpractice defense. Associates Jeffrey D. Russell and Maureen M. Sturte-vant were named Rising Stars in the field of medical malpractice defense.

Tedford Housing Executive Director Craig Phillips recently presented Topsham Girl Scout Troop 966 with a Certificate of Recognition. During the past year the Scouts collected, sorted and boxed food for Tedford’s family shelters in Brunswick and low-income housing units in Bruns-wick and Bath. The Scouts also provided birthday boxes for children and the family shelter. Several of the Scouts are work-ing to earn Silver Awards in Leadership. The Silver Award is the highest level of recognition a Girl Scout cadette can earn, and recognizes demonstrated leadership in planning and executing projects improving the community. Tedford Housing thanks the Scouts and their leader, Aleta Pickins, for their generosity. Tedford Housing works to end homelessness in the Mid-Coast, Au-burn, Lewiston and Augusta by providing, in collaboration with others, shelter, hous-ing and services to those in need.

New Hires & Promotions

John Wasileski and Seacoast Manage-ment recently hired Michael Todd as di-rector of sales and marketing at Highland Green in Topsham. Beginning March 25, Todd joined Will Honan and Amber Grant as part of the sales team. Prior joining Highland Green, Todd was director of de-velopment at Mid Coast Health Services, sales director at Thornton Oaks Retire-ment Community in Brunswick, and vice president of sales for Coventry Resources of Baltimore.

The Iris Network announced Dareth Law is now organization’s low vision oc-cupational therapist and Low Vision Clinic coordinator. A graduate of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland, Law worked as an occupational therapist in the United Kingdom and has also worked with individuals with congenital blindness, vision loss secondary to cerebral palsy, head injuries and strokes in San Francisco, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.

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South Portland resident Tollef Olson was recently named to the board of direc-tors of Friends of Casco Bay. Olson has been a commercial fisherman, marine salvage diver, urchin harvester, blue mus-sel grower, and now a principal in Ocean Approved, a company that develops kelp products such as kelp noodles, kelp slaw, and kelp salad.

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GalleriesSaturday 4/13The Joy of the Lens, 1 p.m., Crook-er Gallery at the Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road, Top-sham, 725-1727.

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m.-5 p.m., Sundays; closed Mon-days, 725-3416, bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum.

Pejepscot Historical Society Mu-seum, CSI Brunswick: The Forensic Work of Dr. Frank Whittier, and Pejepscot”s Early Scots-Irish His-tory, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., free, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, 729-6606.

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FilmTuesday 4/16“Wreck It Ralph!” 1 p.m., Free-port Community Library, 10 Library Drive, Freeport, 865-3307.

Saturday 4/20“It’s a Disaster,” 7:30 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600.

Friday 4/12“Lake Windfall, US,” part of the Maine Deaf Film Festival, 7 p.m., Luther Bonney Hall, 92 Bedford St., Portland.

“Lore,” 6:30 p.m., Portland Muse-um of Art, 7 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148 ext. 3223.

Saturday 4/13Maine Deaf Film Festival, 1-10:30 p.m., Luther Bonney Hall, 92 Bedford St., Portland, mainedeaf-filmfest.com.

“Lore,” 2 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148 ext. 3223.

Sunday 4/14“Lore,” 2 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148 ext. 3223.

GalleriesFriday 4/12Compositions in Wood by Carol Kainlor, 5:50 p.m., Thomas Memo-rial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, 741-5166.

MuseumsChildren’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, ongoing cultural, edu-cational, fun and active workshops for kids and parents, 142 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 or kitetails.com.

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, by appointment, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, 766-3330, fifthmaine-museum.org.

International Cryptozoology Museum, 661 Congress St., Port-land, cryptozoologymuseum.com.

Maine Historical Society Mu-seum, Images of the Longfellow Garden, current exhibits, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 12-5 p.m. Sun.; 11 a.m.-12 p.m. children’s hour Monday and Wednesday; $8 adult, $3 child, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822 or mainehis-tory.org.

Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, 780-0118, main-eirish.com.

Maine Jewish Museum, formerly called Tree of Life at Etz Chaim, open Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. or by appointment, 267 Congress St., Portland, Gary Berenson, 329-9854, treeoflifemuseum.org.

The Maine Narrow Gauge Rail-road Company and Museum, daily trains from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., on the hour, from the museum, 58 Fore St., Portland, 828-0814, tickets, $10 adult, $9 senior, $6 child ages 3-12, price includes admission to

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Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown St., Portland, 871-7188 or museumafricanculture.org.

Neal Dow Memorial, 714 Con-gress St., Portland, tours 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 773-7773, mewctu.org.

Portland Fire Museum, open first Fridays 6-9 p.m., $5 adults, $2 children age 7-plus, 157 Spring St., Portland, portlandfiremuseum.com.

Portland Museum of Art, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Friday; free on Fridays 5-9 p.m., first Fridays, 7 Congress Square, Portland, 775-6148, portlandmu-seum.org

Portland Observatory, 138 Con-gress St., Portland, 774-5561.

The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum and the Shaker Store, by appointment, Route 26, New Gloucester, 926-4597, shaker.lib.me.us.

Skyline Farm Carriage and Sleigh Museum, by appointment, free/donations accepted, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, skylinefarm.org, 829-9203 .

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, SMCC campus, off Fort Road, South Portland, springpointlight.org, 799-6337.

Victoria Mansion, self-guided tours, 109 Danforth St., Portland, 772-4841, victoriamansion.org.

Yarmouth Historical Society Mu-seum, Life Along the Royal River, 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Merrill Memorial Library, Main Street, Yarmouth, 846-6259.

MusicFriday 4/12MAMM Adult Rock and Roll Camp, 6:30 p.m., Breakwater School, 856 Brighton Ave., Portland, $200, to register for the weekend go to maineacademyofmodernmusic.org/camps, or call 899-3433.

Daisy Castro’s Gypsy Moth Quintet, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square,181 State St., Portland, 761-1757.

Rick Miller and His Band, 9 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland,

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Saturday 4/13MAMM Adult Rock and Roll Camp, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Breakwater School, 856 Brighton Ave., Portland, $200, to register for the weekend go to maineacademyofmodernmusic.org/camps, or call 899-3433.

Matt Costa, 12:30 p.m., Bull Moose, 456 Payne Road, Scarborough, 775-2126.

Willy Porter, 8 p.m., One Longfel-low Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757.

Tommy O’Connell & The Juke Joint Devils, Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Sunday 4/14MAMM Adult Rock and Roll Camp, 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m., Break-water School, 856 Brighton Ave., Portland, $200, to register for the weekend go to maineacademyof-modernmusic.org/camps or call 899-3433.

Wednesday 4/17Lorraine Bohland with Terry Foster, Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Thursday 4/18Mike James’ Blue Lions, Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Friday 4/19Travis James Humphrey and the Retro Rockets, 9 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Saturday 4/20Poor Howard & Bullfrog, 5 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Record Store Day, with perfor-mance by Phantom Buffalo, 6 p.m., Bull Moose, 151 Middle St., Port-land, 775-2126.

Sunday 4/21Portland String Quartet, 2 p.m., Woodfords Congregational

Church, 202 Woodfords St., Port-land, 415-0880.

Poke Chop & The Other White Meats, 9 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

Theater & Dance“The Drowsy Chaperone,” April 12-27, Fridays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m., Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, 799-1421.

Friday 4/19“HAIR,” 8 p.m., Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, 824-0800.

Michael Vermette’s watercolor, “Reid State Park,”is among the works he will discuss at an April 20-21 workshop on plein aire painting at Centre Street Arts Gallery. The workshop

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BrunswickTues. 4/16 3:30 p.m. CIP Committee MBWed. 4/17 6 p.m. Appointments Subcommittee MBWed. 4/17 7 p.m. Recreation Commission BSThur. 4/18 6 p.m. Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee BSThur. 4/18 7 p.m. Sewer District 10 Pine Tree Road

HarpswellFri. 4/12 3 p.m. Fire & Rescue TOTues. 4/16 8 a.m. Planning Board Site Visit TOTues. 4/16 4:30 p.m. Energy Committee TOWed. 4/17 4 p.m. Conservation Commission TOWed. 4/17 6:30 p.m. Planning Board TO

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Mid CoastBulletin BoardSunday 4/14Bath Antiques Show & Sale, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Road, Bath, 582-5908.

Saturday 4/20Spring Flea Market & Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Bath Area Senior Cen-ter, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.

Call for VolunteersSunday 4/21Keep Bath Beautiful Clean Up Day, 1 p.m., Bath City Hall, Bath, 807-1610.

OngoingAndroscoggin Home Care & Hospice has a growing need for hospice volunteers in the Bruns-wick area, training, call 777-7740, AHCH.org.

ArtVan Program seeks volunteers to help with art therapy program-ming with children and teens, promotional support and fund-raising efforts, contact 371-4125 or visit artvanprogram.org.

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteer mentors (must be 18+) willing to commit one year and spend eight hours a month with a child 6-14 who lives in a single parent home, contact Brunswick office at 729-7736 or [email protected].

Chocolate Church Arts Center seeks volunteers for the art gal-lery and more, 798 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455.

The Greater Bath Elder Outreach Network, a program of Catholic Charities Maine, is looking for volunteers a few hours a week to assist seniors by providing companionship, transportation, assistance with errands and tele-phone reassurance for elderly and disabled people who live in Saga-dahoc County and the Brunswick area, Martha Cushing, 837-8810; meetings 6-7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month, Patten Free Library, Bath, 837-8810.

Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine needs volunteers at ReStore in Bath, minimum four-hour shift commitment, 386-5081 or [email protected].

Home to Home, an organiza-tion providing a safe place for parents to exchange children for visitations, needs volunteers, com-mitment of 1-2 hours per exchange period, police check and train-ing required, Mid-Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Rich Siegel, 837-4894, mainehometohome.org.

Meals on Wheels drivers urgently needed, Wednesdays and Fridays, information, 729-0475, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham.

Mid Coast Hospital, dozens of positions at the café, gift shop, or greeting patients, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Mid Coast Senior Health Cen-ter needs volunteers for various activities with seniors Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, welcome desk openings, 373-3646.

Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter, gift shop needs volunteers, four-hour shifts mornings, after-noons and early evenings Monday through Friday, every other Sun-day 1-4 p.m., will train, 373-4518 or visit the gift shop at 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Pejepscot Historical Society needs volunteer tour guides for Skolfield-Whittier House and Josh-ua L. Chamberlain Museum and volunteer staff for Chamberlain Museum gift shop, 729-6606.

People Plus Center, ongoing op-portunities, 6 Noble St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

Red Cross training, Disaster

Action Team, free, basic classes provide foundation for delivering assistance in emergency situa-tions, weekday evenings, course schedules at midcoast.redcross.org, register on line or call 729-6779, 563-3299, MidCoast-RedCross.net, 16 Community Way, Topsham.

Road to Recovery, American Cancer Society’s transportation program seeks volunteers to help cancer patients get to their treat-ment appointments, call Janice Staples, 373-3715, [email protected], American Cancer So-ciety, One Bowdoin Mill Island, Topsham.

Spectrum Generations has vol-unteer opportunities in program development, outreach, and re-ception at its new Community Center at 12 Main St., Topsham, Dave, 729-0475.

Sexual Assault Support Services of Mid Coast Maine needs vol-unteers to provide support and information to callers on 24-hour hotline, 725-2181.

Getting SmarterTuesday 4/16Unveil the Mysterious Tibet Through a Candid Lens, 4 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin Col-lege, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 725-3046.

Wednesday 4/17Effective Job Interviewing Work-shop, 9:30 a.m., Southern Midcoast

CareerCenter, 255 Bath Road, Brunswick, 373-4000.

Farming for Clean Water, 6 p.m., Bath City Hall Auditorium, 55 Front St., Bath, 753-9400 ext. 400.

“History Through the Keyhole,“ 7:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 725-3291.

Thursday 4/18GATEways to Employment, 9 a.m., Southern Midcoast CareerCenter, 255 Bath Road, Brunswick, 373-4000.

Health & SupportTuesday 4/16Advance healthcare decision-making, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Mid Coast Senior Health Center, 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, 373-4656.

Kids & FamilyFriday 4/19Children’s Activity: Music of the Civil War, 2 p.m., Pejebscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, 729-6606.

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clammers and wormers “goes back to at least 1979 ... because these groups do not mix, for a whole variety of reasons: socioeconomic, geopolitical. They just don’t get along. I’m surprised somebody hasn’t been shot over this.”

Devereaux said he doesn’t disagree with Ambrose’s assessment, but said, “what we’re seeing now is different than what’s been studied in the past. We’re seeing continued disturbance of the mud. We’re seeing repeated, every-other-day digging through the same dig marks. When you continually flip the mud like

that, it makes it soupy, black silty mud. It makes it almost anoxic (depleted of dissolved oxygen), and nothing can survive.”

Devereaux said the legislation may not be the best solution for everyone, “but we have to find a way to co-manage these species.”

Dan Harrington argued last week for improved communication instead of “a bill that gives one industry control over another. We need to work together and find common ground, because right now (this) is creating friction.”

He said worm diggers won’t be happy with any legislation controlling their digging.

“They’ll only be comfortable without a law stuffed down our throats,” Har-rington said.

He asked the committee, and Gerzof-sky, to hold the proposed bill and work with worm diggers on an agreement to work the flats in a way that satisfied both industries.

He said worm dealers “would ad-equately post” the closures and no worm buyers would likely purchase worms from a digger who harvests in closed flats.

“If we find out you’re in these areas, there are going to be serious conse-quences,” Rena Rithman of Wiscasset Bait said, arguing for the agreement. “As

(Harrington) says, there are other ways (of controlling digging in closed areas). We’re telling you, we’re going to do ev-erything (we can to stop it).”

“And if this (agreement) doesn’t work,” he said, “you have the option of present-ing the legislation again.”

“I think if we can work this out without a law, I think that would be preferable to everyone, but if we have to have a law to make this happen, we’ll put the bill in,” Gerzofsky said Monday. “I have quite a bit of support up and down the coast, and I’m confident I could get this bill passed.”

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count for 88 percent, or $1.8 million, of the overall $2.13 million projected budget increase.

Another major source of the budget increase is the projected loss of funds from the opening of Harpswell Coastal Academy, a public charter school open-ing this fall that is expected to enroll 15 students currently attending Brunswick schools.

Perzanoski said he projects this to cost Brunswick schools more than $195,000 because of the way, under state law, funding for charter schools follows the students from their local school districts.

The superintendent’s figure is based on nine sixth-grade and nine ninth-grade Brunswick students attending HCA this fall, though preliminary enrollment figures provided by HCA indicate that only 15 of these students currently at-tend Brunswick public schools. The other three attend private or home schools.

According to John D’Anieri, head of

HCA, the projected cost for Brunswick schools would be $124,000.

Perzanoski acknowledged the projected cost as a result of HCA could increase or decrease depending on several factors, in-cluding how many HCA students require special education services and if the state Legislature changes the way Maine funds charter schools.

Perzanoski said he supports Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen’s recent proposal for charter school funding, which would spread the costs of charter schools to every school district in Maine.

“His plan is a really good one,” Perza-noski said, “so I would certainly support that and I hope the Legislators do as well.”

Several unfilled full-time and stipend positions may remain unfilled depending on how the School Board votes. Some of the positions that remain in flux include an elementary school teacher, gifted and talented teacher and primary behavior interventionist.

Perzanoski has split the positions into two priority groups, and he said the

School Board cannot provide funding for all of them.

Perzanoski also proposed several re-ductions to the budget, including moving some costs, like the razing of the defunct Jordan Acres Elementary School and moving the bus garage, to the town’s capital improvement budget.

The suggested reductions amount to more than $2.1 million.

By the end of Wednesday’s budget forum, a few board members had some strong words for charter schools and resi-dents who might feel reluctant to support an increased budget.

“We’re tasked with ensuring that each student in Brunswick receives an ad-equate education, and I don’t think that’s enough,” Vice Chairwoman Michele Joyce said. “Let’s change that expecta-tion from adequate to excellent. The state continues to give to give us challenges and one of the latest is publicly funded charter schools. Let’s keep Brunswick students in Brunswick by providing an excellent education for all of our stu-dents.”

Chairman Jim Grant addressed budget concerns for residents without children in Brunwick’s school district.

“One of the things I’m asked a lot by people that don’t have children, like myself, or the elderly, is ‘why is it that we pay to schools?’ and the answer has always been, ‘it benefits the commu-nity,’” Grant said. “... I can’t answer that anymore because now our dollars are going outside of this town to fund what is essentially a private education through public dollars.

“I think it’s irresponsible if we con-tinue to allow money to leave this district that the taxpayers put into it, so yes, I’m going to ask them to pay a little bit more in the hope that more of it stays here.”

The Town Council and School Board will hold a joint public hearing on the school budget April 25.

The town will vote on the school bud-get June 11.Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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economy is in the tank,” he said.The bill has passed in a series of party-

line votes in both the House and Senate, where Democrats supported the increase and Republicans opposed it. Only one Democrat, Rep. Alan Casavant of Bid-deford, broke ranks with his party to oppose the increase.

Maine, where the minimum wage has been $7.50 an hour since 2009, is one of 19 states with a minimum wage above the national level of $7.25 an hour, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

In New England, only New Hampshire, which uses the federal minimum wage, has a lower minimum wage than Maine. Vermont’s minimum wage, $8.60 an hour, is the highest in the region and is indexed to inflation.

Washington, where the minimum wage rises with inflation, currently has the highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.19 per hour. In New York, the Assem-

bly recently approved a measure to raise that state’s minimum wage to $9 by 2016 and index it to inflation.

LePage also discussed his education re-form initiatives at the chamber luncheon.

Maine in the coming weeks will give its public schools a letter grade, A through F, in an effort to improve ac-countability and determine which schools need the most help, he said, referring to a program he first mentioned during his State of the State address on Feb. 5.

“The only equalizer – whether you’re poor or wealthy – is what you put up here, in that four inches between your ears,” he said, stressing the importance of education in preparing Maine students for future careers.

The program is similar to one imple-mented by Florida, which LePage her-alded during the lunch for adopting best practices that have yielded measurable change in the educational outcomes of its children.

Twenty years ago, LePage said, Florida was ranked near the bottom for educa-

tional outcomes while Maine was ranked near the top. Today, though Maine’s test scores haven’t declined, the two states have switched places, he said. Florida spends $11,000 per student per year and yields better results than Maine, which spends about $15,000 per student per year, LePage said.

“That’s completely unacceptable for our kids,” he said.

While “the mantra in Florida is ‘stu-dents first,’” it’s the superintendents and the unions that are the only winners in Maine’s current educational system, he said. Kids and the teachers, he said, are the losers.

Florida has 2.7 million students and 56 superintendents, LePage said by way of introducing his next point: Maine has only 185,000 students, but 127 superintendents.

“We do have good students. It’s just that everyone else around the country is using best practices and putting kids first,” he said.

The governor also said he hopes to re-tire in Brunswick and praised the college

campuses at Brunswick Landing for their focus on job training.

But he said high energy costs in Maine are preventing some businesses from moving to communities that are ripe for development.

He recalled a conversation with the chief executive of Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, about how lower energy costs and right-to-work policies attracted the company to Mobile, Ala.

“I hear it every single day here,” LeP-age said. “In order to help a free enterprise grow, we need to help lower energy costs.”

LePage also defended his state biennial budget, which has been criticized by local officials and educators for shifting state costs to local communities.

“I have added well over $80 million to education in the last three years,” LePage said. “What has happened is the federal government has cut Medicaid and educa-tion, and we’re trying to make up the best we can with the money we have.”

Dylan Martin of The Forecaster contributed to this report.

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in Bath, to $9.1 million; 24 percent in West Bath, to 2.7 million, and 16.4 per-cent in Woolwich, to $3.6 million.

Arrowsic could see a tax reduction of 2.7 percent, to about $480,000, and Phippsburg school taxes could decrease 10.6 percent, to $2.7 million.

Superintendent of Schools Patrick Man-uel on Monday said more than 40 positions have been reduced or eliminated since 2008 in the school district, and that an initial projected budget increase of 9.71 percent is now down to 6.6 percent.

Of the potential $1.7 million budget increase, he said, $1.4 million is for man-datory expenses like salaries and benefits, which amount to $18.4 million of the $27.7 million total spending plan.

Total benefits, which comprise 14.7 per-cent of the spending plan, could rise about $634,000, to nearly $4.1 million. That in-

crease includes $354,000 that RSU 1 might have to pay toward teacher retirements, because Gov. Paul LePage has proposed shifting the expense to school districts across the state.

Discretionary, or newly proposed, ex-penses total about $303,000. Among new positions that would be funded are four new educational technicians, which RSU 1 Business Manager Ruth Moore has said are needed due to a larger number of special education students, along with a school resource officer to be based at Morse High School.

A pre-kindergarten program, which cur-rently has 97 children across the district, is also proposed to expand to 110 slots, and a new pre-kindergarten classroom would be created in Phippsburg. A new district-wide maintenance person is also proposed.

Several people at a public budget hearing at Woolwich Central School on Monday also spoke in favor of adding a certified health teacher at the middle school level.

They cited concerns about issues students face – substance abuse, depression and sexual activity – and their desire for adolescents to be educated to make better decisions.

The cost is estimated to be $65,000 for a full-time position, and has been on the priority list for fiscal 2016. If expanded to a 1.2-time position, to better facilitate students at both Bath Middle School and Woolwich Central School, the estimated cost would be $78,000.

Parents also expressed concern about the size of the current fifth-grade class at Wool-wich Central School, which has one teacher for 28 students. They asked that a new teaching position be created for next year. That job could also cost about $65,000.

Jeannie Harrington, who has a fifth-grade child at the Woolwich school, said she and her husband believe smaller class sizes are more beneficial to students and teachers.

Large classes are “not supposed to hap-pen in our small Woolwich school com-

munity. Twenty-eight individuals, 28 needs, 28 unique learning styles. ... Too many students for one class, and too many for one teacher, whether we’re in a budget freeze or not,” she said.

But David King, a Woolwich selectman, urged the School Board to do the best it could to reduce the budget’s impact on taxpayers.

He noted that his town’s school taxes are projected to increase nearly $510,000, compared to the town’s municipal budget of $1.4 million, “so (the school assessment) is a little more than a third of our entire municipal budget. There is no way we can offset any part of this ... increase.”

Another forum will be held at the Fisher-Mitchell elementary school in Bath on April 22. The budget will then go to two public votes: a district budget meeting on May 28, and a budget validation referendum on June 4.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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