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May 3, 2012 News of Falmouth, Cumberland, North Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport and Chebeague Vol. 26, No. 18

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IndexObituaries ......................18Opinion ..........................10Out & About ...................31People & Business ........20

Police Beat ....................16Real Estate ....................42School Notebook ...........27Sports ............................21

Arts Calendar ................30Classifieds .....................37Community Calendar .....32Meetings ........................32

Farmers say survival depends on optimism, ingenuityBy David Harry

FREEPORT — Ralph and Lisa Turner have owned Laughing Stock Farm on Wardtown Road since 1984, and have sold their produce commercially since 1998.

Less than half a mile away, husband and wife Steve Burger and Sarah Wie-derkehr have managed Winter Hill Farm for less than a year, and have expanded the operation from raising Randall cattle to include vegetables, eggs and pigs.

Development beyond the pastures of both farms is evident, and both couples share in the hard, daily labors rewarded by the joys of selling what they have grown

Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport has been growing produce with her husband for almost 30 years. They said methods of preserving and developing farms need a broader approach beyond buying

easements, to include zoning revisions and understanding market conditions.

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Steve Burger manages Winter Hill Farm in Freeport with his wife, Sarah Wiederkehr. They raise rare Randall cattle for

raw milk and farm-made yogurt, and earn equity and share in profits from farmland they could not otherwise afford.

Clammers present conservation plan to Freeport councilBy David Harry

FREEPORT — As Town Coun-cil workshops go, this one was tasty.

With a crock-pot of chow-der simmering on a side table, Shellfish Commission members presented councilors with the elements of a long-term plan de-signed to preserve shellfish beds while expanding the range of spe-cies to be harvested.

Last month, councilors agreed to set aside $100,000 in the fiscal year 2013 capital improvements

budget to fund a plan, on the condition they learn more about the plan before the money can be spent.

"This is a small investment that can pay off a huge return," com-mission Chairman Chad Coffin said before asking Brian F. Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, to outline what has damaged the shellfish beds.

The commission estimates there

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Freeport budget includes 2% hike in property taxesBy David Harry

FREEPORT — Property own-ers will see a 30-cent increase in the tax rate if the proposed municipal and Regional School Unit 5 fiscal 2013 budgets are approved.

On Tuesday, town councilors scheduled a public hearing for 7 p.m. on May 15 to discuss the $8.77 million municipal budget.

About 25 percent of the project-ed tax rate of $15.50 per $1,000 of assessed value – an increase of about 2 percent – will help fund the municipal spending plan pre-sented by town Finance Director Abbe Yacoben.

Property taxes will fund $4.8 million of the municipal general fund, with $1.2 million in antici-pated excise taxes and $500,000 in surplus funds to be used as well.

The budget adds more than $312,000 in spending for mu-nicipal operations, with $138,000 of that funded by the proposed property tax increase. If approved by councilors on May 17, the mu-nicipal share of the property tax rate would increase from $3.98 per $1,000 of assessed value to $4.08.

Falmouth trails now under care of Portland businessBy Amber Cronin

FALMOUTH — Mountain bik-ers, runners, hikers and other out-door enthusiasts can look forward to improved trails in Falmouth's Blackstrap and Hurricane trail areas thanks to Allspeed Cyclery & Snow of Portland.

Bob Shafto, ombudsman of Fal-mouth's Open Space Committee, approached Allspeed after learn-ing there had been rogue trail cut-ting and poor trail maintenance.

“It was sort of a wild west out there,” Chris Carleton, co-owner of Allspeed, said. “(The town)

wanted some uniform plan to make sure that the trails were go-ing to be maintained and not just kind of fall apart, and also help curb illegal trail cutting because that was pretty big problem.”

According to Carleton, a lot of people were cutting new trails

without really knowing where they were.

“I don’t think it was malicious, they would just go and cut a trail and happen to goacross some-body’s land,” Carleton said.

According to Caleb Hemphill, vice president of the Falmouth

Land Trust, it was a misunder-standing about what could be cut and what couldn't that led to All-speed becoming the main steward of the trails.

“There was some trail building

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‘Marie Antoinette’ brings Falmouth actress back to PortlandBy Amber Cronin

PORTLAND — Historic perceptions of Marie Antoinette more often than not paint the French queen as a frivolous woman, void of emotion toward the struggles of her people.

Falmouth-born actress Caroline Hewitt and the rest of the cast of "Marie An-toinette: The Color of Flesh" are trying to paint a more sympathetic picture of Antoinette at Portland Stage Company.

“I think it’s an interesting perspective about Marie Antoinette,” Hewitt said last week, as the cast was wrapping up re-hearsals. “You think you know someone from history and then you realize you don’t at all. Parts of it are true and parts of it are fictional.”

Hewitt, 29, graduated from Falmouth High School and studied acting at Vassar College and The American Conservatory Theater. She now lives and works in New York City and came back to Maine to bring real-life artist Marie Louise Elisa-beth Vigee, known as “Elisa,” to life.

Hewitt is not the only Maine-born actor to come back to Maine to work with Port-land Stage. According to Carole Harris, marketing and public relations director for Portland Stage, many Maine actors join the company each season.

"It really depends on the needs of pro-duction and the demands of the role," she said. "We are constantly looking for the best talent and there is a lot of great tal-ent out there that has come from Maine, is now living in Maine or is living else-where and has come back."

Hewitt, Harris said, auditioned in New York and the company didn't realize she was a Mainer until later.

Hewitt said she came back to work in Portland because of the fond memories she has of going to Portland Stage to see student matinees when she was in high school.

“At that point I sort of had an inkling that I wanted to be an actor, so it was super exciting to see these amazing pro-ductions," she said. "When I got cast in

On stage"Marie Antoinette: The Color

of Flesh" opens Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Portland Stage Com-pany, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. Performances continue through May 20.

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this it really felt really exciting to liter-ally be on that stage, where I had once so admired the actors."

Hewitt's character was born in France in 1775 and rose from poverty to become a friend and favored painter to Antoinette. In the play, Elisa uses her relationship

Falmouth native Caroline Hewitt portrays artist Elisa in Portland Stage Company's production

of "Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh."

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Chebeague Island budget could shrink by $35KBy Alex Lear

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Next year's municipal budget could drop about $35,000, down to $1.93 million, Town Administrator Eric Dyer said on Tuesday.

The school side of the draft fiscal 2013 budget could have a small increase, al-though undesignated funds carried over from the current fiscal year would pro-duce a net budget decrease.

Town Meeting will vote on the com-plete fiscal 2013 spending plan on June 9.

Death of Freeport man who went missing ruled a suicideBy David Harry

FREEPORT — A local man whose re-mains were discovered in northern Maine on April 25 died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.

Dean Levasseur, 24, is believed to have shot himself around 1:30 a.m. on April 22, McCausland said.

Levasseur's body was discovered in a wooded area of Howland, about a quarter mile from a stage where he was supposed to play with his band at an outdoor party on April 21.

Chebeague's tax rate of $19.95 per $1,000 of property valuation could re-main flat next year, Dyer said. It was $19.80 in fiscal 2011, and in the town's first fiscal year after its secession from Cumberland, 2008, the rate was $20.49.

The fiscal 2012 school budget of nearly $886,000 could see a gross increase of 3.6 percent, to nearly $919,000. But Superintendent of Schools Alton Hadley said Tuesday that he plans to carry for-ward more money from the undesignated

fund balance than was used in fiscal 2012 – nearly $118,000 instead of $74,500 – to offset the increase.

Nearly $139,000 is coming from the state – about $8,400 less than the town received for fiscal 2012 – bringing the the net school budget for fiscal 2013 to about $662,000, a 0.4 percent decrease.

Last year, Chebeague authorized the

gradual transition of its elementary school students to Yarmouth schools, rather than sending them to School Administrative District 51 (Cumberland-North Yarmouth).

Hadley said the gross budget increase reflects the added tuition costs of sending more Chebeague students to Yarmouth.

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McCausland said an autopsy by the Office of the State Medical Examiner established the cause of death, and an investigation by Maine State Police detectives determined Levasseur used a handgun he bought about a month ago.

Police said Levasseur was supposed

to play at an outdoor party called Chick-enfest, held annually by University of Maine students in woods off Route 155 and Interstate 95.

Levasseur left his guitar at the stage and was last seen around 10:30 p.m. on April 21. Police, state troopers, game

wardens and volunteers searched for Levasseur on foot and from the air for four days before his body was found.

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Porter challenges Campbell for SAD 51 seatBy Alex Lear

CUMBERLAND — Incumbent Karen Campbell faces a challenge in June from Jeff Porter for her seat on the School Ad-ministrative District 51 Board of Directors.

Nomination papers for candidates for the School Board and the Town Council were due back by the end of the day Tuesday.

Three council races are uncontested. Incumbents Shirley Storey-King of Shirley Lane, Ron Copp of Interurban Drive and George Turner of Carriage Road are all seeking their third terms.

Stonewall Drive resident Campbell is the School Board vice chairwoman and is also involved with its finance, negotiations, and strategic thinking and planning committees. She also led the board's communications

committee for two years, and has been the policy committee chairwoman.

"I feel that I've been effective in my first term," Campbell said Monday, "and that I'm best positioned to be able to continue the work of the district and to help (it) move forward over the next three years."

Porter, a Crossing Brook Road resident who stepped down from the Town Council last year after 12 years, said Monday that his wife, who has worked in SAD 51, is now teaching in Pownal, which allows him to seek a School Board seat.

"I look forward to serving the residents of Cumberland, hopefully, in a new role," Por-ter said, adding that he thinks he has "some skills that would be a value" to the post.

Election Day is June 12.

4 candidates seek 2 Falmouth Town Council seatsBy Amber Cronin

FALMOUTH — Four candidates are competing to replace two town councilors in the June election.

Monday, April 30, was the deadline for candidates for the Town Council and School Board to submit nomination papers to appear on the ballot.

Councilors Fred Chase and Will Armit-age are leaving; Chase decided not to seek re-election, and Armitage is term limited. The candidates competing for their seats are Russell Anderson, Bryan Dench, Karen Farber and Sean Mahoney.

Anderson is new to public office. He and his wife, Beth, have lived in Falmouth for 20 years; they have three children. He owns a management company, Anderson Solutions.

Dench has lived in Falmouth since 2009,

after living in Poland for 20 years. He is chairman of Skelton, Taintor & Abbott in Auburn, where he has been an attorney for 37 years. He and his wife, Susan, have five children and one grandchild.

Dench frequently represents Sun Media Group, the parent company of The Forecaster.

Farber, a non-attorney advocate with the Disability Rights Center, served two consecutive three-year terms on the School Board, and led the Elementary School Design and Building Group, the superin-tendent search and the Policy Committee. She was also a member of the town's Com-prehensive Planning Advisory Committee, now the Long Range Planning Advisory Committee, and a past co-chairwoman of the Falmouth High School PTO.

Mahoney, a father of three children, grew

up in Massachusetts and moved to Falmouth 14 years ago. He is an attorney specializing in environmental law for the Conservation Law Foundation, a former president of the Falmouth Land Trust and past member of the Falmouth Conservation Commission.

There are two candidates for two School Board seats now held by Andrew Kinley and Rachel Reed: Diedre Conroy-Vella and Kinley, who is seeking re-election.

Conroy-Vella was born in Dublin, Ire-land, and came to Falmouth in 1999 after living in Boston for several years. She was formerly a doctor in a primary-care family practice, but is now a homemaker. She and

her husband, John, have two children.This is Conroy-Vella’s first time seeking

public office. She is vice president of the Fal-mouth Music Parents Association and editor of the Falmouth Middle School yearbook.

Kinley, a self-employed computer consul-tant, has lived in Falmouth since 2007 and has served one term on the School Board, where he is the chairman of the Finance Committee. He and his wife, Melissa, have three children.

Voting on June 12 is at the Falmouth High School gym.

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School Board, Water District contests set in North YarmouthLittle interest in other racesBy Alex Lear

NORTH YARMOUTH — Enough candi-dates are on the ballot to create contests in School Board and Yarmouth Water District elections in June, but not for several other town boards.

Incumbent Todd Nicholson of Hawthorne Road, who has served one term, is being challenged for his three-year seat on the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors by James Moulton of Mill Road, who sat on the board from 2002-2005.

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Election promises changes on Yarmouth council, school boardBy David Harry

YARMOUTH — While short on con-tested elections, the June 12 ballot for local offices is long on changes for the Town Council.

Veteran Councilors Carlton Winslow and Erving Bickford did not file to run for new three-year terms, ending a combined 32 years of service on the council.

Councilor Tim Sanders will resign next month with one year left on his term, mean-ing the seven-member council will have three new members.

David Craig, a current member of the Energy Savers Committee, and Planning Board member James MacLeod filed

on the Cumberland County Commission, is seeking a second term as a Yarmouth Water District trustee. Guy Watson of Sligo Road, who served on the district board from 2006-2009, is running against Gorden.

Incumbent Paul Napolitano is running unopposed for a third, three-year term on the Board of Selectmen. The Mill Ridge Road resident resigned as chairman April 3 after the board rejected his attempt to meet in executive session about a survey that sought reaction to the proposed closing of North Yarmouth Memorial School. He believed the survey should have been autho-rized by the board before it was published, and wanted to discuss the matter in private.

Mark Girard of Timber Lane is unop-

posed to complete the final two years of Selectman Andrew Walsh's term. Walsh announced his resignation from the board last month.

Girard ran against Walsh and Darla Ham-lin last year, when two seats were available on the Board of Selectmen. He received 250 votes, to 265 for Walsh and 259 for Hamlin.

Incumbent Clark Baston of Sweetser Road is running unopposed for his seat on the Cemetery Commission. He was first elected in 1996.

Only one candidate, Jeffrey Shorey of Toddy Brook Lane, submitted nomination

papers for the three, three-year seats on the Budget Committee. He was appointed to the committee in 2011.

The new Charter Commission has six two-year seats available, but only three candidates: Richard Brobst and Clark Whit-tier, both of Walnut Hill Road, and Audrey Lones of Baston Road.

The boards that do not have enough candidates will require votes for write-in candidates. If there still aren't enough can-didates, the Board of Selectmen can appoint members to the Budget Committee and Charter Commission.

Election Day is June 12.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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nomination papers seeking the two three-year terms.

Local real estate agent Pat Thompson is the only candidate to finish Sanders' term.

The School Committee will see some changes, too, with four candidates seeking three seats with three-year terms. Incum-bents David Ray, who is the committee chairman, and Craig Wolff are joined on the ballot by Susan Garrett and former School

Committee member Tim Wheaton.Incumbent Andy Tureff decided against

running again.Bickford, who will be honored June 5

as this year's Latchstring Award recipient, will also be not seeking re-election as a Yarmouth Water District trustee.

Former Maine Geological Survey Direc-tor Walter A. Anderson is the only candi-date for the three-year trustee term.

The annual Town Meeting is at 7 p.m. June 5 at Harrison Middle School. The June 12 primary and local elections will be held at Robert W. Boyd AMVETS Post No. 2 at 148 North Road.

David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow David on Twitter:

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History lesson: Freeport’s Dash made a splash in War of 1812By David Harry

FREEPORT — In the annals of warfare, the War of 1812 may be mostly recognized for a song.

Christina White and the Freeport His-torical Society would like to expand local knowledge of the war beyond "The Star Spangled Banner."

Author Joshua M. Smith, an associate professor of humanities and interim coor-dinator of the American Merchant Marine Museum at the U.S. Merchant Marine

Courtesy Freeport HistoriCal soCietyArtist James Lee Berkeley drew this rendering of the Freeport-built Dash, which evaded blockades

and captured British ships during the War of 1812. The ship disappeared in a storm in January 1815, according to records at the Freeport Historical Society.

Academy, will discuss his book"Free Trade and Sailors Rights: the War of 1812," in a program at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 6, at the Harrington House, 45 Main St.

Visitors will also learn about the Dash, a Freeport-built schooner commissioned as a privateer by President James Madison, and crewed in part by Freeport sailors. The Dash lived up to its name in the latter stages of the war, evading British blockades of coastal Maine to deliver supplies, and capturing British ships on the high seas.

Built in 1813 at Porters Landing, the Dash was a schooner built for speed. It made three voyages before Madison commissioned it in September 1814. The commissioning came about three weeks after British forces captured and burned Washington, D.C.

The day the Dash was commissioned, British troops and naval forces attacked Baltimore, losing their commanding general in a land battle. A subsequent bombardment of Fort McHenry was unsuccessful, but was the inspiration for "The Star Spangled Ban-ner," written by Francis Scott Key after his confinement aboard a British ship.

The War of 1812 was not popular in New England, where the declaration of war fu-eled secession efforts and coastal Maine bore a heavy price as it was overrun and

blockaded by British forces. The effects of the war fueled efforts to grant statehood to Maine, which occurred in 1820.

The root causes of the war will be dis-cussed as Smith delves into quarrels be-tween the Americans, British and French re-garding free trade and the "impressment" of American sailors to serve on foreign ships.

After the Battle of Baltimore, Americans and other forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, fought after a peace treaty had been signed in 1815. A month

before the Treaty of Ghent was signed in February 1815, the Dash disappeared in a gale, possibly off Georges Bank in the Atlantic Ocean.

Admission to the program is $5, with historical society members admitted free.

David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow David on twitter:

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PORTLAND — The nonprofit Regional Transportation Program announced Mon-day that it is a finalist in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program.

Five hundred organizations made the cut; Toyota will profile five each day on the project website, 100carsforgood.com, during the summer and take votes. One hundred winners will each receive a new vehicle from Toyota.

Construction to close I-295/Forest Ave. ramps

PORTLAND — Construction on Inter-state 295 will require the nighttime closing of three on- and off-ramps at Forest Avenue starting on Wednesday, May 2.

Construction crews will temporarily close the northbound I-295 on-ramp from eastbound Forest Avenue, the northbound on-ramp from westbound Forest Avenue, and the I-295 Exit 6B northbound off-ramp to Forest.

The closings will not occur at the same time, the Maine Department of Transporta-tion said. Closures will take place for one to two weeks, barring weather-related delays, between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., Sunday through Thursday, and between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m on Friday. All three ramps will remain open overnight on Saturdays.

Drivers who normally use Exit 6B to Forest Avenue should take Exit 7 at Frank-lin Street, turn right onto Marginal Way and continue to Forest Avenue, DOT said. Access to northbound I-295 will also be available via the Franklin Street on-ramp.

News briefsRTP, which will be profiled on Aug. 14

from 9 a.m.-9 p.m, provides transportation to under-served and disadvantaged residents of Cumberland County.

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Freeport triathlon attracts participants from 12 to 74By Amber Cronin

FREEPORT — Youth and experience will bookend the field at this year's Tri for the Y triathlon.

Tucker Ginn, 12, of Freeport will compete in his second Tri for the Y while Mike Cowell, 74, of Yarmouth, has done so many sprint triathlons he can't remem-ber what number this one will be.

Ginn said he got started with triathlons after his grandmother, a longtime mem-ber of the Casco Bay YMCA, saw a sign advertising the Tri for the Y last year. He will be competing in the Tri for the Y as a part of a team: Ginn will complete the swim, his father, Robert Ginn, will com-plete the 13-mile bike and one of Ginn's friends will complete the 3.1-mile run.

This year, Ginn's goal is to get his team in a good place from the start for a finish in the top 10. It's a goal that has a big payoff.

“My grandmother made a deal with me that if my triathlon team comes in the top 10 she's going to take me to England,” he said. “I'm going to try to get good enough at swimming to put us in the top 10 so my other teammates don't have to do anything, so they don't have to make up ground for me.”

Cowell, by contrast, is not too worried about the Tri for the Y, since he will be using it to train for his fifth Half Iron-man, The Eagleman Half Ironman in Cambridge, Md., on June 10.

“The goal for the Tri for the Y is to improve my transition times,” he said. “I spend too much time transitioning from

Tri for the YThe Tri for the Y takes place

Saturday, May 19, at 9 a.m. at the Casco Bay YMCA, 14 Old South Freeport Road, Freeport. The race includes a 325-yard swim in the pool, a 13-mile bike ride through South Freeport and a 3.1-mile run through South Freeport.

Entrance fees are $85 for in-dividuals and $50 for relay team members. Proceeds benefit the fi-nancial assistance program of the Cumberland County YMCA. For more information or to register, visit the website, www.cumber-landcountyymca.org.

Amber Cronin / The ForeCAsTerMike Cowell, 74, of Yarmouth, will be the oldest participant in this year's Tri for the Y at the Casco Bay YMCA on May 19. Cowell has competed in several triathlons including four Half Ironmans.

the swim to the bike and the bike to the run and you can lose the race. I use the Tri for the Y sort as a tune-up.”

The Eagleman Half Ironman, which consists of a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike course and a 13.1-mile run will be his fifth Half Ironman, but he has been competing in endurance events for the past 35 years.

“I've done so many of these sprint triathlons that we're having here, I've

and his training, he said he likes the chal-lenge of training.

“(The hardest thing) I guess is just finding time to balance between sports and trying to keep my grades up in school, but also I try and challenge my-self, so I set goals,” he said.

Ginn said he tries to get in the pool for about 45 minutes a day, but with school and baseball practice, sometimes it is hard for him to find the time.

For Cowell, who has ample time to train, usually the hardest thing is winter training. But this year's mild winter left him plenty of time to get outside.

“The least favorite, there's no question

lost count,” he said. “It would be like you asking how many half marathons I've done. I've completed 22 of the 23 full-length marathons I've tried. A full marathon at my age is quite an ordeal.”

While Ginn will only be competing in the swim portion of the race, because he still finds conflicts between his school


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PORTLAND — More than a year after officials announced they were looking for a new home for the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, the organiza-tion is ready to begin raising money for the move.

The museum is looking to hire a fund-raising consultant this month, said Brian Durham, vice president of the organiza-tion's board and chairman of its reloca-tion committee.

"We are going to move," Durham said. "We're not sure when." If funds allow, the move could begin as early as next year, he said.

Andrew Cullen / The ForeCAsTerDaniel Maher, left, and Jodee Mosher, of Falmouth, watch Portland's Eastern Promenade roll by outside a window on the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad on Saturday. Mosher said the location

on the peninsula is more accessible than the railway museum's proposed move to Gray. "I wish it could stay," volunteer conductor Arthur Hussey, right, added.

The museum's board has selected Gray over Portland, Bridgton, and Monson as its most likely new home. Gray officials have been "excited" to work with the mu-seum, which offers rides on and preserves trains that run on 2-foot wide tracks that were virtually exclusive to Maine from the late 1800s to the 1940s, Durham said.

Talks with Central Maine Power Co., which owns the now-vacant right of way where the museum would likely lay new tracks, and Gray Plaza owner Dan Craffey, who could give the group work-

ing space, have also been encouraging, Durham said.

Nothing has been finalized, but no bet-ter option has appeared than the move that could cost as much as $5 million, he said. Meetings are scheduled in Gray this week to further discuss the project, the

town's economic development director Beth Humphrey said.

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PORTLAND — In a diverse, blue-collar part of East Bayside, fundraising can be a little difficult for the Mayo Street Arts center.

"We have great neighbors, but everyone's working," Director Blainor McGough said. "We're not as well-heeled as some."

To raise money for center programs that teach dance, writing, puppetry, and other performing arts to neighborhood youth, the organization is turning to superheroes – superheroines, really – for help, although they've largely had to invent their own.

The center has scheduled the first tourna-ment of its new Superhero Lady Armwres-tlers of Portland league – SLAP, for short – for Saturday, May 5.

The alter-egos of eight local women, with names like Durga the Demonslayer and Lumber Smack Sally, will compete for the title of toughest arm in town.

The wrestlers have been gathering week-ly for the last month to train, talk technique, and watch videos about arm wrestling. (The 1982 and 1983 championships on Youtube are favorites, McGough said.)

The wrestlers have realized that the sport is about more than brute strength, said An-nie Seikonia, known in the ring as Awful Annie. A Gothic, self-styled vigilante hero who "doesn't mind breaking the rules," Seikonia started a training regimen of 50 push-ups a day, up from zero. Otherwise, she said, "there's a lot of strategy."

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Andrew Cullen / The ForeCAsTerAnnie Seikonia, a self-styled vigilante hero called Awful Annie, practices her technique with a

member of her entourage in preparation for the Superhero Lady Armwrestlers of Portland event on Saturday, May 5. The event to raise funds for the Mayo Street Arts Center promises to feature

theatrics, surf band The Beach Zombies, and eight tough competitors.

trance, for their superhero.The SLAP bucks will determine a fund-

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"I'm the getaway driver," said "Cutlass" Kimberly Convery from behind a pair of steam-punk style goggles last Saturday morning. "In case Annie needs someone to pick her up in a tight spot."

The theatrics are such an opportunity that the center had to turn interested participants away. Potential superheroes had to arm

Gough said.While competitors said the event will be

great spectacle, it should lack the demean-ing aspect of some physical competitions often assigned to women, like mud wres-tling.

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There is a debt farce, but not Newman’s

Perry B. Newman’s column “The farcical debt debate” was most enlightening. The government spends money by actually spending money, and “by foregoing revenue the government would otherwise collect through taxes, absent a policy decision such as a tax break, not to do so”? That is Orwellian language at it finest.

According to Newman, it is only the government’s lar-gess that keeps it from taking more or most of our income through taxes or deduction eliminations. This generosity causes them to “spend” huge amounts of money that they would otherwise deserve. Newman seems to believe all income is really the government’s, and how much they choose to take from taxpayers depends upon how much they want to “spend” by not taking it.

If the current income tax rates are raised, if more deduc-tions are eliminated, and if the estate tax increases, these will be huge “spending cuts” for the federal government. These cuts will enable the politicians to spend real money on even more programs. Debt reduction will be the least of anyone’s worries, because there will always be even more “spend-ing cuts” the government can make by increasing taxes.

As of March 2012, the national debt was $15.6 trillion, or roughly 100 percent of gross domestic product (Wiki-pedia). According to CNN Money, interest on the national debt in the next decade will be $5.5 trillion if interest rates rise gradually and $6.8 trillion if they rise l percent more than expected each year.

Not addressing the national debt of this size is the real farce.

Gerald CarusoFalmouth

Falmouth trend threatens community

Is Falmouth’s community becoming extinct? After at-tending the budget hearing I truly believe so. There were only a handful participating.

The town is now broken into several subset communi-ties and one of the largest is the school community. This community is largely made up of short-term families that have moved here because of the schools. It is these visionaries that have pushed the school budget to the point where it represents 73 percent of our property tax bill. Build it and they will come, and that is exactly what is happening.

One major problem: the landscape of Falmouth has changed from no more farms, multiple generations of families or residents that move here to call Falmouth home for 30-50 years. This has placed a major strain on what is left of a community. Hearing comments like “loudly and proudly” and“fantastic bang for our buck” indicates to me, yes, you are the recipient of hard work and loyalty of the long-term businesses and residents that have made Falmouth their home, especially if you have four children in the school system and plan to move out of town upon graduation day.

The trend started last year with a 5 percent increase and now a double-digit increase; what will next year bring? I strongly urge everyone to get this budget in line and live within the means of the natural growth of the town. With-out long-term businesses and residents paying for these luxuries, there is no sustainability and no community.

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Is Greely athletics anti-family? The Greely High School athletics program has apparently

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In at least one case, a family checked with a coach prior to taking a vacation to ensure there would be no problem. They were as-sured it was not a problem. But upon returning from vacation the student was not allowed to play one game because of the missed practices.

This is reprehensible. Family time is precious. Studies show family bonding is incredibly important to avoid problems later in life. School sports is a service parents pay for in the form of athletic fees and taxes. Athletic administrators and coaches work for the parents, not the other way around.

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I support the candidacy of Sara Gideon for Democratic candidate in House District 106. Since 1974, I have been a resident of Freeport, where I have raised my family. I have had the pleasure of working with Sara as board members of Freeport Community Services. Sara is also my District 1 town councilor. Sara is informed about important issues in the community and takes action on these issues. She communicates with her constituents and obtains feedback in order to make better, informed decisions. With a young family of three children, she is committed to creating a great future for them and the community she serves. I hope you will join me in supporting Sara.

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Dench for Falmouth Town Council

I am writing to urge my Falmouth neighbors to support Bryan Dench for the Town Council on June 12. Bryan's many years of legal service to schools, cities, and towns have prepared him well for public service in our commu-nity. We need councilors who are fiscally prudent while supporting quality education and public services we need. We value and need councilors we can count on to listen and consider the facts before acting and whose principles and judgment are sound. We know how very demanding these positions are and respect Bryan tremendously for un-dertaking this challenge. I have reviewed his qualifications thoroughly and support Bryan Dench for the Town Council.

Lois LengyelFalmouth

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We write with enthusiastic support for Sara Gideon as a candidate for state representative from Freeport and Pownal.

A great deal can be said about what Sara brings in personal qualities that will make her an effective representative. Through her work with Freeport Com-munity Services, her commitment to volunteering in our schools, and her tenure as a town councilor, Sara has shown herself to be a tireless advocate who is commit-ted to making Freeport and Pownal stronger, and who brings enthusiasm, energy and intelligence to all that she takes on.

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Farber is an asset to Falmouth I enthusiastically support Karen Farber for Falmouth

Town Council. She is already an incredible asset to the Falmouth community through her thoughtful contribu-tions as a volunteer to the town.

Karen and I served on the Long Range Planning Advi-sory Committee together. What stands out to me about Karen is that she came to meetings prepared, eager to listen and ready to contribute. Her involvement helped advance initiatives in a positive and collaborative manner.

Karen’s leadership on the School Board has helped the Falmouth community manage school operat-ing expenditures, complete the new elementary school under budget, and save significant expenses on high school heating costs.

I have no doubt that Karen will work hard on the Falmouth Town Council to strengthen the Town’s fi-nancial stability, encourage well-planned commercial development, and foster Falmouth’s open space pres-ervation initiatives. Please consider voting for Karen Farber on June 12.

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I am writing to express my support for Sean Ma-honey’s candidacy for Falmouth Town Council. I met Sean almost 15 years ago, when we represented clients on the opposite ends of a land use dispute. I was im-mediately impressed with Sean’s keen intellect and his ability to craft creative solutions for both sides.

I later came to know Sean as coach of my son’s

SAD 51 balances education costs

The cost of education continues to increase the burden on the local taxpayer, largely because of decreased state and federal funding and growing numbers of mandates. As we watch our tax bill grow, it’s tempting to blame the local school districts for profligate spending. I was pleased and encouraged to see the positive report School Administrative District 51 received from the recent study conducted by the University of Southern

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In 2011, the Legislature commissioned the CEPARE study, which sought to identify the best strategies and practices in Maine’s public schools. The study defined a "more efficient" school as one that receives a higher re-turn on spending in terms of higher student performance on statewide tests and a higher graduation rate. Higher performing does not necessarily make a school more efficient. CEPARE said that school spending per pupil

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I am appreciative of the work our teachers and ad-ministrators are doing to not only provide an excellent education for our children, but to do it in a cost-effective way.

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As a SAD 51 parent, I am writing to support Karen Campbell’s re-election to the School Board. Karen is committed to ensuring that all students in our district have access to high-quality education. Karen has served as a committed volunteer in the classroom, for Arts Alliance, for Foundation 51, and for athletic boosters. Karen is hard working, well-versed on the issues, and a results-oriented committee member who accomplishes ambitious goals. She is a strategic thinker who pursues more efficient and cost-effective ways to manage projects. Kar-en is an active listener who invests her time to hear concerns and thoughtfully respond to constituent questions. On the board Karen has been an outstand-ing leader, serving as a highly effective chairwoman of the Communications Committee, on the Strategic Planning Task Force, and on the Finance Committee. Please join me in re-electing a vital board member on June 12.

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We are writing to express our enthusiastic support for Karen Farber’s candidacy for Falmouth Town Council. We have known Karen for over 10 years and have always been impressed by her thoughtful approach to a wide variety of issues.

While serving on the School Board, she was faced with several challenging and divisive decisions, including school consolidation and budget management during very difficult economic times. Throughout it all, she proved to be an independent thinker, always asking important questions and, importantly, keeping an open mind to all viewpoints.

Her shift from pro-consolidation to voting against consol-idation of the schools demonstrates her ability to consider all sources of information, not just those that confirm her beliefs. This type of thinking is both refreshing and criti-cal in today’s political environment. Moreover, Karen pays careful attention to how our tax dollars are spent.

Amy & Dave GoldbergFalmouth

Anderson for Falmouth Town Council

I write to encourage Falmouth residents to vote for Russ Anderson for Town Council. As a long-standing resident of Falmouth, Russ has proved he is an effective leader in business, non-profit and community initiatives. Russ brings a thoughtful, balanced and collaborative approach to his work along with a tireless work ethic. As a fiscally conservative candidate, he is committed to Falmouth and its future as a thriving, prosperous community with well-managed, high-quality schools, a carefully maintained

infrastructure, a friendly approach to business expansion, a stable tax rate and a respect for individual property owners.

Take time to learn more about Russ, his history within our com-munity and the positive impact he

has on advancing the mission and vision of the organiza-tions for which he works. You’ll find Russ to be a highly engaged and respected leader and community member who will take the time to serve Falmouth well.

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I am writing to endorse Melanie Sachs of Freeport in the Democratic primary for House District 106 in Freeport and Pownal. Knowing Melanie on a personal and profes-sional level as a Girl Scout Troop leader, she has my full support. Melanie is a natural leader who has enriched our community with her dedication to children, families and individuals over the course of many years. She is extremely hard-working, inspiring and has reached out to community members in an incredible way through her leadership of many activities and organizations, receiving the Girl Scout Outstanding Leader Award in 2011.

Melanie is exactly who we need to take on new chal-lenges with her experience, enthusiasm and knowledge about issues that are important to our citizens. I see Melanie as a breath of fresh air in developing a bridge between our voices and instituting change in Augusta. Please consider supporting Melanie Sachs if you want your voice heard.

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The additional 1.16 percent of our budget devoted to new costs includes funding for literacy coaching, student support services and technology. Nearly 75 percent of the district’s computers are considered vintage or obsolete. Technology and other needs have been deferred. Forestall-ing investment in academic programming and technology will compromise our schools. We need to protect this valu-able community asset. The budget proposal is responsible and should be approved.

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Change can begin with King in Senate

Many of us, from both sides of the aisle, are eager for the political winds to change. I believe change can begin with Angus King as our U.S. senator. I urge those who are new residents of this state, and those who now are our younger voters, to take the opportunity to listen to King’s message. He calls for compromise to solve our nation’s problems – compromise as envisioned by our founding fathers and compromise that is so vitally needed today. Only through working together can we move forward. It will require ad-ditional third voices, but Maine can do its part to begin that change by electing Angus King.

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Last month, I drove down to New York to have dinner with my mother for her birthday. We went to her friend Laura Maioglio’s family restaurant, Barbetta. It’s in the theater district. The place is elegantly decorated with antiques from Piemonte, staffed with friendly and atten-tive waiters, and serves classic Italian food. At the time of my visit, its website featured a picture of Laura and her husband with Bill and Hillary Clinton, so you can imagine that I felt right at home.

As is often the case when my family gets to-gether, the conversation turned to politics in gen-eral and my opinion of the Affordable Care Act, which was being argued in the Supreme Court that week, in particular. The liberal supra-majority at the table supported the act and hoped it would be upheld. It fell to me as the lone conservative to explain my reservations.

Over the gnocchi, my family wanted to know my opinion of the individual mandate. How could I not be for it? After all, it was originally a Republican idea. Health insurance is a market solution to the problem that health-care costs are incurred randomly, are hard to predict and plan for, and, when they do incur, tend to be large. Why not just improve the performance of health insurance by forcing everyone into the pool so that the risk and cost are spread over a larger population that can better afford it? Doing so would also keep much of the cost off the government’s books.

Well, I am wary of central government creating vast, complicated new programs. I prefer a federalist ap-proach that develops government solutions from the bottom up, not the top down, and that uses the states as the testing grounds for new programs.

The Affordable Care Act fills thousands of pages.

It’s so lengthy that members of Congress didn’t read it before they passed it and Supreme Court justices didn’t read it before they heard it argued.

In the act and its individual mandate, the federal government exerts control over a lot of very personal decisions. It assumes responsibility for the health-care sector, which by some estimates represents a sixth of our national economy.

I doubt that such a big, new government program will do a better, more efficient job of providing health care than the private sector. In general, I believe that free markets are a better, more efficient way to allocate resources and provide goods and services. The mar-ket for health insurance is not free if the government forces consumers to buy insurance, and insurers to cover people they otherwise wouldn’t.

The risk is that we wind up saddled with an expensive program that doesn’t solve the problem. Remember Dirigo Health, Maine’s solution to the health-care prob-lem? It wound up costing more, insuring fewer people, and having a highly problematic funding mechanism. I would like to see more conclusive proof of the ACA program’s superiority before we roll it out on a national scale. I don’t think Massachusetts has provided it.

Some at the table were disappointed in President Obama for not fighting harder for a more ambitious program like those in Europe. The Italian constitution makes the state responsible for citizens’ individual health and guarantees care for the indigent. Italy’s na-tional health service provides universal care for citizens as a single payer. My relatives argued that compared to the U.S., it costs less and produces better outcomes in terms such as infant mortality and life expectancy. Isn’t health care a basic human right and how could I not be for such an obviously superior system?

I am skeptical of such claims of vast superiority, and mindful of anecdotes about problems with European national health services: rationing, long waits, and me-diocre services. I am also aware that European econo-mies are somewhat stagnant and weighed down with debt incurred to pay for their generous social welfare programs.

More fundamentally, I am not sure that health care

is different from other needs and wants, goods and services. I suspect that people are healthier when they provide for themselves as much as they are able. Good health is a function of genetics, the environment we live in, our behavior and habits, and care when we need it.

Of these factors, our behavior and habits have the greatest impact on our health, cost the least, and are largely within our own control. For most people, eating a healthy diet, exercising moderately, and avoiding risky behaviors like smoking, drinking to excess, and driving without a seatbelt will do more to improve health than a lot of expensive doctors and therapies.

On the other hand, there are imperfections in the mar-ket for care when we need it. Bodies can be complicated when things go wrong and health care is a technical business that most of us are not qualified to negotiate on our own. Moreover, we are not always rational when we are sick and in need of care. Medicine is an imperfect science. There are few sure cures and what is standard practice today may be discredited quackery tomorrow.

We depend upon experts to advise us, so that we al-ready delegate a certain amount of responsibility from the outset in the market for health care. Beyond that, health-care costs tend to be lumpy and it makes sense to spread and share them over time and amongst people, all of which augers in favor of the ultimate cost spreader and sharer: government.

The problem becomes how to hold down costs and allocate care. What incentive is there to keep costs down when you know that the ultimate deep pocket is footing the bill? Do you want bureaucrats making decisions about who gets what treatment, or would you rather that people make them through the operation of the market for care?

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

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It’s all about getting theah from heahBy Mike Langworthy

Being from away is unsettling sometimes, as if real Mainers are sharing a wonderful inside joke that I can never be in on. However, I recently saw a ray of hope for assimilation in my lifetime.

It was during a recent talk to a group at Highland Green in Topsham, a com-munity for active seniors (a lot more “active” than “senior,” by the way). The attendees were mostly from away. Seeing how much they felt at home here, it dawned on me I may have to adjust my attitude.

My first trip to Maine was 1980-ish, managing a skating safety show sponsored by a soft drink company. Physically, Maine was and is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. Before we left, Corporate warned me that

the people could be standoffish, but I took that with a grain of salt. I was a nice guy. I was giving away free soda, the brand of choice for 70 percent of Mainers, according to Corporate. What’s not to like?

So I was a little taken aback the first time we stopped for gas, and I gushed to the gas station attendant some-thing like, “You know, ... (reading his name tag) Enoch. Really? Enoch? Anyway, you must love living in a beautiful place like Maine.”

Without looking up, Enoch said, “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with Maine that dynamitin’ the bridge tah Pahtsmith wouldn’t cuah.”

I didn’t decipher “Pahtsmith” right away, but I was pretty sure it was on the state line. He may have been put off by our station wagon with New York plates jammed with gear and hauling a 25-foot-wide Plexiglas half pipe. Clearly, we weren’t from around those parts. Or it may have been our uniforms. We were required to wear red skater shoes, white knee socks, blue corduroy shorts (mid-thigh length), and red, white and blue polo shirts plastered with soft drink logos. Because, as the founder of McDonald’s might have said, when you’re representing a large multinational, it’s critically impor-

tant to look like a circus clown at all times.None of this occurred to me at the time. Neither did

how many times he had been patronized by summer people with New York plates. I might have cut him some slack instead of what I did, i.e., call him an incredible moron. Silently, because he was bigger than me, and I’m a coward. But I think he knew he was being chastised.

One of my skaters made fun of a bank teller while she was cashing his check, like nobody in Bangor had ever been told he had an accent before. It must have seemed surreal to hear, being told by a redneck from Mispro-nounce, Texas, that it was “rilly funneh haw y’all cain’t say yer ‘r’s!” Yeah, you keep telling the Mainers how to speak, Professor Higgins.

The interesting thing is how I started realizing all this during the Highland Green talk. What were supposed to be cute stories turned out to be revelations. Behaviors I always thought were quirks and idiosyncrasies seemed more and more like the ways that people who had cho-sen a life they liked dealt with people who didn’t get it.

A case in point is my favorite memory of that first Maine trip. We discovered a slow leak in one of our tires


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before a show. We had just enough time to get it fixed, so we drove into a service station, four lads dressed like packs of Fruit Stripe gum, with New York plates and an extremely unusual trailer, all in a big hurry. I approached a guy in the coveralls who was sitting on an old car back seat.

“Hi, how you doin'? We have slow leak, right rear tire, and we have to do a show in about 45 minutes.”

No response.“So ... you think you can put a plug in it, or sell us a

tire, or – ?”“New York plates, huh?”“Yep. Company car. It’s the right rear tire.”“You live in New York?”My mental clock was pounding like "The Telltale

Heart," but I managed, “Yes. Manhattan. And now we’re on our way – "

“I had a friend run off to New York once. Got tired of Bangoah. Too small, he said it was. Went to Rochestah. You know him?”

No name. I am not making this up.“Uh, no. I don’t think so.”He got up and did a slow walk around starting with

the left rear tire. Finally, he bent down by the right rear and said, “Well, theah’s ya problem, right theah. You got a flat tiah.”

To him, I was just one more outsider trying to impose my way of doing things and my schedule on him with no understanding or consideration for how things were done in his world, and he was right.

The Highland Green people have looked beyond the postcard and lobster roll vision of Maine that I had on that first visit, and they have been drawn to the people and the sense of community I didn’t even suspect.

I think I’m getting closer to that now, so maybe, just maybe, I may not always be from away.

Portland resident Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic and longtime television writer, is fascinated by all things Maine. You can reach him at [email protected].

We expect differences of opinion from presiden-tial opponents, but the 2012 election is shaping up to be the clearest delineation of the political divide in America since the Civil War. It’s not so much Republican versus Democrat as it is corpora-tions versus citizens. And Willard Mitt Romney is clearly running to be the president of Corporate America.

Romney is the ideal corporate candidate: the spoiled rich son of a former president of American Motors Corp. and former governor of Michi-gan, himself a former governor of Massa-chusetts, handsome, Harvard-educated, privileged, a man who makes a fortune on unearned income. The suits look at Romney and see PLU, People Like Us. He’s George W. all over again.

Romney is man who believes he is entitled to be president of the United States simply because he is rich and successful.

In his book "Death of the Liberal Class," Pulit-zer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges quotes Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein distilling the very essence of the culture wars in America:

“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice, it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege it will always be at the expense of truth and justice.”

Mitt Romney is the apotheosis of everything that is wrong with America. To begin with he is a liar. He will say anything to get elected. He will look into the TV cameras and say the economy is getting worse when every indication is that it is getting better. President Obama has his faults, but he has done a masterful job of cleaning up the eco-


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Mitt Romney, president of Corporate Americanomic mess left by eight years of Bush asleep at the wheel. Romney just doesn’t want the economy to get better, because then President Obama will whip his permanent-press butt.

Romney believes in power and privilege. He expects to be congratulated for being rich and suc-cessful. But wealth is often moral failure beyond bucks. Romney made his money buying and selling businesses and putting people out of work. Now he wants to buy the presidency of the United States so he can hire and fire people on the biggest stage. He is the Donald Trump of presidential candidates (now that Trump himself has decided not to be).

Personally, I don’t see how Romney wins in November. Everything his GOP primary oppo-nents said about him is true. He is a liar. He is a flip-flopper. He is not a conservative. He has an Etch-a-Sketch value system. Obamacare, the big-gest knock against Obama, is essentially Romney-care gone national. He is out of touch with average Americans. He’s boring. He can’t win.

Amazingly, however, the political pundits and election odds makers seem to think it’s shaping up to be a close race in November, 49 percent-43 percent Obama in the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Frankly, I find that hard to believe. Who other than corporate CEOs, the country club elite, and trust fund kids could possibly take Mitt Romney seriously? I mean certainly the tea party conservatives who now form the base of the Re-publican Party have to realize that he is not one of them, that what he stands for is antithetical to what they say they believe. He’s about money buying elections, corporations having more rights than citizens, redistribution of wealth upwards.

If this country is about power and privilege then it will be a close election. If it’s about truth and justice, Romney will go down in flames, no doubt trailing a golden parachute as he crashes and burns.

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4/28 at 12:01 p.m. Alarm call on Campus Drive.4/29 at 2:46 p.m. Vehicle crash on Mallett Drive.4/30 at 2:18 p.m. Brush fire on I-295.

EMSFreeport emergency medical services re-sponded to eight calls April 24 -30.

YarMouth arrests

Yarmouth police reported no arrests April 23-29.

Summonses4/23 at 12:45 a.m. Thomas Hanscome, 33, of Wharf Road, New Gloucester, was issued a summons at Lafayette and East Main streets by Officer Joshua Robinson on a charge of operating under the influence.4/24 at 7:53 a.m. Nicholas J. Desiderio, 23, of Wharf Road, was issued a summons on Cousins Street by Officer Kevin Pedersen on a charge of possession of marijuana.4/24 at 9:46 a.m. A 15-year-old boy, of Yarmouth, was issued a summons on West Elm Street by Officer Kevin Pedersen on a charge of possession of marijuana and sale and use of drug paraphernalia.4/24 at 5:51 p.m. Sharon L. Griffin, 48, of Sligo Road, was issued a summons on Main Street by Officer Michael Pierce on a charge of a traffic light violation.4/25 at 12:43 p.m. A 16-year-old male, of Yarmouth, was issued a summons on High School Drive by Officer Kevin Pedersen on a charge of driving to endanger.4/25 at 7:15 p.m. Jeremy M. Panish-Hoffman, 22, of Rocky Lane, Freeport, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Sgt. Daniel Gallant on a charge of driving an unregistered vehicle.4/25 at 10:47 p.m. Tiffany Bourgeois, 21, of Chamberlain Drive, Hallowell, was issued a summons on Interstate 295 by Officer Michael Pierce on a charge of driving more than 30 mph over the speed limit.4/26 at 10:20 a.m. Jenna K. Lowery, 18, of Starboard Reach, was issued a summons at Lafayette Street and Princes Point Road by Officer Roger Moore on a charge of speeding.

Good find4/26 at 3:24 p.m. Police have recovered a hand-gun reported stolen from a home on Juniper Ledge. The case remains under investigation.

Linked activity4/27 at 7:48 a.m. Two businesses reported varied losses because of burglaries. Police are investigating and suspect the burglaries are connected.

Fire calls4/23 at 12:02 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Sisquisic Trail.4/23 at 12:22 p.m. Water problem on Leigh-ton Road.4/23 at 12:50 p.m. Alarm call on Spruce Point Road.4/23 at 2:10 p.m. Alarm call on Route 1.4/25 at 3:33 p.m. Alarm call on Route 1.4/26 at 2:14 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Starboard Reach.4/26 at 10:47 a.m. Brush fire on Ledge Road.4/26 at 3 p.m. Brush fire on Hallowell Road.4/27 at 6:47 a.m. Lines down on Granite Street.4/28 at 10:33 a.m. Vehicle fire on northbound I-295.4/29 at 11:58 a.m. Alarm call on East Main

Street.

EMSYarmouth emergency services responded to 15 calls April 23-29.

North YarMouth arrests

No arrests or summonses were reported in North Yarmouth April 23-30.

Fire calls4/26 at 3:35 p.m. Brush fire at Pine Grove Cemetery on Hallowell Road.4/29 at 8:15 a.m. Gas leak on Royal Road.

EMSNorth Yarmouth emergency medical services responded to three calls April 23-30.

CuMbErLaNd arrests

4/19 at 7:53 p.m. Shane Maloney, 21, of Pleas-ant Valley Road, was arrested on Turnberry Drive by Officer Chris Woodcock on charges of assault and violation of conditions of release.

Summonses4/20 at 9:14 p.m. Karl Barker, 53, of Long Hill Road, Gray, was issued a summons in Gray by Officer Chris Woodcock on a charge of operating under the influence.4/21 at 3:30 p.m. Ryan Fogg, 24, of Hartley Street, Portland, was issued a summons on Gray Road by Officer Chris Woodcock on a charge of operating a motor vehicle beyond class restriction.

Fire calls4/21 at 6:44 a.m. Fire alarm sounding on Jessie Lane.4/23 at 8:47 a.m. Propane leak on Tuttle Road.4/23 at 12:58 p.m. Fire alarm sounding on Spruce Point Road in Yarmouth.4/23 at 2:56 p.m. Motor vehicle fire on Inter-state 295 North.4/23 at 6:55 p.m. Jet Port box for smoke on plane on Westbrook Street in Portland.4/25 at 9:04 p.m. Chimney fire in Gray.

EMSCumberland emergency medical services responded to eight calls April 20-26.

ChEbEaGuENo arrests or summonses were reported in Chebeague Island April 23-30.


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In 2001 they moved to Brunswick and lived at the Thornton Oaks Retirement Community.

He was a member of the Central Presbyterian Church in Norristown, Pa., sang in the Barber Shop Quartet and the Deltones Barber Shop Chorus in Wilmington, Del., and was chairman of the Writers Group at Thornton Oaks. In retirement, he enjoyed traveling, writing, collecting stamps and spending time with his family.

He was predeceased by a brother, Har-

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Smith is survived by his wife of 36 years, Marjorie; sons Emory Smith and Jeffrey Smith and his wife, Diane De-Bevec; daughter Carolyn S. Toth; step-daughter, Mary-Catharine Hartman and her husband, Matthew J. LaMourie; six grandchildren; and three great-grand-children.

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• To hear a report from the Town Clerk re: June Election and Victualer’s Licensing.• To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on a Mass Gathering Permit for CumberlandSoccer Club “Just For Fun” Labor Day Tournament to be held at Twin Brook RecreationalFacility on September 1st & 2nd from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

• To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on amendments to Section 204.17.1 (SetbackOverlay District One) of the Cumberland Zoning Ordinance to include the following proper-ties, as recommended by the Planning Board: Tax Map U06, Lot 87 (145 Foreside Road),Lot 86 (149 Foreside Road), Lot 87 (1 Wildwood Blvd.), and Tax Map R01, Lot 2B (2 BirchLane).

• To hear a report from the Ordinance Committee and set a Public Hearing date (June 4th) toconsider and act on the adoption of a Road Acceptance Ordinance.

• To hear a report from the Ordinance Committee and consider and act on forwarding draftzoning amendments to the Recreational Facilities & Open Space Impact Fee Ordinance tothe Planning Board for a Public Hearing and recommendation.

• To set a Public Hearing date (June 4th) to consider and act on a Mass Gathering Permit forthe United Maine Craftsmen’s 43rd Annual Cumberland Arts and Crafts Show, August 9th –12th, 2012 at the Cumberland Fair Grounds.

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The First Radio Parish Church of America "Daily Devotions" recently ap-pointed the following people to its board of trustees: Pauline Dion will serve on the fundraising committee and Nancy Du-mais will serve on the publicity commit-tee and will assist in fundraising efforts.

The Avesta Housing Board of Direc-tors recently appointed the following people to their board: Neal Allen, Drew Sigfridson, Gren Blackall, and Rebecca Greenfield.

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Martin's Point Health Care recently presented $500 to the Brunswick Teen Center at People Plus. In addition to the $500, which was comprised of donations from Martin's Point staff and patients, the donation included a file cabinet for the Teen Center office, juice, snacks and a box of fun items from the teen center wish list including "cool colored" duct tape, beads and new ping pong paddles and balls.

New Hires

Drummond Woodsum recently wel-comed Tom Watson to the firm in the business services and trial services groups. He will concentrate his practice on business law, civil litigation and real estate. Watson comes to Drummond Woodsum from the New Hampshire firm of Wiggin & Nourie.

Casco Systems recently hired Donald Vogel to its staff as a senior automation engineer. Vogel brings with him over 20

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Melissa Babineau recently joined Norway Savings Bank as the new vice president, cash management manager. She will be based in the Congress Street office, but will work with clients through-out the market area.

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The U.S. Small Business Administra-tion recently announced its annual award winners for 2012. Sherry Brown, Susan Pope, Jane Harmon and Bonnie Pothier of Key Bank's Key4Women Champions were selected to receive the Women in Busi-ness Champion of the Year award. They were recognized for their contributions to women and minority business owners through advocacy and partnerships with Women, Work & Community, the Maine Women's Policy Center and the Maine Small Business Development Centers.

The Maine Autism Alliance recently received a $16,729 grant from the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. The Alliance was one of 30 nonprofit orga-nizations in eight states and Canada that, in total, received $380,060 from the foun-dation. The Maine Autism Alliance is an emerging non-profit, created to answer the unmet needs of Maine’s autism com-munity, dedicated to support, education and raising awareness.

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute recently chose Clark Insurance as its David E. Lawrence Award recipient. The award recognizes the agency as its vendor of the year. The recognition is based on a vendor's "extraordinary service, in-novative problem solving and dedicated partnership" to help enable the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to make a dif-ference in the world.

The ACLU of Maine Foundation will present the 2012 Justice Louis Scolnik Award to Walt McKee on May 3. McKee chairs the Legislative Committee of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense

Lawyers and appears regularly before the Maine Legislature's Criminal Justice Committee as a civil liberties volunteer advocate on criminal justice legislation. He has testified on numerous criminal justice bills.

Designations

Dan Mitchell, attorney and share holder at Bernstein Shur, recently received the Martindale-Hubble AV Preeminent Rating, the highest level of Martindale-Hubble's peer review rating system. The rating sys-tem is an objective indicator of a lawyer's high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the U.S. and Canada. The evaluations are based on legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, judgment, communication ability and legal experience.

FairPoint Communications recently recognized its outstanding sales leaders. The top performers were: Andy Mullen, Mia Perron, Cindy Tucci, Joe Bourgault, LuAnn Moore, Barry Crommett, Karen Romano and Guy Langelier.

Promotions

The Maine Army National Guard re-cently promoted the following individu-als: George Churchhill, Staff Sergeant, Portland; Joshua Shannon, Specialist, Portland; Brandon White, Private First Class, Scarborough; and Brian Griffin, Private Second Class, Scarborough.

New Location

The Advanced Vein Center recently relo-cated to 210 Western Ave., South Portland.

Expansion

Yarmouth Boat Yard recently broke ground on their new service center and indoor heated boat storage facility. The new 6,500 square foot building will facilitate year-round boat service work and provide indoor heated storage. The building will be completed and ready for service work beginning in June. The site work for the facility is being completed by Scott Dugas Trucking and Excavation of Yarmouth and the construction work is being completed by PATCO Construc-tion.

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Lacrosse game overshadowed by fundraiser at NYABy Matt Boutwell

YARMOUTH—Outside of a brisk wind that cooled things down, the weather could not have been better for Saturday’s boys' lacrosse game between the North Yarmouth Academy Panthers and the Scarborough Red Storm on NYA’s synthetic surface.

The upper lawn was filled with lawn chairs while burgers and dogs were being cooked on the grill and while two-time de-fending Class A state champion Scarborough went on to beat the reigning Eastern B champion Pan-thers, there were also other, more poignant things going on.

Jason VeIlleux / For The ForecasTerSaturday's contest between host North Yarmouth Academy and

two-time defending Class A state champion Scarborough was much

more than just an early season boys' lacrosse showdown. It was also a benefit for the Wounded Warrior Project and players dressed the

part. Junior Oliver Silverson and the Panthers wore camouflage tops, while goalie David Pearson and the Red Storm wore camouflage shorts.

Scarborough won the game, 4-3.

Jason VeIlleux / For The ForecasTerNYA's Charlie Gerrity shows off his

team's camouflage top.

This game was a benefit for the Wounded Warriors Project. There was a small cannon on the NYA sidelines and before the game Chris Tyll, owner of Pat’s Pizza in the Old Port, addressed the crowd not as a candidate for state Senate for District 11, but as a former Navy Seal.

“Statistics have shown that over the last 10 years, less than one percent of our country has served (in the military) since 9/11,” said Tyll. “That one percent has borne over 100 percent of the sacrifices so that we can rest easy at night, enjoy a great spring day and watch some great lacrosse.

“Wounded Warriors is a great program that I hold dear to my heart. If you look at the (Wounded Warrior Project) logo, the soldier being carried is wounded and obviously needs help. Now, let’s look at the soldier on the bot-tom (carrying the other soldier). This soldier has probably been deployed two to five times in a combat zone. He carries 35 pounds of armor, 50 pounds of ammunition and supplies and self-lessly removes his comrade from the battlefield. They probably both suffer from TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and PTS (Post Traumatic Stress). The guy on the top needs our help, but the guy on the bot-tom needs our help as well. The PTS he has is not a disorder, it’s a wound that we have a responsi-bility as a nation to help heal. Get involved and help turn this from a bumper sticker to a movement.”

Tyll encouraged the players to embrace that warrior spirit.

“Hit hard, get back up, only to do it again," he said. "If you play inside the confines of the rules of this game, you’ll learn lessons from that type of effort.

“It’s my hope that this gen-eration does not have to face the horrors of war. By continu-ing to embrace such a great sport and work hard in your studies, I feel confident we’ll have another breed of warriors

if we have to call upon you.”The event was put together by

longtime NYA assistant coach Bruce Myers.

“I can’t take any credit for this,” said NYA head coach Chris Carpentier, of the benefit. “The credit for all of this goes to Coach Myers."

“It’s a popular cause and it should be at the time of war," said Myers, who coordinated the events, including the color guard on hand to present the nation’s colors, the tie-in with the ship USS Michael Murphy and Tyll’s speech. Myers' son is currently in the Navy, and Myers himself worked for the Navy for years.

Book it...Coach P’s still beloved in MaineBy Michael Hoffer

"I think about the kids coming out of Maine. Their dreams and aspirations and me wanting them to believe they can do anything. I think this book is a way of giv-ing them a story that's touchable. There's nothing special about me, a kid from Brunswick High School."

Coach Joanne Palombo Mc-Callie.

All modesty aside, Joanne Palombo McCallie is extremely special, one of the greatest and most influential female athletes this state has produced, one who went on to steal coaching head-lines at a national level first at the University of Maine, then at Michigan State University and now at Duke University.

While McCallie has been gone

from the Pine Tree State for over a decade, she had an opportunity to return home last week and it was abundantly clear that as much as she still loves Maine, the feeling is indeed mutual.

McCallie, or Coach P, as she's affectionately known, was in the state promoting her book, "Choice not Chance: Rules for Building a Fierce Competitor," a unique look at her life and journey to becom-ing a premier coach while raising two children.

McCallie, thanks to the hard work of her agent and younger sister, Carolyn Clement, spent last week in Maine not just doing book signings, but also newspaper and radio interviews, as well as television appearances.

"There's a love and a passion for the state of Maine, my experi-ences in Maine and the people in Maine," said McCallie, who coached the University of Maine to national prominence from 1992 to 2000. "That'll never leave me. I'm glad that came out in the book."

The book stems from a promise McCallie made to her daughter, Maddie, when Maddie was four years old. McCallie promised to write a book about her life expe-riences and explain decisions she made along the way. With Maddie set to graduate high school in June (she'll attend and play basketball at Miami University), McCallie knew time was of the essence and she spent last summer putting the book together.

"I think you have to wait awhile to get perspective," said McCallie, who also has a son, Jack. "I got so busy with the transition from

courTesy carolyn clemenTFormer University of Maine and current Duke University women’s basketball coach Joanne Palombo

McCallie returned to Maine last week to promote her new book.

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"I think a lot of people look at it as though the soldiers are at war and America’s at the mall," Myers said. "It’s good for kids to go out and do something for someone else. We live in a world of instant gratification, so any time they can go out and do something for someone else, it’s good for them.”

April triumph brings May optimism(Ed. Note: For the complete

Greely-Cape Elizabeth softball, Yarmouth-South Portland boys' lacrosse and Yarmouth-Waynflete, Yarmouth-Scarborough and Fal-mouth-Yarmouth girls' lacrosse game stories, including detailed box scores and additional photos, please visit theforecaster.net)

By Michael HofferThe very short spring sports

season is now underway for ev-erybody. Some teams have played several games, others just one or two, but it's becoming clear that preseason projections of excel-lence were right on the mark.

Here's a glimpse at what's oc-curred in the past week and what's to come.

Baseball-Falcons turning heads

Freeport's baseball team is off to its best start since winning its first four contests in 2004. The Falcons have captured their first four games this spring, downing visiting Yarmouth (11-1, in five innings), visiting York (5-4, in eight innings), host Cape Eliza-beth (7-3) and host York (5-3). In the first win against the Wildcats,

Jason VeIlleux / For The ForecasTer

Chris Farley drove in the winning run and Josh Weirich got the win in relief as Freeport rallied from a 3-0 deficit. In the Falcons' vic-tory over the Capers, believed to be their first ever, Dan Burke doubled twice and drove in four runs, Connor Dietrich added three hits and Sawyer Williams earned the victory. In Monday's win at York, Weirich had a pair of hits and saved his team's bacon in the last of the seventh, fanning the side with the bases loaded.

"It's the best start we've had in years, but it's only (four) games," said Freeport coach Hank Ogilby.

"I'm very pleased with all aspects of our game right now, pitching, defense, but especially hitting and attitude. We really can hit one through nine. Our seniors and team leaders have set a nice tone for the team. So yeah, we are off to a good start, but as they say, 'It's not how you start, it's how you finish that counts.'"

The Falcons host Old Orchard Beach Wednesday, go to Gray-New Gloucester Friday and have a showdown with reigning Western B champion Greely Monday of next week.

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Falmouth senior All-American

Mitch Tapley prepares to shoot at the

Yarmouth goal while Clippers senior goalie Alex Kurtz

looks to deny him. Tapley had seven

goals as the Yachtsmen won, 14-7.


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Recapfrom page 21

Brian Beard / For The ForecasTerGreely sophomore Matt Crowley launches a shot on goal during the Rangers' 12-7 win at

Waynflete last week.

Those Rangers have been dominating in the early going. Greely opened with a 28-0 (five inning) win at Lake Region last Tues-day. Jonah Normandeau threw a perfect game and had five hits, four RBI and three runs scored. Bailey Train homered. The Rangers set school records for margin of victory (28 runs) and hits in an inning (11, in the second). Greely tied a school record by scoring 28 runs. Most impressively, the victory gave longtime coach Derek Soule his 172nd career win, allowing him to leapfrog Bob Anthoine for the top spot in program history.

The next day, the Rangers blanked vis-iting Sacopee Valley, 10-0, again in five innings, and this time Train threw a no-hitter, striking out 13. Greely scored seven times in the first inning to break it open. Normandeau and Luke Saffian both had

two RBI. Last Thursday, Greely won in more conventional manner, 7-2, at Frye-burg. Mike Leeman surrendered the first opponent’s hit of the year, but still earned the win with a four-hitter. Sam Porter had a two-run triple and struck out the side in the seventh. The Rangers improved to 4-0 Monday with an 8-0 home win over Cape Elizabeth (Normandeau allowed two hits this time and struck out 11, while Pete Stau-ber had two hits and three RBI). Greely was at Wells Wednesday, visits Falmouth Friday and hosts Freeport Monday of next week.

Falmouth beat host York, 8-2, in its first game, then enjoyed a 10-5 victory over visiting Cape Elizabeth in its home opener. Will D'Agostino homered and drove in three runs and Addison Foltmer earned his second win of the season. The Yachtsmen improved to 3-0 Monday with an 11-1 six inning win at Fryeburg (Nick Spencer got the win, Seamus Powers and Drew Proctor each had three hits). They were at Gray-

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Yarmouth opened with losses at Freeport and Wells, but bounced back last week with wins over visiting Lake Region (13-3, in five innings) and at Old Orchard Beach (13-0, in six innings). Against the Lakers, Ryan Cody earned the win, while Mike Smith and Tom Sullivan hit home runs. In the win over the Seagulls, Bryce Snyder singled, doubled, tripled and drove in four runs, while Chester Jacobs earned the vic-tory with five shutout frames. The Clippers improved to 3-2 Monday with a 12-2 six in-ning home win over Gray-New Gloucester. Snyder and Sullivan both had two hits and three RBI, Eamon Costello had three hits and drove in two runs and Nick Lainey earned the win after allowing just four hits. Yarmouth hosted Poland Wednesday. The Clippers are at Fryeburg Saturday.Softball-Rangers dominate rival

Greely's highly touted softball team ran the gamut last week. The Rangers opened with an 11-5 triumph at Lake Region (Katie

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That victory proved to be a huge confi-dence boost.

"It was massive," Cimino said. "We went into that game knowing we lost to them last year, but we knew we could do it. We wanted it bad and we got it."

Monday, the Rangers improved to 3-1 with an 8-5 home victory over Cape Eliza-beth, behind a double, home run and two RBI from Cimino, who settled down and earned the win after giving up five runs in the fourth, and two RBI from Dinan. Lind-sey Arsenault scored three runs.

"It was great how they responded," said Greely first-year coach Sarah Jamo. "We're still trying to erase that one inning and play all the way through for seven innings. We kept putting runs on the board consistently. That was good to see."

The Rangers were at Wells Wednesday, visit Falmouth Friday and host Freeport Monday.

"We definitely have a team that can go a long way," Cimino said. "If we play our game, I don't think there's a team anywhere that can beat us."

The Falcons were 3-2 at press time. Last Wednesday, Freeport blanked visiting York, 14-0, in five innings. Leigh Wyman threw a one-hitter and had three hits of her own. Dani Perry also had three hits. After a 10-0 loss at Cape Elizabeth Saturday, the Falcons went to York Monday and prevailed, 16-1, in five innings. Wyman allowed three hits in earning the way. She also had a pair of hits, as did Dietrich and Andrea Grant. Freeport is at Gray-New Gloucester Saturday and goes to Greely Monday.

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drove in a pair and McKenzie Gray earned the win. The following day, however, the Clippers fell at home to Lake Region, 13-1 (Julia Anastos’ triple drove in the team’s lone run). Friday, Yarmouth suffered a 9-8 loss at Poland. The Clippers were down, 9-4, heading for the seventh. They pushed four runs across, but fell just short. Gray singled, doubled and tripled and Kallie Hutchinson added a pair of hits. Yarmouth hosted Gray-New Gloucester Monday and fell to 2-3 with an 11-1 loss. Gray had an RBI single The Clippers hosted Poland Wednesday and play at Fryeburg Saturday.

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A year after a rare down season, the Yarmouth boys’ lacrosse team is back in form. The Clippers opened with an 11-9 home victory over rival North Yarmouth Academy, then lost, 14-7, at defending Class B state champion Falmouth, despite three goals from Ian Edgecomb. Saturday, Yarmouth improved to 2-1 with a 12-2 home victory over South Portland. Anders Overhaug and Ethan Cyr paced a balanced offensive attack with three goals each, goalie Alex Kurtz made nine clutch saves, Yarmouth raced to a 5-0 lead and blew the game open late in the third period.

“We have a lot of great players on of-fense,” said Cyr. “We go five, six guys deep at midfield and we have three or four great attackmen. We’ve worked on shoot-ing and finishing and getting everyone to score goals.”

"(The kids have) worked hard," said first-year Clippers coach David Pearl. "They laugh and have fun and enjoy what they're doing. I've seen so much progress since the beginning of the year. It's unbelievable."

Yarmouth faces a home showdown versus Cape Elizabeth Saturday and welcomes Freeport Tuesday.

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over Wells, then lost at Yarmouth (11-9), at Cape Elizabeth (14-2) and at home to Scarborough (4-3).

The game versus the Red Storm was a benefit for the Wounded Warrior Project (please see story). The Panthers jumped ahead 2-0 on goals from Oliver Silverson and Jacob Scammon. After Scarborough rallied to tie, Scammon scored again for a 3-2 lead late in the third period, but the Red Storm got the last two goals to win.

“I was a little worried about (them be-ing caught up in the pregame ceremony),” said NYA coach Chris Carpentier. “That’s another reason we do stuff like this, so that they’ll have this experience in bigger games down the line.”

The Panthers (1-3) were back in action Tuesday when they hosted Fryeburg. NYA welcomes Falmouth Monday in a rematch of last year's Class B state final.

Freeport lost its first three games, 9-2 at Greely, 12-3 at York and 9-7 at home to Gorham. Alex Sturtevant made 11 saves against the Wildcats. Evan Hench scored three times in the loss to the Rams. The Falcons host Fryeburg Thursday, go to Waynflete Saturday and visit Yarmouth Tuesday.

Falmouth bounced back from its season-opening loss at Cape Elizabeth with a 15-7 home win over Greely, then downed visiting Yarmouth, 14-7, last Wednesday.

Mitch Tapley scored seven times in the win. Monday, the Yachtsmen had no trouble with host Portland, winning, 13-4, to improve to 3-1. Tapley scored five times, while Hunter LaFond added four. Falmouth was home with Lake Region Wednesday and goes to NYA Monday of next week.

Greely began the week 3-1. The Rang-ers opened with a 12-2 home win over Freeport. After a loss at Falmouth, Greely defeated host Waynflete (12-7) and visit-ing Massabesic (5-3). Paul Witte had seven goals in the win over the Flyers and scored three times against the Mustangs. The Rangers were home with Wells Wednesday, go to York Friday and play at Cape Eliza-beth Tuesday.

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On the girls' side, Falmouth continued its strong start with recent wins at NYA (17-3) and Marshwood (13-10) and a 19-7 home triumph over Yarmouth. Megan For-tier scored four times against the Panthers, her former team, while Molly Ryan and Geneva Waite both had three goals. Vanessa Audet scored three times in the scare at the

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"I think we all had a good game," Fortier said. "I think we have a very talented group. We've definitely shown that. We're getting better every game. You can see that."

"We've always used Yarmouth as a mea-suring stick," said Yachtsmen coach Robin Haley. "They're a very competitive team. They showed some things we need to work on. The score says one thing, but the game said something entirely different."

Falmouth now turns its attention to a Fri-day night home showdown with perennial powerhouse Waynflete, the last team the Yachtsmen have never beaten. Heal Points, bragging rights and confidence are at stake.

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Also in Western B, Greely got its first win last, week, edging visiting York, 11-9, behind four goals and two assists from Audrey Parolin and three goals from Etta Copenhagen. Mary Morrison stopped 11 shots. The Rangers fell to 1-2 Friday after a 9-5 loss at Massabesic. Paige Tuller had a goal and two assists. Krystyna Rybka made 16 saves. Greely was home with Freeport Tuesday, goes to York Friday and hosts Cape Elizazbeth Tuesday of next week.

In Eastern B, Freeport is the lone local team with a victory at press time. The Falcons lost to York (12-11) and Cape Elizabeth (15-7) to start the year, but got in the win column Thursday with a 10-8 home win over NYA. Jess Hench and Alex Mitch both had three goals in the loss to the Ca-pers. In the victory over the Panthers, Free-port’s first this century and perhaps its first ever, Hench and Emily Johnson both scored twice, while goalie Molly Lane made five clutch saves. The Falcons were at Greely Tuesday, visit Fryeburg Thursday and Windham Saturday, then host Waynflete Tuesday of next week.

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fell at Waynflete (13-2) and at home to Scarborough (12-5). Monday brought a 19-7 loss at Falmouth. Claudia Lockwood scored twice against the Red Storm. Grace O’Donnell, Ricki Pierce and Maddy Wood all had two goals against the Yachtsmen.

“I’ve got younger kids, but they’re step-ping up,” said Yarmouth coach Dorothy Holt. “The improvement is there. We played much better than the first time, even if the score doesn’t show it.”

Yarmouth’s grueling opening stretch finally culminates Friday with a game at dangerous Cape Elizabeth. The schedule then eases somewhat going forward, start-ing with home games versus Wells and NYA next week.

By June, the Clippers will likely be the last team anyone wants to face.

“I think you’ll see a different team in the second half of the season,” Holt said. “It’s a tough schedule, but we showed we can compete. We just have to look forward. This experience will help. We’ll get there.”

NYA fell to 0-4 with recent losses at home to Falmouth (17-3) and at Freeport (10-8) and Cheverus (13-8). Katie Cawley and Katherine Millett both scored three times against the Falcons. Cawley scored four times versus the Stags. The Panthers look to get in the win column Friday versus Wells.

TrackThe outdoor track season is underway and

familiar names are already leading the pack.Falmouth dominated its opening meet at

Poland (which also included Old Orchard Beach and Waynflete). Charlotte Cutshall sparked the girls with wins in the 100 (13.6

seconds) and the long jump (14 feet, 7.25 inches).

Freeport and Yarmouth joined Traip at Fryeburg. In the boys' meet, the Falcons came in second to the hosts, while the Clippers were fourth. Yarmouth's Lucas Davis took the 100 (11.92) and 200 (24.51). Freeport winners included Harrison Sti-vers in the 800 (2 minutes, 9.31 seconds), Vinnie Zolla in the two-mile (11:25.07), Thomas Dodge in the high jump (5-4), Ethan Roney in the racewalk (9:28.29) and the 3,200 relay team (9:14.52). On the girls' side, also won by Fryeburg, Freeport placed third and Yarmouth was fourth. The Clippers got a win from Jocelyn Davies in the high jump (4-8). Falcons event winners included Kelsey Grant in the javelin (83-4), Olivia Bubar in the distance (61-7) and Elly Bengtsson in the mile (6:16.44).

The Greely juggernaut was at Wells with Sacopee and Gray-New Gloucester. The boys were runner-up to Sacopee. James Ferrar took the javelin (126-2) and shot put (42-0.75). The Rangers also won the 1,600 (3:52.14) and 3,200 (9:36.11) relays. The girls' team came in first. Emily Saunders stole the show by capturing the high jump (4-8), long jump (14-9) and triple jump (32-6.5). Cassidy Storey won both the shot put (30 feet) and discus (90-5).

NYA traveled to Cape Elizabeth (along with Lake Region and York) for its first

meet. The boys came in second to York. Cam Rayder captured the discus (122-7). Nick Rayder took the 100 (11.6). Other winners included Kevin Schwarm in the racewalk (10:42.6), Cam Regan in the 400 (54.5), Jake Burns in the 300 hurdles (43.9), Rudy Guiliani in the two-mile (10:35.3) and the 400 relay team (47.5). The girls finished third. Kayla Rose won the discus (83-6).

TennisFalmouth continues to set the pace on

the hardcourts. The boys' team is now 4-0 after recent wins over Greely (5-0), Cape Elizabeth (3-2) and York (5-0). The girls are also 4-0, having beaten every foe by a 5-0 score, including Waynflete, Cape Elizabeth and Old Orchard Beach in recent action.

Freeport's boys improved to 2-1 after a 4-1 win over Fryeburg Monday. The girls dropped to 1-2 after a 4-1 loss at Cape Elizabeth Monday.

Greely's girls have been a pleasant sur-prise, improving to 3-1 Monday with a 4-1 win over NYA. The boys lost a 3-2 decision to NYA Monday and fell to 0-4.

The NYA boys improved to 3-1 with the win over Greely. The girls are 2-2 on the year.

Yarmouth's girls are now 3-1 after a 4-1 win at York Monday. The boys' team is 1-2 after a 5-0 loss to Cape Elizabeth Monday.

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years after coaching them to the national championship game in 2005). I had taken notes on my computer in diary form since leaving East Lansing. The time seemed right. The caveat I had with my daughter in my brain was doing this before she gradu-

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ated high school. She graduates in June. I knew I had to get going.”

This is no detailed autobiography or “how to succeed in business” tome, al-though there are elements of both within. McCallie describes the birth of the “Choice not Chance” program when she was at Maine, which includes five components: making choices with care, little choices do matter, practicing thinking and feeling deeply and clearly, keeping your power and

“if it’s meant to be, it’s up to me,” which emphasizes focus and embracing reason over emotion at all costs.

McCallie’s story is one of discovering she was pretty good with a basketball in the sixth grade, striving to make the Brunswick High varsity as a freshman and later starring for the Dragons, playing at Northwestern University, finding a real world job in telecommunications sales unsatisfying, learning the coaching game as an assistant under Joe Ciampi at Auburn University, then becoming the youngest head coach (at age 26) in the nation when she came to Orono and her triumphs there and beyond.

Off the court, McCallie frankly talks about the difficulties of juggling a family with a career and her relationships with Michigan State men’s coach Tom Izzo and legendary Duke men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski, as well as such personal topics as a miscarriage, driving off the road while being distracted by reading a magazine, having Maddie wander off while she was talking with a booster (she wound up un-harmed) and her failure to fully read and understand her Michigan State contract (which included an onerous buyout clause).

McCallie found the writing process to be time consuming and rewarding.

“It was a lot of fun, but it was definitely grueling and it was humbling,” McCallie said. “It’s harder to write than to coach. Writing’s a tricky business. Getting down what you want to express. I learned a lot about deadlines and getting a publisher. I got a lot of nos from a lot of people, then finally got a yes. I enjoyed putting the thoughts together. I was doing it for love. Certainly not for money. I recognized the humble nature of writing. I was very pleased with the finished product. I love the way it came together. I’m proud of it. It was fun. I was slow in some areas. The (first chapter) letter to Maddie took me a week to write.

“The whole book is sort of a letter to my children. To my former players. That’s

who I was thinking about. I wanted to share what it’s like to be a parent and a coach and I wanted that message to get out because it’s such an interesting one. (For me, coach-ing and parenting are) inextricably linked.”

The book was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. McCallie’s editor asked her to add questions at the end of each chapter, giving the reader an opportunity to consider their life choices.

“I wasn’t totally comfortable with (the questions), but I’m grateful for that because it turned out to be quite a bonus,” said Mc-Callie. “People have commented that they liked the questions and they like to think about it.”

The book has been very well received.“I only get the best feedback,” McCallie

said. “I suppose if people don’t like it, they don’t comment. I’ve gotten a lot of com-ments about (my) kids. I have people say it appeals to anybody. It doesn’t have a shelf life. It’s not just about one season. People have said that it’s a great graduation gift.”

McCallie, 46, won’t set a timetable on how long she wants to coach. She’s come oh so close to winning a championship and after falling in the Elite Eight back in March (for the third year in a row), projects to have a very talented team again next sea-son. While she’d love to win it all, it’s not her biggest focus.

“I want it very much for my team and my school, but I recognize the difficulty,” said McCallie, who has 457 career wins. “It’s not something that’s going to anoint me as a coach.”

While the book appeals to the masses, it does feature many Maine connections and highlights, including the year McCallie coached the Black Bears to a tournament upset of Stanford, a game in which her point guard, Amy Vachon, played a huge role in the victory.

“(Amy) was terrific,” McCallie said. “Her basketball IQ was through the roof. She made every key decision when we beat Stanford in the NCAA tournament. She played 38 or 40 minutes in the game. She always had a demeanor of solving prob-lems. She’s one of the best point guards I’ve ever coached. Low maintenance.”

Vachon, of course, is well known in Forecaster Country. She coached McAuley to the 2011 Class A state championship. Her point guard was a freshman named Al-lie Clement, who happens to be Carolyn’s daughter and McCallie’s niece. By the way, there are two more Clement nieces on their way to the hardwood limelight.

It just goes to show that McCallie’s Maine connection runs deep and isn’t about to end anytime soon.

“It’s been fun reconnecting and letting people know they’re appreciated,” McCal-lie said. “I’ve been able to personally sign a lot of books and thank people. There was storytelling. (Last week) was an impromptu reunion. Maine has a huge place in my heart.”

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Tuesday 5/8Page to Stage discussion of “Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

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Portland Symphony celebrates Kotzschmar centennialBy Scott Andrews

As April morphs into May, an abundance of excellent concert choices beckons music aficionados. The biggest of these is the final program of the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-2012 season, a celebra-tion of the 100th anniversary of the mighty Kotzschmar organ. Maestro Robert Moody has picked a pair of major works that fea-ture the King of Instruments. The concert will be presented twice, on May 6 and May 8.

The Greater Freeport Community Cho-rus presents a twin bill of concerts with a program that draws inspiration from two centuries of innovative American compos-ers. Catch these in Freeport on May 5 and Yarmouth on May 6.

Two topnotch singer-songwriters are holding CD release parties on back-to-back dates at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. Kentucky-born Darrell Scott appears on May 4, while Maine native Rachel Efron holds forth on May 5.

Portland Symphony OrchestraMaine’s cultural history is dotted with

milestones, but none is greater than the epic event of 1912: A mammoth pipe organ was constructed in the newly finished Portland City Hall, the gift of publishing magnate Cyrus Curtis, who dedicated the mighty instrument to the memory of Hermann Kotzschmar, his childhood music teacher.

Kotzschmar, a native of Germany, im-migrated to this country and settled in Port-land in the mid-1800s, becoming Maine’s leading musical figure – teacher, church organist, choral director, impresario and performer – for more than half a century. When Portland City Hall burned in 1908, Curtis decided to help the reconstruction effort by donating a massive organ for the concert hall that was incorporated into the new building.

When installation was completed in 1912, the Kotzschmar was the world’s second largest organ, and size-wise it re-mains among the leaders. For the past three decades, the organ has been maintained by an independent nonprofit support group, Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. The most recent enhancements and improve-ments, spearheaded by FOKO, were a new console in 2000 and additional pipes in 2003. FOKO also produces a year-round series of concerts.

The organ contains 6,857 pipes in 101 ranks in eight divisions. The longest pipe is 32 feet, while the smallest is under an inch. If laid end to end, the pipes would stretch 3.6 miles, the same distance as Portland’s Back Cove Trail. Total weight is about 50 tons, with about 100 miles of electrical wiring.

The Kotzschmar forms the visual back-drop to all Portland Symphony Orchestra concerts, but it isn’t played very often in the orchestral setting. But the organ will pipe up dramatically May 6 and 8, when the PSO will wrap up its season with a concert dedicated to the Kotzschmar cen-tennial. Ray Cornils, who holds the title of Portland municipal organist – one of only two such positions in the U.S. – will preside at the keyboard.

The two biggest works are by European composers who were noted organists who understood the sonic horsepower of the instrument and its relationship with com-peting and complementary musical forces.

Scott Simontacchi Darrell Scott is a Kentucky-born country singer-songwriter who will be holding a CD release party

this Friday at One Longfellow Square in Portland.

Joseph Jongen was the leading Belgian composer of the early 20th century. His Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra was written in the 1920s and premiered in Brussels.

Jongen’s four-movement masterpiece culminates in a memorable finale, accord-ing to PSO program annotator Mark Rohr: “Here the superhuman perpetual-motion organ part is matched by the power of the orchestra and the Symphonie Concertante goes out in a blaze of glory.”

After intermission, the PSO will play the coda for 2011-2012 with Charles Camille Saint-Saens’ Third Symphony, subtitled “Organ.” Saint-Saens, who worked in Paris most of his life, was recognized as Europe’s foremost organist and one of its top composers. His Third Symphony was written in 1886.

Rohr characterizes the four movements as “fury,” “serenity,” “propulsion” and “tri-umph.” He adds the following commentary to the whole work: “Saint-Saens’ Third is known as a sonic spectacular. A symphony orchestra and a pipe organ are each capable of shaking a room. Together they can make a glorious racket.”

Catch the Portland Symphony Orchestra at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall at 2:30 p.m. May 6 and 7:30 p.m. May 8. Call PortTix at 842-0800.Greater Freeport Community Chorus

American musical traditions, with an em-phasis on ingenuity and innovation, will be the over-arching theme when the Greater Freeport Community Chorus presents its spring concert on two dates this weekend.

The GFCC numbers approximately 40 voices hailing from 22 towns under musi-cal director Virgil Bozeman. All the pieces on the program were written by Ameri-cans, who date from the mid-1800s to the present. Stephen Foster is emblematic of old-time America, while Charles Ives and Aaron Copland represent of this country’s 20th-century classical tradition. Broadway and Hollywood are heard in the songs of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Harold Ar-len. Nick Page, a contemporary composer, represents a modern minimalist school.

Two performances are slated: May 5

at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church in Freeport and May 6 at 2 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth. Call 865-3730.

Darrell ScottSinger-songwriter Darrell Scott was born

in Kentucky and lives in Nashville, where he writes for prominent artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Martina McBride. He’s also copped a couple of major awards in the past few years, including the Ameri-cana Music Award for Best Album of the Year and the Independent Music Award for Best Country Album.

As a performer, his newest CD, titled “Long Ride Home,” features an older style of country music, characterized by hard-working, imperfect heroes and flawed hero-ines. Expect to hear much of that album when One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) presents a Darrell Scott CD release party at 8 p.m. May 4. Call 761-1757.

Rachel EfronSinger-songwriter Rachel Efron is a

Maine native who lives and performs mostly on the West Coast. She’s returning to her home town this Saturday for a CD release party.

Efron describes her work as “piano-centric arty pop.” Her third and latest CD is titled “Put Out the Stars,” and it represents an intensely personal approach to often-overlooked aspects of human psyche and experience in a compelling melodic and lyrical style.

San Francisco Examiner music critic Chris Morgan described her work: “Ra-chel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and voice of a poet to make the loveliest music one has heard – soft, intimate, ethereal and strik-ingly genuine.”

Catch Rachel Efron’s hometown CD release party at One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) at 8 p.m. May 5. Call 761-1757.

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May 12, 2012Merrill Auditorium 7:30 P.M.

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May 12, 2012Merrill Auditorium 7:30 P.M.

Hosts ~ Kim Block & Doug RaffertyDirectors ~ Stephen & Jane Filieo

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An evening of song and dance featuring some of Maine’s finest talent to benefit

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FreeportMon. 5/7 7 p.m. Board of Appeals THMon. 5/7 7 p.m. Library Board Freeport Community LibraryWed. 5/9 6 p.m. Project Review Board THWed. 5/9 6 p.m. Coastal Waters Commission Freeport Community Services

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Greater Portland BenefitsSaturday 5/5Spring Art Festival to benefit the Cancer Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thornton Heights United Methodist Church, 100 Westbrook St., South Portland, $3, 939-6966.

Sunday 5/6Food is Hope Concert to benefit Wayside Food Programs, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., The Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 712-4928.

Zumbathon to benefit the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, 1-4 p.m., Finley Gym, UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, $15/$10 students and faculty.

Friday 5/11"Sold On Kids," Sweetser's 20th Annual Auction, 5:30-10 p.m., Mar-riott Sable Oaks, 200 Sable Oaks Dr., South Porltand, $60, sweetser.org.

Saturday 5/12Cookie Walk for the Nancy King Memorial Scholarship Program, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Shaws, Route 1, Fal-mouth, 781-3354.

Maine Walks for Haiti, 8:30 a.m., Back Cove Trail, Portland, mainewalksforhaiti.org.

Bulletin BoardDrum Circle, every third Friday of the month, 6-8 p.m., Museum of African Art and Culture, 13 Brown St., Portland.

Maine Academy of Modern Mu-sic is now accepting registrations for its summer camp, Mon.-Fri. 10

a.m.-3:30 p.m., maineacademyof-modernmusic.org.

The Maine Mustang Project is now accepting applications and deposits for its 10-week summer program. For more information call 590-1890.

Operation Overboard: Daring to

Go Deep with God, Vacation Bible School now accepting summer registrations, $60, sofreeport-church.com, 865-4012.

Friday 5/4The Big Night, The Telling Room's Anthology release night, 7-9 p.m., USM Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St., Portland, 838-5570.

Saturday 5/525 Cent Sale, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Mor-rison Center, 60 Chamberlain Road, Scarborough, 883-6680.

Cinco de Mayo 5k, 5 p.m., starts on School St., Freeport, for more information on the race visit habi-tatportlandme.org.

Falmouth Trail System Informa-tion Session, 9:30 a.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-4727.

Yard Sale, indoor/outdoor, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., West Scarborough United Methodist Church, Route 1, Dunstan Corner, Scarborough, 883-2814.

Annual Mad Hatter Affair, Maine Historical Society, 5-11 p.m., The Woodlands, 39 Woods Road, Fal-mouth, 774-1822.

Auction, North Yarmouth Acad-emy's 28th annual, 6-10 p.m., Travis Roy Arena, 148 Main St., Yarmouth, $30 advance/$35 door, 847-5422.

PATHS Annual Yard Sale, 8 a.m- 1 p.m., PATHS, 196 Allen Ave., Port-land, 874-8165 ext. 6529.

SLAP Superhero Lady Arm-wrestlers of Portland Inaugural Tournament, 7 p.m., Mayo St. Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, $5.

Spring Carnival, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 99 South Freeport Road, Freeport.

WMPG's Annual Fashion Show, 6:30 p.m., Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland, $10/$5 students, port-landasylum.com.

Sunday 5/6Merriconeag Poetry Festival, 3-4:30 p.m., Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport, merriconeag.org.

Tuesday 5/8Falmouth Memorial Library LunchBox Friends Annual Meet-ing, 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Wednesday 5/9Portland Society of Architects Spring Social, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Porthole Restaurant, 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland, portland-architects.org.

Saturday 5/12Electronics Recycling Collection, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Falmouth Shopping Center, Route 1, Falmouth, 781-2501.

Falmouth Family & Pet Walk, 8 a.m., Foreside Community Church, 340 Foreside Road, Falmouth, 781-2996.

World Fair Trade Day, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Karma Fair Trade, 570 Brigh-ton Ave., Portland, 831-4531.

Call for VolunteersASSE International Student Ex-change Programs need local host families for boys and girls from around the world. The students are 15-18 years old and are coming for the upcoming high school year or semester. FMI contact Joyce, 737-4666 or visit asse.com.

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network needs volunteer weather observers, visit cocorahs.org for more information.

Help Someone Write Their Busi-ness Success Story, become a SCORE volunteer, 772-1147.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad needs a volunteer handyman to work around the museum; hours and days are flexible. For more information call 828-0814.

Portland Public Schools needs one parent and one student from each public high school to join an advisory council for The Pathways to Success Initiative. Candidates should submit a page about their interest and experience along with their e-mail address and phone number to Kim Lipp at [email protected] by April 25.

RSVP needs volunteers 55 and older to work in a Scarborough assisted living home. For more information call 396-6521.

Spring Point Light House needs docents for the 2012 season, starting June 23, springpointled-gelight.com.

Tuesday 5/8Hospice Volunteer Training,5:30-8:30 p.m., VNA Home Health and Hospice, 50 Foden Road, South Portland, 400-8714.

Dining OutFriday 5/4Friday Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., North Yarmouth Congregation-al Church, 3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth.

Saturday 5/5Baked Bean Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, $8 adults/$5 children, 846-4724.

Cinco de Mayo Pot Luck, 7-9 p.m., Centro Latino, 68 Washington St., Portland, $5.

Wednesday 5/9Wednesday Night Meal, 5-6:30 p.m., VFW Post #832, 50 Peary Ter-

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race, South Portland, $6, 767-2575.

Saturday 5/12Aserela 17th Anniversary Celebra-tion for the Children Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Cathedral of Immaculate Con-ception, 307 Congress St., Portland, $20 adults, $5 children, aserela.org.

Lobster Roll Meal, 4:30-6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 179 Ridgeland Ave., South Portland, $10, 767-2688.

Garden & OutdoorsGuided Bird Walk and Exploration of Gilsland Farm, Thursdays, 7 a.m., Gilsland Farm, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, $5 members/$8 non-members, 781-2330.

Thursday 5/3Reel Paddling Film Festival World

Tour, 7 p.m., Masonic Temple, 415 Congress St., #100, Portland, $10-15.

Saturday 5/5Skyline Farms Plow Day, 9 a.m., Skyline Farms, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, [email protected].

Saturday 5/12Scarborough Land Trust Vol-unteer Work Party, 2-5 p.m., Camp Ketcha, Black Point Road, Scarborough, 289-1199.

Getting SmarterGED prep, South Portland Adult Education, Tue./Thu. 6-8:15 p.m., South Portland High School, [email protected].

Love and Respect- God's Ingre-dients for Great Relationships, register by May 2 for the five week class starting May 16, Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m., $20 individuals/$25

couples, 215-435-4625, midcoast-familyuniversity.com.

Thursday 5/3Facebook Marketing, 9-11:30 a.m., SCORE Offices, 100 Middle St., Portland, $35, registration re-quired, scoremaine.com.

Friday 5/4Callings: In Search of an Authen-tic Life, 7 p.m., Luther Bonney Auditorium, USM, Portland, $25, chimeofmaine.org.

Sunday 5/6"Free Trade and Sailor's Rights:" Maine, Casco Bay and Freeport in the War of 1912, 1:30 p.m., Freeport Historical Society, 45 Main St., Freeport, $5, 865-3170.

Tuesday 5/8Starting Your Own Business: Learning from Folks Who've "Been

there, Done that," 6-9 p.m., SCORE, 100 Middle St., Portland, $35, regis-tration required, scoremaine.com, 772-1147.

Thursday 5/10When Professional Becomes Personal: Using Conflict Man-agement to Achieve Civility, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, 5 Park St., Freeport, $115, registration required by May 5, mainemediators.org.

Health & SupportFree Diabetes Support Group, 5:30-6:30 p.m., second Thursday of every month, Martin's Point Health Education Center, 331 Veranda St., Building 5, Portland, 1-800-260-6681.

Thursday 5/3Mended Hearts, 6-8 p.m., Maine Medical Center Scarborough Learning Resource Center, 100 Campus Dr., Scarborough, mend-edhearts.org.

Saturday 5/5Becoming the Creator of the Life you Really Want to Live, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Meadow Wind, 100 Gray Road, West Falmouth, registration required, $39, 318-8049.

Monday 5/7Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., North Yarmouth Academy, 148 Main St., Yarmouth, appointment required, redcrossblood.org.

Empower Me for Health, 7-8

p.m., True North, 202 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, registration required, 781-4488.

Losses from Cancer: Losing the "Old You," 6-7:30 p.m., Cancer Com-munity Center, 778 Main St., South Portland, 774-2200.

Tuesday 5/8Encouraging Ourselves to Prac-tice Mindfulness, 7 p.m., 83 India St., Portland.

Thursday 5/10Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., Pine Tree Academy, 67 Pownal Road, Freeport, appointment required, redcrossblood.org.

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a month-to-month lease, and owner Phineas Sprague, who was instrumental in the museum's formation, has the land up for sale. Museum officials expect it to be sold and developed when the economy picks up.

"We love our current location," along the Casco Bay shoreline, Durham said. "You can't do better than that."

But rather than wait for a 30-day evic-tion notice from the landlord, "we're try-ing to be proactive," he said.

There are few available alternatives near their Eastern Promenade rail line, which carries about 23,000 pleasure-seeking riders a year. The city and private property owners in the area are unwilling to carve out space from waterfront real estate for the nonprofit, partly because doing so doesn't fit cleanly into the city's master plan for the neighborhood, Port-land Economic Development Director Greg Mitchell said.

The move to Gray will likely change the face of the museum's volunteer staff and, to some extent, it's riders, Durham said.

"I wish it could stay," said volunteer conductor Arthur Hussey said as he

climbed onto a rail car Saturday. Hussey, who has spent 18 years riding the rails, said he would probably spend fewer days volunteering after the move. Even Durham said he would likely scale back his time at the museum, where he now spends several days a week.

On Saturday, Jennifer Thurgood, a

second-time visitor and South Portland mother of two children, said she had just bought seasons passes for her family. "We were planning on coming a lot," Thurgood said.

A Gray location would "not be too far away that we wouldn't go," she said. "But not as much."

Durham tried to make the best of the situation, noting the Gray Wildlife Park gets 100,000 visitors a year. "If we could get half of that, that would be an increase in ridership," he said.

And though the museum would have to lay new track on the CMP right of way in Gray, which was once travelled by a trol-ley between Portland and Lewiston, the move could potentially allow the museum to double the length of its tracks to about three miles, Durham said.

Since the Portland right of way is un-der lease from the state for another dozen years and was repaired in April, he said, it is even possible that the museum will move its flagship operation to Gray while maintaining a satellite rail line on the Eastern Promenade.

Just how much the organization ex-pands or changes depends, of course, on how much money the museum can raise.

"The underlying problem is money," Durham said. "It's always money. It's just going to be tough and it's going to take time. And here's the real bottom line: we've got to do it, or go out of business essentially."

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ames electricServing Greater Portland since 1963

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• Boarding• Pet Taxi

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ANTIQUES

ALWAYS BUYING, ALWAYSPAYING MORE! Knowledge,Integrity, & Courtesy guaran-teed! 40 years experience buy-ing ANTIQUE jewelry (rings,watches, cuff links, pins, ban-gles, necklaces and old cos-tume jewelry),coins, sterlingsilver, pottery, paintings, prints,paper items,rugs, etc. CallSchoolhouse Antiques. 780-8283.

ANTIQUES

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(207) 730-2261

Top prices paid�

WANTED:Pre 1950 old postcards,

stamp collections,old photographs

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799-7890 call anytime

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FAIR PRICES PAIDAlso Buying Antiques, Art OfAll Kinds, and Collectables.G.L.Smith Books - Collectables97 Ocean St., South Portland.799-7060.

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AUTOS

Body Man on Wheels, autobody repairs. Rust work forinspections. Custom paintingand collision work. 38 yearsexperience. Damaged vehicleswanted. JUNK CAR removal,Towing. 878-3705.

BOATS

23’ CHRIS-CRAFT 1987.350el GMC Rebuilt, OMC Out-drive Rebuilt with 2010 8’6”Inflatable Dinghy. Sleeps 2,Stove, Fridge, Sink, Hcad,GPS-Fishfinder. $7500. 233-1676.

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BOATS

26 ft. TIARA PURSUITCUDDY CABIN. Excellentshape, low hours. 350 MPIHorizon. Asking $20,000.Please call 207-272-0462.

BODY AND SOUL

Intimacy, Men and WomenSupport Group. Helping Peoplewith the Practice of Intimacy.Openings for Men. Weekly,Sliding Fee. Call Stephen at773-9724, #3.

BUSINESS RENTALS

ROUTE ONE YARMOUTH.Across from new MercyHospital. Easy access, gen-erous parking, great visibil-ity. 1000 to 3000 SF. Com-plete new build out to ten-ant specs. 846-6380.

OFFICE SUBLET- Main St.Yarmouth. Lovely office withwaiting room, wireless internet,phone. Perfect for therapist,other professional. Reasonablerent. Available Mon & Tues. CallJill at 846-0404 x2.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Administrative Assistance -Bookkeeping (QuickBooks),Consulting, Desktop Publishing(Flyers, Invitations, Newslet-ters), Filing (archiving, organi-zation), Mailings, Typing, BasicComputer Software Instruction.Call Sal-U-tions at (207)797-2617.

CHILD CARE

Early Bird Day Care Cumber-land day care has an openingstarting in July and Sept. for achild 12 months-5 years old.Meals and snacks provided.Kindergarten readiness pro-gram included in daily routine.Reasonable rates but moreimportant a fun, home-likeatmosphere where childrenthrive. Come join our family!Hours 7am-5:30 pm829-4563

BRINDLE BEAR DAYCARE06:30-05:30 Mon-Fri, $130.00per week full time Statelicensed 24 yrs exp. Breakfast,lunch and snack provided,Weekly progress notes, Activi-ties and outdoor play. Open-ings 1yr to school age. CallRenee at 865-9622. BRINDLE-BEARDAYCARE.COM

BABYSITTER SEEKING15-20 HOURS PER WEEK

mid June – mid AugustExcellent References

Reasonable Rates

Fun, Energetic 14 y.o.

Call 781-4916

CHIMNEY

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CLEANING

GrandviewWindow Cleaning

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Shouldn’t you have itCLEANED your way?

Friendly, reliable, trustworthyand professional

Special rates for SeniorsLimited business cleaning

References providedCall today for a free estimate:

(207) 894-5546

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HOME & OFFICECleaning

Daily, Weekly, biweeklyor One Time. Excellent Refer-ences. Satisfaction Guaran-teed. Free Estimates.Call Sonia 939-0983.Housecleaning Makes aGreat Gift.

FOR HOME/OFFICE, NEWConstruction, Real EstateClosings etc. the clean youneed is “Dream Clean” theclean you`ve always dreamedof with 15 years of expert serv-ice. Fully Insured. For rates &references call Leslie 807-2331.

WINDOWCLEANINGby Master’s Touch

846-5315Serving 25 years

Home CleaningReliable service atreasonable rates.Let me do yourdirty work!Call Kathy at892-2255

Great Cleaner looking toclean your house your way.Great References. Cape Eliza-beth and Saco areas. CallRhea 939-4278.

MAGGIE’S CLEANING SER-VICES covering all areas.Reasonable rates, great refer-ences. Mature, experiencedwoman. 522-4701.




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BOOKKEEPING***PLUS***

QuickBooks software at your office or mineA/R & A/P Payroll Prep

Monthly Billing StatementsFinancial Statements Bank Reconciliation

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Errands, etc.One time setup, weekly, or monthly

[email protected]

152 US Route 1, Scarborough • www.comfortkeepers.com

885-9600

RESPECTED & APPRECIATEDIf these are important to you and you are a kind-heartedperson looking for meaningful part or full time work,we’d love to speak with you. Comfort Keepers is lookingfor special people to join us in providing excellent non-medical, in-home care to area seniors. We offer a vision &dental plan, along with ongoing training and continuoussupport.

SHARE YOURHEARTHome Instead Senior Care, the world’s leading provider of non-medical homecare for seniors, is looking for a few select CAREGiversSM

for clients around Cumberland County. If you are honest, reliable,professional, flexible, caring, and a creative thinker, you might just fillthe bill!We set the industry standard in professional training, competitivewages, limited benefits, and 24/7 CAREGiver support. Our CAREGiverstell us this is the best job they’ve ever had.

Call Kelly today to see if you qualify to join our team: 839-0441

Home Instead Senior Carewww.homeinstead.com/321

Bookkeeper Wanted:Town of Chebeague Island

8 – 16 hours per week. Duties include but arenot limited to monthly check reconciliation,accounts payable processing, and auditpreparation.

High school diploma or GED is required.

Please submit a letter of interest, resumeand three references to:

Town Administrator Eric DyerTown of Chebeague Island

192 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017by May 11th, 2012.

For more information call 207-846-3148or email [email protected]

Public Services WorkerTown of Chebeague Island

Average of 30 hours per week. Duties includebut are not limited to vehicle and equipmentmaintenance, road maintenance and repair,marine infrastructure maintenance and repair, andmaintenance of town property. Possession of avalid State of Maine Commercial Driver’s License(CDL) is required.

Please submit a letter of interest, resumeand three references to:

Town Administrator Eric DyerTown of Chebeague Island

192 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017by May 11th, 2012.

For more information call 207-846-3148or email [email protected]

DECORATING

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FIREWOOD

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Contact Don Olden(207) 831-3222

Cut to your needs and delivered.Maximize your heating dollarswith guaranteed full cordmeasure or your money back.$175 per cord for green.Seasoned also available.Stacking services available.Wholesale discounts availablewith a minimum order.

BUNDLED CAMPFIRE WOODnow available.

FIREWOOD

*Celebrating 27 years in business*

Cut/Split/DeliveredQuality Hardwood

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$340 Kiln DriedAdditional fees may apply

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Disney Animal Friends MovieTheater Storybook & MovieProjector. Brand New: A new,unread, unused book in perfectcondition with no missing ordamaged pages. The bookcomes with 80 movie images.Will make a great present forany child. $50.00. Call 653-5149.

TELESCOPE BRAND CASU-AL OUTDOOR FURNITURE. 2seat Hightop Glider (Swing).White frame w/blue/greensling. Never used. Originalprice $1589. Now $600. Seri-ous inquiries only. 713-8880.

FOR SALE

Cost $6500. Sell for $1595.

207-878-0999

Maple Gla

ze

KITCHEN

CABINETSNever

Installed

BALDWIN HAMILTON studiopiano & bench. Very goodcondition, some cosmeticblemishes, needs tuning,$1500. Call 799-3734.

FUNDRAISER

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DON’T BUY NEW! RE-NEW:Furniture Repair, Stripping &Refinishing by hand. Formerhigh school shop teacher. Pickup & delivery available. 30years experience. References.371-2449.

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BRAND NEW MATTRESS Set(Full-$175)(Queen-$180)(King-$390) Call today 207-591-4927.

HEALTH

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

HELP WANTED

Are you interested inmaking a difference in an

older person’s life?Opportunities available for

individuals interested in rewardingwork providing one on one care

for elders in our community.Responsibilities include non-

medical and light personal care.For more info and an application,

please go to our website atwww.homepartnersllc.com

HomePartners883-0095

Opportunities available forindividuals interested in

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include non-medical andlight personal care. Weekendavailability a plus. For more

info and an application,please go to our website atwww.homepartnersllc.com

HELP WANTED

SEEKING PERSONfor part time, in home non-medical

elder care position.Experience and certification

preferred; references andbackground check required.

Call Mon.-Fri. 2 to 5pm at 781-9074

HELP WANTED

Drivers CDL-A:Your current 10-20have you down?

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Pownal, Maine

Green Firewood $210(mixed hardwood)

Green Firewood $220(100% oak)

Kiln-dried Firewoodplease call for prices.

688-4282Delivery fees may apply. Prices subject to change.

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• Landscape Design/Installation • Tree Removals/Pruning• Driveway Sealing/Sweeping • Spring/Fall Clean-ups

• Reasonable Prices• Free Estimates • Insured

Dan Bowie Cell:207-891-8249

207-353-8818 [email protected]

Yankee Yardworks

Durham

You name it, we’ll do it!Residential / Commercial

• Storm Cleanups • Lawn Care/Installation • Fencing• Rototilling • Mulch/Loam/Gravel Deliveries • Tractor Work• Landscape Design/Installation • Tree Removals/Pruning

• Driveway Sealing/Sweeping • Spring/Fall Clean-ups

HELP WANTED

LifeStagesYour Chance To Do

Great Work!LifeStages is a rapidly growingprogram providing in-homecare to Older Adults. We arecarefully selecting individualsto work per diem providinga range of services including

companionship, assistance withpersonal care and hospice care.Daytime and overnight shiftsavailable. We offer competitivewages and flexible scheduling.

Our Companions must bededicated, compassionate andhave a passion for their work.Call LifeStages at 780-8624

A Division of VNAHome Health & Hospice

The MostRewarding Work

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Call 699-2570for more informationand an application.

Are you looking to makea difference in the lifeof someone in need?

Advantage Home Care isseeking kind, dependableand experienced caregiversto care for seniors in theirhomes in greater Portland.We offer flexible hoursand part-time shifts days,evenings, overnights

and weekends. Experiencewith dementia care is a plus.

HOUSEHOLD MANAGERneeded Mon. & Fri. 5-6 hrs/day.Duties include: cleaning, shop-ping, coordination of homemaint. & auto care, errands,light cooking, pet & plant care.Flexibility required. Sendresume to: Household Mgr,P.O. Box 199, Yarmouth, ME04096

PCA FOR wheelchair boundBrunswick woman to help withpersonal care/ADL’s. Work is inpositive environment. Cleanbackground/Drivers Licenseneeded. Flexible part time. 590-2208.

HOME REPAIR

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ONE TIME JOBS WELCOME

653-7036

HOME REPAIR

BUILD or REMODEL WITHCONFIDENCEStart designing, or review yourplans with an experiencedarchitect and builder.David Mele, AIA, LEED APMaine Licensed Architect30+ years experience in design& constructionDesign new homes & additionsReview plans & specificationsProject ManagementAccessibility ReviewCode Review & Permitting3D modeling lets you previewyour finished [email protected]

846-5802PaulVKeating.com

• Painting• Weatherization• Cabinets

CARPENTRY

BOWDLER ELECTRIC INC.799-5828

All callsreturned!

Residential & Commercial

Seth M. RichardsInterior & Exterior Painting & Carpentry• Small Remodeling Projects • Sheetrock

Repair • Quality Exterior & Interior PaintingGreen Products Available

FULLY INSURED – FREE ESTIMATES

Call SETH • 207-491-1517

CARPENTER/BUILDER

Roofing Vinyl / Siding / Drywall / PaintingHome Repairs / Historical Restoration

25years

experienceFullyInsured

ContraCting, sub-ContraCting,all phases of ConstruCtion

Call 329-7620 for FREE estimates

New Construction/AdditionsRemodels/Service Upgrades

Generator Hook Ups • Free EstimatesServing Greater Portland 20 yrs.

207-878-5200Chimney Lining & Masonry

Building – Repointing – RepairsAsphalt & Metal Roofing

Foundation Repair & WaterproofingPainting & Gutters

20 yrs. experience – local references(207) 608-1511

www.mainechimneyrepair.com

HOME REPAIR

WEBUILDDecks, Porches

Handicap Accessible RampsCustom Sheds & Small Buildings

Call 776-3218

JOHNSON’STILING

Custom Tile design available

Floors • ShowersBacksplashes • Mosaics

829-9959ReferencesInsured

FreeEstimates

INSTRUCTION

SEWINGWORKSHOPSLearn from a professional,

Svetlana, owner ofSvetlana

Custom Clothing & Couturein Yarmouth.

BEGINNER CLASSMay 12 to July 14

Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.$225

INTERMEDIATE CLASSMAY 14 to July 16

Mondays, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m$225

Private Lessons also availableContact Svetlana at

846-5844or through her website,

www.svetlanadesign.com

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSI-NESS in The Forecaster to beseen in over 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

SERVICES• Leaf and Brush Removal• Bed Edging and Weeding• Tree Pruning/Hedge Clipping• Mulching• Lawn Mowing• Powersweeping

Call or E-mail forFree Estimate

(207) [email protected]

D.P. Gagnon Lawn Care& Landscaping

We specialize in residential andcommercial property maintenance

and pride ourselves on our customerservice and 1-on-1 interaction.

IT’S SPRING CLEANUPTIME AGAIN!

Residential & CommercialPROPERTY MANAGEMENT• Mowing• Walkways & Patios• Retaining Walls• Shrub Planting & Pruning• Maintenance Contracts• Loam/Mulch Deliveries

email: [email protected]

Stephen Goodwin, Owner(207) 415-8791

VASSALBORO BLUE ROCKfor Stone Work and Walls

$100/c.y.Approximately 100 c.y.

Available Random Sizes878-2806

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

GARDEN RESCUESERVICE

• Single clean up,weeding• Biweekly weeding service•Transplanting and planting• Spring garden care

829.4335

LAWN AND GARDEN

Lawn Care: Mowing • AeratingDethatching • Renovations

Landscape: Maintenance,Loam/Mulch •Year Round Clean-ups

Planting • Snow Removal

Aaron Amirault, Owner

(207) [email protected]

DB LAWN CARE

274-0761

Mows Grass & LeavesWaste & Junk to Tranfer Station

• Dependable• Reasonably Priced

•Free Estimates

LAWN AND GARDEN

Call about our contract pricingFree Estimates

Commercial and [email protected]

SPRING CLEAN UPMULCHING & MOWING

Landscaping615-3152

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LawnSERVICES

for more informationon rates

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LAWN MOWINGPRUNING/MULCH& PLANTINGS

Brickwork & RepairsProfessional Work • Low RatesCall Ryan 317-6274

Spring

Cleanups

LAWN MOWING senior dis-count. Call 756-4274 or 333-1541.

LAWN AND GARDEN

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25 mile radius of Scarborough

CALL (207) 699-4240

• SAND• STONE

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L A N D S C A P E M A N A G E M E N T

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ALL SEASON’S YARD CAREFirst mow FREE with serv-ice. SPRING CLEANUPS. Ser-vices include: Mowing, Trim-ming, Mulching. Call Brian.Free estimates. Insured.329-2575.www.allseasonsyardcareme.com

RICKER FARMS353-4513 or 576-4138

Lisbon

Pleasecall ahead for

loadingBags $3.00

Yard: $30.00

SCREENED COMPOSTMOSGA

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FOSSETT`S ROTOTILLING-New and established gardens,large or small, reasonablerates, free estimates. 34 yearsof experience. Dan Fossett,776-9800 or 829-6465.

SPRING CLEAN-UP: Lawn &leaf raking, mulching. I cansave you $money. No job is toosmall. Available weekdays orweekends. $11.00 per hr. Callnow! 892-8911.

MASONRY

GAGNON CHIMNEY &Masonry Services. ResidentialM a s o n r y , C h i m n e y s ,Stonewalls, Patio’s, Walkways,Repointing Chimneys & Steps.Blue Stone Caps, StainlessSteel Caps. Reflashing, Chim-ney Cleaning. Expert, Profes-sional Services. Insured, Ref-erences available. Free esti-mates. Call weekdays. Scott749-8202.

MASONRY/STONE-Placeyour ad for your serviceshere to be seen in over68,500 papers per week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

MISCELLANEOUS

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MISCELLANEOUS-Place yourad here to be seen in 69,500papers a week. Call 781-3661for more information on rates.




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We haul anything to the dump.Basements and Attic Clean-Outs

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optimists," Lisa Turner said after a North Yarmouth forum at Westcustogo Hall exam-ining methods for preserving farm land and encouraging new farmers to work the land.

Wiederkehr was part of the forum, hosted by the Royal River Conservation Trust. She was joined by Steve Sinisi, owner of Old Crow Ranch in Durham, and Justin Deri, who leases fields in North Yarmouth to operate Deri Farm.

“I got into farming when I was 18, and I was stupidly hooked,” Wiederkehr said.

Moderated by John Piotti, a former Maine legislator from Unity who is now executive director of the Belfast-based Maine Farmland Trust, the forum explored what has worked and what could work to expand local farming.

As farming veterans, the Turners said they would like to incorporate a wider scope of discussions about how to keep farmland from becoming subdivisions while allowing local farmers to profit.

"We are trying to challenge the concepts," Lisa Turner said.

The three farmers sharing the stage represented three methods used locally to

Winter Hill Farm LLC by former owners James Stampone and Katherine P. Leroyer.

The couple, who re-established the dairy farm with the rare breed of Randall cattle, wanted to ensure farming continued there. Freeport Conservation Trust Executive Co-ordinator Katrina Van Dusen said the trust board hopes the easement will be purchased by the end of the year.

The billing address for Winter Hill Farm is listed in Manhattan, and the Turners won-der if taxpayer funds are going to support a corporate entity instead of independent farming.

The couple said they are wary of lease and rental arrangements leaving young farmers with no real stake and reward from their work, and serious potential liability for medical costs stemming from hard work.

"This is an arrangement that works for us," Burger said, because the couple and their children are earning equity.

Ralph Turner said he worries that valuing land below potential development values affects his ability to get the financing needed to annually plant crops and buy farm equipment.

"There is a lack of understanding about the need for capital," he said.

The Turners also suggested the Freeport Conservation Trust should encourage re-ducing local rural zoning requirements of 2.5-acre lot sizes to reduce sprawl and leave

more land available to farm.The Turners drive as far south as Wells

to sell their organic vegetables, and Ralph Turner said discussions about farming need to include assessments of market conditions to ensure profitability.

"We all need to work on increasing the markets," he said.

At Winter Hill Farm, Burger and Wie-derkehr sell raw milk, and farm-made yo-gurt to markets south to Scarborough, and constantly worry about how to make more money from their land.

"It is fully 50 percent of our time," Burg-er said about marketing what they grow and make. "That is the trade-off."

Burger was raised on a large farm in northeastern Missouri. Wiederkehr grew up in Brunswick and said working on a farm operated at the University of New Hamp-shire changed her life.

"It gave me a different sense of struc-ture," she said.

Stephanie Gilbert of the Maine Depart-ment of Agriculture said local land trusts are the parties required to apply for Land for Maine's Future grants to buy land easements.

Piotti said the farmland trust prefers pri-vate ownership for farms.

"It gets complicated for a nonprofit to run a farm in a way that works well for the land, the people farming it, and the broader farm

develop or keep farms going.Sinisi bought his farm in 2008 with as-

sistance from the Royal River Conservation Trust and Land for Maine's Future.

Land for Maine's Future is part of the State Planning Office and supplies public funding to conserve land.

Sixty-five of the farm's 70 acres were placed in an agricultural easement to prohib-it other development and create the possibil-ity he can pass the farm on to his children.

"I'm taking care of something now so someone can do it later," Sinisi said.

Deri was once a software engineer in greater Boston. He said he began farm-ing as an apprentice in Maine in 2006. He leases two fields at Skyline Farms in North Yarmouth and a third nearby to grow or-ganic produce.

Before leasing his fields, Deri also worked with Lisa Turner to better under-stand the commercial and marketing aspects of farming, a component the farmers agreed is critical to success.

Serving as managers of Winter Hill Farm, Burger and Wiederkehr said they also gain equity in the farm and share in its profit-ability. Land prices in southern Maine are so high they could not have afforded to buy a farm here, they said.

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are 176 acres of local clam flats, but Coffin estimated about 70 percent of flats have been lost because of a variety of predators.

It was up to Beal to describe the green crabs that feast on soft-shell clams and mus-sels, and what to do about live ones caught in the flats.

"It is absolutely a menace," he said. "I have no qualms about squashing it, and I am an ecologist."

The soft-shell clams are endangered by more than green crabs, an invasive species Beal said did not appear in Portland until 1900 and in Freeport until 1935. Shellfish stocks are also threatened by creatures including milky ribbon worms and moon snails, both of which can invade shells and eat smaller clams.

Beal said the university-associated Downeast Institute in Beals has been suc-cessful raising shellfish and seeding them in flats throughout the state. Seeded stocks are protected by netting that keeps some predators out.

Commission members at the April 26 workshop said a first step will be using net-ting for protection of existing stocks while determining which flats are hardest hit by predators.

"We are under definite attack," commis-sion member Walt Coffin said, "but we want to catch the natural seed before investing in soft shells."

While graphic in his description of preda-tors, Beal was also optimistic in his view of growing conditions, because tidal streams from bays and coves in Brunswick and Harpswell provide plenty of young shellfish to settle in local flats.

Relatively warm local waters nurture faster shellfish growth, and Beal said ma-ture soft-shell clams 2 or 3 inches in length produce up to 10 million sperm and egg cells annually.

Preliminary conservation plans developed by the commission and Marine Officer Tom Kay call for using traps to catch green crabs. The traps are estimated to cost about $70 each.

Trapping locations will be varied, with a boat owner hired seasonally to set and pull the traps. Netting on rolls costing about $4,700 each would be set in varied locations. Beal described netting areas as frequently being 12 feet by 20 feet.

Commission members eventually hope to plant new stocks in local waters, with some species picked to accommodate warming water temperatures. Scallops, quahogs and oysters were species mentioned, but com-mission reports said members are looking into state grants to pay for seeding projects.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@

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For the owner of a home valued at $200,000, the anticipated tax rate of $15.50 would increase the annual tax bill by $51, to more than $2,600.

Yacoben said town obligations to Cumberland County add 66 cents to the tax rate. Freeport's share of RSU 5 opera-tions comprises $10.82 of the projected lo-cal tax rate.

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The budget proposes adding part-time help to assist the new town manager in the fall and a second overnight per-diem emergency responder. The positions require a $57,000 increase, but the emergency responder position is offset by proposed new user fees on commercial emergency alarm boxes.

A change in the alarm systems ordinance would allow the town to assess a $500 installation fee (increased from the current

$450), and a new annual fee of $275. The fees would generate $35,000 in revenue, Yacoben said.

The current projection requiring an addi-tional $27,000 in general assistance funding could double by the time councilors vote on the budget on May 17, Yacoben and Town Council Chairman Jim Cassida warned.

The town is waiting for the final vote in the Legislature and response from Gov. Paul LePage on next year's adjusted state budget before determining how much must be set aside to offset state reductions in general assistance spending for low-income residents.

The arrival of rail service to town adds at least $47,000 in obligations to pay for maintaining the depot, platform and insur-ing the structures, Yacoben said.

After scheduling the public hearing, councilors will now meet individually with town administrators to discuss the budget. Public meetings with administrators are scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, and

7:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 9, at Town Hall.After the budget hearing on May 15 there

will be a council workshop at 5:30 p.m. May 16 on the budget, followed by the vote to adopt the budget on May 17.

On the school side, RSU 5 School Board members will have their final vote on the proposed $24.68 million fiscal 2013 RSU 5 budget at a 6:30 p.m. meeting Wednesday, May 9, at Freeport High School.

The public meeting to vote on elements of the budget encompassing operations in Freeport, Durham and Pownal will be held at 6:30 p.m., May 23, at the high school.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@

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Contributed Caroline Hewitt

with Count Alexis de Ligne to become close to the queen, earning her friendship.

“It’s tricky because it’s kind of like, where does the friendship come in and the ambition, negotiating with that,” Hewitt said.

Plays like "Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" offer characters that Hewitt said she especially loves to play. She said she enjoys getting the chance to lose herself in a character.

“The parts that I love to play are the ones where I’m completely immersed in the world and in the character, so much so that I wake up in the middle of the night think-ing about a moment or a line,” she said. “In

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this play it would be sort of hard not to be consumed because the world is so specific, the language is so specific and the parts are so huge.”

“I think that Elisa battles with herself in the way that we all do, in the way that I know I do,” she continued. “In terms of exploding with anger or passion or being frustrated or lying about things and it feels much more ripe in that way than some other roles that I have played and I relate to that because none of use are just one thing and its nice to have a character that has so many complexities; a sort of fraught character.”

Hewitt shares the stage with actors Ellen Adair (Marie Antoinette) and Tony Roach (Count Alexis de Ligne). She said the play, based on a love triangle between her character, the Count and Marie, will get the audience to think and respond emotionally.

“I love plays that have an intellectual and thoughtful side and also a really strong emotional life; I think that, ideally, all plays should,” she said. “And I think that this play is so strong with both of those that the audience will respond really well. They’re gonna feel things and their gonna think about things, which is always good.”

Amber Cronin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 115 or [email protected]. Follow her on twitter:

@croninamber.

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about it, in the winter, when you can't go out on the road and you have to do indoor training on your bike trainer. That is so soul destroying. It's so boring it makes lap swim-ming exciting,” Cowell said. “I hate it. An hour on that is like forever.”

But, he said, “this winter has been so mild I was out in February."

While Ginn gets into the pool for 45 min-utes a day to train, Cowell's training for The Eagleman Half Ironman is more extensive.

“I'm doing most of the swim distance when I swim and I biked 67 miles over the weekend. I did a 20k run last week for 12 miles,” Cowell said. “I'm doing each of the events now and I'm in the position that I'm doing double events, swim and then bike, bike and then run.”

Ginn will likely face much more age-group competition. Cowell said he would like someone his age to show up.

“I don't have to worry about competition, I don't have any,” he said. “I wish I had some; I'd really like to compete with some-one, but there's no one even close to 70.”

Amber Cronin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 115 or [email protected]. Follow her on twitter:

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community," he said.Piotti said the easement model for farm-

ing is based on flexibility, instead of a stricter conservation easement that limits land to specific purposes.

"Well-crafted agricultural conservation easements will allow any activity that ap-propriately supports agriculture on a prop-erty, including fencing, land cleaning that follows soil conservation guidelines, and construction of hoop houses, greenhouses, barns, sheds, support buildings, " he said.

Alan Stearns, Royal River Conservation Trust executive director, said more forums are needed, especially for trust members and its board to determine how the trust can best work with farmers in the future.

"What's most obvious is policy issues we are trying to get our hands around are very new and very fresh," he said. "The anxiety in the room was about who will be the farmers in the next 10 or 20 years. We need conservation models that succeed no matter who owns the land."david Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@

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on the Blackstrap Hill section done with permission, and then there was some that just sort of happened beyond people ask-ing (for) permission,” Hemphill said.

“A land owner had given permission (for trails to be on his property), but there is very little in the way of boundary mark-ings out there, so I don't think anyone

intentionally did anything on the private property,” he continued.

Staff and volunteers with Allspeed have already begun work to revitalize the trail system. They have put in one bridge and are working on mapping out the existing trails, figuring out which ones are authorized trails and which were cut into private property.

“(What we are doing is) just really main-taining it, making all the wet spots go away, whether that’s hardening it with crushed stone or putting more bridges in,” Carleton said. “(The work is) mostly just maintaining what we have there because its really good.”

The work to maintain the bridges will not only help trail users navigate the trails, it will help to protect the integrity of the land.

“If a trail looks like its being paid atten-tion to with the addition of small bridges when necessary and rocks or crushed stone, people understand where the trails are,” Hemphill said. “If things get really muddy people think, 'Oh, we should go way around this and make a new trail.' Proper mainte-nance clearly defines where the trails go.”

The trail stewards want the public to know the trails are open and that with proper continued maintenance, they will never have to be closed.

While they discourage “rogue trail build-ing,” they said they could use some help lugging wood out to the trail for the 12 bridges they will be constructing over the next several months. Some of these will replace old, improperly built bridges, and others will be placed to help trail users traverse mud holes.

“Right now there’s a lot of bridges that have been built that are too low. Last week when we got all that rain, I just went out there on Saturday, and there’s quite a few bridges that are just missing,” Carleton said. “We would like to build the bridges so they are going to stay; so they are going to be enough to get over all the wet spots and make it an overall experience for hikers and bikers.”

Allspeed's work on the trails is expected to help the town manage problems with the trails and keep the land open for trail users well into the future.

“With proper use and respectful use we anticipate that we can continue host-ing these trails for lots of uses, mountain bikers, hikers, snowshoeing and skiing,” Hemphill said.

Amber Cronin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 115 or [email protected]. Follow her on twitter: @

croninamber.