By Alex Lear TOPSHAM — Next year’s School Administrative District 75 budget could require a 1 per- cent tax increase, despite a 3.3 percent spending cut that threat- ens to eliminate 26 to 28 jobs. The fiscal 2013 draft budget is $33.4 million, nearly $1 mil- lion less than the current year’s spending plan. The decline reflects: • A loss of nearly $357,000 in state aid. • About $30,000 in lost federal impact aid the district received for military families, the result of the closure last year of Bruns- wick Naval Air Station. • About $409,000 from the federal Education Jobs Fund program that is no longer avail- able. • And $200,000 less to be used from the district’s fund March 30, 2012 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 8, No. 13 INSIDE Winter all-stars in abundance Page 13 Pre-K slots among possible cuts in RSU 1 budget Page 3 See page 24 See page 16 See page 24 See page 17 www.theforecaster.net Index Meetings ........................ 14 Obituaries ...................... 11 Opinion ............................ 7 Out & About ................... 15 People & Business ........ 12 Police Beat .................... 10 Real Estate .................... 24 Sports ............................ 13 Arts Calendar ................ 14 Classifieds ..................... 20 Community Calendar..... 14 SAD 75 budget could cost more than 25 jobs On the lamb in Brunswick ROgER S. DunCAn / FOR ThE FORECASTER Connor Moody, 9, right, Morgan Temple, 8, and Lorraine Goodwin watch on Sunday, March 25, as farmer Tom Settlemire feeds a newborn lamb milk from a bottle at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick. The farm opened to the public for its annual Lamb Day, which celebrates the lambing season that began in late February. Council rejects college offer of $2M for old school By Emily Guerin BRUNSWICK — Selling an old school building to Bowdoin College for $2 million is not the right way to plug a deficit in next year’s school budget, ac- cording to the town councilors. That was the message Tues- day night at a special Town Council meeting, called in response to Bowdoin’s offer to renegotiate last October’s swap of the Longfellow School for the McLellan building. Chairwoman Joanne King said Caty Longley, Bowdoin’s senior vice president for finance and administration, called her a week ago to say college staff had been pressuring Bowdoin President Barry Mills to “do something” about Brunswick’s projected school budget deficit of nearly $3 million. In the fall, councilors opted to exchange the two buildings and convert McLellan, at the corner of Noble and Union streets, into the town’s municipal complex and council chambers. Town Manager Gary Brown estimated the cost of renovating McLellan would be $200,000, double the estimate offered by an architec- ture firm last summer. After asking two construction Easter Services Page 14 Board holds key to ‘true Harpswellite’s’ dream home By Emily Guerin HARPSWELL — The town wants to tear it down, but Eric Field sees much more future than a pile of rubble in the small, Cape-style home near the entrance to Mitchell Field. The home and one other were built by the U.S. Navy when the fuel depot was active. They have been vacant since the 1990s; their siding is full of asbestos, and the town applied for a grant to pay for demolition. But Field, 32, who drove by the houses nearly every day while he was working to remove old generator buildings on the site, recognized their potential. So one day he asked the code en- forcement officer for a tour. “It’s really a neat house,” he said Wednesday. “I can’t get over how high the ceilings are.” Field decided to try to convince the town to let him move it to land near his auto repair business on Lookout Point Road. He lives with his father, and, as he said, “it’s time for Eric to find a place of his own.” So in early March, he wrote a letter to the Board of Selectmen and made his request. EMily guERin / ThE FORECASTER Eric Field hopes Harpswell selectmen let him move this vacant house, built by the U.S. Navy, from Mitchell Field to his auto repair business. Add AP classes, sports to possible school budget cuts By Emily Guerin BRUNSWICK — Advanced Placement courses and fresh- man sports are among the latest additions to programs that could be cut in the fiscal 2013 school budget. Cutbacks at Brunswick High School were the subject of Wednesday night’s School Board budget workshop, the latest in a series of meetings that have highlighted the gravity of the town’s school funding crisis. In order to cope with a nearly $3 million funding gap, Superin- tendent Paul Perzanoski has pro- posed reductions to nearly every academic department at the high school. He has said that the cuts will disproportionately affect the district’s older students, because the town’s elementary schools absorbed the brunt of reductions
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By Alex LearTOPSHAM — Next year’s
School Administrative District 75 budget could require a 1 per-cent tax increase, despite a 3.3 percent spending cut that threat-ens to eliminate 26 to 28 jobs.
The fiscal 2013 draft budget is $33.4 million, nearly $1 mil-
lion less than the current year’s spending plan. The decline reflects:
• A loss of nearly $357,000 in state aid.
• About $30,000 in lost federal impact aid the district received for military families, the result of the closure last year of Bruns-
wick Naval Air Station.• About $409,000 from the
federal Education Jobs Fund program that is no longer avail-able.
• And $200,000 less to be used from the district’s fund
March 30, 2012 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 8, No. 13
INSIDE
Winter all-stars in abundancePage 13
Pre-K slots among possible cuts in RSU 1 budgetPage 3
See page 24
See page 16
See page 24
See page 17
www.theforecaster.net
Index Meetings ........................14Obituaries ...................... 11Opinion ............................7Out & About ...................15
People & Business ........12Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................24Sports ............................13
Arts Calendar ................14Classifieds .....................20Community Calendar .....14
SAD 75 budget could cost more than 25 jobs
On the lamb in Brunswick
ROgER S. DunCAn / FOR ThE FORECASTER Connor Moody, 9, right, Morgan Temple, 8, and Lorraine Goodwin watch on Sunday, March 25, as farmer Tom
Settlemire feeds a newborn lamb milk from a bottle at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick. The farm opened to the public for its annual Lamb Day, which celebrates the lambing season that began in late February.
Council rejects college offer of $2M for old schoolBy Emily Guerin
BRUNSWICK — Selling an old school building to Bowdoin College for $2 million is not the right way to plug a deficit in next year’s school budget, ac-cording to the town councilors.
That was the message Tues-day night at a special Town Council meeting, called in response to Bowdoin’s offer to renegotiate last October’s swap of the Longfellow School for the McLellan building.
Chairwoman Joanne King said Caty Longley, Bowdoin’s senior vice president for finance and administration, called her a week ago to say college staff
had been pressuring Bowdoin President Barry Mills to “do something” about Brunswick’s projected school budget deficit of nearly $3 million.
In the fall, councilors opted to exchange the two buildings and convert McLellan, at the corner of Noble and Union streets, into the town’s municipal complex and council chambers. Town Manager Gary Brown estimated the cost of renovating McLellan would be $200,000, double the estimate offered by an architec-ture firm last summer.
After asking two construction
Easter ServicesPage 14
Board holds key to ‘true Harpswellite’s’ dream homeBy Emily Guerin
HARPSWELL — The town wants to tear it down, but Eric Field sees much more future than a pile of rubble in the small, Cape-style home near the entrance to Mitchell Field.
The home and one other were built by the U.S. Navy when the fuel depot was active. They have been vacant since the 1990s; their siding is full of asbestos, and the town applied for a
grant to pay for demolition.But Field, 32, who drove by the
houses nearly every day while he was working to remove old generator buildings on the site, recognized their potential.
So one day he asked the code en-forcement officer for a tour.
“It’s really a neat house,” he said Wednesday. “I can’t get over how high the ceilings are.”
Field decided to try to convince the town to let him move it to land near his auto repair business on Lookout Point Road. He lives with his father, and, as he said, “it’s time for Eric to find a place of his own.”
So in early March, he wrote a letter to the Board of Selectmen and made his request.
EMily guERin / ThE FORECASTER
Eric Field hopes
Harpswell selectmen
let him move this
vacant house, built by the U.S.
Navy, from Mitchell Field to his auto repair
business.
Add AP classes, sports to possible school budget cutsBy Emily Guerin
BRUNSWICK — Advanced Placement courses and fresh-man sports are among the latest additions to programs that could be cut in the fiscal 2013 school budget.
Cutbacks at Brunswick High School were the subject of Wednesday night’s School Board budget workshop, the latest in a series of meetings that have highlighted the gravity of
the town’s school funding crisis.In order to cope with a nearly
$3 million funding gap, Superin-tendent Paul Perzanoski has pro-posed reductions to nearly every academic department at the high school. He has said that the cuts will disproportionately affect the district’s older students, because the town’s elementary schools absorbed the brunt of reductions
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Bath bank’s 1st customer gets nod, 160 years laterBy Alex Lear
BATH — One August day in 1852, when Millard Fillmore was president, there were just 31 states and the Civil War was nine years away, Francis B. Swift opened a bank account.
The Bath man’s signature, one of many in a well-preserved ledger in a Bath Sav-ings Institution vault, identifies him as the bank’s first customer. One hundred sixty years later, the 105 Front St. land-mark is celebrating its anniversary, with an appreciative nod to Swift.
Names like Morse, Sewall and Hyde, which resonate with Bath’s 19th century
Bath Savings Institution has been on Front Street in Bath for 160 years.
Francis B. Swift was Bath Savings Institution’s first customer, as shown by his signature in this
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political and ship-building scene, also grace the bank’s historic documents.
“It’s really incredible to be able to just go in the basement of this bank, and haul out the book with the first customer’s writing,” Barbara Gaul, vice president of marketing for the bank, said last week.
She said the idea to identify and showcase the institution’s first customer was suggested during planning for a TV commercial about the bank’s anniversary. Gaul and Glenn Hutchinson, the bank president and chief executive, went to work in the vault, and after about a half hour they hit pay-dirt.
Bath Savings was incorporated as a state-chartered mutual savings bank on April 19, 1852, although no accounts
were opened until August. It is Maine’s third oldest bank.
By the end of its first year, the bank had $16,000 in deposits and had paid its depositors $29 in interest. Since Bath had a booming shipping industry, the bank financed shipyards and ships, along with homes.
“It is a mission here to continue to invest locally,” Gaul said. “... We all talk about the economy, and keeping our local economy strong. And there’s no better way to do it than to invest locally.”
The bank has been on Front Street from the beginning – first in an upstairs room in a wooden building, and into the Hyde Block, its current location, in 1872. The bank purchased the entire building in 1910, and an adjoining building was added in 1997, along with a parking ga-rage and operations center.
The bank has also expanded throughout the state. It opened its second branch, in Damariscotta, in 1969, and this year’s South Portland branch brings the number to nine.
Gaul noted that 2012 is a big anniver-sary year for Maine companies, pointing out that it is L.L. Bean’s 100th and the Bath-based Maine Maritime Museum’s 50th. She said she does not think Bath Savings will do anything major to cel-ebrate, but there will be commercials, and a lobby display case is being built to house some of the bank’s historic items.
The display will start with the 1852 ledger, a fitting beginning for the bank’s first customer.
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BRUNSWICK — A Merrymeeting Road man was arrested for allegedly stabbing someone in the neck with a pair of scissors.
Police said witnesses and the victim reported that Roger Walker, 46, stabbed 43-year-old David Grant on Monday at 9:23 p.m. at 101 Merrymeeting Road.
Horch runs again for Brunswick House seat; Frans to withdrawBy Alex Lear
BRUNSWICK — Fred Horch, who was the Green Independent candidate in the 2010 election in state House District 66, is making another bid for the office this year.
Horch, a former Maine Street business owner who is on sabbatical in Japan with his family, announced his candidacy in a letter this week to The Forecaster.
David Frans, who previously submit-ted nomination papers to be the Green Independent candidate in District 66, on Wednesday said he won’t challenge
Horch.“My intention all along has been to get
on the ballot ... and then to withdraw at the proper time,” Frans said.
“This is a normal process,” he con-tinued. “In fact, the Democrats and the Republicans use it very often, as do the Greens, to essentially secure the ballot for a further candidate down the road.”
Frans, who ran unsuccessfully in 2006 and 2008 in District 66, noted that a Green Independent caucus this summer
will ultimately choose the party’s candi-date. He said he is “pretty well sure it’s just going to be (Horch) that’s going to want the nomination, and so in all likeli-hood he will be the candidate.”
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Pre-K slots among possible cuts in RSU 1 budgetBy Alex Lear
BATH — Next year’s Regional School Unit 1 budget could increase by about $475,000, or nearly 1.9 percent, to $26 mil-lion – despite cuts in programs and staffing.
Taxes would provide $17.3 million of the proposed fiscal 2013 budget, which had a first reading Monday night. The five RSU 1 communities – Bath, Arrowsic, Phippsburg, West Bath and Woolwich – could face an average 2.51 percent tax increase, although
the distribution varies widely.Woolwich would see the greatest increase
– a nearly 10 percent climb to $3.4 mil-lion. That increase is primarily related to Woolwich’s increase in state valuation, Su-perintendent Patrick Manuel said last week.
Arrowsic’s school taxes would increase 5.42 percent, to nearly $450,000; Bath’s would rise 1.53 percent, to $8.3 million; Phippsburg’s would decrease 1.71 percent, to $2.7 million, and West Bath’s would in-
crease 0.77 percent, to $2.6 million.Manuel in January was expecting a
$1 million shortfall for RSU 1 next year, thanks to the loss of nearly $480,000 in federal job stabilization funds, as well as a projected $500,000 in increased costs for fuel and heating oil, health insurance, and the food service program.
While RSU 1 could receive a $1.4 mil-lion increase in state aid for fiscal 2013 – an increase to nearly $8 million, and a change of pace from recent years – it also has to use nearly $800,000 of that money to fund debt service for the Woolwich Central School, which is being rebuilt.
“We’re proposing a ... pretty good-sized reduction to our pre-(kindergarten) pro-gram,” Manuel said. “We’ve had that pro-gram for a while, and we’re very proud of it. To reach the kids early is very important to us. But what we’re trying to do is balance the amount of money that we devote to that program ... with other things in our pre-K to
(grade) 12 system, so that we can make sure that we provide a quality education for kids.”
The district, which funds tuition for pre-K students, is considering reducing the number of slots it offers from 71 to 53. Staff time could also be reduced, resulting in a $130,000 total cost reduction.
Another potential cut could be the composites program at the Bath Regional Career and Technical Center, which would result in a teaching position being eliminat-ed. A Bath Middle School foreign language position could also be eliminated, Manuel said. The two cuts together could save about $135,000.
A public budget forum will be held at the Fisher-Mitchell School in Bath at 6 p.m. Monday, April 9. Another will follow at Bath Middle School at 6 p.m. Monday, April 23.
The second budget reading on May 7 will be followed by two public votes: a Town Meeting-style gathering on June 5, and a budget validation referendum a week later.
Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.
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Book festival brings more than 50 authors to PortlandBy Gillian Graham
PORTLAND — All aspects of books will be showcased this weekend at the Maine Festival of the Book.
The sixth annual festival, primarily at the University of Southern Maine, brings more than 50 authors and artists to Port-land for a series of mostly free presenta-tions and discussions Thursday-Sunday.
Sarah Cecil, executive director of Maine Reads, the literacy nonprofit that presents the festival, said discussion top-ics will range from romantic fantasy to the biography of Kurt Vonnegut to an insider’s view of crime scenes presented by a veteran New York Police Depart-ment undercover detective.
“(The festival) has gotten a reputation among the public for offering unique programs and interesting presenters,” Cecil said.
She said interest in the event continues to grow and she has fielded phone calls from people who plan to travel to Maine to attend.
“It just keeps getting bigger and big-ger,” Cecil said, noting events expanded into a second building on USM’s Port-land campus.
The festival begins Thursday, March 29, with a lecture by John Cole, found-ing director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The lecture, at 7 p.m. in the Abromson Center, is pre-sented in collaboration with the Maine Humanities Council and the Kate Cheney Chappell ‘83 Center for Book Arts at USM.
The opening-night author talk at 7:30 p.m. Friday will feature an illustrated talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian Tony Horwitz, author of “Con-federates in the Attic.” It will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. at the Abromson Center. The Friday night events are the only festival sessions that require tickets.
On Saturday, free, unticketed events will be held at the Abromson Center from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Writers and filmmak-ers will present or read from their work and talk about the challenges of telling another’s story.
A panel discussion featuring Horwitz and Colin Woodard, journalist and author of “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America,” begins at 11 a.m. They will be joined by Michael Willrich, a Brandeis University history professor and author of “Pox: An American History.”
Martha White, granddaughter of “Char-lotte’s Web” author E.B White, will share favorite quotations, photos and home movies of her grandfather during an 11 a.m. presentation.
Biographers Charles J. Shields and Chip Bishop will hold a talk,”The Quick and Dead: Writing About Someone You Knew or Admired,” at 1:30 p.m. They will discuss their respective works and the process of creating an objective bi-ography. Shields is author of “And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life,” and Bishop wrote “The Lion and the Journal-ist, The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop.”
Former Congressman Tom Allen will present a program called “Politics Swing: Swing and Independent Voters, Party Di-vides and Ideological Convictions,” at 3 p.m. with political scholar Linda Killian of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars.The focus will shift from books to
film at 5 p.m., when Michael Maglaras screens a new documentary, “O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward,” about the American artist. The artist’s daughter, Robin Ward Savage, will attend the film’s premiere.
In addition to events at USM, there will be a Maine Festival of the Book Poetry Party at 7 p.m. Saturday at Local Sprouts, 469 Congress St. The free event, which includes music and slams, is presented by Port Veritas in conjunction with Maine Reads.
A Book Arts Bazaar will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in the Wishcamper Center at USM. It will fea-
ture book artists, page makers, bookbind-ers, print makers and writers. Dramatic readings of literary selections close the festival Sunday evening at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave.
Cecil said the diverse offerings are in-tended to interest audiences of all ages.
The university provides free parking and food is available for purchase on campus.
A complete schedule of events is avail-able at www.mainereads.org.
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Auction helps YMCA fund adaptive servicesBy Amber Cronin
FREEPORT — Most people take the simple act of brushing their teeth for granted.
But for individuals who are living with
illnesses, injuries and disabilities, some-thing so routine can be a challenge.
Staff members in the Casco Bay YMCA’s Adaptive Services program help people in such situations build and
maintain strength and, hopefully, achieve a sense of normalcy.
“At the Y, strengthening the com-munity is our cause and we believe that lasting personal and social change,” said Scott Krouse, executive director of the program. “Adaptive services falls within our social responsibility, giving back and supporting our neighbors. We know that everyone in our community has different abilities and we want to make sure that the Y is there to support people, no matter what their capac-ity is.”
The 12-year-old program has hum-ble roots, but con-tinues to expand its services year after year. One way it has been able to continue to grow is through an annual Adaptive Services Auction.
The auction, now in its 10th year, seeks to reduce the gap in funding for the pro-gram. Each year the program costs more than $100,000 to run; last year the auction raised more than half of that amount. This year the goal is to raise $60,000 or more.
“At first we embarked with the phi-losophy because we knew it was the right thing to do; we wanted to extend a hand and help those in our community, and we sort of put the cart before the horse as we started dedicating resources,” Krouse said. “Our whole goal is to continue to raise funds to meet the need so we can expand the program. We are trying to catch up.”
In addition to funding the work done with its current participants, the Adaptive Services Program will use money raised in this year’s auction to build a partner-ship with Livestrong in order to improve its support for cancer survivors.
The Cumberland County YMCA, along with nine other YMCAs in the state, is working hard to bring Livestrong back to
Maine communities. Staff members at each of the YMCA loca-tions will be trained in June to help plan
new services that help cancer survivors improve the qualities of their lives.
According to Krouse, program goals include helping participants build muscle strength, flexibility and endurance; im-prove functional ability; reduce sever-ity of treatment side effects, and, most importantly, to improve levels of self esteem.
“It’s going to be a program that will help connect and build relationships with other cancer survivors,” he said. “To adopt a healthy lifestyle is not only a part of recovery, but just a way of life.
This year’s auction will take place on April 4 from 6-9 p.m. At the Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park St. Several local busi-nesses have partnered with the YMCA to donate items ranging from restaurant gift
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Cabernet and cockapoos do not mixI do not hate dogs. They are not my personal pet of
choice, but I am an animal lover, and dogs are animals, and therefore, I do not dislike them.
But I do not believe that dogs have the same entitle-ments as human citizens of the United States of Amer-ica (and more specifically, Maine). I do not believe that dogs should have free-dom of public speech, the right to vote in major elec-tions – or the right to dine beside me while I am sip-ping my glass of Malbec at an upscale hotel lounge.
I don’t know what has possessed certain estab-lishments to decide this is a good idea, but if I’m paying for the pleasur-able experience of dining or drinking at a lovely venue, I do not welcome the company of half a dozen canines. No matter how well behaved they are. And who are these people who need to bring Fido along on a romantic dinner date? Really?
If I want to dine among dogs, I’ll take my wilted spinach salad and glass of wine and sit in the waiting room of my veterinarian’s office.
Now, I understand the concept of “dog-friendly” ho-tels. I understand that said hotels are looking to appeal to those people who are, perhaps, forced to travel with their dog for lack of a dog-sitter, or because their dog is considered their spouse via common-law marriage (I’m sure there are certain states where this union will soon be put to a vote). But as an adult who does not own a dog, and who does not bring her cats and dwarf Belgian bunny with her when going out for the evening, I do not understand the whole “dogs are people, too” idea.
When did dogs become people? I don’t care what they do in Paris; I live in Maine. I didn’t move here because it was a dog-progressive place.
I am 100 percent for no-dogs-on-the-beach seasonal restrictions. I don’t like dog poop on my beaches. I don’t care how much they enjoy playing with their little doggie friends, I don’t want to pay $75 for a beach/park pass and then find doggie doo-doo next to my towel on a sultry August afternoon.
My mid-life foray back into the dating world has also opened my eyes where dogs are concerned: it’s amaz-ing how many men apparently don’t just own dogs, but have primary romantic relationships with them.
Any woman reading this who has been on any Internet dating site (I feel your pain) knows what I’m talking about. Show me a Match.com “profile” photo of a man posing next to his German shepherd, and I’ll show you a man who doesn’t really need to find a relationship. This, dear reader, is because he is already in one.
The only thing worse than a man with a dating photo featuring him snuggling with his large dog next to a fireplace is a dating photo of a man nuzzling up to a dolphin while on vacation in Florida.
Please. Unless you’re Dr. Dolittle, save the animal photos for later.
My point is, animals (of any type) should not be hanging out in any public establishment where food is being served – unless, perhaps, it’s a hot dog stand on the sidewalk. Surely Corky (or Spike or Buttercup) could stay safely in his or her special dog-approved room so that other patrons could eat their food and drink their cocktails without the threat of dog hair or
dander tainting their experience.Babies should not frequent cocktail lounges. Neither
should dogs. I understand people love their pets. I love my pets.
But I wouldn’t expect them to be welcome at a place where human beings are dining. I’m fantasizing that the next time I visit this particular local establishment (which is an otherwise lovely and magical place, by the way) I should bring along our pet bunny – on a leash.
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The greatest speech you’ll never hearBREAKING NEWS: A reporter’s request under an
obscure provision of Maine’s Freedom of Access Act has unearthed this draft of a speech prepared by an unnamed adviser in Gov. Paul LePage’s office.
Apparently, the adviser has suggested that the governor deliver the following speech as next year’s State of the State address, which will mark the halfway point in the governor’s four-year term. No word yet on whether the governor will actually deliv-er the speech, but we share it with you now as it represents a significant departure from the way things have been done to date in Augusta:
“Members of the Legis-lature, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens of the great state of Maine, I come before you this evening with the hope and the intent of starting a conversation, a real conversation, that will help put us on a path towards stability and prosperity for this wonderful state and its people.
“Let me begin by stating at the outset that when it comes to governing this state, it’s a lot harder than it looks. In busi-ness, particularly if you’re sitting in the corner office, you can make a decision and expect it to be carried out, more or less without objection, unless and until your customers or your employees vote with their feet and tell you, ‘No sale.’
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“In government, you can do this, too, but only if you have the votes, and even then you can only impose your will or your policies upon people so many times before they begin to push back. In government, you need to work with the Legislature and build support among the voters to demonstrate that the changes you desire really do need to be made.
“In my first two years in office, I’ve allowed my desire and my impatience for change to overwhelm the need to build real consensus. In many cases we were indeed able to push our changes through, and I think time will show that these were the right changes to make. But we accomplished our goals at a high cost.
“We needlessly offended those who opposed our posi-tions. We needlessly increased the partisanship that already exists in our politics. We needlessly polarized the discussion.
“I’ve come to realize that not only was this poor strategy, it was poor politics. I may be many things, but I’m smart enough to learn from my mistakes. So in these next two years, you’ll observe less dogma and more dialog; less bluster and more bipartisanship.
“We won’t be wasting time and resources on sideshows of our own creation. Take, for example, the mural at the Department of Labor. I don’t like it. But it’s important to a lot of people, it doesn’t cost a cent to display, and if put-ting it back up means I can mend some fences, well, back up it goes.
“I now realize that I came to office during an unusual period in our nation’s history. Circumstances gave us an op-portunity and we seized it. If we’re to continue to progress, and by that I mean making the policy changes I sincerely feel are necessary, we need to change with the times.
“President Obama has won a second term. Democrats have gained seats in both houses of Congress and in both houses of the Maine Legislature. The country’s economy is growing again and unemployment is declining. The sky has not fallen, and the dire conditions that I still believe drive the larger agenda are much less obvious.
“Quite frankly, as the economy has improved, the ur-gency for radical change has dissipated. It’s more difficult for me to demand change because I can no longer point to imminent economic calamity.
“I continue to believe that fundamental changes are es-sential for Maine to survive, however. What I’ve learned, though, is that I can’t achieve these important objectives unless I also change.
“So starting tonight, my office will seek a meaningful dialog with members of both parties in the Legislature. Starting tonight, we will speak to the people of Maine with the respect they deserve. Starting tonight, we’ll honestly present the facts as clearly as we can. When we don’t know something, we’ll say so. If our opponents prove us wrong, we’ll acknowledge it.
“I’ve only been in office two years, but this much I’ve learned: You can achieve victory by scorching the earth, but after you’ve won, all that’s left is scorched earth. I have too much respect for Maine people, and too much love for Maine, to leave that as my legacy.
“I believe that by working together, we can make this an even better place to live and raise a family. We can help secure Maine’s future. I extend my hand to all in a sincere gesture of partnership and cooperation. Let us do this im-portant work together.
“Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the great state of Maine.”
Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and president of Atlantica Group, an international business consulting firm based in Portland, with clients in North America, Israel and Europe. He is also chairman of the Maine District Export Council.
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Edgar Allen BeemSilence on standards isn’t golden for school boards
When it was introduced, the school consolidation bill needed public input. Another bill before the Senate, LD 1422, begs for more input from the public.
LD 1422 will force all public schools in Maine to follow an education model called “standards-based education.” SBE moves away from traditional grades and grade levels. Most SBE systems use a 1-4 grading scale through high school. Students move at their own pace through standards, not grades.
This bill is not about standards. It’s about how the stan-dards are taught and graded. Public schools will soon teach standards in an entirely different way than private schools. Town academies just received an exemption from this bill. Should the state be allowed to mandate how instruction happens in the classroom?
The administrators from Falmouth, Portland, and School Administrative District 51 all signed a letter drafted by the Great Schools Partnership in support of LD 1422. Yarmouth, Brunswick, Freeport, Scarborough, Regional School Unit 1 and Cape Elizabeth did not. Where does each local school board stand on LD 1422?
Only one school board, Mount Desert Island, submitted public comment on LD 1422. Its members said they were neither for nor against LD 1422. It’s a shame that other
Wave a flag for the state of Puerto RicoThe other day my Uncle Bill asked me what I
thought of statehood for Puerto Rico. I had to tell him I’d never really thought about. After giving the mat-ter some thought, I guess, like President Obama, I’d leave it up the people of Puerto Rico to decide.
Uncle Bill had a reasonable concern that the U.S. doesn’t do a very good job of taking care of its pres-ent citizenry, so adding a 51st state didn’t seem to make much sense to him. But then very little about the current politi-cal status of Puerto Rico makes much sense.
To begin with, Puerto Ricans are already U.S. citizens. The official currency of Puerto Rico is the U.S. dollar. And the U.S. flag flies over the Puerto Rican capitol in San Juan.
Puerto Rico state-hood was in the news and on my uncle’s mind largely because of the Republican presidential primary. Mitt Romney won hands-down in Puerto Rico, but Rick Santorum made more news by saying that Puerto Ricans should have to speak English as a condition of statehood. He quickly backpedaled, of course, and blamed the media for putting his foot in his mouth.
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory since the Spanish-American War in 1898. Because it is a territory, even though Romney picked up the island’s convention delegates, his Puerto Rican supporters will not be able to vote for him in the general election.
Puerto Ricans are betwixt and between in most things. They pay federal payroll and Social Security taxes, for example, but they do not pay income taxes. They can serve in the U.S. military and do, providing more military volunteers that any state in the union.
But they can’t vote for president. Several times in the past (1967, 1993, 1998), Puerto
Rico has opted not to become a state. On Nov. 6, 2012, Puerto Ricans will go to the polls again to vote in a two-part referendum. First, they will be asked if they want to maintain their current territorial status. If the majority prefer a non-territorial alternative, they will be given three choices – statehood, independence, or free assocation (a vague form of sovereignty be-twixt and between independence and statehood).
Should Puerto Rico decide on statehood, it would then be up to the U.S. Congress to decide whether to admit Puerto Rico to the union. If Puerto Rico – about the size of Connecticut, with 3.7 million people – be-comes the 51st state, it would send six new members to the U.S. House and increase the number of U.S. senators to 102.
It would also be the poorest state in the union, with close to 15 percent unemployment and average per capita incomes about one-third the U.S. average. But whether statehood would cost American taxpayers more money is unclear: Puerto Rico already receives about $22 billion a year in aid.
The biggest stumbling block to Puerto Rico state-hood that I can foresee in this country is that it would require a redesign of the American flag to accommo-date 51 stars. Even though all of the major Republican candidates have endorsed Puerto Rico statehood, I can’t imagine how they are going to explain to their flag-waving, Bible-thumping supporters that Old Glory needs a face-lift. Heck, those folks want to bring back the colonial Gadsden flag.
Personally, I’ve often thought the good old red, white and blue would look great with a little green in it, so I’m certainly not opposed to a redesign. But if Puerto Rico is admitted and traditionalists insist on sticking with the 50-star American flag (traditional ever since Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the union in 1959), I suggest we politely ask Gov. Rick Perry if he can arrange for Texas to secede.
Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.
Another House candidate in Brunswick
As The Forecaster reported last week, voters in Bruns-wick’s House District 66 will again have the choice among three candidates for representative to the Maine Legislature.
Brunswick voters may like to know that while I am cur-rently with my family on sabbatical in Japan, I do plan to return to Maine and seek the Green Independent nomina-tion. Per state elections law, our local committee expects to hold a summer caucus to nominate a candidate for the fall.
When I congratulated Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx on seeking re-election, I invited him to participate again in
a series of candidate forums. Unfortunate-ly, he has declined unless they are “host-ed and organized by a nonpartisan third
party.” So I’m writing this open letter to the community to ask for help organizing forums where all three candidates can discuss the issues in a meaningful way.
In 2010 I used some of my clean elections funding for a series of forums, attended by all three candidates, which were broadcast on public access TV. I respectfully ask this year’s candidates in District 66 to continue the practice of participating in public forums.
I didn’t quite get the chance to knock on everyone’s door last time, as I was juggling the demands of my store while campaigning. To those voters I did meet, I look forward to seeing you again, and to those I did not, I look forward to meeting you this time.
Fred HorchBrunswick
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BRUNSWICK Arrests
3/22 at 6:38 p.m. Robert Alan Smith, 42, of Woodland Drive, was arrested by Officer Thomas Stanton Jr. on Woodland Drive on a warrant.3/22 at 10:52 p.m. Johnathan McLellan, 18, of Sandy River Road, Fayette, was arrested by Officer Patrick Scott on Maine Street on a charge of operating without a license.3/22 at 11:00 p.m. Joseph E. Smith, 42, of Highland Street, Bath, was arrested by Officer Edward Yurek on Tibbetts Drive on charges of operating under the influence (one prior) and operating while license suspended or revoked.3/26 at 9:23 p.m. Roger Nolan Walker, 46, of Merrymeeting Road, was arrested by Sgt. Paul Hansen on Merrymeeting Road on a charge of
3/23 at 6:09 p.m. Vehicle crash on Maine and Mason streets.3/24 at 4:55 p.m. Medical emergency on Thomas Point Road.3/24 at 7:30 p.m. Circuit breaker melting at McDonald's on Gurnet Road.3/25 at 11:58 a.m. Oven problem on Shea Street.3/25 at 3:59 p.m. Medical emergency on Katherine Street.3/25 at 4:22 p.m. Medical emergency on Davis Court.3/25 at 4:32 p.m. Medical emergency on Baribeau Drive.
EMSBrunswick emergency medical services re-sponded to 58 calls from March 19-27.
BATH Arrests
3/14 Echo Alexander, 27, of Middle Street was arrested by Officer Jason Aucoin on Middle Street on charges of domestic violence assault and violation of condition of release, and issued a summons on a charge of illegal possession of drug paraphernalia.3/17 at 1:17 a.m. Christopher Brazee, 39, of Pittsfield, Ma., was arrested on a warrant by Officer Ted Raedel on Commercial Street and on charges of operating under the influence, operating after suspension and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.3/17 at 11 p.m. Shannon Lynch, 32, of Pine Street, Lewiston, was arrested by Cpl. Marc Brunelle on Congress Avenue on a charge of violation of condition of release.3/21 at 1:16 p.m. Lee Patterson, 19, of High Street, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Andrew Booth on Water Street.
Summonses3/18 Susan Lewis, 44, of North Street, was issued a summons by Officer Richard Ross on Chandler Drive on a charge of theft.3/20 Jessica Wing, 36, of Walker Street, was issued a summons by Cpl. Marc Brunelle on Chandler Drive on a charge of theft.3/21 Kurt Johnson, 46, of West Bath, was is-sued a summons by Officer Andrew Booth in West Bath on a charge of theft.3/22 Aaron Larsen, 25, of Liberty Street, was issued a summons by Detective Sgt. Bob Savary on Water Street on charges of unlawful sexual touching and assault.3/22 Gerald Kennedy, 27, of Seafarer Lane, was issued a summons by Officer Michelle Small on Central Avenue on a charge of violation of a protective order.3/25 Patrick Jabo, 19, of Forest Avenue, Port-land, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on Route 1 in West Bath on a charge
elevated aggravated assault.3/26 at 9:42 p.m. Stephen A. Gemme, 41, no address given, was arrested by Officer Matthew Swan on Baribeau Drive on a warrant and a charge of violating condition of release.
Summonses3/22 at 11:08 p.m. Robert D. Faulkner, 23, of Bath Road, was issued a summons by Officer Brian Funke on Bath Road on charges of un-lawful possession of scheduled drugs and sale and use of drug paraphernalia.3/25 at 7:54 p.m. Peggi J. Connors, 37, of Foye Road, Wiscasset, was issued a summons by Officer Edward Yurek on Tibbetts Drive on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and violating conditions of release.
White or whole wheat?3/22 at 5:20 p.m. Firefighters responded to a report of a gas fire on Parsons Farm Road. By the time they arrived, the resident had allegedly extinguished the fire with a bag of flour, which is not recommended. Firefighters turned off the gas and moved the propane tank further away from the house.
Fire calls3/19 at 9:00 a.m. Vehicle crash on Maine Street.3/19 at 6:47 p.m. Vehicle crash on Route 1.3/19 at 8:35 p.m. Vehicle crash on Lower Flying Point Road, Freeport.3/20 at 11:56 a.m. Vehicle crash on I-295 south.3/22 at 5:20 p.m. Gas fire on Parsons Farm Road.3/22 at 11:00 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Tibbetts Drive.3/23 at 12:45 a.m. Disabled motor vehicle on Federal and Mason streets.
of operating without a license.
Fire calls3/19 at 6:40 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Route 1.3/22 at 8:34 p.m. Brush fire on Andrews Road.3/23 at 1:57 a.m. Structure fire in Phippsburg.3/23 at 8:57 a.m. Electrical fire on Washington Street.3/25 at 8:05 p.m. Smoke check on Congress Avenue.
EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 47 calls from March 19-25.
TOPSHAM Arrests
No arrests or summonses were reported from March 20-25.
Wanted: Wire3/24 at 7:21 a.m. Officer Robert Ramsay re-sponded to the overnight theft of about 1,000 feet of copper wire from the Toyota dealership construction site at the intersection of Main Street and Route 196. The wire, valued at about $1,500, was stolen from the second floor. Police were still looking for leads early this week, and suspected this incident and a burglary at Dairy Queen the same night could be related.
Royal disrespect3/24 at 10:09 a.m. Sgt. Mark Gilliam responded to a burglary at Dairy Queen on Main Street. The incident occurred the night before, dur-ing which the building's rear door was forced opened. An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from a metal storage unit, as was $45 in loose change from a cash register. Police estimate $1,000 in damage between the rear door and cash register.
Fire calls3/19 at 1:31 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Topsham Fair Mall Road.3/19 at 8:32 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on River Road.3/20 at 3:30 p.m. Fire alarm on Balsam Drive.3/22 at 1:10 p.m. Fire alarm at Mt. Ararat High School.3/22 at 3:54 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Main Street.3/22 at 8:30 p.m. Fire alarm on Front Street.3/23 at 4:59 p.m. Unpermitted burn on Rhoades Lane.
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died March 20 at Mid Coast Senior Health Center.
She was born in Topsham on Oct. 2, 1921, the daughter of Lionel and Satira Harvey Shaw. She attended Topsham schools and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1940.
She worked at F.W. Woolworth Co. for 15 years as a sales clerk, lunch counter manager and assistant office manager. She then worked for Black’s Hardware, and later was assistant manager at the Firestone Store. When the store closed, she worked for Crooker Mobile Home Park in sales
Isabelle D. Rhoades, 86TOPSHAM — Isabelle D. Rhoades, 86,
died March 21 at Parkview Adventist Medi-cal Center in Brunswick.
She was born in Bath on Jan. 14, 1926, a daughter of William and Gertrude Hudson. She attended Bath schools. Rhoades was employed at the Stinson Canning Fac-tory in Bath for many years and in 1947 she married Frederick G. Rhoades.
She enjoyed flowers, parties and having company.
She was predeceased by her husband, Frederick G. Rhoades; granddaughter, Sherry Creamer; six brothers, John Hudson, Eddie Hudson, Walter Hudson, Lloyd Hud-son, William Hudson and Herbert Hudson; and three sisters, Gertrude Chaplin, Vera Taylor and Beatrice Hunter.
She is survived by her daughter, Sally Creamer of Lewiston; four grandsons, Wayne Staples of Brunswick, Johnny Staples of Bowdoin, Bowe Creamer of Topsham and Rocky Creamer of Auburn; Marie T. Mallon, 86
BRUNSWICK — Marie T. Mallon, 86, died March 24 after an extended battle with Alzheimer’s disease at Winship Green Center in Bath.
She was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 22, 1925, the daughter of Sarah McIntyre. She attended St. Anne’s School and the John W. Hallahan Catholic School for Girls.
In 1949 she moved to California and for several years was the principal buyer for the C.F. Horan Co. In 1961 she married Tom Mallon at the Old San Gabriel Mis-sion. They made their home in Whittier, Calif., for the next 10 years, during which time they were blessed with two wonderful children, Tommy and Theresa.
In 1970 the family moved to Maine and happily settled in Brunswick. After the move Mallon established the Tontine Fine Candy Store, which proved to be quite suc-cessful. She later opened stores in Auburn and Wiscasset. She made many friends in the area and her husband often said that even though he worked at Bowdoin College
for many years he is better known around town as “the Candy Lady’s Husband.”
She was a faithful and devoted member of St. Charles Church-All Saint’s Parish.
She is survived by Tom, her loving hus-band of 51 years, and children Tom and his wife, Kim, of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Theresa and her husband, Ward VanDriest, of Longmont, Colo.
Visiting hours were held on March 28 at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on March 12 at St. Charles Borromeo Church-All Saints Parish with the Rev. Frank Murray officiating. Burial took place at Growstown Cemetery in Brunswick.
Donations in Mallon’s Memory may be made to St. Charles Borromeo Church-All Saints Parish, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, ME 04011.
Walter E. Cunningham Jr., 81: Caring and always willing to helpBATH — Walter E. Cunningham Jr., 81,
died on March 24. He was born in Bath on May 12, 1930,
the son of Walter and Lela Cunningham. He grew up in Georgetown and attended school there until the fifth grade when he was forced to leave the classroom and enter the work force to help out his family. Starting at the age of nine he worked as a clam dig-ger. He always enjoyed the ocean.
In the win te r s he worked for the Georgetown School Department, making sure the wood stoves were lit for the chil-dren’s day and shoveling the walkways. He took pride in making sure the grounds of the school were kept clean.
Cunningham retired a the age of 62, but he quickly realized that he could not just sit around so he took a job as sexton at the Oak Cemetery in Georgetown. He was also the sole caregiver for his mother for many years before her death.
He was a very caring person and would always go out of his way to help anyone. Every morning he could be found hav-ing breakfast and greeting the customers at the Galley Restaurant in Bath. He met many friends there, but the best was Elanor Thomas. In the last few years they were inseparable; if you saw one, the other was never far behind.
He lived at The Moorings for over 20 years and he considered his neighbors his family.
Cunningham was predeceased by his par-ents and his only son, Walter Cunningham II, and his daughter-in-law, Dorothy.
He is survived by his family at The Moorings, his family at the Galley and many others who touched his heart.
At Cunningham’s request, there will be no services. A private burial will take place at Oak Cemetery in Georgetown.
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until she retired.She married Charles St. Pierre in May of
1946 and they made their home in Bruns-wick and on Bailey Island.
St. Pierre belonged to the Toastmasters Club of Brunswick, was active in the Knights of Columbus Wives and was a communicant of the St. John the Baptist Church
She enjoyed cooking, traveling and the family cottage on Bailey Island.
The highlight of her life was her two granddaughters, Christina and Catherine, her great-granddaughter, Kallie, who was born on her birthday, and her great-grand-son, Zachary.
She is survived by her daughter, Char-lene Gagne and her husband, Camille, of Topsham; granddaughters Christina Maney and her husband, DJ, and Catherine Gagne; great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and great and grand nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband of 58 years, Charles; brother, Albion “Bud” Shaw; and sister, Frances Sidelinger.
Visiting hours were held on March 23 at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Bath. Funeral services were held on March 24 at the funeral home.
and many nieces and nephews.Visiting hours were held on March 27 at
Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath. A funeral services was also held at the funeral home. Burial will take place at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath.
Memorial contributions may be made to Topsham Fire and Rescue, 100 Main St., Topsham, ME 04086.
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Erinn Tardiff was recently promoted to personal lines account executive at Norton Insurance. Tardiff has more than 10 years of experience in the insurance industry and has been with Norton as a personal lines customer service representative for the past seven years.
New Hires
Drummond Woodsum recently wel-comed Michael Buescher to the firm’s trial services group. Buescher previously worked as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. He also served as a law clerk for Chief United States District Judge Loretta Preska in the U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York.
Wilhelm Friess will be the new director of the University of Maine’s new Bruns-wick Engineering Program. He has been teaching mechanical engineering for the Rochester Institute of Technology at its campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since 2009. Friess will direct the innovative Brunswick Engineering Program, located at the newly renovated Brunswick Landing.
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The Morrison Center recently hired Mark Ryder and Meghan Smith. Ryder joined as the agency’s new executive direc-tor. He has more than 15 years of experi-ence in developing schools and educational programs for public and private agencies throughout New England. Smith has been hired as the agency’s new development coordinator. She previously served as the campaign coordinator for Maine’s Cam-paign for Justice.
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AwardsJeffrey Morris of Pierce Studio in
Brunswick recently won several print awards at the Maine Professional Pho-tographers Association convention. His image of Sir Bentley, a Westfield Terrier, received a blue ribbon and won the Miller’s Professional Imaging award for Best Color Portrait. Morris also received six other print awards for family portraits, high school senior portraits and several other images of local interest.
Good Deeds
On Valentine’s Day, Make-A-Wish volunteers, Crusher from the Red Claws and Maine Mall employees delivered handmade valentines to seniors at the Scarborough Veterans Home and St. Jo-seph’s Residence and Rehabilitation Center. The valentines were made by shoppers and volunteers during a three week valentine drive at the Maine Mall.
Bank of America recently donated a $10,000 grant to support the Community Financial Literacy general operating budget. Community Financial Literacy is commit-ted to serving refugees and immigrants with targeted culturally-appropriate financial literacy courses.
The Hannaford Charitable Foundation recently donated $10,000 to the Morrison Center to improve emergency prepared-ness and safety equipment throughout their building.
The Institute for Humane Education recently received a total of $40,000 in grants from three foundations to support its programs. The Bay and Paul Founda-tions awarded the Institute for Humane Education $25,000 to expand its resources for teachers and to provide scholarships for teachers to participate in workshops and online courses. The Dorothy-Ann Foun-dation granted the program $10,000 to be used for website upgrades and leadership training. The New Visions Foundation granted $5,000 to be used for general op-erating support.
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Maine Home Realty recently announced that Terry Driscoll has successfully completed educational requirements and obtained her broker license. She has been a realtor with the company for the past five years.
Holbrook at Piper Shores recently received a 5-Star Ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Best Nursing Homes. The rankings highlight top-rate homes in all 50 states and guide families and healthcare providers caring for people in need of nurs-ing homes.
Nicholas J. Morrill was recently elected partner with the law firm of Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry. He is a member of the firm’s real estate and business services practice groups. He focuses his practice on all aspects of commercial real estate trans-actions including acquisitions.
Friends of Casco Bay recently wrapped up its 20th year assessing the health of Maine’s coastal waters from Cape Elizabeth to Phippsburg. Several volunteers with the program also celebrated significant mile-stones in this year. Andrew Bertocci of Yarmouth was honored as the first person to complete 20 years of monitoring for Friends of Casco Bay. He started sampling as a volunteer in 1992 and was later hired to expand the sampling program. Ed Bene-dikt and Rick Meisenback both celebrated 10 years of water quality monitoring. Jan and Tom Brudzinski, Hugh Huleatt, JB Kavaliaskas, Deborah McCoy, Jo Mc-Cartan, Russ Pinizzotto and Katie Rawls all celebrated five years of water sampling. Finally, Kathryn Reid celebrated 10 years of service on the Friends of Casco Bay board.
Appointments
Sweetser recently elected Margaret Shepp, Robert Lobis and William Zaf-irson as new board members. Shepp has been practicing internal medicine for 31 years in Portland. She is now semi-retired, teaching and working for Mercy Hospital providing assessments of surgical risks. Lobis has been in the field of psychiatry for over 40 years and has also served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is currently retired and enjoys painting and writing. Zafirson is the managing director of mortgage banking at The Bank of Maine. He is returning to Sweetser’s board after a year-long hiatus.
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Mercy Hospital, the official healthcare provider for the Maine Red Claws, kicks off its annual Best Shot for Youth Initiative with its popular free throw tourna-ment, Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Portland Expo. The tournament is open to all York and Cumberland County grades 6-12 at no cost. Kids can try out their basketball skills, learn new tips, meet mem-bers of the Red Claws coaching staff and 50 students will have a chance to win two tickets each to the final Maine Red Claws games of the season. FMI, 879-3144 or [email protected].
Winter all-stars in abundance
Left: Brunswick’s Mitchell Black earned several postseason honors after his play on the hardwood this winter.Center: Brunswick’s Suzannah Smith was one of several Dragons chosen as an all-star.
Right: Mt. Ararat’s Mallory Nelson made the KVAC girls’ basketball all-star team.
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It was an all-star season across the board in the Mid-Coast this winter.
The Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A South boys’ basketball all-conference first-team included Brunswick’s Mitch-ell Black, who was also named the Player of the Year.
Brunswick’s Garrett Erb made the second team.
Brunswick’s Black and Mt. Ararat’s Anna Bruning (team manager), Brett Martin, Ben Rog-ers, Joey Van Note and Joshua Wright all qualified for the All-Academic team.
Brunswick’s Black was named to the Maine McDonald’s Senior East All-Star team, which lost to the West, 113-103.
Black and Mt. Ararat’s Wright qualified for the Maine McDon-ald’s Academic All-State team.
On the girls’ side, the KVAC South first team included Mt. Ararat’s Mallory Nelson. Team-mates Leah Hitchcock and Caitlin LaFountain were named to the second team.
Hitchcock and Molly Estes of Mt. Ararat qualified for the All-Academic team.
In Class B, Morse’s Katie Hen-
rikson was a second teamer.On the ice, the Class A boys’
first team included Brunswick defenseman Tyler Niven.
Mt. Ararat’s Ian Pinette quali-fied for the All-Academic team.
Brunswick’s Blake Bodwell and Dylan Towle took part in the Senior All-Star Game.
On the girls’ side, Brunswick forwards Eliza Brooks, Annie Kel-ly and Rachel Moroney and defen-seman Suzannah Smith all made the All-East Region first team.
Brunswick’s Jen Machin, Sarah Thibeault and Caroline Wild were honorable mentions.
Brunswick’s Kelly, Smith and Wild qualified for the KVAC All-Academic team.
The KVAC indoor track all-star team had an abundance of local names.
The team included Brunswick’s Mitchell Black, Walter Martin, Alex Nichols, Wilder Nicholson and Benson Worthington and Mt. Ararat’s Seth Bryant, Colton Burne, Robert Corneilson, Mck-enzie Gary, Darine Gnidehoue, Will Hirnak, Nick Oram and Ryan Smith.
The All-Academic team includ-ed Brunswick’s Black, Ben Blais-
dell, Connor Monette, Nicholson, Oliver Rhodes and Worthington and Mt. Ararat’s Timothy Brown, Nathan Bryant, Seth Bryant, Gary, Houdji Gnidehoue, Nathan Jack-son and Gregory Kritzman.
On the girls’ side, Brunswick’s Jasmine Boyle, Anna Cowan, Alexis Dickinson, Allison Hill, Bridget Horan, Katie McMahon, Cassandra Murano, Teresa Mur-phy, Michele Richards and Anna Turner and Mt. Ararat’s Kathleen Bodmer, Kelly Lynch, Maddison Prescott and Nicole Ross made the all-conference team.
Dickinson and McMahon of Brunswick qualified for the All-Academic team.
Brunswick’s Dickinson was named the Athlete of the KVAC meet.
Brunswick’s Dave Delois was named the girls’ Coach of the Year.
In the pool, Brunswick’s Joey Blair, Chris Bruno, Jacob Cost, Hendry Ditzel, Dan Jacques, Alex Marc-Aurele, Charlie Nau, Ezra Rogers and Eric Wiese and Morse’s Kyle Bauer, Drew Ceg-linski, Jake Olsen, Paden Stanton, Josh Valentine, Albin Werwaiss and Otto Werwaiss made the KVAC Class A first team.
Brunswick’s Blair was the Swimmer of the KVAC Meet.
Brunswick’s Dave Bright was named Coach of the Year.
Brunswick’s Blair, Jacques and Ben Strickland, Morse’s Ryan Banger and Olsen and Mt. Ararat’s Alexander Cornwall and Caleb Grant qualified for the All-Academic team.
On the girls’ side, Brunswick’s Madeline Cowan, Olivia Dumont, Taylor Gadbout, Jessica Russell and Paige Tetu, Morse’s Guerin Morissette and Mt. Ararat’s Celia Ouellette made the all-conference team.
Brunswick’s Russell was named the Swimmer of the KVAC Meet.
Brunswick’s CeCe Carey-Snow and Natalie Naculich, Morse’s Casandra Bonnett, Morissette and Alice Stenquist and Mt. Ararat’s Kayla Chamberlain, Amanda Levesque and Abby Parker all qualified for the All-Academic team.
The KVAC wrestling first team included Brunswick’s Jared Jen-sen (152-pounds) and Morse’s Gary Stevens (126-pounds).
Morse’s Wyatt Bracket t (145-pounds) was a second teamer.
Jensen was named the Out-standing Wrestler of the Class A Meet.
Morse’s Dylan Harrington qual-ified for the All-Academic team.
Brunswick’s Sarah Basquez and Kathlyn Mahon made the KVAC cheering second team.
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Mid CoastAuditions/Calls for ArtWorks needed for “A Natural Order” exhibit, Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St., Brunswick. Works should feature a natural species. Deadline for submissions April 9, $15 entry fee for first work, $5 for additional pieces. Contact Liz McGhee at Spindleworks for more informa-tion 725-8820.
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Just for SeniorsBath Area Senior Citizens, bridge club, cribbage, crafts, line dancing, bocce, bingo and more, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.
Chair Yoga, Shannon Elliott, Tuesdays 10:30 a.m., $10/class or pay what you can, Spectrum Generations, Topsham, FMI and to preregister, 729-0475.
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‘Swan Lake’ a ‘major artistic achievement’By Scott Andrews
Late March 2012 is proving to be a milestone for southern Maine’s two ballet troupes.
Last weekend, Portland Ballet wrapped up its superb production of “Giselle,” while this weekend belongs to Maine State Bal-let’s “Swan Lake.”
Notable upcoming concerts include singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow. He’s best known as one third of the Peter, Paul and Mary folk trio and the co-writer of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” But Yarrow is also popular as a solo act, and he’ll be at One Longfellow Square this Saturday.
“Bombino” is the moniker/calling card of a African guitarist and singer-songwriter who’s currently making a mark within the world music community. Catch Bombino and his band at Hannaford Hall on April 4, part of Portland Ovations’ 2011-1012 season.
‘Swan Lake’Maine balletomanes are rejoicing this
month, with two of the greatest works in the classical repertoire presented by local companies on consecutive weekends.
Last weekend I was enthralled by Port-land Ballet’s “Giselle,” and this weekend I hope to catch Maine State Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” which is scheduled for two matinee performances at Merrill Auditorium on March 31 and April 1.
MSB co-founder and artistic director Linda Miele calls “Swan Lake” the “ulti-mate classical ballet,” which represents her company’s “major artistic achievement.”
The ballet dates from the pinnacle of the Russian Romantic movement in the mid 1890s, and represents a collaboration of two of the country’s preeminent artists: composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa. (They’re also the pair responsible for “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker.”)
“‘Swan Lake’ is really the pinnacle of what you want to accomplish as a com-pany,” said Miele, who performed the ballet many times as a young dancer with the New York City Ballet. For this weekend’s show in Portland, Miele promises to incorporate much of the traditional Petipa choreography that has been passed down through gen-erations of dancers, plus some of her own original work.
“Everybody who has an interest in ballet should be able to see ‘Swan Lake,’” Miele added. “We’re proud to be able to present this ballet right here in Maine, in the way it was meant to be seen.”
The celebrated ballet recounts an ancient European fable that has a familiar fairy-tale formula: a beautiful princess, a handsome prince and an evil sorcerer. Here’s a quick summary:
The tale starts with Princess Odette (Janet Davis), who is transformed into a swan by a wicked wizard (Nathaniel Dombek). Prince Siegfried (Janet Davis’ real life husband, Glenn Davis) falls in love with Odette in a moment by the lake when she has temporar-ily regained her human form.
An epic battle follows between the prince and evil magician. While many variations of “Swan Lake” end in tragedy, Miele chooses to model a Russian version of the ballet that has a happily-ever-after finale.
MSB’s production showcases the talents of 85 advanced students and professional dancers. The sets and costumes, including a
Contributed“Swan Lake” is one of the most famous ballets from the Russian Romantic period. Maine State
Ballet’s landmark production is a must-see for this weekend.
stunning 40-foot-tall backdrop and 21 white swan tutus, are the work of designer Gail Csoboth. Miele believes that her “Swan Lake” will be the largest production ever staged by a ballet company in Maine. The show is appropriate for all ages and level of interest in dance, she added.
Two performances are slated for Port-land’s Merrill Auditorium: March 31 and April 1 at 2 p.m. Call PortTix at 842-0800.
Peter YarrowFew musicians have reached so many
people of so many ages. That’s a quick summary of the 53-year professional career of singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, who will be appearing at One Longfellow Square this Saturday.
Yarrow was only 21 when he started performing in New York’s Greenwich Vil-lage nightspots. His big break came when a concert promoter brought him together two other like-minded musicians, Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey.
The resulting trio was Peter, Paul and Mary. They were icons of the folk music renaissance of the 1960s, and continued
performing together occasionally until Travers’ death three years ago.
A few weeks ago I watched a DVD re-cording of their famous 25th anniversary concert, and marveled at the timelessness of their music.
Among the group’s most famous songs was one that Yarrow co-wrote: “Puff the Magic Dragon,” a musical fable about growing up. Yarrow’s best-known piece as a solo artist is “The Wedding Song (There is Love).” There’s hardly a wedding in this country that doesn’t include this lovely melody and thoughtful lyric.
Other lifetime accomplishments include co-founding the Newport Folk Festival, starting the annual new music competition at Kerrville, Texas – which has evolved into an event of major national significance – and starting Operation Respect, which aims to improve relations among all people, beginning with children in thousands of American classrooms.
The centerpiece is a song titled “Don’t Laugh at Me,” which is used to create a climate of respect. The lyric is central to the theme: “Don’t laugh at me, don’t call
me names; don’t get your pleasure from my pain.”
Yarrow believes that when properly po-sitioned in a classroom-based social/emo-tional learning program, “Don’t Laugh at Me” can serve as an anthem for the growing movement to build safer and more respect-ful school environments for children.
One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland, presents Peter Yarrow in concert at 8 p.m. March 31. Call 761-1757.
BombinoNiger, which includes vast stretches of
the Sahara Desert, is one of Africa’s poor-est countries. Landlocked and wracked by tribal factional warfare, Niger is also one of the world’s most troubled nations.
Surprisingly, a major world artist has evolved from that mixture of poverty and conflict, a guitarist-singer-songwriter who goes by the moniker Bombino. Hailing from the Taureg tribe, the young musician was forced to flee his homeland as a teen-ager. Much of his music reflects traditional African themes, intermixed with the ongo-ing tragedy of present realities.
As part of its world music series, Port-land Ovations hosts Bombino and his small band on April 4.
Much of the program will come from Bombino’s breakthrough CD: “Agadez.” Writing in the roots journal No Depres-sion, reviewer Doug Heselgrave comments: “Bright and cutting on the upswing, percus-sive on the downbeat, snatches of Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendrix and even Jerry Garcia can be heard in the sound Bombino creates. A mixture of slow burning blues inflected jams and slinky rockers, ‘Agadez’ is a pas-sionate, immediate album.”
Catch Bombino at 7:30 p.m. April 4 at Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St. in Portland (on the University of Southern Maine cam-pus). Call PortTix at 842-0800.
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“Frugal Yankee that I am, I believe it would be a shame to destroy this structure if it is salvageable and could be moved elsewhere,” Field told the board. “I believe through my dealings you have found me to be a true Harpswellite, wanting nothing more than to work and live all my life in Harpswell.”
Actually, Field admitted, his mother wrote the letter. She’s an English teacher in Standish.
“If you had seen my letter, it was a little bit more plain,” he said.
Field said he has everything he needs to move the house: a chainsaw to cut it into pieces, two wreckers to transport the parts, and land on which to put it back together. He also has, as noted in the letter, “the sense of adventure needed for the task.”
Field believes it would be more fun to
move the house than build one himself. And, he thinks its history as an old Navy home is cool.
“I get sentimental,” he said. “Maybe that’s it.”
Field said he still wants to inspect the house more closely before deciding whether to go through with the plan, which select-men were scheduled to consider Thursday night.
On Wednesday, Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said she wasn’t sure what the board would decide. But she likes Field’s proposal.
“This is someone who grew up in Harpswell and lived in Harpswell and re-ally wants to save this house,” she said. “It seems like kind of a neat idea.”
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the past few years.The new cuts could eliminate many
Advanced Placement and honors classes, including calculus, pre-calculus, Euro-pean history, French, Latin, physics and human anatomy. They could also curtail enrollment in consumer education, en-vironmental science and fitness, among other electives.
The possible course reductions, Assis-tant Principal Pete Gardiner explained, were determined according to which teachers are likely to be laid off and what their specialties are. Upper-level classes were the first ones to be dropped, so that staff would be available for teaching re-quired classes.
But this approach upset many of the parents and residents who spoke after Perzanoski’s presentation.
Lisa Martin, a reading recovery teacher at Coffin Elementary, said advanced learners deserve as much attention as those who need extra help.
“I fear that colleges will start to look at Brunswick differently if our program-ming changes,” she said.
Angelo Girardi, a sophomore at Brunswick High School, also asked the board to spare AP classes and consumer education.
“I was saving that class for my senior year,” he said, “I don’t think that it should be something that you should put at the top of your cut list.”
Board members also weren’t happy about the possibility of losing AP classes.
Michelle Small objected to the math cuts in particular, expressing concern about what advanced students would do in their senior year without calculus.
In addition to programming cuts, Per-zanoski has also suggested laying off one assistant principal at the high school and a guidance counselor, which would increase the average counselor’s load to 246 students.
With an annual budget of less than $63,000, freshman sports once again could be on the chopping block, although the proposal generated little discussion on Wednesday night.
Brunswick Junior High School could also see across-the-board cuts, including one position each in consumer science, math, language arts, science and social studies, and a resource assistant.
To cope with the reductions, Per-zanoski has suggesting taking two staff from the junior high school’s Response to Intervention program, which assists students who are struggling academically.
Elementary school staffing levels would be kept largely unchanged, but could shrink by one art teacher, one educational technician and two resource assistants.
“None of this is easy,” Perzanoski said. “We get lots of citizens that come up and say, ‘You’ve lost 800 kids. All you have to do is cut a bunch of teachers.’ Well, there’s more to it than that.”
In her budget, Jean Skorapa, principal of Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School, asked the district to hire an as-sistant principal. But in his March 21 pre-sentation, Perzanoski said that’s unlikely to happen due to financial constraints. On Wednesday, he explained that Stowe does not need as many administrators as the high school.
“I don’t think Jean has to deal with the sort of discipline that they deal with at the high school,” Perzanoski said. “Not that Brunswick High School has a lot of discipline problems, but it has enough to
be able to warrant at least three admin-istrators.”
But School Board member Corinne Perreault questioned that logic.
“I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but I think Jean deserves better than piece-meal support,” Perreault said. “I think we are doing a disservice to HBES. It’s our second largest school in the district and it’s very light (on administrators.)”
The one bright spot of the otherwise grim meeting was when Perzanoski outlined his vision for how Brunswick’s schools could be improved.
Getting the district’s burgeoning sum-mer school off the ground would go a long way to help students, and allow teachers looking to step into an adminis-trative role to get more training, he said.
He also discussed designing interdis-ciplinary classes in humanities, science and math at the high school level, as well as increasing the number of students enrolled in college-level classes.
Before coming to Brunswick, Perza-noski assisted in the creation of a magnet school at a community college campus, something he said helped smooth the transition into college for many high school students.
All of his ideas – except summer school, which could be self-funded – will be possible without additional expendi-tures, he said.
The next budget workshop is April 5 at 6 p.m. and will cover, among other top-ics, special education, guidance, health and professional development.
Emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext.123 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter:
@guerinemily.
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balance to offset losses.The amount of money to be appropri-
ated in taxes from SAD 75’s four towns could increase by 1 percent, to $18.9 million. Topsham would see a 3.2 per-cent decrease, to $7.6 million, due to a decrease in its state valuation.
But the other towns could experience increases: Harpswell, 2.85 percent, to $6.7 million; Bowdoin, 6.54 percent, to $2.22 million, and Bowdoinham, 4.93 percent, to $2.45 million.
Increased expenses include $400,000 more for negotiated salaries, about $240,000 for health insurance, and about $80,000 more for fuel and heating costs.
More than 11 teaching positions could
firms for estimates of how much a com-plete renovation would cost, the potential cost jumped to around $800,000.
But despite the increase, most council-ors said they still want to proceed with the swap and pass up the cash.
“This one-time money was not the way to go,” King said at the end of the meet-ing. “It was a short-term fix for a very long-term problem.”
Most speakers in the public hearing agreed.
George Gilmore said he supported the initial decision to exchange Longfellow for McLellan, a swap he said would support town staff for decades into the future.
“To walk away from this decision for cash, which in a year will be gone and the town will be back where it was before this transaction took place ... would be a great mistake by the Town of Bruns-wick,” Gilmore said.
Support for the sale was lukewarm even among the most vocal education advocates.
“I urge that if the council does vote to sell (Longfellow School),” Sarah Singer said, “you assign that money to capital improvements at Brunswick schools and not use it to offset a one-time funding shortage in this year’s budget.”
Jeff Pelletier, who frequently addresses
the council on educational spending, agreed.
“What I would like to see is some long-range planning,” Pelletier said. He called McLellan “an asset to take advantage of.”
Renata Ledwick urged the council to keep its focus on supporting education, not municipal buildings.
“The town’s schools are so much more important than the facilities in which town staff work,” she said. “Town facili-ties aren’t going to draw people here.”
Eager to move the council to a deci-sion and rather than conduct a full-blown discussion, King asked councilors to go around the table and state their positions – a move that irked Councilors Sarah Brayman and Benet Pols, who spoke last.
“I would have preferred some discus-sion before we went around the table,” Brayman said before voting to sell Longfellow School to Bowdoin.
Pols agreed, and asked why the price of renovating McLellan had increased so sharply since Brown’s initial estimate.
“Determining an accurate number for the fit-out costs should have been part of the due diligence of figuring out if we wanted to take the building in the first place,” he said, to applause from the audience.
But King, with the outcome of the vote already determined, said the cost discrepancy is “a non-issue if there is no
be cut at the elementary level, Mt. Ara-rat Middle School and Mt. Ararat High School, in addition to 1.4 special educa-tion jobs.
Part or all of 35 support staff posi-tions could also be eliminated, includ-ing educational technicians, secretaries, bus drivers, a custodian and an assistant football coach.
The SAD 75 Board of Directors is ex-pected to vote on the budget at its April 26 meeting. A public hearing will be held May 10, followed by two public votes: at a district budget meeting May 24 and the budget validation referendum June 12.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear
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support to engage in this trade back with Bowdoin.”
With that, King and Councilors David Watson, Ben Tucker, Suzan Wilson, Gerald Favreau and Margo Knight voted to proceed with the swap and turn down Bowdoin’s $2 million.
Pols, Brayman and Councilor John Perreault backed the college offer.
Members of the public who stayed behind after the meeting were overheard expressing concerns about the way King polled the council.
On Wednesday, King said she asked
councilors to give their opinion before the discussion because “it really wasn’t a new issue. It was just deciding whether to reverse a previous decision, so it didn’t really require hours of debate.”
She said she also wanted the council to make a decision so Bowdoin could proceed with its plans.
“We made the decision already,” she said. “There was no reason to drag it out and it would have just caused confusion.”
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