February 1, 2013 News of South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth Vol. 12, No. 5 www.theforecaster.net INSIDE Sports: February, title time arrive Page 17 Maine Goes Red For Women Pages 13-15 Index Obituaries ...................... 12 Opinion ............................ 6 Out and About .............. 20 People & Business ........ 12 Police Beat .................... 10 Real Estate .................... 28 Sports ............................ 17 Arts Calendar ................ 21 Classifieds ..................... 22 Community Calendar..... 21 Meetings ........................ 21 SummerCamp Directory Pages 18-19 Pension cost shift worries Cape school officials By Will Graff CAPE ELIZABETH — School Board members are urging legisla- tors to resist Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to shift 50 percent of teacher retirement costs to local districts. Board members say the move would place a new and significant burden on schools already reeling from large state curtailments. On Monday, the board, along with members of the Town Coun- cil, met with state Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, chair- woman of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, and talked about the potential impacts of the pension shift on local dis- tricts. Board Chairman John Christie said the education committee has been focused on the supplemental budget, which deals with the most recent curtailments, and that it’s difficult to tell what the shift will look like before lawmakers dive into the biennial budget. “I don’t think it’s likely (the teacher pension shift) will pass unchanged, but it’s too early to predict how the Legislature will react to it,” Christie said. “The state’s funds have to come from From meat loaf to Mediterranean Buttered Biscuit makes way for new restaurant By David Harry SOUTH PORTLAND — Cape Elizabeth resi- dent Audrey Delafield had one question when she learned the Buttered Biscuit was closing last week, to be replaced soon by a Mediterranean restaurant. “So what do I do for my almond moon cook- ies?” she asked co-owner Audrey Castro last Fri- day, the final day the takeout food business at 347 Cottage Road served its faithful customers. From cookies to soups to side dishes and entrees – and, of course, biscuits – Audrey and Byron Castro served convenient comfort food for almost a decade on Meetinghouse Hill. “It was just time, I think,” said Audrey, who previously was the head chef at the original Victory Deli in Portland’s Monument Square. Her husband noted the concept has caught on at larger area markets. “It was definitely a thing that had a niche,” Byron said. “The little guys got it going and broke it open.” The Castros said they are ready to move on. “We are going to sit around and eat bonbons,” Audrey joked as she tended food and customers on a day she said was “that double-edged sword.” Byron said they originally wrote a seven-year business plan. “You need to rejuvenate every once in a while,” he said. “You want to go out on top, or the upper side.” DAVID HARRY / THE FORECASTER ‘Homework’ needed, but parishioners favor closing S.P. church By David Harry SOUTH PORTLAND — A profes- sional assessment of the market value of St. John the Evangelist Church is planned after a parish meeting last Sun- day revealed overwhelming support for a recommendation that the 70-year-old church be closed. Monsignor Michael Henchal said the Jan. 27 meeting of parishioners produced a need for more more details about the value of the 611 Main St. church, a for- mer rectory now used as a convent, and a closed pastoral center once used as a parish school. “We need to do some homework,” Henchal said this week. Sunday’s meeting came after a finance committee recommended closing the church by June 30. Henchal estimated the meeting was attended by about 70 people; he said two-thirds of them ex- pressed support for closing the church. “There’s significant support for the (finance committee) recommendation,” he said. St. John the Evangelist is part of a par- ish cluster of Roman Catholic churches A parish finance committee has recommended closing St. John the Evangelist Church, 611 Main St. in South Portland. DAVID HARRY / THE FORECASTER Buttered Biscuit co-owner Audrey Castro, above, chats with customer Susan Fowles on Friday, Jan. 25, the last day for the 10-year-old business that specialized in takeout comfort foods. Cape Elizabeth resident Audrey Delafield said she will miss a lot of things about the Buttered Biscuit, but nothing more than Audrey Castro’s almond moon cookies, left. S.P. farmers market site still uncertain By David Harry SOUTH PORTLAND — Some progress is being made toward expanding the outdoor farmers market when it opens this spring. But the essential element of the market – precisely where it will operate – remains unresolved. A series of proposed ordinance changes that would allow more types of vendors, different kinds of locations, and advertising for the 2-year-old market received preliminary council support Mon- day night in a workshop at the Community Center. Proposed zoning changes that would allow the market to oper- ate on private property and and receive special exceptions to operate in a variety of zones were forwarded to the Planning Board for discussion on Feb. 12. The zoning changes would al- low farmers markets in residential zones if they are operated on city- owned land. A proposed licensing change See page 26 See page 6 See page 27 See page 6
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February 1, 2013 News of South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth Vol. 12, No. 5
www.theforecaster.net
INSIDE
Sports:February, title time arrivePage 17
Maine Goes Red For WomenPages 13-15
IndexObituaries ......................12Opinion ............................6Out and About ..............20People & Business ........12
Arts Calendar ................21Classifieds .....................22Community Calendar .....21Meetings ........................21
SummerCamp DirectoryPages 18-19
Pension cost shift worries Cape school officialsBy Will Graff
CAPE ELIZABETH — School Board members are urging legisla-tors to resist Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to shift 50 percent of teacher retirement costs to local districts.
Board members say the move would place a new and significant burden on schools already reeling from large state curtailments.
On Monday, the board, along with members of the Town Coun-cil, met with state Sen. Rebecca
Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, chair-woman of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, and talked about the potential impacts of the pension shift on local dis-tricts.
Board Chairman John Christie
said the education committee has been focused on the supplemental budget, which deals with the most recent curtailments, and that it’s difficult to tell what the shift will look like before lawmakers dive into the biennial budget.
“I don’t think it’s likely (the teacher pension shift) will pass unchanged, but it’s too early to predict how the Legislature will react to it,” Christie said. “The state’s funds have to come from
From meat loaf to MediterraneanButtered Biscuit makes way for new restaurant
By David HarrySOUTH PORTLAND — Cape Elizabeth resi-
dent Audrey Delafield had one question when she learned the Buttered Biscuit was closing last week, to be replaced soon by a Mediterranean restaurant.
“So what do I do for my almond moon cook-ies?” she asked co-owner Audrey Castro last Fri-day, the final day the takeout food business at 347 Cottage Road served its faithful customers.
From cookies to soups to side dishes and entrees – and, of course, biscuits – Audrey and Byron Castro served convenient comfort food for almost a decade on Meetinghouse Hill.
“It was just time, I think,” said Audrey, who previously was the head chef at the original Victory Deli in Portland’s Monument Square.
Her husband noted the concept has caught on at larger area markets.
“It was definitely a thing that had a niche,” Byron said. “The little guys got it going and broke it open.”
The Castros said they are ready to move on.“We are going to sit around and eat bonbons,”
Audrey joked as she tended food and customers on a day she said was “that double-edged sword.”
Byron said they originally wrote a seven-year business plan.
“You need to rejuvenate every once in a while,” he said. “You want to go out on top, or the upper side.”
DAviD HARRy / THE FORECASTER
‘Homework’ needed, but parishioners favor closing S.P. churchBy David Harry
SOUTH PORTLAND — A profes-sional assessment of the market value of St. John the Evangelist Church is planned after a parish meeting last Sun-day revealed overwhelming support for a recommendation that the 70-year-old church be closed.
Monsignor Michael Henchal said the Jan. 27 meeting of parishioners produced
a need for more more details about the value of the 611 Main St. church, a for-mer rectory now used as a convent, and a closed pastoral center once used as a parish school.
“We need to do some homework,” Henchal said this week.
Sunday’s meeting came after a finance committee recommended closing the church by June 30. Henchal estimated
the meeting was attended by about 70 people; he said two-thirds of them ex-pressed support for closing the church.
“There’s significant support for the (finance committee) recommendation,” he said.
St. John the Evangelist is part of a par-ish cluster of Roman Catholic churches
A parish finance committee has recommended closing St. John the Evangelist Church, 611 Main St. in South Portland.
DAviD HARRy / THE FORECASTER
Buttered Biscuit co-owner Audrey Castro, above, chats with customer Susan Fowles on Friday, Jan. 25, the last day for the 10-year-old business that specialized
in takeout comfort foods. Cape Elizabeth resident Audrey Delafield said she will miss a lot of things about the Buttered Biscuit, but nothing more than
Audrey Castro’s almond moon cookies, left.
S.P. farmers market site still uncertainBy David Harry
SOUTH PORTLAND — Some progress is being made toward expanding the outdoor farmers market when it opens this spring.
But the essential element of the market – precisely where it will operate – remains unresolved.
A series of proposed ordinance changes that would allow more types of vendors, different kinds of locations, and advertising for the 2-year-old market received preliminary council support Mon-day night in a workshop at the Community Center.
Proposed zoning changes that would allow the market to oper-ate on private property and and receive special exceptions to operate in a variety of zones were forwarded to the Planning Board for discussion on Feb. 12.
The zoning changes would al-low farmers markets in residential zones if they are operated on city-owned land.
A proposed licensing change See page 26
See page 6
See page 27
See page 6
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The second time may be the charm for William Kayatta Jr., the Cape Elizabeth lawyer renominated to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Tuesday announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider Kayatta’s nomination to the Boston court by Presi-dent Barack Obama on Thursday. The committee is expected to vote early next week.
Committee approval would move the renomination to the Senate floor, where it stalled last year during because of an election-year maneuver that has been used by Democrats and Republicans over the last 45 years.
Kayatta, a civil litigation specialist at the Pierce Atwood law firm, would replace Judge Kermit Lipez, a South Portland resident who is taking senior judicial status.
Collins said she has asked Judiciary
Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to expedite Kayatta’s renomina-tion to the court. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals is one judicial rung below the U.S. Supreme Court; it hears fed-eral cases from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.
Collins and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine support Kayatta’s nomina-tion and previously urged Senate leaders to schedule a floor vote after the elections and before the 112th Congress adjourned late last year. The new congressional term requires reconsideration of the president’s prior judicial nominees.
After gaining Judiciary Committee support last spring, Kayatta’s nomination stalled in the full Senate when Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed to block pending federal court nominations by use of filibusters.
The tactic was originally attributed to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., who blocked President Lyndon John-son’s 1968 nomination of Abe Fortas to
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the U.S. Supreme Court. Leahy and Sen-ate Democrats have also used filibusters to block election-year judicial nomina-tions by Republican presidents.
Last summer, Collins and former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, vowed to vote to end any filibuster. Unable to muster 60 votes to end debate last July on Judge Robert Bacharach’s nomination to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D.-Nev., did not schedule any more floor votes. The stall affected at least three oth-
er nominations, including Kayatta’s, dur-ing the presidential election campaign.
“I thank Chairman Leahy for moving quickly to consider Bill’s renomination,” Collins said. “Bill has a stellar record (and) the highest ABA rating. I am hope-ful that, once he is approved again by the Judiciary Committee, the full Senate will move swiftly to confirm this qualified nominee and finally fill this vacancy.”
David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @
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SOUTH PORTLAND — Residents and business owners are invited to apply for a commission reviewing compensation for city councilors, School Board members and members of other municipal committees and boards.
Harpswell-based consultant Michael Wing will assist the commission, which will send findings and recommendations to the City Council.
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SOUTH PORTLAND — State Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, will host a public forum at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Community Center to discuss supple-mental and biennial budgets proposed by Gov. Paul LePage.
Millett represents District 7, which includes South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and the eastern portion of Scarborough. She will be joined by South Portland Reps. Terry Morrison, Bryan Kaenrath and Scott Hamman, all Democrats. Ham-man also represents the northwest portion of Cape Elizabeth.
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Scarborough goal: Cap spending growth at 3%By David Harry
SCARBOROUGH — With a list of 10 goals for the coming year, town councilors saw no need to prioritize the list they compiled at a Wednesday night workshop.
By consensus, they agreed municipal spending should increase no more than 3 percent, a goal Town Manager Tom Hall said is necessary and achievable.
But as Councilor Jessica Holbrook noted, there is an attached list of qualify-ing conditions that could stymie the goal.
The $2.6 million elephant on the list is the potential effect of reduced state revenue sharing written into the biennial budget submitted by Gov. Paul LePage.
Councilor Ed Blaise said the proposed state budget should not hinder efforts to present taxpayers with a budget showing no property tax increases.
But Hall told councilors if passed as written, the loss of state funds, revisions to excise tax sharing on commercial ve-hicles registered in town, and a reduction in how business equipment tax is shared by the state would require a 5.7 percent increase in the property tax rate to make up for lost revenue.
The current tax rate is $13.80 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Council Chairman Ron Ahlquist said he anticipates a hard time in the budget process, but reassured Blaise that coun-cilors look over every line item as they examine the annual municipal budget Hall presents in March.
“We’ve done it over and over and we will do it again this year,” Ahlquist said.
Ahlquist and Vice Chairwoman Ju-dith Roy also said a flat budget poses challenges because contracts with town
departments called for pay increases, and fuel and energy costs are always a vari-able. Keeping the property tax rate con-stant could require service cuts to help pay for contract obligations, Roy warned.
A suggestion to draft a budget based on “zero-based” principles that essen-tially define what a department does and how much is needed for operations was dismissed for this year because of a lack of time for department heads, although Holbrook said it could be considered in the future.
Roy and Ahlquist said they hope the town can avoid municipal layoffs, but Hall noted even partial changes to how the town receives state revenue will be challenging. He estimated the shift in ex-cise taxes for commercial vehicles would cost $700,000, because several trucking companies register their vehicles in town.
Among other goals suggested by coun-cilors, Ahlquist said he hopes to make the town more business friendly and improve pedestrian access from Oak Hill to the Eastern Trail.
Holbrook called for more methods of cost sharing between the School Depart-ment and other town departments. She would also like to see more work done to preserve town historical sites and open spaces.
Roy targeted continued efforts to save money through energy efficiency and reducing the town carbon footprint.
Councilor Kate St. Clair said residents need to be more aware and more engaged in local affairs. She said improving the town website and making better use of social networks will help officials com-municate.
Hall conceded the town website “needs a major overhaul,” but cautioned that using social networks for two-way com-munication needs some limitations.
Throughout the workshop, it became clear to councilors that they were some-times unaware of what municipal depart-ments are doing to save money or achieve
other goals. Roy and Blaise compliment-ed Public Works Director Mike Shaw for playing a lead role in reorganizing his department more efficiently and finding ways to reduce energy costs.
Hall and Ahlquist also suggested an in-centive program for municipal employees and perhaps residents who suggest ways for more economizing.
The list of goals will be formally pre-sented at the next council meeting on Feb. 6.
David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @
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Broadway changes get South Portland council nodBy David Harry
SOUTH PORTLAND — Plans to recon-figure Broadway near Ferry Village will proceed this summer, but the full scope of the work may need more city funding.
A Maine Department of Transportation project to resurface Broadway from Cot-tage Road to Pickett Street will include redesigned travel lanes between Stanford and Walnut streets to make room for a center turn lane.
Because of insufficient gravel under the asphalt at the edges of the street, some sec-tions could require more than resurfacing, which would add almost $90,000 to the current $85,000 city share for the work.
At a City Council workshop Monday, City Manager Jim Gailey and Planning
Director Tex Haeuser received council support for the plan, despite the potential added cost.
The project has the unanimous endorse-ment of the 11-member South Portland Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee, although it means no dedicated bicycle lane can be created, Councilor Patti Smith said.
Smith, a committee member, and said making space for bicyclists on that part of Broadway is difficult.
“There is not that much real estate to make it a bona fide bike lane,” she said.
Haeuser and Gailey said MDOT test bor-ings at the edges of the roadway initially indicated the gravel under the asphalt might not properly hold the weight of traffic.
Gailey said he is looking for other
City manager expects to soon fill economic postBy David Harry
SOUTH PORTLAND — After fielding applications from as far away as Australia, City Manager Jim Gailey last week said he expects to appoint a new economic director in the next couple of weeks.
The field of 85 candidates was reduced to seven finalists chosen by Gailey and a search committee comprised of Fire Chief Kevin Guimond, Human Resources Director Don Brewer, Transportation and Waterfront Director Tom Meyers, Water Resource Protection Director Pat Cloutier and Finance Director Greg L’Heureux.
Gailey said initial interviews began this week, and he would like to conclude the process by the middle of next month. The finalists are all from New England, Gailey said, but the depth of the applicant field impressed him.
“We had a tremendous amount of talent,” Gailey said.
Since the appointee might have to give a month’s notice to a current employer, Gai-ley said he hopes the new economic director
will be on the job by the middle of March.Gailey said the new director can expect
to spend 80 percent of his or her time on economic development and 20 percent serv-ing as assistant city manager and leading municipal initiatives.
Attracting new business to the city will be critical, Gailey said, but a primary task for the economic director will also be working with existing businesses to foster growth and expansion.
The job has been vacant since the res-ignation last August of Erik Carson, who was on administrative leave at the time he resigned. Carson had also served as assis-tant city manager before his demotion in October 2011.
Mayor Tom Blake has said hiring a new economic director is one of his top five priorities for the year.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHarry8.
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“If needed” became an important phrase Monday night, as Haeuser and MDOT Project Manager Denis Lovely said revised study indicates the gravel is stable, and add-ing an inch of asphalt to the current 5-inch surface will strengthen the road.
The work on Broadway will be timed to
coincide with improvements at Broadway and Mussey Street that will add enhanced pedestrian crossings with push-button walk and yield signals for pedestrians. Lovely said the jobs should go out to bid in early March.
West of the intersection, parking outside the apartments at 425 Broadway known as Hazard Tower will likely be eliminated and a small lot and turn-in area will be built on the property.
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Scarborough Planning Board OKs rebuilding McDonald’sBy David Harry
SCARBOROUGH — After more than a year of presentations and revisions, McDonald’s restaurant owners got their break Monday night when the Planning Board approved a new restaurant at 221 U.S. Route 1.
The unanimous vote came after Kerry Corthell, serving as a nonvoting board alternate, criticized the revised exterior plan for the new 3,900-square-foot res-taurant.
“I appreciate the effort,” Corthell said. “I still have a little issue with it not hav-ing a more traditional New England roof line.”
McDonald’s construction manager Adam Guilmette said the design is “our attempt at New England architecture.”
The new restaurant, to be built on the footprint of the existing 30-year-old
McDonald’s, will be “state-of-the-art” in its interior seating and kitchen design, Guilmette said.
Board members Ronald Mazer and Jeffrey Thomas offered strong support for the plan.
“I think you have done a good job and it is time to approve this,” Thomas said, who said he wanted to avoid perceptions town government is anti-business.
Mazer dismissed questions about the vibrant yellow awnings planned for the exterior by complimenting planners from Southboro, Mass.-based Bohler Engi-neering on their work.
“I’m all for this. You have done as good a job as possible with what you have to work with,” he said. “It is much better than that atrocity that’s down the street now.”
Plan approval came with conditions,
including Planning Department approval of the materials to be used in windows on a faux second floor, outdoor sign de-signs, and proof of the easement needed to build a sidewalk on privately owned Plaza Drive.
The new restaurant will continue a trend of redevelopment in the Oak Hill area near the intersection of Routes 1 and Route 114. Revisions to the final plan were drawn to resemble standards applied to the construction of Walgreens in 2010.
That included the building height and windows, but also for stamped instead of
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in the city, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough. It includes buildings along Main Street and Aspen Avenue, sharing a common parking lot.
Among the unanswered questions, Henchal said, is “Is it marketable as a whole?”
The finance committee recommendation cited reduced church revenue, aging buildings, and the need for real and potential costly repairs. The parish has $5,000 in savings, needs $60,000 to $70,000 for roof repairs, and its boilers and sound system are deteriorating, Henchal said.
Saturday evening Mass draws an average of 150 parish-ioners, Henchal estimated. While the average appears to have been constant over the last five years, he said offer-tory contributions from parishioners have decreased from $218,000 in fiscal year 2009 to $182,000 last year.
Without any repairs, he said, the parish is operating at a $20,000 deficit.
“If you went back over the last 10 years, I think you’d find the same pattern,” Henchal said.
There are about 600 households registered as parishio-ners, Henchal said, but a household varies from a single person to families, and people who have left the parish do not usually call and asked to be removed from listings.
“There are a whole lot of Catholics on our books who might not be going to church,” he said.
Twenty-five years ago, Henchal said, “the church was growing by leaps and bounds,” fueled largely by population growth in northern Scarborough that actually straining the parish facilities. That led to the decision to add a parish at St. Maximilian Kolbe on Black Point Road in Scarborough.
The new parish siphoned away families and “left (St. John’s) a little island,” Henchal said.
Because parishes are expected to be self-sustaining, Henchal said finding funding for repairs and upkeep for St. John’s is a challenge. After consulting with real estate pro-fessionals to get a better idea of the market values of parish properties, Henchal said the parishioners will meet again.
The French collectionThere are better ways to spend a Sunday afternoon in
Paris than making an impromptu visit to the emergency room in a public hospital, but that’s what I did a few weeks ago following an altercation with a chair at a restaurant in the Marais.
I really ought to come up with a better story, but the truth is I cut the dick-ens out of my index finger on the jagged edge of the chair as I settled in for lunch. I knew in an instant this was not your average superficial nick, and when my eyes cleared sufficiently to have a look at the digit, now swathed in napkins, my suspicions were con-firmed. There was no way I could stop the bleeding.
The restaurant’s owner was solicitous – at first offering me a tiny band-aid (which was laughingly inadequate), but then escorting me to a nearby pharmacy for treatment, and ultimately picking up the tab for that as well as for our lunch. The pharmacist dis-infected the wound, wrapped my finger in a proper bandage and sent us off to the hospital with the admonition that the wrapping would probably hold for a couple of hours before it would become, shall we say, saturated.
By this point I was no longer cursing or seeing stars and was able to carry on a conversation. Thus we learned, as she walked us from the pharmacy towards the hospital, that
the owner of the restaurant was originally from Israel and had moved to Paris 35 years before, and so on. By the time we arrived at the salle d’urgence I was somewhat mollified and therefore decided to drop the billion-dollar lawsuit I had been contemplating just minutes before.
(What can I say? I’m a sucker for the French language. I will have to find another source of retirement income. One hates to profit at the hands of one’s friends, particularly those who own a restaurant. )
And so I was feeling more charitable when we arrived at the emergency room, but my finger was not, and the bandage was already in need of attention. I approached the intake clerk and explained to her what had happened. She referred me to a clerk immediately to her left, two feet away, who listened to me repeat the explanation and then accepted my Maine driver’s license as identification. I then joined three other patients, some wrapped in sleeping bags and other accoutrements of life on the streets, in the recep-tion area and prepared for a long wait.
Within five minutes, however, I was called to an examin-ing room where a burly nurse gently took my blood pressure, unwrapped the pharmacist’s work, examined the wound, lis-tened to my explanation of what had happened, rewrapped the wound and then released me again to the waiting area.
Within 10 minutes a young, tired-looking nurse fetched me and took me deeper into the bowels of the hospital, into yet another examining room. There she and two other nurses unwrapped the wound and noted that it wouldn’t stop bleeding. I agreed. They then told me to lie down as they poured a few drops of black squid ink – they insisted it was an antiseptic – on the wound (“It won’t hurt,” they said. They were wrong.) After wrapping me up rather loosely, they sent me down the hall for an x-ray.
I pointed out that the wrapping had immediately become saturated, but they insisted I go to x-ray, where I waited and bled some more. Ten minutes after that I was x-rayed and told to go ... somewhere. I apologized for having bled on the table. The technician directed me back to the recep-tion area.
At this point, I had an x-ray in one hand and a mound of bloody gauze on the other. I told the receptionist that I was no doctor, but was I supposed to leave the hospital with bloody bandages on my finger? Whereupon the burly nurse whom I’d seen an hour before summoned me back inside, calmly rewrapped the wound – tightly and properly – and finally sent me on my way. I went to the cashier to make arrangements for payment but she didn’t look up.
“Not today. Eventually, you’ll get a bill,” she said. And so we left.
Three days later, a nurse knocked on my hotel room door. Torn from the pages of GQ, he had a motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm and announced that he had come to change the bandage on my finger.
More squid ink, more lies about it not hurting – after which he rewrapped the wound and said, in so many words, that I was good to go. He left, and we resumed our visit to Paris. I self-medicated with rich food and fine Bordeaux.
Last Friday, the bill arrived from the hospital. The total, including the nurse’s visit, was 150 euros (about $200).
That part didn’t hurt a bit.Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and presi-
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The fate of St. John the Evangelist also affects the future of the South Portland Food Cupboard, which operates in 4,000 square feet under the church. Cupboard Director Sybil Riemensnider has alerted staff and clients that the pantry must move by June 30.
Riemensnider said keeping a location in South Portland is essential, but had no new details this week on the search for a new site.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected].
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somewhere. So you can react to one proposal or another, but there aren’t unlimited options for where it comes from.”
Christie said they don’t know exactly what the impact will be if the state were to shift teacher pension funds to local districts, because the state hasn’t been clear about how it would pay its share. But, he said, the impact will be statewide.
“I don’t think it’s the kind of issue that will only concern southern Maine,” he said. “I suspect every community is giving it serious thought. It would be a new cost that would have to be borne by every school district in the state.”
Superintendent of Schools Meredith Nadeau said retire-ment costs are estimated to be about $1.8 million in Cape, according to the most recent audit. Any substantial share of that cost, on top of the 10 percent revenue loss from curtailments, would be a difficult burden to carry, she said.
“It means we’re starting out our budget planning receiv-ing $200,000 less, adding to other challenges like reduc-tions in Medicaid and other school funds,” Nadeau said. “It’s shrinking numbers overall. It’s not a great scenario that’s for sure.”
She said the shift would not only put a strain on schools, but poses a question of local control of tax dollars.
“One of the challenges local communities have is that they’ve never been involved in negotiating those pensions
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and it seems fundamentally unfair to shift that burden on to them,” Nadeau said. “It conflicts with the notion of more local control coming from Augusta.”
Millett said it’s too early to tell if this shift will become a reality, noting that legislators won’t address the biennial budget until mid-February.
Another issue board members discussed with Millett was the governor’s plan to flat-fund education.
Christie said the proposal for flat funding is really a cut. Under the governor’s plan, he said, schools would be funded at the curtailment level, which means starting out at a $197,000 revenue loss in Cape Elizabeth, or about 10 percent of the entire school budget.
School Department officials said last week that the cur-tailments would be weathered using contingency funds and savings in health-care and fuel costs.
Millett said the education committee recently finished the budget deliberation and doesn’t anticipate any further cuts to education.
“The education committee voted with serious reserva-tions to accept the curtailments,” she said, adding that the budget now heads to the Appropriations Committee, which ultimately has authority to determine what’s in the budget.
“I have communicated very strongly and we’re hoping there are not further cuts put to public schools,” she said. “I’d be surprised if that were to happen, but never say never.”
The School Department is not expecting any other major revenue losses, Christie said, but is concerned about the governor’s proposal to cease municipal revenue sharing because it could put a higher burden on property taxpayers.
In wealthier communities, such as Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth and Yarmouth, he said, this typically is more expensive because of higher property values.
Christie said although many affluent people live in these communities, it creates inequities, especially for the elderly.
“The problem with property tax is that it has nothing to do with a person’s ability to pay,” Christie said. “We have folks who may have lived in a house a long time and are on a fixed income, an income that’s not changing, but their property taxes are going up.”
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A marriage of oppositesAs I was sitting down to write this, my husband began
dancing a gleeful jig around our kitchen. Not because he knew I was going to be occupied for the next hour or so (actually, that may have been part of it), but because he’d had a break-through.
He knew how he was going to use the empty jug of washer fluid and a leftover PVC pipe to create an automatic water dispenser for our cat.
I know. What an ama-teur. As if it isn’t patently obvious how to fashion feline plumbing out of recyclable plastic.
In his defense, he had just turbo-vacuumed his car in the driveway wear-ing nothing but a flannel shirt and jeans. His brain was tired. And potentially frozen through.
The event does serve, though, as yet another example of the many, many, mahahahany ways he and I are dif-ferent. Opposites, you might say. Yet here we are, almost nine years married.
We met at the end of our sophomore year in college. He was wearing threadbare corduroy pants, a white V-neck T-shirt, and espadrilles. His shoulder-length hair was pulled back with a faded bandanna I later learned he had found on the beach in his native Puerto Rico. He was smoking a cigarette, and his girlfriend was sitting
on his lap.I was wearing something off the Ann Taylor sales
rack, mixed with some baubles from the Banana Re-public discount line. My freckles were blinking on my face, and my hair was an electric mess pointing in the direction of “away.” I was likely carrying a book and doing my best impression of a girl who did not feel totally out of her league. (It was a terrible impression.)
We were introduced. He immediately captivated me; I made zero impact. The next time we spoke, he was asking me for the homework assignment from the class we were about to enter. He had no idea who I was; I was nervous he’d caught me doodling “Abby Diaz.”
After he dated three or four other nationalities, we finally began dating just before our senior year started. We then went to law school together, and married a few months after graduation. We could be the counter-point to almost every point about relationships.
He grew up gathering mangoes in his backyard and going to the beach after school. He created games us-ing tamarind seeds and lived for weeks without running water after a bad hurricane. He saw the “Rambo” mov-ies in theaters.
The first time I saw a mango, I thought someone had done a science experiment with an avocado. I went to the beach when my parents got adventurous in the sum-mer. I think a tamarind is from the woodwind family of instruments, and hurricanes scare me if they don’t get pushed out to sea by the Carolinas. I saw “Beauty and the Beast” in theaters.
His idea of a nice meal is steak, rice and beans. Mine is take-out. He can fix leaky faucets, trap mice and make child safety gates out of a discarded trellis. I can Google
plumbers, exterminators and Target. He wanted to make our house more homey, so he bought six chickens. I’m still looking for curtains.
He has haggled with AT&T and now they pay us. He taught himself to roast a pig and hosted 20 for dinner later that day. He never looked happier than he did the summer afternoon that he backed into our driveway with a wood chipper. I dislike confrontation, can make eggs explode in the microwave, and think dandelion removal is exhausting.
While our differences were clear from the outset, I’m not sure they were what (finally) drew us together. And although they certainly keep things interesting today, I’m equally unconvinced that they’re the reason we still like each other.
Because underneath all the quirks and preferences and hobbies are two outlooks on life that overlap in the right places: money (save it), religion (go easy), kids (cute), marriage (be nice), and Disney World (totally overwhelming).
Opposites attract? More like opposites interact, simi-larities impact.
Or something.I’ve got to run. He’s trying to buy rabbits on Craig-
slist.Abby Diaz grew up in Falmouth and lives there again,
because that’s how life works. She blogs at abbysleft-overs.blogspot.com and hellogiggles.com/abby-diaz, and can be reached at [email protected]. Follow Abby on Twitter: @AbbyDiaz1.
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By Steve WoodsI love Yarmouth as a community and Maine as the great-
est state in the country. And, I’m sure that residents and community leaders throughout our state feel the same way about their towns and cities.
But, in my opinion, local municipalities are under at-tack. Not from the outside, but from within. And unless we speak up, with voices loud and clear, fiscal budget decisions made in Augusta over the next few weeks threaten our immediate interests, with the potential to greatly cripple our collective futures.
Gov. Paul LePage recently submit-ted his 2014-2015 biennium budget to the Legislature. His $6.2 billion two-year budget pro-posal is unprecedented in ways that go far beyond fiscal management, into the realm of recasting the constitutional relationship between the state and its municipalities.
The budget hierarchy between federal, state, county and local municipalities has always been part of our system of government. The core principle of that revenue collection/expense budgeting approach is that each government entity collects an approximate amount relative to the services being provided, and the oversight and infrastructure com-manded.
LePage’s budget proposal wildly overreaches in the rev-enue burden that he is attempting to shift to municipalities across the state.
Reducing state income taxes while shifting significant cost burdens to local towns through various mechanisms (homestead exemption change, revenue sharing, teacher retirement funding, excise tax, etc.), is bad policy, weak fis-
cal management, and fundamentally dishonest as an approach to meeting our challenges. It also shifts a higher revenue burden onto property taxes, which is regressive tax policy by nature.
In addition, the LePage proposal to take $14 million in casino funds
earmarked for public education, and transfer those funds into the state General Fund, represents more than a bro-ken promise to Maine’s voters; it’s a horrible precedent to directly link casino revenue to our state budget. Such dependency over time will only lead to regulatory issues, budget variances, and an unhealthy co-dependency between the gaming industry and the state.
Two years ago, LePage personally touted tax cuts and a lack of gimmicks as features of his first budget as governor. In his current proposed budget, he is effectively demand-ing enormous “tax burdens” shifted to local towns and cities with numerous gimmicks to abdicate portions of our state’s responsibilities (education, health services, public safety, etc.).
Aside from LePage’ s breathtaking budgetary policy zig-zag in just two years, I’m more concerned about the imme-diate crisis at hand that threatens virtually every person in Maine. The proposed budget goes far beyond the scope of a responsible recalibration of state and municipal revenues and expenses; it attempts to fundamentally change, now and forever, the financial and constitutional relationship between Maine and each municipality.
Maine’s bond rating was reduced by one agency last week, with the “contentious” atmosphere in Augusta being cited as one factor. The New York Times ran an article last week suggesting that Maine’s political standoff between the governor and lawmakers could lead to a government shutdown.
As the leader of a municipality, and as a citizen of Maine, I’m asking the governor to reconsider his budget proposal.
In addition, I am asking that the Maine Municipal As-sociation, the organization that represents the state’s towns and cities, to formally ask all municipalities to vote indi-vidually on a shared resolution that demands a 2014-2015 budget that is fair and equitable between the needs of the state and the needs of local municipalities.
Based upon input from fellow town councilors and resi-dents of Yarmouth, I intend to support such a resolution as soon as possible.
Steve Woods is chairman of the Yarmouth Town Council, CEO of Falmouth-based TideSmart Global, and an an-nounced Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
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A recent Public Policy Polling poll suggests that if a three-way race for governor were held today, Gov. Paul LePage, with a solid 37 percent of the vote, would beat any Democratic candidate and indepen-dent Eliot Cutler. In a head-to-head race, the poll found that just about any Democrat wins.
We all know how far off polls can be and how far off November 2014 is, but do we really want to take a chance on another spoiler election con-demning Maine to a second LePage admin-istration with all the insulting, ill-mannered, oafish behavior that might suggest?
What Maine needs for its gubernatorial election is the sort of ranked-choice voting that Portland has ad-opted for its mayoral elections. By designating first, second and third choices on the ballot, voters ensure that the eventual winner has a majority, not just a slim plurality.
But because Maine is unlikely to adopt ranked-choice voting in time for the 2014 election, it may take some creative collusion to defeat LePage, though it’s hard to believe that close to 40 percent of Maine voters actually approve of the bully in the Blaine House.
Like a lot of Democrats, I voted for Eliot Cutler at the last minute in 2010 when it became apparent that Libby Mitchell couldn’t possibly win. Cutler came so close to beating LePage that in hindsight, Mitch-ell seems to have been the spoiler.
I have since met and talked with Cutler and I could very well vote for him again. Cutler’s message of moderation and bipartisanship has its appeal. But he may not fare as well in 2014 as he did in 2010, when he was essentially a choice of last resort. Cut-
ler will have to overcome the “Romney Curse” – a lack of the common touch – if he is going to appeal to enough voters to beat both LePage and Fill-in-the-Democrat.
A lot of the politically savvy folks I have talked with about 2014 sing the same song: “Cutler ain’t no Angus King” and caution that he represents Paul LePage’s best chance of re-election.
It was rather laughable last fall when independent U.S. Senate candidate Steve Woods announced that he would drop out of the race if it looked as though he might take enough votes away from Angus King to give the election to Charlie Summers, but some similar form of deference may well be in order come 2014.
There is precedent here in Yarmouth, in fact, for a candidate bowing out to help elect a sympathetic op-ponent. In 2012, gracious Democrat Cindy Bullens withdrew from the state Senate race and endorsed independent incumbent Sen. Dick Woodbury when it became apparent that she and Woodbury risked splitting the moderate-progressive vote and letting conservative candidate Chris Tyll slip in.
I somehow doubt the Democratic Party will defer to Cutler the way it did to Angus King by fielding a candidate who couldn’t win, but I would like to see an agreement between Cutler and a Democrat-to-be-named-later that one of them will withdraw and endorse the other as the gubernatorial campaign goes down the home stretch. If it’s not clear with two weeks to go who’s in the lead and who should defer, I’d just as soon they flipped a coin – anything to prevent the unthinkable.
As much as Cutler wants to be governor and might make a good one, he cannot possibly want to be remembered as the guy who saddled Maine with Paul LePage not once, but twice. Four more years of Gov. Buttkiss would be a rank choice, indeed.
Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.
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I am writing this in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s most recent column, “It’s time to tax guns, ammo.” Mr. Beem’s diatribe proves that he has lost all common sense and confirms that he is in the group of people that have no clue as to what they are speaking about when it comes to the recent gun debate. His opinion on gun-related matters makes joining the National Rifle As-sociation a viable option for many gun owners that may have considered that organization’s policies too rigid in its approach to gun laws.
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Marcoux’s experience wasn’t unique
I have never seen a stronger, more courageous piece of opinion in your paper than Dana Marcoux sharing his 1970s experience (“‘Out’ in Maine: How people, times change”).
I can relate. I am a Jewish American who had to endure hate during the same time Dana did, just for an-other rea-son. Before
Hebrew school on a regular basis, we would have to physically fight before going to class, and during the fights, the name-calling got worse and worse. The anti-semitism was just as bad as a gay man being bullied and harassed. All these actions are morally wrong. In some cases criminal. We should never let this happen again. We all should realize the true weakness of a person that may disagree with our religion or sexual orientation while using verbal abuse and physical force. There is no tolerance in my life for it and that kind of hate could be better used in a much different and positive way.
Dana, you have done well and get my respect 100 percent for sharing detailed and maybe hurtful truths about your life. I ask God to bless you and others that have gone through similar difficulties and pray to try to end these kind of hateful actions. Let us hope that all who read this letter will also agree with us.
Jeff DeletetskyTopsham
research projects and provide hunter education courses. A great example of the use of these funds is the success-ful reintroduction of the wild turkey to Maine.
True gun control will only come through the success-ful enforcement of the current laws we have and the
strengthening of thorough background checks for all gun sales to keep guns out of the hands criminals and the mentally ill who wish to do others harm.
Chuck FagonePortland
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1/19 at 2:16 a.m. Joseph J. Giusti, 20, of Portland, was arrested on Cottage Road by Officer Chris Schofield on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, refusing to submit to arrest and consumption of liquor by a minor.1/19 at 4:02 p.m. Jay D. Hinman, 46, of Standish, was arrested on Maine Mall Road by Officer Michael Armstrong on an outstanding warrant from another agency.1/21 at 2:27 a.m. Derek Locke, 35, of Port-land, was arrested on Gorham Road by Officer Kevin Theriault on a charge of operating under the influence.1/22 at 3:05 a.m. Ryan Gillikin, 26, of South Portland, was arrested on Hill Street by Of-ficer Chris Gosling on an outstanding warrant from another agency.1/22 at 8:25 p.m. Derrick R. Casey, 36, of South Portland, was arrested on the Veterans Memorial Bridge by Officer Jared Nabel on charges of operating under the influence, operating without a license and violating conditions of release.1/23 at 3:52 a.m. Stephanie L. Roth, 30, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was arrested on Maine Mall Road by Officer Michael Armstrong on a charge of criminal mischief.1/23 at 9:03 p.m. Jamison C. Esquibel, 21 of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested on Broad-way by Officer Kevin Sager on charges of failure to register a vehicle and possession of marijuana.1/24 at 1:44 a.m. Ryan M. Rich, 22, of Windham, was arrested on I-295 by Officer Michael Armstong on charges of operating under the influence and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.1/24 at 8:28 p.m. Robert Leavitt, 26, of Sanford, was arrested on Westbrook Street by Officer Kevin Sager on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/25 at 4:44 p.m. Ryan Ellman, 23, of South Portland, was arrested on Wermuth Road by Officer Kevin Theriault on a charge of oper-ating with a suspended or revoked license.
Summonses1/19 at 2:16 a.m. Rose Call, 20, of Portland, was issued a summons on Cottage Road by Officer Chris Schofield on a charge of con-sumption of liquor by a minor.1/20 at 11:46 a.m. Elijah Soll, 33, of Skow-hegan, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of
possession of marijuana.1/21 at 6:04 a.m. Meron Admassu, 21, of Portland, was issued a summons on Broad-way by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of operating with an expired registration.1/21 at 9:41 a.m. Tillisa Davenport, 33 of Westbrook, was issued a summons on Western Avenue by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of operating with an expired registration.1/21 at 1:09 p.m. Terrance Knight, 36, of Biddeford, was issued a summons on Broad-way by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of operating with expired registration.1/21 at 5:15 p.m. Kenneth S. Parker, 20, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Patricia Maynard on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/22 at 1:16 a.m. Calum D. Hinkle, 20, of Bid-deford, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Shane Stephenson on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.1/24 at 5:13 p.m. Janessa L. Feeney, 27, of Windham, was issued a summons on Western Avenue by Officer Kevin Sager on a charge of operating with an expired registration.1/25 at 9:37 a.m. Jacob Cyr-Carter, 20, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Highland Avenue by Officer Allen Andrews on a charge of possession of marijuana.
Fire calls1/22 at 8:15 a.m. Gas leak on Western Avenue.1/22 at 2:37 p.m. Hazardous materials release investigation, no release, on Market Street.1/22 at 9:17 p.m. Electrical problem on Ocean Street.1/23 at 9:20 a.m. Accident, no injuries, on I-295.1/23 at 4:08 p.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion, no fire, on Maine Mall Road.1/23 at 7:29 p.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion, no fire, on Maine Mall Road.1/24 at 7:06 a.m. Accident with injuries on Maine Mall Road.1/24 at 7:16 a.m. Unintentional smoke de-tector activation, no fire, on Shoreway Lane.1/24 at 12:56 p.m. Water problem on Har-borview Place.1/24 at 4:07 p.m. Sprinkler activation, no fire, on Clarks Pond Road.1/24 at 5:54 p.m. Unintentional smoke detec-tor activation, no fire, on Westbrook Street.1/25 at 11:27 a.m. Water problem on Angell Avenue.1/25 at 1:40 p.m. Accident with injuries on Westbrook Street.1/25 at 3:13 p.m. Alarm call on Cottage Road.1/25 at 3:47 p.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion, no fire, on Clemons Street.1/27 at 9:59 a.m. Unintentional smoke detec-tor activation, no fire, on Pine Street.1/27 at 1:51 p.m. Chemical hazard investiga-tion, no spill, on Cottage Road.1/28 at 12:27 a.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion, no fire, on Maine Mall Road.1/28 at 2:29 a.m. Water or steam leak on Churchill Road.
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1/28 at 8:08 a.m. Unintentional alarm mal-function, no fire, on Osborne Avenue.1/28 at 10:30 a.m. Carbon monoxide detector malfunction on Broadway.
EMSSouth Portland emergency medical services responded to 49 calls from Jan. 22-28.
Scarborough arrests
1/25 at 12:59 a.m. Kelly E. Milliken, 28, of Stonecrest Drive, Portland, was arrested at Route 1 and Maple Avenue by Officer Timothy Dalton on a charge of operating under the influence.
Summonses1/21 at 12:34 a.m. Michael W. Bamford, 18, of Hunnewell Road, was issued a summons on Schooner Road by Officer Timothy Dalton on a charge of possession of marijuana.1/21 at 1:18 p.m. Jason Rocha, 39, of India Street, Portland, was issued a summons at Payne and Cummings Roads by Officer Ben-jamin Landry on a charge of stopping traffic to solicit contributions without a license.1/22 at 10:12 a.m. Troy Dorr, 32, of Milliken Road, was issued a summons at Route 1 and Milliken Road by Officer Douglas Weed on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/22 at 4:42 p.m. Scott J. Lambert, 32, of Wainwright Circle, South Portland, was is-sued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Craig Hebert on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/22 at 9:43 p.m. Danny Stutes, 54, of Hardscrabble Road, Limington, was issued a summons at Holmes and Two Rod roads by Officer Cory Lounder on a charge of operating with an expired inspection sticker.1/24 at 6 a.m. Seth Emmons, 43, of New County Road, Dayton, was issued a summons at Route 1 and Campus Drive by Officer Ian Theriault on a charge of failing to display a valid inspection sticker.1/24 at 2:36 p.m. Nantz Comyns, 57, of Liberty Bell Lane, was issued a summons on Pine Point Road by Officer Donald Laflin on a charge of failure to produce evidence of insurance.1/26 at 5:43 p.m. Lucas J. Morrison, 25, of Constitution Drive, Westbrook, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Of-ficer Michael Beeler on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/26 at 7:44 p.m. Melanie Howe, 31, of Deerwander Road, Hollis Center, was issued a summons on Running Hill Road by Officer Cory Lounder on a charge of failing to display a valid inspection sticker.1/27 at 1:47 p.m. Vahovova Kisoyat, 33, of Coachlantern Road West, was issued a sum-mons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Cory Lounder on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/27 at 1:47 p.m. Akobir Djuraev, 35, of Coachlantern Road West, was issued a sum-mons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Cory Lounder on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/27 at 8:25 p.m. Lindsay A. Day, 32, of Victoria Lane, Waterboro, was issued a sum-mons at Gorham and Running Hill roads by Officer Donald Laflin on a charge of failing
to register a vehicle.
Found it!1/22 at 8:18 a.m. Police responding to a report of a stolen vehicle from a Washington Avenue business discovered the vehicle was impounded in Massachusetts after a traffic accident where the driver fled the scene. An employee had permission to use the vehicle, but police do not know who was involved in the accident.
get a new hobby1/23 at 8:38 a.m. A Tapley Road resident who heard a loud banging noise and screeching tires the previous night discovered the home’s mail box had been vandalized for the third time in the last few months. Damage was estimated at $35.
Fire calls1/21 at 12:26 p.m. Alarm call on Twilight Drive.1/21 at 5:07 p.m. Alarm call on Ardora Circle.1/22 at 1:50 a.m. Carbon monoxide detector call on Morning Street.1/23 at 1:08 a.m. Alarm call on Southbor-ough Road.1/24 at 6:02 a.m. Fire alarm on Crystal Lane.1/24 at 9;44 a.m. Alarm call on Washington Avenue.1/24 at 12:48 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Pillsbury Drive.1/24 at 3:27 p.m. Alarm call on Route 1.1/24 at 11:10 p.m. Water problem on Route 1.1/25 at 1:58 a.m. Alarm call on Route 1.1/25 at 3:30 a.m. Alarm call on Bird’s Nest Lane.1/25 at 3:35 a.m. Smoke detector malfunc-tion on Route 1.1/25 at 5:53 a.m. Alarm call on Broadturn Road.1/25 at 1:03 p.m. Alarm call on Atlantic Drive.1/25 at 2:05 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Gorham Road.1/25 at 7:35 p.m. Alarm call on Route 1.1/25 at 9:42 p.m. Alarm call on Jones Creek Road.1/25 at 10:56 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Saccarrappa Lane.1/26 at 1:54 a.m. Alarm call on Route 1.1/26 at 1:32 p.m. Alarm call on Winnocks Neck Road.1/27 at 9:10 p.m. Alarm call on Route 1.
EMSScarborough emergency services responded to 21 calls from Jan. 21-27.
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1/27 at 6:08 p.m. Caroline Budischewsky, 42, of Stonegate Road, was arrested on Stonegate Road by Officer Ben Davis on a charge of operating under the influence.
Summonses1/23 at 4:35 p.m. Samuel Wright, 29, of Portland, was issued a summons on Bowery Beach Road by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on a charge of driving an uninspected motor vehicle.1/27 at 3:47 p.m. Amanda Smith, 34, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Spurwink Avenue by Officer Ben Davis on charges of operating after suspension and driving an uninspected motor vehicle.
Fire calls1/23 at 3:26 p.m. Fire alarm on Scott Dyer Road.1/25 at 10:39 p.m. Fire alarm on Arrow Point Road.1/27 at 6:32 p.m. Structure fire on Fowler Road.
EMSCape Elizabeth emergency services respond-ed to 12 calls from Jan. 22-28.
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The Curtis Memorial Library in Bruns-wick received a $3,000 grant from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust of Portland. The money will expand the graphic novel collection for young adult readers at the library. All purchases will be made locally through Casablanca Comics.
New Hires
Thomas R. Flood, CPA, recently joined Albin, Randall & Bennett, a certified public accounting firm in Portland, as a senior manager. Flood has more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and specializes in tax consulting. Before join-ing Albin, Randall & Bennet, Flood was a tax director at MacDonald Page & Co., in South Portland.
Lori Norris joined the Marc Gup team at Keller & Williams Realty as team admin-istrator. With 15 years of experience in real estate administration, Norris holds a broker
license, is a notary public and a member of the Greater Portland Board of Realtors and the Maine Association of Realtors.
Attorneys Catherine B. Cosgrove and Michael S. Smith joined the Concord, N.H., litigation group of the law offices of Preti Flaherty. Cosgrove was previously was an associate in the New York and Boston of-fices of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Smith previously practiced with Nel-son Kinder & Mosseau. Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland and Augusta, Concord, N.H., Boston and Salem, Mass., Bedmin-ster, N.J. and Washington, D.C.
Promotions
CEI Capital Management named F. Rob-ert Wilson to the newly created position of managing director, new products. Wilson previously served for five years as the com-pany’s chief investment officer.
Dawn M. Harmon and Christopher M. Dargie have been elected as directors and shareholders at Perkins Thompson. Harmon runs an employment law and civil litigation practice, with an emphasis on representing employers in discrimination and wage and hour disputes, commercial litigation, prod-ucts liability and real property disputes. Dargie is an experienced business law attorney at Portland-based Perkins Thomp-son and also serves on boards of the Tate House Museum, Propel and To The Top Foundation.
Appointments
The Institute for Humane Education named Tony Scucci to its board of direc-tors. The institute offers graduate degree programs, online course, workshops, sum-mer institutes and an award-winning online
resource center.Maine Youth Leadership recently named
Amey Leadley, Mary-Anne Rouse, Wendy Cunningham, Logan Greenblatt and Nathan Elmore to its board of directors.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has named Gregory T. Caswell of Falmouth as the chairman and Charles E. Gilbert III of Bangor as vice chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Bar. Additionally, Barbara Halpern Furey of Portland and Cathy De-Merchant have been appointed as members of the board. The Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar was created by the Maine Su-preme Judicial Court in 1978 to govern the conduct of lawyers as officers of the court.
Moves
The Brunswick location of the law of-fices of Arthur J. Lamothe has moved to 157 Park Row, in Brunswick.
Good Deeds
The Curtis Memorial Library received a gift of $750 from Wild Oats Bakery and Cafe, a sum raised during a community awareness day in celebration of the cafe’s 20th anniversary. A percentage of all café sales on Sept. 30 were donated to the li-brary. Library staff were in the café that day to greet customers and sign up new library card holders during National Library Card Sign Up Month.
The Maine Marathon has donated $60,000, its largest single donation ever, to STRIVE, a South Portland-based orga-nization dedicated to helping tweens, teens and young adults with developmental dis-abilities. The STRIVE donation is part of more than $180,000 in charitable donations raised as part of the race effort this year.
The L.L. Bean Board of Directors approved the 2012 Charitable Giving Program, which will give $1.5 million in community grants ranging from $500 to $25,000 to more than 200 local, regional and national nonprofit organizations.
Recognition
Beverly Neugebauer, executive direc-
tor of Coastal Women’s Healthcare, has earned the professional designation of Certified Medical Practice Executive from the American College of Medical Practice Executives. The designation demonstrates that Neugebauer has achieved board certi-fication in medical practice management.
Enterprise Trenchless Technologies Inc. has been nominated by Equipment World Magazine for the award of 2013 Contractor of the Year, along with 12 other contractors around the country.
Awards
Wright-Pierce, an engineering firm with eight offices, ended 2012 on a high note by receiving a national award. Founded in Topsham in 1947, the company was lauded as the “best of the best” with the PSMJ Platinum Award at the annual A/E/C (archi-tecture/engineering/construction) Industry Summit, which was held in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 5-7.
The board of directors for the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2012 Busi-ness & Community Awards. The honorees are Hampton Inn of Bath as Business of the Year (Large), Greater Brunswick Physical Therapy as Business of the Year (Medium), The Brunswick Inn on Park Row as Busi-ness of the Year (Small), Amtrak/Downeas-ter as Business of the Year (Non-Profit), Long Branch School and General Store as New Business Venture of the Year, Nor-way Savings Bank as Business Health and Wellness Champion, Winter Street Center as Regional Arts and Culture Champion, Amanda Leland of Long Cove Builders for the Young Professional Award, Independent Consultant for Mary Kaye Robin Whorff as Volunteer of the Year, Lois Skillings of Mid Coast Hospital for the Chairman’s Award, First Federal Savings of Bath for the President’s Award, Rick Wilson and Cheryl Sleeper as Educators of the Year, Family of Ruthe Pagurko as Citizens of the Year, Paul F. Loveless of Fleet Reserve Association for the Joshua Chamberlain Award, and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Libby for the Harry C. Crooker Lifetime Achievement Award.
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SOUTH PORTLAND — Susan E. Danforth, 53, died unexpectedly Sunday in Portland.
Born in Methuen, Mass., to George A. Danforth Jr. and Jeanne T. Bernardin Dan-forth, Danforth graduated from Andover High School in 1978. In 1982, she gradu-ated summa cum laude from Merrimac College in North Andover, Mass. She also earned a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont.
Danforth worked for the Portland Sym-phony Orchestra as a marketing assistant and publications coordinator, and more recently for Bowdoin College as associate director of communications and college editor. The staff at Bowdoin would often joke that no communication would go in or out of the college without Danforth proof-reading it. She had a passion for music and education.
Danforth spent her quiet time at the home she loved, reading a classic novel, writing or watching old television shows. She also was a fan of figure skating and looked forward to the annual visit of professional
skaters to Portland. She never missed the "skate show," as she called it.
Danforth is survived by her parents of York; two brothers, George Arthur Danforth III of North Andover, Mass., Stephen J. Danforth and his wife Cynthia of Ando-ver, Mass.; nieces Jennifer McMahan of Charlotte, N.C., and Stephanie Danforth of Andover, Mass.; a nephew, Stephen J. Danforth Jr. of Andover, Mass.; an aunt, Annette Bernardin of Winter Harbor; uncles Peter Bernardin of Seal Beach, Calif., and Leo Bernardin of Appleton, Wis.; and a special cat, Samantha.
A memorial service was held Thursday at the Bowdoin College Chapel in Bruns-wick. Spring interment will be held in York. Those desiring may make donations to the Westbrook Animal Refuge League, P.O. Box 336, Westbrook, ME 04098.
Timothy F. Flaherty, 69SCARBOROUGH — Timothy F. Fla-
herty, 69, of Scarborough, died Jan. 20 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House with his family by his side.
He was born Jan. 25, 1943, in Portland, the second of seven children of Thomas S. Flaherty Sr. and Elaine Flaherty.
He attended Portland schools before en-listing in the U.S. Coast Guard two months after his 17th birthday. He completed his high school education while in the Coast Guard.
Flaherty retired in 2004 as an indepen-dent contractor with American Express, returning to Maine to enjoy his retirement. He enjoyed football and boxing, having been a boxer himself in the early 1970s. Flaherty was also an avid solver of cross-word puzzles.
He was very active with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. He was a lifetime member of the VFW Brook-lyn Valley Post 7790 in Waterbury, Conn., and was a past commander of the American Legion Harold T. Andrews Post 17 in Port-land. While serving with Andrews, he was selected as commander of the year for the state of Maine in 2010, and helped orga-nize the Memorial Day and Veterans Day parades in Portland.
Flaherty also enjoyed being a historian at Andrews, and worked on several projects with historian and former state Rep. Herb Adams. Another source of pride for him was finding sponsors for students to attend the American Legion’s Boys’ State program in Maine.
Flaherty was predeceased by his father. He is survived by his mother; his wife, Katherine Flaherty; his brothers, Thomas S. Flaherty Jr. and his wife Nancy of Fal-mouth, Peter and his wife Jayne of Old Orchard Beach, Paul and his wife Sandy of Westbrook, and John and Michael of South Portland; and his sisters, Patricia Flaherty of South Portland and Kathleen Smith and her husband, Donald, of Old Orchard Beach. He is also survived by five step-children, Joey, Tammy, Danny, Candy and Cathy, and fifteen grandchildren, to whom he was known as “Papa.”
A memorial service was held at A.T. Hutchins Funeral and Cremation Services in Portland, followed by interment with military honors at Calvary Cemetery.
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includes heart disease and stroke - still claims the lives of 1-in-3 American women. In Maine, cardiovascular dis-eases account for almost 29 percent of all female deaths. However, thanks to the American Heart Associa-tion’s Go Red For Women campaign, women’s heart health is improving.
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For the past 10 years, women have proudly worn red, shared stories of survival and begun to understand the truth about their hearts. As we ap-proach the 10th anniversary of Go Red For Women on National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 1st, we
are asking that you join us to continue the fight against heart disease and stroke in women.
Even with all the increased aware-ness and research, our work is far from done on this vital health issue. More women die of heart disease than the next five causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer. Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for develop-ing heart disease. But the strength of mothers, sisters, daughters and friends fighting side by side is more powerful than any killer. Eighty per-cent of cardiac events in women may be prevented if they make the right choices for their hearts, involving diet, exercise and not smoking
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To get involved locally, contact your local American Heart Association office at 879-5700 or visit www.heart.org/maine.
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“Well, Pat, if someone like YOU had a heart attack, then I AM really in trouble.”
At 52 years old, 5’8” tall, 125 lbs., ath-letic, without any history of heart trouble or any symptoms or problems, I never dreamed I was having a heart attack. Experiencing excessive fatigue was my only symptom until I woke up one Friday morning and felt like a 250-lb. person was using my chest as a lounge chair. Not dreaming that it was a heart issue, I spent four days, desperately trying to
ignore the increasing symptoms. I had even called my doctor, who prescribed a bronchial inhaler and stated,
“It must be your hay fever, and we sure know it’s not your heart.”
As the symptoms worsened to short-ness of breath, nausea and chronic in-digestion and chest pains, my daughter, a medical student at the time, insisted that I go to the doctor on Tuesday morn-ing. My EKG created a flurry and I found myself whisked in a wheel chair straight from my doctor’s office to the cardiac lab. With 99 percent blockage of one of the main arteries in the heart, the bottom of my heart was not receiving any blood. Angioplasty with a stent was performed
but proved to be a short-lived correction. And after four long years of the insertion of a total of five more stents in the exact same artery, in 2006, it was determined that the only form of correction was open heart surgery. Since my double bypass, I have been symptom free.
Today’s belief and diagnosis seems to indicate that my heartache was caused by artery spasms, brought on by stress. And it is now treated by medication rather than stenting.
I have learned throughout this long process that anyone is susceptible to a heart attack. And unfortunately, women and some of their doctors too often ignore the signs of heart problems. We
must listen to our bodies and we must be our own advocates for heart health.
Please join me in learning about this deadly disease and help us save the lives of others. It is the number one killer for women, and as women we must cre-ate greater awareness for ourselves, our mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.
Patricia Lee Kirby, Falmouth Heart Survivor, in her own words
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National Wear Red DayFriday, February 1All over Maine and the country!• Press Conference on Portland City Hall Steps, 11–11:30 a.m.• Portland City Hall lit red for month of
February• Businesses across the state holding Wear Red Day fundraisers• For more information, call your local
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GO RED! Night with the Portland PiratesSaturday, February 2 (7 p.m. game)Cumberland County Civic Ctr, Portland
The Portland Pirates would like to invite you to this American Heart Association FUNraiser event. Through this special offer, you can save $2 off the day of game price for a Main Deck ticket, and the Portland Pirates will donate $5 from each ticket sold to the American Heart Association! These discounted $17 tickets are available online at www.formstack.com/forms/portlandpi-rates-GoRed
The Pirates are also offering a HEART PACK, which includes 2 or 4 discounted Main Deck tickets + signed Mystery Puck, and includes a $10 donation to AHA as well as a chance to win a team-signed RED Pi-rates Jersey! Details and ordering informa-tion are available at: www.formstack.com/forms/portlandpirates-GoRed
Please Go Red at this game by WEARING RED to show your support of the AHA’s mission to fight women and heart disease. In addition, the American Heart Association will be selling Portland Pirates Mystery Pucks at the game - these limited edition pucks carry the AHA logo and are signed by a member of the Portland Pirates hockey team. Some of the Mystery Pucks also con-tain additional prizes, including the Grand Prize – a 2011-2012 team autographed Portland Pirates jersey! You can purchase your Mystery Puck for just $10! To order your tickets, please contact Bennett Cas-sidy at the Portland Pirates at 828-4665 (ext. 308).
Brunswick Heart Ball to benefit the American Heart Assoc.Friday, February 15, 7-10 p.m. Inn at Brunswick Station, Brunswick
Join us for a night of great food and danc-ing to benefit the AHA! Ticket price includes heavy hors d’oeuvres and dessert and dancing to the live music of FenderBender. ($30 per person/ $50 per couple). Please call Amanda Similien at 751-9452 or visit www.brunswickheartball.eventbrite.com to purchase tickets online. Dancing is good for your heart!
Go Red For Women LuncheonTuesday, March 12, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.Holiday Inn By the Bay, Portland
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Editor’s noteIf you have a story idea, a score/cancellation to report, feedback, or any other sports-related information, feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]
February, title time arrive(Ed. Note: For the complete
Cape Elizabeth-York boys’ bas-ketball, Cape Elizabeth-Gray-New Gloucester girls’ basketball, Scarborough-Thornton Academy boys’ hockey and Scarborough-Falmouth girls’ hockey game sto-ries, please visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer
The end game of the winter sports season is near.
While the regular season con-tinues in basketball and hockey, championship time is right around the corner in track, swimming, skiing and wrestling.
Here’s a look at what happened last week and a glimpse at what’s to come:
Boys’ basketballSouth Portland’s boys’ basket-
ball team continues to do special things. Four days after a palpitat-ing double-overtime win at Bonny Eagle, the Red Riots pulled away to beat visiting Cheverus, 67-44, Friday and earned a huge 53-38 win at defending Class A state champion Deering Tuesday to improve to 13-2 and ascend to the top of the Heal Points standings.
Against the Stags, the Red Riots got pushed as a nine-point halftime lead was cut to five early in the third period. South Portland only led by eight with just over seven minutes to play, but Tanner Hyland made two foul shots, Calvin Carr hit a 3 and after a Cheverus free throw, Conner MacVane and Jack Tolan both made two foul shots for a 54-38 lead. After the Stags hit a 3, Jaren Muller made consecutive layups, then hit a jumper and Hyland made consecutive baskets to put it away. Muller finished with 19 points and Hyland added 16.
Against the Rams, the Red Riots avenged a painful overtime loss from earlier in the season be-hind 22 points from Hyland.
South Portland plays at Noble Friday, hosts Portland in its home finale Tuesday and closes the regular season Feb. 8 at Cheverus.
Scarborough has won four straight and improved to 10-5 (good for sixth in the Heals) after recent wins over host Sanford (70-55) and Massabesic (81-45). At the Spartans, Brendan Hall and Sam Terry both had 16 points. Dillon Russo scored 18 points and Terry added 14 versus the Mustangs. The Red Storm hosts Bonny Eagle in a game critical for Heal Points placement Friday (see theforecaster.net for game story), welcomes Thornton Academy Tuesday and closes at Kennebunk Feb. 8.
In Western B, Cape Elizabeth fell at home to powerhouse York
Friday, 65-47 (Eddie Galvin had a team-high 11 points).
“We were close for a half, but it’s a 32-minute game,” Cape Elizabeth coach Jim Ray said. “(York) comes out and nails you in the first period or they nail you in the third. They nailed us in the third and it was over.”
The Capers bounced back Saturday with a 56-29 home win over Gray-New Gloucester (Henry Babcock led the way with 15 points) and improved to 11-4 with an 80-75 win at Wells Tuesday. Chris Robicheaw went off for 25 points in that one, while Galvin and Babcock both added 18. Cape Elizabeth (third behind Falmouth and York in the Heals) has a brutal closing stretch as it plays at York Friday, hosts defending Class B state champion Yarmouth Tuesday and finishes at Greely Feb. 8.
“It’s Falmouth and York and everyone else has to fight for ev-ery win,” Ray said. “I don’t look at the (Heal Points standings). It doesn’t mean anything until the final game is played.”
In Western D, Greater Portland Christian School was 0-11 and 14th in the Heals at press time after losses at Old Orchard Beach (77-18) and Islesboro (38-28). The Lions were at North Yarmouth Academy and close Friday at Richmond.
Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, Cape Eliza-
beth earned another inspirational road win last weekend. Back on Jan. 3, the Capers turned their season around and sparked a win streak with a stunning overtime upset victory at Waynflete. Sat-urday, Cape Elizabeth (which lost, 52-35, at York the night be-fore) went to 10-win Gray-New Gloucester, a team which beat the Capers, 45-42, Dec. 15 in Cape Elizabeth.
After holding the Patriots score-less for 6 minutes, 33 seconds to start the game, but allowing them to rally in the second quarter to tie the game at halftime, Cape Elizabeth pitched a 4 minute, 43 second shutout to start the third period and this time, the offense responded, scoring the first eight points of the second half to take control. The Capers then ended all doubt with a dominant fourth quarter and went on to a much-needed 45-28 victory. Cape Eliza-beth got 17 points from senior captain Kisa Tabery, a huge third period from freshman Montana Braxton, a great effort on the glass against a taller team and forced 22 turnovers.
“This is a huge one,” Tabery said. “We really needed it. Gray
has a really good record and they were high up in the playoff standings. We knew coming in this would be a really big win for us. We wanted to pull it out and we did.”
“It was the same thing from the Waynflete game,” said Casterella. “Going into the second half, I said, ‘Guys, it’s 18-18. We need to be the better team for the next half.’ We were today. We got some easy baskets. The girls just locked down and were focused and deter-mined. We have outside motiva-tion. Things you hear. I shared some of that with them. (The girls) were ready to get a win. Thank God we won it. This was a huge win. Mostly because we finally beat a team ahead of us.”
Tuesday, the Capers did it again, this time at home, hold-ing off Wells, 48-39, behind 15 points from Emma O’Rourke and 14 from Marlo Dell’Aquila. Cape Elizabeth (8-7 and seventh in the Western B Heals) faces York again Friday, this time at home, goes to Yarmouth Tuesday and finishes the regular season at home Feb. 8 versus Greely.
“We’re getting pretty confi-dent,” Braxton said. “At the begin-ning, we were on a losing streak, but we’re keeping composed during games. Kisa and Marlo are great captains. The rest of the sea-son will be hard. No easy games.”
“We’ve got a revolving door in the league,” Casterella added. “You have a couple teams at the top. The rest of us are close. You can’t go by record. You can just go by who beat whom. Nothing easy the rest of the way. I just want to make the tournament. Then, we want to get as high as we can. You can look at matchups all day long. There are a bunch of equal teams. It should be a very good tournament.”
In Western A, Scarborough was 12-3 and fourth in the Heals after home wins over Sanford (52-42) and Massabesic (59-27). Against the Spartans, Ashley Briggs had a team-high 18 points. Mary Red-mond led the way in the win over the Mustangs with 14 points. The Red Storm goes to Bonny Eagle Friday, visits Thornton Academy Tuesday and closes at home ver-sus Kennebunk Feb. 8.
South Portland continues to play hard, even after the loss of senior standout Danica Gleason to a season-ending knee injury. Friday, the Red Riots battled visit-ing Cheverus but fell short, 43-33. Holly Black had a team-high 11 points. Tuesday, South Portland fell to 11-4 and fifth in the region
Jason VeIlleux / For The ForecasTerSouth Portland senior Tanner Hyland blows past a Cheverus defender during
the Red Riots’ 67-44 victory Friday night.
MIke sTrouT / For The ForecasTerCape Elizabeth senior Kisa Tabery goes up for two of her 17 points during the
Capers’ 45-28 win at Gray-New Gloucester Saturday.
Jason VeIlleux / For The ForecasTerScarborough’s Sam Nablo plays the puck during the Red Storm’s 5-1 win over
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Brandon McKenney / For The ForecasTerScarborough senior Jack Rousselle fires a shot while falling during Monday’s 4-3 win over Thornton
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after a 75-48 home loss to two-time defend-ing Class A state champion McAuley (Bri-anne Maloney had a team-high 16 points). The Red Riots are hoping to stay in the top five to avoid a preliminary round playoff game. They host Noble Friday, go to Deer-ing Monday and close at McAuley Feb. 8.
In Western D, GPCS is sixth in the Heals (the top nine teams make the playoffs) with a 9-3 mark following a 48-30 home win over Hebron Monday. After going to NYA Wednesday, the Lions visit Richmond Fri-day and Islesboro Saturday. GPCS closes the season next week with a home game versus Seacoast Christian and games at Waynflete and Acadia Christian.
HockeyOn the ice, the Scarborough boys’ team
continues to set the bar in Western Class A. The Red Storm extended its win streak to 11 with wins at Gorham (6-1) and at home over Thornton Academy (4-3). Against the Rams, Cam Brochu had two goals. Scar-borough raced to an early 4-0 lead over the two-time defending Class A champion Golden Trojans, thanks in large part to two Jack Rousselle goals, but Thornton Acad-
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“We try to come out hard every game,” Rousselle said. “Sometimes we don’t. It’s good to set the tone early in the game. We dictated the play the first period-and-a-
half.”“I’m going to be white-haired tomorrow,”
said Scarborough coach Norm Gagne. “It’s a lesson learned. We have to buckle down and get better. I told the kids before that it’s never over until it’s over and that they have to stay within the moment.”
The Red Storm (12-1 and first in the Western A Heals) hosts Cheverus Saturday.
South Portland fell to 0-9 and 14th in the standings after a 12-2 home loss to Cape Elizabeth last weekend (Kyle Halvorsen had both goals in the defeat). The Red Riots host Westbrook Saturday and visit Kennebunk Wednesday.
In Western B, Cape Elizabeth is in the fifth and final playoff spot with a 5-7-1 record following Saturday’s 12-2 win over South Portland. Eli Breed, Timothy Cor-sello, Curtis Guimond and Charlie Laprade all had two goals. The Capers hosted Gardiner Thursday and go to top-ranked Camden Hills Saturday.
On the girls’ side, Scarborough has the inside track on the top seed in the West Region after recent home wins over Fal-mouth (5-1) and Biddeford (4-1). Against the Yachtsmen, the Red Storm fell behind early, but broke open a tight game with three third period goals, got 30 saves from goalie Devan Kane and two goals each from Sarah Martens and Rachael Wallace.
“The third period’s always our period,” Wallace said. “We did what we had to do to get it done.”
“I feel like we start out slow, but the third period’s always our period,” said Kane. “Ever since I was a freshman. We have such a powerful offense.”
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Brown, BAND Band, Beachams and BeethovenBy Scott Andrews
The second letter of the alphabet pro-vides the common theme for four of this week’s picks of the tix. Otherwise, it’s a fairly disparate lineup.
Fiddler Erica Brown is riding at the top of the Pine Tree State’s traditional music scene these days. The Maine Arts Commission has dubbed her a “Master Artist of Traditional Fiddling,” and she’ll be appearing with her bluegrass band at Portland’s One Longfellow Square this Friday.
The next night The THE BAND Band, a tribute to the music of Bob Dylan, is playing One Longfellow Square.
Graybert Beacham is an outstanding violinist, while wife Karen Beacham is an equally outstanding clarinetist. Hail-ing from Farmington, the two Beachams will be performing together this Sunday as guests of the Portland String Quartet.
The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Feb. 5 concert features the most famous work by the most famous composer in all of classical music: Symphony No. 5 of Ludwig van Beethoven. Its opening four notes are familiar to millions of people who have never heard another scrap of classical.Erica Brown and Bluegrass Connection
How time flies. It seems like only yesterday that I was attending bluegrass festivals and Franco music gatherings and noticing a precocious child fiddler playing far better than most longtime veterans of the instrument. A dozen years and many prizes and honors later, Erica Brown is a young woman who’s recog-nized as one of Maine’s premier old-time musicians.
She has recorded five albums and has opened concerts for several national touring stars. Equally fluent in several time-honored fiddling styles, for the past couple of years Brown’s main interest has been bluegrass. She teaches at the 317 Main Street Community Music Center in Yarmouth, plus she’s a member of The Stowaways, Record Family Band and has often collaborated with bluegrass singer-songwriter Ted DeMille.
She’s appearing this Friday at Port-
Fiddler Erica Brown fronts Bluegrass Connection, a traditional Maine string band that will play this Friday at One Longfellow
Square in Portland.
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land’s One Longfellow Square with her own four-man band, Bluegrass Connec-tion. Brown has played this venue often, and held the CD release party there to promote her most recent effort, “From Now On,” two years ago.
Erica Brown and Bluegrass Connection play at 8 p.m. Feb. 1 at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland. Call 761-1757.
The THE BAND BandThe Band was one of the pioneering
groups of roots-rockers in the 1960s and 1970s. These five Canadian men got started as a backup band – hence the name – for a number of stars. They started with Ronnie Hawkins and later toured for years with Bob Dylan.
Plus The Band recorded 10 albums under their own curiously generic moni-ker, mostly songs written by members. Three of the best-remembered tunes are “The Weight,” “Up On Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” About 10 years ago Rolling Stone magazine gave them the No. 50 ranking in its “100 Greatest Artists of All Time.”
The Band’s exuberant decades of roots-rock are recalled by a tribute act that calls itself The THE BAND Band, five guys
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phrase, is the quick answer.Portland Symphony Orchestra maestro
Robert Moody has programmed No. 5 to anchor the Feb. 5 Classical Tuesday concert.
PSO program annotator Mark Rohr notes that the opening phrase, the “mo-tive,” drives the work’s endless fascina-tion for longtime classical fans (such as myself) and relative newcomers to the genre.
“The essence of the motive is rhythm; three short notes, one long,” explains Rohr. “This rhythm is pervasive: you find it everywhere you look.”
And it propels the entire symphony from the outset. “In the first movement of the Fifth Symphony, nearly every note that follows can be traced back to Beethoven’s simple four-note motive,” comments Rohr. “This is what gives the music its inexorable inner logic and its extraordinary power.”
Two more “B-list” items precede No. 5: Bela Bartok’s “Miraculous Mandarin” and “Butterfly Lovers” by He Zhanhao and Chen Gung. The first is an orches-tral suite derived from an earlier ballet score. It dates from 1928, but is based on much earlier work. Rohr notes that the composer’s central message is “the unconquerable power of human aspira-tion over every obstacle – even death.”
“Butterfly Lovers” is described as a concerto for violin and orchestra, and premiered in Shanghai in 1959. A few years later it was severely condemned by the Chinese Communist Party as “west-ern,” “bourgeois” and “corrupt” and the composers were placed under house ar-rest and given a punitive “re-education.”
Only in more recent decades has “But-terfly Lovers” been performed in its native country, and Rohr notes that it is steadily finding favor with wider audi-ences.
Catch the Portland Symphony Orches-tra at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at Merrill Audito-rium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.
who look and sound like the originals. All are longtime veteran performers who have “banded” together on this project for the sheer love of performing the music. The fivesome will be performing this Saturday in Portland in a program that they’re describing as “a nod to Bob, featuring the songs of Bob Dylan.” Plus they’re promising to play a selection of The Band’s own independent hits.
Catch The THE BAND Band at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland. Call 761-1757.
Portland String QuartetI love the combination of strings and
woodwinds in classical music, so I find this Sunday’s concert by the Portland String Quartet to be especially appeal-ing. Clarinetist Karen Beacham, a music professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, will be the featured guest in a performance of Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major.
She’ll be joined by PSQ violinist Ron Lantz, violist Julia Adams and cellist Paul Ross. Husband Graybert Beacham, also a UMF music professor, will substi-tute for violinist Stephen Kecskemethy during his illness.
Also scheduled are Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major and Gordon Jacob’s Sonatina for Two Violas, with Graybert Beacham switching to viola for this piece. Jacob was an English composer and pedagogue who wrote and published more than 400 works in the middle of the 20th century, but his music was characterized by conservative 18th- and 19th-century stylistic leanings.
Catch the Portland String Quartet and guests at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. in Portland. Call the LARK Society at 761-1522.
Portland Symphony OrchestraWho’s the most famous classical
composer in history? Most people, even those with zero interest in classical music, know the answer: Ludwig van Beethoven. And his most famous work? Again, Symphony No. 5, with its distinc-tive dum-dum-dum-DUUUUUM opening
better,” added Scarborough coach Caitlin Cashman. “When we’re down a man, there’s a sense of urgency. We’re more focused.”
Scarborough (14-1-1 and first in the standings) was at Cape Elizabeth/Wayn-flete Thursday and closes the regular season Saturday at Cheverus.
“We have to keep our heads up,” Kane said. “We tend to psyche ourselves out. If we go in thinking (playoffs) are just like a normal game, we’ll go far. This team, I’ve never seen anything like it. We’re strong and ready to win. We’re sick and tired of losing in the first round.”
Cape Elizabeth/Waynflete fell at home to Portland Saturday, 7-5, its seventh straight loss, but got back on track Mon-day with a 5-3 home win over Gorham. Madeline Ciraldo had three goals in both games. The Capers (4-9-3 and sixth in the West Region, fractions of a point out of
the last playoff spot) hosted Scarborough Thursday and close at York Saturday.
Indoor trackThe Southwestern Maine Activities As-
sociation had a bye week last weekend. The indoor track championship meet is Saturday at USM in Gorham.
Cape Elizabeth joined seven other teams for a Western Maine Conference meet. The girls tied Wells for fourth and the boys were also fourth. First place finishers in-cluded Erin Lyons in the girls’ senior 400 (1 minute, 6.78 seconds), Robert MacKay in the boys’ junior high jump (5 feet, 6 inches), Andrew Kelly in the boys’ junior shot put (34-3), Kyle Kennedy in the boys’ mile (4 minutes, 54.4 seconds) and Liam Simpson in the boys’ two-mile (9:59.83).
The Capers finish the regular season Fri-day versus Falmouth, Freeport, Fryeburg, Greely, Lisbon, Traip and York. The WMC championship meet is Feb. 8 at USM.
The Class A state championship meet is Feb. 18 at USM. The Class B meet will be contested the same day at Bates College
in Lewiston.Swimming
In the pool, Cape Elizabeth and South Portland’s boys took part in a tri-meet with Falmouth last Friday. The Capers won with 123 points. The Red Riots were third with 78. South Portland also swam against de-fending Class B champion Greely Tuesday and lost, 48-36. Scarborough beat Thorn-ton Academy, 110-68.
On the girls’ side, Cape Elizabeth han-dled Falmouth, 125-54, Scarborough lost by a point to Thornton Academy (92-91) and South Portland lost to McAuley (100-73) and Greely (61-33).
Friday, Scarborough faces Westbrook and Cape Elizabeth meets Deering.
The south division Southwesterns are Feb. 7 and 8 in Westbrook. The Class A state championship meet is Feb. 18 (boys) and 19 (girls) at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.
SkiingCape Elizabeth took part in a four-team
SMAA/WMC Alpine giant slalom meet
Monday at Shawnee Peak. The boys were first as Max Barber was the top individual (a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 2.52 seconds). The girls placed fourth and were led by Emma Dvorozniak (third, 1:11.07).
On the Nordic side, Cape Elizabeth took part in the Sassi Memorial last weekend. The girls came in 12th and the boys 15th. Individually, the fastest Caper girl was Dana Hatton (18th, 19:17.2). Julian Pel-zer led the boys with a 41st-place finish (16:57.1).
WrestlingThe wrestling regular season wrapped
up last week. Scarborough finished with losses to Deering (39-22) and Westbrook (69-11).
The regional championships are Satur-day at Marshwood High School. The Class A state finals are Feb. 9 at the Augusta Civic Center.
Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @foresports.
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Health & SupportSaturday 2/9Your Body in Balance, 10 a.m., White Pine Community Church, 94 Cumberland Road, North Yar-mouth, 829-8232.
A Matter of Balance classes run Feb. 13 - April 4, 1-3 p.m., Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 136 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, registration required, 396-6583.
Six week grief support group, Fridays 1:30-3 p.m., Jan. 25-March 1, VNA Home Health Hospice, 50 Foden Road, South Portland, reg-istration required, 400-8714.
Kids & FamilyFAFSA assistance available through May, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land; one week’s notice and appointment required, 871-1700 ext. 772.
Resume building assistance avail-able through May, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, one week’s notice and appointment required, 871-1700 ext. 772.
Cape ElizabethMon. 2/4 7:30 a.m. School Board Policy Meeting THMon. 2/4 7 p.m. CANCELED — Town Council Workshop Tue. 2/5 7 p.m. Planning Board Workshop THWed. 2/6 12 p.m. School Board Strategic Planning Comm. THWed. 2/6 3 p.m. Planning Board Site Walk 10 Clinton RoadThur. 2/7 7 p.m. Recycling Committee PW
ScarboroughWed. 2/6 6:30 p.m. Appointments Committee MBWed. 2/6 7 p.m. Town Council MBThur. 2/7 7 p.m. Board of Education MBThur. 2/7 7 p.m. Scarborough Housing Alliance MB
South PortlandMon. 2/4 6:30 p.m. Conservation Commission CHMon. 2/4 7 p.m. City Council CHWed. 2/6 8 a.m. Board of Assessment Review CHThur. 2/7 7 p.m. Community Development Advisory Comm. CH
MeetingsCommunity CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.
Greater PortlandBenefitsFriday 2/1Fair Trade Fundraiser for UNICEF. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Karma Fair Trade, 570 Brighton Ave., Portland, 831-4531. All purchases made on Friday will benefit UNICEF.
Monday 2/4Willow’s Pizza Night for the South Portland High School Track and Field Teams, 4 p.m., Willow’s Pizza, 1422 Broadway, South Portland, 799-6723, portion of proceeds to benefit the SPHS Track & Field Teams.
Sunday 2/10Share Our Strength Maine ben-efit, 5 p.m., Flatbread Company, 72 Commercial St. #5, Portland, tickets $30/advance, $35/door, sos-flatbread.evenbrite.com.
Bulletin BoardSaturday 2/2Maine Genealogy Society Greater Portland Chapter annual meeting, 12:30 p.m., Church of Latter Day Saints, Ocean Road, Cape Eliza-beth, 490-5709.
National Little League registra-tion, 12:30-3 p.m., South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road, South Portland, online reg-istration available to returning players, spnll.com, [email protected].
Tuesday 2/5Cumberland Youth Lacrosse reg-istration, boys and girls grades 3-6; 6 p.m., Greely Middle School, 351 Tuttle Road, Cumberland Center, 330-1355.
Maine Adventure Club monthly meeting, 7 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Avenue, Portland, [email protected].
Thursday 2/7Eggs & Issues: John Baldacci and Rick Bennet of Fix the Debt, 7 a.m., Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, 772-2811; $17, must register by Feb. 4.
The Editorial Board public discus-sion forum., 5:30 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 729.
Community meeting with State Senator Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth), 7 p.m., South Portland
Greater PortlandBooks & AuthorsFriday 2/1Former Rep. Tom Allen presents “Dangerous Convictions: What’s Re-ally Wrong with the U.S. Congress,” Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Square, Portland, 772-4045.
Tuesday 2/5“A Study in Revenge” book discus-sion, 6:30 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.
Wednesday 2/6Brown Bag Lecture Series: “Life Among Giants,” Bill Roorbach, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723.
Saturday 2/9Josh Pahigian reading and book signing, 2 p.m., Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth, 799-1720.
Film Saturday 2/2“Groundhog Day,” 5:30 p.m., South
Freeport Congregational Church, 98 South Freeport Road, South Freeport, $10 per person/$25 fam-ily, 865-4012.
Thursday 2/7 Free Thursday Midday Movies: “The Long, Hot Summer,” 1 p.m., Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, Freeport, 865-3307.
GalleriesFriday 2/1Afterthoughts, 5-8 p.m., through April 3, The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland, 253-6808.
William Harrison’s Cityscapes, 5-8 p.m., Mainely Frames & Gallery, 541 Congress St., Portland, 828-0031.
Energy Series student artwork for First Friday Artwalk, 5-8 p.m., 619 Congress St., Portland.
MusicFriday 2/1Erica Brown & The Bluegrass Con-nection, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $10
Saturday 2/9North Yarmouth Contra Dance, 6 p.m. family dance, 7 p.m. potluck, 8 p.m., contra dance, Wescustogo Hall, 475 Walnut Hill Road, North Yarmouth, 233-4325.
Arts CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.
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Haeuser and traffic engineer Steve Saw-yer of Sebago Technics traversed some of the same ground last week during a public forum hosted by the Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee.
The forum, attended by about 15 people – half of them members of the 11-person committee – traced the course of improve-ments and plans to make it easier to get around the city by foot or bicycle.
Held at the Opportunity Alliance offices in Brick Hill, the forum focused to a degree on the challenges of making western South
Portland more accessible.Waterfront and Transportation Director
Tom Meyers was told by commuters the convergent 24A and 24B bus routes could be tweaked to provide more west-end service.
Sawyer suggested a sidewalk on West-brook Street next to the municipal golf course, which would make it safer for neighborhood children to walk to school.
But the discussion still returned to Broad-way, the Meetinghouse Hill section of the city and the difficulty some residents have walking or riding to Knightville.
Gary Higginbottom said he had just moved to the city and saw vast potential for getting around by foot and bicycle.
But first, some solutions were needed for the “major physical and psychological barrier that is Broadway,” he said.
Higginbottom said the cycles for crossing streets are poorly timed, and the crosswalk buttons don’t always work. He suggested the emphasis on accommodating vehicle traffic should be re-evaluated.
But with an estimated 50,000 vehicles passing daily through the intersection of Broadway and Waterman Drive near the Casco Bay Bridge, Sawyer said traffic and walk signals need to be geared to traffic flow.
Crossing signals are set to a concurrent phase to avoid completely stopping traffic, and enhanced signs have been installed
at some crosswalks, like those where the Greenbelt crosses Ocean Street and Cottage Road near Mill Creek Park.
But Sawyer said installing traffic stop lights at pedestrian crossings set away from intersections has not taken hold nation-ally, despite some ambiguity about laws requiring drivers to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
Maine House District 122 Rep. Terry Morrison, D-South Portland, meanwhile, has filed initial legislation that would re-quire motorists to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@
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He estimated 97 percent of the business’ customer base was local, people who darted in when there was little at home for lunch or supper.
“If you wanted something yummy and comfort food, this was the place to come,” said neighbor Susan Fowles, who admitted to freezing Buttered Biscuit pork pies and enjoying them after the winter holidays.
It was more than cookies that drew Delafield, although she cradled one of the last almond moons like an heirloom.
“It was a nice place to come grab some-thing for lunch. And on the nights you have nothing for supper, a good place to pick up a chicken pot pie,” she said.
The Castros had a clear division in mind when they opened in 2003.
“She didn’t want to do the books, I didn’t want to do the cooking,” said Byron, who previously was a service manager at local auto repair shops.
Audrey presented an array of dishes, and catered parties and events. She said she was willing to use recipes from customers or expand on her own. The only request she refused was preparing meals in pans or crockware owned by customers.
“I liked doing all of it and the beauty is I wasn’t stuck to one thing,” she said.
The Castros depended on local youths to staff the Buttered Biscuit; many stayed through high school and college and remain in contact from as far away as Colorado and Scotland.
Byron Castro said he would look over school schedules each September to figure out how to best accommodate his staff’s needs for studies and other activities.
Employee Molly Horn said she first met Audrey at the Victory Deli, and was de-lighted to get a job at the Buttered Biscuit.
“I loved the homey peacefulness, there was a really nice customer base. And it always smelled so delicious walking in the back door,” Horn said.
The Buttered Biscuit building at the corner of Cottage Road and Homestead Avenue will not be vacant for long: Cape Elizabeth residents Laura and Robert Butler have been granted a license to open Enio’s, a Mediterranean restaurant that will serve dinner and Sunday brunch.
When city councilors approved the li-
cense Jan. 23, Laura Butler said the couple expects Enio’s to be open in February. The Butlers have a strong blessing from the Castros, who said they held off closing the Buttered Biscuit until someone with the right financing and right fit for the neigh-borhood came along.
Byron Castro said it is unlikely he and his wife will start a new joint venture.
“For the time being, we would both work for someone else,” he said. “It might relax a bit of the responsibilities on us.
But they will miss operating the business, even if it was time to move on, he added.
“The hardest part is seeing regular cus-tomers over and over and over again, and then saying goodbye to them,” he said.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@
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would expand the definition of allowable farmers markets participants to include “craft producers” and “services vendors,” and allow business licenses for vendors as-sociated with a farmers market.
The new class of licenses will not exceed 25 percent of the farmers market licenses granted to vendors selling agricultural, hor-ticultural or meat products at the markets.
City Manager Jim Gailey said he antici-
pates the council would have first readings of the ordinance changes in early March, after the Planning Board has weighed in on the zoning changes.
The proposed revisions pleased Caitlyn Jordan, the Cape Elizabeth farmer and town councilor who also presides over the South Portland Farmer’s Market Association.
But a recommendation by Gailey that the market be moved from its 2012 site, Hinck-ley Drive between Ocean Street and Cottage Road, was less well-received.
“The language changes are great. The
downside is we really have nowhere to go now,” Jordan said.
Had it been possible last year to have the outdoor market on private property, she said, it could have been held in the Han-naford Bros. parking lot on Cottage Road.
Jordan said she contacted Hannaford Bros. officials about two weeks ago when she learned a market on private property might become viable. She said she has not received a reply.
She said the parking and space require-ments for the outdoor market make finding
an adequate location challenging.“Who has that size private property with
all the things you want?” Jordan said.When it opened in 2011, the outdoor
market was at Thomas Knight Park at the confluence of Waterman Drive and Ocean Street, below the Casco Bay Bridge. The Planning Board approved a shift to Hinck-ley Drive for 2012, but Gailey said the operation elicited complaints.
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streets connecting the Mill Creek com-mercial district became very problematic for those who visited the district,” Gailey said. “In addition, we have talked with businesses in the area and have found that though they are very supportive of the market, they also had concerns with the
rerouting of traffic.”Jordan said Knightville traffic problems
last summer were more likely to be caused by the months of construction throughout the area as water mains, sewer lines and sidewalks were replaced. She said without the Hannaford property, her first choice is still Hinckley Drive.
“It’s a great spot,” she said. “The only problem for me personally is having to
shut the road down. People can access the market from every angle.”
Councilor Linda Cohen’s question about using Mill Creek Park for the market drew light chuckles, because it has been discussed before. But the responses from Gailey and Mayor Tom Blake showed they have contrasting opinions on the matter.
With park renovations completed last fall, Gailey said he remains worried sum-
mer rains could soak the grass, leading to turf damage and mud when customers visit the market.
Blake said he continues to believe the park could be a good market site. He also signaled that Hinckley Drive might not be out of the question when he told Jordan she could approach councilors at a future meeting if another market site is not found.David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or dharry@
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