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By William HallPORTLAND — Elected of-

ficials and public employees in greater Portland didn’t get rich on their wages during 2012, but some individuals came closer than others.

The information was compiled by The Forecaster, which obtained the names and annual compensa-tion of the highest-paid officials or

employees in 14 cities and towns.The newspaper asked each

community for its top 10 earn-ers; some provided more, some provided fewer. The request was for compensation based on a year of salary, overtime and any sig-nificant stipends. In some cases, the data was from calendar years; in others, fiscal years or school years.

Based on the data, Portland’s top earners also topped the region, bringing in an average of $99,329.

The average would have been

even higher, had it included the full-year salary of City Manager Mark Rees, who started work in July 2011. Rees’ salary in the current fiscal year is budgeted at $143,000.

Portland Mayor Michael Bren-nan, who began his first term in December 2011, also has not served long enough to make the list. But at $65,400, his current

fiscal year salary wouldn’t have placed him in the top 10 anyway.

The higher compensation of Portland officials and employees isn’t surprising, according to Eric Conrad, director of communica-tion and educational services at the Maine Municipal Association.

“The size of the municipality

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IndexObituaries ........................9Opinion ............................6People & Business ........12

Police Beat ......................8Real Estate ....................20Sports ............................10

Arts Calendar ................13Classifieds .....................16Community Calendar .....13Meetings ........................13

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‘We finally feel equal’Maine’s first married gay couple ties the knot

By Abigail Curtis and Seth KoenigBangor Daily News

PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday.

“We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who married Michael Snell less than a half-hour after same sex marriages became legal in the state on Dec. 29.

By 2 a.m., the line had emptied out after 15 gay and lesbian couples had acquired marriage licenses, with six of those couples exchanging vows on the spot. Another couple was married on City Hall’s front steps and then went back inside to return their license.

The hand-holding grooms sported purple carnation corsages, matching T-shirts printed with the phrase “love is love,” and grins so big they hardly seemed to fit on their faces.

Snell and Bridges, both of Portland, have been together for nine years and had a com-

Steven Bridges and Michael Snell exchange rings after getting married at Portland City Hall early Saturday

morning, Dec. 29.

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Melanie Lavoie, left, waits in line outside Portland City Hall Saturday

morning with her friend Roberta Batt, right, before Batt is wed to her partner of more than 30 years, Mary

Donaldson.

School districts gird for subsidy lossBy David Harry

PORTLAND — The freeze is here, and not just because of the weather.

With more than 200 school districts in Maine facing the loss of a cumulative $12.58 million in general purpose aid from the state Department of Education, school officials are reviewing purchase orders and combing budgets for possible savings.

Portland schools stand to lose the most, with $870,000 cut from a $14 million subsidy. Chief Aca-demic Officer David Galin said the amount is exactly what was expected.

“We knew going in to this year the budget would be tight, and put a number of budget control steps in early,” Galin said.

While capping spending on supplies, Galin said the depart-ment will now review every va-cancy more closely to see replace-ments are absolutely necessary. He said keeping current staffing is a priority.

South Portland School Superin-tendent Suzanne Godin also said she knew the curtailment was coming. South Portland schools stand to lose $411,000 of their $3.1 million in state subsidies.

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sang hymns. A couple of children handed out tracts.

The clinic, which offers a range of re-productive health care, provides abortion services on Fridays.

Nearby stood Mike Fink, a pawnbroker whose shop, Guitar Grave, is next door and who also owns a restaurant a few yards away. Fink said he is organizing what he calls an “anti-anti-abortion” rally for Friday, Jan 4.

Although Fink supports the availability of abortion, he said the reason for his rally is not the demonstrators’ beliefs, but their tactics.

“They’re getting in people’s faces,” he said. “I used to enjoy walking to work on Friday, but not anymore.”

According to Fink, the demonstrators sometimes shout at people entering or leaving the clinic, as well as pedestrians on their way to neighboring businesses or just passing by.

“These stupid people are deliberately trying to be confrontational,” he said in a letter. “... They do not understand that they are aggravating and insulting people and they are not promoting their views in an appropriate place and time.”

Pro-Life Mission organizer Donna Hebert said her group’s members limit themselves to handing out pamphlets and explaining that there are alternatives to abortion.

“Many of us have walked in the shoes (of Planned Parenthood clients),” she said.

While the protesters last week were all from her group, according to Hebert, she said she couldn’t vouch for the behavior of other groups and individuals that sometimes join the demonstrations.

She emphasized that Pro-Life Mission members were standing on the public sidewalk, and said they were careful not to overstep the threshold to the clinic, where a Planned Parenthood volunteer and an off-duty police officer were stationed.

“(The demonstrators) are on their best be-havior because you’re here,” the volunteer told a reporter.

While not crossing the threshold, dem-onstrators have overstepped boundaries in other ways, according to Megan Hannan, director of public affairs for Planned Parent-hood of Northern New England.

“They’ve followed people down the side-

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Business owner plans ‘anti-anti-abortion’ rallyBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Despite a storm that dumped 10 inches of snow on the city the night before, anti-abortion demonstrators were out in force along Congress Street Friday morning, Dec. 28 – as they have been every Friday since the summer.

They expect to be back this week, too, when a downtown business owner hopes to stage a counter-demonstration of his own.

Last Friday, about a dozen members of Pro-Life Mission of Maine stood outside the Portland clinic of Planned Parenthood, at 443 Congress St. Most held signs show-ing aborted fetuses. Some recited prayers or

Larry Lunt / For the ForecasterAnti-abortion demonstrators hold signs outside

the offices of Planned Parenthood, at 443 Congress St. in Portland on Friday, Dec. 28.

Pro-Life Mission of Maine organizer Donna Hebert outside the Portland office of Planned Parenthood on Friday, Dec. 28: “Many of us have walked in the shoes (of Planned Parenthood clients).”

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City, Nova Scotia talk renewal of ferry serviceBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Three years after the last international ferry left Portland for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the city is dis-cussing efforts to restore service with the Canadian port.

Mayor Michael Brennan and City Man-ager Mark Rees hosted a Dec. 14 meeting with officials from Nova Scotia, which issued a request for proposals the previ-ous week for an operator to provide ferry service between Yarmouth and Portland.

As reported in September, the province has pledged to provide up to $21 million over seven years to help launch the service. After that, the service would have to be economically self-supporting.

The new ferry would cater to seasonal, tourism-related passengers and vehicles,

Portland seeks input on school renovation plansBy Amber Cronin

PORTLAND — Beginning this week and continuing through January, the School Department and its architecture and engineering consultants will hold a series of public charrettes to discuss ideas for improving the city’s elementary school buildings.

At each of the charrettes, Oak Point As-sociates will share an overview of project goals. After participants have the opportu-nity to ask questions, the consultants will share their ideas and join in discussions on their ideas for school renovations.

Discussion topics will include hopes and dreams for the district; what facilities are needed to educate Portland’s future leaders; how the buildings can serve both the school

community and the city’s neighborhoods, and what works well in the current build-ings and suggested improvements.

From these discussions, Oak Point will create site plans, construction schedules and estimated costs for replacing Hall Elementary School and renovating Pre-sumscot, Lyseth, Reiche and Longfellow schools.

In addition to making plans for improv-ing schools, the firm will evaluate oppor-tunities to balance student numbers across the district to remedy overcrowding at city

but also might provide freight or off-season services, according to a City Hall press release. Proposals are due Jan. 24.

Brennan and Rees led the Canadian officials on a tour of the Ocean Gateway passenger terminal and the International Marine Terminal – both capable of support-ing ferry service; indeed, both terminals already have.

The Ocean Gateway terminal, near India and Commercial streets, was built in 2008 to accommodate The Cat, a high-speed, 760-passenger catamaran that began mak-ing five-hour crossings to Yarmouth in 2006. The ferry operator, Bay Ferries Ltd., stopped service in 2009 after Nova Scotia

ended its annual subsidies, which ranged up to $7 million.

The loss of The Cat cost Portland about $150,000 a year, which Bay Ferries had paid to use the terminal. Since then, rent-als for concerts, weddings and events have been offsetting some of the lost income.

At the other end of the waterfront, near the Casco Bay Bridge, the International Marine Terminal had been home port for earlier Nova Scotia ferries. They include the Scotia Prince, which plied the 180-mile route to Yarmouth between 1982 and 2004, and the Prince of Fundy, began service in 1970. Today, the terminal is used primarily for cargo shipping.

Since The Cat made its last port of call, both Maine and Nova Scotia have been exploring the possibility of restoring ser-vice. In April, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter announced the creation of an expert panel to study the feasibility of a new ferry.

According to the panels’s report, issued in August, a re-established service would need at least 130,000 passengers a year to be viable. In contrast, The Cat carried a total of just over 75,000 passengers in

2009, its last year of operation.The report concluded that a ferry could

be commercially successful, but would have to offer more than transportation.

“The ferry’s business model needs to be built around the passenger’s on-board expe-rience rather than simply offering another transportation route from the U.S. northeast to Nova Scotia,” the report said. “A ‘cruise ferry’ between Yarmouth and Portland (of which the Scotia Prince was an old ex-ample) is the only suitable service model.”

It’s too early to tell what sort of response the Nova Scotia RFP will draw, or how a new ferry would differ from previous ones. But Brennan said he was optimistic.

“Portland and Yarmouth have enjoyed a close relationship for generations and we have both benefited from the economic and tourism opportunities associated with the ferry service,” the mayor said. “I along with city and state officials will continue to support this initiative and will work closely with the governments of Yarmouth and Nova Scotia to see this service restored.”William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or whall@

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn’t trying to make a political fashion statement. It just worked out that way, she said.

“No, you’re talking about being a purple state or something,” U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her farewell speech to her colleagues and the American people.

Snowe announced in February that she would retire after nearly 40 years as a state and federal lawmaker.

With 34 of those years in the U.S. Con-gress, Snowe is in the process of saying goodbye – or mostly “see you later” – to friends and colleagues in the nation’s capital.

“We are not a collection of red states and blue states; we are the United States of America,” Snowe said with a laugh as she paraphrased a refrain uttered by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in 2008 on the night he won the Iowa caucus.

“Well, that’s right,” Snowe said. “We want it to be.”

The slight laugh wasn’t cynicism toward the president, who often repeats variations on that theme, as it was an expression of a pent-up anxiety over the us-versus-them state of American politics.

As for the purple blazer. “It was just sort of, what can I wear today that would sort of be bright?” Snowe said. “You know what I mean? Uplifting a little bit. But, you know, it could have been subconscious.”

Scott thiStle / Sun JournalAfter her farewell address in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, talks with her

husband and former Maine Gov. John McKernan as the two walk to a reception. Snowe said farewell to her colleagues in Congress after 34 years of service on Dec. 13, 2012.

Lincoln would be sadSnowe noted the entire U.S. Senate had

been invited to watch the recently released film, produced by Steven Spielberg, about President Abraham Lincoln. She saw the movie and has long admired the iconic Re-publican president, his vision of preserving the nation and creating equality for all.

Asked what she thought Lincoln would make of these days in Washington, she paused.

“I think he would be sad,” Snowe said. Talk of secession in some parts of the

country may be fringe politics, but it’s still worrisome.

“It says you can’t appreciate the bless-ings of this great country,” Snowe said. “It is important to feel as one. Even though we have regional differences and philosophi-cal differences, you’ve got to think of the whole at times, the whole country. To start thinking in terms of separateness, it creates barriers. It’s unfortunate.”

Snowe said she has part of a letter that was written in the early 1860s as Southern senators were storming out of the chamber on the cusp of the Civil War. The author’s father was the Senate’s sergeant at arms. “Imagine how different our country would be today,” Snowe said. “How crucial it was to keep the Union intact.”

She said Lincoln would probably be dis-

appointed in that the challenges faced today by Congress really pale in comparison. “Hundreds of thousands died in the Civil War – staggering,” she said.

The ideals of consensus and compromise are not novel to Snowe. She has long urged bipartisanship and collaboration between the two major parties, regardless of which party happens to hold a majority in Wash-ington at the time.

In her farewell address, she worried that Congress had forgotten the art of legislating by way of compromise.

“And when the history of this chapter in the Senate is written, we don’t want it to conclude it was here that it became an antiquated practice,” she told her colleagues as she stood on the floor of the Senate.

She also said it wasn’t always easy. In fact, compromise, real compromise, is often more difficult than just picking a side and voting in a political bloc.

Throughout the day she reminded report-ers, colleagues and staff that it was stun-ning to her that while the buildings they all worked in were steeped in history and the artistic portrayals of great acts of American conflict and compromise, Congress was failing to follow in the footprints of the na-tion’s founders.

She said politicking had become a sub-stitute for governing. “It’s habitual now,” she said. “The exception is now the norm, and people mistake it for somehow we are legislating, when in fact it’s just about send-ing out a message to reinforce the base and go after the other guy.”

Snowe said you see this extreme politics taking shape in the form of the “trackers” that Maine Gov. Paul LePage complained

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about. A desire to find or capture”gotcha” moments that can be taken out of context or used in the next campaign has taken over the actual process of governing, she said. In the Senate, the “gotchas” come in the form of bill amendments often designed to force a lawmaker into a devil’s bargain.

They have to vote for measures that will hurt them politically to move forward parts of a bill they actually know are for the bet-terment of the country.

“You can understand some of it,” Snowe said. “But now it’s almost to the exclusion of anything else we do.”

And dominating the day, the week and the month have been conversations over the ever-looming so-called “fiscal cliff,” a dead-

line in federal tax code that is coupled with federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, that could set an already fragile American economy tumbling into recession again.

Much of her farewell address was aimed at urging compromise and a deal between President Obama and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Praise from colleaguesEarlier in the week, Senate colleagues

of Snowe, both Republican and Democrat, praised her long service and her principles during tribute speeches.

“Sen. Snowe has served her state of Maine and our nation so well,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. “She’s one of our most respected members of Congress. She is known for her civility, her sensibility and her mastery of the substance of the issues. And, I might add, she brings that New Eng-

land sense of a more frugal government but at the same time shows that it can be done in a compassionate, smart way.”

Mikulski went on to laud Snowe’s advo-cacy for small business, women’s rights, national security, and the men and women of the armed services. Mikulski later said Snowe was a truly inspiring figure for girls and women, not just in the U.S. but around the globe.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Kentucky, also spoke in tribute to Snowe. McConnell related parts of Snowe’s life story, including the loss of her first husband, Peter Snowe, and how at a very young age Olympia Snowe decided to run for and was elected to her late husband’s seat in the Maine Legislature.

“The young couple seemed well on their way to building a life together,” McConnell said. “But in 1973, in the midst of a winter snowstorm, tragedy struck. Peter was killed in a car crash and, at a still-young age, Olympia was left to build a life for herself.”

He said the tragedy could have marked the end of any political aspirations she may have had, but Snowe had resolved to “make a positive out of a terrible negative.”

It wasn’t the first tragedy in Snowe’s life, nor the last.

She lost her parents as a child and was raised by an aunt and uncle in Auburn. Her uncle died when she was a teenager.

After marrying fellow lawmaker and future Maine Gov. John “Jock” McKernan, the couple suffered the lost of his son.

She still winces when asked about it all. She said she drew strength from her Greek heritage and remaining family, friends and Greek Orthodox faith. But she’s also man-aged to keep hope and notes her sense of humor has helped, too.

“I always kid my colleagues in the Sen-ate, when they ask, that it’s the Spartan side,” she said.

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It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holidays are dominated with news of what we have lost.

On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence.

After Thanksgiving, when my in-laws lost a baby born too soon, I mourned a life that was only barely lived.

Just before Christmas, when Newtown, Conn., was attacked, I mourned the innocence that Adam Lanza stole: physical, in the form of 20 first-graders and their teachers, and intellectual, in the form of our country’s glib position

on gun use.As a mother of young children, there was never

time to settle into the sadness or frustration or confu-sion those events sparked. She was still excited about her wish-list for Santa, and he still needed his diaper changed and his bottle prepared. The routine rolled us forward, from piano recital to pageant to party. I tried to maintain the split personality that parenting sometimes requires, layering whatever negatives were churning on the inside with an upbeat consistency on the outside.

Loss stings regardless of how directly it hits. These events happened around me, not to me; nevertheless, I became swept up in the emotion and the stories and the pictures and the anecdotes. I shared in the grief because it was all I could do.

And then I laid out cereal for breakfast and I packed lunches. I bought Christmas presents and I enforced time-outs. I read bedtime stories and I held tissues to runny noses. I played my normal role in the normal life of my normal family because it was all I could do.

Lurking in the background of our daily noise were

the news broadcasts and the email chains, the Facebook posts and the on-line memorials. The sadness those missives contained could sucker-punch me during the most mundane of chores, the most rote of seat-buckling.

I had the nerve to consider myself challenged by the balancing act I felt I was performing. I had the gall to become fatigued by the self-regulation. I had the ego to dwell on how other people’s suffering was affecting me.

Fortunately, I only let my narcissism run rampant for so long. I finally began catching myself – a couple times a minute, several times a day – recognizing that whatever it was, it was not my tragedy. My sadness was only vicarious; for someone else, grief had become their all-consuming present and their constant future compan-ion. They owned it; I only borrowed it.

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A stitch in time costs about a grandEarly in life, my greatest talent appeared to be break-

ing glass.I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass

doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room.

Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of doctors with four children. This was convenient for many rea-sons. Together with my two brothers, it provided critical mass of a variety of sporting activities, most of which involved a certain amount of physical contact.

When the inevitable in-jury occurred, it could often be treated on-site. On at least one occasion, one of the doctors sewed me up on the kitchen table. Free of charge.

Things have changed.Sunday night after Thanksgiving, I was making turkey

sandwiches from leftovers. I was slicing a roll with a sharp knife. I remember thinking, stupidly, that I would feel the edge of the knife as it approached the crust of the roll so that I could leave a hinge.

Instead, I felt just how sharp the knife was. I cut deep into the tip of my middle finger.

My standard response to such situations is to clean the wound and apply superglue. I cleaned the wound with peroxide but superglue was not up to the task. I spent

about an hour trying to stop the bleeding by applying pressure before conceding that a stitch was required.

Thinking that any wait was likely to be shorter at Brighton First Care, I drove there, but arrived after it closed. The security guard checked his monitor and reported that the waiting room at Maine Medical Center was not crowded, so I drove to the hospital.

I walked past the security guard in his booth. It was relatively quiet inside. There were only a few people in the waiting area. It helped that the Giants-Packers game was on TV. Everyone was very pleasant. There were two people behind the reception desk, one of whom took my insurance information and had me sign some informed-consent forms. I did my paperwork and a triage nurse took my vital signs and assessed me. Everyone wanted to know how I cut myself.

It wasn’t long before they called my name and I was ushered to a treatment room in the back. Another nurse assessed me. A young doctor appeared and attended to me. His supervisor looked in and asked how I cut myself. On the theory that one needle stick was like another, I agreed that the attending doctor would not administer Novocaine because it was only going to take one stitch to close the wound.

He sewed me up. The nurse dressed the wound and gave me a tetanus booster shot that included a whooping cough vaccine as a bonus. I drove myself home.

On Dec. 2, I took the stitch out myself.On Dec. 4, I got the bill: $943.86.That includes $233.34 for the vaccine, $276 for the

simple repair, $212.50 for the attending physician, and $188 for the nursing. The bill informed me that I did not owe anything at the moment, that once all insurance companies had paid their portion of the claim, I would

receive a bill for any unpaid balance.I can’t wait.I am grateful that I have insurance through my work

and am hopeful that it will cover most, if not all, of the bill. But I am struck by the current cost of a single stitch. How did it get that high? Maine Med is well-staffed, well-equipped, clean and orderly. Everyone I dealt with was pleasant and competent. I have no complaints about the care that I received (although I have been plagued by a persistent cough for weeks). My wound healed.

But if I had known in advance how much it was going to cost, and if I had alternatives, I would have at least considered them.

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


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appointed time, and not because I’ve been summoned to rescue them from some emergency on the premises.

I do not know if I can accept that there is a silver lining to tragedy, but I believe we must look for the good in order to survive the bad.

This much I know is true: Kevin Grover’s family car-ries on with the arms of a community encircling it. My

sister-in-law holds the memory of her baby boy in hands her family and friends help to cup. The families of the Newtown victims move forward on the shoulders of us all.

And that is precious.Also this: I was able to watch my daughter participate

in a holiday ceremony at her school. I felt frustrated by my son for biting me and then melted by his outstretched arms. I did not sleep enough one night because I was stuffing stockings. Each of those moments was special and wonderful and valuable simply because it happened. Same goes for the countless ones in between.

My New Year’s resolution crystallized before Jan. 1, and its subject is not healthier eating or improved fitness or less procrastination. It is to savor even what seems unsavory and to appreciate the under-appreciated. If for no other reason than that they are there, and I am here with them.

And that is precious.Abby Diaz grew up in Falmouth and lives there again,

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Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lan-caster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice.

The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elementary School mas-sacre was the insane act of one deranged young man. As much as we want to think we can control our world with laws, no single change in America’s scandal-ously lax gun laws would have prevented what happened in New-town.

Are the National Rifle Association and its members to blame? Of course not. But the NRA is complicit in every incident of gun violence in the U.S. because it effectively op-poses any measures that might make guns harder to acquire.

Complicity in the Newtown killings extends to Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the weapon of choice for mass murderers, to the merchants who sell such instruments of violence, to the elected offi-cials who lack the courage to enact meaningful gun control laws, but also to all the rest of us who enable this insanity by not insisting on sane weapons poli-cies and better care for the mentally ill.

No doubt we would all be better off in a country without guns, but it’s too late for that. The evil genie of firearms is out of the bottle. But the ironic truth

of the matter is that people who live in homes with guns are far more likely to become the victims of gun violence than those who live in gun-free homes. Newtown is further evidence of that.

If America now takes a few tentative steps toward reigning in the gun violence, Second Amendment advocates will predictably go ballistic. The Found-ing Fathers, however, wrote the Second Amendment during an era of single-shot rifles. They did not intend to open the door to mass murder. No one’s Second Amendment right to bear arms would be infringed upon by a sensible ban on semiautomatic assault rifles such as the one used to kill kindergar-ten children in Newtown. The Bushmaster AR-15, manufactured right here in Maine until last year, has no place in private hands. Nor do 30-round ammo clips.

The NRA and the Maine Gun Owners Associa-tion both came out with bonehead proposals to arm teachers in response to Newtown. These folks may mean well with their vigilante mindsets, but there were armed security personnel at Columbine and an armed teacher at Newtown. If some NRA or MGOA zealot had been on the scene at Newtown, I have a feeling they would have been the first ones killed. No one expects a gunman to shoot his way into an elementary school anymore than they expected ter-rorists to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center.

While tighter gun control laws would not have prevented the Newtown slaughter, we can no longer allow a mere 4 million NRA members to hold more than 300 million Americans hostage to their own fears. Countering the pro-violence rhetoric of the NRA might begin the process of transforming the United States into the more compassionate society it needs to become if we are ever to stem the tide of mass killings.

We are a sick society and the NRA is a symptom of that sickness. Gun ownership is almost as preva-lent in Canada and Iceland as it is in the U.S., but they don’t slaughter one another with the regularity of Americans. South Africa, Columbia and Thailand are the only countries in the world with more gun deaths than the United States. Sick.

So what is the proper response to Newtown? Start with a meaningful discussion of how to control gun violence, examine the efficacy of our mental health system, stop glorifying violence in movies, television and video games, and start on a spiritual path toward compassion and forgiveness rather than violence and retribution.

On Oct. 2, 2006, a madman entered an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and methodically shot 10 little girls ages 7 to 13, killing 5. The response to this heinous act was a bit more muted than the anguished response to the Newtown killings, perhaps because the Amish are “different.” We can all identify with suburban families in Con-necticut, but not so readily with Amish farm families in rural Pennsylvania.

The response of the Amish community to the kill-ing of their children? “We must not think evil of this man.” “He had a mother and a wife and soul and now he is standing before a just God.”

I’m not there and neither are you. But imagine be-ing so deeply compassionate, forgiving and at peace. Now start imagining how to achieve such enlighten-ment.

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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walk, yelling at them,” she said. “Things have gotten out of hand. It makes our pa-tients angry, and it makes other people in the building angry.”

Anti-abortion activists have photo-graphed clinic staff and volunteers, Hannan said, and posted the images online.

She said they’ve also photographed pa-

tients in the clinic’s waiting room through its first-floor windows, prompting the clinic to close the window blinds.

“A health-care provider shouldn’t have to shut its windows,” Hannan said. “We want to keep the blinds open.”

Hebert acknowledged that her group’s members sometimes have tried to “com-municate” by words or gestures through the windows.

Planned Parenthood moved to the Con-

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is the single largest determinant of (com-pensation),” Conrad said. The manager of a city like Portland, he explained, leads an organization that is comparable in size and complexity to a medium-size corporation.

Serving a population of 64,000, Portland city government employs more than 1,400 workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $200 million.

At the other end of the scale, some mu-nicipalities get by on a handful of employ-ees and equally bare-bones salaries.

For example, the top 10 made an average of just under $48,000 each in Harpswell, which has a population of 4,700 and a mu-nicipal budget of about $4 million.

But Harpswell – like several other towns in The Forecaster’s readership area – shares the cost of educating its students through a regional school district. That’s why compensation for educators was compared separately.

Harpswell is a member of School Admin-istrative District 75, which also includes the towns of Bowdoin and Topsham. The 10 highest-paid staff of SAD 75 earn an aver-age of $93,073, considerably more than the top 10 in Harpswell or even in Topsham, where the average is $76,692.

Across the area, the average income of school staff consistently exceeds that of other municipal employees in the same communities.

And the top school officials were some of the highest-paid public employees any-where in the area. All of the nine school districts that responded to the survey re-ported their superintendents made annual salaries of more than six figures. Three superintendents – in Falmouth, Portland and Scarborough – earned more than $130,000.

Police officers and firefighters also are well-compensated.

While it wasn’t unusual for chiefs to receive high salaries, other police and fire

personnel also ranked in their communities’ top 10, thanks to overtime pay. Those com-munities included Bath, Freeport, Portland and Topsham.

While some compensation amounts may seem lucrative, public employees are see-ing their paychecks grow slowly. Over the past five years, wages for Maine municipal workers have increased between 1 and 2.5 percent a year, according to Conrad.

That’s in line with the municipal raises approved recently by the Portland City Council. It’s also about the same as the federal cost-of-living adjustments over the same time.

But making head-to-head comparisons among different communities can be mis-leading, Conrad said.

His organization, whose membership in-cludes nearly 500 municipalities in Maine, conducts a salary survey of its own. Aside from the size of the city or town, and factors such as length of employment, there are few variables that can be used to determine an appropriate compensation level.

“There’s just no rule of thumb,” he said.Still, one pattern is clear, he said: Maine

municipalities are frugal.“Municipal government in Maine is much

more cost-effective than other government,” he said. “We’re used to being frugal.”

Town services in Maine cost 33 percent less than they do in other rural states, ac-cording to a 2010 study by nonpartisan think-tank Envision Maine.

Ultimately, Conrad said, decisions about employee compensation are driven by the unique needs and expectations of each community.

“The dynamics are always going to be very different,” he said. “Every community should look at what’s best for itself. These are tough jobs, and each of them has mul-tiple masters.”

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

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gress Street office more than a year ago, and the demonstrations began this summer. Af-ter that, the clinic hired the off-duty police officer to provide security at the entrance.

While there have been no threats of vio-lence against the clinic, the demonstrations raise that fear, Hannan said.

“The reality is, there are people out there who want to kill Planned Parenthood people,” she said.

Fink said he has seen confrontations that “could have incited violence” and noted that the demonstrator turnout is usually larger – and more vocal – than it was Friday.

“I’m surprised (violence) hasn’t hap-pened already,” he said.

Fink attended a Dec. 19 meeting with Mayor Michael Brennan, other city officials and the building’s owner to explore possible solutions to the situation, including the cre-ation of a protest-free “buffer zone” around the clinic entrance.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has been monitoring the protests and wants to be included in discussions about setting buffer-zone limits, Executive Director Shenna Bellows said on the orga-nization’s Facebook page.

She said city officials need to “tread carefully” to make sure that the rights of

the protesters and the clinic’s clients are protected.

Another building tenant, the Portland Regional Chamber, recently held a meeting with neighbors that were concerned about the rights of businesses.

“While we very much value freedom of speech, the universal sentiment was that (businesses) are being disturbed,” PRC Chief Executive Officer Godfrey Wood said. (Wood is married to Karen Wood, publisher of The Forecaster.)

The demonstrations “send a perception of danger” that discourages pedestrians from the block, while disrupting businesses, he said.

“People in our office have said, ‘I just can’t concentrate’ (because of the noise),” Wood said. “That’s not right.”

Meanwhile, Fink is proceeding with plans for his rally on Friday. He’s asking people to carry signs and honk car horns to show their opposition to the anti-abortion demonstrations.

Hebert said she’s unfazed by the reaction.“We’re here on a rescue mission,” she

said. “We would be here with or without the hype.”William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or whall@

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final day of the month.March

The first Saturday of March saw a McAuley coronation. The Lions were pushed for awhile by Cony in the Class A state game, but down the stretch, they wouldn’t be denied and went on to a 54-41 win.

Six days later, McAuley senior standout Alexa Coulombe was named Miss Maine Basketball.

April and MayThe short spring regular season

featured much excitement and triumph.

Defending state champion Cheverus was again the Class A baseball team to beat. In Western C, Waynflete was once again competitive.

Boys’ lacrosse featured strong play from Cheverus and Deering, as Portland and Waynflete hoped to make playoff runs.

On the girls’ side, Waynflete, as always, was one of the top con-tenders for a state title. Cheverus and Portland were also in the postseason hunt.

Area track stars geared up for

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Another terrific sports year has come and goneBy Michael Hoffer

Another year of high school sports action is in the rearview mirror, but the memories will linger for a long time.

Local athletes turned heads last winter, dazzled in the spring and enthralled in the autumn.

With another winter season underway and the calendar now reading 2013, here’s one final look back to the thrills that made up 2012.

JanuaryWhen 2011 gave way to 2012,

all four city boys’ basketball teams were clearly playoff-bound. In Western A, reigning regional champion Cheverus and danger-ous Deering and Portland were all jockeying for top spots. In West-ern C, Waynflete was making it clear that its run to the semifinals the year before was no fluke.

On the girls’ side, it was McAu-ley and everyone else, although the Lions were tested by rival Deering and upstart Scarborough in the month. The Rams and Cheverus were winning the ma-jority of their games, while in Western C, Waynflete, despite injury problems again, loomed as a dangerous threat.

On the ice, the Cheverus boys were enjoying their best season since the championship years of 2005 and 2006, while the Stags girls and resurgent Portland girls were also turning heads.

Skiing, swimming, track and wrestling teams and individuals made a mark as they geared up for the postseason.

FebruaryFebruary vacation week brought

the first hardware of the new year.Cheverus’ Iain Whitis won the

Class A wrestling state title at 120 pounds.

In track, where the Deering boys missed out on a state title by a single, agonizing point, Jared Bell managed to emerge as the top shot putter in Class A. In the girls’ Class A meet, Cheverus’ Fiona Hendry won state titles in both the

Miss Maine Basketball Alexa Coulombe and her teammates celebrated a second straight Class A state title back in March.

After a scintillating playoff run, the Waynflete girls’ lacrosse team celebrated winning the Class B state championship in June.

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Cheverus and Portland’s football teams were on a playoff collision course back in November. The two-time defending Class A champion Stags beat

the Bulldogs in the semifinals, but their reign ended with a loss to Thornton Academy in the regional final.

mile and two-mile.In the pool, there were no

shortage of stellar performances. Cheverus’ Trebor Lawton was named Performer of the Class A boys’ meet after winning the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley titles as the Stags finished second as a team. Deering’s Eric Delmonte (100 breaststroke) was also a champion. On the girls’ side, Deering’s Genevieve Worth-ley was named Performer of the Class A meet after she won both the IM and breaststroke champi-onships. In Class B, Waynflete’s Amelia Deady was tops in both the 200 and 500 girls’ freestyle, while teammate Colby Harvey took the 100 butterfly crown. The Flyers program continued to surge up the standings, winning the Southwestern meet and placing third in Class B.

Portland’s Nordic ski team turned heads by placing in Class A, a stunning result considering the team’s lack of numbers.

Attention then turned to the basketball championships.

On the boys’ side, in Western C, Waynflete got past Wiscasset in quarterfinals, then lost in the

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The Portland Elks Lodge No. 188 will hold its annual foul shooting contest Sunday at 9:45 a.m., at Catherine McAuley High School. There will be three age groups: boys’ and girls’ 8-9, boys’ and girls’ 10-11 and boys’ and girls’ 12-13. Winners ad-vance to the regional shoot-off Jan. 13 in Wells. FMI, 773-6426.

semis for the second year in a row, to Old Orchard Beach. In Western A, Portland had high hopes entering the tournament, but was stunned by South Port-land in the quarterfinals. Cheverus and Deering squared off in the semifinals and the Rams rode a fast start to a victory, reaching the regional final, where they and Bonny Eagle put on a memorable show. It came down to a final shot and Deering senior Patrick Green buried it, a 3-pointer, to give the Rams a 45-42 win and a berth in the state final.

On the girls’ side, Waynflete, despite being seeded seventh, em-barked on another deep run. After dominating Lisbon in a prelimi-nary round game, the Flyers upset No. 2 Madison, then No. 3 Booth-bay Region as junior star Martha Veroneau set a scoring record. Waynflete’s run finally ended with a close loss to top-ranked Hall-Dale in the regional final. In Western A, Deering was upset by Windham in the quarterfinals and Cheverus, despite leading most of the way, ran out of gas and lost to Scarborough in its quarterfinal. That left the mighty Lions of McAuley, who would not stumble. The Lions downed Westbrook, Windham and Scarborough with relative ease to capture a second straight regional crown.

Hockey saw not only Portland’s girls reach the playoffs, but enjoy their first ever postseason win, 6-2, over Cheverus in the West Region quarterfinals. The Bull-dogs were eliminated by power-house Falmouth in the semis. On the boys’ side, Cheverus earned the No. 4 seed in Western A, but was upset by Marshwood/Traip, 5-3, in the quarterfinals on the


from previous page McAuley raises another banner

Michael hoffer / for The forecasTerMembers of the 2011-12 Class A state champion McAuley girls’ basketball team raise the program’s fourth championship banner Wednesday prior to the school’s annual alumnae

game. The Lions also won titles in 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2010-11 and appear well on their way to a fifth crown.

the postseason.The tennis story featured excellence

from several city teams.June

On June 2, Cheverus’ Matt Cushing (boys’ javelin), Joe Slattery (boys’ long jump) and Katie Shapiro (girls’ discus) all won individual outdoor track champion-ships.

A week later, both Waynflete tennis teams won more hardware. It was the girls’ squad’s second Class C title in succes-sion, while the boys made it five in a row. McAuley almost won the Class A girls’ crown, while Portland’s girls were once again superb.

On the diamond, Cheverus’ hopes for a repeat title were denied in epic fashion, on a walkoff home run in the regional final against Scarborough.

The top local boys’ lacrosse story was Cheverus, which ousted Deering in the regional final (the Rams had eliminated Portland in overtime in the quarterfinals), earning a berth in the state game for the first time in the MPA Era. The Stags fought defending champion Scarborough tooth and nail, but in the end, dropped a 9-4 decision in the final game of Deke Andrew’s long run as the only coach the program had known.

On the girls’ side, Cheverus again reached the Eastern A Final, only to lose to Brunswick, again, and Portland was ousted in the quarterfinals. That left the storied Flyers of Waynflete who would embark on the most stirring playoff run in program history. There wasn’t a lot of buzz around the Flyers as they entered the tournament ranked second to undefeated Cape Elizabeth and slightly ahead of a Falmouth team which it had lost to on its home field, but Waynflete rallied for a palpitating semifinal round victory over the Yachtsmen, then did the same against the Capers in the regional final. Martha Veroneau (equally skilled on the lacrosse field as the hardcourt) capped a comeback with one of the most breathtaking indi-vidual plays you’ll ever see and the Flyers went on to break Cape Elizabeth’s heart on sophomore Walker Foehl’s overtime goal. The state final proved anticlimactic as Waynflete dominated Freeport to return to the pinnacle after a two-year absence.

July and AugustHigh school action took a short break,

while familiar names competed in road races and American Legion ball. By mid-August, fall practice was underway.

SeptemberAutumn brought football, soccer, field

hockey, cross country and golf excitement.On the gridiron, two-time defending

Class A champion Cheverus continued to win as it closed in on a hallowed record. Portland showed great improvement under new coach Jim Hartman, while across town, Deering struggled early before Kenny Sweet took over under center, get-ting the Rams moving.

On the pitch, defending Class C boys’ champion Waynflete had the pieces in place to repeat, while Cheverus and Deering also looked strong. Portland struggled early, but that would change.

On the girls’ side, Waynflete was com-petitive, but had trouble scoring goals at key times. Cheverus and Deering were also looking good.

Cheverus’ field hockey team once again led the way, with resurgent Deering turn-ing heads and Waynflete producing its best team in decades.

Cross country and golf teams hinted at success to come and volleyball came to the city courtesy a first-year Cheverus program.

OctoberGolf held its state championship on Oct.

6. Cheverus came in third.Cheverus’ three-year reign as girls’ cross

country champion ended, but the Stags and several other city runners had strong show-ings at the state meet.

Waynflete’s field hockey team hosted a playoff game for the first time in program history. The Flyers were upset by Dirigo, but had a season to remember. Deering made it back to the postseason after a two-year absence and Cheverus shook off its 2011 disappointment by winning two

games to reach the regional final before finally losing to Scarborough.

The soccer playoffs began with the Portland boys, who turned their season around in dramatic fashion, shocked de-fending champion Windham in double overtime in the preliminary round. The Bulldogs’ “house money” finally played itself out in a quarterfinal round loss to eventual champion Scarborough. Deering ousted Cheverus in the preliminary round on penalty kicks, but suffered a PK loss at Kennebunk in the quarterfinals. Waynflete advanced to the regional final for the third year in a row.

On the girls’ side, Cheverus upset Deering in the preliminary round, then fell on PKs at Windham in the quarterfinals. Waynflete then embarked on a memo-rable run. With many of the same faces from lacrosse doing their thing, the Flyers defeated Wiscasset in the quarterfinals,

erupted in the second half for a win over Lisbon in the semis, then avenged their 2011 playoff ouster with a 2-1 double OT win at St. Dom’s, on senior Sadie Cole’s winner, in the regional final Halloween afternoon.

Cheverus football went undefeated once again and on the 13th, downed host Thornton Academy, 28-14, in a highly touted “Game of the Century.” The next week, the Stags beat visiting Deering, 21-0, to tie South Portland’s record of 31 straight Class A victories. On Oct. 27, again facing the Rams, Cheverus set a new mark by rolling to a 49-0 romp. Portland, meanwhile, won its first playoff game in seven seasons, downing Windham in its quarterfinal.

NovemberThe Waynflete boys hoped to join the

girls in the state final, but on the 1st, the Flyers were stymied by Hall-Dale and lost on PKs in the regional final.

Two days later, the Waynflete girls met Fort Kent in the Class C state game at Scarborough. The Flyers continued their trend of living dangerously and were be-hind, 2-1, in the second half, but scored two quick goals and held on for a 3-2 victory, earning their first championship in four seasons.

Football then had center stage all to itself. In the semifinals, Portland had no answers for Cheverus as the Stags rolled, 35-7. That set up a delicious regional final showdown with Thornton Academy, but this time, Cheverus’ luck would run out. The Stags trailed most of the way and despite a valiant effort, saw their 34-game streak and two-year title reign conclude with a 20-13 loss.

If it was any consolation, Cheverus senior Donald Goodrich was named a Fitzpatrick Trophy semifinalist and later, a finalist for the award which will be given in January.

DecemberWinter has returned and the fun begins

again.In boys’ basketball, Deering and Port-

land could be the top two teams in Western A when all is said and done Cheverus will only get better in its first season under coach Dan Costigan, who replaced the legendary Bob Brown, who retired. Waynflete appears capable of a deep run in Western C.

On the girls’ side, McAuley is up to its old tricks, extending its three-year win streak to 31 games at press time. Cheverus and Deering will make life tough for the Lions as the season progresses and Portland is capable of springing an upset. Waynflete, if it stays healthy, has a great shot to get over the hump and play for and win a first Class C championship.

On the ice, Cheverus’ boys got off to a hot start before running into Portland in the “City Cup.” Both teams will be in conten-tion for a playoff spot this winter.

Both the Cheverus and Portland girls have had moments of greatness and will also be in the mix.

Swimming, track and wrestling have provided positive glimpses and skiing is about to get underway.

Say goodbye to the wonderful year that was. We welcome 2013 and look forward to a new batch of highlights.

Happy New Year everyone!sports editor Michael hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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nounced Anne Taintor as the 2013 Tribute to Women in Industry award recipient. The Maine Women’s Fund carries on the an-nual Tribute to Women in Industry award from the former Greater Portland YWCA. The award is given to a woman who is a leader in her field and who has achieved significant accomplishments as a business owner, business executive or nonprofit or-ganizational leader. Taintor will be honored at the annual Leadership Luncheon on May 23 at Portland’s Holiday Inn by the Bay.

Designations

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Good Deeds

The race planning committee for the Falmouth Foreside 5K Classic recently pre-sented a $1,000 check to the Falmouth Food Pantry. Major local sponsors for the race included Falmouth Orthopaedic Center, Bath Savings Institution, Bangor Savings Bank and several other local businesses.

People’s United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank, announced recently that for the fourth quarter of 2012 it awarded $28,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Maine. Seven organizations re-ceived funding in support of programs that ranged from basic needs services and af-

fordable housing projects to education and job training programs, including Learning Works in Portland.

New Hires and Promotions

The Maine Academy of Modern Music recently hired Katie Gilchrest. She stud-ied human ecology at the College of the Atlantic, and later music at the University of Southern Maine, studying composition, theory and technology. She grew up play-ing the piano and clarinet, and the guitar.

Margaret O'Brien and Kent White were recently promoted to partner at CBRE | The Boulos Company.

People’s United Bank recently an-nounced that Ryan J. Driscoll has been hired as vice president and wealth manage-ment advisor. He has experience in cultivat-ing and leading strategic partnerships and developing and implementing organization change. Most recently he was a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch. He is a gradu-ate of the University of Southern Maine and the University of New Hampshire.

Baird, an international, employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, pri-vate equity and asset management firm, announced recently that it has added Baron C. Becker, vice president, financial advisor, to its Portland office. He is joined by Kim Fickett who will serve as registered client relationship associate.

Steve Bedell recently joined Winxnet, a Portland-based IT solutions provider, as a technical support specialist. After graduating from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in 1999, Bedell was an affiliate member of the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force. He worked for various technol-ogy companies during his time as a police officer before becoming a systems engineer for the local municipality’s technology department.

Tiffany Thompson Converse has recently joined Brett Davis Real Estate in Freeport. She is an associate broker with a long ca-reer in corporate real estate.

Halpin, Diane Howe, Alvin H. Morrison, Mark Stevanovic and Maytha Southard.

The Opportunity Alliance recently an-nounced that Thomas Saturley became chairman of the board of directors. He has been a member of The Opportunity Alliance Board of Directors for several years. He is president of Tranzon Auction Properties, a Northeast regional auction company specializing in the marketing of real estate and other significant assets. He has an extensive background in real estate, investment, and was formerly assistant at-torney general for the state of Maine.

Awards

During the first annual University of Southern Maine School of Social Work community celebration, the following four members of the social work community were honored: Tonya DiMillo received the Outstanding Bachelor’s of Social Work Alumni Award. Patricia Huffman-Oh received the Outstanding Master’s of Social Work Alumni Award. Jackie Oliveri received the Outstanding Field Supervisor Award. Elizabeth Szatkowski received the Outstanding Community Advisor Award.

The Maine Preservation organization recently presented the owners, design and construction teams of many historic build-ing rehabilitations throughout the State of Maine with preservation awards. Wright-Ryan Construction of Portland was the

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Christmas Eve ServiceDec. 24 - 7 p.m.Christmas Day ServiceDec. 25 - 10:15 a.m.

Every SundayBible Study - 9 a.m.Divine Worship Service andHoly Communion - 10:15 a.m.

Greater PortlandAuditions & Calls for ArtMusica de Filia, auditions for sev-eral all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave, Portland, 807-2158.

Books & AuthorsFriday 1/11 Local Author Series: Norman Beaupre, 12-1 p.m., Portland Pub-lic Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, ext. 723.

Film Wednesday 1/9“Escape the Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare,” 7:30 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, admission $7, members and students $5.

GalleriesFriday 1/4Occupy Gallery, 5:30-8 p.m., Con-stellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland, 409-6617.

Bill Paxton, 5-8 p.m., Mainely Frames & Gallery, 541 Congress St., Portland, 828-0031.

Diane Hudson and Dan Dow, opening reception, 5-8 p.m., Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Avenue, Portland, 450-8499.

Prints: Breaking boundaries, artist reception, 5-8 p.m., Port-land Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Why I Moved to Maine, opening, 5-8 p.m., Harmon & Barton’s, 584 Congress St., Portland, 774-5948.

MusicThursday 1/3Bird Songs, 12:15 p.m., Portland Conservatory of Music, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, 775-3356.

Saturday 1/5Epiphany Celebration, concert, 7:30 p.m., Choral Art Society, Wood-fords Congregational Church, 202 Woodfords St., Portland, 775-2126.

Theater & DanceFriday 1/4Portland Playback Theatre: “Ran-dom Acts of Kindness,” 7:30 p.m., CTN5 Studio, 516 Congress St., Portland, portlandplayback.com, suggested $7.

Thaw: exploring movement and voice, 5-8 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, free.

Mid CoastFilmWednesday 1/9 “Education Under Fire,” 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, 729-9520.

GalleriesThursday 1/3Louise Minot: Adventure in art, opening and artist talk, 4 p.m., Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, 729-8033.

Friday 1/11CSA: Community supporting arts, opening, 5-8 p.m., Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-5222.

MuseumsBowdoin College Museum of Art, 9400 College Station, Brunswick, 725-3275.

Maine Maritime Museum, open daily 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m., 243 Wash-ington St., Bath, 443-1316 or mainemaritimemuseum.org.

Artists and farmers partner for exhibit

CSA: Community Supporting Arts opens Friday, Jan. 11, 5-8 p.m., at Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St. in Brunswick and will be on view through Feb. 24. The Harlow Gallery in Hallowell

partnered 14 artists with 13 CSA farms in and around central Maine. During the 2012 growing season, participating artists visited their farms and created art inspired by their farmers’ lives,

work, landscapes, challenges and ideals. January 2013 marks the end of the initiative.

Portland Thu. 1 /3 5 p.m. Parks Commission 55 Portland St.Thu. 1 /3 5 p.m. Land Bank Commission CHThu. 1 /3 6:30 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals CHFri. 1 /4 8 a.m. Legislative Committee CHMon. 1/7 7 p.m. City Council CHTue. 1 /8 3:30 p.m. Planning Board Workshop CHTue. 1 /8 5:30 p.m. Public Safety, Health and Human Services CHTue. 1 /8 7 p.m. Planning Board Public Hearing CH

Greater PortlandBulletin BoardWednesday 1/2Scarborough Historical Society meeting, 7:30 p.m., 647 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, [email protected].

Friday 1/4Freeport First Friday, music and three course dinner, Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport, reservations: 865-3985, $18.

Saturday 1/5Maine Labor Unions, genealogy meeting, 12:30 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Eliza-beth, 89-2593

Sunday 1/6 Epiphany lessons and carols, 4 p.m., Cathedral Church of St. Luke, 143 State St., Portland, 772-5434.

Epiphany multicultural concert, 3 p.m., Sacred Heart St. Domi-nic Parish, 65 Mellen St., Portland, [email protected], suggest-ed $10.

Dining OutSaturday 1/5 Bean supper, 5-6:30 p.m., Triangle Club of Casco Lodge, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, 846-4724, adults $8, children 5-12 $5, children 5 and under free.

Garden & OutdoorsWednesday 1/9Intro to winter hiking, 6-9 p.m., Maine Audubon Center, 20 Gilsland Road, Falmouth, register: 215-5306, free.

Getting Smarter Tuesday 1/8Boosting your website traffic, 2-4:30 p.m., SCORE, 100 Middle St., Portland, register: scoremaine.com, 772-1147, $35.

Health & SupportAll-Recovery support meetings, 12-1 p.m. Wednesdays, Hope.Gate.Way., 185 High St., Portland, Ronni,

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Better Breathing Buddies , support group for lung disease pa-tients and caregivers, 2-3:30 p.m. first Tuesdays, Bayview Heights, 158 North St., Portland, [email protected], 879-4373.

Cancer Community Center, daily classes, support groups, 778 Main St., South Portland, 774-2200 or cancercommunitycenter.org.

Christian Meditation Gather-ing, hosted by United Methodist communities of Hope.Gate.Way, 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 185 High St., Portland, newlightportland.org, 899-2435.

CODA: Co-Dependents Anony-mous meeting, 6-7 p.m. every Tuesday, Brighton Medical Center, Brighton Ave., Portland, see recep-tionist for room location, Diana at 749-7443 or Pauline 926-5718.

Drop-in bereavement support group, facilitated by Carol Schone-berg of Hospice of Southern Maine, 5:30-7 p.m., free, first Wednesday of the month, St. Nicholas Epis-copal Church, 350 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, Carol Schoneberg, 289-3651, or [email protected].

Divorce Perspectives, a support group for people in all stages of divorce, meets Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., North Deering Congrega-tional Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland, call 232-1667 or [email protected].

Food Addicts in Recovery Anon-ymous, free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia, foodad-dicts.org, 775-2132.

Diabetes support group, 5:30-6:30 p.m., second Thursday of every month, Martin’s Point Health Education Center, 331 Veranda St.,

Building 5, Portland, 800-260-6681.

Greater Portland Mothers of Multiples Club, support group for mothers and expectant mothers of multiples, meets first Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m., Barron Center, Brighton Avenue, Port-land, gpmomc.org.

Gynecological and Breast Cancer Group, 6-7:30 p.m., second and fourth Tuesday, Cancer Commu-nity Center, 778 Main St., South Portland, 774-2200, or cancercom-munitycenter.org.

HOPE Groups, wellness support group with Elizabeth Holder, LADC Guide, Fridays, 5:30-7 p.m., Seren-ity House, 30 Mellen St., Portland, Liz, 899-2733, HopeHealing.org.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Support Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month, Cancer Commu-nity Center, 778 Main St., South Portland, FMI 508-810-1329.

Moms in Recovery, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays, The Salvation Army, Cumberland Ave., Portland, free, with on-site childcare, Amanda, 756-8053.

Nar-Anon Family Support Group, for families of drug addicts, 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Dana Education Center, Maine Medical Center, Bramhall St., Portland, 594-2801.

NAMI Portland, National Alliance on Mental Illness, support group meetings for people coping with a loved one’s mental illness; meet-ings are second, fourth Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m., The Dana Center, Maine Medical Center, Portland; and third Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m., Spring Harbor Hospital, Westbrook, 899-0465 or 838-5733, [email protected].

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How much could your school district lose?Possible curtailments in general purpose aid to schools, according to the Maine

Department of Education: Brunswick — $235,000 of $10.45 million.Cape Elizabeth — $197,000 of $2.02 million.Falmouth — $234,000 of $7.5 million.Portland — $870,000 of $14.06 million.RSU 1 (Bath) — $165,000 of $8 million.RSU 5 (Freeport, Durham, Pownal) — $138,000 of $5.2 million.SAD 51 (Cumberland, North Yarmouth) — $169,000 of $10.9 million.SAD 75 (Harpswell, Topsham) — $147,000 of $13.3 million.Scarborough — $398,000 of $4.2 million.South Portland — $411,000 of $3.1 million.Yarmouth — $172,000 of $1.49 million.

mitment ceremony six years ago, but late Friday night they were more than ready to make their love legal. The couple was the first in line to be married beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday in one of the state’s first legal same-sex marriage ceremonies.

Maine voters approved a referendum on Election Day legalizing same-sex marriages in the state for the first time.

“My heart’s pumping. Total butterflies in my stomach,” Bridges said. “We couldn’t stop smiling the whole day.”

Katie Snell, 27, of Lexington, Mass., Snell’s daughter, said that the couple weren’t the only delighted members of the family.

“It’s been a long time coming,” she said of the imminent nuptials. “I’m absolutely ecstatic. I’m so happy for this. I couldn’t be happier.”

Chris Horne, vital records clerk for the city of Portland, officiated the brief cer-emony, in which each man told her, “I do” in the traditional wedding format – even if the setting lacked tradition. A multitude of news cameras surrounded the couple as they entered the clerk’s office at 12:01 a.m., filled out paperwork and waited for that paperwork to be entered into the city computer system.

Bridges said being the first same sex

couple to marry in Maine was unexpected, but “made it special.”

Smiles, flowers and appreciation for the 53 percent of Maine voters who decided in favor of the same-sex marriage law on Election Day seemed to rule the night at City Hall, where the air was filled with the sounds of a live jazz trio and a buzz of excitement.

Portland Mayor Michael Brennan arrived at City Hall just before the doors opened to the public at 10 p.m. He said he hoped he could sign on as a witness for one of the first same-sex couples to marry.

“It’s a historic event,” he said. “It’s something people have waited for for years. People have been discriminated against for years, so we wanted to make sure that we’d be able to accommodate people as soon as possible” by opening the city clerk’s office at midnight.

“Portland has always been a leader in opposing discrimination,” Brennan said.

Portland was one of the state’s municipal-ities that opened offices early so that eager couples could go ahead and tie the knot. In addition to having a clerk at hand to provide marriage licenses, the city made a notary public available to make wedding vows of-ficial. Maine no longer has a waiting period before couples can get married.

Once the doors opened at 10 p.m., the dozen or so couples who waited outside

filed up the curving marble staircase to wait some more. Roberta Batt, 71, and Mary Donaldson, 63, pinned corsages on each other before heading down the hall to wait for their marriage license. The antique dealers have been together for more than 30 years.

“It feels really great,” Donaldson said. “I’d like to thank all the people in Maine who voted to make this happen. It’s been a long struggle.”

Kristina Skillin, her friend Chelsea Doyle and boyfriend Eric Sawyer were on hand at a table handing out carnation boutonnieres on the second floor of City Hall. Skillin said they started making the boutonnieres on Wednesday and finished with between 400 and 450.

“I really wanted to do something,” Skil-lin, who bought the flowers from her fa-ther’s business, Skillins Greenhouses, told the BDN on Friday night. “I really wanted to hug everyone.”

Sawyer, a notary public, was offering his services performing marriage ceremonies to any couple who was interested Saturday morning.

“It would be such an honor to be able to do that for a couple,” he said.

Not everyone was as enthusiastic.As a line formed outside the building

between 9:30 and 10 p.m., one man stood across the plaza singing gospel songs and

calling out religious scriptures in protest of the occasion. The man, who refused to give his name, called same-sex marriages “abominations” and “wickedness,” and said that by allowing them, Mainers are “turning our backs on God’s commandments.”

Inside city hall, the Bangor Daily News staff took photos of couples who wished to share them on the newspaper’s website.

Steven Jones and Jamous Lizotte, both of Portland, wore tuxedos and arranged laurel wreaths on their heads while waiting for midnight, when they could get married.

“After nine years of being together, we decided to go all the way,” Lizotte, formerly of St. Agatha, said.

When he learned that the first day that same-sex marriage would be legal fell on his 35th birthday, it seemed like a sign.

“It’s a finale,” he said. “It’s been a long time.”In Falmouth, the town clerk’s office

opened at midnight for couples who had made an appointment ahead of time. Two wedding parties apparently entered town hall for marriage licenses, but the press and public were not allowed in the building to talk to the couples.

William Hall of The Forecaster contributed to this story.

Godin said Monday.The reduction in education subsidies was

part of a general order signed by Gov. Paul LePage on Dec. 27. The order reduces state spending by $35.5 million to offset revenue shortfalls in the current biennial budget. It will be followed Jan. 11, 2013, by a supplemental budget drafted to close a $100 million shortfall at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

About $26 million of the reductions come in DHHS and DOE spending, although Sawin Millett Jr. , commissioner of the De-partment of Administrative & Financial Ser-vices, held out hope some DHHS cuts could be restored in the supplemental budget.

The Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee will meet Jan. 4 to review the spending cuts in the curtail-ment order. The curtailment order can be amended or accepted by legislators when the full body reconvenes on Jan 8.

Regional School Unit 5 Superintendent Shannon Welsh said she would like to see a quick consensus on what needs to be done.

“I would ask them to work quickly and take decisive action. Give us the informa-tion sooner than later, (so) we have to have time to respond,” Welsh said.

RSU 5, comprised of Freeport, Dur-ham and Pownal schools, stands to lose $138,000 of its $5.2 million state aid for the current fiscal year.

Distributing the spending reductions throughout state agencies may have help blunt the blow, Welsh said. But she still ex-pects RSU 5 to refrain from purchasing new curriculum materials to enhance science offerings, and to consider reducing field trips and practice scrimmages for spring athletic teams.

In a district where 80 percent of the bud-get is comprised of salaries and benefits, selective trimming to offset reduced subsi-dies can be difficult, Welsh said.

Welsh and Kelly Wentworth, RSU 5 finance director, are reviewing areas where some savings can be achieved and will

present a list to School Board members at a Jan. 9 meeting.

Millett said the supplemental budget needed to balance DHHS accounts would look to avoid diverting any more education subsidies.

“It is not part of current game plan. My hope is that this would be the extent (of reductions),” he said last week.

Godin said a spending freeze in areas including supplies, field trips, professional development for staff and other travel was put in place in December. She will assem-ble a group of district department heads, a School Board member and the leaders of unions for district staff to consider other cost cutting measures.

Godin and Millett noted the curtailments are not not a new phenomenon for school districts.

“In five of the last six years there has been a curtailment of some magnitude,” Millett said.

The curtailment of school district subsi-dies would come in the form of a cessation of payments from the DOE to districts, although Millett said all have received six months of the subsidies determined by the Essential Programs and Services formula.

Dan O’Shea, finance director in the Fal-mouth School Department, said the possible curtailment of $234,000 of a $7.5 million subsidy was less than expected. But he could see how Falmouth schools could be hit with an 11 percent subsidy reduction.

“Upon seeing the figures it’s clear to see that town’s with higher property tax bases were impacted the most relative to their total education spending,” O’Shea said.

Fixed personnel costs, debt service and the fact that most teachers have bought supplies for the year leave few areas to cut, O’Shea said.

“The (mid-year) timing of the curtailment does not leave us many options for reduc-tions, but we will examine every purchase being made to insure it is absolutely neces-sary,” he said.

In Brunswick, where the School Depart-ment receives a state subsidy of $10.45 million, the proposed curtailment would

reduce subsidies by $235,500. Superinten-dent Paul Perzanoski said the department has been bracing itself for a curtailment since October.

The amount deducted from state subsi-dies may be covered by shifting surpluses at the end of the school year, and Perza-noski said he does not expect the subsidy reduction will require reductions of staff positions or services.

“We have basically been in a freeze since October 2008,” he said, noting that he re-views all purchase orders to ensure they are for essential needs.

Perzanoski said his department endured reduced revenues because of the closing of Brunswick Naval Air Station and the loss of Durham students as part of the consolida-tion that formed RSU 5.

He said his message to legislators won’t be much different from what he has said before.

“We’ve continued to talk about the fact we get less from federal and state govern-ment and the majority of responsibility falls on taxpayers,” he said.

Scarborough School Department Busi-ness Manager Kate Bolton said her de-partment was also prepared for a loss of subsidies. Scarborough is slated to lose $392,000 of its $4.8 million subsidy, and a discretionary spending freeze has been in

place since November.Bolton said it will be up to administrators

and the School Board to determine the final details for coping with the revenue loss.

Some costs, including staff pay and con-tracts for energy, must remain fixed, and Bolton said staff are identifying areas of possible savings and considering a shift of undesignated fund balances as a “last-ditch resort.”

Bleak outlookEven if education funding is spared fur-

ther reductions in the short-term, the long-term prospects are not promising in terms of the biennial budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.

Jennifer M. Smith, the state’s director of Legislative Affairs & Communications, on Dec. 28 said the latest estimates of a structural budget gap between revenue and spending tops $880 million for the next budget cycle.

By law, the gap assumes full funding of an average of 55 percent for general pur-pose aid, full funding for municipal revenue sharing, and merit pay increases for state employees.

Those full funding goals are unlikely, so legislators and state officials are still left with hard budgeting decisions for the next two years.

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

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or tough times.“A lot of young people have their own

challenges, hardships and difficulties,” Snowe said. “And it doesn’t matter what the challenge is or what the problems are. They are all one and the same. You are on the ground, and you have got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off. I just decided it was already bad, and I didn’t want to make it worse, so it was the fighting instinct to survive and to overcome it and know that there is a better day ahead.”

LePage, who shares with young people his story of overcoming the obstacles of his difficult childhood at the hands of an abusive father, joined in the many people praising Snowe.

“Sen. Snowe has served the people of Maine tirelessly throughout her career in

public service for more than three decades,” LePage said in a prepared statement. “She has been an outstanding advocate for the people of Maine and a fearless leader in Washington, D.C.”

Snowe’s advocacy has included helping small businesses settle disputes with the federal government, such as working with Saddleback Mountain ski area owners in the 1990s to settle a long-standing dispute over the Appalachian Trail and land develop-ment, advocating for large employers such as Bath Iron Works and working with indi-vidual constituents on issues big and small.

She has most recently worked, among other things, on seeking answers for the family of Pvt. Buddy McLain, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 by an Afghan police officer that McLain and other sol-diers were training.

Her inquiries have led to some changes and the discovery that McLain’s death was

part of a larger pattern of so-called “friend-ly” Afghan troops turning their weapons on Americans and allied troops.

She said she’s still pushing and still not satisfied with the answers the Army and others in the military have provided.

Snowe credits her staff in Washington and Maine for their efforts and outreach. Without them, she said, her work wouldn’t have been possible.

ThefutureSnowe said she’s in the process of work-

ing on a book about her time in politics. She’s also launched a new PAC-like or-ganization dubbed “Olympia’s List” that she intends to use to support candidates running for office who share her moderate and consensus-building views.

She joined the Speakers Bureau and intends to speak to various organizations around the country on her career, her views on American politics and how to fix the

problems facing the country.In her farewell address she said she

intended to work from the outside to fix what she couldn’t manage from inside the government.

“I’ve spoken to many of you who came here to get things done, to solve problems and achieve great things for our nation,” she told her colleagues in her closing remarks. She said people ask if Washington has al-ways been this polarized. She tells them it hasn’t, and she intends to work to remove the polarizing dysfunction of the deep par-tisanship in the institution.

“I am so passionate about changing the tenor in Congress because I’ve seen that it can be different,” Snowe said. “It hasn’t al-ways been this way. And it absolutely does not have to be this way.”

Scott Thistle is state politics editor at the Sun Journal in Lewiston. He can be reached at [email protected].

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