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By TOM BELLMaineToday Media State House Writer

AUGUSTA — The Maine Turn-pike Authority is canceling its annual employee recognition banquet, ending a 21-year tra-dition because of concerns that the agency has been too lavish in its spending.

Peter Mills, the new interim executive director, decided Wednesday to cancel the ban-quet after meeting with the au-

thority’s senior staff. The event was scheduled for May.

The banquet, which in recent years has been held at the Wyndham Portland Airport Ho-tel in South Portland, has cost from $15,000 to $19,000. Mills said the authority needs to re-duce spending so it operates more like government agen-cies, which have had to deal with funding cutbacks in recent years.

“It’s not that we don’t like our employees. We do,” said Mills, who started at his new post last

Peter Mills also institutes

other effi ciencies to begin

an era of careful spending.

Please see TURNPIKE, Page A10

Interim turnpike director cancels employee banquet

LOBBY MURAL MUST GO

By SUSAN M. COVERMaineToday Media State House Writer

AUGUSTA — Labor leaders and the state’s biggest Latino group ex-pressed outrage Wednesday at Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to remove a mural depicting workers from the Department of Labor’s headquar-ters and rename conference rooms in the building.

Matt Schlobohm, executive direc-tor of the Maine AFL-CIO, called the decision “insulting to working people, petty and shortsighted.”

“It seems the governor is much more interested in picking fi ghts with labor than creating jobs that people so desperately want,” he said. “We believe their story de-serves to be told on the walls of the Department of Labor.”

The 36-foot-long, 11-panel mural depicts the state’s labor history, including a shoe worker strike in Lewiston, female shipbuilders and striking papermakers in Jay.

It also highlights dangerous work-ing conditions, long work hours and

Coaxed by ‘A Secret Admirer,’the governor orders the removal of artwork depicting the state’s labor history – and fi nds himself

again at the center of controversy.

Please see MURAL, Page A10

L e P A G E T O D E P A R T M E N T O F L A B O R :

Gov. Paul LePage

BILL NEMITZ WRITES: Mural mandate from the governor is truly a piece of work. PAGE B1MORE FROM THE STATE HOUSE: Maine Heritage Policy Center and other groups organize rally in support of LePage’s budget. PAGE B4

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Imbrogno Photography photo and detail photos courtesy of Judy Taylor Studio

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot-long mural, top, depicting the state’s labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor headquarters in Augusta. In addition, the LePage administration is renaming several department conference rooms that carry the names of pro-labor icons, such as Cesar Chavez. Administration offi cials say they were responding to complaints and that the artwork and conference room names send a “one-sided” message when state government should be neutral. The 11-panel mural, created by artist Judy Taylor and erected in 2008, depicts moments in Maine labor history, including a 1937 strike in the shoe mills of Auburn and Lewiston.

School budget for Westbrook targets 53 jobsTeaching positions and

some athletic programs

would be cut to help cover

a $3.7 million shortfall.

By LESLIE BRIDGERSStaff Writer

The proposed school budget in Westbrook recommends cutting 53 positions, including 22 full-time teachers, and all middle school and freshman athletic programs to address a $3.7 mil-lion budget shortfall.

The staff and program cuts in the budget, which was put together by Superintendent Reza Namin before he resigned earlier this month, will be the subject of a public hearing next week before the School Com-mittee’s Finance Committee.

Interim Superintendent Marc Gousse presented Namin’s $33.7 million budget to the Fi-nance Committee three days after the school board named

Please see SCHOOLS, Page A10

LibyanregimedefyingattacksDespite allied airstrikes,

Gadhafi intensifi es his

efforts – moving troops

and targeting opponents.

By DAVID S. CLOUD and BORZOU DARAGAHI

McClatchy Newspapers

TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Moam-mar Gadhafi ’s forces intensifi ed attacks in opposition-held cities, creating panic in the town of Misrata, even as U.S. and al-lied warplanes broadened their airstrikes across Libya, U.S. military offi cers and eyewit-nesses said.

Despite the increasing pres-ence of allied aircraft overhead, Gadhafi has rushed to put down the remaining pockets of the rebellion that has threatened his rule.

In the rebel-held town of Misrata, government forces re-sumed their assault Wednesday evening despite allied airstrikes for the second day on the out-skirts of the city.

Witnesses there said Gadhafi ’s tanks closed in on a large medi-cal center used to treat the in-jured and as a gathering point for the opposition. Rockets fi red by Libyan units have landed

Please see LIBYA, Page A9

WOMEN’S ADVOCATES: Sen. Snowe leads effort to safeguard women’s role in emerging governments.PAGE A8

THERE’S MORE INSIDE

ELIZABETH TAYLOR 1932-2011

A life of celebrity and anguish ends

By ADAM BERNSTEINThe Washington Post

Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world’s most visible women, died Wednesday at age 79.

Taylor’s life offered a mesmerizing series of sagas to rival any movie plot – she won two Acad-emy Awards, but was as well known for her eight marriages, ravaging ill-nesses and work in AIDS philanthropy. Her life had been scrupulously chronicled by the media since her boost to fame as the enchanting 12-year-old star of “National Velvet” (1944).

By her mid-20s, she had been a screen god-

The two-time Oscar-winning actress

became well-known later in life as a

businesswoman and philanthropist.

Please see TAYLOR, Page A11

Actress Elizabeth Taylor as she

appeared in 1958.

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Today’s Highlight in History:On March 24, 1765, Britain enacted the Quarter-

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On this date:In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch an-

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In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.

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JERUSALEM — Kiss’ Israeli-born singer-musician Gene Sim-mons is shouting out loud at the string of musicians who refuse to perform in his homeland.

“They’re fools,” the legend-ary bassist told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday, on his fi rst return to Israel since leaving the country as a child more than 50 years ago.

Simmons described the visit as a “homecoming.” He offered a description of himself that might shock his legions of fans who know him as an American icon prone to spitting blood and sticking out his exceptionally long tongue:

“I’m Israeli. I’m a stranger in America. I’m an outsider,” he said, speaking in a hotel lobby across a valley from the walls of Jerusalem’s historic Old City.

“I was born here and I’m proud of it.”

Simmons had harsh words for musicians like Elvis Costello and the Pixies who have recently canceled concerts to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has gone further, joining an organized movement dedi-cated to boycotting Israel and its exports, though he appeared in Israel in 2006.

“The countries they should be boycotting are the same countries that the populations are rebelling,” he said.

Simmons, 61, is visiting Israel as part of his reality show, “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” which follows the adventures and musings of the rocker, his longtime girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, and their two children.

Kiss bassist defends Israeli homeland

The Associated Press

Gene Simmons of Kiss, who was born in Israel, says he’s an Israeli and “proud of it.”

– From news service reports

MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a big heavy metal fan, has fulfi lled a lifelong dream by getting to meet his favorite rock band, Deep Purple.

The British group met the leader for tea at his residence of Gorki outside Moscow on Wednesday, Russian news agencies said.

The 45-year-old president told Deep Purple the band has been a favorite of his since the age of 12. He also revealed that as a DJ at his school in Leningrad he would play rock music at discos, after fi rst getting the approval of the Com-munist youth organization.

Medvedev is a well-known heavy metal fan, while Vladimir Putin, his predecessor and Russia’s current prime minister, is reported to be an ABBA fan.

Medvedev meets favorite rock band, Deep Purple, for tea

Lohan rejectsoffer to plead,will fi ght case

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan rejected a judge’s offer to end a felony grand theft case early on Wednes-day, signaling the actress intends to fi ght a case fi led over a necklace she has been accused of stealing from a upscale jewelry store.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz never publicly detailed the terms of his offer to Lohan, but said if she pleaded no contest or guilty in the case, he would sentence her to jail. Prosecutors are also seeking jail time for the “Mean Girls” star, who was on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case when a store in Venice told police that Lohan had taken a necklace without permission in January.

Lohan’s attorney Shawn Holley notifi ed the prosecu-tor handling the case that Lohan would not be taking Schwartz’s plea offer, district attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said. Wednes-day was the deadline for Lohan to notify Schwartz of her intentions and she will now be required to appear in court on April 22 for a preliminary hearing.The Associated Press

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, talks with Ian Gillan of Deep Purple.

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By JAMES OLIPHANTTribune Washington Bureau

Wednesday marked the anni-versary of the health care law that its advocates said would

change so much. In one very real sense, they were right. The political landscape one year later is radically altered, strewn with the fallen congres-sional careers of many of its support-ers.

The emotional debate over the bill arguably gave rise to the “tea party” movement. Republicans now control the House and aren’t far from seizing the Senate. Potential candidates for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination need only say one word, “Obamacare,” to get a rise from a crowd. And the president himself has struggled at times to ensure that his fi rst term isn’t defi ned by the legislation.

Public attitudes toward the law, how-ever, have not shifted much at all. The Affordable Care Act remains almost as equally loathed and celebrated as it was 12 months ago, despite the best efforts of Democrats to praise it and Republicans to bury it. Even worse for both sides, a majority of Americans remain confused about what the law actually accomplishes.

This week, the trench warfare has heated up once again. Democrats point to the tangible gains the legislation has already delivered, from lifting caps on lifetime benefi ts to prohibiting discrim-ination based on pre-existing medical conditions to helping seniors pay for prescription drugs, while saying even more lies ahead as the law’s provisions go fully into effect in coming years.

Republicans continue to pin the law to the sluggish economic recovery, dismissing Democratic arguments that the law won’t blow up the defi cit, and maintaining that it has already hurt small business and lowered the quality of health care nationwide. In the meantime, the law’s most contro-versial aspect, its requirement that all Americans have health insurance, is under assault in the courts.

While public opinion has stayed rela-tively static on the act, there’s no doubt that the GOP still senses a political opportunity. For much of the last year, Democrats have sat on their heels on the issue; most incumbents ran as far away from the as possible during the congressional midterms. The ones that

One year later, a nation still divided

remain in Congress have witnessed Republicans vote to repeal the law in the House and muster a fair share of votes to do so in the Senate — and the GOP says it’s committed to using the appropriations process to gut the law.

On the putative Republican presi-dential campaign trail, targeting the health care law remains a favorite sport. Repeal is an article of faith among tea-partiers and budget hawks. Candidates such as Tim Pawlenty are seeking to use the law’s persistent unpopularity to boost their profi les, while Mitt Romney’s prospects remain fogged because of his support of a

similar law while he governed Mas-sachusetts.

“If courts do not do so fi rst, as presi-dent, I would support the immediate repeal of Obamacare and replace it with market-based health care re-forms,” Pawlenty said in a statement Wednesday.

But according to polls, advocating a full-blown repeal also carries political risk. According to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, fewer than 40 percent of Americans favor repeal, regardless of whether the Re-publicans replace it with an alterna-tive. That suggests that while agitating

against the law plays well to the GOP base, it risks alienating centrist voters who may be taking more of a wait-and-see approach to the act.

Some in the Republican Party have recognized that certain provisions, such as ensuring that people — es-pecially children — with pre-existing medical conditions can fi nd health in-surance, play well with the electorate and have suggested that a GOP plan would accomplish the same at less cost through the use of purchasing pools and other market-based reforms.

GOP leaders are still working up a replacement in the House. “We don’t

accept the status quo,” Rep. Tom Price of Georgia said on Wednesday. “There are a lot of things that need to be im-proved upon.”

Price said he saw little risk in re-peal, saying his constituents are more ardent about doing away with the law than ever. A more recent Republican line of attack has been the hundreds of waivers the Obama administration has issued to businesses, unions and states, exempting them from comply-ing with the law at least until 2014, when the new state-based insurance exchanges are supposed to begin oper-ating. “Every waiver that occurs brings life to the fact that this bill is unwork-able,” Price said.

The GOP political action group Cross-roads GPS announced Wednesday that it was suing the Department of Health and Human Services for information on the administration’s waiver process.

Democrats argued Wednesday that the GOP isn’t focused on the economy — the same charge Republicans lev-eled against them when the law was being debated.

“Republicans are continuing to re-fi ght the political battles of the past while the American public is ready to move on,” said Rep. Debbie Wasser-man-Schultz of Florida. She said repeal would be “catastrophic.”

Health care reform advocacy groups such as Health Care for America Now are sponsoring some 200 events this week in 35 states to highlight the ben-efi ts of the legislation, including one in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday that will be attended by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

But the White House and Democratic leaders on the Hill have been relatively quiet in their defense of the law on its one-year anniversary, leaving the heavy lifting to advocacy groups. The White House did release a video in which the president called a Michigan college student who will be able to stay on his mother’s health insurance plan as a result of the act.

Republicans say they will continue to push the Democratic-controlled Sen-ate on repeal efforts. Price said that with 23 Democrats in that chamber up for re-election next year momentum may build next year for action, he said.

“We may get a critical mass at some point and actually be able to move something,” he said .

Democrats cite tangible benefi ts; GOP calls for repeal


Health care reform arguments are intense on both sides of the issue, such as this one last year during a speech by President Obama, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The emotional debate continues though the overall attitude has not shifted much since the law’s passage.

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WORLD

Radiation contamination spreading


TOKYO — Anxiety over Japan’s food and water supplies soared following warnings about radiation leaking from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear pow-er plant into Tokyo’s tap water at levels unsafe for babies over the long term.

Residents cleared store shelves of bottled water after Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said that levels of radioactive iodine in tap water were more than twice what is considered safe for babies. Offi cials begged those in the city to buy only what they need, saying hoard-ing could hurt the thousands of people without any water in areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” clerk Toru Kikutaka said, surveying the downtown Tokyo supermarket where the entire stock of bottled water sold out almost immediately after the news broke Wednesday, despite a limit of two, two-liter bottles per customer.

The unsettling new develop-ment affecting Japan’s largest city, home to around 13 million people, added to growing fears over the nation’s food supply.

Radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has seeped into raw milk, seawa-ter and 11 kinds of vegetables, including broccoli, caulifl ower and turnips, from areas around the plant.

U.S. HALTS SOME IMPORTSThe U.S. Food and Drug Ad-

ministration said it was halt-ing imports of Japanese dairy and produce from the region near the facility. Hong Kong said it would require that Ja-pan perform safety checks on meat, eggs and seafood before accepting those products, and Canada said it would upgrade controls on imports of Japanese food products by requiring docu-ments verifying their safety.

Concerns also spread to Eu-rope. In Iceland, offi cials said they measured trace amounts of radioactive iodine in the air but assured residents it was “less than a millionth” of what was found in European countries in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The crisis already is emerging as the world’s most expensive natural disaster on record, likely to cost up to $309 billion, accord-ing to a new government esti-mate. Police estimate that more than 18,000 people were killed.

As a precaution, offi cials have evacuated residents within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the plant and advised those up to 19 miles (30 kilometers) away to stay in-doors to minimize exposure.

And for the fi rst time, chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano suggested that those downwind of the plant should stay indoors with the windows shut tight — even if just outside the zone.

DISTRIBUTING BOTTLED WATERIn Tokyo, the municipal gov-

ernment planned Thursday to distribute 240,000 bottles of wa-ter to households with infants. They estimated 80,000 babies in the affected area, with each infant getting three bottles of 550 milliliters.

Offi cials said tap water showed elevated radiation levels: 210 becquerels of iodine-131 per li-

ter of water — more than twice the recommended limit of 100 becquerels per liter for infants. Another measurement taken later at a different site showed the level was 190 becquerels per liter. The recommended limit for adults is 300 becquerels.

“It is really scary. It is like a vicious negative spiral from the nuclear disaster,” said Etsuko Nomura, a mother of two chil-dren ages 2 and 5. “We have con-taminated milk and vegetables, and now tap water in Tokyo, and I’m wondering what’s next.”

Infants are particularly vul-nerable to radioactive iodine, which can cause thyroid cancer, experts say. The limits refer to sustained consumption rates, and offi cials urged calm, saying parents should stop giving the tap water to babies, but that it was no problem if the infants already had consumed small amounts.

They said the levels posed no immediate health risk for older children or adults.

Dr. Harold Swartz, a profes-sor of radiology and medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in the U.S., said the radiation amounts being reported in the water are too low to pose any real risk, even to infants who are being fed water-based formula or to breast-fed infants whose mothers drink tap water.

Radioactive iodine is also short-lived, with a half-life of eight days — the length of time it takes for half of it to break down harmlessly.

Richard Wakeford, a public health radiologist at the Uni-versity of Manchester in Britain, blamed the spike in radiation on a shift in winds from the nuclear

plant toward Tokyo. He predict-ed lower levels in coming days.

Edano pleaded with shoppers to restrict purchases of bottled water to the bare necessity, urging them to think of tsunami victims in need.

“We have to consider Miyagi, where there is no drinking wa-ter at all,” he said, referring to a stricken region. “Under these conditions, we would appreciate it if people would avoid buying more water than they need.”

VEGETABLE CONTAMINATIONThe latest data showed sharp

increases in radioactivity levels in a range of vegetables. In an area about 25 miles (40 kilome-ters) northwest of the nuclear plant, levels for one locally grown leafy green called kuki-tachina measured 82 times the government limit for radioactive cesium and 11 times the limit for iodine.

With supplies of fuel and ice dwindling, offi cials have aban-doned the traditional practice of cremation in favor of quick, sim-ple burials. Some are interred in bare plywood caskets and others in blue plastic tarps, with no time to build proper coffi ns. The bodies will be dug up and cremated once crematoriums catch up with the glut, offi cials assured families.

In Higashimatsushima in Mi-yagi prefecture, soldiers salut-ing as they lowered bodies into freshly dug graves. Two young girls wept inconsolably, hugged tightly by their father.

“I hope their spirits will rest in peace here at this temporary place,” said mourner Katsuko Oguni, 42.

Masaru Yamagata, a Higashi-

matsushima offi cial, said the crematorium cannot keep up with demand. “Giving the griev-ing families coffi ns is the most we can do right now,” he said.

High radioactive levels in

tap water in Tokyo prompt

warnings and shortages

of bottled water.

Takuya Yoshino/Yomiuri Shimbun/The Associated Press

A dairy farmer in Iitatemura, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, watches milk being dumped into a corn fi eld. Fears are growing in Japan about the nation’s food supply as radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plan seeps in milk, vegetables and water.

RADIOACTIVITY LEVELS ‘TRENDING GENERALLY UPWARD’The overall situation at the Fu-

kushima plant 140 miles north of Tokyo remains of serious concern, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

The deposition of radioactive iodine and cesium varies across 10 prefectures on a day to day basis but “the trend is generally upward,” said Graham Andrew, senior adviser to IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.

The Fukushimi Dai-ichi plant has been leaking radiation since the tsunami engulfed its crucial cool-

ing systems, leading to explosions and fi res in four of the facility’s six reactors in the ensuing days.

Nuclear workers have struggled to stabilize and cool down the overheated plant.

Unit 3 has stopped belching black smoke, an offi cial at Tokyo Electric Power Co. said today, a day after a plume forced an evacuation of nuclear workers. However, white smoke was rising intermittently from two other units .

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Suspect in shooting spreewill get mental evaluation

The Associated PressPHOENIX — The suspect in

the January shooting rampage in Tucson has been transferred to a specialized facility in Mis-souri to undergo a court-or-dered mental evaluation.

Lawyers for 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner say in a court fi ling that he was taken from Tucson to a federal Bureau of Prisons medical facility in Springfi eld, Mo., on Wednesday.

The lawyers want an appeals court to order him returned.

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the charges he faces and can assist in his defense.

L o u g h n e r has pleaded not guilty to charges stem-ming from the Jan. 8 attack that killed six and wounded

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Jets land with controller asleep, offi cials sayThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Two airlin-ers landed at Reagan National Airport near Washington with-out control tower clearance be-cause the air traffi c supervisor was asleep, safety and aviation offi cials said Wednesday.

The supervisor – the only con-troller scheduled for duty in the tower around midnight Tuesday when incident occurred – had fallen asleep, said an aviation offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The National Transportation Safety Board is gathering in-formation on the occurrence to decide whether to open a formal investigation, board spokesman Peter Knudson said.

The pilots of the two commer-cial planes were unable to reach

the tower, but they were in com-munication with a regional air traffi c control facility, Knudson said. That facility is in Warren-ton, Va., about 40 miles from the airport.

Regional air traffi c facilities handle aircraft within roughly a 50 mile radius of an airport, but landings, takeoffs and planes within about three miles of an airport are handled by control-lers in the airport tower.

After pilots were unable to raise the airport tower by ra-dio, they asked controllers in Warrenton to call the tower, Knudson said. Repeated calls to the tower went unanswered, he said.

The planes involved were American Airlines fl ight 1012 and United Airlines fl ight 628T,

Knudson said.The Federal Aviation Admin-

istration released a statement confi rming the incident.

“The FAA is looking into staff-ing issues and whether exist-ing procedures were followed appropriately,” spokeswoman Laura Brown said in an email.

It’s unlikely the safety of the planes was at risk since the pilots would have used a radio frequency for the airport tower to advise nearby aircraft of their intention to land and to make sure that no other planes also intended to land at that time, aviation safety experts said.

At that time of night, air traf-fi c would have been light, they said.


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TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas state Senate approved a bill Wednesday to place strict lim-its on abortions after 22 weeks, based on research that fetuses can feel pain at that point of development.

The fetal pain provision in House Bill 2218 is based on its proponents’ belief that fetuses can experience pain prior to the third trimester of pregnancy, which has traditionally been a cutoff point for abortions except in extreme circumstances.

The Senate has passed other restrictions on abortion in previ-ous years, only to see the bills vetoed by former Gov. Kathleen

Sebelius. The fetal pain topic is a new one. It is expected that Gov. Sam Brownback will sign the bill into law.

The fetal pain bill passed the House overwhelmingly last month.

Several amendments to the House bill were offered in the Senate. In lengthy debate, the reliability of the research that demonstrates fetuses feel pain as early as 22 weeks was chal-

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State Sen. Julia Lynn, R-Olathe, said she considered the practice of aborting fetuses af-ter 22 weeks “barbarism.”

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The Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — The blow-

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At least one outside expert said the fi ndings cast serious doubt on the reliability of all the other blowout preventers used by the drilling industry.

The report by the Norwegian fi rm Det Norske Veritas is not the fi nal word on the Deepwa-ter Horizon disaster last April that killed 11 workers and led to more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing from a BP well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

But it helps answer one of the lingering mysteries nearly a year later: why the blowout pre-venter that sat at the wellhead and was supposed to prevent a spill in case of an explosion didn’t do its job.

The report cast blame on the blowout preventer’s blind shear rams, which are supposed to pinch a well shut in an emer-

gency by shearing through the well’s drill pipe. In the BP crisis, the shear rams couldn’t do their job because the drill pipe had buckled, bowed and become stuck, according to the DNV report.

The 551-page report suggested that blowout preventers be designed or modifi ed in such a way that the shear rams will completely cut through drill pipe regardless of the pipe’s position.

The blowout preventer was made by Cameron International and maintained by Transocean Ltd.

The report suggested that ac-tions taken by the Transocean rig crew during its attempts to control the well around the time of the disaster may have contributed to the piece of drill pipe getting trapped.

“This is the fi rst time in all of this that there has been a clear design fl aw in the blowout pre-venter cited,” said Philip John-son, a University of Alabama civil engineering professor who did not take part in the analysis. “My reaction is, ‘Holy smokes, every set of blind shear rams out there may have this problem.’ ”

In response to the report, Cameron spokeswoman Rhon-da Barnat said the blowout preventer “was designed and tested to industry standards and customer specifi cations.” She added, “We continue to work with the industry to ensure safe

operations.”In a statement, Transocean

said the fi ndings “confi rm that the BOP was in proper operat-ing condition and functioned as designed.” It added: “High-pres-sure fl ow from the well created conditions that exceeded the scope of BOP’s design param-eters.”

BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said the oil company supports efforts by regulators and the industry to make blowout pre-venters more reliable.

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In this 2010 fi le photo, the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer stack is lifted onto the deck of the Helix Q4000 in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. A report released Wednesday identifi ed the primary cause of the blowout preventer’s failure as the blind shear rams failing to close completely and seal the well because the drill pipe had buckled, bowed and become stuck.


Study: Mercury in fish dietdoesn’t raise risks to heart

The Associated PressLOS ANGELES — In an un-

usual health study, researchers analyzing toxin levels in tens of thousands of toenail clippings determined that mercury from eating fi sh does not raise the risk of heart disease or stroke.

Health experts have long urged people to eat fi sh to lower heart risks, but some have wor-ried that the mercury in certain types of fi sh like shark and swordfi sh might offset any ben-efi ts. Earlier studies on mercury and heart problems in adults have yielded contradictory re-sults.

The latest government-funded work is the largest to look at this question. Instead of relying on what people said they ate, it measured mercury in their toenails – a good gauge of long-term exposure to the metal from fi sh consumption.

No differences were seen in the rates of heart and stroke among those with the highest

concentrations of mercury com-pared to those with the lowest.

“The average person should eat fi sh as part of a healthy diet,” and not worry about ill heart effects, said Harvard School of Public Health cardi-ologist Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, who led the research published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

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DispatchesGAZA CITY, Gaza StripIsraeli airstrikes hit tunnels, training sites, Hamas says

Hamas security says a series of Israeli airstrikes have hit its training facilities and smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza-Egypt border.

It reported no casualties from the airstrikes early Thursday.

The attacks came hours after a bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 other people. No group claimed responsibility, but Israeli authorities blamed Palestinian militants.

Israel threatened harsh retaliation for the bombing, the fi rst in Jerusa-lem in several years.

The bombing came against a back-drop of Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza and Israeli reprisal raids. The recent wave of violence has threatened to end a lengthy period of relative calm.

DARAA, SyriaWitnesses report 15 killedin crackdown on protests

Fifteen people were killed by Syr-ian security forces, witnesses said, as a bloody campaign to end politi-cal protest continued Wednesday in the southern city of Daraa.

The deadliest day in the week-long unrest began at 2 a.m. when hundreds of government security agents raided the al-Omari mosque near the center of the Roman-era city, the witnesses said. Protest-ers had sought refuge there, and a makeshift clinic was tending to those wounded in previous clashes.

Despite the crackdown, supporters of the protests from the nearby vil-lages of Inkhil, Jasim, Khirbet Ghaza-leh and al-Harrah attempted to join them, but security forces used live ammunition against them.

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were banned, and mobile phone lines were cut, according to Ammar Qurabi, chief of the National Organi-zation for Human Rights in Syria.

A second human rights activist said, “the conditions are hellish” in Daraa. “There are hundreds of wounded and injured in the streets,” he said, sobbing.

CAIROMilitary issues new rulesto help prepare for elections

Egypt’s military government has handed down new constitutional rules designed to underpin parlia-mentary and presidential elections later this year and provide a legal framework for the army’s continued rule in the meantime.

The interim measures, which stand in for the constitution that was suspended after President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall Feb. 11, contain a promise of democracy in the months ahead and an eventual end to the absolute powers assumed by the Su-preme Military Council of the Armed Forces. But for the moment, they keep military rule in place along with the hated emergency laws on which Mubarak relied for three decades to smother any challenge to his authority.

An announcement from the mili-tary council, relayed by the offi cial Middle East News Agency, said the intent of the changes was to “orga-nize authorities in the transitional phase.” But it did not detail the pre-cise arrangements for, among other things, holding elections or writing a permanent new constitution.

LISBONPortugal on brink of bailout after government collapses

Portugal’s government collapsed Wednesday after the parliament rejected a budget-cutting plan, pushing the country closer to an international bailout and triggering

another test of Europe’s ability to deal with its public debt crisis.

The developments occurred in advance of a summit today at which European leaders were expected to approve an economic program they hope will convince world markets that the 17 nations that share the euro will stand behind each other and better coordinate economic policies .

Instead, the European leaders will meet amid a new round of uncer-tainty. Strapped for cash and mired in slow economic growth, Portugal must raise $6 billion or more next month, and it faces high interest rates demanded by investors who are not confi dent in the govern-ment’s ability to pay.

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The Associated PressSANAA, Yemen — Struggling

to hold power after many of his allies abandoned him, Yemen’s longtime leader on Wednesday escalated his confrontation with a rapidly expanding uprising and took on emergency powers that give him a freer hand to quell protests.

A legislature full of his sup-porters granted President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s request for a 30-day state of emergency, which suspends the constitu-tion, bars protests and gives security forces far-reaching powers of arrest.

The opposition called the vote illegal and vowed to press on with its campaign to topple Saleh’s regime.

The move underlined Saleh’s desperation in the face of month-old protests that have at-tracted tens of thousands across his impoverished nation in the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. This week, Saleh’s regime was hit by a wave of de-fections by military command-ers, ruling party members and others, swelling the ranks of the opposition and leaving the presi-dent isolated.

Saleh has repeatedly sought to appease the protesters but to no avail.

Over the past month, he has offered not to run again when his current term ends in 2013, then offered this week to step down by the end of this year and open a dialogue with the leaders of the demonstrators.

At the same time, he has stepped up the use of violence. His security forces shot dead more than 40 demonstrators in Sanaa on Friday .

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Snowe leading push to ensurewomen’s voice in governments

By JONATHAN RISKINDMaineToday Media

Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON — Sen. Olym-pia Snowe will be the lead ad-vocate next week for a Senate resolution stressing the need for ensuring women’s rights as new governments are formed in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia.

In addition to Snowe, R-Maine, all 16 other female U.S. senators have signed on to the resolution, including Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, according to Snowe’s offi ce.

The resolution will be formally introduced next week when law-makers return from a one-week recess, and presumably will be approved by the full Senate with little controversy.

The resolution states that its goal is to honor “the women in North Africa and the Middle East who have worked to ensure that women are guaranteed equality and basic human rights,” and to emphasize the “vital importance of women’s rights and political participation as leaders in North Africa and the Middle East con-sider constitutional reforms and shape new governments.”

The senators say that women, who demonstrated for govern-mental reform along with men in these countries, are in danger of being relegated to the sidelines when new governments are put into place.

“Part and parcel to the success and stability of any government is the equal voice and participa-tion of women,” Snowe said in a statement. “The spirit and devo-tion exemplifi ed by women in North Africa and the Middle East – and the ongoing challenges they continue to face – is both an inspiration to us all and a re-minder that discrimination and gender-based violence endures around the world.”

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brave and compassionate women in North Africa and the Middle East who are working to advance equality and basic human rights,” Collins said. “Their economic, civic, and po-litical contributions are critical to advancing democracy and economic opportunity in each of the countries they live in.”

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Sha-heen of New Hampshire said “Women have played a vital role in the changes sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, and

they deserve to have a voice in any new governments that emerge there.”

A draft resolution was shared with offi cials at the State Depart-ment’s Offi ce of Global Women’s Issues, which offered some “helpful suggestions which were included in the fi nal version,” ac-cording to Snowe’s offi ce.

MaineToday Media Washington Bureau Chief Jonathan Riskind can be contacted at 791-6280 or at:

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within 100 yards of the facility.“The situation is very serious

here in Misrata,” said an op-position supporter in the city reached Wednesday evening. “The tanks are coming again to the center of Misrata city and they are bombing the hospital at this time.”

U.S. offi cers said the U.S.-led campaign is not conducting airstrikes inside urban areas in order to avoid causing civilian casualties. Civilian deaths could undercut political support for the campaign.

“We’re not going into the cit-ies,” a senior U.S. offi cer said, referring to the airstrikes. “There’s an extra amount of effort placed on preventing civil-ian casualties by our actions.”

Instead, the allied warplanes are hitting Libyan units outside cities, as well as supply lines and headquarters facilities, in hopes of pressuring them to halt attacks against civilians, the of-fi cers said.

But the limitation on the allied strikes also appeared to give Gadhafi ’s troops, once they are deployed inside rebel-held cit-ies, freedom to carry out attacks relatively unmolested, at least for the time being.

Rear Adm. Gerard Hueber, a U.S. naval offi cer involved in directing the air campaign, said U.S. and allied aircraft were extending their operations west-ward from Benghazi and were now attacking Libyan army tar-gets across the country.

Even so, Hueber conceded that Gadhafi ’s forces had inten-sifi ed their attacks against rebel areas in the last day, despite the stepped-up air campaign.

“In Ajdabiya, regime forces intensifi ed combat in, into and out of the city. In Misrata, re-gime forces continue to clear opposition, increase combat operations and target civilian populations in the city,” he told reporters at the Pentagon from a ship off Libya’s coast.

The signs that Gadhafi is moving forces and targeting op-ponents highlights the growing questions about how soon the U.S. will be able to hand off re-sponsibility for the air operation to its allies and whether they will be forced to escalate their con-frontation with Gadhafi in order to achieve even the limited goals of deterring his attacks on civil-ians.

House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday presented the White House with a series of pointed questions about its U.S. military strategy and goals for the continued campaign.

“I and many other members of the House of Representatives are troubled that U.S. military resources were committed to war without clearly defi ning for the American people, the Congress, and our troops what the mission in Libya is,” wrote Boehner, R-Ohio.

If Gadhafi ’s forces are able to further suppress opposition to his regime without suffering severe losses from the allied airstrikes in coming days, the situation in Libya might turn into a lengthy stalemate, with pockets of opposition in parts

of the country but Gadhafi still in power in Tripoli and other areas.

At least four powerful explo-sions consistent with airstrikes or cruise missile strikes could be heard in central Tripoli on Wednesday at around 11 p.m., apparently from the direction of Gadhafi ’s Bab Aziziya resi-dential compound.

The senior U.S. offi cer of-fered no timetable for how long the U.S. and its allies were prepared to let the limited air-strikes continue, or how the international effort could be escalated, if Gadhafi defi es international calls to withdraw his forces.

Over a 24-hour period begin-ning at 6 a.m. Tuesday, U.S. war-planes carried out 28 airstrikes,

and a small but unknown num-ber were carried out by planes from other countries.

Allied warplanes destroyed two missile sites around Trip-oli, the capital, and also hit a government ammunition depot outside the city of Misrata and Libyan Army ground forces around Ajdabiya, the eastern city where large numbers of Libyan troops remain.

A witness in Misrata said the airstrike on the ammunition depot caused an earth-shaking explosion and sent a fi reball into the sky early Wednesday morning at around 2. An ear-lier airstrike targeted the city’s airfi eld, where troops loyal to Gadhafi had massed.

Ambassadors to NATO met for the third straight day

Wednesday to try to work out an agreement on who will assume command of the op-eration in Libya after the U.S. steps back from the lead. Re-ports suggested some progress in bridging divisions between alliance members such as Brit-ain and Italy that want NATO to take command, and others, including France and Turkey, that say a NATO command would be politically unwise with regard to public opinion in the Arab and Muslim world.

One compromise envisions the coalition tapping NATO mil-itary structures and resources but leaving political command of the mission to another mul-tilateral body.

The cracks in the coalition prompted Germany, which has

opposed intervention in Libya, to pull military personnel from NATO aerial reconnaissance teams in the Mediterranean so that they would not be par-ticipating in the Libya mission. But Berlin said it would assign 300 more troops to Afghanistan to compensate so that there would be no net effect on NATO personnel.

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Thursday. “But we are going to have to live in a different fi nan-cial atmosphere. We have to be much more careful about how our revenues are spent.”

Mills said he will not be driving the mid-sized SUV, a Chevrolet Equinox, that the authority purchased last June for its for-mer executive director, Paul Violette. Violette resigned ear-lier this month amid questions about the authority’s spending practices.

Mills said he will trade the SUV for a truck that can be used by work crews, and he will drive his own car to work.

Violette, who had been execu-tive director for 23 years, came under fi re in a report by the Legislature’s Offi ce of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, which found that the authority distributed $157,000 worth of gift certifi -cates to various organizations in 2005 and 2006. The authority has been unable to provide any record of the transactions.

Including the gift cards, the authority spent a total of $454,000 from 2005 to 2009 on donations to groups, including some that appear to be outside its mission, such as Maine Pres-ervation and the Maine Irish Heritage Center.

The report also questioned the authority’s use of $1.1 million for national and international trav-el and restaurants from 2005 to 2009. During the same period, the authority spent $222,000 on employee recognition events, awards and gifts.

Mills said he and his staff are drafting a new policy for such expenses. He said the authority will limit expenditures, such as association membership fees, to groups that directly benefi t the agency, such as trade orga-nizations made up of other toll authorities. Mills also is now requiring that he personally ap-prove all travel plans.

Spending at the authority is not lavish when compared with spending by private corpora-tions, he said, but it may seem excessive for a quasi-govern-mental agency.

“This is not corporate Amer-ica,” he said. “It’s a public agency and has to do business as one.”

The authority employs about 480 people and receives about $100 million annually in toll revenues.

Sen. Roger Katz, co-chair of the Legislature’s Government

Oversight Committee, said he agreed with Mills’ decision to cancel the employee recogni-tion banquet.

“I think it sends exactly the right message,” he said.

The Government Oversight Committee has told Violette and other senior staffers and board members who have knowledge of the gift cards to be prepared to testify under oath on April 15.

Those people had until Wednesday to say whether they will testify before the commit-tee. All of the senior staff and board members at the authority have said they will, Katz said.

Gerard P. Conley Sr., chairman of the Maine Turnpike Authority board of directors for the past seven years, said in an inter-view Wednesday that he was never told about the gift cards, but he will testify.

Violette’s attorney, Peter De-Troy of Portland, said he has not had time to work on the case because of a recent medical procedure. He said the account-ability offi ce has agreed to give Violette until March 31 to say whether he will testify volun-tarily or only if subpoenaed.

MaineToday Media State House Writer Tom Bell can be contacted at 699-6261 or at:

[email protected]

“I think it sends exactly

the right message.”

Sen. Roger KatzR-Augusta, co-chair of the Legislature’s Government

Oversight Committee


child labor, according to a 2008 memo from the Department of Labor.

LePage explained his deci-sion on the Boston-based Howie Carr radio show late in the day.

“I’m trying to send a message to everyone in the state that the state of Maine looks at em-ployees and employers equally, neutrally and on balance,” he said. “The mural sends a mes-sage that we’re one-sided, and I don’t want to send that mes-sage.”

Ralph Carmona, spokesman for the League of United Latin American Citizens, said a di-rective to rename a conference room that’s now named for the late farm worker advocate Ce-sar Chavez is troubling.

“The really bad news is that his decision to remove a civil rights icon’s name from the Labor Department refl ects an underlying pattern of actions and words that affect all Main-ers,” he said.

That pattern includes LeP-age’s comment to the NAACP to “kiss my butt,” saying that women might grow “little beards” if they are exposed to the chemical Bisphenol-A, and a statement that he would go after union rights, Carmona said.

“What is next, the burning of books or the end of Labor Day as a holiday?” said Jose Lopez, director of the Latin American league. “When you add it all up, he is talking about business in a narrow sense that excludes Maine people and the public interest.”

LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett said the governor’s offi ce has received “several messages” from the public complaining about the mural. She also released an anonymous fax, dated Feb. 24, that apparently came from someone who recently visited the Labor Department’s lobby.

“In this mural I observed a fi gure which closely resembles the former commissioner of labor,” the person wrote. “In studying the mural I also ob-

served that this mural is noth-ing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union move-ment. I felt for a moment that I was in communist North Korea where they use these murals to brainwash the masses.”

The fax is signed “A Secret Admirer.”

Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, said he has not received any complaints about the mural from businesses. But he said LePage is trying to fol-low through on his mission to make Maine more business-friendly by being sensitive to all interests.

He suggested a compromise to taking down all 11 panels of the mural.

“Instead of removing them all, maybe we could add a business element to it,” he said. “One that depicts the importance of employer and employee.”

David Clough, director of the Maine branch of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, said there is a need in Maine for better bal-ance between small business and labor.

“Small-business owners would like to see a department that’s visually and substantive-ly balanced between labor and the businesses that provide jobs for workers,” he said.

LePage spokeswoman Ben-nett also released a memo from acting Labor Commis-sioner Laura Boyett that asks staffers for suggestions about renaming the seven confer-ence rooms, some of which are named after labor leaders.

Four rooms are named af-ter women, including Marion Martin, the state labor com-missioner from 1947 to 1972 who is credited with forming the National Federation of Re-publican Women; and Frances Perkins, secretary of labor un-der Franklin D. Roosevelt and the fi rst woman to hold a U.S. Cabinet post.

Rooms also are named after Charles Scontras, a longtime University of Maine profes-sor and a leading authority on Maine labor history, and Wil-liam Looney, a Republican state legislator from Portland who helped pass child labor laws in the late 1800s.

In the memo, Boyett makes it clear to staffers that while they are awaiting a permanent labor commissioner, she wants the department to move ahead with changes.

“We have received feedback that the administration build-ing is not perceived as equally receptive to both businesses and workers – primarily be-cause of the nature of the mu-ral in the lobby and the names of our conference rooms,” she wrote. “Whether or not the per-ception is valid is not really at issue and therefore, not open to debate.”

She asks workers to sug-gest names for the conference rooms by April 5 and indicates there will be “a small prize” for anyone who comes up with a new name. Boyett said that replacing the mural with a neutral paint and renaming the conference rooms after mountains in Maine would be appropriate.

The story generated heavy Web traffi c Wednesday, includ-ing hundreds of comments on MaineToday Media’s websites.

“When will this governor, this state, this nation get it?” wrote SidneyBob. “Without labor there’d be no business. Without business there’d be no labor. They’re in this to-gether. WE’RE in this together. Enough rancor, partisan poli-tics, demonizing, taking sides ... Divided we fall – and boy are we falling fast – as a state and as a nation.”

On the other side, someone named David supported LeP-age’s decision.

“Go Gov. Lepage!!! Finally someone who will take on the

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The mural was unveiled in August 2008, following the con-solidation of fi ve offi ces in the Augusta area and one in Lew-iston to a central location on Commerce Drive in Augusta.

According to information released at the time, the state used $60,000 in federal funds to pay for the mural. LePage said offi cials are looking for muse-ums in Maine that might be interested in displaying it.

Judy Taylor of Tremont, the artist who created and in-stalled the work, was traveling Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. Her hus-band said they had been bar-raged by media calls, including one from The New York Times.

She told the Lewiston Sun Journal on Tuesday that she hadn’t heard any negative feedback about the mural from businesses.

“There was never any inten-tion to be pro-labor or anti-la-bor,” she said. “It was a pure depiction of the facts.”

Scontras, the University of Maine professor, worked close-ly with Taylor to help create the mural. He said he fi nds it sur-prising that LePage, a Franco-American, would remove im-ages that depict the workers who once were the “spine” of the state’s economy.

“He’s erasing a couple hun-dred years of history,” Scontras said. “I can’t imagine a gover-nor who has the audacity to proceed this way when he can’t even win a runoff election.”

Scontras was referring to LePage’s victory in November with 38 percent of the vote.

In a statement released Wednesday, Maine AFL-CIO President Don Berry described the removal of the mural as “political payback, the opposite of putting people fi rst.”

“It’s a spiteful, mean-spir-ited move by the governor that does nothing to create jobs or improve the Maine economy,” he said.

MaineToday Media State House Writer Susan Cover can be contacted at 620-7015 or at:

[email protected]

MURALContinued from Page A1

“What is next, the burning of books or the end of

Labor Day as a holiday? When you add it all up, he is

talking about business in a narrow sense that excludes

Maine people and the public interest.”

Jose Lopezdirector, League of United Latin American Citizens

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him to the position.Gousse said the proposed cuts

would cause “the systematic dismantlement of public educa-tion in Westbrook.”

“This is not bare-bones. This is devastating,” he said Wednesday.

Gousse, Westbrook High School’s principal for the past 10 years, said unavoidable ex-penses, including contracted salary increases and utility costs, account for the 2011-12 budget’s increase over this year’s $32.2 million.

Finance Committee Chair-man Alex Stone said the district expects about $30 million in revenue for the year starting July 1, which is $3.7 million less than it needs to cover expenses. Namin’s proposed cuts, totaling $3.2 million, wouldn’t complete-ly close the gap.

Gousse said he didn’t know the effect the budget would have on the city’s property tax rate, with or without the cuts. He deferred questions to Dawn Ouellette, chief fi nancial offi -cer for the city and the school department, who could not be reached Wednesday.

The fi rst public hearing on the proposed budget will begin at 7 p.m. next Wednesday at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Another hearing will be held April 13, if needed.

Among the positions targeted for cuts are six teachers in the city’s four elementary schools, nine full-time and four part-time teachers at the middle school, and seven full-time and one part-time teacher at the high school.

Under the proposal, no middle school or freshman sports teams, or the ice hockey pro-gram, would receive funding. Field trips districtwide and stipends for teachers who su-pervise activities, such as the chess club and yearbook, also would be eliminated.

“It’s sickening,” Stone said.He said he doesn’t want to

increase taxes or make the pro-posed cuts, “but one of those is going to happen.”

The School Committee is ex-pected to adopt the budget on April 27. Residents will vote on that budget June 7.

One position that Gousse has already eliminated is the direc-tor of facilities, maintenance and transportation, which saves about $100,000 in sal-ary and benefi ts, he said. Also, the city and school technology director has resigned effective April 15.

Gousse said he and City Ad-ministrator Jerre Bryant are discussing how to fi ll that posi-tion.

“We’ve got some more re-structuring to do,” he said.

Namin, who was hired to be superintendent of the Spen-cer-East Brookfi eld Regional School District in central Mas-sachusetts, has said he decided to leave Westbrook to be closer to his wife’s ailing father. He will be paid through the end of June.

Gousse, who earns about $97,000 a year as the high school principal, will not receive a pay increase until July. He signed a contract to serve as interim superintendent through June 2012.

Gousse said Wednesday that he plans to nominate Jon Ross, the district’s director of adult and alternative education, to be high school principal for the rest of this school year.

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dess, teenage bride, mother, di-vorcee and widow. She endured near-death traumas, and many declared her a symbol of sur-vival – with which she agreed. “I’ve been through it all, baby,” she once said. “I’m Mother Courage.”

News about her love affairs, jewelry collection, weight fl uc-tuations and socializing in rich and royal circles were followed by millions of people. More than for any fi lm role, she became famous for being famous, set-ting a media template for later generations of entertainers, models and all variety of semi-somebodies.

It helped that Taylor was eminently quotable. Distraught after her showman husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash in 1958, she sought the company of married entertainer Eddie Fisher, whom she later wed. “Well, Mike is dead and I’m alive,” she said. “What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?”

She made more than 60 fi lms and twice won the Oscar for best actress: as a call girl who meets with tragedy in “BUt-terfi eld 8” (1960), based on the John O’Hara novella; and as the braying, slovenly wife of a professor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), adapted from Edward Albee’s play about marital warfare.

“Virginia Woolf” was a rare critical triumph for Taylor, whom reviewers often found in-substantial or overwrought. As a young woman, she was called “Luscious Liz” for her sensual fi gure, bright eyes with long dark lashes, ruby lips and mane of raven hair. She appeared on the cover of Life magazine 14 times, more than any other fi lm star .

Hailed as the most beauti-ful woman of her generation, Taylor saw herself as one of the most vulnerable.

“I’ve been able to wear plung-ing necklines since I was 14 years old, and ever since then, people have expected me to act as old as I look,” she said after her fi rst divorce. “My troubles all started because I have a

woman’s body and a child’s emotions.”

She denounced and courted celebrity. She fl ashed anger when she was not allowed privacy on her terms, but also went public with her more than 70 hospitalizations for illnesses, including sciatica and a brain tumor.

It became world news as she lay near death from pneumonia at Oscar-voting time in 1960. After winning for “BUtterfi eld 8,” she hobbled on stage with a surgical scar visible and re-ceived a standing ovation. She always maintained she won on a sympathy vote.

She also intrigued many with her marriages to hotel heir Con-rad Nicholson “Nicky” Hilton Jr.; actor Michael Wilding; Todd; Fisher; actor Richard Burton (twice); then-Sen. John W. War-ner (R-Va.); and construction worker Larry Fortensky. She met Fortensky in the late 1980s at the Betty Ford Clinic while both underwent treatment for substance abuse.

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London to Ameri-can parents on Feb. 27, 1932. Her father, Francis, ran an art gallery. Her mother, the former Sara Warmbrodt, had once been an actress who trained Eliza-beth from her earliest years to be presentable in public, in looks and manner.

The family relocated in 1939 to Southern California.

Her father persuaded a fellow air-raid warden, fi lm producer Samuel Marx, to cast Elizabeth in the family drama “Lassie Come Home” (1943), and she won a contract at Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios.

In “National Velvet,” based on Enid Bagnold’s horse yarn, Taylor had a lead role as a country girl who wins a horse in the lottery and proceeds to victory in England’s Grand National Steeplechase. Critics took notice of a more dramatic Taylor for her performance in “A Place in the Sun,” which was fi lmed in 1949 and released in 1951. The movie was based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy,” about an ambitious drifter (Montgomery Clift) whose love for a socialite of glistening beauty (Taylor) is jeopardized by his pregnant,

working-class girlfriend (Shel-ley Winters).

Although Clift held Taylor in esteem, that could not be said of director George Stevens. Speaking of their collaboration on “A Place in the Sun,” he said he found it hard to elicit deep feeling from the 17-year-old.

On the set of “Giant” (1956), in which Taylor played a Virginia-bred gentlewoman amid Texas ranchers Rock Hudson and James Dean, Stevens made her wear much smaller shoes so she would wince properly.

She earned her fi rst Oscar nomination for 1957’s “Raintree County” as a mentally unbal-anced Southern belle during the Civil War era. Her second nomination came in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958) as Maggie the Cat, who tries to lure her emotion-ally distant husband (Paul New-man) back into bed.

Taylor won the Oscar for her next role, as a call girl named Gloria Wandrous in “BUtter-fi eld 8.” It was a part she never wanted and claimed to detest for the rest of her life. She felt the studio was trying to profi t from her troubled off-screen sex life.

She met Burton, playing Marc Antony to her Queen of the Nile on the set of “Cleopatra” (1963). She and Burton, the dashing, Welsh-born actor, fl aunted their off-screen romance by dining and sunbathing together.

The Burtons became the world’s best-known couple, smoldering jet-setters that the public loved to follow. Burton’s advanced alcoholism and infi -delities hastened their divorce in 1974, followed by a remar-riage and second divorce in 1976. In the 1980s, Taylor be-came a businesswoman, lend-ing her name to cosmetics and perfume lines.

Taylor saw herself as a cham-pion of the exploited or mis-treated, including pop singer Michael Jackson. She helped make AIDS an issue of main-stream concern.

In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II made her a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire.

“You can call me Dame Eliza-beth,” she told the media. “I’ve been a broad all my life. Now I’m a dame.”

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THURSDAY OPINION

Editor and PublisherRICHARD L. CONNOR,

Scott Wasser, Executive Editor and VP

M. D. Harmon,Editorial Writer Editorial Writer

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Bill Thompson,Editorial Page Director

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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Assessing the risks of radiationThe events at Japan’s Fukushima

Dai-ichi power station reveal that even with redundant systems and intensive regulation, nuclear power remains a disaster waiting to happen.

Accidents are inevitable with technology as complex as nuclear reactors; there have been more than 50 accidents at U.S. nuclear power plants alone. And since commercial nuclear reactors contain 1,000 times as much radioactivity as was re-leased by the Hiroshima bomb, the chance that one of those accidents will be catastrophic is unacceptably high.

Even the smallest controlled release of radiation from a nuclear plant has the potential to cause harm to human health. The National Acad-emies of Science’s BEIR VII report concluded in 2005 that any exposure to radiation can have detrimental health effects.

Gov. LePage reportedly feels that Maine is “ripe for a nuclear power plant.” I urge him to reassess. A num-ber of safer, cheaper and renewable power-generation options exist for Maine. None are without their fl aws, but none threaten human health as much as nuclear power.

Paul SantomennaExecutive director, Maine chapter

Physicians for Social ResponsibilityFreeport

We can land people on the moon, maintain an orbiting space station, build human body parts. Why do we not seem able to respond to disasters both natural and man-made?

After watching helicopters dump water on the reactors in Japan, I thought there has to be a better way. If nothing else, I am sure we have the technology to build helicopters that would shield the pilots from radiation.

The human race seems incapable of adequately preparing for emergen-cies. After just about every emer-gency the question is asked, “How come we don’t have more basic fi rst responders?”

Larry HornSweden

I have no connection to the power industry except to pay for electric-ity that I use. I am 95 years old. This old body has been subjected to every kind of electronic radiation known to man since I was 12 years old.

It began when I started fooling around with radio transmitting equip-ment and all through my working years in the radio communications fi eld. It never occurred to me that I might be harmed by it.

I built high-power transmitters and tested them within a foot or so of the inductors carrying thousands of volts of electronic radiation, which would be equivalent to sitting in the middle of a kitchen full of microwave ovens at full power and then some. I worked on and around radio towers of 50,000-watt broadcast stations, radars on ships, etc.

All human bodies are made of the same material, so why would anyone be different than me? It comes down to the fact that those people who object to the new (Central Maine Power) smart meters have no idea about the subject and are either para-noid or need to visit a psychiatrist.

I live within 250 feet of three cell towers, as a matter of fact. It reminds me of the time I was applying for a permit to build these towers. There were many similar people making an issue of it, saying they would be ir-radiated and their children would be harmed, etc. Now these same people have cell phones and all the other gadgets surrounding them that emit 10,000 times the (radio frequency) energy put out by the meters.

So, ladies and gentlemen, cool down and fi nd something more important

to complain about. There are unlim-ited things happening right under your noses that will really give you something to worry about.

Herb StroutCape Elizabeth

I have read with some dismay the articles on the smart-meter contro-versy. It is unfortunate that we still have citizens who are ruled by such misguided fallacies and anti-science bias.

To these people, the symptoms they claim are real. No amount of evidence will shake their delusion. The only solution I can see would be to allow such people to opt out and then charge them for the extra cost incurred in manual meter reading.

My involvement with microwave effects dates back to post-World War II physiological experiments. Since then I have tried to keep current on peer-reviewed publications on the subject. So far I have not read of any reproducible effects being observed at power levels of much higher than those produced by smart meters.

With the background radiation we

are all receiving from other sources being so much higher than that one could receive from smart meters, I, for one, will assume this inconse-quential risk for the small benefi t that goes with the smart meters.

Edmond R. PeltaTopsham

Ninety trips around the sunbring refl ection – and joy

I was quite moved by Greg Kesich’s column paying tribute to his dad on the occasion of his 90th birthday. It so happened the column was published on March 16, my 80th birthday.

As his dad begins his 10th decade I begin my ninth, and as Greg said, at these ages “every trip around the sun is worth celebrating.” Indeed, I try to celebrate each day with both a memory of the past and a plan for the latest of the more than 29,000 morn-ings I have awoken.

Some days the world seems awfully dark and troubled. But then I re-member how my mother lived nearly a century, through the Depression, many wars, illness and stress, yet kept loving and smiling – especially when she dug into a lobster at her 95th birthday party. And I think of Misha and Natasha, my grandchil-dren, and the possibility that they – and others like them – may make the world brighter and more peaceful. And I experience hope.

Happy birthday, Veselin Kesich of Scarborough. And, oh yeah, happy birthday to me, too.

Norman AbelsonMoody

It was a joy to read Greg Kesich’s March 16 commentary on his dad’s 90th birthday, “The view from 90 in-cludes more than a few surprises.”

To gain such insight from a long life well-lived is a rare and important thing. The role of family, education and culture is made whole in the father’s struggles of life.

But the son should know the great-est surprise and the best 90th birthday present must be for the father to see what a fi ne man the son has become.

Tom ConnollyPortland

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PAT OLIPHANT’S VIEW

Mideast peace process dead, Arabs rising ... now what?

PORTLAND — Maine’s congressional delegation and citizenry – and a large Ameri-can majority – continue their sustained indifference to the denial of Palestinian human dignity, rights and freedom of 60-odd years.

George Mitchell’s vaunted peace effort has gone nowhere. In reward for self-abasing U.S. cover for further Israeli outrages, Barack Obama has sucked up to one Israeli humili-ation after another. No wonder justice and peace are still beyond sight.

These evidences are all con-sequences – foremost, of the century-old Zionist determina-tion, at bottom racist, to estab-lish a Jewish state in Palestine by forcibly removing its in-

habitants at every opportunity and invariably putting Israel’s expansion before Palestinian rights, justice and peace.

Equally essential has been Israel’s erasure from living memory its dispossession and removal of 80-odd percent of Palestinians in 1947-48 and 1967 – magic largely indebted to public relations founder Ed-ward Gottlieb enlisting Leon Uris to write “Exodus,” trans-forming Israel massacres and ethnic cleansing into David vs. Goliath heroism against dirty and swarthy Arab hordes.

Likewise critical has been Washington’s “honest broker” lock on negotiation content to

ask an active serial thief what loot he will return, even when the whole world is outraged at the 2008-2009 criminal assault on the people and livelihoods of Gaza and the murderous fl o-tilla assault.

Add U.S. mass media’s igno-rance and bias, anesthetizing otherwise decent-minded citi-zens; European reluctance to challenge descendants of Holo-caust victims, and Arab rulers trading solidarity and their oil for arms and U.S. support of their repressive regimes.

Meanwhile, Israel has built a wall of obstacles: a precondi-tion that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state, disenfran-chising more than 1 million Israeli-Palestinians and nullify-ing the right of return of mil-lions of refugees; a continuing occupation that foreshadows a demographic nightmare; a fanatical settler movement that blocks signifi cant withdrawals from East Jerusalem and the West Bank; a steadily stoked

Israeli fear of insecurity, and a government determination to disprove Mitchell’s caveat and have security without a Pales-tinian state. Benjamin Netan-yahu perfectly embodies these blocking forces.

Instead, Israel mercilessly subjugates residents of the oc-cupied territories, denying nec-essary nutrition to millions of children, while usurping their land, water and resources. To accommodate Israel’s colonial millions, millions of native Pal-estinians are ghettoized on less arable land, in a tenth of Pales-tine, or are refugees elsewhere.

Obama, instead of promoting

a United Nations ultimatum for Israel to leave the occupied territories forthwith, welcome refugees who would return and compensate the large major-ity who would not be Israeli third-class citizens, has grov-eled, offering the moon in arms and billions for a settlement pause. Refused, he has given up. Again, former-Israeli-lobby-ist-in-the-White-House Dennis Ross miscalculated.

Now what? The Palestine Pa-pers reveal that Israel has been the chief obstacle to peace and eliminating the sellout-prone Palestinian Authority as nego-tiator for millions of resistant

Palestinians. Israel’s repetitive brutality is delegitimizing the Zionist enterprise as Palestin-ian victimization and nonvio-lent resistance have won moral high ground and legitimized their struggle for freedom and dignity. Iraq, Afghanistan and lock-step support of Israel have marginalized U.S. infl uence.

Should democratic Arab regimes emerge, they will not abet Israel’s repression as have Mubarak and Jordan’s kings, but demand Palestinian liberation. They could close the oil spigot, as in 1973-74.

As more nations recognize Palestine and Palestinians declare a state – or demand Is-raeli citizenship and are denied – what prevents the United Nations, which created Israel, from encompassing not the 10 percent of Palestine in bantu-stans and imprisoned Gaza, but 45 percent of mandatory Pales-tine? Then what?

— Special to the Press Herald

Israel’s wall of obstacles

could come tumbling down

if democratic regimes

emerge in the Arab world.

MAINE VOICES

ABOUT THE AUTHORWilliam H. Slavick of Portland is a retired University of Southern Maine professor. He served as coordinator for Pax Christi Maine from 1987 to 2010.

Obama, instead of promoting a United Nations

ultimatum for Israel to leave the occupied

territories forthwith, has groveled, offering the

moon in arms and billions for a settlement pause.

Refused, he has given up.

Yucca Mountain delays could cost us dearly

Our current system of nuclear waste storage seems designed to maximize the risks.

W hile the world’s attention is fo-cused on nuclear power – more on its obvious risks than its

equally real benefi ts, at least for now – it’s a good time to ponder a problem that won’t go away even if no new nuclear plant is ever built.

That is the question of what to do with the 71,862 tons of spent nuclear fuel being stored at more than 100 sites around the nation, including in Wiscasset, the former location of the Maine Yankee plant.

The national high-level (dangerously radioactive) nuclear waste amount is growing by about 2,200 tons a year, and not only does it comprise a source of hazard in case of natural disaster, it is a potential target for terrorist attack.

The sites are well-guarded, of course, but as we learned in Japan, huge earthquakes and 30-foot tsuna-mis can make a wreck of humanity’s normal precautions.

But there is a better way. The fed-eral government has spent $9 billion preparing a much more secure stor-age facility for the waste at the now-famous Yucca Mountain site in Ne-vada, but local opposition and political infl uence has kept the facility from becoming operational.

So, instead of being buried deep underground in a geologically stable rock formation, the waste is scattered around the country, where it remains far more vulnerable to either attack or natural disasters.

Although Congress created a federal mandate for long-term storage as far back as 1982, with a deadline for ac-cepting it of 1998, the Yucca Mountain site wasn’t selected until 2002 and re-mains only partially constructed.

It’s time to stop fooling around. While President Obama supports

the continued development of nuclear plants, which now provide about 20 percent of U.S. electricity, and has ap-proved guarantees for their construc-tion, that pledge contains a huge gap as long as he avoids a decision on the long-term storage of spent fuel.

New reactor designs are capable of automatic shutdown without radiation release in case of disaster, and some of them would use less hazardous forms of fuel.

As long as new plants are resisted, however, we continue to rely on older designs that are less safe and effi cient. And we continue to accept the obvious hazards of dispersed and exposed above-ground waste storage.

OUR VIEWS

Driver’s license controversyends with a whimper

A new license is in every Maine driver’s future, and there’s no need to fuss about it.

R emember when it seemed as if redesigning the state driver’s license was one of the most

controversial issues Maine had ever confronted?

Spurred by a mandate for a form of identifi cation that could not be eas-ily counterfeited, the federal govern-ment told states that their licenses had to be redesigned (at signifi cant cost) and that they had to include a variety of security devices.

If the states failed to conform to those “Real ID” standards, the gov-ernment threatened, their citizens could no longer use the licenses as a form of ID for air travel.

After considerable resistance, the Transportation Security Agency standards were relaxed somewhat, and some funds were provided for the transition. Maine was one of the longer holdouts, with concerns over individual privacy and the specter of a “national ID card” carrying con-

siderable weight with lawmakers and public opinion. But now, with al-most no fuss, a new driver’s license is set to be implemented next week.

It will debut on a limited basis at fi rst with renewals in Augusta, then with all renewals statewide by June. People who want one before their current licenses expire can get them replaced for $5.

The licenses resemble the current ones, with a large photo on the left and a smaller one in a hard-to-copy format on the right.

Other security measures are incor-porated, but they apparently do not contain a chip with personal data, which was one of the concerns of pri-vacy advocates, who worried about disclosures if the licenses were lost or stolen. Some such chips are also vulnerable to being read remotely, letting their data be stolen easily.

But one feature won’t change. The photos will still be awful.


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COMMENTARY

Wisconsin protests right or wrong?In a Feb. 24 editorial, “Public worker

protests show system breakdown,” The Press Herald praises Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and indirectly the billionaire Koch brothers from California who had contributed over $40,000 to help elect him.

These three have led the charge to crush Wisconsin’s public service unions, even though these unions had agreed to Walker’s demands for cuts in benefi ts and pay. Interestingly, Walker put no such restrictions on the two labor unions that supported him for governor.

Walker had discussed with Republi-can legislators a plot to plant trouble-makers in amongst peaceful protes-tors in Wisconsin’s capital, but fi nally chucked this idea, saying that it might hurt him politically if the public found out. He voiced no worry that this plot would endanger people’s lives, or public safety, which as governor he is responsible to maintain.

Walker during his recent election campaign chanted constantly, “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but has sent out thousands of pink slips to public employees. Walker has even curtailed the right of Wisconsin communities to raise local taxes to make up for at least part of the aid to them that he has destroyed.

The Press Herald states that Democrats had fl ed the state to block Walker’s plans to cap salaries and benefi ts, but the Press Herald is wrong, because the Democrats had al-ready agreed to the salary and benefi t cuts that he had demanded.

The Democrats’ protests were to keep Walker’s (the Kochs’ No. 1 pet poodle) paws off their right to bargain collectively. Luckily, a recent na-tional poll shows that Americans by 60 percent to 40 percent feel that states should not restrict collective bargain-ing rights of their workers.

It’s too bad that the Koch brothers, and their pet poodles – Gov. Walker, the Wisconsin Republican legislators, and The Portland Press Herald – are opposed to such a basic American right as collective bargaining.

Warden DilworthPortland

The true nature of the Democratic Party and its legislators are clearly on display for all to see today. Even though they took a shellacking at the polls in November, they refuse to admit defeat.

Running away in Wisconsin like cow-ards to avoid carrying out their duties to vote and dismissing their oaths of offi ce shows their disregard of the democratic process.

Using the ruse that they are for the working people they are supporting the unions, especially the unions that have ruined our education systems and forced our states into fi scal debt, the unions that protect public employ-ees.

These unions are not for the people,

they are partisan supporters of the Democratic Party. It’s union money and support the Demos want, not the care of you and me.

Using union thug-like tactics, they display signs depicting Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin as a Hitler or a Mussolini. One Massachusetts congressman called on his followers to obey this mantra: “Sometimes we need to get out there and get blood on our hands.”

This remark reminded me of Obama in his campaign speeches, “Get in your neighbors’ faces.” So much for civil rhetoric.

The behaviors of the Wisconsin and Indiana legislators shirking their elected duty is in stark contrast to our democratic process, and they should be recalled, impeached and sent home. The teachers who participated by lying about being sick should be fi red.

These are the true nature of Demo-crats. The fact is the Demos lost and they should get over it. The message is out there. We do not want you anymore.

The voting public wants representa-tion, not your union tactics.

Howard CutlerDixmont

The legislative maneuver in Wiscon-sin was not a “victory for democracy, fi scal soundness and common sense” as a March 14 editorial concludes (“Wisconsin GOP hung tough in vital dispute”). It was union-busting pure and simple.

How is democracy celebrated when a vote occurs while the public is essentially locked out? What “fi scal soundness” is strengthened when the vote in Wisconsin had no effect on the state budget and the state’s public pensions have been well-managed and are fully funded anyway? How is com-mon sense advanced by passing tax cuts and then blaming cops, teachers and road crews for the state’s budget-ary woes?

Republicans claim that taxes have never been higher and that budgets cannot be balanced on the backs of taxpayers. This is simply not true. In Maine, despite the never-ending hub-

bub, taxes have actually been falling as a percent of personal income since 1995. Federal taxes as a percent of income have been falling since 1980.

The vote in Wisconsin and propos-als elsewhere, including Maine, are about consolidating money and power in fewer well-manicured hands – at the expense of the rights of the people who actually produce the goods and services we all enjoy.

Constance Bloomfi eldPortland

When Wisconsin passed the bill to deny collective bargaining rights to state employees, they were doing so for the sole purpose of doing away with unions. Unions have traditionally supported Democrats both fi nancially and by working to get voters to the polls. This bill did not save any money for Wisconsin.

The union had already agreed to what amounted to an 8 percent pay cut for employees. This was a bill that had no fi nancial implications that would help balance the budget, as there were not enough legislators present to vote on one that had a fi nancial component.

This bill to deny collective bargain-ing is union-busting pure and simple. Also not mentioned in your editorial comment is that Gov. Walker gave a huge tax break to Wisconsin’s wealthi-est citizens and if he hadn’t done that, he would not have had a problem balancing the budget.

Sheridan FaberGorham

Your editorial regarding Wisconsin’s large and continuous demonstra-tions against the governor’s appall-ing attempt to undermine collective bargaining by public employee and teacher unions is both in error and biased.

Overwhelmingly, people not only in Wisconsin, but across the country, fa-vor the right to collective bargaining. You are incorrect to pin the demon-strations on pay cuts, something the unions have agreed to. The governor summarily rejected their offer be-cause he wants to destroy the unions by gutting collective bargaining.

The demonstrations are all about collective bargaining cuts in the bill. That is something the people of Wisconsin do not want and they were marching in droves to stop Gov. Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Walker had hoped to sneak this bill through and sign it without getting close scrutiny. Now the people are mad and looking at this scheme with a jaundiced eye.

The bill is 144 pages long and it is fi lled with a lot more than just defi cit reduction. For example, there is a provision to give Gov. Walker sole con-trol of the public utilities in the state and be able to sell them to anyone he

wished for any amount he decided. This would be done without a bid process.

And this is just one example of what the conniving governor is up to. It is becoming clearer that this person is not what the people of Wisconsin want. His poll numbers are tanking and he is becoming an embarrass-ment to the state. Other states watch-ing Wisconsin closely have started dropping the collective bargaining cuts as they can see what it is doing to Walker.

The crisis you refer to in your edito-rial is Walker’s doing, not the good people of Wisconsin who don’t want their state hijacked by a man with his own agenda.

Donald A. Smart Damariscotta

Vermont taking advantageof cheaper Quebec power

Several Vermont utilities have just signed long-term contracts with Hydro-Quebec to purchase up to 225 megawatts, nearly entirely (98 per-cent) generated from hydropower.

They will start in 2012 with a starting price of only 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour. This inexpensive electricity will serve approximately 200,000 homes.

The presidents of Central Vermont Public Service and Green Mountain Power said: “We pride ourselves on providing a low-carbon, high-renew-able power supply at affordable rates, and this will help us retain a competi-tive position in the region …”

Both acknowledged that the start-ing price is about 12 percent lower than existing contracts, prompting Cape Cod’s off-shore wind opponents to begin lobbying for a similar 26-year contract at 9 or 10 cents/KwH – considerably less than the 20 cents expected from Cape Wind.

Vermont’s move to Canadian power has been prompted by ongoing com-munity opposition to in-state renew-able energy projects. Particularly vex-ing has been the protracted struggle over scenic value as it relates to wind turbine development.

Just as Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod have struggled over the appropri-ate visual scale of wind farms, so have the Berkshires in western Massachu-setts as well as northward-looking Vermont.

“The Green Mountains are a beauti-ful part of their heritage and there’s a reluctance to see windmills there,” said a Washington staffer of a Vermont congressman.

Canadian Finance Minister Ray-mond Bachand credits Quebec’s low energy costs to its thriving “green” economy. The rates Quebecers pay for electricity are lower than almost anywhere else in North America.

Electricity prices in New York and Boston are at least three times higher

than in Quebec. In Toronto, the price of electricity is 66 percent higher than in Quebec.

“(Cheap electricity) has played a major role in developing our economy, our regions and our society. It is a source of wealth that we will rely on to pay down our debt,” Bachand said.

Frank J. HellerBrunswick

Maine Turnpike should berun by state, not by MTA

Let’s take a good hard look at the Maine Turnpike Authority.

We know it is charged since 1947 with “management” of the Maine Turnpike. We know it has 470 employ-ees and 80 of them make over $80,000 per year. There are 313 toll takers.

Employees are housed in new offi ces built last year for $18 million. Toll tak-ers are paid more than teachers. All this to look after 106 miles of road!

Contrast that with the Maine De-partment of Transportation, respon-sible for 22,000 miles of road. What is going on here?

It is all about collecting money. Tolltakers are expensive and that is why we are moving to E-ZPass, which has created additional spending for electronic collection.

The MTA is screaming for a new toll-booth down in York. Not only because the existing toolbooth is sinking (built on a swamp, we are told) but because they want to put in a 65-mph E-ZPass lane.

The MTA thinks toll dollars come easy and can be spent as it sees fi t. It has an attitude that it owns the turn-pike, when in reality, it is owned by the citizens of the state of Maine.

MTA would have us believe that it does a better job of maintaining the turnpike than the state does on other Interstate roads. Not true. The MTA has its own fl eet of trucks for keeping the turnpike free of snow. This for a 106-mile stretch of road.

Couldn’t the state make more ef-fi cient use of these trucks and drivers to maintain all the roads in the state?

Do you notice any difference in highway upkeep when you drive onto I-295 after paying your toll in South Portland? What about going onto Interstate 95 north of the Gardiner toll booth? No, they are both the same.

The state of Maine has an opportuni-ty to save some big money by abolish-ing the MTA and turning its assets over to MDOT.

Yes, we would have to raise the gasoline tax to make up the loss, but not nearly by the amount of money that it cost us now in tolls plus MTA mismanagement.

As to out-of-staters paying for tolls, don’t forget, out-of-staters have to fi ll their gas tanks here in the state, too.

William Ambrose North Yarmouth


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Recall teaches mayor who’s boss

Norman Braman is not your typical billionaire car dealer. Nor is he your typi-

cal establishment Republican, who too often puts party above principle. Norman Braman is the type of person who strikes fear into the hearts of every professional politician who thinks he can say one thing to get elected and then do the opposite once in offi ce.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Braman led a successful drive to recall Re-publican Mayor Carlos Alvarez of Miami-Dade, Fla., and Com-missioner Natacha Seijas.

Their offenses? In a tele-phone conversation, Braman tells me there were many, including, he says, “sloppy bookkeeping, fraud, and the mayor’s decision to use tax dollars to build a sports stadium for the local baseball team” when fi scal challenges for the city and high unem-ployment were harming the local economy.

Braman fi led a lawsuit in hopes of stopping construction of the stadium. He lost. The fi -nal straw, he tells me, was when Alvarez and Seijas backed an increase in salaries for public employee union members and a property tax increase to help pay for it. Braman says he was enraged because seniors were not getting a cost-of-living in-crease and the jobless numbers were growing.

Braman launched a website (www.recallmayoralvarez.org) and the campaign was on. That a prominent Miami businessman who had voted for Alvarez (Seijas repre-

sented another county) would be able to attract Hispanics and African-Americans, angry whites as well as Democrats, Republicans and independents of various hues is the ultimate in coalition politics. According to a recent story in the Miami Herald, “Eighty-eight percent voted to oust Alvarez and Seijas in the biggest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.”

Braman says people should take one message from his ef-forts: “This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. It is a referendum for change.”

The tough part comes next. While the symbolism of oust-ing two incumbent politicians with a recall vote may encour-age people who think the system can’t work for them, in-stitutional change will require scaling a much higher wall.

As the Herald reported, the county charter must be changed if political business is not to remain as usual. “Com-missioners,” it found, “have of-ten refused to bring proposals to change the charter before the public for a vote.”

The momentum may be shift-ing. The commissioners are set to meet this week to plan a special election to replace Alvarez and Seijas. There is also a good chance, given the recall results, that they might

consider reforming the char-ter and allow the public to vote on proposed changes.

Some pundits and Democrat-ic politicians have predicted that the tea party movement to reform government is a fl ash in the pan and won’t last through the 2012 election. Nor-man Braman begs to differ. He tells me a tea party group in Fort Lauderdale “gave me a medal.”

The fl ip side of an energized electorate demanding that government not spend more than it takes in and that it take in only what it absolutely needs, respecting the people who earn it, is that increas-ing numbers of us must be torn away from the public trough. “You can do it,” rather than “government will do it for you,” is the type of think-ing that built America and sustained us through wars and economic downturns.

Four years ago, the Christian Science Monitor reported that, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfi eld, N.J., “Slightly over half of all Americans – 52.6 percent – now receive sig-nifi cant income from govern-ment programs.” That fi gure is probably higher today. No wonder many have become addicted to the politicians who keep sending them checks in-stead of encouraging the able-bodied to care for themselves. The United States is seriously and dangerously speeding toward socialism, in function, if not in name.

Howard Jarvis led an anti-tax revolt over high property taxes in California. In 2011, Norman Braman of Miami could be his successor.

Cal Thomas is a columnist for Tribune Media Services. He can be contacted at:

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Trip abroad leaves Obama weak

WASHINGTON — After two years of being called a tyrant and a dictator, President Obamareturns to Washington from a fi ve-day overseas trip to fi nd that he has become a weakling.

Would-be opponents such as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin had been trying outthis somewhat contradictory line of attack for more than a month, as Obama gave mixed signals about events in Egypt and Libya. But the “weak leader” charge gained traction last weekend as Obama chose to launch the attack on Moam-mar Gadhafi ’s forces while on an excellent ad-venture in South America with his family.

SEEING THE SIGHTSAt about the moment the

Tomahawk missiles began to rain down on Libya, Obama was joking with Brazilians about Carnival, the World Cup and the Olympics. Rather than hearing an Oval Offi ce address announc-ing the new war, Americans gotword from the president in a scratchy audio recording.

As warheads pounded Libyan forces, Obama was kicking a soccer ball, seeing the sights and watching cowboys in sequins.

It was perilously close to George W. Bush’s “The Pet Goat” mo-ment, when then-President Bush continued reading a storybook with children on Sept. 11, 2001, after being told the second World Trade Center tower had been hit.

Bush later said he was try-ing to maintain calm; likewise, White House offi cials tell me the decision to proceed with the South America trip was made in part to convey that the Libya bombardment was not a major

military action. Obama admin-istration offi cials calculated that he would take a hit.

But they appear to have been surprised by the force of the weakling complaint, coming not just from usual suspects such as Karl Rove but from liberals such as my Washington Post colleague Richard Cohen, who saw Obama “quite literally dis-tancing himself from the conse-quences of his own policy.”

My own sense, based on years of Obamology and confi rmed by discussions with current and former Obama advisers, is that Obama’s decision to proceed with spring break in Rio comes less from weakness than from stubbornness.

Since his earliest days on the campaign trail in Iowa, he has made clear his aversion to the fl avor-of-the-day news cycle, instead measuring his progress toward a few broad-brush goals, such as American competitive-ness and America’s standing in the world. If something – such as the uprisings in the Middle East – doesn’t fi t unambiguously within his big goals, his instinct is to brush it off.

“I know everybody here is on a 24-hour news cycle,” he told reporters once. “I’m not. OK?”

This worked to his benefi t dur-ing the campaign, when he kept his focus on electoral mechanics rather than the vagaries of his opponents’ attacks.

But as president, his broad brushes have not always served him well, as when his laser focus on health care left voters with the sense that he didn’t care about unemployment. He lost

the House, and with it the rest of his agenda.

The attack on Libya presented the toughest test yet of Obama’s defi ance of the news cycle. In a USA Today op-ed before his de-parture, Obama wrote that while the Middle East is important, he was going to Latin America be-cause “our top priority has to be creating and sustaining new jobs and new opportunities.”

The administration offi cials I spoke with argued that this, it-self, was a sign of strong leader-ship. “To abandon course at ev-ery moment of pundit criticism is not strength,” said one of the president’s top advisers.

They pointed to polls showing most Americans continue to re-gard Obama as a strong leader, and they argued that, beyond Washington, headlines from Obama’s trip justifi ed his strat-egy. (“Obama’s trip to Brazil key to N.J. businesses,” reported the Bergen Record.)

DISCOVERING THE PERILSBut the White House is also

discovering the perils of broad-brush leadership. The latest Post/ABC News poll found that when Americans were asked who is taking “a stronger lead-ership role,” Republicans had a seven-point advantage over Obama; three months ago, Obama had a narrow lead.

The White House justifi ably complains that the criticism of Obama’s Libya policy has been inconsistent: First he was too slow to take action, and now he’s rushing to attack without congressional approval – even though Congress is on its own 10-day spring break.

But it doesn’t matter if the criticism is fair. Obama left a vacuum, and his opponents fi lled it. For a president sud-denly called “weak,” such is the tyranny of the news cycle.

— The Washington Post

ABOUT THE AUTHORDana Milbank is a columnist with The Washington Post Writers Group. He can be contacted at: [email protected].

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Ice hockeyfights marfield tripfor someThe Portland Pirates’ second annual

School Day coincides with a brawl that

has educators rethinking the program.

By EDWARD D. MURPHYStaff Writer

For the average hockey fan, fi ghts can be an acceptable, even anticipated, part of an ag-gressive, physical game.

For some parents of the thousands of chil-dren at the Portland Pirates’ annual School Day game Tuesday, a fi ght that ended with the ejection of four players was too much.

“We were horrifi ed by what we witnessed,” said Catherine Ander-son, who attended the game with her 6-year-old son’s kindergarten class from Reiche School in Portland. “(My son) said, ‘Mom-my, what’s happening?’ and I said, ‘These men are acting out of control and they’re making bad choices.’ And he said, ‘Why isn’t it stopped?’ ”

Observers at the game said the reaction at the Cumberland County Civic Center to the fi ghts was mixed, with some students – particularly older ones – apparently not fazed by the action. But some children and parents were upset, so much so that Anderson said Reiche’s interim principal, Paul Yarnevich, promised her in an email that teachers would talk to their students Wednes-day about the “inappropriateness” of the fi ght-ing and make the school counselor available to any who were upset.

Yarnevich declined to comment, but Portland Superintendent Jim Morse said he plans to talk to principals and teachers who went to Tuesday’s game before deciding whether the district will send students to the School Day game next year.

“Maybe ice hockey for primary-age kids is not the best place to be taking kids on a fi eld trip,” he said. “It’s not something I think a 5-year-old should be subjected to. There are other opportunities in Portland where young-sters can experience sportsmanship.”

Team owner Brian Petrovek said people shouldn’t focus on one incident – the fi ght – to color their opinion of the School Day program or hockey. More than 3,600 students from more than 20 schools attended the Pirates-Worches-ter Sharks game. It was the team’s second an-nual School Day.

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Colin Stuart of the Portland Pirates, top, mixes it up with Sean Sullivan of the Worcester Sharks on Tuesday at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Maybe ice hockey for primary-age kids is not the best place to be taking kids on a fi eld trip ... It’s not something I think a 5-year-old should be subjected to.”

JIM MORSEPortland superintendent

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Latest LePage order a piece of workB

ack in November, long before he decided to hide from the media behind his own weekly television show, Gov. Paul

LePage sat down along with his wife, Ann, to chat with WCSH-TV’s Bill Green.

They talked about, among other things, how they met while they worked at what was then Scott Paper Co. in Winslow – Ann had a union job, Paul was a member of management.

“Scott was battling its unions,” recalled Green in his set-up. “She was a union rep from a union family when she took the manager home

to meet her father.”Cut to Ann LePage:“And my dad looked at me and

said, ‘Ann, you’ve got to be kidding me! What are you doing with him? Those white collars don’t know how to work!’ ”

Nor does this one know how to govern.

We won’t waste valuable space this morning trying to discern what was going on in LePage’s head when he ordered the removal of a mural and the names of meet-ing rooms – all commemorating Maine’s deep and rich labor history – from the headquarters of the

Maine Department of Labor.Searching for rational thought

inside this guy’s noggin, after all, is like wandering through an aban-doned coal mine without a head-lamp.

Besides, it’s the things LePage clearly didn’t think about that make this latest assault on Maine’s sensi-

bilities so stunning.For starters, he didn’t think about

his own heritage as a French-speaking kid growing up on the rough-and-tumble streets of down-town Lewiston.

Panel Seven in Maine artist Judy Taylor’s widely acclaimed, 11-panel homage to Maine workers focuses on the 1937 shoe mill strike in Lew-iston-Auburn.

Seventy-four years ago today, 5,000 of the area’s 6,300 largely French Canadian shoe workers voted to walk off the job over low

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Kristen Stearns, left, a junior at the University of Southern Maine School of Music and a member of the USM Chamber Singers, sings alongside Elise Schwebler, a Kennebunk High School freshman, on Wednesday. The singers are on tour to showcase their school.

Singers visit schools to voice their support

By BOB KEYESStaff Writer

KENNEBUNK — College coaches routinely hit the recruiting trail to encour-age elite high school athletes to enroll at their schools. This week, the University of Southern Maine hit the road to recruit Maine’s best high school singers.

Robert Russell, a choral studies professor at USM in Gorham, arranged a tour across southern and midcoast Maine with the USM Chamber Singers to showcase their talents to high school sing-ers. Including a performance at Kennebunk High School on Wednesday afternoon, the USM Chamber Singers gave nine concerts in four days at schools from Belfast to South Berwick.

The two dozen college sing-ers demonstrated their skills and imparted their knowledge,

and encouraged the high school students to consider the USM School of Music if they are contemplating an education that includes music.

“This gives our school a good name, and shows people that USM has a great choral pro-gram,” said Jeremiah Haley, a senior from Portland.

He was a junior at Deering High School when Russell brought the chamber singers to Portland. Haley remem-bers the group performing a song called “Cloudburst” by contemporary composer Eric Whitacre.

They showcase USM’s

School of Music and aim

to inspire – perhaps to

lure – young vocalists.

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Kennebunk High senior Michael Thyng, left, and USM senior Joshua Miller sing during a workshop Wednesday. USM students also performed for local school choruses. Watch video of the USM singers at pressherald.com

TIGHTENING THE CHORDSState endsMaineCarecontractwith AetnaThirty-four jobs in South

Portland will be lost when

the administrative services

are either cut or transferred.

By JOHN RICHARDSONStaff Writer

The state has broken off a $7 mil-lion-a-year MaineCare contract with a subsidiary of the Aetna insurance company, which told employees Tuesday that it would have to eliminate 34 jobs in South Portland.

State offi cials plan to drop some of the administrative services provided under the contract and transfer other duties – such as managing care of high-cost pa-tients – to state workers.

MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, is reviewing all of its contracts because of “fi scal strug-gles,” said acting director Stefanie Nadeau. The decision on the $7 million contract also refl ects a long-term plan to manage Maine-Care more effi ciently, she said.

“The contract was up for renewal at the end of the fi scal year any-way. We were not going to continue with that service past the end of the contract,” Nadeau said.

Aetna hopes to fi nd other work for many of the 34 employees who are affected.

“We’ve already begun talking to them about alternatives,” said Tom Kelly, president and chief executive offi cer of Schaller An-derson, which is owned by Aetna. “We’re hopeful we’ll get a bunch of them something else to do.”

Schaller Anderson, which helps to manage Medicaid programs in 11 states, is in the third year of its MaineCare contract. The com-pany handles pre-authorization of MaineCare claims and provides care management for more than 7,000 of MaineCare’s sickest low-income patients. The care man-agement clients account for about 2 percent of MaineCare patients and 20 percent of MaineCare’s spending, according to Schaller Anderson.

“Their needs are pretty dramat-ic,” Kelly said.

Aetna’s nurse care managers in South Portland work with those patients and their doctors to im-prove the patients’ health habits, manage medications and appoint-ments, and coordinate medical care so the patients spend less

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The crosswalk at Cleveland Street in Saco, left, where a pedestrian was struck and killed by a minivan last summer, crosses a four-lane stretch of Main Street traveled by 25,000 vehicles a day. This crosswalk and one at nearby Summer Street will be removed as soon as weather permits.

Saco removing Route 1 crosswalks By EMMA BOUTHILLETTE

Staff Writer

SACO — As soon as weather permits, two crosswalks on Main Street will be removed.

A city committee has de-cided to remove the pedestrian crossings of four lanes of traffi c at the intersections of Cleve-land and Summer streets, in response to a fatal accident that occurred in the crosswalk at Cleveland Street last year.

On July 11, Constance Oren-dorf, 74, was crossing Main Street, which is also Route 1, on her way to Mass at Trinity Episcopal Church when she

was hit by a minivan. She died from her injuries later that day at Maine Medical Center in Portland. The driver, Walter Fleury, 66, was charged with manslaughter.

Fleury has been indicted and is awaiting trial, and the safety of the crosswalk remains in question.

After the accident, Saco’s traffi c safety committee com-missioned a study, said Police Chief Brad Paul. The report by Gorrill-Palmer Consulting Engineers Inc. recommended that unless the city could make safety improvements such as additional lighting and pedestrian crossing signals, both crosswalks should be removed.

Paul said 25,000 vehicles travel that section of Route 1

every day.The crosswalks’ removal

will leave pedestrians with crossing signals about 915 feet away, at the Beach Street intersection, and 425 feet away, at Fairfi eld and King streets, near Thornton Academy.

When Thornton Academy built a dormitory close to Main Street in 2009, the Planning Board required the school to add a pedestrian crossing light. Paul said time will tell if that light is effective.

Orendorf ’s family could not be reached for comment, but a recent e-mail from her daugh-ter, Cara St. Louis-Farrelly, to the City Council and The Port-land Press Herald said the city is “doing the right thing” by removing the crosswalks.

The Rev. David Robinson, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, agreed.

“It is unrealistic for them to put in a lighted crosswalk there,” he said, describing the traffi c in front of the church as “crazy.”

“At least the city is doing something to make the cross-ing safe,” he said.

While many crosswalks on Main Street don’t have signals, including the one in front of City Hall, City Administrator Rick Michaud said they are safer because the road is only two lanes in those places and the sidewalks “bump out” into the road.

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At hearing, pleas for infertility coverageBy REBEKAH METZLER

MaineToday Media State House Writer

AUGUSTA — A panel of law-makers heard story after story of heartbreak Wednesday from would-be parents testifying in support of a bill that would re-quire insurance companies to cover infertility treatments.

Many who spoke at the public hearing were unable to control their emotions as they told of struggling for years to conceive, spending thousands of dollars

on treatments and often having to give up on their dreams.

“This loss of a basic human de-sire, to procreate, to create life, a child life, created out of love, is a painful mourning process that simply does not need to be,” said Crystal Toothaker of Harpswell.

Toothaker said she and her husband have been struggling to start a family since 1999.

“There are treatments avail-able that offer high success rates with our diagnosis with unexplained infertility.”

State Rep. Gary Knight, R-Livermore Falls, a bill sponsor, said many Mainers needlessly suffer the pain of infertility when

medical assistance is available, but fi nancially out of reach.

“Implementing the mandate will provide these couples and their families the help they need to undergo medically appropri-ate fertility procedures, deter associated mental health issues and keep the overall cost of health care down,” Knight said.

Infertility treatment cover-age is mandated in nine states, including Connecticut, Mas-sachusetts and Rhode Island, according to testimony.

But the proposal, L.D. 720, faces opposition from both the Maine Civil Liberties Union and the Family Planning Association

of Maine be-cause it would restrict infer-tility coverage to married couples and exclude those who are infer-tile due to sexually transmitted disease.

“That provision that discrimi-nates against unmarried indi-viduals is unconstitutional un-der Supreme Court precedent,” said Shenna Bellows, executive director of the civil liberties union.

State Rep. Melissa Walsh Innes, D-Yarmouth, a co-spon-sor of the measure, also said

she opposed the controversial provisions.

“I am not sure who wrote this language into the bill, but I fi nd the limit section extremely of-fensive and discriminatory,” she said. “If a woman is struggling with infertility but has medical insurance that offers the chance to get fi nancial assistance with infertility treatments, who is the state of Maine to judge whether she is married or free of an STD?”

Representatives from Maine’s insurance industry also opposed the proposal, arguing it would increase costs for all ratepay-ers.

“The (Maine) Bureau of In-

surance did study a similar proposal in 2003 and estimated that similar legislation would represent a 1.4 percent pre-mium increase and it estimated that it would coincidentally ben-efi t about 1.4 percent of Maine’s population,” said Kristine Os-senfort of Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield. “We simply can’t choose to increase our health insurance costs at this time. Insurance doesn’t do any good if people can’t afford the coverage to start.”

MaineToday Media State House Writer Rebekah Metzler can be contacted at 620-7016 or at:

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‘Spa day’ lands Maine survivor in hot water

By RAY ROUTHIERStaff Writer

Reality TV can expose a person in ways she might never have imagined.

That was the case Wednesday night for Maine’s Ashley Underwood when cameras caught her having her armpit hairs plucked by another woman on the CBS reality show “Survivor: Redemp-tion Island.”

Underwood, 26, survived the episode because her tribe won an immunity challenge so none of the members could be voted off. But whether she can live down having her armpits plucked on national TV is another story.

This season of “Survivor” was fi lmed on the beaches of Nicaragua in the fall and began airing weekly on Feb. 16. The season began with 18 contestants from around the country vying for the show’s $1 million prize.

Underwood, a school nurse from Benton, was a star on the University of Maine basketball team, topping 1,000 career points. She was also Miss Maine in 2009.

On Wednesday’s episode, she men-tioned her basketball and pageant ex-

perience to defend taking a “spa day” in the sand with fellow contestant Natalie Tenerelli. The camera caught Tenerelli plucking hairs from Underwood’s arm-pit at one point.

“If you can make yourself more comfortable, why not?” Underwood said, facing the camera. “I’m not lazy, I played basketball and did pageants.”

The spa day clearly irked Phillip Shep-

pard – a member of the Ometepe tribe along with Tenerelli and Underwood. He was upset that the two women weren’t helping with the various chores needed for the group to survive, includ-ing making fi res and fetching water.

“I’ve asked you guys four times to help get fi rewood and you ignore me,” Sheppard said to Underwood. “You’ve laid around here all day. This is not a

beauty pageant.” Underwood tried to laugh off Shep-

pard’s rant, which took up at least a couple minutes of the one-hour show. Later, she said to the camera, “I’m done with him.”

Tension and divisions within a tribe are important on “Survivor” because people get voted off the show during a “tribal council” near the end of each episode. So if someone in your tribe doesn’t like you, they have incentive to get others to vote you off.

But Underwood didn’t have to worry about being voted off on Wednesday’s episode because her tribe beat the other tribe, Zapatera, in the episode’s challenge.

The challenge featured tribe mem-bers using giant slingshots to fi re balls into the air, and other members trying to catch them in nets on sticks. Under-wood stopped an opponent from catch-ing a ball at one point, but didn’t fi gure much in the challenge, as other tribe members scored the needed points.

But she did get to take part in the re-ward, a picnic meal served to the tribe. For one day at least, they didn’t have to hunt and scavenge for food.

Staff Writer Ray Routhier can be contacted at 791-6454 or at:

[email protected]

But Ashley Underwood’s team

wins immunity from being

voted off the show this week.

Ashley Underwood, left, appears on “Survivor: Redemption Island,” which was fi lmed in Nicaragua last fall. She is a school nurse from Benton.

Elan Schoolclosing asenrollmentfalls sharplyThe owner says the school

has become a victim of

‘harsh and false’ attacks

spread over the Internet.

By JUDITH MEYERSun Journal

POLAND — The controversial Elan School for troubled teenag-ers will close April 1.

The private, for-profi t boarding school has been forced to close, said its owner and Executive Director Sharon Terry of Casco, by “declining enrollment and re-sulting fi nancial diffi culties.”

The school was opened in 1970 by a psychiatrist, Dr. Gerald Davidson, and a businessman, Joseph Ricci.

Terry, who is Ricci’s widow, points to an ongoing Internet campaign by an unknown per-son who goes by “Gzasmyhero,” as the cause of much of the school’s fi nancial distress.

The campaign alleges that the school engages in punitive tactics like isolating students for long periods, requiring students to scream at other students, humiliating and restraining students and limiting teenagers’ contact with their parents.

“The school has been the tar-get of harsh and false attacks spread over the Internet with the avowed purpose of forc-ing the school to close,” Terry said in a faxed letter to the Sun Journal.

Despite investigations by the Maine Department of Education that Terry said have vindicated the school, “the school has, unfortunately, been unable to survive the damage.”

“Gzasmyhero,” says he or she was sent to the Elan School in 1998, at the age of 16.

The most visible Web cam-paign was launched about three months ago by “Gzasmyhero,” who argued, “I believe that the internet is our #1 tool for expos-ing these horrid blind spots (at the school) for what they are.”

Other online sites focus on Elan, including chats on fornits.com and multiple Face-book pages. At ElanAlum.org, former students have more complimentary things to say about their years at Elan; at elanschool.org, derogatory posts discourage parents from enrolling their children.

The school, which charges $54,960 a year for tuition, room, board and special services, accepts troubled teenagers in grades eight through 12 to participate in a 24- to 30-month program to modify behavior.

Perhaps the school’s most notorious student was Michael C. Skakel, nephew of Robert Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Skakel was convicted in 2002 of the murder in 1975 of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. Both lived in Greenwich, Conn., where she was found beaten to death with a golf club.

Skakel wasn’t arrested until years later, when two of his former classmates at the Elan School testifi ed he had con-fessed to them.

During the trial, Ricci de-fended the school’s practices as unconventional but effective. During a hearing in the case, witnesses testifi ed that Skakel was pummeled by classmates, forced to wear a sign that linked him to Moxley’s murder and humiliated by wearing a 5-foot dunce cap, according to The Boston Globe.

Skakel was sent to the school in 1978 after a drunken-driving conviction.

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“It blew me away, and I knew then and there that I wanted to be a chamber singer and wanted to go to USM,” he said.

On Wednesday, the USM Chamber Singers shared another Whitacre gem, this one called “Sleep.”

Russell has led high school tours for 32 years. He enjoys sharing the joy of music with singers of any age, and fi nds it especially gratifying to visit with high school students who show interest in singing.

“They used to say that USM is the best-kept secret. We want to counter that,” Russell said. “We do these tours to continue to spread the word so people continue to know who we are.”

The tour also builds cama-raderie among the college singers.

It’s exhausting to travel by bus day after day, said Molly Harmon, a USM senior, also from Portland.

“This is my millionth tour, it seems like. It’s tiring, but it’s fun to work with the kids and it helps us cohere as a group,” she said.

That’s particularly important this spring. In May, the USM Chamber Singers will embark on a 12-day tour of Spain, where they will perform in churches and concert halls.

Any recruiting is inherent in the work the singers do in the schools. There is no over-the-top pitch, no pledge form to sign or even a formal program of any kind.

Russell and the college stu-dents simply work with the high

school students to give them an idea of what it might be like if they choose to study at Gor-ham. The college kids perform a few songs, then sit among the younger students to sing to-gether in a workshop setting. In Kennebunk, two dozen middle school singers joined the group.

The choral director at Ken-nebunk High, Nathan Menifi eld, is a graduate of the USM School

of Music.“I want our students to see

what the next level looks like. They’re capable,” Menifi eld said. “Exposure to the next level is the best way for them to get there.”

Caitlin Dalrymple, a Ken-nebunk High School senior, said she felt honored to sing with the college students.

“We’ve had people come in and sing for us before, and we’ve gone to the middle school to sing. But it’s nice to have the singers from USM come here, because they were in our position just a few years ago. It’s great to hear how good they are,” she said.

Staff Writer Bob Keyes can be contacted at 791-6457 or at:[email protected]

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USMContinued from Page B1

UPCOMING SHOWIn advance of their European tour, the USM Chamber Singers will perform at 5 p.m. April 17 at Immanuel Baptist Church on High Street in Portland. Tickets cost $6 for the public and will be available at the door.

Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

Professor Robert Russell conducts the USM Chamber Singers at Kennebunk High School on Wednesday, as middle school and high school students listen. “They used to say that USM is the best-kept secret. We want to counter that,” he said.

time in emergency rooms and hospitals.

Kelly said the service has clearly reduced costs, saving about $5 for every dollar spent, and reduced depression, which often contributes to patients’ health problems.

“We were taken aback by the decision.” But, he said, “it’s not unusual when states fi nd themselves in dramatic fi scal distress.”

New Hampshire and Indiana have also scaled back contracts in recent years, he said.

Aetna’s prior-authorization work will end March 31. “Some of the services will be eliminated altogether and some of them will be done internally” at Maine-Care, Nadeau said.

The contractor will continue care management through April 30. “The care management is going to be preserved. We are bringing that” into the depart-ment, Nadeau said.

It is clear that care manage-ment can save the state money, Nadeau said, and MaineCare’s ability to do care management internally will expand over time because of a new computer system.

The LePage administration also is evaluating a new man-agement structure for Maine-Care that will include expanded care management, she said.

MaineCare is a division of the state Department of Health and Human Services, which had been preparing to hire managed care companies to start running MaineCare as soon as next year.

Now, the new management structure is expected to take effect within the next two years, Nadeau said, and it’s not clear how much of the operation will be contracted out. “We haven’t settled on an exact model.”

Nadeau said the $7 million contract with Schaller Anderson was MaineCare’s largest, but cutting it off a few months before it was set to expire will produce only “minimal” savings in the fi scal year that ends June 30.

“Every $100,000, $200,000 or $1 million helps,” Nadeau said.

Staff Writer John Richardson can be contacted at 791-6324 or at:

[email protected]

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“This is a physical, aggres-sive game,” he said. “We’re seeing less fi ghting in our sport. In this case, yes, it went beyond a normal fi ght.”

Petrovek denied reports from several school administrators that they were told by a Pirates offi cial who coordinated the event that players would be reminded that students were in the audience and cautioned about aggressive behavior.

Peter Mortenson, principal of Lake Region Middle School, which sent 225 students to the game as a reward “for their civil behavior in the building,” said he was told the players were told that “the normal aggressive behavior is not ac-ceptable.”

Petrovek said the staff mem-ber in charge of the School Day project told him she made no such assurances, and only pointed out to school offi cials who asked that there were no fi ghts at last year’s School Day game.

“Fighting is a part of the sport and it’s penalized,” Petrovek said. “That’s a lesson whether you’re 5 years old or 50 years old.”

Susan Allen, a hockey fan and teacher at Eight Corners Elementary in Scarborough who accompanied about 40 fi rst- and second-graders to the game, said she made the fi ght “a teachable moment.”

“I told them, ‘Hockey players are much like fi rst-graders sometimes – they have dis-agreements and they have con-sequences for what they do,’ ” Allen said. “When the referee thought they could make bet-ter choices, they were allowed back into the game.”

Actually, four players were ejected from the game, but not the one the Eight Corners’ students were most interested in. That player, Nick Crawford, read to the kids at the school a few weeks ago as part of a reading program.

On Tuesday, Crawford traded punches with another player in the fi rst fi ght of the game, and Allen said her students were upset that he had to sit in the penalty box for fi ve minutes.

“To them, Nick Crawford can do no harm,” she said, adding that he waved to the students before the game.

Risa Johnson, who is raising her grandson and sends him to Portland’s East End Com-munity School, said she was “outraged” by the fi ghting.

Johnson said she used to

work at the civic center during hockey games and originally decided that her grandson, a fi fth-grader, would not go on the fi eld trip.

But his teacher called to encourage her to send him to the game and said the school had been “guaranteed” a non-violent game by the Pirates, so she relented.

Johnson said she saw other students at her grandson’s bus stop mimicking the hockey fi ght Wednesday morning, and then when she read about the brawl, she wished she had stuck with her original deci-sion.

“I’m ashamed of these guys and what they did in front of these children,” she said.

Other school offi cials said they didn’t have any complaints or issues with the game, includ-ing the principals at Cathedral School in Portland and Sanford Junior High School.

Petrovek said the games are part of an effort “to be good corporate citizens,” and noted it promoted the “5-2-1-0” pro-gram to get children to eat their fruits and vegetables, limit computer and television time, exercise and avoid sug-ared drinks.

Staff Writer Edward D. Murphy can be contacted at 791-6465 or at:

[email protected]


Reiche School kindergarten students Nasteeho Mohamud, 5, and Greta Holmes, 6, attend the Portland Pirates game Tuesday at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland.

PIRATESContinued from Page B1

By STEVE MISTLERSun Journal

AUGUSTA — A proposal to connect the Lewiston-Auburn area to Portland with an expan-sion of commuter bus service is generating support from alter-native-transportation advocates and lawmakers from both major parties.

But the bill is getting resis-tance from the Maine Turn-pike Authority, which would be responsible for funding the project.

The proposed expansion of the Zoom Turnpike Express service is in L.D. 673, a bill sponsored by Rep. Bradley Moulton, R-York. Zoom runs buses on the turn-pike between stops in Saco and Biddeford and four downtown locations in Portland.

Moulton’s bill would add stops along the turnpike in the Lewiston-Auburn region, and in Augusta. The expansion also would extend south, with stops in Kennebunk and Wells.

The proposal has 26 co-spon-sors, including Republicans, Democrats and an independent. Proponents say it would provide a much-needed transportation

alternative for people who can’t afford cars, remove vehicles from the turnpike and reduce consumption of gasoline.

The turnpike authority is op-posing the $7 million project in part because the quasi-public agency would be largely respon-sible for funding it.

The service now operates on a $320,000 annual budget. Accord-ing to the turnpike authority, about 30 percent of the budget is funded by $95,000 in bus fares. Another $115,000 comes from turnpike tolls. The rest is funded through a $110,000 federal allo-cation to the Maine Department of Transportation.

Moulton’s bill would require the turnpike authority to al-locate 3 percent of its annual revenue to the transportation department to pay for the ex-pansion. The turnpike authority collects about $100 million per year in toll revenue.

Proponents estimate that the expanded service would cost about $3 million a year to oper-ate. It also would require $3.85 million for four new buses.

The bill is scheduled for a com-mittee vote Tuesday.

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remained an important part of the Keefs’ lives over the years.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Keef and his wife wintered in Florida. The family also enjoyed spend-ing time at a vacation home he built in Eustis, where he enjoyed fi shing, hunting and cross-coun-try skiing.

Mr. Keef was active in the Windham community. He served on the board of selectman and volunteered for the fi re depart-ment. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Masons and the North Windham Union Church, where he served as deacon. His daughter said he believed in giving back to the community.

“He was a very caring person,” she said. “He taught us great values. He was really instru-mental in shaping the moral fabric and fi ber of the whole family. He was such a wonderful example for us.”

Staff Writer Melanie Creamer can be contacted at 791-6361 or at:

[email protected]

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wages, dangerous working conditions and discrimination, to name but a few of their griev-ances.

They shut down 19 shoe facto-ries before it was over, but paid dearly when police and then the National Guard moved in and forcibly put down the insurrec-tion.

Just a thought, but how many of those workers do you think might have been named “Le-Page?”

Nor, speaking of history, did LePage stop to think that Taylor’s Panel Three (“The Tex-tile Workers”), Panel Six (“The Woods Workers”) and Panel Nine (“Rosie the Riveter”) all celebrate eras in which hard-working Mainers, through their own sweat and blood, made this state what it is today.

Also lost on the governor is the simple fact that the Depart-ment of Labor, by defi nition, ex-ists fi rst and foremost to protect Maine’s workers.

The laws and regulations it enforces are in place because without them, those forlorn child laborers in Panel Two (“Lost Childhood”) would still

be walking around with ban-dages on their hands, and that parade in Panel Five (“The First Labor Day”) would have dissolved into just another end-less September workday.

Then there’s Panel Eight, titled “Frances Perkins.”

Born of Maine parents, Perkins went on to become the fi rst female member of a U.S. Cabinet – she was secretary of labor through the 12-year presi-dency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and played a lead role in the creation of our Social Security system.

Her lifelong love of Maine is refl ected in the Frances Perkins Center, on the family home-stead in Newcastle, where Ex-ecutive Director Barbara Burt found herself shaking her head in disbelief Wednesday at our “very mean-spirited” governor.

“Unemployment insurance, child labor laws, workplace safety law, the minimum wage – those are all things that you can directly trace back to Fran-ces Perkins,” said Burt.

Removing both the mural and Perkins’ name from one of the Department of Labor’s meeting rooms, Burt said, “is an attack on something that’s so deeply ingrained in American life that it’s almost inconceivable to me. I mean, Maine should be so

proud of Frances Perkins.”Instead, Perkins and all she

stood for soon will come down off the wall and head for what acting Labor Commissioner Laura Boyett, in her e-mail to department employees this week, euphemistically called a “new home.”

Boyett, a 17-year Labor Department veteran who we can only assume is just trying to hang onto her job (ah, the irony), also explained in that e-mail that the rush to redecorate stems from “feedback that the administration building is not perceived as equally receptive to both businesses and work-ers.”

That feedback undoubtedly came from Team LePage the moment it fi rst entered the building. And those Labor De-partment employees who may hold a different view have been told in no uncertain terms to shut up and keep working.

“Whether or not the percep-tion is valid is not really at issue and therefore, not open to debate,” wrote Boyett.

Expect little more from Dan Demeritt, LePage’s communi-cations director, who achieved a new level of tone deafness this week when he told the Lewis-ton Sun Journal that the Labor Department’s face-lift is “a very

small thing.”“I just want to emphasize

that we were merely looking to achieve a little balance” Demer-itt said. “It’s very minor.”

Except it isn’t.In fact, coming just a few days

before Friday’s 100th anniver-sary of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City – 146 young women perished that day in what Frances Per-kins later called “the birth of the New Deal” – it’s an insult to those who over the last century fought, and sometimes died, for the workplace rights we all take for granted today.

Back when the LePages sat down with Bill Green, Ann LePage portrayed the governor as the kind of guy who always identifi es with the downtrod-den because, as an 11-year-old who left home after his abusive father put him in the hospital, he’d been there and done that.

“Because Paul had the upbringing he did,” promised Maine’s fi rst lady, “Paul will fi ght for the underdog every time.”

To paraphrase her father, she had to be kidding.

Columnist Bill Nemitz can be contacted

at 791-6323 or at: [email protected]

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Mainers rally to supportLePage budget proposal

By TOM BELLMaineToday Media State House Writer

AUGUSTA — About 75 people held a rally Wednesday at the State House to show support for Gov. Paul LePage’s pro-posed budget, which would cut some taxes and reduce Maine’s costs for state workers’ pen-sions.

In the crowd was John Clarke, 62, a tea party activist from Monmouth, who waved an American fl ag attached to a pole made of rolled-up fi le folders, which allowed him to get around a State House se-curity rule prohibiting sticks and poles.

“We need common-sense fi s-cal responsibility,” Clarke said. “Paul LePage is committed to working to make sure our chil-dren and grandchildren don’t grow up to be in indentured

servitude to debt they can never repay.”

Bill Hamil-ton, 68, a re-tired sales ex-ecutive from S t a n d i s h , said the budget is a reasonable attempt to lower the cost of government. “We need to get government under control,” he said.

He carried a sign that said, “Status quo – no. Maine Tax-payers – yes.”

Others at the rally carried signs that said, “Don’t buy Union Lies,” “Tax Relief Now,” and “Common sense budget keeps us out of the red.”

The rally was organized by the Maine Heritage Policy Cen-ter, Maine Taxpayers United and Americans for Prosperity.

Tarren Bragdon, chief ex-ecutive offi cer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, urged people to call their legislators and encourage them to “stand up to union bosses and en-trenched special interests.”

“We taxpayers will no longer be ignored,” Bragdon said.

LePage’s $6.1 million budget proposal for the two years starting July 1 includes $200 million in tax breaks, including lowering the top income tax rate from 8.5 percent to 7.95 percent.

To pay for the tax cuts, the budget proposes several changes to teachers’ and state workers’ pension benefi ts.

MaineToday Media State House Writer Tom Bell can be contacted at 699-6261 or at:

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AUGUSTARier named deputy chief in education department

Jim Rier, who has been head of fi -nance and operations for the Maine Department of Education since 2003, has been appointed deputy commissioner of the department.

Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen announced the appoint-ment Wednesday.

Rier will be responsible for man-aging the day-to-day operations of the department, with a focus on fi nancial transparency and account-ability.

Rier has been responsible for implementing the school funding law, school facilities programs and the school nutrition program.

Plan cooked up to whup Pennsylvania’s whoopie pie

A South Portland-based radio sta-tion is teaming up with a whoopie-pie maker to create a 500-pound-plus whoopie pie, with the sole aim of outdoing Pennsylvania’s 250-pounder.

Wednesday’s announcement came as the Maine House approved a compromise that would declare the whoopie pie the state “treat,” while making blueberry pie the state’s offi cial “dessert.”

The measure was approved 107-34 but required a second reading before going to the Senate for consideration.

Contrary to Maine’s claim, Penn-sylvania contends that the whoopie pie was invented by the Amish. But WMGX program director Randi Kir-shbaum says there will be no doubt about whose whoopie is bigger.

The station is teaming up with Wicked Whoopies to make the whoopie pie that will be at least twice the size of Pennsylvania’s current record holder.

The massive whoopie pie will be assembled and displayed Saturday at the Maine Mall in South Portland, Kirshbaum said. Afterward, it will be cut up by Reps. Paul Davis and Emily Cain, sponsors of the whoopie-pie bill, and given away in exchange for donations.

Proceeds will go to send smaller whoopie pies to Maine troops serv-ing overseas.

Legislature considering bill to refi gure excise tax

Every car and truck owner in Maine would be affected by proposed legislation that would cut the state’s excise tax on vehicles.

Supporters say Maine’s excise taxes are too high and vehicle owners need a break. Opponents say cuts in excise taxes would hurt municipalities and shift the tax burden onto property owners.

The primary aim is for car buyers to pay an excise tax based on the true cost of a vehicle, not the list price, which is often higher than the actual price, said Rep. Gary Knight, R-Livermore Falls, co-chair-man of the Legislature’s Taxation Committee.

Excise tax legislation has been debated and rejected for years. In 2009, residents voted down a pro-posal to slash excise tax rates by an average of more than 50 percent.

Knight thinks some form of legislation could pass this time because Republicans now control the Legislature.

High court to hear counties’ land-records access appeal

A legal fi ght that could set a new standard for what public agencies can charge for copies of public records is heading to Maine’s high-est court.

Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cum-berland, Knox, Penobscot and York counties have appealed Justice Thomas Warren’s decision to give MacImage of Maine free access to digital copies of deeds and land records stored in county registries.

Warren ruled that the counties were charging exorbitant fees, which he said violated the Freedom of Access law by restricting access to those records. MacImage’s owner, John Simpson of Cumber-land, wants to develop a statewide clearinghouse of land records.

“It’s a great victory for the public’s right to know,” said Sig-mund Schutz, an attorney for Preti Flaherty of Portland.

Bryan Dench, an Auburn-based attorney, said the counties’ appeal is expected to be heard by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court by the end of this year.

Dench said the counties have also fi led a request asking Warren to stay his order until the Supreme Court has had a chance to hear

their appeal. He said the counties believe they should be compensat-ed for developing record databases and maintaining them.

CAPE ELIZABETHSchool Board OKs budget with 2.2% spending hike

The School Board has approved the $21 million budget proposed by interim Superintendent Ken Murphy.

The board voted unanimously to adopt the 2011-12 budget Tuesday night. The budget would increase spending by 2.2 percent – $447,719 – over this school year. With an expected drop in revenue of about $270,000, the property taxes to support the schools would increase 2.6 percent.

Board Chairwoman Mary Townsend said no changes were made to the budget submitted by Murphy. She said the board went through the budget line by line and Murphy was able to respond to all of its questions and concerns.

The budget would eliminate 1.5 teaching positions: a full-time position at Pond Cove Elementary School, where enrollment is declin-ing, and a half-time literacy teacher at the elementary level that has been funded with federal stimulus money.

BANGORJapanese students idled by quake invited to study here

The University of Maine System is organizing an initiative to as-sist English-speaking Japanese university students whose educa-tions have been interrupted by the recent earthquake and tsunami in that country.

The system is inviting students enrolled in any Japanese university that has suspended or terminated classes because of the disaster to enroll as visiting students in one of Maine’s seven universities for as long as a year.

Japanese students who enroll through the initiative will be men-tored through the system’s inter-national student programs and by Japanese citizens and immigrants who work and attend school in the system. Eleven Japanese students are now in Maine universities.

– From staff and news services

DispatchesDefendant in slashing attack: ‘It was cool’

Associated PressNASHUA, N.H. — A man who

admits killing a mother and maiming her daughter in a ma-chete and knife attack said in a taped interview with police that was played Wednesday that he thought the slashing was “cool” and would have killed the girl if he had realized she was still alive.

In a recorded 7-hour state-ment to police played for jurors Tuesday and Wednesday, Chris-topher Gribble said he hacked to death Kimberly Cates and thought he had killed her 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie.

“I’m kind of surprised she’s alive,” Gribble told police the day after the Oct. 4, 2009, home invasion in Mont Vernon. “I kind of wish she’d died for her sake, just because she’s going to have to live with all that now.”

Jaimie suffered 18 wounds and lost a portion of a foot in the at-tack.

Prosecutors are expected to wrap up the state’s case today.

The 21-year-old Gribble denied any involvement in the home invasion during the fi rst three hours of the police interview. But state troopers kept confronting him with additional information they had learned from others involved in the attack.

When Gribble fi nally began detailing the crimes, he spoke rapidly, but his voice was calm.

“I thought I would feel bad,” Gribble said. “I’m almost sorry to say I don’t. I thought I would at least puke afterward or some-thing.”

“I just felt nothing,” he said.Gribble is trying to convincing

the jury he was insane at the time of the crimes. A forensic psychiatrist for the prosecu-tion who examined Gribble in February said he is a liar and a manipulator who is not insane.

ADAMS, HERBERT R. - 78, of Scarbor-ough & Lovell, March 18, 2011. Services,Norway UU Church, 479 Main St., Nor-way, April 23, 1 p.m. BENNETT, LILLIAN M. - 87, March 20, 2011.Graveside service, Calvary Cemetery,March 25, 1 p.m. Light refreshments,First Baptist Church, Sawyer St., SouthPortland, 2 p.m.CONKRIGHT, PAMELA (USHER) JEAN - 56,of Newry, originally Portland, March 19,2011, in Lewiston. Celebration of life,March 26, 3 p.m., Bethel Church of theNazarene, Bethel.DANYOW-LAMBERT, LILLIAN YOLAND - 82,March 20, 2011. No calling hours. FuneralMass, March 25, 11 a.m., Good ShepherdP a r i s h / M o s t H o l y T r i n i t y C a t h o l i cChurch, Route 1, Saco. Bibber MemorialChapel.DELORENZO, EILEEN M. - 82, of Wells,March 18, 2011. Memorial v is itation,March 27, 1-4 p.m., Bibber MemorialChapel, 111 Chapel Rd., Wells.

DESFOSSES, BRIAN - 43 , in Raymond,March 17, 2011. Visiting hours, 2-4 p.m.,March 26, Dolby Funeral Chapel, 434River Rd., Windham & funeral service, 4p.m.

DUDLEY, MARY - March 21, 2011. Memo-rial service, Trinity Church, 580 ForestAve., Portland, 11 a.m., March 26. Recep-tion, Elks Club, outer Congress St.

DZIK, ELIZABETH K. - 65, of Limington,March 16, 2011, in Scarborough. Privatecelebration of life is planned. Watson,Neal & York Funeral Home, Cornish.

FLAGG, DON H. - of Hartford, March 22,2011, in Auburn. Graveside service, 1p . m . , F r i d a y , E d e s F a l l s C e m e t e r y ,Naples. Hall Funeral Home, Casco.

HENRY, ANNE RANDOLPH - of Scarbor-ough, March 20, 2011. No visiting hours.Memorial service, 11 a.m., March 25, St.Albans Episcopal Church, 855 Shore Rd.,Cape Elizabeth. Hobbs Funeral Home,230 Cottage Rd., South Portland.

I N G R A H A M , F R A N C I S M . - 74 , of Fa l -mouth, March 5, 2011. Graveside service,Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, April 13,11 a.m.

KEEF, GEORGE A. - March 21, 2011. Memo-rial service, Windham Hill United Churchof Christ, 140 Windham Center Rd., 2p.m., March 27. Dolby Funeral Chapel.

KRAUT, JEANNE LOUISE - 83, March 19,2 0 1 1 , i n S c a r b o r o u g h . I n t e r m e n tarrangements pending. Memorial cel-ebrat ion, May 14, 11 a .m. , ThorntonHeights UMC, 100 Westbrook St., SouthPortland. Hobbs Funeral Home, 671 U.S.Route One, Scarborough.

MASTERMAN, EVA SANDSTROM - March23, 2011. No funeral services. Intern-ment in the spring. Brackett FuneralHome, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.

M A T T H E W S , E D W A R D C . M D - 8 5 , o fNobleboro, March 17, 2011, in Dama-riscotta. No public service. Private gath-ering at a later date, Christmas Cove.Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 MainSt., Damariscotta.

MCLEAN, ALVINA S. - 51, of Portland, inPortland, March 17, 2011. Graveside ser-vice, 11 a.m., March 24, Forest City Cem-etery, South Portland. Hobbs FuneralHome, 230 Cottage Rd., South Portland.

SARGENT, ANNE LOUISE (BIGNEY) - March19, 2011, in Scarborough. Internment ata later date, Mt. Wollaston cemetery,Quincy, Mass.

SMITH, MARGARET HASKELL - of Freeport,March 21, 2011, in Freeport. Celebrationof life, April 2, 2:30 p.m., South FreeportChurch , South Freeport Rd . K incerFuneral Home, 130 Pleasant St., Rich-mond.

S T A P L E S , J E A N B A R T L E T T - 8 2 , o fAugusta, in Augusta, March 20, 2011.Long Funeral Home, 9 Mountain St . ,Camden.

WIGGIN, WALTER F. - 58, March 20, 2011,in York Hospital. Memorial service, 1p.m., March 26, Union CongregationalChurch, Church St . , York Beach. Nocall ing hours. Lucas & Eaton FuneralHome, 91 Long Sands Rd., York.

Lawrence E.McDonald (Larry), 75

SOUTH PORTLAND — LawrenceE. McDonald (Larry), 75, of South

Portland,p a s s e d a w a yon March 19,2 0 1 1 , a t h i shome with hisloving familyb y h i s s i d e . Lawrence wasborn in Lubeco n O c t . 2 2 ,1935. He wast h e s o n o fJ o s e p h a n d

Alberta (Greene) McDonald. Hehad nine sisters and three broth-ers. He moved to South Portland in1942. Lawrence attended SouthPortland Schools, he was a BoyScout, was in the Civil Air Patroland the U.S. Air Force. Lawrence married the love of hislife, Shirley L. McDermott onOct. 29, 1956; they had four chil-dren. He was a member of the Chest-nut S t ree t Uni ted Methodis tChurch. He was a coach and wasa little League Umpire. He wasalso an ASA Softball Umpire anda W o m a n ' s s o f t b a l l c o a c h .Lawrence was a charter memberof the South Portland RecycleCommittee. He was a member ofthe Maine Historical Society, theLubec Histor ical Society, theGrand Manan N.B Ca. HistoricalSociety, and the South PortlandHistorical Society. He was an avid sports fan; heenjoyed going to Bonny Eaglefootball games, the Boston RedSox, Portland Sea Dogs and thePatriots. He was also a member ofthe Maine State Golf Association.His highlight in golf was playingwith Che Che Rodriguez. Lawrence worked 44 years forW.D. Matthews Machinery Co. ofAuburn. He retired on March 11,2011. He was predeceased by his par-ents; his loving wife, Shirley; ason, John; sisters, Bernita andMargaret, and a brother, Alfred.Lawrence is survived by his threechildren, daughter Shelby Noyesa n d h e r h u s b a n d T e r r y o fS t a n d i s h , t w o s o n s , J a m e sMcDonald and his fiance Adri-enne Bowden, and LawrenceMcDonald II all of South Port-land; seven s isters , Mrs . LoisSmall of St. Petersburg, Fla., Mrs.Mary Brown of St. Petersburg,F l a . , M r s . G l o r i a M o o d y o fGorham, Mrs. Geraldime Renchof Portland, Mrs. Belva Carey ofWestbrook, Mrs. Virginia Smitho f A u g u s t a , a n d P h y l l i sM c D o n a l d o f A u g u s t a , t w obrothers, Robert McDonald ofW e s t b r o o k , a n d A r t h u rMcDonald of Port land; e ightgrandchildren, Shannon, Jodi,J o h n J o s e p h , R y a n , G r a c i e ,Raquel, Mackenzie, Mason andJasmine; three great-grandchil-dren, Mykenzie, Madison andKaelynn; Poptart's favorite littlegirl, Maya Atkinson; and severalnieces and nephews. Visiting hours will be begin at11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March24, 2011, at Independent DeathCare, 660 Brighton Ave., Port-land; followed by a funeral ser-vice at 1 p.m. Interment will beat Forest City Cemetery in SouthPortland. To offer words of con-dolence to the family, s ign aguest book and share memories,g o t o t h e o b i t u a r y p a g e a twww.independentdeathcare.com

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Gorham, Maine 04038

Lawrence E.McDonald

Eva Sandstrom Masterman, 99

FREEPORT — Eva SandstromMasterman died peacefully in her

s l e e p o nM a r c h 2 3 ,2011, at Free-port NursingHome. Eva was borni n F a r m i n g -ton on Sept .16, 1911, thed a u g h t e r o fJohn C . andO l i v e O .Sandstrom.

She was predeceased by her hus-band, Everett “Andy” Master-man; and her siblings, O. HarleySandstrom, Eric E. Sandstrom,Carl E. Sandstrom, and ThelmaSandstrom Byron. She attended schools in severalMaine towns and graduated fromLivermore Falls High School withthe class of 1929. A gifted athleteat a time when girls scholasticsports were limited, she was cap-tain of her high school basket-ball team, and was named MissBasketball for the State of Maineher senior year. As an adult hersports participation was restrictedto golf, but she often recountedthat as a young housewife, kidswould come to the door to ask ifMrs. Masterman could come outand play. She’d happily leave thedishes in the sink and go join theneighborhood kids in a game ofbaseball. She was married for 68 years toEverett L. “Andy” Mastermanwho died in 2000. They weremarried in 1932 in Wilton wherethey lived until 1998. At thattime Eva moved to Freeport tolive with her daughter Janis Ben-n e t t a n d h u s b a n d B i l l . E v aenjoyed many happy years undertheir loving care and compan-ionship before becoming a resi-dent of the Freeport Nursinghome in 2008. Eva was an active member of theWil ton community , and sheenjoyed socializing with a widecircle of friends throughout heryears in Wilton. She was a mem-ber of Rebekah Lodge, WiltonaClub, Wilton Thimble Club, Wil-son Lake Country Club and theWilton Congregational Church. Eva was a meticulous house-keeper, a wonderful cook and aloving wife, mother and grand-mother. Eva was a formidablebridge player, an avid reader, anda talented stencil artist. Her sten-ciled tin trays, boxes, stools andcountless other items are keep-sakes treasured by her childrenand grandchildren. Eva’s hands were never idle: shemastered macramé, beaded jew-e l r y , c r o c h e t i n g , c o u n t e dc ros s - s t i t ch , p l a s t i c canvas ,embroidery, and fabric crafts.She also got great joy from play-i n g t h e p i a n o a n d o r g a n .Although in her final years herab i l i ty to communica te wascompromised, and the effects ofill health began to take their toll,she wi l l be remembered as awoman whose sweet dispositionand loving nature remained untilthe end. Surviving are her three children,Everett L. Masterman Jr. and hiswife Marjorie of Tallahassee, Fla.,Janis M. Bennett and her hus-band William S. of Freeport, andDr. Leslie J. Masterman and hiswife Kathleen of Milton, N.H.Also surviving are nine grand-children; 12 great-grandchildrenand two great-great-grandchil-dren. Her family wishes to thank thestaff of Freeport Nursing Homefor their kind and compassion-ate care of Eva in her last years. There will be no funeral servicesand internment will be in thespring. Arrangements are in thecare o f the Bracket t Funera lHome, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to:

The Freeport Nursing Home3 East St.

Freeport, Maine 04032

Eva SandstromMasterman

Charles C. “Buz”Hutto Jr.

BUXTON — Charles C. “Buz”Hutto Jr. who died on March19, 2011, i s survived by hismother, Dorothy Force; andw a s p r e d e c e a s e d b y h i sstep-father, William Force.

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OBITUARIES

George Keef, 88, environmentally conscious businessmanBy MELANIE CREAMER

Staff Writer

WINDHAM — George Keef, a respected business owner who was active in the community and had a zest for life, died Monday. He was 88.

Mr. Keef had an entrepreneurial spirit. He started several businesses during his life, including a partnership in Sebago Ba-sin campground in North Windham and Maine Rental Hardware in Westbrook. In 1976, he founded Frost and Flame, a small retail store formerly on Route 115 in North Windham. The store sold items such as bicycles and Norwegian wood stoves. He sold the business in 1984.

Karen Lothrop of Longwood, Fla., the second oldest of his six children, said her father took pride in the businesses he owned. Lothrop said he was always coming up with ways to improve his businesses, such as installing the wood

stoves his customers bought, and renting bicycles as well as selling them.

“He had this grandiose hope that the bikes would catch on and people would give up their cars,” his daughter said. “He was hopeful that people would be more environmentally conscious. He was an idea man. If one thing didn’t succeed, he would try something else and put his heart and soul into it.”

Mr. Keef was remembered by his family on Wednesday as an old-fashioned guy who had strong morals and beliefs.

He was married to his wife, Jean Keef, for 66 years. They met on Spednic Lake near the Canadian border when she was 13 and he was 15 – he was sailing and she was canoeing with a friend. They mar-ried in 1944 and lived in South Portland briefl y.

In 1949, the Keefs bought a poultry farm on Route 115 in North Windham, where they raised their family.

Lothrop said her parents loved each other and shared a great life together.

“He always treated my mother like a queen,” she said. “They were very com-patible. They had a lot of life experiences together and were really great friends.”

A highlight of their lives was traveling to Norway twice, where they visited Inger Myrstad Riley, an exchange student the family hosted in the early 1960s. Riley has

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George and Jean Keef, shown at a party in 2007, were married for 66 years. They met on Spednic Lake near the Canadian border when she was 13 and he was 15.

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Mary E. Dudley1931 - 2011

PORTLAND — Mary Dudley, ofPort land, died peaceful ly onMarch 21, 2011, after a long ill-ness. Mary was born in Portland, thedaughter o f Harry and Clara(Wilson) Milton. Mary was theloving wife of Robert Dudley Sr.for 55 years until his death inFebruary 2005. Mary worked for many years atMMC and OHM. She was verycivic minded and taught herchildren volunteerism on herown. She was a dedicated PackMother of Boy Scout Pack 62, amember of the Port land DietMission and past president (nowknown as the Cora L . BrownF o u n d a t i o n ) , t h e W o m a n ’ sRepublican Club, Portland Club,and spent many Saturdays at thePreble Street Soup Kitchen. Shealso volunteered at the FrancesPeabody House as a driver. Marywas a member of the St. Hilda’sGuild and Altar Guild for manyy e a r s a t T r i n i t y E p i s c o p a lChurch. Mary was predeceased by herparents; her husband; two broth-ers , Ward and John; and onegrandson, Joey. She is survived byher two daughters, Alice Levesqueand her husband Rino, Lisa Pardiand her husband Michael, hersons, Ward, Milton and Robertand his wife Shirley; 11 grand-children; and 12 great-grandchil-dren. A memorial service will be heldat the Trinity Church, 580 ForestAve., Portland, at 11 a.m. on Sat-urday, March 26, 2011. A recep-tion will follow at the Elks Clubon outer Congress Street.

Brian Desfosses, 43 RAYMOND — Brian Desfosses,43, d ied at his home in Ray-

m o n d o nM a r c h 1 7 ,2011. He was bornin Westbrooko n J a n . 1 7 ,1968, the sonof Sandra andEugene Des -fosses . Br ianstruggled witha long illnessand is now at

peace. H e l o v e d t h e o u t d o o r s . H eenjoyed hunting, snowmobiling,fishing, riding motorcycles, dirtbikes and anything that had amotor. Brian was mechanicallyinc l ined so o f course he d idwhatever he could to make whathe drove go faster. He enjoyed growing up with hismany f r i ends and f ami ly inWestbrook. He later moved toRaymond and could be found athis beach enjoying the warmthof the sun and playing ball withhis dog Kia. Most importantlyBrian was loved by his familyand friends. He had a heart ofgold and would light up a roomwhen he entered. He is survived by his parents,Sandra and Eugene Desfosses ofWestbrook; his s i s ter , E i leenClark of Windham, her husbandKen, and two nieces, Ashley andMorgan, whom he loved dearly.He is remembered and loved bymany other cherished relativesand friends. Visiting hours will be held from2 u n t i l 4 p . m . o n S a t u r d a y ,March 26, 2011, at the DolbyFuneral Chapel, 434 River Rd.,Windham. A funeral service willfollow at 4 p.m. For on-line con-dolences, please visit our website at: www.dolbyfuneralchap-els.com.

In lieu of flowers, please considerdonations in Brian’s memory to

a charity of one’s choice.

Brian Desfosses

Margaret HaskellSmith

FREEPORT — Margaret HaskellSmith, of Windsor Post Road,

Freeport, diedon March 21,2011, at homein Freeport. M r s . S m i t hwas born onAug. 14, 1920,i n N e w t o nCenter, Mass.,the daughterof William A.H a s k e l l a n dMargaret Lin-

coln Barry. She spent her years inNewton Center attending localschools. In 1935 she entered TheEmma Willard School in Troy,N.Y., from which she graduatedin 1938. She then attended SmithCollege, graduating in 1942. Her summers were spent at thefamily cottage in Blue Hill, and itwas in Blue Hill at the age of 16that she met her future husbandHalsey Smith of South Orange,N.J. They were married in Trin-ity Episcopal Church, NewtonCenter on Dec. 19, 1942. In 1945, after Mr. Smith’s returnfrom duty in the Marine Corps.,they set t led in Orange, N. J . ,where they lived until 1951. InSeptember o f tha t yea r , Mr .Smith became associated withthe Casco Bank and Trust Com-pany and the family moved tothe Portland area, settling on theBlackstrap Road in Falmouth. In1 9 6 9 t h e y m o v e d f r o m F a l -mouth to Freeport. Mrs. Smith was predeceased byher parents; her husband; herbrother, William A. Haskell ofTopsham; and a son-in-law, Ger-ald A. Shafts. She is survived byher four ch i ld ren , Marga re tCoburn Smith and her partnerSandra Bishop of Landrum, S.C.,Karen W. Shafts of West Rox-bury, Mass., Halsey Smith Jr. andhis wife Cynthia of Wellington,Fla., and Ellen Ebert and her hus-band Daric of Freeport. She isalso survived by six grandchil-dren, Heather Winson of SouthPortland and her husband Rob,Melissa Sykes of Lynnfield, Mass.,and her husband David, EmilyEbert of Burnham-on-Crouch, UKand her husband Harry, Nicho-las Ebert of Portland, ZacharySmith and Dean Smith of Well-ington, Fla. ; and eight great-grandchildren. A celebration of her life will beheld on Saturday, April 2, at 2:30p . m . , a t t h e S o u t h F r e e p o r tChurch on South Freeport Road.Arrangements are under the careof Kincer Funeral Home, 130Pleasant St., Richmond.In lieu of flowers, donations in her

memory may be made to: Freeport Community Services

53 Depot Rd.Freeport, Maine 04032or to Coastal Humane Society of Brunswick

30 Range Rd.Brunswick, Maine 04011

Margaret HaskellSmith

George KeefA Man Ahead of His Time

WINDHAM — George A. Keefwas born in the Canadian bor-der town of Vanceboro,on Aug . 12 , 1922 , toA r t h u r I . K e e f a n dMarion Dodge Keef. Hep a s s e d o n M a r c h 2 1 ,2011 , su r rounded byfami ly member s whohave greatly cherishedbeing a part of this out-standing man’s life. G e o r g e j o i n e d t h eMarine Corps after com-p l e t i n g t w o y e a r s a tRicker Junior College and wasstationed in North Carolina. Hewas trained as an aerial photog-rapher and se rved in Guam. George married his sweetheart,Jean Donahue, in 1944. After thewar, they moved to South Port-land where he worked in realestate and for Sears Roebuck’sphotography department. Thec o u p l e m o v e d t o N o r t hWindham after purchasing apoultry farm. George became active in thecommunity, became a selectman,served as a volunteer fireman andwas a member of the KiwanisClub. He joined the Masons andt h e N o r t h W i n d h a m U n i o nChurch where he served as dea-con. George had an entrepreneurialspirit and started several busi-nesses, including a partnership inthe Sebago Basin Tenting Area inNorth Windham, Rental Hard-ware in Westbrook, and inde-pendently founded the originalFrost and Flame store in NorthWindham. He worked as a Surge Da i ryEquipment representative visit-ing farms in Maine and NewHampshire for five years, fol-lowed by 15 yea r s a s a sh i f tsupervisor with Fairchild Semi-conductor in South Portland. In 1963 -64 the Kee f f ami lyhosted an AFS exchange studentf rom Norway, Inger Myrstad(Riley), who on a trip to Maine toattend her host sister’s wedding,met and married an American,moved to the U.S. She and herfamily have remained an inte-gral part of the Keefs. George andwife, Jean, made two tr ips toNorway, which were highlightsof their lives. George designed and built twoh o m e s ; a s o l a r h o m e i nWindham and a weekend homein Eustis that became a getawayfor fishing, hunting and crosscountry skiing. For the past 25years the couple enjoyed winter-ing in Florida where they mademany friends through their vari-ous activities.

George Keef

He was an avid environmental-ist, gardener and arborist and

planted at least 36 dif-ferent varieties of treeson his property. He wasa woodcarver and cre-a t e d m a n y a r t i s t i cobjects for his familya n d f r i e n d s . H e w a sespec ia l ly fasc inatedwith Haida art from thetribe of the First Nationof Canada and lovedcollecting Maine Indianrelics. He was a history

buff and avid reader. His storytelling abilities reflected his vastknowledge of the past and theworld around him. The taleswere always told with his drysense of humor that never failedto amuse. He was closely connected to allof his children, grandchildren,great-grandchildren and manydozens of others since he took aninterest in each one of them, andwill be greatly missed by all. George is survived by his wife,Jean; and the couples six chil-dren, daughters Martha Strout(Ronald), Nahant, Mass., andKaren Lothrop (Tom), Long-wood, Fla., and four sons livingin Maine, Daniel (Debora Tan-cre l ) , Casco, Edward (SherrySawyer ) , Ot i s f i e ld , Wi l l i am,Gorham, and David (JohannaMoore), Farmingdale. They alsohave 13 grandchildren, AaronStrout (Melanie), Austin, Texas,John Strout (Larr issa) , S i lverSpring, Md., Heather Strout (LeeBake r ) , Aus t in Texas , J amesLothrop (Suzanne), Philadelphia,Pa., Stephen Lothrop (Nadine),C o l u m b u s , O h i o , M i c h a e lLothrop (Gabriela) , Orlando,Fla., Sara Keef, Worcester, Mass.,Chris Keef (Angela), Concord,N . H . , T h o m a s K e e f ( S a n d i ) ,W e s t b r o o k , S a n m u k h J a i n(Amanda Keef), Austin, Texas,Trav i s Kee f (Kate ) , Gorham,E m i l y K e e f ( M a t t O l s o n ) ,S t and i sh and J enn i f e r Kee f ,S tandish . They a l so have 18great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be heldat Windham Hill United Churchof Christ, 140 Windham CenterRd., at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March27. Arrangements are by theD o l b y F u n e r a l C h a p e l .Onl ine condolences may bemade to www.dolbyfuneralchap-els.com.

Donations may be made to:Gosnell Memorial Hospice House

11 Hunnewell Rd.Scarborough, Maine 04074 or via http://www.hospiceofsouthernmaine.org/donate/

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Herbert R. Adams, 78 SCARBOROUGH — Herbert R.Adams, 78, of Scarborough andLovell, died suddenly atMaine Medical Centeron March 18, 2011. Herb was born on April19, 1932, in Philadel-phia, Pa., to Leander H.Adams and Helen Rich-ards Adams. He was agraduate of Colby Col-lege (1954), where hewas involved in theatreproduct ions and wonthe Levine Prize for Pub-lic Speaking, and Harvard Gradu-ate School of Education (1972).He also studied at Harvard Divin-ity School. Herb had careers in the ministryand as a textbook editor anddeveloper at several companies,the last of which was LaidlawBrothers, a subsidiary of Double-day & Co., where he served asP r e s iden t and CEO. He a l sotaught English in public schoolsin Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massa-chusetts and Maine and served asa principal of the Middle Schoolin the Oxford Hills school dis-trict. Herb began his ministry whilehe was a student at Colby Col-lege, ordained by the FairfieldMethodi s t Church where heserved on weekends. Later whilestill at Colby, he commuted toScarborough to serve the PinePoint Congregational Church,where he also served full-timeafter his graduation. He left therein 1956 to s tudy a t HarvardDivinity School. Later, as a Unitarian Universal-ist minister he served churches inMaine, Massachusetts, New YorkState, New Mexico and Florida,sometimes simultaneously withother posts in teaching or pub-lishing. While in the Unitarian ministry,he authored a curriculum forchurch schools for the UnitarianUniversalist Association Depart-m e n t o f E d u c a t i o n e n t i t l e d“Project Listening,” based uponhis doctoral research and thesis

Herbert R. Adams

a b o u t t h e i m p o r t a n c e o fempathic listening. Later while

in the publishing busi-ness, he co-authored abook, “Listening YourWay to ManagementSuccess.” Herb was a past presi-d e n t o f t h e N o r w a yParis Kiwanis Club andvarious civic organiza-tions in the Oxford Hillsand Lovel l . He had apart icular interest inlakes conservation.

He was predeceased by parents;his infant brother, HamptonAdams, and a brother, Jon B.Adams. He is survived by his wifeof 34 years, Mary Ryan Adams;his sister, Anne Adams of Lan-caster, Pa.; four children, AshleyAdams of Ros l inda le , Mass . ,Joshua Adams of Ithaca, N.Y.,Lee Adams of Dayton, Minn.,and Rachel Adams of Minneapo-lis Minn.; three stepchildren,Ande Hall of Pratt, Kan., Ken Hillof Milford, Mass., and Rich Hillo f G e n e v a , I l l . ; 1 2 b e l o v e dgrandchildren, Sam Johnson, JillA d a m s , V a n e s s a J o h n s o n ,Rebecca Adams , Jonno Hi l l ,Hannah Adams, Tucker Adams,Reuben Adams, Calvin Adams,Jenny Hill, Ezra Hill and NoraHill; five nieces and nephews;and his faithful Boston Terrier,Betty Boop. Herb enjoyed Heald Pond, hissummer home of 42 years, golf,fishing, poker, theatre, and jazzmusic. Most of all, he enjoyedspending time with his extensiveextended family. Services to celebrate Herb's lifewill be held at the Norway UUChurch, 479 Main St., Norwayon April 23, 2011, at 1 p.m.In lieu of flowers, donations may be

made in Herb's memory to:The West Paris Universalist Church

P.O. Box 36West Paris, Maine 04289

or to the Norway Unitarian Universalist Church

479 Main St.Norway, Maine 04268

Officers & MembersLocal 740

FirefighterJOSEPH C. CAVALLARO JR.

Engine Co. #1

Appointed November 13, 1977Died in Line of Duty March 24, 1980As A Result of Injuries at Box 53,

March 24, 1980

FIREMAN'S PRAYERWhen I am called to duty, God...

Wherever flames may rage...Give me strength to save some life...

Whatever be its age...Help me embrace a little child...

Before it is too late...Or save an olderperson from...The horror of that fate...

Enable me to be alert and hear the weakestshout...And quickly and efficiently...

To put the fire out...I want to fill my callingand...To give the best in me...To guard myevery neighbor and...Protect his property...And if according to my fate... I am to losemy life...Please bless with your protecting

hand... My children and my wife.

Lovingly remembered by,Family

IN MEMORIAMIn Loving Memory Of

ANN L. MICHAUD

July 22, 1956 - March 24, 2009

Thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.

I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.All I have are memoriesand a picture in a frame.

Your memory is a keepsake,with which I'll never part.

God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart.

Missing you, forever in our hearts,Husband Gary

Daughters Katelyn, Ashley and Rochelle


EVELYN GROFF BANKS

Who Passed Away on March 24, 2005

We love you and miss you and there isnot a day that goes by that

we don’t think of you.

Love,Your Children and Husband,

Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren


BENJAMIN CHANDLER

Who Passed Away March 24, 2003

Lovingly remembered by,Bruce, Candie, Bob and Cindy


JOHN P. FLAHERTY

November 30, 1934 - March 24, 2010

One year ago today the Lord took youhome but you are always with us.

We love you and miss you.

Your loving Wife Catherineand Daughters Kathy and Luana

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WashingtonWashington56/2856/28

New YorkNew York44/2844/28

MiamiMiami84/6784/67

AtlantaAtlanta68/4068/40

DetroitDetroit30/1630/16

HoustonHouston81/6281/62

ChicagoChicago37/2037/20

MinneapolisMinneapolis28/1428/14

El PasoEl Paso78/4978/49

DenverDenver56/2956/29

BillingsBillings47/2647/26

San FranciscoSan Francisco56/4656/46

SeattleSeattle55/4155/41

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ChurchillChurchill6/-146/-14 St. John'sSt. John's

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HalifaxHalifax38/2338/23

SaskatoonSaskatoon24/524/5

TorontoToronto28/1228/12

MontrealMontreal36/1736/17

WinnipegWinnipeg26/826/8

CalgaryCalgary31/2131/21

VancouverVancouver51/4251/42

Monterrey91/63

La Paz81/55

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Los Angeles62/50

Washington56/28

New York44/28

Miami84/67

Atlanta68/40

Detroit30/16

Houston81/62

Chicago37/20

Minneapolis28/14

El Paso78/49

Denver56/29

Billings47/26

San Francisco56/46

Seattle55/41

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Sunset today 6:58 p.m.

Daylight today 12 hr., 20 min.

Increase since 12/21 3 hr., 24 min.

Moonrise today 12:22 a.m.

Moonset today 9:28 a.m.

Record high 66/1953

Normal high 44

Record low 5/1934

Normal low 28

Wednesday mean temp. 32

Normal mean temp. 36

Heating degree days yest. 33

Average this date 29

Total, month to date 722

Total, season to date 5669

Average, season to date 5969

Last season to date 5291

24-hour snowfall yest. 0.0"

Month to date 3.2"

Normal month to date 9.6"

Season to date 74.2"

Normal season to date 59.8"

Last season to date 37.0"

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Around the world today

11// NNoorrtthh:: Rather cloudy today with a snow shower; breezytoward Millinocket.

Today: Wind east-northeast at 15-25knots. Wave heights 4-7 feet. Visibilityunder 2 miles in a snow shower.

Tonight: Wind from the north-north-east at 10-20 knots. Wave heights 3-6feet. Partly cloudy.

Tomorrow: Wind from the north at 8-16 knots. Wave heights 3-5 feet.Visibility under 2 miles in snow show-ers.

22// WWeesstteerrnn mmoouunnttaaiinnss:: Clouds and sun today with a snowshower. A couple of flurries tonight. A couple of snow showerstomorrow.

33// CCeennttrraall//EEaasstt:: Breezy today withclouds and sun; a snow shower,except dry at the coast.

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Charlotte 67 34 sCheyenne 53 27 pcChicago 37 20 pcCincinnati 44 26 pcCleveland 32 18 pcConcord, NH 38 18 sfDallas 78 58 sDenver 56 29 pcDes Moines 40 27 pcDetroit 30 16 pcDuluth 28 -3 pcEl Paso 78 49 sFairbanks 34 3 pcFargo 24 7 cFlagstaff 46 25 s

Grand Rapids 30 10 pcHartford 38 21 sfHonolulu 83 71 pcHouston 81 62 sIndianapolis 42 25 pcJackson, MS 72 43 sJuneau 41 27 pcKansas City 50 37 sLas Vegas 64 49 sLittle Rock 64 41 sLos Angeles 62 50 pcLouisville 48 30 pcMemphis 59 39 sMiami 84 67 sMilwaukee 30 17 pc

Minneapolis 28 14 pcNashville 56 34 pcNew Orleans 78 56 sNew York 44 28 pcOrlando 84 60 sPhiladelphia 45 26 pcPhoenix 73 52 sPortland, OR 57 39 cProvidence 40 25 sfRaleigh 71 35 pcRapid City 46 26 pcReno 47 33 snRichmond 63 29 pcSacramento 52 44 rSt. Louis 44 33 pc

Salt Lake City 53 35 shSan Antonio 80 63 sSan Diego 62 54 pcSan Francisco 56 46 rSan Juan, PR 84 72 pcSeattle 55 41 cShreveport 74 49 sSioux Falls 36 23 cSpokane 50 35 shSyracuse 32 17 sfTampa 78 62 sTucson 75 45 sTulsa 60 45 sWashington, DC 56 28 pcWilmington, DE 46 21 pc

Athens 63 50 pcAuckland 69 59 pcBaghdad 74 50 sBarbados 85 77 shBeijing 57 35 pcBerlin 55 38 pcBermuda 70 60 r

Bogota 65 47 tCairo 67 54 shDublin 55 39 pcFrankfurt 66 47 sGeneva 65 46 sHong Kong 73 58 sJerusalem 50 41 sh

London 61 41 pcMadrid 54 41 rMexico City 82 48 sMoscow 34 13 sfNew Delhi 94 65 sOslo 45 24 sParis 64 45 s

Rome 65 46 sSao Paulo 81 65 shSingapore 85 77 shSydney 81 64 sTaipei 64 57 shTokyo 53 40 shVancouver 51 42 c

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As heavy snow and thunderstorms push offshore today, cold winds andsnow showers will linger in the Northeast. Much of the Plains and Southcan expect a dry day. Gusty winds will buffet the High Plains. Areas ofrain and mountain snow will affect the Rockies and West.

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for the 48 contiguous states

44// DDoowwnn EEaasstt:: Breezy todaywith clouds and sun; a snowshower, except dry in thenorth.

Augusta 35 23Bangor 38 29Biddeford* 38 23Brunswick 37 24Caribou 36 25Fryeburg 38 18

Gray 38 24Greenville 30 18Houlton 35 26Kittery* 39 28Sanford 38 25PPoorrttllaanndd 37 26

COAST

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This storm is too far south to have a big impact around here. An inverted trough, or wind shift line, will be the focus for snow showers today, and pos-sibly Friday as well. Any accu-mulations should be very light. Saturday is looking brighter but windy. Temperatures will remain well below average through early next week.

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SPORTSThe Portland Press HeraldThursday, March 24, 2011

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Loyalty goes a long wayPLEDGING ALLEGIANCES

Jimmer Fredette, a smooth-shooting guard, has put Brigham Young University in the Sweet 16 for the fi rst time since 1981, while the Duke fans are used to this time of year. The Blue Devils, love them or hate them, are the defending national champions.

Photo Illustration byJeff Woodbury/Staff Artist

Alumni cheer for their schools. ... Family tradition plays a big role. ... Long shots become favorites. ... And of course, ‘People hate Duke.’

By RACHEL LENZIStaff Writer

During a recent visit to the den-tist, Brad Crist and his dental practitioner dis-

cussed the most timely topic in sports: the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Crist mentioned that he’s a 1999

graduate of Brigham Young University, and his dentist immediately commented on the prowess of Jimmer Fredette, BYU’s smooth-shooting guard.

Then the practitioner added an aside. “I’m an Ohio State graduate, and we’re on the other side of the bracket,” he told Crist. “Maybe we’ll see you in the title game.”

March Madness, the better-known moniker for the 72-year-old NCAA men’s basketball tournament, is a time of the year when college allegiances are in full bloom and when money and ink-stained brackets are surreptitiously exchanged in offi ces across the country. The tourna-ment’s round of 16 teams – affectionately known as the “Sweet 16” – opens tonight with four games.

While the University of Maine has never qualifi ed for the NCAA tournament, you don’t have to look too far for college basketball fans in Maine who have allegiances to

schools that still have a chance to reach the Final Four. Some grew up in a household where a parent or a sibling is a fan of a certain program. Others, like Crist, are alumni who have relocated or returned to Maine, bringing their school allegiances and some of their traditions.

Crist, a native of Bountiful, Utah, remembers BYU’s 1996 season, when the Cougars won one game and went 0-16 in the Western Athletic Conference.

“Our team was terrible,” said Crist, a North Yarmouth resident who is the general manager of Savage Safe Handling in Auburn. “But Dave Rose, the head coach, has done a great job of rebuilding the program. The addi-tion of Jimmer has helped things, and it’s brought some excitement to the program that I haven’t seen since the 1980s.”

Some teams become beloved over the course of the

Please see NCAA, Page C6

MORE NCAA TOURNAMENT INSIDESIXTEEN TEAMS remain, including three No. 1 seeds and some upset specialists. Page C5JOANNE P. McCALLIE has Duke in a women’s regional with three Big East teams. Page C5 THE NCAA’S decision not to use a timing system has caused some problems. Page C6

Old friend Gendron to enterPirate hall Saturday night

Speedy Martin Gendron, a key player during the early days of the Portland

Pirates, will become the 14th member of the AHL team’s hall of fame Saturday night.

Gendron spent just two seasons with the Pirates, but

he was with the team long enough to make a lasting impression.

“He was a solid good teammate,” said Kent Hulst, a 2002 hall of fame inductee who

spent eight seasons with Portland. “Obviously, one of his strengths was putting the puck in the net. He had great hand-eye coordination.”

A right wing, Gendron skated on a line with Hulst at left wing and Andrew Brunette, another Pirate hall of famer, at center.

“It was good to have a sniper

out on the wing,” said Hulst, now director of player develop-ment for the Portland Junior Pirates.

In 120 games with the Pirates, Gendron, who joined the Pirates at the start of 1994-95 season, racked up 74 goals and 61 assists to aver-age more than one point per game. He still holds or shares team records for career hat tricks (5), power-play goals in a season (15) and most goals in a game (4).

“It’s a great feeling to be rec-ognized by the fi rst team you started in pro hockey with,” said Gendron, who now works as a real estate broker in his native Quebec. “It’s something

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MartinGendron


Marc Gasol of the Grizzlies falls after he is fouled by Glen Davis of the Celtics on Wednesday night at TD Garden. Gasol had 11 points and 11 rebounds to help Memphis past Boston.

The Associated PressBOSTON — The Memphis

Grizzlies are still in the playoff chase, and they’re doing it with a couple of guys who know a little bit about the postseason.

Leon Powe and Tony Allen, members of the Celtics’ 2008 championship team, returned to Boston on Wednesday night to help the Memphis Grizzlies win 90-87 and solidify their hold on the eighth and fi nal playoff berth in the Western Conference.

“When you can come on the road and beat a great team like that, and do it on the defensive end, it’s huge for a young, up-and-coming team,” said Powe, who scored 13 points. “That just adds to our confi dence.”

Marc Gasol scored 11 points

with 11 rebounds and Zach Ran-dolph had 13 and eight for Mem-phis, which improved to one-half game behind seventh-place New Orleans in the West. The Grizzlies remained two games ahead of ninth-place Houston, which beat Golden State later Wednesday.

Powe, who spent the fi rst three years of his career in Boston, saw little action in Cleveland before the Cavaliers released him to sign with Memphis on March 5. He came off the bench to score 13 points in 17 minutes – his best game since signing with the Grizzlies.

Marc Gasol gets help from

former Celtics Leon Powe

and Tony Allen in a 90-87

victory at Boston.

Please see CELTICS, Page C6

Gasol and Grizzliesget better of Celtics

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SOCCERPro football’s Chad Ochocinco begins tryoutwith Major League Soccer’s Kansas City club

NFL star Chad Ochocinco started his trial with Kansas City of Major League Soccer.

Ochocinco began his four-day trial on Wednesday, moving fl uidly on the fi eld on a cold, blustery day. More than 40 media members were on hand to watch the locked-out NFL player, who spent much of the morning getting individual instruction from assistant coach Zoran Savic.

Ochocinco, a wide receiver with the Cincinnati Bengals, is a six-time NFL Pro Bowl pick.

He started playing soccer when he was 4 but stopped in high school to focus on American football.

With the NFL in a lockout and a court fi ght looming, Ochocinco has said now is a good time to check into another sport. Sporting Kansas City Coach Peter Vermes said he tried to use the practice to help Ochocinco get acclimated to something new. Ochocinco also said he encountered no resentment from the established players when he showed up. Knowing he’ll eventually return to the Bengals when the players and owners settle their differences, Ochocinco said he would be content to just be a squad man and practice with the club.

FOOTBALLUFL: Former NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer was hired

as head coach and general manager of the Virginia De-stroyers. The Destroyers will begin play this season, the third year of existence for the United Football League. A veteran of 30 years of NFL experience as a coach and player, Schottenheimer has a career coaching record of 205-139-1 (.596).

He coached Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego, taking a Chargers team that was 4-12 in 2003 to 12-4 and the division title in 2004.

CYCLINGVOLTA OF CATALUNYA: Alberto Contador won the third stage,

taking the race’s overall lead a day before cycling’s gov-erning body decides whether to challenge the decision to clear him of doping.

The three-time Tour de France winner set the pace in covering the 114-mile mountain stage from La Vall de’n Bas in Spain to Vallnord in 4 hours, 45 minutes, 31 seconds. American Levi Leipheimer and Italian Michele Scarponi fi nished 23 seconds behind and were in second and third.

Contador tested positive for clenbuterol on the Tour, but was cleared of wrongdoing by the Spanish cycling federation. The International Cycling Union (UCI) says it will decide by today whether to appeal. The World Anti-Doping Agency has three more weeks to decide on its appeal.

TENNISSONY ERICSSON OPEN: Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the

second round in Key Biscayne, Fla., beating Ricardo Mello 6-4, 6-4.

Kevin Anderson also advanced, beating Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-3.

In women’s fi rst-round play, Bethany Mattek-Sands earned a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Sofi a Arvidsson. Mattek-Sands will face top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki today.

Kimiko Date-Krumm, at 40 the oldest player in the women’s singles draw, beat Zuzana Ondraskova 6-4, 6-3.


Sports Digest

PIRATES SCHEDULEMARCH

25 . . . . . . . . . Bridgeport. . . . . . . 7 p.m. 26 . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte . . . . . . . 7 p.m. 29 . . . . . . . . . Providence. . . . 6:30 p.m. 30 . . . . . . . . . Bridgeport. . . . 6:30 p.m.

April 2 . . . . . . . . at Manchester . . . . . 7 p.m. 3 . . . . . . . . at Connecticut . . . . . 3 p.m. 5 . . . . . . . . at Worcester . . . . . 7 p.m. 6 . . . . . . . . . Manchester . . . 6:30 p.m. 8 . . . . . . . . at Providence . . 7:05 p.m. 9 . . . . . . . . . . at Albany . . . . . . . 7 p.m. 10 . . . . . . . . . Springfi eld. . . . . . . 4 p.m.

End of Regular Season

RED CLAWS SCHEDULEMARCH

Today. . . . . . . . . at Utah . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. 26 . . . . . . . . at Bakersfi eld . . . . 10 p.m. 27 . . . . . . . . at Bakersfi eld . . . . . 7 p.m. 31 . . . . . . . . . Fort Wayne . . . . . . 7 p.m.

APRIL 2 . . . . . . . . . . . at Erie . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.


PLAYOFF STANDINGSDivision leaders in bold

EASTERN CONFERENCE Pts Pts�-Philadelphia ...97 �-Buffalo.......... 81�-Washington ...96 �-N.Y. Rangers . 84�-Boston............90 �-Montreal....... 87�-Pittsburgh......92 -Tampa Bay.... 89

BUBBLE TEAMS: Carolina, 78, Toronto, 76.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pts Pts�-Vancouver ....105 �-Anaheim ....... 87�-Detroit............95 �-Nashville....... 88�-San Jose.........92 �-Los Angeles.. 88�-Phoenix ..........91 -Chicago ......... 88

BUBBLE TEAMS: Dallas 86, Calgary 85.

BRUINS SCHEDULEMARCH

Today. . . . . . . . Montreal . . . . . . . 7 p.m. 26 . . . . . . . . . N.Y. Rangers . . . . . . 1 p.m. 27 . . . . . . . . at Philadelphia . . . . . 7 p.m. 29 . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. 31 . . . . . . . . . . . Toronto . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

APRIL 2 . . . . . . . . . . . Atlanta . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. 4 . . . . . . . . at N.Y. Rangers. . . . . 7 p.m. 6 . . . . . . . . N.Y. Islanders . . . . . 7 p.m. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . Ottawa . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. 10 . . . . . . . . at New Jersey . . . . . 3 p.m.

End Regular Season

NBA D-LEAGUE

EAST CONFERENCE W L Pct GBz-Iowa 34 12 .739 —x-Erie 29 16 .644 4 KFort Wayne 21 25 .457 13Dakota 17 28 .378 16 KMaine 16 29 .356 17 KSpringfield 13 33 .283 21Sioux Falls 10 35 .222 23 K

WEST CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-Tulsa 31 15 .674 —x-Rio Grande Val. 30 16 .652 1x-Reno 29 16 .644 1 Kx-Bakersfield 27 17 .614 3x-Utah 26 18 .591 4Idaho 21 25 .457 10Austin 20 25 .444 10 KTexas 20 25 .444 10 KNew Mexico 18 27 .400 12 K

x-clinched playoffs.z-clinched conference.

Tuesday’s gamesErie 113, Fort Wayne 104Springfi eld 113, Sioux Falls 106Tulsa 97, Austin 94Utah 112, MAINE 77New Mexico 104, Bakersfi eld 100, OT

Wednesday’s gamesSioux Falls at Dakota, PostponedIdaho 115, Rio Grande Valley 92Austin 120, Iowa 111Bakersfi eld at New Mexico, 9:30 p.m.

Today’s gamesFort Wayne at Erie, 7 p.m.MAINE at Utah, 9 p.m.

Friday’s gamesIowa at Erie, 7 p.m.Texas at Tulsa, 8 p.m.Reno at Sioux Falls, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesIdaho at Austin, 1 p.m.Rio Grande Valley at Tulsa, 8 p.m.Reno at Sioux Falls, 8 p.m.New Mexico at Springfi eld, 8 p.m.MAINE at Bakersfi eld, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s gamesIowa at Erie, 2 p.m.Utah at Dakota, 4 p.m.Rio Grande Valley at Texas, 4 p.m.New Mexico at Fort Wayne, 5 p.m.Idaho at Austin, 6 p.m.MAINE at Bakersfi eld, 7 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUES

SPRING TRAININGAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct.Seattle ..........................13 7 .650Detroit...........................18 10 .643Kansas City...................14 10 .583Minnesota.....................14 11 .560Cleveland ......................12 11 .522Toronto..........................12 11 .522Los Angeles ..................13 12 .520Tampa Bay ....................12 12 .500Baltimore ......................11 12 .478BOSTON ........................12 15 .444Texas.............................10 13 .435Oakland .........................11 15 .423New York.......................10 14 .417Chicago............................9 16 .360

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct.San Francisco................18 9 .667Colorado ........................15 8 .652Philadelphia ..................17 10 .630Atlanta..........................14 9 .609Milwaukee ....................14 9 .609Cincinnati......................14 11 .560St. Louis........................13 11 .542New York.......................13 13 .500Washington ..................12 12 .500San Diego......................11 13 .458Chicago..........................11 16 .407Los Angeles ..................11 16 .407Florida .............................9 14 .391Pittsburgh.....................10 16 .385Houston ........................11 18 .379Arizona..........................10 20 .333

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings. Games against non-major league teams do not.

Tuesday’s gamesWashington 3, Houston 1N.Y. Mets 7, Detroit 4Baltimore 6, N.Y. Yankees 2Florida 3, Minnesota 0Philadelphia 5, Toronto 4Seattle 9, Chicago White Sox 5Milwaukee 7, San Diego 0L.A. Dodgers 2, Chicago Cubs 1, 10 inn.Oakland 10, Cincinnati 8Cleveland 7, Arizona 3Tampa Bay 7, BOSTON 4L.A. Angels 14, Kansas City 6

Wednesday’s gamesTampa Bay 4, Philadelphia 1St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 3Houston 10, Pittsburgh 6Atlanta 4, Florida 4, tie, 11 inningsCleveland 8, Kansas City 7L.A. Dodgers 6, Chicago White Sox 2L.A. Angels 8, San Francisco 0San Diego 10, Cincinnati 7Chicago Cubs 3, Oakland 1Arizona 9, Texas 8N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 3Minnesota 5, Baltimore 2Seattle vs. Colorado, 9:40 p.m.

Today’s gamesAtlanta vs. Toronto, 1:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Houston, 1:05 p.m.BOSTON vs. Florida, 1:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.Kansas City vs. Seattle, 4:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. L.A. Angels, 4:05 p.m.Colorado vs. L.A. Dodgers, 4:05 p.m.Texas (ss) vs. Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Arizona, 4:10 p.m.Chi. White Sox vs. Chi. Cubs, 5:05 p.m.Washington vs. Detroit, 6:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Texas (ss), 9:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. San Francisco, 10:05 p.m.

Friday’s gamesPittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay, 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Florida, 1:05 p.m.Atlanta (ss) vs. Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.Baltimore vs. Minnesota, 1:05 p.m.Seattle (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Arizona (ss), 4 p.m.San Diego vs. Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. Milwaukee, 4:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Atlanta (ss), 6:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. Washington, 6:05 p.m.Houston vs. N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Toronto vs. BOSTON, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. Kansas City, 9:05 p.m.Texas vs. Colorado, 9:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (ss) v. Seattle (ss), 10 p.m.Arizona (ss) vs. Chi. White Sox, 10 p.m.

LATEST LINE

NBAFavorite Points UnderdogDALLAS .......... 14K (209)....... MinnesotaNew Orleans .... 1K (191)................ UTAH

NHLFavorite Points UnderdogNY ISLANDERS Even-1/2 ............ AtlantaBOSTON.............. 1/2-1..............MontrealNY RANGERS .... 1-1K ................ OttawaPHILADELPHIA .. 1/2-1........... PittsburghST. LOUIS ........... 1/2-1............EdmontonNASHVILLE ....... 1/2-1..............AnaheimToronto ............ Even-1/2...... COLORADOPHOENIX ............ 1/2-1............ ColumbusLOS ANGELES Even-1/2...........San Jose

COLLEGE BASKETBALLFavorite Points Underdog

Thursday’s gamesNCAA TOURNAMENT

Florida ...............3 (149) .................... ByuWisconsin .........5 (124) ................ ButlerSan Diego St .....1 (129) .......ConnecticutDuke ................ 8K (147).............Arizona

Friday’s gamesNCAA TOURNAMENT

North Carolina 4K (150)........ MarquetteOhio St ............ 5K (140).......... KentuckyKansas ........... 10K (136)........ RichmondFlorida St ......... 3K (132)..... VA C’wealthHome Team in CAPS

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PLAYOFF STANDINGSDivision Leaders in bold

EASTERN CONFERENCE Pct. Pct.�-Chicago....... .729 �-Indiana...... .444�-Boston........ .714 �-New York ... .493�-Miami ......... .690 �-Phila.......... .521�-Orlando ...... .639 -Atlanta ..... .556

BUBBLE TEAMS: Charlotte, .400; Milwaukee, .400.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pct. Pct.�-San Antonio .814 �-Memphis... .556�-L.A. Lakers . .718 �-N. Orleans . .563 �-Dallas ......... .700 �-Portland..... .577 �-Okla. City ... .657 -Denver ....... .592

BUBBLE TEAMS: Houston, .528; Phoenix, .507.

CELTICS SCHEDULEMarch

25 . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte . . . . . 7:30 p.m 27 . . . . . . . . at Minnesota. . . . . . 7 p.m 28 . . . . . . . . . . at Indiana . . . . . . . 7 p.m 31 . . . . . . . . at San Antonio . . . . . 8 p.m

April 1 . . . . . . . . . . at Atlanta . . . . . . . 8 p.m 3 . . . . . . . . . . . Detroit . . . . . . . . 6 p.m 5 . . . . . . . . . Philadelphia . . . . 7:30 p.m 7 . . . . . . . . . . at Chicago. . . . . . . 8 p.m 8 . . . . . . . . . Washington . . . . 7:30 p.m 10 . . . . . . . . . . at Miami . . . . . 3:30 p.m 11 . . . . . . . . at Washington . . . . . 7 p.m 13 . . . . . . . . . . New York . . . . . . . 8 p.m


AHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAPORTLAND 69 43 18 6 2 94 251 202Manchester 73 41 23 3 6 91 234 193Connecticut 71 37 26 2 6 82 197 190Worcester 71 33 26 4 8 78 194 218Providence 70 31 33 3 3 68 181 228Springfield 72 30 37 2 3 65 204 233Bridgeport 70 23 36 4 7 57 184 241

EAST DIVISION GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAx-WB/Scrntn 70 51 18 0 1 103 228 157Hershey 72 42 23 2 5 91 229 189Norfolk 69 36 19 8 6 86 232 185Charlotte 72 39 25 2 6 86 232 217Binghamton 71 37 27 3 4 81 228 201Albany 70 30 35 1 4 65 188 235Syracuse 70 27 36 3 4 61 174 219Adirondack 69 24 35 4 6 58 162 221

WESTERN CONFERENCENORTH DIVISION

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GALake Erie 71 38 25 3 5 84 199 185Manitoba 71 38 27 1 5 82 197 183Grand Rapids 72 35 27 2 8 80 216 224Toronto 73 35 28 1 9 80 207 199Hamilton 69 36 26 1 6 79 194 175Abbotsford 69 34 26 4 5 77 168 187Rochester 70 30 34 3 3 66 188 223

WEST DIVISION GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAMilwaukee 70 38 19 5 8 89 196 171Houston 73 41 26 1 5 88 208 188Texas 71 37 24 4 6 84 194 189Okla. City 72 36 26 2 8 82 214 211Peoria 71 37 27 2 5 81 198 195Chicago 71 36 26 3 6 81 235 229San Antonio 70 37 28 3 2 79 208 215Rockford 70 29 32 4 5 67 181 218

x-clinched playoffs.Two points for a win, one point for

overtime loss or shootout loss.Wednesday’s games

Toronto 5, Grand Rapids 1Connecticut 3, Springfi eld 2Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2, Albany 1, SOBinghamton 6, Syracuse 3Norfolk 2, Adirondack 1Rockford 5, San Antonio 1

Today’s gamesNo games scheduled

Friday’s gamesCharlotte at Connecticut, 7 p.m.Bridgeport at PORTLAND, 7 p.m.W-B/Scranton at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m.Manchester at Norfolk, 7:30 p.m.Providence at Worcester, 7:30 p.m.Hershey at Adirondack, 7:30 p.m.Albany at Syracuse, 7:30 p.m.Lake Erie at Rochester, 7:35 p.m.Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Peoria, 8:05 p.m.Hamilton at Rockford, 8:05 p.m.Abbotsford at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m.Grand Rapids at Texas, 8:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Houston, 8:35 p.m.LOCAL EVENTS

BASEBALLCollege

Bowdoin vs. Benedictine, at Auburn-dale, Fla., 1 p.m.; Colby vs. Otterbein (2), at Terry Park, Fla., 10 a.m.; Southern Maine vs. Wis.-Stevens Point, at Auburndale, Fla., 11 a.m.

LACROSSECollege men

Colby at Castleton State, 4 p.m.College women

Bowdoin at Keene State, 5:30 p.m.; Southern Maine vs. Wellesley, at Clermont, Fla., 10 a.m.; St. Joseph’s vs. Thomas, at Deering H.S., 4:45 p.m.

SOFTBALLCollege

Bowdoin vs Wis.-Whitewater, at Clermont, Fla., 9:30 a.m.; Bowdoin vs. Luther, at Clermont, Fla., 11:30 a.m.; Colby vs. Elmhurst, at Clermont, Fla., 11:30 a.m.; Colby vs. Washington & Jefferson, at Clermont, Fla., 1:30 p.m.; Southern Maine vs. Buffalo State, at Clermont, Fla., 9:30 a.m.; Southern Maine vs. Elmhurst, at Clermont, Fla., 1:30 p.m.

SWIMMINGCollege

NCAA Division III Championships at Univ. of Tennessee

TENNISCollege men

Colby vs. Augustana, at Orlando, Fla., 9 a.m.

College womenColby vs. Augustana, at Orlando, Fla.,

9 a.m.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR SPRINT CUPUPCOMING RACES

x-non-points raceMarch 27 — Auto Club 500, Fontana,

Calif.April 3 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500,

Martinsville, Va.April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500, Fort

Worth, TexasApril 17 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala.

SPORTS HISTORY

ON THIS DATEMarch 24

1970 — Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers wins his only NBA scoring title, accumulating 2,309 points in 74 games for a 31.2 ppg. average.

1979 — Indiana State, led by Larry Bird, advances to the NCAA championship game by squeezing past DePaul 76-74. Bird has 35 points, 16 rebounds and nine assists.

TV/RADIO COVERAGE

TELEVISION10:30 a.m. — Golf: EPGA Open de Andalucia, fi rst round, TGC

1:30 p.m. — Auto racing: F-One Australian Grand Prix practice, SPEED

3 p.m. — Golf: PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational, fi rst round, TGC

5 p.m. — Major Leagues: Preseason, Chicago White Sox vs. Cubs, ESPN2

6:30 p.m. — Golf: LPGA Kia Classic, fi rst round, TGC

7 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifi nals, San Diego St. vs. Connecticut and Duke vs. Arizona, CBS

7 p.m. — NHL: Canadiens at Bruins, NESN

7:15 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifi nals, Florida vs. BYU and Wisconsin vs. Butler, TBS

RADIO7 p.m. — NHL: Canadiens at Bruins, AM: WVAE-Biddeford (1400), WBAE-Portland (1490), WZON-Bangor (620)

9 p.m. — NBA D-League: Maine at Utah, FM: WJJB-Portland (96.3)

COLLEGES

BASEBALLJohns Hopkins 15, Thomas 8Southern Maine 7, MIT 4

SOUTHERN MAINE 7,MIT 4

MIT 103 000 000 – 4 7 2So. Maine 101 031 10x – 7 11 1

Vaughan, Dama (5), Ockner (7), Brown (7) and Hyatt; Perry, Powers (3), Stanton (8) and Berthiaume.

WP—Powers (1-0). LP—Dama. Save—Stanton (2). 2B—SM, Chadwick, White; M, Perez. HR—SM, Chadwick, Eaton. Repeat hitters—M, Karson; SM, Chad-wick 3, Eaton, Mackey. Records—MIT, 9-2; Southern Maine, 6-4.

MEN’S BASKETBALLNCAA TOURNAMENT

EAST REGIONALTHIRD ROUND

Saturday, March 19at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla.

Kentucky 71, West Virginia 63Sunday, March 20

at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C.North Carolina 86, Washington 83

at Quicken Loans Arena, ClevelandOhio State 98, George Mason 66Marquette 66, Syracuse 62

at The Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.REGIONAL SEMIFINALS

Friday’s gamesNorth Carolina (28-7) vs. Marquette

(22-14), 7:15 p.m.Ohio State (34-2) vs. Kentucky (27-8),

9:45 p.m.REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Sunday’s gameSemifi nal winners

SOUTHEAST REGIONALTHIRD ROUND

Saturday, March 19at The Verizon Center, Washington

Butler 71, Pittsburgh 70at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla.

Florida 73, UCLA 65at The Pepsi Center, Denver

BYU 89, Gonzaga 67at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

Wisconsin 70, Kansas State 65at New Orleans Arena

REGIONAL SEMIFINALSToday’s games

Florida (28-7) vs. BYU (32-4), 7:27 p.m.Butler (25-9) vs. Wisconsin (25-8), 9:

57 p.m.REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday’s gameSemifi nal winners

SOUTHWEST REGIONALTHIRD ROUND

Saturday, March 19at The Pepsi Center, Denver

Richmond 65, Morehead State 48Sunday, March 20

at The United Center, ChicagoVirginia Commonwealth 94, Purdue 76Florida State 71, Notre Dame 57

at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.Kansas 73, Illinois 59

at The Alamodome, San AntonioREGIONAL SEMIFINALS

Friday’s gamesKansas (34-2) vs. Richmond (29-7),

7:27 p.m.Florida State (23-10) vs. Virginia Com-

monwealth (26-11), 9:57 p.m.REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Sunday’s gameSemifi nal winners

WEST REGIONALTHIRD ROUND

Saturday, March 19at The Verizon Center, Washington

Connecticut 69, Cincinnati 58at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

San Diego State 71, Temple 64, 2OTSunday, March 20

at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C.Duke 73, Michigan 71

at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.Arizona 70, Texas 69

at The Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.REGIONAL SEMIFINALS

Today’s gamesSan Diego State (34-2) vs. Connecticut

(28-9), 7:15 p.m.Duke (32-4) vs. Arizona (29-7), 9:

45 p.m.REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday’s gameSemifi nal winners

FINAL FOURat Reliant Stadium, Houston

NATIONAL SEMIFINALSSaturday, April 2

East vs. West championSoutheast vs. Southwest champion

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPMonday, April 4

Semifi nal winners

NITQUARTERFINALSTuesday’s game

Colorado 81, Kent State 74Wednesday’s games

Wichita St. 82, College of Charleston 75Alabama 79, Miami 64

Northwestern (20-13) at Washington State (21-12), 11 p.m.

SEMIFINALSTuesday, March 29

at Madison Square Garden, New YorkColorado (24-13) vs. Alabama (24-11),

7 or 9:30 p.m.Wichita State (27-8) vs. Northwestern-

Washington State winner, 7 or 9:30 p.m.CHAMPIONSHIP

Thursday, March 31Semifi nals winners, 7 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALLINVITATIONAL

SEMIFINALSWednesday’s games

Creighton 82, UCF 64Boise State (22-12) at Oregon (18-17),

10 p.m.CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

(Best-of-3)Monday, March 28

Creighton (22-14) vs. Boise St.-Oregon winnner, TBD

Wednesday, March 30TBD

Friday, April 1TBD

COLLEGE INSIDER.COMTOURNAMENTQUARTERFINALSTuesday’s games

East Tennessee State 82, Ohio 73Iona 78, Buffalo 63Santa Clara 95, San Francisco 91

SEMIFINALSFriday’s game

Santa Clara-San Francisco winner at SMU (20-14), 8 p.m.

Saturday’s gameIona (24-11) at East Tennessee State

(24-11), 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLNEWBA ALL-STARS

First Team: Jules Kowalski, sr., F, Colby.

Second Team: Courtney Cochran, jr., F, Southern Maine.

NEWBA SENIOR CLASSICSaturday, 1 p.m. at Springfi eld, Mass.

MAINE SCHOOL PARTICIPANTSDark team: Katie Bergeron, Bowdoin;

Carrie Bunnell, University of New England; Jules Kowalski, Colby.

NCAA TOURNAMENTPHILADELPHIA REGIONAL

SECOND ROUNDTuesday’s games

at Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Conn.Connecticut 64, Purdue 40

at Comcast Center, College Park, Md.Georgetown 79, Maryland 57

REGIONAL SEMIFINALSat The Liacouras Center, Philadelphia

Sunday’s gamesConnecticut (34-1) vs. Georgetown

(24-10), noonDePaul (29-6) vs. Duke (31-3), 2:

30 p.m.

DAYTON REGIONALSECOND ROUNDTuesday’s game

at JPJ Arena, Charlottesville, Va.Oklahoma 88, Miami 83

REGIONAL SEMIFINALSat Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio

Saturday’s gamesTennessee (33-2) vs. Ohio State

(24-9), noonOklahoma (23-11) vs. Notre Dame

(28-7), 2 p.m.

SPOKANE REGIONALSECOND ROUNDTuesday’s game

at Cintas Center, CincinnatiLouisville 85, Xavier 75

REGIONAL SEMIFINALSat Veterans Memorial Arena

Spokane, Wash.Saturday’s games

Gonzaga (30-4) vs. Louisville (22-12), 9 p.m.

Stanford (31-2) vs. North Carolina (27-8), 11:30 p.m.

DALLAS REGIONALSECOND ROUNDTuesday’s games

at Ferrell Center, Waco, TexasBaylor 82, West Virginia 68

at Intrust Bank Arena,Wichita, Kan.

Wisconsin-GB 65, Michigan State 56at Auburn Arena,

Auburn, Ala.Georgia 61, Florida State 59

at CenturyTel Center,Shreveport, La.

Texas A&M 70, Rutgers 48REGIONAL SEMIFINALS

at American Airlines Center, DallasSunday’s games

Georgia (23-10) vs. Texas A&M (29-5), 4:30 p.m.

Baylor (33-2) vs. Wisconsin-Green Bay (34-1), TBA

MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAD.C. 1 0 0 3 3 1Sporting K.C. 1 0 0 3 3 2Philadelphia 1 0 0 3 1 0New York 1 0 0 3 1 0Chicago 0 0 1 1 1 1NEW ENGLAND 0 0 1 1 1 1Houston 0 1 0 0 0 1Toronto FC 0 1 0 0 2 4Columbus 0 1 0 0 1 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles 1 0 1 4 2 1Vancouver 1 0 0 3 4 2Colorado 1 0 0 3 3 1Real Salt Lake 1 0 0 3 1 0FC Dallas 0 0 1 1 1 1Chivas USA 0 1 0 0 2 3San Jose 0 1 0 0 0 1Portland 0 1 0 0 1 3Seattle 0 2 0 0 0 2

Three points for victory, one for tie.Friday’s game

Houston at Seattle FC, 10 p.m.Saturday’s games

Portland at Toronto FC, 2 p.m.Vancouver at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.New York at Columbus, 4 p.m.Sporting Kansas City at Chicago, 4 p.m.D.C. United at NEW ENGLAND, 4:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m.San Jose at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.Colorado at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.

MEN’S HOCKEYEAST REGIONALat Bridgeport, Conn.

Friday’s gamesSemifi nals

Minnesota-Duluth vs. Union, N.Y., 3 p.m.

Yale vs. Air Force, 6:30 p.m.Saturday’s game

Minnesota-Duluth-Union, N.Y. winner vs. Yale-Air Force winner, 6:30 p.m.

WEST REGIONALat St. Louis

Friday’s gamesSemifi nals

Michigan vs. Nebraska-Omaha, 5:30 p.m.

Boston College vs. Colorado College, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s gameMichigan-Nebraska-Omaha winner

vs. Boston College-Colorado College winner, 9 p.m.

NORTHEAST REGIONALat Manchester, N.H.Saturday’s games

Semifi nalsMiami (Ohio) vs. New Hampshire,

4 p.m.Merrimack vs. Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s gameMiami (Ohio)-New Hampshire winner

vs. Merrimack-Notre Dame winner, 8 p.m.

MIDWEST REGIONALat Green Bay, Wis.Saturday’s games

Semifi nalsNorth Dakota vs. Rensselaer, 1:30 p.m.Denver vs. Western Michigan, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s gameNorth Dakota-Rensselaer winner vs.

Denver-Western Michigan winner, 5:30 p.m.

FROZEN FOURat St. Paul, Minnesota

Thursday, April 7Semifi nals

Midwest champion vs. West champion, 5 or 8:30 p.m.

Northeast champion vs. East cham-pion, 5 or 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 9Championship, 7 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSEBowdoin 13, Keene State 11Gordon 10, UNE 2St. Joseph’s 15, UM-Farmington 1

WOMEN’S LACROSSEGordon 12, UNE 10

WOMENSLACROSSE.COMRookie of the Week: Katie Griffi n, fr.,

A, Colby.

SOFTBALLHamline 14, Bowdoin 8Trinity 8, Southern Maine 0, 5 inn.Western Conn. 1, Bowdoin 0, 9 inn.Wis.-Whitewater 10, So. Maine, 1, 5 inn.

WIS.-WHITEWATER 10,SOUTHERN MAINE 1, 5 INN.

Wis.-Whitewater 104 50 – 10 14 0Southern Maine 001 00 – 1 7 2

Deroche and Davis; Kessler and Eichenold, Schobert (7).

WP—Kessler (2-0). LP—Deroche (1-4). 2B—WW, Seamon, Eichenold. 3B—WW, Krueger. Repeat hitters—WW, Fisher, Ramirez, Krueger, Gaza. Records—Wis.-Whitewater, 8-1; Southern Maine, 2-7.

TRINITY 8,SOUTHERN MAINE 0, 5 INN.

Southern Maine 000 00 – 0 0 2Trinity 202 04 – 8 9 0

Morse and Davis; Anderson and Berry.WP—Anderson. LP—Morse (1-4).

2B—T, Nardella. 3B—T, Stoltenberg. HR—T, Nardella. Repeat hitters—T, Stoltenberg, Nardella. Records—South-ern Maine, 2-8; Trinity, 4-3.

NHL


GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Philadelphia 72 44 19 9 97 232 195Pittsburgh 73 42 23 8 92 213 181N.Y. Rangers 74 40 30 4 84 216 179New Jersey 73 34 35 4 72 155 186N.Y. Islanders 74 29 33 12 70 208 235

NORTHEAST DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GABOSTON 72 40 22 10 90 217 176Montreal 74 40 27 7 87 200 187BUFFALO 73 36 28 9 81 216 208Toronto 74 33 31 10 76 195 225Ottawa 73 27 37 9 63 167 227

SOUTHEAST DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Washington 74 43 21 10 96 203 180Tampa Bay 73 39 23 11 89 216 222Carolina 73 34 29 10 78 205 217Atlanta 72 30 30 12 72 202 238Florida 74 29 35 10 68 182 203

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 74 43 22 9 95 238 211Chicago 73 40 25 8 88 238 202Nashville 74 39 25 10 88 193 173Columbus 73 33 29 11 77 199 223St. Louis 73 32 32 9 73 202 216

NORTHWEST DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-Vancouver 74 48 17 9 105 240 173Calgary 75 37 27 11 85 227 216Minnesota 74 35 31 8 78 185 207Colorado 72 28 36 8 64 203 254Edmonton 73 23 40 10 56 176 240

PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 73 42 23 8 92 211 191Phoenix 75 40 24 11 91 215 208Los Angeles 73 41 26 6 88 199 177Anaheim 73 41 27 5 87 208 211Dallas 73 38 25 10 86 206 206

x-clinched playoffs.y-clinched division.

Tuesday’s gamesWashington 5, Philadelphia 4, SOColorado 5, Columbus 4, SOBOSTON 4, New Jersey 1N.Y. Rangers 1, Florida 0Carolina 4, Ottawa 3BUFFALO 2, Montreal 0N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 2Nashville 3, Edmonton 1Toronto 3, Minnesota 0Phoenix 2, St. Louis 1

Wednesday’s gamesVancouver 2, Detroit 1Chicago 4, Florida 0Anaheim 4, Dallas 3, OTCalgary at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Today’s gamesMontreal at BOSTON, 7 p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Edmonton at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.Toronto at Colorado, 9 p.m.Columbus at Phoenix, 10 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s gamesNew Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Florida at BUFFALO, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.Carolina at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALLAmerican League

MINNESOTA TWINS—Reassigned C Steve Holm and OF Jeff Bailey to their minor league camp.

NEW YORK YANKEES—Claimed LHP Jose Ortegano off waivers from Atlanta and optioned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Optioned INF Dustin Ackley to Tacoma (PCL). Reassigned C Steven Baron, INF Sean Kazmar, OF Gabe Gross and LHP Fabio Castro to their minor league camp.

National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS—Optioned RHP Justin

Berg and LHP Scott Maine to Iowa (PCL). Assigned RHP Angel Guzman and RHP Todd Wellemeyer to their minor league camp.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Assigned RHP Cesar Carillo outright to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Acquired OF Brett Carroll from Kansas City for cash considerations and assigned him to Nashville (PCL).

NEW YORK METS—Optioned 2B Justin Turner to Buffalo (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Claimed LHP Lee Hyde off waivers from Atlanta and optioned him to Syracuse (IL). Placed RHP Stephen Strasburg on the 60-day DL.

American AssociationAMARILLO SOX—Signed OF Fehlandt

Lentini. Traded OF Chase Porch to Windy City (Frontier) for a player to be named.

EL PASO DIABLOS—Signed LHP Rosalio Gomez.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Signed RHP Scott Shaw.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed LHP Nolan Chestnut, RHP Sean Potter, RHP John James and RHP Brendon Smith.

Frontier LeagueEVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed OF

Chris Weimer.FLORENCE FREEDOM—Signed LHP

Shawn Schaefer. Released RHP Brandon Forshee, INF Patrick Rose and RHP Everett Saul.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES—Signed RHP Adrian Garza to a contract extension.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed RHP Alberto Rolon to a contract extension. Signed RHP Eric Gonzalez.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

HOUSTON ROCKETS—Signed F Mike Harris to a 10-day contract.

NEW JERSEY NETS—Recalled G Ben Uzoh from Springfi eld (NBADL).

NBA Development LeagueRIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS—Reac-

quired G Matt Janning.WNBA

SAN ANTONIO SILVER STARS—Named Vickie Johnson assistant coach.

FOOTBALLUnited Football League

VIRGINIA DESTROYERS—Named Marty Schottenheimer coach and general manager.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS—Activated G Jonas Hiller off the injured list.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Recalled F Marcus Kruger from Djurgardens (Swed-ish Elite League).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled G Joey MacDonald from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed G Chris Osgood on injured list.

LOS ANGELES KINGS—Recalled F Oscar Moller from Manchester (AHL).

American Hockey LeagueBRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS—Re-

turned F Jan Bourbeau to Odessa (CHL).GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed F

Mike Hedden.SYRACUSE CRUNCH—Assigned F Brian

Lebler to Elmira (ECHL).ECHL

ELMIRA JACKALS—Signed F Andrew Favot.

Central Hockey LeagueALLEN AMERICANS—Announced F

Bruce Graham was recalled by Lake Erie (AHL).

FORT WAYNE KOMETS—Announced Chicago (AHL) assigned D Matt Krug to the team.

SWIMMINGUSA SWIMMING—Named Talia Mark

marketing manager, Emily Silver athlete relations manager, Amanda Rost mar-keting manager for corporate services and Matt Whewell public relations and digital communications coordinator.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

CHIVAS USA—Loaned F Chukwudi Chijindu to the L.A. Blues. Traded the rights to D Yamith Cuesta to Chicago for a 2012 supplemental draft pick.

RED BULL NEW YORK—Signed D Tyler Lassiter.

COLLEGECENTRAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY AS-

SOCIATION—Announced the resignation of commissioner Tom Anastos, who will become hockey coach at Michigan State.

ARKANSAS—Named Mike Anderson men’s basketball coach.

GEORGIA TECH—Named Ryan Bamford associate athletic director for internal operations.

LOUISIANA TECH—Fired men’s basket-ball coach Kerry Rupp.

NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY—Named Sergio Gonzalez women’s soccer coach.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS—Named Mark Montgomery men’s basketball coach.

RPI—Named Tim Landis football coach.UTAH—Promoted interim women’s bas-

ketball coach Anthony Levrets to coach.WASHINGTON STATE—Reinstated F

DeAngelo Casto to the men’s basketball team.

QMJHL

PLAYOFF SCHEDULE#9-MONCTON VS. #8-LEWISTON

x-if necessaryFriday’s game

Moncton at Lewiston, 7:30 p.m.Saturday’s game

Moncton at Lewiston, 7 p.m.Tuesday, March 29

Lewiston at Moncton, 6 p.m.Wednesday, March 30

Lewiston at Moncton, 6 p.m.Friday, April 1

x-Moncton at Lewiston, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, April 3

x-Lewiston at Moncton, 3:05 p.m.Tuesday, April 5

x-Moncton at Lewiston, 7 p.m.

OTHER SERIESToday’s game

Halifax at Montreal, 7:05 p.m.


W L Pct GBy-BOSTON 50 20 .714 –Philadelphia 37 34 .521 13 KNew York 35 36 .493 15 KNew Jersey 23 47 .329 27Toronto 20 50 .286 30

SOUTHEAST DIVISION W L Pct GBx-Miami 49 22 .690 –x-Orlando 46 26 .639 3 KAtlanta 40 32 .556 9 KCharlotte 28 42 .400 20 KWashington 17 52 .246 31

CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBy-Chicago 51 19 .729 –Indiana 32 40 .444 20Milwaukee 28 42 .400 23Detroit 25 46 .352 26 KCleveland 13 57 .186 38

WESTERN CONFERENCESOUTHWEST DIVISION

W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 57 13 .814 –x-Dallas 49 21 .700 8New Orleans 40 31 .563 17 KMemphis 40 32 .556 18Houston 38 34 .528 20

NORTHWEST DIVISION W L Pct GBOklahoma City 46 24 .657 –Denver 42 29 .592 4 KPortland 41 30 .577 5 KUtah 36 36 .500 11Minnesota 17 54 .239 29 K

PACIFIC DIVISION W L Pct GBy-L.A. Lakers 51 20 .718 –Phoenix 35 34 .507 15Golden State 30 42 .417 21 KL.A. Clippers 27 44 .380 24Sacramento 18 52 .257 32 K

x-clinched playoffs.y-clinched division.

Tuesday’s gamesChicago 114, Atlanta 81Portland 111, Washington 76L.A. Lakers 139, Phoenix 137,3OT

Wednesday’s gamesIndiana 111, Charlotte 88New Jersey 98, Cleveland 94, OTPhiladelphia 105, Atlanta 100Memphis 90, BOSTON 87Miami 100, Detroit 94Sacramento 97, Milwaukee 90Oklahoma City 106, Utah 94Orlando 111, New York 99Houston 131, Golden State 112Toronto at Phoenix, 10 p.m.Washington at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.San Antonio at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s gamesMinnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.New Orleans at Utah, 9 p.m.

Friday’s gamesSacramento at Indiana, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Orlando, 7 p.m.Charlotte at BOSTON, 7:30 p.m.Detroit at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Milwaukee at New York, 7:30 p.m.Memphis at Chicago, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Washington at Denver, 9 p.m.New Orleans at Phoenix, 10 p.m.San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m.Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

NBA

ARENA FOOTBALL

NATIONAL CONFERENCEWEST DIVISION

W L T Pct PF PAArizona 2 0 0 1.000 117 83San Jose 2 0 0 1.000 136 105Utah 1 0 0 1.000 72 36Spokane 0 1 0 .000 48 76

CENTRAL DIVISION W L T Pct PF PAChicago 2 0 0 1.000 111 69Dallas 2 0 0 1.000 117 86Iowa 0 1 0 .000 28 58Kansas City 0 2 0 .000 103 113Tulsa 0 2 0 .000 87 117

AMERICAN CONFERENCESOUTH DIVISION

W L T Pct PF PAOrlando 1 0 0 1.000 47 34Georgia 1 1 0 .500 110 118Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 123 112Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 82 112New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 74 93

EASTERN DIVISION W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 1 1 0 .500 86 114Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 110 86Cleveland 0 0 0 .000 0 0Milwaukee 0 2 0 .000 72 111

Friday’s gamesSpokane at Iowa, 8:05 p.m.San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesNew Orleans at Jacksonville, 7 p.m.Utah at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s gameCleveland at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, March 28Arizona at Tulsa, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.

TENNIS

SONY ERICSSON OPENATP-WTA TOURSat Key Biscayne, Fla.

MEN’S SINGLESFirst Round

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. Andrey Gol-ubev, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-0.

Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 6-4, 6-3.

Julien Benneteau, France, def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.

Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Benjamin Becker, Germany, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4.

Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, def. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia, 7-6 (7), 6-1.

Xavier Malisse, Belgium, def. Ryan Sweeting, United States, 7-6 (3), 6-4.

Somdev Devvarman, India, def. Potito Starace, Italy, 6-2, 6-4.

Alex Bogomolov Jr., United States, def. Victor Hanescu, Romania, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, def. Tobias Kamke, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.

Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def. Ricardo Mello, Brazil, 6-4, 6-4.

Igor Andreev, Russia, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.

Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, def. Donald Young, United States, 6-4, 6-3.

Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, def. Robert Kendrick, United States, 5-4, retired.

WOMEN’S SINGLESFirst Round

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, def. Sofi a Arvidsson, Sweden, 6-1, 6-4.

Peng Shuai, China, def. Greta Arn, Hungary, 6-1, 6-2.

Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2.

Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, def. Sara Errani, Italy, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5).

Varvara Lepchenko, United States, def. CoCo Vandeweghe, U.S., 6-2, 6-3.

Julie Hampton, United States, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0.

Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 6-1, 6-3.

Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, def. Ksenia Pervak, Russia, 6-1, 6-2.

Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, def. Zu-zana Ondraskova, Czech Rep., 6-4, 6-3.

Agnes Szavay, Hungary, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Virginie Razzano, France, def. Alize Cornet, France, 6-3, 6-1.

Sania Mirza, India, def. Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, 6-2, 6-4.

Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, def. Arantxa Rus, N’lands, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4.

Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, def. Vesna Manasieva, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech, def. Sloane Stephens, U.S., 6-4, 6-2.

Anna Tatishvili, Georgia, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.

Anastasia Yakimova, Belarus, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, 6-3, 6-1.

Angelique Kerber, Germany, def. Edina Gallovits-Hall, Romania, 6-4, 6-4.

Dinara Safi na, Russia, def. Jelena Dokic, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.

GRIZZLIES 90, CELTICS 87MEMPHIS (90)

Young 4-11 2-2 11, Randolph 6-13 1-1 13, Gasol 5-9 1-4 11, Conley 1-9 6-8 9, T.Allen 4-10 0-0 8, Battier 0-3 0-0 0, Arthur 5-9 0-0 10, Mayo 5-11 0-0 11, Vasquez 2-2 0-0 4, Powe 5-6 3-4 13. Totals: 37-83 13-19 90.BOSTON (87)

Pierce 6-10 8-8 22, Garnett 3-9 4-4 10, Krstic 2-6 2-2 6, Rondo 2-12 2-3 6, R.Allen 4-10 3-3 14, Davis 5-11 2-2 12, Green 4-7 1-1 10, West 3-4 0-0 7, Mur-phy 0-0 0-0 0, Bradley 0-0 0-0 0, Pavlovic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 29-69 22-23 87.Grizzlies 20 24 23 23 — 90Celtics 15 30 25 17 — 87

3-Point Goals—Memphis 3-6 (Young 1-1, Mayo 1-1, Conley 1-3, T.Allen 0-1), Boston 7-15 (R.Allen 3-7, Pierce 2-4, Green 1-1, West 1-1, Davis 0-1, Rondo 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Re-bounds—Memphis 52 (Gasol 11), Boston 41 (Rondo 11). Assists—Memphis 17 (Conley 5), Boston 24 (Rondo 11). Total Fouls—Memphis 16, Boston 17. Technicals—Memphis defensive three second, Boston defensive three second. A—18,624 (18,624).

HEAT 100, PISTONS 94MIAMI (100)

James 8-16 3-4 19, Bosh 6-11 11-12 23, Dampier 1-2 1-2 3, Bibby 2-5 0-0 5, Wade 7-13 10-12 24, Miller 4-8 2-2 13, Jones 2-5 3-5 9, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0, House 1-3 2-2 4, Magloire 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 31-64 32-39 100.DETROIT (94)

Prince 5-12 2-3 13, Wilcox 5-6 0-0 10, Monroe 5-10 4-6 14, McGrady 3-6 1-2 7, Hamilton 9-16 7-8 27, Daye 1-4 0-0 2, Stuckey 3-8 3-4 9, Villanueva 2-5 2-2 7, Maxiell 2-3 1-1 5, Gordon 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 35-71 20-26 94.Heat 21 32 20 27 — 100Pistons 27 28 26 13 — 94

3-Point Goals—Miami 6-19 (Miller 3-7, Jones 2-5, Bibby 1-3, House 0-1, James 0-3), Detroit 4-13 (Hamilton 2-6, Villanueva 1-1, Prince 1-3, McGrady 0-1, Stuckey 0-1, Daye 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 38 (James 8), Detroit 44 (Monroe 12). Assists—Mi-ami 20 (James 7), Detroit 28 (Stuckey 6). Total Fouls—Miami 21, Detroit 26. Technicals—Bibby, Miami def 3 sec, Detroit def 3 sec 2. A—22,076 (22,076).

NETS 98, CAVALIERS 94, OTNEW JERSEY (98)

Morrow 3-11 2-2 10, Humphries 6-14 6-6 18, Lopez 7-21 4-7 18, Farmar 2-10 6-7 10, Vujacic 7-14 0-1 18, Gaines 0-1 0-0 0, Petro 1-3 0-2 2, Wright 0-5 5-6 5, Outlaw 6-13 5-6 17, Gadzuric 0-2 0-0 0. Totals: 32-94 28-37 98.CLEVELAND (94)

Gee 4-11 2-3 10, Hickson 5-15 7-8 17, Hollins 2-5 2-2 6, Sessions 7-15 7-10 21, Parker 3-10 1-2 8, Gibson 3-8 1-2 8, Samuels 3-10 2-4 8, Harris 2-7 1-2 5, Harangody 3-6 1-2 7, Eyenga 2-4 0-0 4. Totals: 34-91 24-35 94.Nets 17 22 23 20 16 — 98Cavaliers 22 20 20 20 12 — 94

3-Point Goals—New Jersey 6-19 (Vujacic 4-9, Morrow 2-5, Outlaw 0-2, Farmar 0-3), Cleveland 2-12 (Parker 1-2, Gibson 1-2, Harangody 0-1, Eyenga 0-2, Harris 0-2, Gee 0-3). Fouled Out—Hollins. Rebounds—New Jersey 69 (Humphries 23), Cleveland 70 (Hickson 17). Assists—New Jersey 20 (Farmar 10), Cleveland 15 (Parker 4). Total Fouls—New Jersey 26, Cleveland 26. Technicals—New Jersey Coach Johnson, Cleveland defensive three second 2. A—18,923 (20,562).

76ERS 105, HAWKS 100ATLANTA (100)

M.Williams 5-10 6-6 16, Smith 12-20 6-7 30, Horford 4-12 0-0 8, Hinrich 6-11 0-0 16, Johnson 6-15 2-2 16, Crawford 4-9 0-0 10, Pachulia 2-4 0-0 4. Totals: 39-81 14-15 100.PHILADELPHIA (105)

Iguodala 5-11 5-8 16, Brand 6-15 1-1 13, Hawes 5-12 0-0 10, Holiday 5-11 0-0 12, Meeks 5-6 0-0 15, Battie 2-3 0-0 4, Young 7-12 2-2 16, Turner 0-1 0-0 0, L.Williams 5-8 5-7 17, Nocioni 1-5 0-0 2. Totals: 41-84 13-18 105.Hawks 28 31 21 20 — 10076ers 30 23 21 31 — 105

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 8-18 (Hinrich 4-6, Crawford 2-3, Johnson 2-6, M.Williams 0-1, Smith 0-2), Philadel-phia 10-18 (Meeks 5-6, Holiday 2-3, L.Williams 2-4, Iguodala 1-2, Nocioni 0-1, Hawes 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 45 (Smith 12), Phila-delphia 46 (Brand 11). Assists—Atlanta 22 (Hinrich 8), Philadelphia 22 (Holiday 5). Total Fouls—Atlanta 17, Philadelphia 10. A—15,199 (20,318).

PACERS 111, BOBCATS 88INDIANA (111)

Granger 11-19 9-11 33, Hansbrough 8-10 8-9 24, Hibbert 5-7 3-3 13, Collison 2-7 3-3 7, George 3-5 2-2 8, D.Jones 2-4 2-4 7, Rush 4-8 0-0 11, McRoberts 2-3 0-0 4, Price 1-7 0-0 2, Foster 1-1 0-2 2, Stephenson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 39-72 27-34 111.CHARLOTTE (88)

Jackson 4-9 2-2 11, Diaw 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 6-10 4-7 16, Augustin 5-13 6-7 17, Henderson 4-14 4-4 12, Thomas 3-6 0-1 6, Livingston 6-9 3-4 15, White 2-4 2-4 6, Carroll 1-2 0-0 3, Cunningham 1-5 0-0 2. Totals: 32-72 21-29 88.Pacers 23 31 33 24 — 111Bobcats 28 25 19 16 — 88

3-Point Goals—Indiana 6-14 (Rush 3-4, Granger 2-4, D.Jones 1-2, George 0-1, McRoberts 0-1, Price 0-2), Charlotte 3-10 (Carroll 1-1, Augustin 1-3, Jackson 1-5, Henderson 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 48 (Hibbert 14), Charlotte 40 (Brown 9). Assists—Indiana 20 (Hibbert, Collison 4), Charlotte 21 (Diaw 7). Total Fouls—Indiana 24, Char-lotte 25. Technicals—Thomas. Flagrant Fouls—Foster, Henderson. A—14,703 (19,077).

KINGS 97, BUCKS 90SACRAMENTO (97)

Garcia 1-7 0-0 2, Cousins 6-11 1-2 13, Dalembert 5-10 1-2 11, Udrih 8-16 9-11 25, Thornton 9-19 7-8 27, Greene 3-8 0-0 6, Thompson 2-5 1-2 5, Jeter 1-4 0-0 3, Jackson 2-3 1-2 5. Totals: 37-83 20-27 97.MILWAUKEE (90)

Delfi no 12-20 1-2 30, Mbah a Moute 4-6 3-4 11, Bogut 7-13 1-1 15, Jennings 2-7 2-2 6, Salmons 3-14 1-1 8, Sanders 5-7 0-0 10, Brockman 1-1 2-2 4, Dooling 1-6 0-0 2, Boykins 2-7 0-0 4. Totals: 37-81 10-12 90.Kings 25 28 22 22 — 97Bucks 32 24 18 16 — 90

3-Point Goals—Sacramento 3-11 (Thornton 2-3, Jeter 1-1, Garcia 0-2, Greene 0-2, Udrih 0-3), Milwaukee 6-18 (Delfi no 5-9, Salmons 1-4, Dooling 0-2, Jennings 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Re-bounds—Sacramento 58 (Dalembert 12), Milwaukee 41 (Bogut 9). Assists—Sac-ramento 21 (Udrih 6), Milwaukee 23 (Jennings 6). Total Fouls—Sacramento 14, Milwaukee 23. Technicals—Sac-ramento defensive three second 2, Salmons, Milwaukee defensive three second 2. A—14,122 (18,717).

ROCKETS 131, WARRIORS 112GOLDEN STATE (112)

Wright 14-21 3-4 34, D.Lee 9-19 1-1 19, Udoh 4-7 1-2 9, Curry 7-16 0-0 16, Ellis 5-13 4-4 15, R.Williams 2-6 0-0 5, Law 1-2 1-2 3, Amundson 4-5 1-5 9, Thornton 1-2 0-0 2, Radmanovic 0-1 0-0 0, Adrien 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 47-92 11-18 112.HOUSTON (131)

C.Lee 10-16 0-0 25, Scola 7-16 6-6 20, Hayes 5-11 3-7 13, Lowry 3-11 6-8 13, Martin 12-21 6-6 34, Patterson 3-8 2-2 8, Dragic 4-5 4-6 14, Carroll 0-0 0-0 0, Hill 1-2 0-0 2, Harris 1-1 0-0 2. Totals: 46-91 27-35 131.Warriors 33 24 28 27 — 112Rockets 36 30 34 31 — 131

3-Point Goals—Golden State 7-15 (Wright 3-6, Curry 2-3, R.Williams 1-2, Ellis 1-3, Radmanovic 0-1), Houston 12-26 (C.Lee 5-8, Martin 4-7, Dragic 2-2, Lowry 1-9). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 50 (D.Lee 9), Houston 55 (Hayes 14). Assists—Golden State 25 (Wright, Curry 6), Houston 35 (Lowry 12). Total Fouls—Golden State 27, Houston 17. Technicals—Ellis. Fla-grant Fouls—D.Lee. A—16,623 (18,043).

MAGIC 111, KNICKS 99ORLANDO (111)

Turkoglu 6-14 0-0 16, Bass 3-9 9-9 15, Howard 11-15 11-13 33, Nelson 6-10 3-4 19, J.Richardson 5-13 0-0 12, Q.Richardson 1-3 0-0 2, Duhon 0-2 0-0 0, Anderson 1-3 0-0 3, Arenas 3-5 2-2 9, Clark 1-2 0-0 2. Totals: 37-76 25-28 111.NEW YORK (99)

Anthony 6-12 10-11 24, Stoudemire 6-20 1-3 13, Turiaf 4-5 1-2 9, Billups 5-12 4-4 17, Fields 2-7 0-0 5, Jeffries 0-2 0-0 0, Douglas 7-14 0-0 17, Sha.Williams 2-7 1-2 6, Mason 2-5 2-2 8. Totals: 34-84 19-24 99.Magic 28 27 24 32 — 111Knicks 25 34 19 21 — 99

3-Point Goals—Orlando 12-25 (Nelson 4-6, Turkoglu 4-8, J.Richardson 2-7, Arenas 1-1, Anderson 1-2, Q.Richardson 0-1), New York 12-28 (Douglas 3-6, Billups 3-8, Mason 2-3, Anthony 2-3, Sha.Williams 1-4, Fields 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 53 (Howard, Turkoglu 11), New York 44 (Stoudemire 7). Assists—Orlando 17 (Turkoglu, Nelson 4), New York 20 (An-thony 9). Total Fouls—Orlando 26, New York 22. Technicals—Orlando defensive three second. A—19,763 (19,763).

THUNDER 106, JAZZ 94UTAH (94)

Kirilenko 1-5 0-0 3, Millsap 6-10 6-8 18, Jefferson 14-18 4-5 32, Watson 3-4 2-2 10, Miles 2-12 6-7 11, Hayward 1-10 4-6 7, Bell 1-3 0-0 3, Evans 1-3 2-2 4, Price 2-4 2-2 6, Elson 0-0 0-0 0, Fesenko 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 31-69 26-32 94.OKLAHOMA CITY (106)

Durant 7-12 13-15 29, Ibaka 6-11 3-4 15, Perkins 2-4 0-0 4, Westbrook 11-17 8-9 31, Sefolosha 1-2 0-0 2, Collison 1-1 2-4 4, Mohammed 5-8 0-0 10, Harden 3-9 4-4 11, Maynor 0-1 0-0 0, Cook 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 36-66 30-36 106.Jazz 25 20 24 25 — 94Oklahoma City 32 18 28 28 — 106

3-Point Goals—Utah 6-16 (Watson 2-3, Bell 1-1, Hayward 1-3, Kirilenko 1-3, Miles 1-5, Price 0-1), Oklahoma City 4-10 (Durant 2-4, Westbrook 1-2, Harden 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 38 (Jefferson 12), Oklahoma City 42 (Ibaka 13). Assists—Utah 16 (Bell 4), Oklahoma City 15 (Westbrook 5). Total Fouls—Utah 23, Oklahoma City 24. Technicals—Utah Coach Corbin, Utah def 3 sec, Perkins. A—18,203 (18,203).

The Portland Press Herald/ Thursday, March 24, 2011 C3



SPORTS

Chara, Bruins readyto battle Canadiens

NHL ROUNDUP

The Associated PressWILMINGTON, Mass. —

Zdeno Chara sat calmly at his locker, concerned more about beating the Montreal Canadiens in the tight division race than getting beat up by them.

Tonight’s rematch comes 16 days after Max Pacioretty suf-fered a severe concussion and a fractured vertebra after a hard check by Chara knocked him into a padded stanchion supporting a glass partition be-tween the teams’ benches.

Might the Canadiens seek ret-ribution on the ice?

“I don’t know,” Chara said after practice Wednesday. “We’ll see.”

Montreal’s Ryan White thinks his team has more important business to handle. Boston leads the Northeast Division with 90 points with 10 games left. Montreal is second with 87 and eight games remaining. There’s a decent chance they’ll meet in the fi rst round of the playoffs.

“We need two points,” White said. “We’re not going to go in there and try and do anything stupid and get him back or any-thing like that. If you ask (Pacio-retty), I think the biggest thing right now is for us to win. We’ve given ourselves an opportunity to catch these guys.”

Chara is focusing on stopping a team that is 4-1 against Boston this season.

“We all know it’s a big game for both teams,” he said.

Pacioretty will be able to re-sume training with contact by early or mid-April, according to Coach Jacques Martin. And there’s a chance he’ll be back during the playoffs after early fears that the injury might be more serious.

“(Chara) can take care of him-self,” Boston’s Milan Lucic said, “so if they want to go after him, good luck.”

NOTES: The Columbus Blue Jackets recalled left wing Maksim Mayorov from Spring-fi eld in the AHL. ... The Los An-geles Kings recalled right wing Oscar Moller from Manchester of the AHL.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMESCANUCKS 2, RED WINGS 1:

Daniel Sedin scored twice and Roberto Luongo made 39 saves, leading Vancouver to a win at Detroit.

BLACKHAWKS 4, PAN-THERS 0: Corey Crawford made 23 saves for his fourth shutout of the season, and Brent Seabrook and Patrick Kane had a goal and assist each to lead Chicago at home.

DUCKS 4, STARS 3: Teemu Selanne scored the tying goal with 5.4 seconds left in regula-tion and Cam Fowler netted the winner 1:42 into overtime to give Anaheim a win at Dallas.

Wade, Bosh lead rallyas Heat get by Pistons

NBA ROUNDUP

The Associated PressAUBURN HILLS, Mich. —

Dwyane Wade scored 24 points and Chris Bosh added 23 to help the Miami Heat rally for a 100-94 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.

LeBron James had 19 points, eight rebounds and seven as-sists for Miami, which has won 6 of 7 following a fi ve-game losing streak.

The Heat trailed by 11 late in the third quarter before Mike Miller made a 3-pointer in the fi -nal seconds. Miami then scored the fi rst 15 points of the fourth to take an 88-81 lead.

Detroit had the ball down by four in the fi nal minute, but Greg Monroe missed a layup, forcing the Pistons to foul.

Richard Hamilton led Detroit with 27 points.

MAGIC 111, KNICKS 99: Dwight Howard had 33 points and 11 rebounds, and visiting Orlando won its fourth straight, sending New York below .500.

Jameer Nelson added 19 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Brandon Bass chipped in 15 points for the Magic, who held Amare Stoudemire to his worst game this season and beat the Knicks for the sixth straight time and 13th in the last 15.

Carmelo Anthony had 24 points for the Knicks (35-36), who lost for the seventh time in eight games and are below .500 for the fi rst time since they

were 8-9 after losing to Atlanta on Nov. 27.

ROCKETS 131, WARRIORS 112: Kevin Martin scored 34 points, Chuck Hayes got his fi rst career triple-double and Hous-ton beat visiting Golden State for a fi fth straight victory.

Hayes had 14 rebounds, 13 points and 11 assists for the Rockets, who remained two games behind Memphis for the fi nal playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Dorell Wright led the Warriors with 34 points.

NETS 98, CAVALIERS 94: Kris Humphries grabbed a ca-reer-high 23 rebounds and made several big plays in overtime, leading New Jersey to just its fi fth road win in a matchup of two bad teams winding down miserable seasons.

Jordan Farmar’s two free throws with 3.8 seconds left helped seal it for the Nets.

Humphries, Brook Lopez and Sasha Vujacic scored 18 apiece for New Jersey.

76ERS 105, HAWKS 100: Lou Williams scored 17 points, and Andre Iguodala and Thaddeus Young each had 16 to lead host Philadelphia over Atlanta.

The Sixers opened the fourth quarter on a 25-6 run to send the Hawks to their second demor-alizing loss in two nights. The Bulls won in Atlanta 114-81 on Tuesday night.

Iguodala hit two free throws to clinch the win.

THUNDER 106, JAZZ 94: Russell Westbrook scored 31 points, Kevin Durant added 29 and host Oklahoma City pulled away in the second half.

Al Jefferson had 32 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Jazz.

PACERS 111, BOBCATS 88: Danny Granger scored 33 points and Indiana created breathing room from one of its closest competitors for the Eastern Conference’s fi nal playoff spot with a win at Charlotte, N.C.

Tyler Hansbrough added 24 points and Roy Hibbert had 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Pacers, who moved three games ahead of Charlotte and Milwau-kee for eighth place by complet-ing a four-game season sweep.

KINGS 97, BUCKS 90: Mar-cus Thornton scored 27 points, Beno Udrih added 25 and Sac-ramento won at Milwaukee to damage the Bucks’ fading play-off hopes.

Milwaukee (28-42) fell three games behind Indiana for the eighth and fi nal spot in the Eastern Conference with 12 left to play.


Atlanta’s Josh Smith goes up for a shot as Philadelphia’s Spencer Hawes defends Wednesday night. The 76ers opened the fourth quarter with a 25-6 run to beat the Hawks.

WestleavesClawsfor homeMaine waives Mario West

so he can go home to

Atlanta to help care for a

sick family member.

By JENN MENENDEZStaff Writer

PORTLAND — Mario West, the Maine Red Claws’ most rec-ognizable player, was waived for personal reasons Wednesday.

West, 26, asked to be waived so he can go home to Atlanta to take care of a sick family member.

The team, which was offi cially eliminated from playoff conten-tion on Tuesday night, granted his request.

West played 53 games with Maine over the franchise’s fi rst two years and was etched into team lore when his likeness was handed out on a bobblehead last month.

“I was trying my best to wait until the season was over,” said West. “I didn’t want to take away from the team (trying to fl y back between games). This gives someone else the opportunity to play.

“And, also, family is fi rst. “I don’t want to seem like I’m

selfi sh. You are kind of stuck in a hard place, and hope the team and organization understands.

“Beyond basketball, you only play this game for so long. I would hate to look back and say, ‘Man, I wish I would’ve been there for my family.’ ”

The Red Claws will retain the rights to West if he returns to the NBA Development League next year.

He could, however, play in Eu-rope or another league.

West, a former Georgia Tech walk-on, has played in 156 NBA games with the Atlanta Hawks.

“It’s too early to decide. I don’t know what’s next for me,” West said. “That’s not even really a thought process right now.”

West was the fi rst member of the Red Claws to earn an NBA job when the Hawks signed him in the middle of the 2009-10 season. He fi nished that season with Atlanta.

West, best know for his ability to slash to the rim and fi nd open shots, returned to the Red Claws this season and was a veteran presence in a young lineup.

He registered his fi rst career triple-double in a 117-94 win on March 13 against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, with 27 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds.

In his 53 games with Maine, West has averaged 13.7 points and 3.1 assists.

General Manager Jon Jen-nings was unavailable for com-ment.

Staff Writer Jenn Menendez can be contacted at 791-6426 or at:

[email protected]

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SPORTS

It’d be wise to warm up to stretchingBy DR. ROBERT LYNCH

Stretching confuses many athletes. They want to know whether it is really neces-

sary, and whether it will prevent injuries.

If it is necessary, when should you do it? Do you do it before, during or after your activities?

Experts have been all over the map on this issue. I remember when it was recommended that you do a deep and hard stretch before your workout. This advice led to many injuries from overstretching cold muscles and tendons.

Studies now show that it is best to begin your workout with a light warm-up. This warm-up will get blood fl owing to the muscles that you will be exercising.

If you are a runner, it is best to start at 50 percent of your nor-mal speed and then gradually increase speed. You will know you are warm when your body starts to perspire.

This is good advice for other sports as well. If you are hitting the slopes, start with a few cruising runs before you head for the moguls. Hit some tennis balls from the service line to get your legs and arms loose.

I have always had issues with stretching. I tried the hard-stretch routines before work-outs, and they never appeared

STAYING IN THE GAME

to prevent injuries. Those routines may have even caused a few, especially to my Achilles tendon.

I now do a very light and short stretch before any sports. I spend more time warming up, trying to get the heart rate and blood fl ow going before I exer-cise. I do a deep stretch at the end of my workout.

Sometimes I need to be reminded to slow down when I start out for a run. A former running partner who was an ex-cellent middle-distance runner would frequently remind me to start a little slower.

As I warmed up and the sweat would start, then our pace would pick up. Usually, her pace would be faster, and I only would see her tail lights for the rest of the run.

A great warm-up, if you are going to the gym to train, is to

start with a yoga routine of sun salutation. This is a series of gentle movements that wakes up your spine, legs and shoul-ders.

This past weekend, I showed a friend these exercises to do be-fore golfi ng. He was complain-ing he was losing fl exibility and not hitting the ball very far.

I also travel with a set of elastic bands that I recommend to patients. They are great to warm up your entire body. You can also substitute them for dumbbells.

I showed Leo how to use the straps, and he was amazed at the total body workout you get from them. This warm-up only takes a few minutes to get the heart rate up and the blood fl owing to the major muscles.

Many of the old-school exer-cises also can get you ready to exercise. This includes jump-

ing jacks and running in place, lifting your knees to your waist. Throw in a set of pushups for good measure.

Another exercise people forget about is jumping rope. If it is good enough for boxers, it should be good enough for you.

Listen to your body. If the exercise causes any symptoms to increase, modify or stop your program and see a health care professional.

If you are consistent with your exercise program, you will see amazing results in a short time. Your health and energy level will increase and your weight decrease.

Dr. Robert Lynch is a former president of the Maine Chiropractic Association and head of the Lynch Chiropractic Center in South Portland. “Staying in the Game” appears every other Thursday in the Press Herald.

Bonds’ friend: I saw trainer holding syringe

The Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — Barry

Bonds looked at the witness stand with a blank expression as a childhood friend and former business partner described how baseball’s biggest star walked into the master bedroom at his spring training home along with trainer Greg Anderson, who had a syringe with a needle.

A few minutes later, Bonds and Anderson walked out.

Steve Hoskins testifi ed in federal court Wednesday that he never saw Anderson inject Bonds. The question for the jury will be whether Hoskins’ description, which the defense began to challenge later in the day, is a path toward convicting Bonds of lying when he told a grand jury seven years ago he never knowingly took steroids.

Speaking softly and fi dget-ing a bit in the witness chair, Hoskins gave the fi rst dramatic testimony in the trial of Bonds, who faces four counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction.

Hoskins said he witnessed scenes of Bonds and a needle-bearing Anderson entering a bedroom once or twice each spring training for three straight years starting in 2000.

A partner with Bonds in a memorabilia business, Hoskins said Bonds asked him to inquire about the effects of the steroid Winstrol in 1999, at around the time Bonds was having left el-bow surgery April 20. Hoskins said he went to Dr. Arthur Ting, who is expected to testify later in the trial, and brought a sheet of information back to Bonds. Hoskins said he planned to go to Bobby Bonds, the defendant’s father and a former major leaguer himself, to express his suspicions.

“I was concerned in 1999 after speaking with Dr. Ting about it,” Hoskins testifi ed. “In 2003 I was even more concerned because it was getting – it just seemed to be getting out of hand.”

This was the period when Bonds noticeably bulked up and started posting unprec-edented power numbers for the San Francisco Giants. Bonds, a seven-time NL MVP, hit a sea-son-record 73 homers in 2001 en route to a career record 762 by the time of his last season in 2007 – months before he was indicted for his 2003 grand jury testimony.

Hoskins, who also helped Bonds get his equipment in

order at the ballpark, said Bonds’ body changed in this period – prosecutors allege the transformation was caused by steroids.

“His shoe size just got bigger,” Hoskins said. “His glove size changed. ... His body weight changed. He got heavier and bigger.”

Bonds, in a lighter gray suit than previous days and a striped tie, took copious notes during the testimony of Hoskins, who followed federal agent Jeff No-vitzky to the stand and became the second witness in a trial ex-pected to last about a month.

Both prosecutors and the defense played for the jury por-tions of a recording Hoskins secretly made of a conversation that took place in front of Bonds’ locker in 2003. Hoskins said he put an Olympus digital recorder in a pocket and recorded An-derson “to show Bobby actually what really was going on.”

“That was the only way to prove it to him,” Hoskins said.

Hoskins never played the con-versation for Bobby Bonds, who by 2003 was ill with cancer and died that August.

Much of the recording was fi rst released by the prosecution in February 2009. At one point, Anderson is heard discussing what the government alleges are designer steroids he sup-plied to Bonds. “But the whole thing is ... everything that I’ve been doing at this point, it’s all undetectable,” he said.

Hoskins said earlier that Bonds became angry when speaking near the ballpark bat-ting cage in 2002 because “Greg would not give Barry a shot.”

“Barry just said that if Greg wouldn’t give him the shot, he’d give it to himself,” Hoskins said under questioning from Assis-tant U.S. Attorney Matthew A. Parrella.

Hoskins was a friend and go-fer to Bonds, besides being a business partner. He acknowl-edged giving thousands of dol-lars in cash to two women Bonds was dating.

Defense lawyer Allen Ruby, in the fi rst 21⁄2 hours of a cross-examination that is to continue today, tried to build an argument that Hoskins came forward against Bonds only after the player terminated their joint business on March 27, 2003. While Hoskins had previously said the conversation with Anderson took place in March, Ruby played a portion of the recording in which Bonds’ early season slump was discussed, an indication the conversation took place in April – after Bonds told Hoskins their business relation-ship was over.

Barry Bonds’ former

business partner, however,

says he never saw Bonds

get injected.

Gonzalez works on his swing

MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

The Associated PressFORT MYERS, Fla. — Boston

Red Sox fi rst baseman Adrian Gonzalez went 3 for 6 in a Triple-A game Wednesday as he keeps working his way back from offseason surgery on his right shoulder.

Gonzalez was the third batter in each of the fi rst six innings against a team of Tampa Bay minor leaguers. He singled three times, scored a run and drove in one. He did not play the fi eld.

“It went well,” Gonzalez said. “The shoulder’s been feeling really good. I know for (head trainer) Mike (Reinold) it was playing back to back. For me, it was more getting my timing down.

“The fi rst couple of days I was just hitting, just looking for a fastball. And then the last couple of days I’ve been trying to actually have at-bats. It hasn’t gone too well. So it was good to be able to go up there and try to have at-bats. And then kind of mix it up and be aggressive. It felt good.”

Gonzalez has only 16 plate ap-pearances in Grapefruit League games this spring as he con-tinues his rehabilitation and is batting .143. He was held back early in camp as the Red Sox monitored his progress.

Gonzalez, a three-time All-Star, originally hurt his shoulder while playing for San Diego last May in Houston, diving for a foul ball. He had surgery in October and the Red Sox acquired him in a winter trade with the Padres.

Gonzalez expects to play in most of Boston’s remaining ex-hibition games. It’s planned that he’ll miss today’s game against Florida in Jupiter and Sunday’s game against Baltimore in Sara-sota.

NATIONALS: Washington put pitcher Stephen Strasburg on the 60-day disabled list as he re-covers from elbow surgery last September.

BLUE JAYS: Right-hander Brandon Morrow will start the regular season on the disabled list because of infl ammation in

his forearm.Manager John Farrell is hope-

ful Morrow will return by mid-April.

YANKEES: Center fi elder Curtis Granderson might not be ready for opening day because of a strained muscle on his right side.

n Major League Baseball and the players’ union announced the 20 best-selling jerseys from last season and Derek Jeter headed the list, followed by Minnesota’s Joe Mauer and Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay.

PHILLIES: Pitcher Roy Os-walt was knocked to the ground by a line drive to the neck in an exhibition game against Tampa Bay.

Oswalt stayed down for nearly a minute. Then, he rose to his feet and walked off the mound on his own.

X-rays revealed Manny Ramirez’s liner that hit Oswalt behind the right ear left noth-ing beyond a bruise. The team says it may not prevent him

from making his next scheduled start.

“He’s all right. X-rays said he’s all right,” Manager Charlie Manuel said. “When he got up he was OK.”

The Phillies said Oswalt did not lose consciousness and was not dizzy before leaving in the fourth inning of a 4-1 loss.

“Fortunately it was not driven in a manner that could have re-ally caused some damage,” Rays Manager Joe Maddon said. “Our guys were very concerned up on the dugout. I liked the fact that our guys were applauding for him as he walked off the fi eld, you never want to see that hap-pen.”

RANGERS: Right-hander Brandon Webb was scratched from a scheduled bullpen ses-sion because he was unable to get loosened up to pitch.

Webb was scheduled to throw 60 to 70 pitches in his fourth bull-pen session. He says he didn’t feel any pain in his surgically repaired right shoulder.


Teammates and trainers rush to pitcher Roy Oswalt after he was struck on the neck by a line drive by Tampa Bay’s Manny Ramirez in an exhibition game Wednesday in Port Charlotte, Fla. An MRI showed Oswalt only suffered a bruise.

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Remaining 16 teamshave plenty to offeras tourney resumes

By JOHN MARSHALLThe Associated Press

For the second straight year, the NCAA tournament had a wild fi rst weekend fi lled with upsets, buzzer beaters and virtuoso performances by star players.

And, for the second straight year, people across the country had to rip up their brackets, left with no chance of winning be-cause they didn’t see Morehead State bumping off Louisville, Butler making another run to the round of 16 or any of the oth-er how’d-that-happen games.

Next up are the regionals and there are still plenty of great teams, great players and excit-ing story lines.

Duke, the defending national champion, is still in the bracket, as are Kansas and Ohio State, two of the other three No. 1 seeds.

Upset specialists Butler, Mar-quette and Virginia Common-wealth have made it through, setting up another potential mid-major breakthrough. And there’s still plenty of stars, from The Jimmer to King Kemba and D-Will of the desert.

It should be a fun week. Here’s a few things to keep an eye on:

DYNAMIC DUOSn Jon Leuer and Jordan Tay-

lor, Wisconsin. Leuer is a big banger, but also has a deft touch from the perimeter. Taylor is diffi cult to keep out of the lane, can also shoot outside and has a knack for making big plays. Nice combination.

n Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith, Duke. Smith became the fi rst player to lead the ACC in scoring and assists, while Singler is as multidimensional as they come. They won a title together.

n Matt Howard and Shelvin Mack, Butler. Howard is the kind of guy who could get his teeth knocked out and not even slow down. Mack has quietly become one of the best guards in the country. They’re both winners, too, as evidenced by the past two NCAA tournaments.

MARQUEE MATCHUPSThey’re all marquee at this

point, right? Well, some have a little more pizazz than others:

n Ohio State vs. Kentucky, East Regional, Friday in New-ark, N.J. There’s going to be so many athletes on the fl oor it’s going to look like an All-Star game. Soaring dunks and 3-pointers will be fl ying in from everywhere.

n Arizona vs. Duke, West Re-gional, tonight in Anaheim, Calif. This one’s worth watching just

to see what Arizona’s Derrick Williams will do next. Throw in the defending national champi-ons and it’s time to let the couch mold around you for 2½ hours.

n BYU vs. Florida, Southeast Regional, tonight in New Or-leans. One word: Jimmer. Well, that and watching to see if CBS announcer Gus Johnson gets fi red up when Fredette starts pouring ’em in.

THE OTHER GUYSMost of the teams left in the

tournament have a singular star, such as San Diego State’s Kawhi Leonard and Kemba Walker of Connecticut.

But these teams wouldn’t have gotten here with just a star and a bunch of no-names; Kansas’ Danny Manning and the Mir-acles or Larry Bird at Indiana State are usually anomalies.

To get this far, even teams with a star need a Robin to pick up the slack when Batman is strug-gling. Here’s a few of the guys behind the guy:

n Jon Diebler, Ohio State. Big freshman Jared Sullinger gets the hoopla, Diebler a lot of the hoops, at least from the outside. Known as “3-bler,” he’s hit 110 3-pointers this season, giving the Buckeyes an impressive inside-outside game. Consider David Lighty, who hit seven 3s against George Mason, Ohio State’s Robin II.

n Markieff Morris, Kansas. During their fi rst two years in Lawrence, Marcus was con-sidered the better Morris twin. This season, ’Kieff has upped his game, giving the Jayhawks not just one banger who can also bang in 3-pointers, but two.

n Kendall Marshall, North Carolina. Harrison Barnes was a preseason All-American and started right away, but it was his fellow freshman who helped the Tar Heels make an impressive late-season run. Since Marshall took over as the starting point guard, the Tar Heels have won 16 of 18. He is the wheel that makes the Heels go.

NUMBERSn 2: Big East teams remain-

ing out of a record 11 to get in (UConn and Marquette).

n 3: Number of ACC teams (Duke, North Carolina, Florida State) in the round of 16, most of any conference.

n 4.03: Assist-to-turnover ratio of Wisconsin’s Jordan Taylor, best in the nation.

n 23: Years since Richmond reached the NCAA’s round of 16.

n 27: Times Kansas has reached the round of 16.

n 31.5: Ohio State’s average margin of victory in its fi rst two NCAA tournament games.

n 33: Tournament scoring average of BYU’s Jimmer Fredette, who led the nation at 28.3 points per game in the regu-lar season.

Three No. 1 seeds are

still around, but so are

upset specialists Butler,

Marquette and VCU.

NCAA MEN’S REGIONALS GUIDE

USM baseball tops MIT, 7-4MAINE COLLEGES

From staff reportsWINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Re-

liever Matt Powers pitched 42⁄3 solid innings to lead the Univer-sity of Southern Maine baseball team (6-4) to a 7-4 win over MIT (9-2) on Wednesday.

After inheriting a two-out, bases-loaded jam from Brennan Perry in the third, Powers gave up a triple that put MIT ahead 4-2 before getting the fi nal out of the inning.

WOMEN’S LACROSSEGORDON 12, UNE 10: Jordan

Alexander of Portland had fi ve goals and two assists to lead the Scots (4-2, 2-0 TCCC) over UNE (1-5, 0-3) at Wenham, Mass.

MEN’S LACROSSEBOWDOIN 13, KEENE

STATE 11: Billy Berger had four goals and the Polar Bears (2-2) used a second-half rally to hold off the Owls (3-2) at Brunswick.

ST. JOSEPH’S 15, UM-FARMINGTON 1: Jonathan Horgan had three goals and tied a team record with eight assists as the Monks (4-3) beat the Bea-vers (0-1) in Portland.

GORDON 10, UNE 2: Dan Utz had fi ve goals for the Scots (3-4, 2-0 TCCC) and UNE (2-5, 0-2) was held scoreless after the fi rst period at Wenham, Mass.

SOFTBALLWIS.-WHITEWATER 10,

USM 1: The Warhawks (8-1) tal-lied 14 hits and beat the Huskies (2-7) in fi ve innings at Clermont, Fla. Annie Mitchell had an RBI single for Southern Maine.

TRINITY 8, USM 0: Kristen Anderson pitched a no-hitter and Nicole Nardella drove in four runs for Trinity (4-3) in a fi ve-inning win over USM (2-8) at Clermont, Fla.

Duke relishing outsider roleThe Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. — This might be as close as Joanne P. McCal-lie will ever get to coaching in the Big East tournament.

Her Duke team is the lone outsider in a four-team Philadel-phia regional fi eld that includes three Big East schools: DePaul, Georgetown and powerhouse Connecticut.

“We’re defi nitely the outsider,” McCallie said Wednesday. “No-body is talking about Duke, and nobody has talked about Duke for the entire tournament.”

At least there will be some semblance of neutrality Sunday when the second-seeded Blue Devils (31-3) face No. 3 seed De-Paul (29-6). They’re playing the game on Temple’s campus – and not Villanova’s.

And while McCallie insists she can’t afford to take such a broad view of the conference-vs.-con-ference undertones – “I don’t kind of look at it that wholly,” she said – one of her players expects her team to be overlooked in a Big East lovefest.

“I’m positive that we are an-other underdog in this round,” center Krystal Thomas said. “I’m sure DePaul’s favored over us, and depending on the next game, the next winner will be favored over us as well. We’ll just continue to prove everyone wrong, continue to go out and do what we know we can do, and continue to win and just play our style of play.”

It’s the fi rst time since 2003 that one conference advanced

three teams to the semifi nals of the same region. That year, UConn, Notre Dame and then-Big East member Boston Col-lege each made it to this stage of the East Regional.

Just as then, a upset was nec-essary to pull off the feat. Fifth-seeded Georgetown knocked off No. 4 seed Maryland in the second round on the Terrapins’ home court to reach the round of 16. That earned the Hoyas a third crack at UConn, the tour-nament’s No. 1 overall seed.

While the other three teams in Philadelphia this weekend are plenty familiar with each other through the grind of the Big East schedule, the Blue Devils didn’t face either Georgetown or DePaul this season. And they believe that wasn’t the “real” Duke team that lost to UConn by 36 points two months ago.

The ACC’s Blue Devils are

a relative unknown in a

regional semifi nal round

with three Big East teams.


Duke Coach Joanne P. McCallie leads the only team not from the Big East playing this weekend in the Philadelphia regional semis.

“You could take it one of two ways. You could be a little ner-vous about playing a team that you’re familiar with, because they know how to defend you, they know how to score on you,” guard Jasmine Thomas said. “Or you could be more comfort-able playing someone that you aren’t familiar with, because (they) have new areas that you can exploit. So I don’t know who has an advantage. I really think, at this time of year, no one does. I think anything can happen.”

DePaul might be a little famil-iar with Duke, though: Coach Doug Bruno and both of Duke’s Thomases were part of the U.S. Under-19 team that in the sum-mer of 2007 won the gold medal at the world championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.

But that was a long time ago, both Thomases said. They hope this is the year the Blue Devils can make it through the

tournament’s second weekend and advance to the school’s fi rst Final Four since 2006.

Duke rallied past 10th-seeded Marist 71-66 earlier this week to reach the round of 16 for the fourth time in fi ve years since that Final Four trip, but this is the nook of the bracket where the Blue Devils have stumbled recently. Duke lost in the region-al semifi nals in both 2007 and ’08, and was beaten by Baylor in its regional fi nal last year.

The round of 16 “is a huge marker in the NCAA tourna-ment, to get past the fi rst and second games and make it to this next set of games,” Krystal Thomas said. “It means a lot. It’s a very distinguished set of teams that make it this far, and we played a really tough game (against Marist).

“To be able to move past that and still be playing is a big ac-complishment.”

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Costco .82 70.92 -.63Covidien .80 51.59 -.44CredSuiss 1.40e 43.08 -.13Cummins 1.05 102.68 +.98Danaher s .08 51.47 +.22Deere 1.40 91.43 +.38Dell Inc 15.08 +.37DeutschBk .93e 57.77 -.66DevonE .68f 92.96 -.14Diageo 2.46e 74.53 -.17DineEquity 52.56 +.60DirecTV A 45.55 +.47Disney .40f 42.24 +.80DomRescs 1.97f 44.08 -.35DowChm .60 36.70 -.03DuPont 1.64 53.46 -.21DukeEngy .98 17.82 +.06eBay 30.67 +.45EMC Cp 26.48 +.12ENI 2.67e 48.22 +.02EOG Res .64f 114.07 +.71Ecopetrol .97e 42.01 +.80EmersonEl 1.38 57.27 -.15Enbridge 1.96f 60.21 -.59EnCana g .80 34.39 -.07EntPrPt 2.36f 42.27 -.11EricsnTel .35e 12.34 +.19Exelon 2.10 40.91 -.16ExpScrip s 53.50 +.69ExxonMbl 1.76 82.60 +.04FedExCp .48 88.96 +.67FEMSA .64e 58.09 +.85FordM 14.31 -.03

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StateStr .72f 43.77 +.14Statoil ASA 1.10e 27.64 +.23Stryker .72 61.35 -.39SumitMitsu 6.80 +.11Suncor gs .40 44.94 -.64Syngenta 1.13e 64.45 -.50TJX .60 49.54 +.68TaiwSemi .47e 12.04 +.22TalismE g .25 23.67 -.74Target 1.00 50.24 -.26TeckRes g .60f 52.88 -.31TelItalia .81e 15.32 -.02TelefEsp s 1.75e 25.00 -.03Tenaris .68e 46.53 +.42Tennant .68 39.33 -.02TevaPhrm .78e 49.12 +1.10TexInst .52 34.21 +.57ThermoFis 53.49 -.46ThomsonR 1.24f 38.51 +.013M Co 2.20f 92.14 +1.44TW Cable 1.92f 69.37 +.29TimeWarn .94f 35.58 +.72TorDBk g 2.64f 86.91 +.58Total SA 3.16e 59.34 +.16Toyota .58e 82.14 -.86TrCda g 1.68f 39.71 -.19Transocn 80.03 -.25Travelers 1.44 58.43 +.15TycoIntl 1.00f 44.14 -.28UBS AG 18.35 -.08UnilevNV 1.12e 30.50 +.26Unilever 1.12e 29.79 +.25UnionPac 1.52 93.92 -.71

UPS B 2.08f 71.62 -.43US Bancrp .50f 26.45 -.01UtdhlthGp .50 42.75 +.01Vale SA .76e 32.70 +.45Vale SA pf .76e 28.77 +.24ViacomB .60 44.59 -.26Visa .60 71.99 +.39Vodafone 1.33e 28.58 -.22

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12,391.29 9,614.32 Dow Jones Industrials 12,086.02 +67.39 +.56 +4.39 +11.535,306.65 3,872.64 Dow Jones Transportation 5,096.58 -3.35 -.07 -.20 +16.84

422.43 346.95 Dow Jones Utilities 406.04 -.31 -.08 +.26 +7.588,520.27 6,355.83 NYSE Composite 8,248.83 +20.42 +.25 +3.58 +11.352,438.62 1,689.19 Amex Index 2,333.34 +14.96 +.65 +5.66 +24.422,840.51 2,061.14 Nasdaq Composite 2,698.30 +14.43 +.54 +1.71 +12.491,344.07 1,010.91 S&P 500 1,297.54 +3.77 +.29 +3.17 +11.12

983.84 692.75 S&P MidCap 953.67 -1.27 -.13 +5.12 +20.21838.00 587.66 Russell 2000 811.24 +2.58 +.32 +3.52 +18.66

6,101.42 4,790.04 FTSE (London) 5,795.88 +33.17 +.58 -1.76 +2.0811,408.17 8,227.63 Nikkei (Tokyo) 9,449.47 -158.85 -1.65 -7.62 -12.63

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three-week tournament, such as George Mason in 2006. Other teams are polarizing forces.

“People hate Duke,” said Jonathan Culley, a Falmouth native and a Duke graduate. “The more success we have, the more animosity there is. Not to sound smug, but people hate Duke because in a way, they want to be a part of it. People dislike Coach K (Mike Krzyze-wski) and Duke has had some polarizing fi gures, like Christian Laettner or J.J. Redick. There’s got to be a villain and Duke seems to play the role.”

In his freshman dorm in Dur-ham, N.C., Culley watched as Laettner spun around and shot from inside the arc after taking a length-of-the-court inbounds pass from Grant Hill. Laettner’s shot, one of ESPN’s top 100 mo-ments in sports, sent Duke to the 1992 Final Four.

“I’ll never forget the feeling,” Culley said. “You can’t watch the tournament without seeing the replay. I still get goose bumps.”

Culley, a real estate developer, got the same feeling when he watched Duke defeat Butler for the national title last spring.

“Last year, it was unexpected,” Culley said. “Butler was a great story, and if they were playing any other team in the country, I would have rooted for them pas-sionately.”

Butler faces Wisconsin to-night in the Sweet 16, and Diana Prescott believes she’s one of the few Butler fans liv-ing in Maine. Prescott is a 1983 Butler graduate and a clinical psychologist in Hampden. Her father, Dallas Etchison, played at Butler in the early 1950s.

Prescott explained that bas-ketball is a cultural staple in

Indiana, where Butler is lo-cated. Yet while Prescott was a member of the Butler marching band, there were nights when there would be more members of the woodwinds section than the student section at games.

“The rivalry in Indiana was IU-Purdue,” Prescott said. “You went to Butler, but you were ei-ther an IU fan or a Purdue fan. We weren’t good at football or basketball. But now, I’ve gone back the last 10 years for home-coming, and it’s amazing to watch it because you really see what the (basketball) program has become.”

School allegiances don’t always translate to fi delity, though, when it comes to picking a tour-nament bracket. Crist admitted he picked Gonzaga to upset BYU in the second round and cited BYU’s historical struggles in the tournament. The Cougars face Florida tonight in their fi rst Sweet 16 appearance since 1981, when Danny Ainge led BYU to within one win of the Final Four.

Still, maybe this is BYU’s year. Or maybe it’s Butler’s year. It might even be Duke’s year – yet again.

Staff Writer Rachel Lenzi can be reached at 791-6415 or at:

[email protected]

NCAAContinued from Page C1

“People hate Duke.

The more success

we have, the more

animosity there is.

Not to sound smug,

but people hate Duke

because in a way, they

want to be a part of

it.”

Jonathan CulleyDuke graduate

Tourney games have lost track of timeBy PAUL NEWBERRY


This was a familiar scene dur-ing the fi rst week of the NCAA tournament: Offi cials huddled around the scorer’s table, look-ing over replays to determine just how much time should be on the clock.

So unnecessary.The NCAA – unlike the NBA,

the Olympics, all major con-ferences and even some high schools – doesn’t use an auto-matic timing system for its sig-nature event.

It’s an odd situation that caught plenty of prominent coaches off guard when told this week that game clocks in

the men’s and women’s tourna-ments are not linked to a well-known device known as Preci-sion Time Systems, which was invented nearly two decades ago by former NBA and college referee Michael Costabile.

“To be honest with you, I didn’t even realize that they weren’t using it during the tournament,” said North Carolina’s Roy Wil-liams, whose Tar Heels were in-volved in the most prominent of several timing issues during the fi rst week of March Madness.

Thad Matta, coach of overall top seed Ohio State, was even more confused.

“We use it in the Big Ten, so I’m good with it,” he said Tuesday. “Matter of fact, when we talked about it in the Big Ten meetings, we said, ‘Let’s do what they do in the NCAA tournament.’ ”

Actually, the automatic sys-tem is widely used during the

preseason, regular season and conference tournaments, but ignored by the NCAA for the big-gest games of the year.

In a sense, it’s like using a modern timing system to deter-mine how fast Usain Bolt runs or Michael Phelps swims until they get to the Olympics, then breaking out the stopwatches to fi gure out who gets the gold medal.

“This is 2011,” said Nelson Keller, who runs the clock merely as a backup for women’s games at North Carolina and the ACC tournament. “It’s crazy not to use the technology that’s available.”

That was never more appar-ent than last week when sev-eral games went down to the wire with the clock being kept by a timekeeper sitting court-side instead of being linked to Costabile’s system, which shuts

it down automatically when an offi cial blows the whistle.

The most disputed game was North Carolina’s 86-83 victory over Washington. The ball went out of bounds off a Tar Heels player with a half-second show-ing on the clock. Replays showed the ball went out of bounds with at least 1.1 seconds to go.

The offi cials looked at the vid-eo and did some frontier justice, determining the time on the board was right when factoring in the lag time between an offi -cial blowing his whistle and the timekeeper stopping the clock.

If Precision Time had been used, it wouldn’t have been an issue.

“Any time you are talking about time on the clock, I think it’s important that you get it right,” Washington Coach Lorenzo Ro-mar said.

Tournament spokesman David

Worlock did not respond to an email seeking comment. Neither did John Adams, the NCAA’s co-ordinator for men’s basketball offi ciating. Erik Christianson, the NCAA’s director of public and media relations, issued a brief statement:

“The committee is satisfi ed with current game management processes and has chosen not to adopt it for the championship. From time to time it has been reviewed by the committee.”

Costabile’s system ranges in price from $3,185 to $3,750 each, which sounds like pocket change compared to the tournament’s $10.8 billion television deal.

He proposed an even cheaper deal a few years ago, offering to provide free systems for the tournament if the NCAA would pay $1,500 at each site to have a company representative on hand to respond to any ques-

tions or problems that might arise. He said the money would have merely covered the cost of travel, hotel rooms and meals.

“I never heard back from them,” he said.

Costabile’s system uses wire-less technology to sync the whistles to a computer base sta-tion that is tied in to the clock. Whenever an offi cial blows his whistle, the clock stops. If more than one offi cial blows his whis-tle, the clock stops on whichever signal it receives fi rst.

To start the clock, each offi cial wears a pager-looking device on their waistband that they use to fl ip a switch when play resumes. Whoever fl ips it fi rst, that’s what the computer goes with.

At the college level, a time-keeper is only needed to stop the clock in the closing minute after a basket is made and before the inbound pass.

Game clocks are not

automated by a system,

but rather controlled by

timekeepers at courtside.

I can tell my grandchildren about.”

In 1996, Gendron helped the Pirates come to within one victory of winning their second Calder Cup.

“I remembered during the playoffs just walking down the street and people waved at me, and that’s always nice,” Gendron said. “What I remem-bered is the atmosphere was great. We always had very good crowds.”

The 5-foot-9, 176-pound Gendron, who turned 35 last month, played just 30 games in the NHL with the Washing-ton Capitals and the Chicago Blackhawks.

But he played 430 games dur-ing six seasons in the AHL and the old International Hockey League, and he played 276 games during seven more sea-sons in pro leagues in Canada, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

“I retired (as a player) four years ago,” he said. “My kids were starting school, so I de-cided to return from Europe.”

Gendron’s wife, Michelle, and daughter, Allyssa, and son, Alexis, will attend the induction.

“I’m looking forward to this,” he said. “I’m bringing my two kids, and they’re excited about it.”

THE PIRATES WILL fi nish the regular season with a rush.

On Friday, Portland starts a season-ending stretch in which it will play 11 games in 16 days.

Six of those games will be at

the Cumberland County Civic Center.

“The schedule isn’t nice coming down the stretch, but it would be a whole different ball game if it was a stretch like that on the road,” veteran right wing Mark Parrish said.

Depending how the Worcester Sharks do against the Provi-dence Bruins at the DCU Cen-ter on Friday night, the Pirates could clinch a playoff berth with a win against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Friday night.

The Pirates hold a three-point lead over the Manchester Monarchs in the race for the top spot in the AHL’s Atlantic Division.

“Obviously, we’ve worked hard to get where we are in the standings, but we’re not satisfi ed with where we are,” Parrish said. “We want to keep

driving and keep getting better and have our best going into the playoffs.”

PLAY IN THE Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff series between the ninth-seed-ed Moncton Wildcats and the No. 8 Lewiston Maineiacs starts Friday night at the Androscog-gin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.

Lewiston will host the fi rst two games of the best-of-seven se-ries, one of the QMJHL’s eight fi rst-round matchups.

During the regular season, the teams split two games.

On Nov. 26, the Maineiacs skated to a 3-2 win at Lewiston. Less than a week later, the Wildcats won 4-3 at Moncton.

Staff Writer Paul Betit can be contacted at 791-6424 or at:

[email protected]

HOCKEYContinued from Page C1

“Leon Powe was the baddest man on the planet tonight,” Celt-ics Coach Doc Rivers said. “It’s not like they tricked us. They just drove through somebody and scored.”

Allen spent the fi rst six years of his career in Boston before signing with Memphis as a free agent last summer. He scored nine with fi ve assists.

“They’re both really tough, physical guys. They’re vet-eran guys who have been to the mountaintop and won,” Mem-phis Coach Lionel Hollins said. “This is our second year in a row coming in here and getting a win, so this is special. But I’m sure for those guys this is extra special.”

Paul Pierce scored 22 for Boston, but he missed an off-bal-ance 3-pointer at the buzzer that

could have sent the game into overtime and the Celtics lost for the fi fth time in nine games and fell one game behind Chicago (51-19) in the race for the best record in the Eastern Confer-ence. Rajon Rondo had six points, seven steals, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, but he missed an ill-advised one-handed fl oater in the lane with 18 seconds left and Boston trailing 88-87.

“It’s so easy to second-guess it now,” said Rivers, who didn’t call a timeout because he thought Rondo was going to pass it to Pierce. “I just think your best offensive player should always touch the ball on the last pos-session.”

Memphis led 84-77 in the fourth quarter before Boston cut the defi cit to one point, 86-85, with just over 3 minutes left on Pierce’s 3-pointer. Gasol made it a three-point game before Glen “Big Baby” Davis made a jumper with 52 seconds left to cut the lead to one point.

Davis had a chance to put Bos-ton ahead, but Gasol blocked it, and then Gasol stole a pass from Ray Allen with 80 seconds left before converting a layup to make it 88-85. Davis’ jumper made it a one-point game again, then Rondo rebounded a Mem-phis miss and brought the ball the length of the court before fl oating up a one-handed shot that bounced off the back of the rim.

The Celtics sent Mike Conley to the line with 14 seconds left, and he made both free throws. Davis’ 3-point attempt to tie it missed, but after Gasol was fouled he missed both free throws with 4.6 seconds left, giv-ing Boston the ball and a chance to send the game into overtime.

Boston inbounded the ball to Pierce but he couldn’t get off a clear shot.

“He is one of those prolifi c-type dudes,” Tony Allen said. “He’s hit shots like that in his career. He missed and we got

the win.”After falling behind 36-26 in

the second quarter, the Celtics scored eight straight points – including back-to-back 3-pointers from Allen – to make it a two-point game. It was 38-34 when Boston again scored eight in a row to take the lead before Memphis scored twice in the fi nal minute to make it 45-44 at the half.

NOTES: Powe and Tony Allen received a warm welcome from the crowd at introductions. ... Ray Allen wore a bandage above his right eye. He received seven stitches after being elbowed by Jared Jeffries in Monday night’s game against the New York Knicks. Allen and Pierce are the only Celtics to play in all 70 games this season. ... The Griz-zlies said on Tuesday that No. 2 scorer Rudy Gay would miss the rest of the season to have sur-gery on his partially dislocated left shoulder.

CELTICSContinued from Page C1

BUSINESS THURSDAYSECTION CThe Portland Press Herald

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New-home sales at 48-year lowThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Home con-struction in the United States is all but coming to a halt.

Americans are on track to buy fewer new homes than in any year since the government began keeping data almost a half-century ago. Sales are now just half the pace of 1963, even though there are 120 mil-lion more people in the United States now.

The sliding sales show just how far the housing market has fallen since the bubble burst four years ago. And they’re a blow to the economic recovery as it draws strength from other places.

Diminished sales have driven the median price of a new home down to about $202,000, the lowest since 2003. If the slug-gish sales continue, analysts say, small companies that build homes will fold, meaning less competition as the market im-proves and higher prices later.

“The longer it goes on, the more builders will drift away from the industry altogether,” said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist of Capital Econom-ics.

Ashworth noted that a surge in foreclosures is forcing down prices for previously occupied homes even faster than they’re falling for new homes. As a re-sult, new homes are less attrac-tive to buyers.

“That’s not going to change for at least another year or two,” Ashworth said. “Under these conditions, you can’t really see home builders willing to ramp up, and that’s bad for buyers.”

Sales of new homes plunged in February to an annual rate of 250,000, the Commerce De-partment said Wednesday. It was the third straight monthly drop. That’s far below the pace economists say is healthy, about 700,000 a year.

Last year, 323,000 new homes were sold, the worst year on re-cord and the fi fth straight year of declines. Economists don’t expect this year to be any better, and say it could take two years

The price drop for existing

homes has cooled demand

for new ones, weakening

builders and the recovery.

Please see HOMES, Page C8


No homes are being built yet in the fenced-off Sonterra subdivision in Queen Creek, Ariz., which contains 18 lots. The government says new homes have accounted for just 5 percent of all sales so far this year, keeping construction companies on the sidelines.


Bank of America, headquar-tered in Charlotte, N.C., could submit a revised plan seeking a dividend hike.

FED’S ‘STRESS TEST’ A DO-OVER?

Bank of America dealt dividend-increase blow

The Associated PressNEW YORK — It was one

more blow for Bank of Ameri-ca: The Federal Reserve didn’t allow the nation’s largest bank to increase its dividends.

The decision by the Fed makes Bank of America Corp. the only one of the four largest U.S. banks that wasn’t able to raise its dividend, something shareholders have demanding.

The Fed’s decision, which BofA disclosed in a regulatory fi ling Wednesday, also raised questions over whether the bank is strong enough to withstand another economic downturn.

For CEO Brian Moynihan, the Fed’s rejection was an-other setback in his 14-month tenure, which has been marked by a sharp increase in lawsuits, mounting losses

from credit cards and de-creased income from check-ing accounts. As recently as March 8, Moynihan promised shareholders they would likely see a dividend increase in the second half of the year.

“We have the capital. We have the brand, and now we’ve been building the bal-ance sheet,” Moynihan said at a conference for investors.

Problem is, the Fed didn’t agree. Bank of America, along with the 19 largest banks in the country, was subject to a “stress test” in the fi rst quar-ter. The Fed tested the banks’ balance sheet and other measures to see if they were strong enough to withstand another economic downturn. Only banks that passed the test were allowed to increase dividends.

The Fed has now asked the Charlotte, N.C., bank to submit a revised plan, and it is unclear if it will be allowed to increase its dividend in the second half of the year.

“This is a reality check for Bank of America,” said Matt McCormick, a portfolio man-ager and banking analyst at Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel in Cincinnati, which manages about $3.2 billion in assets. “They have a lot of work in front of them.”

Bank of America shares fell 1.7 percent to $13.65. Spokes-man Scott Silvestri said in a statement that the bank would resubmit its plan in the summer for a modest divi-dend increase in the second half of this year.

Moynihan will have to con-vince investors and the Fed that the bank is strong enough to weather another recession. At a time when the bank’s rev-enue is shrinking because of new regulations, it’s not going to be an easy task.

Last week, the Fed cleared the way for several banks – including JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, and Citigroup Inc. – to increase their dividends.

The CEO thought an

increase likely, but the

Fed wants further proof

of the bank’s strength.

Snack sales, success abroad rev up General Mills quarter

General Mills Inc.’s net income rose 18 percent in the fi scal third quarter, driven by the sale of more snacks and strength abroad.

The maker of Nature Valley snack bars and Cheerios cereal has started to raise prices for some of its prod-ucts over the past few months to cope with rising ingredient costs. It expects price increases will acceler-ate during the current fi scal fourth quarter.

Chairman and CEO Ken Powell anticipates that quarter will include the “highest earnings growth of the year.” That expectation led the food company to maintain its 2011 earnings and revenue outlooks Wednesday.

Car hauler told to protect 1,700 ‘hostage’ GM cars

A car-hauling company accused of keeping 1,700 General Motors vehicles as hostages has been ordered not to damage, destroy or conceal them.

GM is suing Atlanta-based Allied Systems, claiming cars and pickup trucks are being illegally stored, mostly in Dearborn, Mich. GM says Allied had been in a labor dispute with drivers and wants the auto-maker to pay more for its services.

Federal Judge Marianne Bat-tani on Tuesday ordered Allied to protect the vehicles. She scheduled a hearing for March 29. A message seeking comment Wednesday was left with Allied Systems President Mark Gendregske.

GM says the vehicles are worth $47 million and some already have been purchased.

FedEx, pilots union reach deal with 3% pay raise

FedEx and the Air Line Pilots As-sociation say they approved a labor agreement that includes a 3 percent pay raise.

The association approved the agreement in balloting that ended early Wednesday.

The pilots also reportedly receive lump sum payments, new safety programs and expanded foreign duty assignment rules.

Caterpillar affi rms outlook, sees good times ahead

Caterpillar is affi rming its 2011 profi t outlook and offering a rosy forecast for the years ahead be-cause growth in the world’s popula-tion and expansion of its cities will create demand for its mining and construction equipment.

Company offi cials sounded opti-mistic Wednesday as they met with

analysts at the ConExpo-ConAgg trade show for the construction industry in Las Vegas.

Shareholders re-elect Jobs to Walt Disney Co. board

Walt Disney Co. shareholders returned Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs to the entertainment company’s board of directors,

despite questions raised about whether his health would ham-per his ability to serve. Jobs was re-elected, along with 12 other directors.

The shareholders also rejected a proposal that would have ended the practice of allowing Disney’s board to administer a retest to determine whether senior executives qualify to receive stock bonuses.

Income drops, stock rises for Micron Technology

Micron Technology Inc., which makes computer memory chips, posted a big decline in quarterly net income as it struggled with fall-ing prices for its chips, a perpetual problem for its industry, but the results were still stronger than Wall Street expected. Its stock rose in extended trading following the release of the earnings report. The company said it expects improved pricing through the remainder of its fi scal year.

Vote favors selling AirTran to Southwest for $1.4 billion

AirTran Airways shareholders vot-ed Wednesday to sell the discount airline to bigger rival Southwest for $1.4 billion. The deal would give Southwest Airlines Co. a foothold in Atlanta – the largest U.S. city it doesn’t already serve – and routes to Mexico and the Caribbean.

AirTran Holdings Inc. said more than 98.6 percent of votes cast and 77.5 percent of all shares were voted for the sale.

Southwest still needs approval from federal antitrust regulators before it can close the deal, which it expects to do in the next three months.


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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz begins the 2011 shareholders meeting Wednesday in Seattle, Wash. Starbucks Corp. is expanding the products and places it sells to customers and adding extras – like free online access to Marvel Comics in its cafes and single-serve coffee machines in other stores. The cafes took a hit during the recession but have since rebounded. “We are now playing from a position of strength,” said Chief Financial Offi cer Troy Alstead.

Japanesestocks lureinvestorsin drovesThe rash of buying signals

the belief that rebuilding

after the disaster will lead

to economic growth.

The New York TimesNEW YORK — Investors are

fl ocking to Japanese stocks in the wake of the costliest natural disaster in history.

Exchange-traded funds that hold Japanese stocks brought in a record $1.2 billion the week after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and caused the worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster, ac-cording to TrimTabs Investment Research.

The infl ow to Japanese funds represented a jump of nearly a fi fth of total assets.

The rash of buying is a sig-nal that investors believe that the disaster, which claimed thousands of lives, will lead to economic growth as the world’s third-largest economy rebuilds much of the infrastructure along its northeastern coast.

“Natural disasters often have dramatic effects on the markets, but very often they are only short-term ones,” said David Kelly, the chief market strategist for JP Morgan Funds.

JP Morgan analysts anticipate that Japan’s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of an economy’s health, will start to grow in the second half of the year from reconstruction and reach a rate of 4 percent during the last three months of the year.

Any economic growth over 2 percent is large for Japan, which has an aging population and has battled defl ation since its stock market burst in the early 1990s.

The rash of buying of stocks came after the country’s bench-mark Nikkei 225 index fell 16 percent over two days in panic-driven selling, reaching its low-est level since the 2008 fi nancial crisis.

The index bounced back nearly as quickly, jumping 5.6 percent on March 16 and 4.3 percent on March 22. The index is now down 7.8 percent since the quake.

Japanese stocks were among the cheapest in the world even before the disaster.

Though Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, its national debt amounts to 200 percent of its GDP, the largest of any industrialized nation.

Showtime originalsto end run on Netflix The pay channel will soon

offer old seasons of series

still making new episodes

to Comcast subscribers.

The Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Amid an

emerging rivalry between tra-ditional pay TV operators and rising star Netfl ix Inc., CBS Corp.’s Showtime pay TV ser-vice confi rmed Wednesday that back seasons of current original series like “Dexter” and “Cali-fornication” will not be available on Netfl ix’s streaming service as of this summer.

Instead, CBS will offer them to subscribers who pay for Show-time through Comcast Corp. on Comcast’s Xfi nity TV platform.

The deal has been in place since February, but news of the details broke this week after Netfl ix announced it was buy-ing the right to debut the series “House of Cards” from execu-tive producer David Fincher.

Debuting an original series on its service makes Netfl ix even more of a direct rival to pay TV channels like Showtime and HBO. Netfl ix had 20.2 million subscribers in the U.S. at the end of December, compared with 20 million for Showtime and HBO’s estimated 28 million.

Showtime originals that have stopped airing on TV, includ-ing “The Tudors” and “Sleeper Cell,” will continue to be avail-able for streaming on Netfl ix.

CBS and Netfl ix announced a two-year deal last month that allows older shows that are not generating new original episodes to be run on Netfl ix’s streaming service, including “Medium,” “Frasier” and “Cheers.”

The deal followed a 10-year pact that CBS cut with Com-cast in August that allowed for CBS and Showtime shows to be played on Comcast’s Xfi nity TV platform, which can be accessed on computers and iPad tablets.

CBS is seeking to maximize the money it can receive from Netfl ix from older content, while encouraging consumers to pay separately for new original shows on Showtime.

Goldman Sachs analyst Ingrid Chung said the impact of CBS pulling some shows from Netfl ix would not materially affect Netf-lix, but it could signal that it will have to pay more for the right to stream shows in the future.

CBS shares closed up 21 cents Wednesday at $24.87. Netfl ix shares fi nished the regular ses-sion up $7.67, at $229.06.

S&P 500 +3.77 to 1,297.54 NASDAQ +14.43 to 2,698.30DOW +67.39 to 12,086.02




HOMESContinued from Page C7

or more before sales return to a healthy pace.

In 1963, when the U.S. popula-tion was about 190 million – com-pared with today’s nearly 310 million – far more new homes were sold: 560,000.

New homes have accounted for just 5 percent of all sales so far this year. They typically represent closer to 15 percent. There were just 183,000 new homes available for sale in February, the smallest supply in four decades.

The median price of a new home is now 30 percent higher than that of a resold home, twice the typical markup in a healthy economy.

Builders have responded by scaling back. In February, they broke ground on only about 40 percent of the number of homes they typically do in normal mar-kets.

People are still looking at new homes, builders say. But many would-be buyers say they can’t justify the cost.

For starters, it’s cheaper to buy used – especially if you can get a foreclosed home or a short sale, when lenders let homeown-ers sell for less than they owe on their mortgage.

Banks are imposing tougher standards for loans and requir-ing bigger down payments. And many people are nervous about entering the market, fearful that home prices have yet to reach the bottom.

The disparity has led home-builders to cut their selling pric-es and build more inexpensive

homes. New homes that cost between $150,000 and $200,000 now make up a third of sales – the biggest such proportion in records going back more than a decade.

“Falling housing prices of existing homes are robbing demand for new houses, and until that changes, the housing market will be in trouble,” said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an analyst at BNP Paribas.

The Associated PressWASHINGTON — Federal Re-

serve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a group of executives from smaller banks Wednesday that the fi nancial overhaul will level the playing fi eld for them with the industry’s giants.

In remarks to the annual convention in San Diego of small- and medium-sized banks, Bernanke said it would be im-portant for the banks to adapt to the changing regulatory en-vironment.

He acknowledged their con-cerns about the new law. But he said most of the requirements are aimed at the country’s big-gest banks and not them.

Congress passed the regula-tory law last year in an effort to prevent a repeat of the 2008 fi nancial crisis. Small-bank ex-ecutives have complained that it will cost them a lot of money to meet the new rules, even though they were not responsible for causing the fi nancial crisis.

Bernanke said that the hun-dreds of community banks – those with assets below $10 billion – would play a vital role in the nation’s recovery because they are an important source of loans for small businesses.

“Although we are not yet where we would like to be, the good news is that many com-munity banks have already been doing their part to meet the credit needs of their customers, notably including small-busi-ness customers,” Bernanke said in his speech to the Inde-pendent Community Bankers of America.

Bernanke said it was fortunate that Congress had decided to preserve the Fed’s regulatory connection to small banks. The law maintains the Fed’s powers and even broadens it to include thrift holding companies. The thrifts themselves will be regu-lated by the Offi ce of the Comp-

troller of the Currency.The Fed chairman said the

broadened role for the central bank benefi ts everyone.

“Through our supervision, our gathering of economic in-telligence and the activities of our community affairs depart-ments, we will be able to remain fully engaged with grass-roots America,” Bernanke said.

In response to an audience question, Bernanke said the Fed understood that Congress wanted to shield smaller bank-ing institutions from the impact of a new law that requires large banks to trim debit card fees. At stake is the $16 billion each year that, according to the Fed, stores must pay banks and other credit card issuers when customers use the cards.

The Fed, which must imple-ment a rule to put the new law into effect, understands that banks with assets of less than $10 billion should be protected from losing the fees they now receive, Bernanke said.

“In our rule-writing, we will ... try to make sure that that carve-out is effective,” he said.

New regulations are mostly

aimed at industry giants

and will level the playing

fi eld, the Fed chief says.

Bernanke: New law to help small banks


Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses the Independent Community Bankers of America on Wednesday at the San Diego Convention Center.

The Associated PressCANTON, Mass. — Dunkin’

Brands Inc., parent of the Dunkin’ Donuts chain and Baskin-Robbins ice cream shops, said Wednesday that its annual profi t fell 23 percent as the costs of refi nancing debt offset its sales growth.

The privately held chain of more than 16,000 franchised restaurants said its net income slipped to $26.9 million from $35 million in the fi scal year that ended Dec. 25.

Dunkin’ Brands’ revenue, excluding the portion that fran-

chisees keep, rose 7 percent last year to $577.1 million from $538 million, the company said. Total sales rose nearly 7 percent to $7.7 billion last year.

In November, Dunkin’ Brands completed a refi nancing that in-cluded a $1.25 billion term loan and $625 million in senior notes. It used the proceeds to repay in full the company’s outstanding securitization debt and related refi nancing expenses and to pay shareholders a cash dividend. The company said it recorded a nearly $62 million charge for costs related to erasing debt.

Debt refi nancing lowers profi t for parent of Dunkin’ Donuts

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GRISWOLD NO. 3 SKILLETFRYING PAN - cast ironErie PA 709 block largelogo, smooth bottom.$40. 284-8744.

HOOVER VACUUM - likenew $70, Forest greenloveseat- plush $100, TVEmerson $25,Deacon’sbench $50. 939-4987

H . S . T A R M C O M B I N A -TION WOOD/COAL/OILB O I L E R - w / C a r l i nburner. $750. 829-5001

J A R O P E N E R - FromPampered Chef, brandnew. $7. CLAY FLOWERPOTS - $ 7 . e a c h .OILLAMPS - w/ flower pat-tern - $7. each. BATTERBOWL - cream colored.$5. 284-8744

JFK 75TH ANNIVERSARY1 3 C O M M E M O R A T I V ECOVERS - envelopes w/p i c t u r e s . P o s t O f f i c es t a m p e d h i s t o r y .B i r th- funera l . $45 orbest offer. 799-1645

PS 2 OR ORIGINAL X BOX- each w/20 games and2 control lers. $99/ea.671-2649

S M I T H C O R O N A E L E C -T R I C T Y P E W R I T E R - 2n e w e r a s e r r i b b o n s .Spell check. All for $35.510-1251

STAINLESS STEEL SINK-33” x 22” with 8 1/2“and 10” basins. $50. orbest offer. 207-510-4998

TABLE SAW -heavy duty Craftsman

10” on steel legsw/retractable casters.Incls. manual & acces-sories. $170. 767-3739

US/CELLULAR SAMSUNGT O U C H S C R E E N C E L L -P H O N E - G o o dc o n d . , C a l i b e r p h o n ew/charger. $60/Best .299-2620

FOLDABLE BABYPLAYPEN - $35.

699-7345

VINTAGE 16 MM MOVIEPROJECTOR - Old, Movie-Mite, one of the firstsound on film. Has car-r y i n g c a s e , s i l e n t o rsound switch . Worksg r e a t . $ 1 5 0 / B e s t .776-1260

2 P R O M D R E S S E S -sequins, never worn,s i z e 5 / 6 . $ 3 0 / e a c h .883-0808H A R L E Y D A V I D S O N -Woman's leather jackets ize smal l w/ sweat -s h i r t & 2 t e e s . $ 1 0 0 .797-0516

FIREWOOD - cut, split,delivered $175 per cord

Call 415-5476.

COMPLETE HALF BATH -vanity w/ inlaid porce-lain sink, brass/ceramicf i x t u r e s . T a n t o i l e t ,light, medicine cabinet.E x c . c o n d . V i c t i m o fremodeling, $250. firm.725-5650

PAINTINGS AND PRINTS -$ 4 - $ 4 5 . RAY-O-VACSPORTSMANS FLUORES-C E N T L A N T E R N -$25/Best offer 642-3853

1 9 . 5 ’ T R I U M P H 2005 -d u a l c o n s o l e , 1 1 5 H PYamaha 2 stroke, lowhours on motor, ste-r e o , F F , o p e n d e c k ,great fishing/ski boat,trlr $8900. So. Portland838-3531.

2 E X C E P T I O N A LMATCHING MAHOGANYTABLES W/RAISED GLASSTOPS - Cof fee tab leh a s a n o v a l t o p ; t h eother is a round lamptable. Very attractive, inv e r y g o o d c o n d . $ 6 0each. Call 775-2416.

E L I T E W H I T E O V E N /TOASTER/4 CUP COFFEEMAKER - 15”w. Perfectfor small countertop.Never used. $30.510-1251

CRAFTSMAN 10” RADIALARM SAW and cabinetwith 2 drawers - $175;6” DELTA DELUXE JOINERmodel 37190 with standa n d r o l l e r s - $ 5 9 9 ;CRAFTSMAN 16” SCROLLS A W - $ 5 0 . WERNERWALLPAPER STEAMER -$60. 775-1453

BLUERIDGE ACOUST ICGUITAR W/CASE - $250or best offer; SQUIRESTRAT ELECTRIC GUITAR- candy apple $100 orbest offer. 615-5521

W E I D E R P R O 9 9 4 0WEIGHT MACHINE - but-t e r f l y / a b p u l l e ystation/leg press andmore. $200. 229-6554

10’ WALKER BAY boat -w / 2 . 5 H P S u z u k i 4 -stroke, used 20 hrs. andoars, etc. Bought newAugust 2008, not usedmuch. Asking $1450 forboth.FMI call Jeff @ 781-2641

FRAMED MIRROR - 32” x24”. $50. RUSH BOTTOMCHAIRS - $20/ea. or bestoffer. 642-3853

ENTERTAINMENT CEN-T E R - 5’ l x 4’t x 1.5’w.$60/Best. COFFEE TABLE- 3.5l x 1.5w. $20. MIR-R O R - $ 2 5 / B e s t .854-4183

FENDER ACOUSTASONICSFX-1 ampl i f ier . E x c .c o n d . i n c l s . c o v e r ,manual , 2 chanels, 80watts each. On boarddigital signal process-i n g . D e s i g n e d f o racoustic guitar & voice.$400. 772-2442

RED SOX TIX - reservegames now while selec-tion is good. Loge box#122. Will sell 2 or 4 $125each & up. 207-232-8801

2 S IDED WOOD DESK -s h e l v e s & d r a w e r s ,needs refinishing. $40.423-3279

P R O M D R E S S E S - S ize7 / 8 . $ 3 0 / e a . o r b e s toffer. S P I K E H E E L E DSHOES - cream/glitter,s ize 6 . Yel low/gl ittersize 6. $15. per pair orbest offer. 642-3853

LANE CEDAR CHESTS -O n e A n t i q u e w h i t e .$100. One Walnut - $200.Call after 4pm: 797-4732

POLARIS SWITCHBACK600 DRAGON 2009 - w/elec. & reverse, new leftover. $7500. 892-3166

BEAUTIFUL BROYHILLDRESSER/ MIRROR &

CHESTDRESSER -Great cond. Must sell.

$250. A MUST SEE!650-7604

ELECTRIC LIFT - Md RPL450 - 1450 lbs. capacityw/sling & Detecto scale.Charger unit & 2 bat-teries. $900.complete.Paid $4480. 797-0554

Westbrook- 3 -un i t @5 3 2 M a i n S t f o r s a l e .MAJOR PRICE REDUC-T I O N . $ 2 4 9 , 0 0 0 . C a l lDavid Caron.

LATE 1970 ’S C ITAT IONA C O U S T I C G U I T A R w /inlays - N o w $ 2 5 0 .615-5521

MOVING MUST SELLApple Green

Couch - Good cond.$40. 699-7345

B E A U T Y R E S T Q U E E NMATTRESS & BOX SPRING- pillow top, exc cond.$200. DK WOOD BOOK-CASE, 2 SHELVES, 3’X3’ -$25. 878-3225.

INVACARE SHOWER ANDCOMMODE WHEEL CHAIR- Price $ 150. OriginalPr ice 659. MISCELLA-N E O U S E Q U I P M E N T -pads, blankets, walker,c o m m o d e . $ 1 5 0 / a l l .797-0554

QUEEN SIZE MATTRESSonly (no box spring) -$40; 5 DRAWER DRESSERCHEST - $30. 699-7345

BACK TO LIFE MACHINE -lower back relief, new.$ 1 0 0 . P a i d $ 2 7 5 .615-5521

BRAND NEW BIG MAN’SR E C L I N E R - W / h e a t &massage. Cloth fabric.$ 8 0 0 . Q U E E N S I Z ESOFABED - very goodcond. $100. TWIN SIZET R U N D L E B E D -Captain’s style. 3 draw-e r s s t o r a g e . $ 2 0 0 .229-6554

RICHMOND - New 3BRpost & beam cape w/water access, boat slip& gar $199,900. 721-6343

S E W I N G C A B I N E Tw/thread (no machine)- $ 7 5 ; b l a c k STANDw/glass doors & videos& DVDs - $100; 2 pieceHUTCH FOR COMPUTEROR TV $200. 842-6033

GOLF BALLS - 5 DOZENM I S C E L L A N E O U S . A l lc l e a n , w h i t e , g a m eballs. No cuts, in greatshape. $25.

[email protected] 749-5026

I N V A C A R E S O L A R AWHEEL CHAIR - Com-pletely adjustable w/Intouch F10 V cushion& p a d d e d a r m r e s t s .Price $600. Paid $3310.797-0554

BIDDEFORD - River Walk.2 BR, 1 3/4 ba. Startinga t $ 2 4 9 K . E a s t w o o d sDevel. Corp. 282-5876

WHITE BOOKCASE - $35& DESK $40.; BUREAU -$50; 2 BUREAUS WITHDESKTOP - $100; DROPL E A F T A B L E W I T HD R A W E R S - $ 1 5 0 .842-6033

FREEPORT- 3 acres ofc o m m e r c i a l l a n d f o rsale on Route 136 nearI295 Exit 24. Local Busi-ness Zone, 800’ of roadfrontage. Contact MarkMalone/ Malone CB at207-772-2422

IPEX STEPPER - Greatworkout for legs & car-d io . Great cond. Wi l ls e n d p h o t o u p o nrequest. $25. [email protected]

B R O Y H I L L 3 - C U S H I O NSOFA - b e i g e / b r o w ncheck. Exc. cond., 2 yrs.old. $300. 899-1289

5 PC. PEARL DRUM SET -Smoke color w/ Zildjianc y m b a l s a n d s t a n d s .Hardly used. $500/Best.332 - 9204

PAYING CASH for yourATV, sport, dirt bikesrunning or not 233-6685

COFFEE TABLE - 3 1/2long, 1 1/2 width, wal-nut, $20. 854-4143.

Windham

Newly RenovatedRanch - $139,900

This home offers 2BR, hardwoodflooring, deck, new driveway,large lot, city water and only ashort walk to Dundee Park Beach!

Contact Al/Anchor Realty,(207)781-8524

Tim KennedyRE/MAX Heritage

846-4300 x125 cell: 632-0557

Waterfront Property29 CUSHING BRIGGS

SO. FREEPORT

“Island View” is a truly unique propertyw/spectacular views of South Freeport har-bor and surrounding islands. Whether con-sidering renovating existing 2,200 sq. ft.home or starting new, little imagination isneeded to see the potential this propertyhas to offer. Proximity to So. Freeport &marinas, southern exposure, huge buildingenvelope, perpetual usage rights to water,and privacy, make this a great opportunity!MLS#1004738. Also see MLS#990091 for resi-dential listing. $599,000.

WESTERN MAINELAKES REGION

(Harrison Area)

ONLY $24,900Over 469’ of town, paved

road frontage on this2 acre building lot. Survey& soil tested. Large trees

on the land. 1 mile toLong Lake & Crystal Lake.GREAT OWNER FINANCING

$127.13 per month.(45 min. from

Portland) Call L&S Realty

207-781-3294

Lots and Land

BUILDERS WANTED!!!(Western ME Lakes Area)

10 AcresONLY $99,900

Potential for 5 bldg sites,nicely wooded with 1454’town road frontage, oldstone walls, new survey,

power, soil tests andwarranty deed.

Long Lake/Crystal Lakecloseby.

Great Owner Financing!

Call L&S Realty207-781-3294

Lots and Land

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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACKCLS-PPH-CMYK-LeftModifi ed 4/24/08

InDesign* Edition: PD Sec/Page: D4 Rundate: Thursday, March 24, 2011

Berlin City Toyota of Portland

S A L E SS E R V I C E

(877) 730-1436 Exit 48, on Riverside St*Toyota is the #1 choice among consumers based on Toyota retail brand sales CY2010. The Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is a price set by the manufacturer and does not necessarily refl ect the price actually paid by consumers. • Rates and Terms subject to change without notice. • Financing and interest rates advertised available to qualifi ed buyers only and are subject to bank approval. • We reserve the right to adjust any sale price to refl ect manufacturers incentive/rebate changes. • Off-Site delivery available. Call for details. • We reserve the right to correct any typographi-cal or artwork error. • Photos are used for illustration purpose only. • Final interest charged may include dealer profi t. Available inventory is subject to change without notice due to constant selling. *Financing available to qualifi ed buyers with approved credit. (must have 720 credit score or higher.) Contact showroom for specifi c details. Offers Expire 4/4/11. All sales prices include $339 documen-tation fee; Sale prices and payments do not include tax, title, registration if applicable and refl ect deductions of primary consumer rebate if one exist (unless stated otherwise).

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$269/mo.

2005 Chevy Colorado

$11,682

5-CylinderAutomatic4-Wheel DriveRegular CabTrailer Hitch72k Miles(Stk#1T40614A)

$209/mo.

2009 Mazda 6

$13,984

4-CylinderAutomaticKeyless EntryCD PlayerPower Windows45k Miles(Stk#XM5040)

2000 Toyota Camry LE

$8,981

4-CylinderAutomaticPower SeatPower WindowsCD PlayerCruise Control(Stk#1T40839A)

$245/mo.

2006 Honda Civic LX

$13,982

4-Cylinder5-Spd ManualKeyless EntryCD PlayerPower Windows37k Miles(Stk#1T40531B)

certifi ed pre-owned

Toyota 4Runner

4 to choose from

starting at$23,961

certifi ed pre-owned

Toyota Camry

11 to choose from

starting at$14,981

✓ 7-Year/100,000 mile Limited Warranty ✓ 160-Point Quality

Assurance Inspection

$329/mo.

2004 Volvo S40

$13,972

5-CylinderAutomaticPower SunroofAlloy WheelsKeyless Entry64k Miles(Stk#1B15145AB)

$245/mo.

2005 Toyota Corolla S

$10,592

4-Cylinder5-Spd ManualPower SunroofKeyless EntryAlloy WheelsCD Changer(Stk#1C07381B)

$165/mo.

2007 Chevy Cobalt LS

$9,971

4-CylinderAutomaticAir ConditioningCD PlayerCloth Interior44k Miles(Stk#1T40812A)

$225/mo.

2005 Toyota Corolla

$9,772

4-CylinderAutomaticPower WindowsCruise ControlCD PlayerCloth Interior(Stk#1T40761A)

$229/mo.

2003 Subaru Outback

$9,883

4-CylinderAutomaticAll Wheel DriveHeated SeatsKeyless EntryAlloy Wheels(Stk#XT50141A)

$275/mo.

2005 Ford Ranger XLT

$11,983

6-CylinderAutomatic4-Wheel DriveExtended CabBed CapCD Changer(Stk#XT40444A)

✓ 60 Day/2,000 mile Bumper-to-Bumper ✓ 4 Day No-Questions

Return Coverage

✓ 60 Days/2,000 mile Powertrain Warranty✓ 60 Days/2,000 mile

Powertrain Warranty ✓ State Inspection Included

$205/mo.

2009 Toyota Corolla LE

$13,764

4-CylinderAutomaticKeyless EntryAlloy WheelsPower Windows55k Miles(Stk#XV21399B)

$255/mo.

2006 Jeep Liberty Sport

$14,492

6-CylinderAutomatic4-Wheel DriveKeyless EntryPower Windows40k Miles(Stk#1B2174B)

New 2010 Toyota Corolla LE

Qualifi ed buyers fi nance $11,570 with $2,999 down. At 0% APR for 60 months. Sales tax, title and registration fees not included. Expires 4/4/11, (Stk#XT402007: model#18380)

AUTO | 4 CYLA/C | CD PLAYERPWR WIN/LOCKS

MSRP - $18,139, Factory Rebate $750Berlin City Discount - $2,871

$14,569

Own for only $199 per mo.

New 2011 Toyota RAV4

Security Deposit $0. Total Due $1,999. LEV: $14,296. 12k miles/year allowed. 36 month lease.† (Sales tax, title and registration fees not included.) Expires 4/4/11 (Stk#1T40668)(model#44301)

AUTO | 4 CYL KEYLESS | FWDPWR WIN/LOCKS

MSRP - $23,274, Factory Rebate $500Berlin City Discount - $2,775

$19,999

Lease for only $171 per mo.

AUTOMATIC | 4 CYL | PWR WINDOWS/LOCKS | CRUISE | SIDE AIRBAGS | A/C | CD

New 2011 Toyota Camry Hybrid

Security Deposit $0. Total Due $1,999. LEV: $16,742. 12k miles/year allowed. 36 month lease.† (Sales tax, title and registra-tion fees not included.) Expires 4/4/11 (Stk#1T40953)(model#25601)

MSRP $27,744Factory Rebate $1,000Berlin City Discount $2,399

$24,345Lease for only

$269 per mo.

(877) 730-1436

Certifi ed

35HWY

MPG

Harrison Bldg Lot - 469'paved rd, 2 acres, soiltested, survey & GREATOWNER F INANCING. 1mile to L o n g L a k e &Crystal Lake. Huge treeso n t h e l a n d . O n l y$ 2 4 , 9 0 0 . 4 5 m i n P t l dL&S Realty 207-781-3294

F R E E R E N T ! O L DORCHARD BEACH - Big,2/1, W/D hk-up, Hard-wood, deck! Quiet, offX34. $875. 289-5246

FALMOUTH - Cozy 2BR,private road, W/D. $875mo + utils. 838-7914.

W E S T E R N M E - 10+ac$ 9 9 , 9 0 0 . P o t e n t i a l 5b l d g l o t s , 1 4 5 4 ’ r d ,G R E A T O W N E RFINANCING, stone walls,s o i l s , n e w s u r v e y ,p o w e r . L o n g L a k ecloseby. L & S R e a l t y207-781-3294

RICHMOND - New 3BRcape w/garage, wateraccess & boat s l ip onKennebec River $1500/mo + utils 721-6343.

SACO - 2BR $975 incls.heat/HW, prkg. $25 app.fee credited if selected. N.S. no pets. 899-7240

1984 SKYLINE 14X70 2BR,n i c e c o n d . $ 7 5 0 0 .DOUBLE WIDE 24X40 2BR,1BA, nice cond. $9500.

283-9988 or 590-6471.

INN AT ST. JOHNPortland - Wkly ratesstarting @ $185.939 Congress. 773-6481.

WINSLOW - Pine ViewHomes - since 1955 -

1-800-464-7463 www.pineview1955.com

INTOWN C o n v . l o c . ,room in historic bldg.,$158/wk. 329-6993

PORTLAND-Intown,furn.$150/wk. All utils, cable,phone. N.S. 878-9128

SARASOTA, FL - 2 bed-rooms, 2 baths. Double-w i d e p l u s s u n r o o ma n d s c r e e n e d p a t i o .F u r n i s h e d . N e a rb e a c h e s . $ 4 9 , 0 0 0207-893-0331

P O R T L A N D , M M C a r e a .$150/wk, $300 dep. Utili-ties incl. phone & cable.Share kit. & bath 772-5632

SACO - HILLTOP MOTORINN. Weekly rates from$99. Deposit. 284-4402

SARASOTA, FL - 2 bed-r o o m s , 2 b a t h s ,Double-wide plus sunr o o m a n d s c r e e n e dpatio. Furnished. Nearbeaches. $49,000 .

207-893-0331

Old Orchard SeabreezeSuites, fully furnished,a l l u t i l i t i e s f r o m$135/week. 934-2091

OLD ORCHARD BEACH -Open house 3/26 1-4153K, 2 BR Cottage.newly renov. 3 minsto beach 978-466-1451

B U X T O N - Waterfrontcamp for 6, with dock,$500/wk. 207-282-0185

ATTENTIONLandlords - Tenants

MAINE LAW makes it illegal to discriminate against tenants with children when advertis-ing rental units. Any ex-emptions must be reg-istered with the Human Rights Commision.If you have any ques-tions call the Human Rights Commision at (207) 624-6050.

Unfurnished Apts

U n i q u e p r o p e r t y w /s p e c t a c u l a r v i e w s .$599K. Tim K. RE/MAXHeritage 846-4300 X125

2BR- Convenient area,heat/HW incl, w/d hkupprkg. $750. 602-625-9164

3 B R 3 R D f l , h e a t / H W ,W/D hkups. incl.. 78 PikeSt. $800/mo. 831-8919

1BR - Heated, no pets.$150 per week + sec .dep. 207-865-6407

CLOSE TO BEACH - 1BR.heat,HW,prkg, priv. en-try, yd, pets OK. 502-2610

5 3 3 C O N G R E S S S T .800-16,000+ SF. BrianneO ’ D o n n e l l , 8 7 1 - 1 0 8 0Dirigo Mgmt Co.

W e s t b r o o k - PRICEREDUCED. Up to 1,776SF office for lease at 91Larrabee Rd. Call Peter.

S a c o - 7 , 1 4 0 S Fretai l/whse propertya v a i l a b l e f o r s a l e . 2bui ldings, 4 .61 acres,200’ of road frontageon US Route 1. ContactJames Harnden / Mal-one CB at 207-772-2422

57 EXCHANGE ST - 1,200+ / - S F a v a i l . B r i a n n eO ’ D o n n e l l , 8 7 1 - 1 0 8 0Dirigo Mgmt Co.

Windham- 660 to 4,010S F 2 n d f l o o r o f f i c es p a c e a v a i l a b l e . O nRoute 302 with greatvisibility. $8.95 psf NNN.C o n t a c t J o e M a l o n e ,C C I M / M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

ATTENTIONBuyers - Sellers

Properties for sale that include

2-4 units appear in Real Estate for Sale

under 2-4 Multi-Units

5+ Multi-Units

585 FOREST AVE - Singleoffices, prkg & utils incl.$225-$350/mo. 839-6651

FURN- luxury 2BR,gour-met kit, gas fplc, gar.,W/D $1400 incls utils &wifi. N.S. 767-4777.

7 PORTLAND FARMS RDS c a r b o r o 3500 +/- SF .B r i a n n e O ’ D o n n e l ,871-1080 Dirigo Mgmt

SPACIOUS 2 BR - office,W/D, prkg, N.S. no pets$975 + utils. 767-4777

A u g u s t a - 2 , 9 9 8 ± S Foffice building for saleor lease at 185 State St.Near Statehouse. Cal lMatthew

Y a r m o u t h - Premieroffice space for lease atLower Fa l l s Land ing .8 9 5 ± - 5 , 5 3 2 ± S F . C a l lMatthew

56 RACKLEFF ST - 2BR,n e w B A , p r k g , p r i v .deck , W/D hkups , nodogs, NS $880+ 774-6346

FREEPORT- 1,256 SF ofsuburban office spaceavailable at 20 Indepen-dence Dr. Subdividable.Lease rate $15 .00 psfMG. Contact Mark Mal-o n e / M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

D E E R I N G H I G H L A N D SSunny 2 BR, quiet bldg,1st flr, hdwd, W/D. N.S.,no pets $945+. 773-1168

Port land- 5 7 , 0 0 0 + S Fwhse/off ice b ldg forsale. Just off RiversideInd Pkwy. $182K NOI .Call Mark.

Auburn- 1,925 SF – 4,675SF available at 593 Cen-t e r S t . F r e e s t a n d i n gbuilding in Auburn Mallarea. $10.00 psf NNN.Contact David Caron /M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

Lewiston- 2,460 SF ofr e t a i l / o f f i c e s p a c eavailable on Lisbon St.P r i c e r e d u c e d . C a l lDavid Caron.

PORTLAND Town Homes at Ocean East

Now Leasing Beautiful 2 & 3 BR Town HomesHeat & Hot Water incld.

Sign lease by 4/15/11 for*lst Months Rent Free*Rent Begins at $1137.

Section 8 Welcome! Income Restrictions

May Apply.Realty Resources

Management 1-800-338-8538.

Bridgton- 4,000 SF forl e a s e o n R t 3 0 2 . E x cv is ib i l i ty w i th ampleparking. $7.50 psf MG.Call John.

P o r t l a n d - 4 l e g a l ( 1 )b e d r o o m u n i t s p l u saddit ional unit . 100%leased @ 271 Spring St.S a l e p r i c e $ 3 4 5 , 0 0 0 .Contact David Caron /M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422.

PORTLAND- 1,000 SF of2 n d f l o f f i c e s p a c ea v a i l a b l e o n U n i o nW h a r f . $ 1 , 7 5 0 p e rmonth MG inc l . heat ,air, electric & 2 parkingspaces. Contact Peter /M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

F A L M O U T H - 1 , 6 0 0 S Fretail space available forlease on busy Route 1.Upscale shopping plaza.$ 1 6 . 0 0 P S F N N N CallMark Malone/ MaloneCB at 207-772-2422

Westbrook- C o m m /residential property onMain St. 100% leased.Sale price $530,000. CallDavid.

P O R T L A N D - 12 ,500 SFretail/office space avail-able at 145 CommercialSt. Excellent Old Portl o c a t i o n . L e a s e r a t e$16.00 psf NNN. Con-tact Joe Malone, CCIM/M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

FREEPORT- Up to 10,000SF of retail space avail-able for lease on Route1 . 1 s t & 2 n d f l o o rretail/office suites assmall as 600 SF. ContactMark Malone/ MaloneCB at 207-772-2422

2 & 3BR - New paint, city& water views, incl heat/HW, Sect 8 OK 797-0000

PORTLAND- 12,600 SF -7 5 , 6 0 0 S F o f C l a s s Aoffice space available at1 Monument Sq. City &w a t e r v i e w s , r e c e n tmajor renovations. Con-tact James Harnden/M a l o n e C B @207-772-2422

Cumberland- 4,400± SFo f f i c e b u i l d i n g o nLongwoods Rd. Pr iceReduced $294,000. CallMark Malone

PORTLAND- 1,409 SF retails p a c e a v a i l a b l e a t 1 5 7Middle St. Large windowsf o r d i s p l a y s . H e a t & A i rincluded. Contact Peter /M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

E. PROM - 1BR,2nd flr.water views, hea /HWincl. $865/ mo., no pets,NS, off-st prkg 233-9232

PORTLAND- 1,500 SF –3,800 SF of inline retailspace available at West-g a t e P l a z a . G r o c e r yanchored center. Con-tact Joe Malone, CCIM/M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

PORTLAND- 1,296 SF ofoffice space available at59 Baxter Blvd. Waterviews & onsite parking.Lease rate $17 .95 psfM G . C o n t a c t J o h nDoyon, CCIM/ MaloneCB 207-772-2422

SO. Portland- 6,632 SFbui lding on 1± acres.On Broadway less than1 mi le f rom Route 1 .Call Mark.

3BR Federal St, 3rd flr,ocean view, new kit/BA$1250+ Sec 8 ok 772-5831

LEASINGSPECIAL

M U N J O Y S O U T HAPARTMENT 2BR, start@ $711.00; 3 BR start at$833.00 Rent includes:Heat, Hot water Park-ing (1) Fenced in BackYard. Income L imitsApply. Munjoy South isn o w o f f e r i n g t w omonths free rent forFebruary and Marcho c c u p a n c y w i t h asigned lease and paidsecurity deposit. EHO.

Call 775-1146

P O R T L A N D - 2,500 SF -4 , 3 4 9 S F r e s t a u r a n t /retail space available at1 Monument Square. 10s t o r y C l a s s A o f f i c ebuilding. Contact MarkMalone/ Malone CB at207-772-2422.

PORTLAND- 1,500 SF-1 0 , 0 0 0 S F s u i t e s o nMiddle St above Star-bucks . 18 .00 ps f MGlease. Call Joe.

PORTLAND - 200± SF,6 4 7 ± S F & 1 , 2 3 6 ± S Foff ice for lease at 4M o u l t o n S t i n O l dPort. Call Matthew.

PORTLAND- Up to 4,800S F w / p a r k i n g a v a i l -able at 59 Middle St.Convenient location.Call Joe Malone.

WESTBROOK- 1,075 SFoffice condo for sale at50 Park Rd. Near turn-p ike & next to MercyPrimary Care. Sale price$75,000. C o n t a c t J o eMalone, CCIM/ MaloneCB at 207-772-2422

Portland- 2,550–7,000 SFavai lable at 250 Com-mercial St. Old Port w/l o w l e a s e r a t e . C a l lPeter.

PORTLAND - 4,128 SF ofrestaurant/retails p a c e l e a s e a t 1 0 0C o m m e r c i a l S t . Ca l lPeter

PORTLAND - 4,600 SFformer Aubuchon onForest Ave. Exc visibil-ity with onsite park-ing. Call Mark.

PORTLAND - 1,129 SF1st floor condo at 15Brown St. Also avail-able for sale. Call PeterHarrington.

2-3 BR-HEATEDWelcome Spring with a

newly renovated ApartmentPrkg for 2, Laundry on Site.

Call Sarah 207-329-5700www.ApexMaine.Com

NO DOGS

P o r t l a n d - 1 , 5 5 3 S F –1 7 , 3 6 8 S F o f o f f i c espace in Portland ArtsDistrict. $9.50-$10 psfNNN. Call Joe.

2BR, 1.5BA CONDO - fullb s m t , W / D , l e a s e ,$1075+. Call 415-4691

PORTLAND- 1,689 SF &9,497 SF office/retail on1st fl & 10,775 SF officeon 2nd fl available forl e a s e a t 2 5 P e a r l S tSubdividable. ContactJoe Malone/ Malone CBat 207-772-2422

A U B U R N S T - 1BR & 3BRs, yard, prkg, lndry,n o d o g s , l e a s e .$725/$1050+ht. 797-0239

Scarborough- 1,500 SFretail space for lease at4 5 0 P l a z a . $ 1 4 . 0 0 p s fNNN. Call Mark Malone,CCIM

P o r t l a n d - 2 , 1 5 6 S F &3 , 1 5 6 S F o f 1 s t f l o o roffice on Marginal Way.Drive thru window. CallJoe.

2 BR Dublex - 1.5 BA.prkg. bsmt, $1000/mo.+utils. no dogs. 318-2273

S O . P o r t l a n d - U p t o13,786 SF of retail spacea v a i l a b l e a t M a l l s i d ePlaza. Call Mark Malone,CCIM

P o r t l a n d - 2 , 4 0 0 ý S Favailable at 36 MarketSt. 2nd floor walk up.$12.75 psf NNN. Call Joe

2BR heated - 1st flr, nopets, W/D hkup, prkg$1100 - $1200. 314-4472

S Portland- 2,100 SF ofpr ime end cap reta i lspace available at Jet-port Plaza on WesternAve. Contact Mark Mal-one, CCIM / Malone CBat 207-772-2422

P O R T L A N D - 3 , 0 0 0 t o30,465 SF office spacea v a i l a b l e a t 1 7 8 - 1 8 8M i d d l e S t . E x c e l l e n tlocation at the cornerof Exchange St aboveStarbucks. Contact JoeMalone, CCIM/ MaloneCB at 207-772-2422

ATTRACTIVE 1BR UNIT.Q u i e t b l d g . g r o u n dlevel, heat, prkg. N.S. nodogs. $825. 568-3683.

NEAR ME MED -2BR, 2ndflr, N.S. avail 5/1, $950heat/HW incl 712-6917

Topsham- 5,695 SF ofinline retail space avail-able at Topsham FairM a l l . S u b d i v i d a b l e .G o o d l o c a l / n a t i o n a lt e n a n t m i x . ContactM a r k M a l o n e , C C I M /M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

P o r t l a n d - 3 , 0 9 5 S F &5,985 SF available at 50Monument Sq in heartof downtown Portland.Call Peter

PARK AVE - Remodeled2BR, $800 htd., laundry,no dogs, 797-0239

Windham- 860 to 5,670SF 1st floor retail/officespace available at Shopsat Sebago. Low leaser a t e . $ 8 . 9 5 p s f N N N .C o n t a c t J o e M a l o n e ,C C I M / M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

SAWYER REALTY772-6579

1 BR & 2 BR Apts.Cats OK, No Dogs.

Ref. req’d, deposit,www.sawyerrealty.net

PORTLAND- 3,308 SF 1stfl office space availableat 119 Middle Street. 2private off ices. Leaser a t e : $ 1 7 . 7 5 p s f M G .C o n t a c t P e t e r H a r -rington/ Malone CB at207-772-2422

Portland- 3,616 SF ClassA off ice avai lable forsublease at One CanalPlaza. Call Peter.

Auburn- 2,500 SF-12,500S F a v a i l a b l e o n R o d -man Rd. Easy turnpikeaccess. $5.50 psf NNN.Call David

KING COURT - Modern,heated, 1st fl, w/washerdryer. $695. 229-5996.

P o r t l a n d - 3 , 8 8 6 S F 2level office suite avail-able on Milk St. $17.50psf MG includes heat.Call Joe.

2BR w/view of Scarbor-ough marsh, W/D hkup,plenty of storage,monitor heating $850/mo + utils 883-9408.

Portland –(3) 2,010 SFw a r e h o u s e b a y s f o rlease at 273 Presump-scot St. $4.50 psf NNN.Call John

OCEANSIDE APTS.HIGGINS BEACH - 1 BR,

$850. inclds all.N.S. No pets. 883-1651

Port land- 4 ,900 SF ofprof office space avail-able at 2338 CongressSt. Onsite parking. CallPeter.

P o r t l a n d - 9 , 8 0 0 S Foffice/whse space onP r e s u m p s c o t S t . 2docks, 18’ ceilings. $6.50MG. Call Joe.

BREAKWATER - 1 BR,Penthouse Condo,

Newly renov. No pets$900 incls HW. 854-1514

Portland- 534 SF – 6,176SF suites available at 22Free St. Nearby parkingavailable. $17.50- $18.50MG lease rates. ContactJoe Malone, CCIM/ Mal-one CB at 207-772-2422.

PORTLAND RIVERSIDE -Forest Ave. Area. HighVisibility 1500 SF w/OHD o o r + o f f i c e . $ 1 2 0 0incl. all. (714)305-8242.

SUNNY 2BR, DINING RM,l i v ing rm, wood f l r s ,W/D hkup in unit, deck,p a r k i n g , y a r d , n e wpaint, $1075 heated. Nodogs. 671-2408

P O R T L A N D - 550 SF ofprime waterfront officespace ava i lab le at 50P o r t l a n d P i e r . L e a s erate includes HVAC andelectric. Contact JohnDoyon, CCIM / MaloneCB at 207-772-2422

SO. Portland- 4,000 SFoffice/warehouse sub-lease near Maine Mall.$7.50 psf NNN. Call JohnDoyon.

3BR+ , 2nd flr & 2BR, on3rd flr. Prkg. Price neg.Heat/HW inc. 329-1956

PORTLAND- 8,085 SF ofp r o f e s s i o n a l o f f i c espace available at 130Middle St in Portland’sOld Port. Direct lobbyaccess. Lease rate $12.00psf NNN. Contact PeterHarrington/ Malone CBat 207-772-2422

S O P o r t l a n d - U p t o20,000± SF office/whsefor lease at 39 WallaceAve. Close to Me Tpke.Call Mark.

WINDHAM - off River Rd.2BR, 2nd flr, no pets. N.S.$750+ utils. 766-1867

Lots & Land Offi ce Space Lease

Portland- 970 SF – 2,313SF suites available at 75M a r k e t S t . L e a s eincludes heat and A/C.Call Peter.

Windham- 6 , 0 0 0 S Fava i lab le . C lear spanwarehouse. Lease rate$4.85 psf NNN. Call JohnDoyon.

HOLLIS - 2BR $875.STANDISH - 2BR $800.WATERBORO - 3BR $950.Heat /HW incl. 929-8065

LIMINGTON - 1BR, sunnyeat-in kit $550+. N.S., nopet, avail now. 637-2170

Portland- Class A officespace at Canal Plaza forlease. 1,897 – 34,065 SF.Call Joe Malone.

Retail Space

RICHMOND, near 295 - lgnew 2BR apt incl heat$895/mo. 721-6343.

Portland Woodfords

GORHAM- 1.5 acre & 6.63acre development lotsavailable at New Port-land Parkway. Indus-trial, business & serviceuses. Call John Doyon,C C I M / M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

Commercial Real EstateCommercial LeaseIndustrial SpaceMedical Offi ce LeaseMixed SpaceOffi ce Space LeaseRetail SpaceWarehouse SpaceBusiness for SaleCommercial LandCommercial PropertyIncome PropertyIndustrial/WarehouseInvestment PropertyMedical Offi ce for SaleMulti-UnitsOffi ce for SaleRetail for Sale

P O R T L A N D - S m a l l t olarge office suites forlease at 100 Commer-c ia l St . C lass A off ices p a c e . O n - s i t e b l d gmanagement. Call PeterHarrington/ Malone CBat 207-772-2422

~ MOTEL RENTALS ~Old Orchard

$130 weekly. 934-4062.

1BR - $675, heat & HWi n c . W / w , o f f - s t r e e tparking. Call 773-4206.

W e l l s - . 5 6 + / - a c r e sc o m m e r c i a l l a n d f o rsale just off Route 1 .General Business Zone.S a l e p r i c e $ 2 9 5 , 0 0 0 .Contact Matthew Bar-n e y / M a l o n e C B a t207-772-2422

Portland- Small to largeoffice suites available at222 St John St. Amplefree on-s i te park ing.Convenient locat ion.C o n t a c t P e t e r H a r -rington / Malone CB at207-772-2422

Portland East Deering

W i n d h a m - WindhamMills Park lots available@ $ 1 1 5 , 0 0 0 e a . U p t o2 , 0 0 0 S F b l d g s . C a l lDavid Caron.

Portland- Up to 20,000SF office for lease at 27Pearl St. Parking avail-able in adj lot. Call Joe.

Manufactured Homes

Scarborough- 2,938 SFClass A office availableat 23 Spring St. $12.50p s f N N N . C a l l J o h nDoyon.

OLD ORCHARD- 16,086S F d o w n t o w n r e t a i lc e n t e r f o r s a l e . 1 . 8acres. Excellent devel-opment site. Call Mark

SO. PORTLAND- 1,500 SFf in ished off ice spaceavailable at The Castleat Brickhill. 5,655 SF –8,009 SF unfinished alsoavailable. Contact JoeMalone/ Malone CB at207-772-2422

P O R T L A N D - 11 ,316 SFoffice/classroom/ware-h o u s e p r o p e r t y o nB r a c k e t t S t f o r s a l e .Great West End loca-tion. Contact Joe Mal-one, CCIM/ Malone CB at207-772-2422

Warehouse Space

SO. PORTLAND - 2000 sf12 ft overhead doors$1,050/mo. 329-0463.

S Portland- 1,513 SF –3 ,758 SF of of f ice w/beautifully landscapedgrounds, ample on-siteparking available at 100F o d e n R d . C o n t a c tPeter / Malone CB at207-722-2422

Portland- Former ElksLodge on 6.9 acres fors a l e . L o c a t e d a c r o s sfrom Portland Jetport.Call Mark.

Commercial Lease

21 DONALD B DEAN DR.4,500 SF avail. BrianneO ’ D o n n e l l , 8 7 1 - 1 0 8 0Dirigo Mgmt Co.

Westbrook- 3,600 SF ofretail/office/flex space@ 3 3 E l m w o o d A v e .$6.00 psf NNN. Call MarkMalone.

SANFORD- Former St .Ignatius church, schooland rectory residencefor sale. 42,630 SF on2 . 7 5 a c r e s . C o n t a c tPeter Harrington/ Mal-one CB at 207-772-2422

44 EXCHANGE ST. 640 to9 4 5 s q . f t . B r i a n n eO’Donnell, 871-1080.

Dirigo Mgmt Co.

Out of State Property

Offi ce Space Lease

Portland East End

300 PROFESSINAL DR. -10 ,400SF , Rte .1 Scar -boro. Brianne 871-1080Dirigo Mgmt Co.

Seasonal Property

Portland Intown

Waterfront Property

Real Estate for RentApts & Houses to ShareCondominiumsDuplexesFurnished ApartmentsHouse SittingHouses for RentIsland RentalsMobile HomesOut of State RentalsRent with OptionRental ServicesRetirement LivingRoomsTime ShareSeasonal RentalsStorage RentalsUnfurnished ApartmentsWanted to RentWaterfront RentalsWinter Rentals

Portland North Deering

Commercial Land

Condos for Rent Portland Outer Forest Ave

PORTLAND HOUSE - 9thflr, 2nd from top 2 BR, 2BA, condo on the East-ern Prom. Corner unito v e r l o o k i n g C a s c oB a y . L a r g e b a l c o n y ,beautiful views. Inclsp a r k i n g , h e a t , 1 s tmonth & security. Avaii.6/1. $2400/mo. 831-4364

Portland USM Area Commercial Property

Houses for Rent Portland West End

Retail Space

Portland GeneralRooms for Rent

Saco

ScarboroughSeasonal Rentals

Summer RentalsIndustrial/Warehouse Property

South Portland

5+ Multi-Units

Westbrook

Biddeford

Windham

Offi ce for SaleFreeport

Other Areas

Old Orchard

Portland Baxter Blvd

Winter Rentals

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Invitation to Bidders

TOWN OF KENNEBUNK

PUBLIC NOTICE

FAÇADE ENHANCEMENTPROJECTS

First Parish Preserva-tion Foundation at 114Main Street Kennebunk,ME 04043

The Town of Kenneb-unk has been awardeda Federal CommunityD e v e l o p m e n t B l o c kGrant (CDBG) from theState of Maine Depart-ment of Economic andCommunity Develop-ment and wi l l acceptb i d s f r o m q u a l i f i e dfirms or individuals toperform the followingservices including butnot limited to: Painting,c a r p e n t r y a n d s o m elead paint abatementetc.

For additional informa-t i o n o n e a c h o f t h eproposed projects, aswell as additional bid-ding procedures con-t a c t : C D B G P r o g r a mAdministrator, CarolineSegal la, Town of Ken-nebunk

1 Summer St Kenneb-unk, ME 04043 at phonenumber 207-985-2102X 1 3 4 1 , f a x ( 2 0 7 )9 8 5 - 4 6 0 9 - , o r e - m a i l :[email protected]

S e a l e d b i d s w i l l b ereceived in the office ofthe Community Devel-opment Office, Kenne-b u n k T o w n H a l l , 1S u m m e r S t r e e t u n t i l1:00 p.m. Eastern Stan-dard Time on Thursday,April 7, 2011.

Equal OpportunityEmployer

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Town of FalmouthPlanning BoardPublic Hearing

Falmouth Town Hall

The Falmouth PlanningBoard will hold a publich e a r i n g o n T u e s d a y ,Apri l 5 at 7 :00 p.m. inCounci l Chambers toconsider amendmentsto Section 5.31 of theZoning and S i te P lanR e v i e w O r d i n a n c eregarding the require-ments for net residen-tial area.

M o r e i n f o r m a t i o n i savailable on the Town'swebsite at www.town.falmouth.me.us or call781-5253, ext 5335.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Request for ProposalsFort Williams Park Food

Vendors2011 Season

T h e T o w n o f C a p eElizabeth is planning topermit food vendorsfor the first time at FortWil l iams Park. This isbeing done on a pilotbasis with no guaran-tees that the programwill continue in futureyears. Those wishing top r o v i d e v e n d o r s e r -v i c e s s h a l l s u b m i t arequest for consider-ation and shall do so ina s e a l e d e n v e l o p emarked “Fort WilliamsPark Food Vendor.” Allp r o p o s a l s s h a l l b ereceived in the office ofthe Town Manager, 320Ocean House Road, POBox 6260, Cape E l iza-b e t h , M E 0 4 1 0 7 b y 2p.m. on April 8, 2011.

Q u e s t i o n s r e g a r d i n gthis request for pro-posals shall be directedto Michael K. McGovern,T o w n M a n a g e r / P u r -c h a s i n g A g e n t ,2 0 7 - 7 9 9 - 5 2 5 1 o r t oMichael.mcgovern@capeel izabeth.org . F u r -t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n i savailable at www.capeelizabeth.com

Date: March 22, 2011#4254603

PUBLIC NOTICE

STATE OF MAINECUMBERLAND

COUNTY, SSDISTRICT COURT

DIVISION OF PORTLANDCIVIL ACTION

DOCKET NO. 10-536

BAC HOME LOANSSERVICING, L.P. F/K/ACOUNTRYWIDE HOMELOANS SERVICING, L.P.PLAINTIFF - V.NICOLE M. CHAUSSEDEFENDANT(S) ORDER FOR SERVICE BY

PUBLICATION This cause came to beheard on the Motion ofP l a i n t i f f ’ s a t t o r n e y ,S h e c h t m a n H a l p e r i nS a v a g e L L P , w h o s ea d d r e s s i s 1 0 8 0 M a i nS t r e e t , P a w t u c k e t ,Rhode Island 02860, forservice by publicationupon one or more oft h e D e f e n d a n t ( s )n a m e d i n a c e r t a i nS u m m o n s a n d C o m -plaint for ForeclosureBy Civil Action, Title toReal Estate Involved,n o w p e n d i n g b e f o r ethis Honorable Court,namely : on Nicole M.Chausse. The real estate involvedin this act ion is s i tu-a t e d a t : 8 8 A l l e nA v e n u e , P o r t l a n d ,Maine. T h a t a f t e r d u e d i l i -g e n c e P l a i n t i f f , B A CHome Loans Servicing,L.P. f/k/a CountrywideHome Loans Servicing,L.P., has been unable tomake service on Defen-d a n t ( s ) , N i c o l e M .C h a u s s e , o f i t s S u m -m o n s a n d C o m p l a i ntFor Foreclosure By CivilA c t i o n , T i t l e t o R e a lEstate Involved, nowp e n d i n g b e f o r e t h i sHonorable Court, andt h e p r e s e n t w h e r e -abouts of said Defen-d a n t ( s ) c a n n o t b eascertained. IT IS ORDERED that ser-vice be made upon theDefendant(s), Nicole M.Chausse, by publishingonce a week for three(3) consecutive weeks,in the Portland PressHerald , a newspaper ofgeneral circulation int h e C o u n t y o f C u m -b e r l a n d w h e r e t h ea c t i o n i s p e n d i n g , ac o p y o f t h e O r d e r ,attested by the Clerk ofthe District Court, Divi-sion of Portland. The f i rs t publ icat ionshal l be made with inthirty (30 ) days afterthis Order is granted. Twenty-one (21) daysafter the first publica-tion of this Order, ser-v ice sha l l be cons id-ered complete. Withintwenty (20) days afterservice is consideredcomplete, the Defen-d a n t ( s ) , N i c o l e M .Chausse, shal l appearand defend this actionby filing an answer withthe sa id C lerk of theDistrict Court, Divisiono f C u m b e r l a n d , a n dalso by filing a copy ofsa id answer with theP l a i n t i f f ’ s a t t o r n e y ,S h e c h t m a n H a l p e r i nSavage LLP, Attn: VictorShapiro, Esq., 1080 MainStreet, Pawtucket, RI 0 2 8 6 0 . ( I N C A S E O FF A I L U R E T O D O S O ,JUDGMENT BY DEFAULTW I L L B E R E N D E R E DA G A I N S T T H E D E F E N -D A N T ( S ) , N i c o l e M .Chausse. IT IS FURTHER ORDEREDt h a t a c o p y o f t h i sO r d e r , a s p u b l i s h e d ,shal l be sent by ordi-nary first class mail tothe last known addresst o t h e D e f e n d a n t ( s ) ,N ico le M. Chausse , i fpossible. The C lerk sha l l entert h e f o l l o w i n g i n t h edocket: T h e O R D E R d a t e d2/18/2011, is incorpo-rated in the docket byreference. This entry ism a d e i n a c c o r d a n c ewith M.R.C.P. 79(a) atthe specific direction ofthe Court. DATED: 2/18/2011

HonorableRichard Mulhern

Judge, Maine DistrictCourt

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Northern New EnglandPassenger Rail

AuthorityNotice of Meeting

March 28, 2011To the members of theNorthern New EnglandPassenger Rail Author-i t y : P u r s u a n t t o 2 3M.R.S.A. c 621 Subchap-t e r I I , a m e e t i n g o fNorthern New EnglandPassenger Rail Author-ity will be held on Mon-day, March 28th at theN N E P R A o f f i c e a t 7 5W e s t C o m m e r c i a lStreet, Suite 104, Port-land. Executive sessionwill start at 12:30 noonfollowed by public ses-sion.1. T r a n s a c t i o n o f a n yb u s i n e s s w h i c h m a yc o m e b e f o r e s a i dmeeting.

Patricia QuinnExecutive Director

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CHEVY TAHOE LT 2007,S u n r o o f , 2 0 ” A l l o y s ,Very sharp SUV!Must Sell - $21,500 obo

Call Stu 423-3986

FORD RANGER XLT 2004 -ext. cab, A/C, auto, tow

package, truck liner.95K mi. 4WD, looks &

runs exc. w/new powerwheel chair lift. $7900.

Call 779-7843.

GMC JIMMY SLE 2000 -4X4, 4 .3 Vortex, 176K.O r i g i n a l l y S o u t h e r nt r u c k . n o r u s t , g o o ds t i c k e r , s u p e r c l e a nchampagne color , hastrans issue, no 4th gear,l o a d e d , a l l o p t i o n sw/tow pkg. Sell $1800.Books $3200. 205-9123.

C H E V Y T R A I L B L A Z E R2003, 4WD, Alloys, greatin snow!

Must Sell - $9,500 oboCall Stu 423-3986

GMC P/U 1988 - 4WD,89K, 8 ft F isher plow,t o o l b o x , b e d l i n e r ,r e a d y t o g o $ 2 , 1 9 5 .Boothbay 380-3551

GMC SIERRA SLE 2009 -Regular cab, 4WD w/8’F i s h e r p l o w , n e v e rused. 6 liter eng., 9143mi . Ask ing $25 ,500 .Or ig . pr ice $40 ,000 .A l s o s p a c e c a p f o radditional $6000.

Call 467-1518.C H E V Y T R A I L B L A Z E R2006 4WD LS Package,4 . 2 L I - 6 , A u t o , V e r yclean truck.

Must Sell- $13,900 oboCall Stu 423-3986 GMC SIERRA SLT 2010 -

loaded 4dr crew cab1/2 ton , 9K .$33 ,500 .ORIG. $47,700. 467-1518FORD ESCAPE HYBRID

2006 - 4WD, navigation,6 CD player, exc cond,105K, 1 owner $8,800firm. Call 207-318-5248.

TOYOTA S IENNA 2006 ,L i m i t e d , A W D f u l l yloaded!

Must Sell- $20,500 oboCall Lou 518-8131

FORD EXPEDITION 2000 -loaded, black. 132K mi.$5500 or best offer. Call380-6609

FORD EXPLORER 20044WD 4.0L V6, Auto, FullPower Options, solid.

Must Sell- $9,200 oboCall Stu 423-3986

TOYOTA TACOMA 2009,Crew, V6 Tough truck! Must Sell $26,500 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

FORD EXPLORER EDDIEB A U E R E D 2 0 0 7 - 7 3 Khwy miles, V-6 auto, 2tone maroon, leathers e a t s , 3 r d r o w s e a t ,remote start, DVD sys-t e m , S a t e l l i t e r a d i or e a d y , s u n r o o f , t o wp k g , r o o f r a c k , e x ccond $18,300. 985-9847

FORD F550 XLT SUPERDUTY TOW TRUCK 1999 -302K, auto, 7 .3 dieself l a t b e d r o l l b a c k 1 9 ’long w/wheel lift. runsexc., new sticker & tires.Many, many new parts.B o u g h t n e w t r u c k .D o n ’ t n e e d t h i s .$16K/best. 207-329-1956

F O R D E X P L O R E R X L T1 9 9 8 - A u t o . , 6 - C y l . ,125K mi . White , ant i -l o c k b r a k e s , p o w e rs t e e r i n g , A / C , C D ,A M / F M , s t e r e o , r u n sw e l l , t o w p a c k a g e .$2900/Best. 510-1571

H O N D A C R V 2 0 0 2 -M a n u a l , 4 - C y l i n d e r ,120,000 miles, MojaveMist, power steering,air conditioning, CD,AM/FM, stereo, runswell, moon roof, veryclean, $8200 .

207-522-5617 F O R D M U S T A N G C O N -VERTIBLE CONVERSIONR E S T O M O D 1 9 6 5 - 3 0 23 0 0 0 m i . m a n yupgrades, 17” wheels,many fiberglass parts,new top, new int., 5 spdstandard, suspensionupgrades, much more.$12,500/best. 749-7825.

HONDA P ILOT LX ‘06 -4WD, 5 spd auto, 8 pas-senger/3rd row seat,si lver, 71K, al l power,A/C, CD, alloys, traction/stability control, cruise1st/2nd/3rd row cur-tain air bags, great int. ,exc cond. $16,490/best.Kennebunk 603-475-2208

JEEP WRANGLER 2007,V6, Pwr Opt, 6Spd, HardTop, AlloysMust Sell - $19,968 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

L E X U S R X 3 3 0 2 0 0 5 -44675 mi. Loaded,gor-geous vehicle,heatedleather, roof.AWD, justserviced, needs noth-ing. New tires, brakes,rotors, etc. Way belowr e t a i l . O n l y $ 2 2 , 5 0 0210-5557

MERC MOUNTAINEER2004, V8, LeatherALL-WHEEL DRIVE!


M E R C U R Y M A R I N E RPREMIERE 2010 - 4x4,7 5 0 0 m i l e s , a u t o ,leather interior, sync &GPS systems, back-ups e n s o r s , e x c c o n d .A s k i n g $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 .415-8767.

NISSAN MURANO 2006,SL, V6, LeatherALL-WHEEL DRIVE!Must Sell - $15,500 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

TOYOTA 4RUNNER 2005SR5 4WD 4.0L V6, Auto,Very Clean. Perfect reli-able family SUV.


T O Y O T A R A V 4 2 0 0 8 -Auto. , 4-Cyl . 51K mi. ,white pearl, new tires,cloth seats. Excellentc o n d i t i o n . $ 1 7 , 0 0 0207-694-4184

CHEVROLET COLORADO2007 - 2WD, short box,P/U, 2.9 4-cyl, auto, A/C,tilt, cruise, Posi rear, 1o w n e r , I m m a c u l a t econd., 152K $4999 firm.Norway, 207-515-4187.

CHEVROLET SUBURBAN4X4 1996 - 4WD, 9 pas-senger, 200K, loaded.3/4 ton HD, runs new,Class 3 hitch. blue. 5.7.$1900. 205-9123.

C H E V Y C O L O R A D O2004,Z-71, Leather, verynice small truck!Must Sell - $10,967 obo

Call Stu 423-3986

CHEVY SILV 1500 2008,V6, Auto Perfect worktruck!


CHEVY SILVERADO 2010 -4X4 ext cab, 3800 miles,b l a c k , a u t o , l o a d e d ,$27,000. 380-6609

C H E V Y S I L V E X T C A B2 0 0 4 , V 8 , 4 W D , G r e a twork truck!


C H R Y S L E R T O W N &COUNTRY LX 2002 - 139Kmi., new sticker, goodcond., clean int., runsgreat. $3950. 839-7300.

DODGE CARAVAN 2005,V6, 7 Pass. Great familyvehicle.


DODGE RAM CARGO VAN2500 1996 - Runs great,clean, 120K miles, newalternator & battery ,st ickered $1895/bestoffer. 892-4656

F O R D E X P L O R E RSPORT TRAC XLT 2003 -4WD,low mi. auto, CD,s i l v e r c o l o r , g r a yleather. Must See. Exc.Cond. $8900. 650-1100

FORD F150 CC 2010 -auto, 4X4, Sirus radio,tow pkg. power sun-roof, bedliner w/only25K mi.$34,500.

Call 615-3235.

FORD F750 1998 - newtires, brakes, exhausta n d m o r e . 2 6 ’ b o xtruck. Runs great, readyfor road. $5000.

Call 828-8699.

INF IN IT I G35X 2004 -Auto., 6-Cyl. 97,500 mi.S i l v e r , l o a d e d , v e r yclean. All wheel drive,black leather, 6 discC D , d u a l p o w e rseats,power sunroof,3.5 l iter, sporty ride.$12,500. 883-4706

KIA RONDO LX 2008, V6,Pwr Opt,Perfect familyvehicle!Must Sell- $12,688 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

LEXUS GS300 2003 - 4DR, exc. cond. very-nice. loaded w/ every-thing. Asking $8900.Call 650-1100.

LEXUS GS300 2004 - withn a v i g a t i o n s y s t e m ,Mark Levinson sounds y s t e m , s u n r o o f &m a n y o t h e r o p t i o n s103K, exc. cond., regu-l a r l y m a i n t a i n e d b yd e a l e r , s u m m e r &B L I Z A K w i n t e r t i r e s$12,300. 207-358-0080.

LEXUS RX400H 2007 -Auto. , 145K highwaymi. Charcoal, loaded,anti-lock brakes, P.S.A/C, GPS. New tires,runs well, leather inte-r i o r , m o o n r o o f .$17,175. 207-318-1787

MERCEDES BENZ CLASSSL500 ROADSTER 2004 -hardtop convertible, 2dr, V8, 5.0L, auto, silver,light blue leather inte-rior, 90K mi, loaded w/all options, exc.cond.S e l l i n g f o r $ 2 4 , 5 0 0 .$89K new. 207-465-7189or 207-233-5416.

MERCEDES BENZ S5002003 - All wheel drive,71K mi., silver. Loaded.$18,900. 329-0094

N I S S A N S E N T R A G X E2002 - Silver, auto, 4 cyl,A / C , P W , P L , P M , C D ,sticker, no rust, 30MPG$4,600. 650-6772.

PONTIAC SUNFIRE 1996 -Auto, sliding sunroof,g r e a t A / C & h e a t e r ,r e c e n t i n s p e c t i o ns t i c k e r , F W D , 1 2 7 Km i l e s , N o k i a n s n o wtires, great car! $2700.518-9069

SAAB 93 2003 - 4 DR,L O A D E D , C D , m o o n -roof, beautiful car, 1o w n e r . m u s t s e e .Asking $6800.650-1603

SUBARU BAHA SPORT2005 - $12,600 or bestoffer. 110K mi., silver,w/gray int. auto. AWD.Clean & great cond.775-8371, Diana.

SUBARU OUTBACK 2001-146K, new brakes, cali-pers, rotors, head gas-kets, timing belt, camseals, new tires, newsticker $6600. 831-9216

SUZUKI KAZASHI SE 2010- A W D , a u t o , 1 0 , 0 0 0miles, many features,e x c c o n d , a s k i n g$22,000. 807-8622.

TOYOTA AVALON XLS ‘98- A u t o , l e a t h e r , C Dp l a y e r , l o a d e d , v e r yc lean, in great cond.A k s i n g $ 4 , 9 0 0 . C a l l650-1100.

T O Y O T A C A M R Y L E2002 - 135K, maroon,auto, sunroof, keylesse n t r y , P W , P L , c o m -muter car, well main-tained, no problems.Retired - don’t needcar. $6400. 415-2463.

SPACE CAP for 8’ bed, 3yrs. old. A lot of shelf-ing. $5800 NOW. ($8500NEW). 207-467-1518

T O Y O T A C A M R Y L E2006 - Excellent condi-tion. well maintained,new t i res , 1 owner .$9,200. Call 727-4778.

2005 MERCEDES C240MA- 4 M a t i c , 4 1 K m i .L o a d e d , B l a c k O p a l ,g r e a t c o n d . O r i g i n a lowner. Asking $16,400.Blue Book 17,625. 781-640-7270 [email protected]

TOYOTA COROLLA 2009 -4 c y l a u t o , w h i t e /beinge interior, loadedw i t h e v e r y t h i n g b u tpower seats, 32K miles,exc cond $14,000/bestoffer 615-6329

TOYOTA COROLLA 2010,Auto, Pwr Opt , GreatMPG!Must Sell- $13,750 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

BMW 330 Ci 2003 -Convertible. Low mi. 41K

Looks & Runs GREAT!TURNS HEADS!

Rear wheel drive,Manual, Green exterior,

Tan leather interior.$18,000 Negotiable.

(In Portland)Call 207-650-1153

BUICK LUCERNE SUPERC X S 2 0 0 6 - Norstar4.6L ,54K mi . , metal l icmaroon, tan leather ,h e a t e d 8 w a y p o w e rs e a t s , i n d i v i d u a l c l i -m a t e c o n t r o l , b l u e -tooth,, OnStar, remotes t a r t , e v e r y o p t i o ne x c e p t m o o n r o o f .Asking $16,500. $45,225to replace. 892-2052

TOYOTA SIENNA LE 2005- 28K miles, auto, exc.cond., new tires, towpkg $16,500. 865-4505

T O Y O T A Y A R I S 2 0 0 7 -Auto. , 62K mi. Black,power steer ing, A/C,MP3. Very c lean, news t i c k e r , g o o d t i r e s .Runs great, pet/smokef r e e . $ 6 8 0 0 / B e s t .409-5477

CHEVROLET COLORADO4X4 Z71 CREW CAB 2005- Auto., 5-Cyl. 100K mi.R e d , A / C , n e w t i r e s ,exc.cond. Many extras.$11,000. 989-980-7653

[email protected]

V O L K S W A G E N J E T T A2 0 1 0 - d i e s e l ,4 1 - 4 5 m p g i n t o w n ,standard trans. 7200mi . $20 ,300 . $24 ,800new. loaded. 467-1518

C H E V R O L E T M A L I B UCLASSIC 2005 - 63K, exccond, 1 owner $6,995,lists for $8,100. Booth-bay 380-3551

VOLVO 850 WAGON 1993,5 C Y L , A u t o , G r e a t i nsnow!


CHEVY CAMARO 2010 -Manual, 6-Cyl.1475 mi.B l a c k , l o a d e d , L TCoupe w/ RS Package.2 0 " w h e e l s . R e a rspoiler, sunroof, aux-illary gauges. Leatherseats & much more.$25,500 608-359-1668

VOLVO S60 AWD 2003 -A u t o . , 5 - C y l . 8 7 K m i .R e d , l o a d e d , l e a t h e rinterior, sunroof. Veryclean, 1 owner. AWD,d e a l e r m a i n t a i n e d .$9 ,000 . (KBB $11 ,000 )Peter 207-838-1761

C H E V Y I M P A L A 2 0 0 2 ,V 6 , P w r O p t , G r e a tcommuter car!


V O L V O V 7 0 X C 1 9 9 9 ,AWD, Leather Great insnow!


CHRY PT CRUISER 2003,4Cyl, Pwr Options, GreatMPG!


VW JETTA 2007 HeatedLeather, Sunroof, 2.5LI-4, Auto, Full Power


C H R Y S L E R S E B R I N G2008, 4 C y l , L e a t h e rSmooth ride.Must Sell- $11,500 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

ITASCA SUNCRUISER 38T2006 - 3,500 mi. barelyused. 6.8L-V10, leather,power awning, 2 slide-o u t s . Q u e e n S e l e c tNumber bed, 2-flat TVs,fireplace, washer/dryer,c e n t r a l a i r . $ 1 1 5 , 0 0 0207-725-5977

C H R Y S L E R V O Y A G E R2002 - Auto., 119K mi.M a r o o n , r u n s w e l l .N e w M a i n e S t a t eInspection Sticker asof 3/4/11. Good condi-tion! $3950. 415-9569

CIVIC EX 2006 - Manual,4 - C y l i n d e r , 1 1 0 , 0 0 0miles, Blue, anti- lockbrakes, power steering,a i r condit ioning, CD,A M / F M , s t e r e o , v e r yclean, $7,800 .

207-798-0768

BMW R27 1964 - Rebuiltmotor & trans. Beauti-f u l o r i g . p a i n t . a l l o ywheels, new seat & barsincl. $3600/best offer

Call FMI, 778-0735.

H A R L E Y D A V I D S O NROADGLIDE FI 2003 - 24Km i . S i l v e r / b l a c k ,g a r a g e d . E x c . c o n d .Dealer installed Stage Ik i t & e x h a u s t . C a l l207-735-5440 for moredetails. Bangor. $11,500.

DODGE STRATUS 2006,V6, A l loys , Great stu-dent/family car!


FORD CROWN VICTORIA2007 - 130K mi. Pol iceInterceptor, excellentcondition. $6500. Call207-797-9046.

CHEV SUBURBAN 2001,V8, 4WD Solid SUV!


F O R D M U S T A N G C O N -V E R T I B L E 2 0 0 5 -m a r o o n , a u t o , 6 c y l ,A / C , P W , 2 6 K m i . ,g a r a g e d w i n t e r s .$12,500 or best offer.Call Greg, 207-318-8116.

CHEVY EQUINOX LT 2006,V6, AWD, Leather, verynice SUV!Must Sell - $16,500 obo

Call Lou 518-8131

FORD TAURUS WAGON2001 - 34,200 orig mi,auto, A/C, PW, PL, exccond $4500. 934-0265.

HONDA ACCORD EX 2004- 4 dr., 4 cyl, auto, grayw/gray cloth, 110K mi.,

very clean, fully ser-viced, new brakes,

coolant, filters, tuneup.Winter & summer tires.

$8,800. 443-2011 or841-7801

CHEVY TAHOE 2005, V8,4WD Great family SUV!Must Sell- $14,750 obo

Call Stu 423-3986

H Y U N D A I E L A N T R A2 0 0 0 - n e w s t i c k e r ,very clean, runs great,2 0 6 K m i , p e w t e r ,37mpg. $1895 or bestoffer. Call 240-6505.

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DEAR ABBY: “Heartbroken teacher in Oakland, Calif.” (Jan. 14) did nothing wrong!

He wrote a letter of recommen-dation based on his knowledge of one of his students. That was all he could have done. He wasn’t obligated to do a back-ground check or of research. That is for the future employer.

I also teach, and would have done the same. It is sad to dis-cover that one’s impression of a student was partially incorrect. Keeping secrets about wrong-doings is nothing new. But networking sites make the evi-dence more accessible. This is an issue for society to address. – Helen in Lompoc, Calif.

DEAR HELEN: I agree. And only time will tell how it will

be resolved. That letter, from a teacher shocked to learn a respected student had posted inappropriate stories about herself online, generated tons of responses. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: I am a 25-year-old education student. I don’t have a social networking site. I don’t understand the importance of posting personal information on the Internet for all to see. My father, a computer programmer, taught me that

once something is posted on the Internet, it’s there forever.

When I ask classmates why they use a social networking site, the common answer is, “To stay in touch with family and friends.” The last I checked, the telephone was used for that reason. – Kim in Oradell, N.J.

DEAR ABBY: As teachers, we never completely see the character of our students. I interact with them outside of the classroom, but only at lunch and in student groups.

When I write a recommenda-tion, I can only comment on the person I was able to observe as their teacher (or rarely, men-tor). My recommendation let-ters often mention my boundar-ies of perception, and I never go

beyond that. Teachers shouldn’t fear the repercussions of their comments if they honestly state what they observed. – Chris-tensen in Daegu, South Korea

DEAR ABBY: Employers managed for centuries without being able to learn a person’s life story at the click of a button. There’s a reason it’s called “so-cial networking.” If we wanted our employers there, we’d invite them. Anyone who snoops un-invited is invading our privacy. My employer pays me for the time I am at work. The rest of the time, I should be free to do as I please. – Christopher in Columbus, Ohio

Write Dear Abby at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069 or:

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HHHHH Dynamic dayHHHH Positive dayHHH Average dayHH So-so dayH Diffi cult day

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Heartbroken teacher gets some support

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CAROLYNHAX

Breaking up young son’s home a big regret

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DEARABBY

While Carolyn Hax is away, readers give the advice.

ON BREAKING UP a young child’s home: Fifteen years ago, when my son was 3,

his mother and I separated. She fi led for divorce two years later. I stayed involved as much as possible, never shirked fi nancial responsibility, and made the best of it. I grew up in a two-par-ent household, and am now 58.

Having a child with separate relationships with his mother and father wreaks havoc on the child’s emotional IQ. My life’s big regret is leaving. It involved sacrifi ce for the one person in my life who did not deserve it: my son.

The relief of a new relation-ship is real, but it masks the

true makeup of the individual. My son lives with me full time now, for which I am grateful. However, in his rush to judg-ment, cynicism and stubborn-ness, I see the scars I created.

I should have never left. – M.

ON PEOPLE WHO don’t re-spond to your grief: When I was growing up, I got the message that if something was obviously sad, it was stupid to say that you felt sad about it.

Years later, I was in therapy with my partner, and she was talking about her diffi cult child-hood. I didn’t say anything, and my therapist asked if I felt bad that my partner went through such a rough childhood. I said of course I did, but it was so obvi-ous, there’s nothing to say.

That’s when I learned that how I was dealing with feelings was not normal. It’s still uncom-fortable, but I make an effort to always say how I feel when someone tells me something that’s emotional. – J.

I WAS AN ONLY child in a

house where children were seen but not heard. My father died when I was 7. My mother announced this by saying, “Your

daddy has died, and I’d like you to go stay with Mrs. Smith for a few days.” Mrs. Smith was a neighbor I scarcely knew.

Mrs. Smith was pleasant but basically didn’t say anything except, “Your mother has a lot on her mind right now.” I stayed a week, and when I returned home no one said a word about my father. My questions went totally unanswered.

When my dog died, my mother said, “Fido got out and was hit by a car. He’s dead.” That’s it.

I was 40 before I ever person-ally heard anyone express sym-pathy. – Learned the hard way

Chat with Carolyn online noon Fridays at washingtonpost. com or email her at

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“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness

would be the supremely valid human experience.”William James,

American psychologist (1842-1910)

TODAY’S PREDICTIONSARIES (March 21-April 19)

HHHHH Let your imagination soar once more. Someone will force you to land. This could happen without any fl ights of fancy, so don’t worry about what is said. This person could be in a grumpy mood. Detach and keep repeating your mantra. Tonight: Start the weekend early.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Your ability to move through situations and not get bogged down makes you a tremen-dous asset in whatever walk of life someone encounters you. Display sensitivity when interjecting your insights. Tonight: Dinner and a chat for two.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Others want to take a more active role in a key event or happening. This position on their part might force you, in your opinion, to back off some. You are right; you will. Be gracious and do just that for the betterment of the whole. Tonight: Zero in on what you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH

Understand what is happening within your immediate circle, be it at the gym, at work or within your circle of friends. Take an opportunity to help others manifest more of what they desire. You feel pressured by whatever is going on. Relax and don’t worry about it. Tonight: Do for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH

Your spontaneity could surprise you as you land on turf you never expected or maybe never wanted to be. Knowing when to call a halt could save the day. You don’t need to be serious – just a little self-discipline goes a long way. Tonight: Ever-play-ful.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH

Certain situations make you feel pressured, especially if you are pow-erless. At the moment, worry less. Someone else will get a situation under control. You can count on that. Be careful with spending, as you could get caught up in the tide of the moment. Tonight: Head home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH

Keep the dialogue between you and a loved one or partner going. You might need to think in differ-ent terms and open up to more

positive, optimistic thinking. Let your creativity emerge as well. Suddenly you understand exactly what your partner is saying. Tonight: Hang with friends.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH

No one can blame you for over-indulging. The question remains in which realm of life this emotional extravagance will emerge. Being optimistic and happy about what you want before it becomes a reality could be troublesome. Don’t spend the check you just got before it clears! Tonight: As late as you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Your personality adds that zing to a situation. Don’t hold back. A meeting could start out quite serious but end on an extremely friendly and playful note. A fl irtation could become more if you are ready! Tonight: You are the cat’s meow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Retreat into your mind if you so choose. Right now, verbal-izing could cause a problem if you share everything you think. A family member’s jubilant personality helps you relax and become more open. Tonight: Not with a lot of people.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Where your friends are is generally where you can be found. Meeting upon meeting could fi nd you making friends with people you hardly know. What you say in ges-ture could easily be misunderstood. Remain sensitive to others. Tonight: Hanging out is fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH

You might feel as if you will never clear what is on your plate. Some of you might also be thinking about taxes. Worrying can only take up time – one project at a time. Relax, and you will get through what you must. Tonight: A must appearance.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYTHIS YEAR, your fi ery spirit allows

greater give-and-take. If you sup-press your feelings, especially anger, you could get yourself into trouble. Learn an appropriate way to express these less-than-comfortable feelings. Your creativity allows you many, many options. If you are single, you could meet someone different. It is quite possible this person is a for-eigner. If you are attached, the two of you might plan that special trip. SAGITTARIUS understands more than you realize.

Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at:www.jacquelinebigar.com

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CNBC 40 The Kudlow Report (N) New Age of Wal-Mart How I, Millions Made-Millions Marijuana USA Cannabis meets capitalism.

FNC 41 The FOX Report With Shepard Smith (N) The O’Reilly Factor (N) (cc) Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren

TNT 43 Bones Booth’s son finds a finger. (cc) Bones “The He in the She” (S) (cc) Movie: ★★ “Failure to Launch” (2006) Matthew McConaughey. (cc)

LIFE 44 Pawn Stars (cc) Pawn Stars (cc) Reba “Seeing Red” Reba (S) (cc) Reba (S) (cc) Reba “The Feud” Reba (S) (cc) Reba “The Wall” (S)

TLC 46 Police Women of Dallas (S) (cc) Police Women: Unforgettable Chases Police Women: Outrageous Criminals Charlie Sheen: On the Brink (S) (cc)

AMC 47 Movie: “League of Extra. Gentlemen” Movie: ★★ “For Love of the Game” (1999) Kevin Costner. An aging pitcher thinks back on his life’s momentous events. ‘PG-13’

HOME 48 Hunters Int’l House Hunters House Hunters My First Place Selling New York Selling New York House Hunters (N) Hunters Int’l

TRAVEL 49 Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc) Man v. Food (cc)

A&E 50 The First 48 (cc) The First 48 A teenager is murdered. The First 48 “Beatdown; Pistol Whipped” Manhunters Manhunters

TVFN 51 Iron Chef America “Flay vs. Morou” Iron Chef America Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Ice Brigade (N) Unwrapped

BRAVO 52 The Real Housewives of New York City The Real Housewives of New York City The Real Housewives of New York City The Real Housewives of New York City

TRU 53 World’s Dumbest... Dumb drivers. World’s Dumbest... World’s Dumbest... (N) Top 20 Most Shocking

NGC 54 Hard Time Four inmates face prison life. Naked Science “Storm Worlds” (N) Ultimate Factories “Bentley” Ultimate Factories “Porsche”

HALL 55 Little House on the Prairie (cc) Touched by an Angel “Jones vs. God” (S) Touched by an Angel “The Pact” (cc) Touched by an Angel “Charades” (cc)

SYFY 56 Movie: ★★ “Saw II” (2005, Horror) Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith. Movie: ★★ “Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning” (2003) Jessica Biel.

ANIM 57 Natural World “Bear Man of Kamchatka” Yellowstone: Battle For Life Animals living in Yellowstone. (S) (cc) Blonde vs. Bear “Crime & Punishment”

HIST 58 Modern Marvels “Fast Food Tech” (cc) Modern Marvels “Fry It” (cc) Swamp People “The Last Battle” (cc) Ax Men “This Means War” (cc)

SPIKE 60 (6:38) Gangland “Behind Enemy Lines” (S) (7:49) Gangland “Blood in, Blood Out” (S) TNA Wrestling (N) (S) (cc)

COM 61 Daily Show The Colbert Report Futurama (S) (cc) Futurama (S) (cc) Futurama (S) (cc) South Park (cc) South Park (cc) South Park (cc)

FX 62 Movie: “Mummy: Dragon Emp.” Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Archer (N) (:31) Archer

E! 64 E! News (N) Sex and the City (S) Sex and the City (S) Holly’s World Holly’s World When Women Kill

TVLND 67 Sanford & Son (:26) Sanford & Son Sanford & Son Sanford & Son Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond Everybody-Raymond

WTBS 68 (:15) College Basketball NCAA Tournament -- BYU vs. Florida. Regional semifinal. From New Orleans. (Live) College Basketball: NCAA Tournament

VH1 69 Saturday Night Live Seth Rogen. (cc) Saturday Night Live Paul Rudd; Beyoncé. Saturday Night Live (S) (cc) Movie (S)

MTV 70 Jersey Shore Sammi returns to the house. Jersey Shore (S) (cc) Jersey Shore Mike instigates drama. (S) Jersey Shore “At the End of the Day” (S)

CMTV 71 The Dukes of Hazzard (S) (cc) The Dukes of Hazzard (S) (cc) Movie: “The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning” (2007) Jonathan Bennett. (S) (cc)

BBC 108 BBC World News America (cc) Star Trek: The Next Generation (S) (cc) Movie: ★★ “Clash of the Titans” (1981) Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier. (cc)

ENC 125 Movie: G.I. Jane ‘R’ In the House Movie: ★★★ “The Thing” (1982, Horror) Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley. (S) ‘R’ (cc) (9:50) Movie: ★★ “Predator 2” (1990) ‘R’

ESPNC 127 Boxing: 1998 Lewis vs. Mavrovic MLB Baseball (cc) RM Classic Car Auction (cc)

TCM 146 (6:00) Movie: ★★ “Strange Cargo” (cc) Movie: ★★★★ “On the Waterfront” (1954) Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint. (cc) Movie: ★★★★ “Ninotchka” (1939)

HBO 200 Movie: “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” Big Love (S) (cc) Big Love: End Movie: ★★ “MacGruber” (2010, Comedy) Will Forte. ‘R’ (cc)

MAX 220 (6:30) Movie: ★ “Our Family Wedding” (:15) Movie: ★ “Whiteout” (2009, Suspense) Kate Beckinsale. (S) ‘R’ (cc) Movie: “He’s Just Not That Into You” (S)

SHOW 250 (6:45) Movie: ★★★ “Chéri” (2009) Michelle Pfeiffer. ‘R’ (cc) Movie: “Agora” (2009) Rachel Weisz. A slave falls in love with Hypatia of Alexandria. The Borgias

TMC 266 (6:10) Movie: ★★ “Stripes” (1981) (S) ‘R’ Movie: ★★ “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009) Kristen Stewart. (S) ‘PG-13’ (cc) (:15) Movie: ★★ “Hannibal” (2001) (S) ‘R’

STARZ 270 Movie: Pandorum (:20) Movie: ★★ “Planet 51” (2009, Comedy) (S) ‘PG’ (cc) Movie: ★★ “Brooklyn’s Finest” (2009, Crime Drama) Richard Gere. (S) ‘R’ (cc)

% WCVB Inside Edition (N) Chronicle “Townie” Wipeout Obstacles include Flipsy Daisy. Grey’s Anatomy “This Is How We Do It” (:01) Private Practice “A Step Too Far” (S)

WGN-A America’s Funniest Home Videos (cc) WWE Superstars (S) (cc) How I Met/Mother How I Met/Mother WGN News at Nine (N) (S) (cc)

Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku,visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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FRIDAYLeon Redbone, ragtime/jazz, Jonathan’s Restaurant, Ogunquit. $32.50 in advance, $35.50 day of show. 646-4777. 8 p.m.Ruthie Foster, blues, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfi eld, $30. stonemountainartscenter.com. 8 p.m.Assembly of Dust, rock/jam band, 21-plus; Port City Music Hall, Portland. $18 in advance; $20 at door; $25 VIP seated. portcitymusichall.com. 8 p.m.Steve Forbert, folk, with Ray Mason, One Longfellow Square, Portland. $18, $20. onelongfellowsquare.com. 8 p.m.Tricky Britches, bluegrass, Local Sprouts Cooperative, Portland. Free/donation. localsprouts

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