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November 4, 2011 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 7, No. 44

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Index Meetings ........................23Obituaries ......................16Opinion ............................9Out & About ...................22

People & Business ........18Police Beat ....................14Real Estate ....................31Sports ............................17

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Town weighs waterfront park opportunitiesBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — A waterfront park for the town could be get-ting closer to fruition as a site suitability study nears comple-tion.

Town Planner Rich Roedner was scheduled to update the Board of Selectmen on a draft waterfront access study report at the board’s meeting on Thurs-day, Nov. 3. The board was also expected to decide whether to recommend appropriating mon-ey from reserves to help pay for conceptual design services for a Lower Village Waterfront Park.

Topsham has about $26,000 in a reserve account for a water-front park, Roedner said. Voters

Judge throws out cell tower lawsuit against TopshamBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — A federal judge in Portland on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that chal-lenged the town’s refusal to allow construction of a cellular communications tower.

U.S. District Court Judge John Rich III granted the town’s request for summary judgment. Town Planner Rich Roedner said Wednesday that Rich de-cided there was no need for a trial, based on the argument that the appellant, Mariner Tower, did not properly follow the ad-ministrative appeal process.

Home-schoolers reap science from farm lifeBy Emily Guerin

HARPSWELL — In Joe Grady’s science class, feeding the turkeys is much more than just a farm chore.

As six home-schooled students pulled wagons of feed and dragged fences through the field at Two Coves Farm, where Grady

Muriel Grady, 8, and Nick Comey, 13, both of Harpswell, and Drew Walden, 8, of Bath, move turkeys from one pasture to another during a farm science class at Two Coves Farm in Harpswell.

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Joe Grady, who teaches a farm science class in Harpswell for homeschooled students, holds togther

a box that Drew Walden, 8, of Bath, is making to hold compost and worms. Nick Comey, 13, of Harpswell,

looks on.

Had the judge decided that Mariner did follow proper pro-cedure, the lawsuit would have continued and the judge would have considered the merits of arguments by Mariner and the town, Roedner said.

Chris Ciolfi, chief develop-ment officer for Mariner Tower, declined to discuss the decision, except to say that “we’ve got to take a look at (the matter) and see what our next steps will be.”

The case began after the Plan-ning Board denied Mariner’s

will decide how much to take from that account for design work at a Nov. 30 special Town Meeting.

The area of Green Street, near the old fire station and the An-droscoggin River, has long been eyed by the town, but suggested proposals did not fit the space, Roedner said.

The town recently used a $20,000 grant from the Maine State Planning Office to hire consultants to gather input from the public. The study also inves-tigated what would make sense for the area.

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Bath council OKs armory renovation bond; skatepark future uncertainBy Alex Lear

BATH — The City Coun-cil gave preliminary approv-al Wednesday to borrowing $308,000 for a basic renovation of the former National Guard Armory.

The 5-3 decision, opposed by

Councilors Steve Brackett, Kyle Rogers and Ruthe Pagurko, will go to a final vote Dec. 7.

The council also tabled an order that would have allowed the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark to move into the Old Brunswick Road building.

Councilors, however, unani-mously approved borrowing up to $450,000 to demolish the dilapidated former YMCA on Summer Street, where the skate-park now operates. Demolition is due to start next month.

Ron Norton of Construction

Management Consulting Ser-vices, the firm asked to come up with the armory renovation cost, focused on what he called a “base-line” scope of work necessary to run the skatepark to arrive at the $308,000 renova-tion cost.

He told the council last month that the savings came from “do-ing work only in the areas that are to be used for the skateboard park. The lower level work is only to the level necessary for

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Policy sets hurdle for potential users of Harpswell schoolBy Emily Guerin

HARPSWELL — West Harpswell School will remain unused this winter un-less community groups can show they’ll occupy 30 percent of the building on a regular basis.

That threshold is important because it would allow the town to replace its insur-ance policy on the vacant building, which costs $13,000, with a policy that would cost less than $2,000 a year.

At its Oct. 27 meeting, the Board of Selectmen authorized town staff to draft an application form to request use of the school. Users would have to be affiliated

with a nonprofit or a for-profit entity that would be responsible for any incurred costs or liabilities.

Resident Donna Frisoli, who is trying to organize a group to create a temporary library in the school, said it’s been challeng-ing to find an organization willing to take responsibility for the Village Library, as the project is called.

Still, she is hopeful that her group of library fans and parents who home-school their children will be able to use the space throughout the winter for educational events, Internet access and community dinners.

But Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said unless the town receives enough applicants to receive the reduced insurance rate, it’s unlikely the space will be used at all.

That’s because the $25,000 that Harpswell voters allocated to maintain the school until March 2012 is nearly ex-hausted, thanks to unexpected fuel expenses and boiler repairs. Eiane said the budget anticipated minimal use of the school over the winter, and did not account for ad-ditional heat and electricity expenses that would come with using the school more frequently – unless the town can spend less on insurance.

She encouraged community members to submit their requests to use the school,

with the understanding that they may not be granted.

“We’re going to be able to take applica-tions, but I don’t know if there’s going to be any final commitment until there’s a sense that we have enough entities” to occupy 30 percent of the building on a regular basis, Eiane said.

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BRUNSWICK — Two at-large candidates for the Town Council have spent more than four times more than anyone else in next week’s town elec-tions.

Finance reports filed with the town clerk on Oct. 28 show that current District 7 Councilor Benet Pols and William Dana spent $2,480 and $2,323, respectively, on their campaigns.

The third candidate in the race, By-ron Watson, spent $577.

All three at-large council candidates out-spent the candidates running for the at-large seat on the School Board. William Thompson spent $349 for placards and posters for his School Board campaign, while John Jones spent $75.

Pols not only leads the candidates in expenditures, he has also raised the most money: $2,070.

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from two other elected officials: $250 from at-large School Board member Michelle Small, and $50 from District 2 Councilor Ben Tucker.

Pols also netted several contribu-tions from residents of the Bouchard Drive and Hennessey Street area, who publicly opposed the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority’s decision to build a train maintenance building in the neighborhood. Pols op-posed that site.

Although he spent almost as much as Pols, Dana didn’t raise any money because he chose to self-finance his

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either contested race who received do-nations from a political organization. He netted $108 in in-kind contributions from the Brunswick Republicans for paper and printed fliers. He also raised $150 in contributions of less than $50.

The only uncontested candidate to spend money on a campaign is council District 7 hopeful Sarah Brayman, who spent $345 of her own money.

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Consumers, some oil companies shifting toward alternative fuels

Emily GuErin / ThE ForEcasTEr Downeast Energy auditor Rick Mathieu shows homeowner Whitney Campbell, of Yarmouth, how to see where cold air is leaking into her

home by looking at a thermal imaging camera. The fan in the doorway sucks all the air out of

the house, drawing in outside air.

By Emily GuerinYARMOUTH — On a cold day in early

November, employees of Downeast Energy arrived at a home in Yarmouth for an ap-pointment.

They didn’t drive an oil truck, or come to refill a propane tank.

Instead, they closed all the windows and doors and set up a fan powerful enough to suck outside air in through cracks and poorly insulated walls. A thermal camera revealed where the leaks were so the ho-meowner could prioritize her efficiency

like wood pellets, propane or natural gas, oil companies are looking elsewhere, too.

“Nothing stays the same forever,” said Mike McCormack, vice president of energy at Downeast. “We don’t look at (the de-creasing consumption of heating oil) as the black hole of our future. We embrace that.”

Why oil?Even though Downeast now offers so-

lar power, bio-fuels and propane, heating oil still makes up a significant portion of its business. That makes sense for an en-ergy company in the state with the highest percentage of homes heated by oil – 75 percent.

Why do so many Mainers heat with oil?Jamie Py, president of the Maine Energy

Marketers Association, said the fuel is easy to use, reliable and safe. And, unlike natural gas, customers can shop around to find the lowest price.

“Historically it’s been a great value,” Py said. “That’s why its been so popular in a cold climate.”

Py said in the past, alternative fuels were either too time consuming, like chopping wood, or too pricey; natural gas was more expensive than oil for 25 out of last 32 years, he said.

But that’s starting to change as the cost

of alternative fuels has dropped, and the price of oil has skyrocketed. This winter, industry analysts are predicting the highest price ever. As of Oct. 31, the average price was $3.56 per gallon, an increase of 5 cents over the previous week.

The prices aren’t just high, they fluctuate dramatically, something that Jeffrey Marks, deputy director of the Office of Energy In-dependence, cited as a reason more Mainers are switching away from oil.

“As consumers become more aware of al-ternative heating options, and as petroleum prices continue to experience volatility, consumers will be educated and motivated to increasingly seek other ways to heat their homes, including wood and natural gas,” Marks said in an email.

Dealing with decreased consumption

Area oil companies are coping with the shift away from their core product in dif-ferent ways.

Not every company has the resources of Downeast, to offer multiple alternative fuels. Some are focusing on one or two.

Mike Feenstra, owner of South Portland-based Our Oil, decided to sell wood pellets after noticing that many of his customers aren’t getting rid of their oil furnaces, but are adding pellet stoves to help cut costs and use less heating oil. He has been think-

improvements.Weatherization and thermal imaging

consultations are just one example of how Brunswick-based Downeast Energy and other oil companies are adapting to changes in the marketplace.

While still the No. 1 fuel in the state, the percentage of Mainers who heat their homes with heating oil is down about 5 percent from 2004, according to the Gov-ernor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security.

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Maine dam inspections lag while inspector coaches rugbyBy John Christie and Naomi Schalit

WATERVILLE — Around 3:50 in the afternoon on Wednesday, Oct. 12, a state-owned pickup truck pulled into the park-ing lot at the Colby College rugby field.

A man in a blue windbreaker got out of the truck, took a cardboard box of equip-ment from the cab and headed to the field, where members of the men’s and women’s teams had gathered for practice.

The man was their coach.But he is also the Maine dam inspec-

tor who has fallen years behind the legal schedule for safety inspections of the nearly 100 dams across the state catego-rized as potentially dangerous.

His name is Tony Fletcher, and he has held the paid coaching job at the private college since 2001, except for one semes-ter, according to Colby.

For eight weeks each fall, four days a week, Fletcher leaves his Augusta office around 3:30 p.m. to drive the 19 miles to Colby, according to his boss at the Maine Emergency Management Agency.

MEMA Director Robert McAleer said Fletcher also coaches during the three-week spring rugby season, when practices are sometimes indoors in the evenings because of the weather.

Neither the college nor Fletcher will reveal what he is paid for his coaching contract. His state salary is $56,800. With benefits, his total state compensation is $87,000.

In an email exchange with the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting last week, McAleer said “I am aware that Mr. Fletcher coaches the Colby Rugby Teams on a part-time basis. Such work is neither prohibited nor discouraged.”

McAleer, stating he was also speaking for Fletcher, said Fletcher makes up the time spent coaching by coming in early or working nights or weekends.

However, Fletcher’s official time sheets do not show weekend work and do not specify what time he starts and ends his work days.

McAleer also said in an email that driving to a part-time job in a state ve-hicle was not authorized, and Fletcher has been told to stop.

Informed about the center’s finding, Gov. Paul LePage’s spokeswoman, Adri-enne Bennett, said, “this particular matter is one MEMA staff is on top of, and I am

John ChristieMaine state dam inspector Tony Fletcher

coaching the Colby College mens’ and womens’ rugby teams on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in

Waterville.

confident the appropriate action will be taken if needed.”

Fletcher’s schedule comes up at a time when questions have been raised about the productivity of the state’s dam inspec-tion program. Until recently, Fletcher has been the only state inspector.

‘Loss of life’An examination by the center of dam

safety inspections reports provided by MEMA earlier this year found that Maine is not living up to the state law that requires regular inspections of the 93 dams in the state classified as hazardous for their potential to take lives or sweep away buildings, roads and bridges.

Thousands of Mainers live below the potentially hazardous dams, from San-ford to Norway to Camden.

The state classifies 24 of the 93 dams as “high hazard potential,” meaning that a failure could “probably cause loss of life.” The other dams are “significant hazard dams,” meaning a failure could cause property or environmental damage.

Half of the high hazard dams are two to seven years overdue for their mandated inspections, for example.

Of the 93 dams, the state could produce records showing only 10 percent have been inspected on time.

McAleer admitted to a legislative committee on Sept. 26 that the dams are not being inspected when the law says they should be. But he also said he was confident in the assurance he got from Fletcher that none of the dams pose a danger.

McAleer told the committee that com-pleting safety inspections of the dams “at the rate specified in the law is virtually impossible” with one or two inspectors.

‘Do the math’In an interview on Aug. 18, McAleer

said, “Do the math on the whole numbers of dams that have to be inspected. ... It’s very difficult to keep up.”

But “the math” suggests it would be possible to keep up with the inspections if a dam was inspected about every week and a half.

With 93 dams that have to be inspected every two or four years, the math shows that if the state inspected 29 or 30 high

and significant hazard dams each year, it would be on target to meet the legal requirements.

Dam inspector Fletcher’s time sheets for 2010, the most recent full-year for which records are available, show he worked 230 days, eight hours per day. That means that if he inspected a po-tentially hazardous dam every week and half, he would meet the annual inspec-tions benchmark.

But the records supplied to the center for 2010 showed that only six of the hazardous dams were inspected during that year.

How many dams can be inspected in a year depends on whom you ask, and even then the answers are not precise.

Dana Murch, former supervisor of environmental regulation of dams for

the state Department of Environmental Protection and co-author of the current dam safety law, said, “if one person can’t do 30 dams in one year, something is wrong.”

In an interview in May, Fletcher said “a full-on inspection can take a couple weeks. It ranges from that to just going in and eyeballing the situation.”

He later said in the same interview, “We look at about two (dams) a week. A lot of them are low hazard dams,” which are not among the dams that require inspections every two or four years; the law does require an inspection of a low hazard dam if a problem is reported.

A dam is classified as low hazard if a breach would likely cause damage only to the owner’s property, not to lives, roads, bridges or environmentally sensi-tive areas.

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Another friend at the end: Yarmouth couple offers hospice greeting cardsBy Alex Lear

YARMOUTH — Having to say good-bye to a dying loved one is arguably the hardest time in anyone’s life.

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work as a hospice nurse she “noticed the patients have no cards. They have no greeting cards. They would have like an old Christmas card on the wall from last Christmas, or a Mother’s Day card that was 8 months old. And the families would come in ... they would sit there for days and have no visitors, or no interac-tion with people.”

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CAPE ELIZABETH — Some people of means spend their lives protecting their as-sets, seldom considering the common good.

Not Mary Lou Sprague.Some people, as they age, get timid about

engaging in physically strenuous activities.Not Mary Lou Sprague.Some people view old buildings as just

old buildings, not structures that provide insights into our past and inspiration for our future.

Not Mary Lou Sprague.Sprague, 83, continues to live life to the

fullest with her husband, Phineas, on Spur-wink Farm in Cape Elizabeth, near the start of the widely acclaimed annual TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K road race.

Her history with the Portland area goes way back. She’s a descendant of George Cleave, the founder of Portland, and her many contributions to the city are as im-pressive as her lineage.

A graduate of Waynflete School in 1946, Sprague has been a major supporter of the

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As a member of Waynflete’s board in the 1970s and ‘80s, Sprague was instrumental in several major changes at the school: construction of a science center, the acquisi-tion of playing fields, and the transition to coeducation.

Given her love of Maine, history and the decorative arts, it’s no surprise that Sprague has also taken a leadership role in preserv-ing Portland’s architectural history. She was recently honored by the Stroudwater Village Association for her “leadership in

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BATH — Bath Iron Works was award-ed a $14 million contract extension to provide logistic support for the construc-tion of the DDG-1000 class of ships.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, announced the award Tues-day.

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Eat doughnuts, Occupy Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — Occupy Wall Street is coming to town.

Protesters plan to gather on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. on the Brunswick Mall to make signs, drink cider and eat doughnuts. Then, at 11 a.m. the group will march to Bank of America on Maine Street and protest in front of the bank, spokeswoman Selma Sternlieb said in a press release.

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Cell tower rules head to Bath council

BATH — Ordinance language regulat-ing wireless communications facilities may go before the City Council next month or in January 2012, City Planner Andrew Deci said Wednesday.

The Planning Board, which has been reviewing the language for months, voted unanimously Tuesday after almost no discussion to recommend passage to the City Council, Deci said.

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BRUNSWICK — Construction is end-ing at the intersection of Maine Street and Route 24, and the Cedar Street park-and-ride lot is open again.

Contractor H.C. Crooker & Sons has completed drainage work and tree stump removal at the Maine Street intersection, according to the Maine Department of Transportation. Work will resume in the spring to install a traffic island and do minor work on Cleaveland Street.

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Life in Gaza without GiladTwo weeks ago, the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, look-

ing pale, gaunt and dazed, was led from the darkness and isolation of his confinement at the hands of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that rules Gaza, and handed over to Egyptian intermediaries.

Abducted by Hamas on Israeli soil at the age of 19 and imprisoned for five years without so much as a single visit from the Red Cross, Shalit stepped off a military aircraft into the embrace of a waiting prime minister, his commanding officers and, thereafter, his father, his neighbors and the entire nation of Israel.

Thousands of Israelis watched the scenes unfold on televisions across the country, transfixed by a sight many thought they’d never see. Everyone’s son had emerged from every parent’s nightmare, and then, quickly, he went home as the nation left him and his family to an indescribable reunion.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, buses of Palestinians newly freed from confinement in Israeli prisons in exchange for Shalit’s release snaked their way through waiting throngs of people cheering and lining the streets. This first tranche of 400 prisoners, including some who had kidnapped, killed and who even now expressed their willingness to do so again, returned to a hero’s welcome.

Masked gunmen brandished their weapons, flags waved, women ululated and Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, celebrated with many of his newly freed comrades-in-arms.

It was Carnival and Mardi Gras all rolled into one, and hun-dreds of thousands turned out to be a part of the excitement.

For those in the West hoping for some kind of rational coexistence with Hamas, it was hardly a feel-good moment.

Yet surely, belying the joy and far from the crowds, there must be some in Gaza who dare to mourn what Palestin-ian society has become under Hamas. Perhaps even in that sea of green flags and hooded gunmen, amid all the chants, cheers and euphoria, stood a man or woman who deep down knows that these well-orchestrated moments of triumph, too, shall pass, leaving Gaza not only right back where it started, but with even more challenging problems to confront.

For the day after Shalit came home, after they wept with joy, Israelis went to school and work. They attended concerts and sat in cafes. They went to the dentist, fixed their cars, shopped at grocery stores, planned vacations and wondered what movies to see on the weekend. Some married, some divorced, some bought homes, went to the mall or left work early to beat the traffic. Some cursed the government. Some prayed.

But all were free.In Gaza, however, the made-for-TV party had come to

an end, the crowds had dispersed and it would be months before the next prisoners came home. All the posters that Hamas had printed lay in the streets, and all the slogans and all the banners had come down. The bloom was off the rose, and prospects remained as bleak as ever.

What was there to celebrate now? The return of 400 more unemployed persons, some of whom were hardened criminals? And how would things be better when the next portion arrived?

Yes, one could look forward to another celebration, to tearful family reunions, to more chanting and more slogans. But how would any of that undo Gaza’s miseries?

Israel makes things difficult for Gaza, and while many of the Palestinians imprisoned by Israel certainly belong be-hind bars, there are surely those among the newly released whose crimes were more political than violent.

Never known for its light touch, Israel does not wear white gloves to this party.

But more than anything or anyone else, Hamas is stran-gling Gaza.

There isn’t a single thing that Hamas has delivered to its people in the four years since its violent takeover of Gaza that couldn’t have been accomplished overnight if Hamas would abandon its genocidal covenant against Israel in particular and Jews in general.

And, tragically, there isn’t a single Palestinian in Gaza, except perhaps those privileged few who surface for inter-national photo ops, whose life wouldn’t improve if Hamas was shown the door.

In Israel, Shalit is coming back to life.And in Gaza?The next bus bearing Palestinian prisoners will arrive in

a few months, so there will be another raucous party in the square. Posters, candy for the kids, guns and rockets will be on display.

But beyond that, not so much. Now that Shalit is home, it’s clearer than ever that for the Palestinian people, nothing has changed, and nothing ever will, so long as Hamas has its foot on the neck of Palestinian society.

Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and president of Atlantica Group, an international business consulting firm based in Portland, with clients in North America, Israel and Europe. He is also chairman of the Maine District Export Council.

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The idiot’s guide to Occupy Wall StreetOccupy Wall Street is another story so big I couldn’t

miss it, although I am puzzled by some of the reactions. Not all of the reactions. Of course people who are doing well don’t like people questioning what they’re doing well at. In my former life, it never bothered me that comedy writers like me made a multiple of what cops, teachers and firemen earned. I was too busy wondering why those hacks on “Frasier” and “Friends” got more for being on shows that practically wrote themselves than I got for heroically making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear every week on (insert show name here).

Maybe it’s nature; any game is great if you’re win-ning it. If dung beetles were in charge, and you told the richest one he was living in a giant pile of feces, he’d say, “Thank you,” convinced it was a compliment and convinced he deserved it because he worked harder and smarter than everybody else, even if he was born on a big-ger dung pile than he could use in a thousand lifetimes.

Any debate about an excretion-based economy would be like the faux debates we have on politics now. Some Fox News pundit would be outraged at the bums who would rather live in a tent and complain than roll up their sleeves and build their own dung piles. An MSNBC com-mentator would tell him nobody should have a lot of dung until everybody has a little. Neither would listen to the other, and they’d both ignore the growing crowd saying, “Excuse me? It’s us, almost everybody. Could we maybe look at some alternatives? Because this constant fighting over dung isn’t working for us.” Neither commentator could afford to look too closely at that crowd because at the end of the day, they would both work for the beetles.

It’s harder to understand the people who have more in common with the occupiers than the hedge fund manag-ers, but still don’t like OWS. I was surprised, for example, by a friend’s recent post on a social media site I won’t plug here – rhymes with “Mace Hook” – one of many

similar comments I’ve seen. He said he was sympathetic to OWS, but he knocked them for not having specific demands. Without asking for something specific and concrete, OWS risked becoming no more compelling than a traffic accident, something you look at but don’t get involved in.

He’s right from one perspective. Without typical protest demands, the movement makes it easy for critics within the status quo. How can we help, they will argue, if you won’t tell us what you want? It’s a fair point, if the point of the movement is saying the status quo needs tweaking. I’m not sure that is the point, though.

I wonder if people objecting to the supposed lack of focus in Occupy Wall Street are really attacking apples for not being oranges. To me the spirit of OWS seems more primal than a simple protest against bailouts, bo-nuses or tax rates for the wealthy. I see the demonstra-tors as seeking something more cathartic. Sure, they are unhappy about the economy, but they are also fighting the hopelessness of being profoundly disenfranchised by a government that doesn’t seem to acknowledge their existence, much less serve them.

An important element seems to be a reality check. Mil-lions of individuals are suddenly experiencing together what they had been experiencing separately. They’re getting a visceral sense that they are not the only ones feeling impotent and invisible. Along with learning there are others, OWS participants go through the related tribal process of sharing their stories. Occupy Wall Street seems at least as much about community building as protesting.

They are protesting, not this policy or that, but nonper-sonhood. They are telling Congress and Wall Street that making shareholder profit not just the most important thing, but the only thing, is not sustainable. Nor can we sustain a government that has largely abandoned gover-nance for politics or that recognizes the existence of only one constituency: the wealthy. If they’re right, specific demands are Band-Aids on arterial bleeding. First, they have to convince our authority figures that the system is broken. The problem is that day to day, it works great for the people they need to convince.

You know, like how, day to day, France worked great for Marie Antoinette.

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


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Where we stand: Same-day voter registration, gambling proposals

Mainers will vote Nov. 8 on three controversial statewide ballot initiatives.

Question 1, which would reverse the law that eliminated same-day voter registration, is a matter of voter turnout and Maine’s integrity.

An estimated 6 percent of votes in Maine’s last election were cast by citizens who registered to vote on Election Day.

If Maine fails to preserve Election Day registration at the polls on Nov. 8, we would be saying that, going forward, those citizens don’t matter and those votes shouldn’t count.

That’s not the sentiment of Maine people, nor is it in the public’s inter-est to dismiss a single vote, which is why we must vote yes on Question 1 to preserve Election Day registration.

One of the most compelling reasons to do that comes from town and city clerks themselves, including Orono Clerk Wanda Thomas, who may very well be the state’s top expert on issues of college town registra-tions, since she serves the electorate of the University of Maine.

Thomas told mainecampus.com (the UMaine student newspaper) that she makes sure to staff the campus resi-dent-only district precinct with extra clerks on Election Day to process registrations.

If students lose the Election Day option, Thomas said, they would have to register at the Town Office, where “more staff may need to be hired year-round because there would be no way to gauge when registrants would come in.”

Elimination of Election Day registration would, as Thomas understands it, cost government more to admin-ister.

At a time when all levels of government are doing every-thing possible to cut costs, now is not the time to increase the financial burden on taxpayers.

Then, there’s the burden on government personnel.Eliminating Election Day registration was, according to

lawmakers, designed to give clerks time to verify regis-trants’ legal status. But, there’s no enforcement language in the law requiring clerks to do so, just an understanding that they will.

But will they?In the more than 200 days since 206 public college stu-

dents accused by state Republican Party Chairman Charlie

Webster of possible fraud were registered on Election Day last year, or in the more than 2,000 days since a dozen St. Joseph’s College students accused of the same were regis-tered to vote in 2004, no residency checks were performed. Following Webster’s accusations, all students were checked and all accusations were found baseless.

But, realistically, without enforcement language written into the law to require clerks to verify residency, two days might as well be 200, or 2,000.

But that’s really a minor point.Last year, of the 623 UMaine students who voted on

campus, 500 registered on Election Day, according to Thomas. If Maine had imposed the two-day rule last year, some of those 500 would probably have registered in time to vote, but we can-not assume that all would have because

some people are born procrastinators, which is not a crime.Hindering the full opportunity for any of those students

to vote, without verifiable evidence that we are courting fraud, is not good politics.

Finally, let’s also consider that the impassioned dual arguments presented to the Legislature that resulted in the elimination of Election Day registration: the specter of widespread fraud and the problem of busloads of students rushing poll places each Election Day.

Both assertions were intended to frighten; both were determined to be groundless.

Sure, there are some get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day among both parties, but no precinct has ever reported being overwhelmed by busloads of students arriving on Election Day to swing elections. And, there is no rampant voter fraud, with only two cases uncovered in decades.

So, what may have seemed to lawmakers to be con-vincing arguments are simply not true. The Legislature was duped and, next week, voters have an opportunity to reverse a law that was adopted based on a campaign of false information.

We urge voters to protect and preserve Election Day registration, to take a stand that every vote counts and to do all possible to ensure that every vote is counted.

Vote yes on Question 1.Questions 2 & 3

The Maine Legislature faced a choice 10 years ago.Gambling was clearly inevitable in Maine, and the state

could have developed a logical process for locating a hand-

ful of strategically placed casinos or racinos here.We could have sold licenses to developers and then

determined how much revenue would go to the state and how it would be used.

But our citizen Legislature failed to act.Largely by happenstance, voters have adopted a different

and far less tidy process: developers approach communi-ties with a plan. If the community supports the idea, the developers risk their own money to run a campaign to get statewide voter approval.

So far, the state’s voters have considered a half-dozen proposals and approved two gambling outlets, one in Ban-gor and another in Oxford.

Bangor has a racino; in 2012 Oxford will have a casino.The process is less than ideal, but it is a process.Now voters in Lewiston, Biddeford and Washington

County have said they would welcome casinos or racinos into their communities.

The Biddeford/Washington County racino is Question 2 on the statewide ballot; the Lewiston casino is Question 3.

Voters should vote yes on both issues.The reasons vary by community, but the common argu-

ment is the same: jobs and development.The case for a casino in Lewiston is particularly com-

pelling.Bates Mill No. 5 is a large, historical structure located at

the gateway to Maine’s second largest city.It has been either empty or marginally utilized for nearly

a quarter of a century. In that time, we have not had a single realistic plan emerge for that property.

Before a group of local citizens came forward with the casino idea, the city was on the verge of knocking it down.

Over the years, suggestions for the site have centered on creating a magnet to draw visitors back into the downtown. More than 10 years ago, discussion focused on a conven-tion center.

But that would have required a huge public expenditure with the prospect of endless taxpayer subsidy.

A casino would accomplish the same goal but without public investment. Instead, the casino would return property taxes and gambling revenue to the city for years to come.

Perhaps the best reason for a yes vote on the Lewiston


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Where we stand: Cumberland County Civic Center, Wentworth SchoolTwo local referendum questions are on the Nov. 8 ballot.Residents throughout Cumberland County will be asked

if the county should borrow $33 million to renovate the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, and voters in Scarborough will decide if the town should borrow $39 million to build a new Wentworth Intermediate School.

We support both proposals.Civic Center

Cumberland County voters will be deciding whether the 34-year-old Civic Center enters middle age with a new lease on life or needing life support.

Anyone who has been a spectator at the CCCC is well aware of some of its shortcomings: old seats; crowded, inad-equate restrooms and concession areas; limited access for disabled people. But there are problems behind the scenes, too: an insufficient loading dock that costs the building attractions because crews can’t move staging and equipment in and out quickly enough; outdated locker rooms – even by minor league standards – and electrical and mechanical systems that aren’t up to code.

Opponents of the renovation plan object to the cost and argue that in a shaky economy, a dollar saved is a dollar earned. They argue that repayment of the $33 million – with interest, as much as $55 million over the life of the bond – will place an undue burden on county taxpayers. They also argue that only the city of Portland benefits from a successful, thriving Civic Center.

We don’t buy those arguments.The Civic Center is an economic engine for all of

Cumberland County. Of course it feeds the restaurants, bars and parking lots of downtown Portland. But the cen-

ter and those nearby businesses also employ residents and feed families from one end of the county to the other. The building has a $1.5 million payroll, and two-thirds of its employees live outside of Portland.

If the renovation is approved and successful, the net tax impact on county residents will be negligible. The bond will be repaid through a combination of increased Civic Center revenue, a ticket surcharge and continuation of $1 million a year in existing county debt. Retiring that existing debt, from a bond for the Cumberland County Jail, would

reduce the county’s annual obligation by about $2.1 million; the annual dif-ference to individual taxpayers would, again, be negligible.

We believe its unfortunate that the Civic Center’s major tenant, the

Portland Pirates hockey club, has not been asked to make a financial investment in the renovation (the Pirates orga-nization is a supporter of the political action committee formed to promote passage of the bond referendum). But owners of the Pirates – who generate about a third of the Civic Center’s annual attendance and concession sales, and stand to gain revenue from high-priced club seats – have promised that a new, long-term lease for the building will be signed if the Civic Center is remodeled.

Considering the benefits Cumberland County reaps from the Civic Center – a venue for world-class entertainment enjoyed by people of all ages from throughout the region, the guarantee of professional hockey for many years to come, and up to $15 million annually in economic impact – it makes sense to rejuvenate the building.

Every dollar saved by rejecting the plan will be several dollars lost, not a dollar earned. Vote yes to breath new life

into the Cumberland County Civic Center.Wentworth

In Scarborough, poor air quality, asbestos and mold problems, and inadequate space at the existing Wentworth building make the decision one of health, as well as wealth.

Opponents of the project haven’t argued that the building doesn’t have serious problems. They just believe it’s too much to build, and too costly to build, at this time – espe-cially since the total cost with interest could approach $66 million over the life of a 30-year bond. They contrast the proposal’s size and cost – $240 per student and 181 square feet per student (assuming 15 percent enrollment growth during its lifespan) – with reports of more modest numbers nationwide.

But they fail to compare the proposal with other schools built in Maine; when you do that, proponents have argued, the new Wentworth is squarely in line with what communi-ties throughout the state are spending to provide students with safe, modern educational institutions that are prepared for future growth.

The alternative to building the new school will undoubt-edly cost money, too: millions to continually repair and temporarily mitigate problems that have had only Band-Aid treatments for too many years.

In 2006, Scarborough voters rejected a more ambitious plan to replace Wentworth and build a new middle school. This year, with a more affordable plan on the table, the town should step up. Voters must show that they value education, the health of their young people and teachers, and the role good schools play in attracting businesses and jobs, by approving the Wentworth bond.

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Community leaders and some newspapers have argued that gambling would be great for Biddeford and Washing-ton Counties, but somehow bad for Lewiston. According to the Portland Press Herald, a casino could even “block” development in Lewiston.

Lewiston disagrees, and loudly.Believe, instead, what Dan Thayer, chairman of the

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Ranked choice means better choices

The city of Portland, in choosing ranked choice, is taking a serious and important step to update our representative democracy. Voters can choose the people they truly prefer, without the fear of voting for a spoiler.

Columnist Halsey Frank, former chairman of the Repub-lican City Committee, questioned the abilities of Portland voters, saying ranked-choice voting is too “difficult,” and claimed it was “absurd” that the voters could “mean-

ingfully” chose from the cur-rent candidates. The people of Portland deserve more credit than this.

Maine is an example of why we need ranked-choice voting, not only in Portland, but for the state and nation as well. In Maine’s last six gubernatorial elections, only one clear majority candidate was elected, Gov. Angus King in 1998 with 58.6 percent of the vote. We’ve had back-to back minority governors from both sides of the political spectrum in the last two elections: Gov. John Baldacci’s 38.1 percent win in 2006 and Gov. Paul LePage’s 37.6 percent win in 2010 inspired legions of bumper stickers that claimed “I am part of the majority that didn’t vote for that guy.” Mainers deserve clear majority winners.

Our voting method should encourage a diversity of candidates from different backgrounds and beliefs to run for political office. Elections should be about choosing the best candidates, not locking us into limited choices. Ranked choice allows voters the ability to have a more meaningful way of choosing from fields of candidates, while preserving a government where the will of the majority is represented.

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The over-under on Yarmouth issuesMoving to Yarmouth in 1982 was one of the best

decisions we ever made. The schools are great. There’s a real village center. A fine library. Active and engaged citizens. And the public life of Yarmouth is generally conducted with civility by reasonable people. Even folks who don’t agree with you about much of anything will smile and shake your hand warmly at church on Sunday morning.

I’m assuming this cordiality will prevail as Yarmouth decides some tough and potentially divisive issues in the coming months and years. There are usually one or two local issues to give the old bulls at Mr. Bagel something to talk about in the morn-ing, but at the moment there are at least five.

The most burning question of the day is, “What’s the over-under on the Beth Condon Memorial Pathway?”

Beth was a lovely, 15-year-old girl killed in August 1993 when a drunk driver hit her as she walked along Route 1 with her boyfriend. The town built a walking path to make pedestrians safer along the highway, but a section of the path where it will intersect with East Main Street remains to be built.

Common sense would dictate that the pathway go up and over the East Main Street bridge, but the Maine Department of Transportation insists it can only fund a path under the narrow bridge. DOT thinks that lazy pedestrians will still walk under the bridge even if there’s a safer route over it. By that reason-ing, Yarmouth shouldn’t have bothered to build the pathway at all.

Take the over.Then there’s the question of whether to use an acre

and a half of Royal River Park to build more senior housing.

The question pits affordable housing against open space, competing values. There’s organized opposi-tion to the idea. A friend even sent me a computer-generated view of what a 30-unit housing project might look like in the park. Presumably, the point was

to generate opposition, but it actually looked pretty good to me.

Yarmouth has plenty of open space, not much af-fordable housing. So I’m at least willing to listen. There may be a better place downtown to build senior housing, but the real issue is likely to be selling Yarmouth voters on a senior housing project that, because it will use state and federal money, can’t be reserved for current Yarmouth residents.

Two public projects will be competing for our tax dollars in 2012. The Public Works Department needs a new garage, to the tune of $4.8 million. The 10-year old artificial turf playing field at the high school needs to be replaced at a projected cost of $2.4 million. My guess is one of them will lose.

Town garages do not have natural constituents; ath-letic fields do. The garage is going to be a tough sell. So my money is on the turf. But someone is going to have to explain to me why it’s going to cost twice as much to replace the turf as it did to build the whole complex in the first place.

My favorite long-term local issue is whether to blow up the dams on the Royal River. The turgid, 26-mile river has been dammed up since the 18th century, but there is now talk of removing the dams at Bridge Street and East Elm Street to let the river seek its natu-ral level. We may also get something other than turtles, bloodsuckers and pond scum breeding upstream.

In August, the Bridge Street dam was opened for the first time in eons to draw down the water so the dam could be inspected and folks could see how a free-running Royal River might look. Deep, dark, slow and murky versus shallow, light, fast and clear. No contest. Blow the dams.

Finally, one of the more contentious issues in town apparently just got resolved. Residents of the Apple-wood subdivision had sued to stop a permitted residen-tial development from being built on Hillside Street, but the lawsuit was withdrawn last week. Presumably, the opponents either ran out of money or suddenly realized that McKearney Village is just Applewood 2011.

The more things change, etc.Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in

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10/30 Seldon Caton, 46, of Old Stage Road, Woolwich, was arrested on Centre Street on charges of operating under the influence, operating after suspension and violation of conditions of release.

Summonses10/25 Maria Woodman, 25, of Windjammer Way, was issued a summons by Officer Rich-ard Ross on Windjammer Way on charges of operating on a suspended license and violation of bail.10/29 Philip Haskell, 81, of High Street, was issued a summons by Officer Michelle Small on High Street on charges of operating after suspension and violation of condition of release.10/30 George Elwell III, 24, of Tufton Street, Brunswick, was issued a summons by Of-ficer Michelle Small on Route 1 on charges of theft, unlawful possession of Schedule W drugs, unlawful possession of Schedule Z drugs and violation of condition of release.Influenced operation10/30 at 1:18 p.m. Police were informed that a vehicle had just hit a street light pole and wound up in the Amato's parking lot on Centre Street. The operator, Seldon Caton, 46, of Old Stage Road, Woolwich, had left the scene but was ultimately arrested around 1:30 p.m. in the area of Mario's, also on Cen-tre Street. Caton was charged with operating under the influence, operating after suspen-sion and violation of conditions of release, as he was on bail for two operating under the influence arrests from July. The 2006 Ford Focus he operated Sunday was totaled. The damage estimate to the light pole was several thousand dollars, police said, and other signs in the area sustained minor damage.

Fire calls10/24 at 10:30 a.m. Outside fire on West Milan Street.10/24 at 4:58 p.m. Kitchen fire on Front Street.10/26 at 12:31 p.m. Public service call on High Street.10/27 at 11:03 a.m. False alarm at YMCA.10/27 at 5:12 p.m. Smoke check on Oak Street.10/27 at 5:22 p.m. Smoke check on Aspen Lane.10/28 at 4:29 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Old Brunswick Road.10/29 at 2:39 p.m. Hazmat at Bath Police Department.10/31 at 12:25 a.m. Wire down on High Street.10/31 at 1:20 a.m. Wire down on Western Avenue.10/31 at 1:34 p.m. Motor vehicle accident at Centre and Middle streets.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 40 calls from Oct. 24-30.

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10/24 at 10:02 p.m. Kristopher Scott Lud-wig, 28, of School Street, was arrested by Officer Jason McCarthy on Gilman Avenue on a warrant.10/25 at 1:56 p.m. Errol Flynn Staples, 27, of Blake Street, Lewiston, was arrested by Officer Jonathan O'Connor on Cumberland Street on a warrant and on a charge of unlaw-ful possession of scheduled drug.10/27 at 9:22 a.m. Danielle M. Fillion, 26, of Western Prom, Auburn, was arrested by Officer Gretchen Paxton on Bath Road on a warrant and on charges of sale and use of drug paraphernalia and unlawful possession of scheduled drug.10/27 at 4:58 p.m. James Kempf, 36, of Maine Street, was arrested by Officer Brandon Inga-harro on Maine Street on a charge of assault.10/28 at 5:36 p.m. Ralph Myra, 75, of Bal-lard Road, Augusta, was arrested by Officer Kristian Oberg on River Road on a warrant.10/29 at 12:37 a.m. Taylor Briana Birks, 19, of Casco Road, was arrested by Officer Daniel Sylvain on Maquoit Road on a warrant.10/29 at 10:44 p.m. Matthew S. Gaspar, 23, of Baybridge Road, was arrested by Officer Daniel Hebert on Route 1 on a warrant and on charges of violating condition of release.10/30 at 1:50 a.m. Charles E. Bailey, 20, of Winchester, Mass., was arrested by Officer Jason McCarthy on Maine Street on charges of operating under the influence and operating a vehicle without a license.

Summonses10/28 at 2:42 p.m. Vera L. Fisco, 28, of Lin-coln Street, was issued a summons by Officer Jason McCarthy on Elm Street on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.10/29 at 7:31 p.m. Angela C. Hennessey, 41, of Burr Lane, Bowdoin, was issued a summons by Officer Brandon Ingaharro on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unau-thorized taking or transfer.10/28 at 11:24 p.m. Jessica M. McMaster, 25, of Lincoln Street, Richmond, was issued a summons by Officer Brandon Ingaharro on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.10/30 at 4:35 p.m. Arianna C. Kiser, 22, of Pond Drive, was issued a summons by Of-ficer Brandon Ingaharro on Federal Street on a charge of assault.

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10/24 at 2:46 p.m. Vehicle crash on Ray-mond Road.10/24 at 10:59 p.m. Fire on Route 1, Freeport.10/25 at 7:10 a.m. Medical emergency on Bath Road.10/25 at 11:45 a.m. Power outage, electrical smell on Federal Street.10/25 at 2:43 p.m. Vehicle crash on Church Road.10/25 at 10:30 p.m. Vehicle crash on Harpswell Road.10/26 at 7:50 p.m. Vehicle crash on Mill Street.10/26 at 11:42 p.m. Medical emergency on MacMillan Drive.10/27 at 4:25 p.m. Fire on Route 1, Freeport.10/27 at 6:11 p.m. Broken water pipe on Durham Road.10/28 at 9:55 a.m. Assist citizen on Linnell Circle.10/31 at 2:05 p.m. Medical emergency on Bath Road.10/31 at 2:10 p.m. Medical emergency on Baribeau Drive.

EMSBrunswick emergency medical services re-sponded to 43 calls from Oct. 24-31.

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10/25 at 12:20 a.m. John Lewis Wines, 47, of Steamboat Road, was arrested on Steamboat Road on a charge of domestic violence assault.

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10/26 at 4:06 p.m. Jacob Knight, 25, of Riverview Drive, was arrested by Officer Alfred Giusto on Main Street on a charge of operating without a license.

Summonses10/23 at 8:43 p.m. Daniel Bellefleur, 22, of Harmony Hill Road, was issued a summons by Officer William Collins on Lewiston Road on charges of reckless conduct and attaching false plates.

Slippery situations10/29 at 5:43 p.m. to 10/30 at 1:50 p.m. Police responded to 10 accidents related to the weekend snow storm. Five were on Augusta Road, while the others were on Middlesex, Meadow, Lewiston and Topsham Fair Mall roads, and Abenaki Drive.

Fire calls10/24 at 12:03 p.m. Fire alarm on Stellas Way.10/24 at 11:03 p.m. Mutual aid to Freeport.10/25 at 5:10 p.m. Downed power line on Front Street.10/28 at 5:21 p.m. Smoke investigation on Meadow Road.10/29 at 11:28 p.m. Utility problem on Main Street.10/30 at 7:18 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Augusta Road.10/30 at 1:04 p.m. Fire alarm on Waxwing Drive.10/30 at 2:49 p.m. Fire alarm on Sewall Lane.10/30 at 5:16 p.m. Mutual aid to West Bath.10/30 at 9:21 p.m. Smoke investigation on Elm Street.10/31 at 5:56 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Taylor Farm Lane.10/31 at 7:14 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Lewiston Road.10/31 at 7:27 a.m. Low-hanging power line on Williams Drive.

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Born in Topsham on Sept. 21, 1931, she was the daughter of Frank and Marie Louice Fortin Beaudoin. She graduated from St. John’s School and at-tended high school in South Berwick.

On Sept., 24, 1959, she married Clement Labrecque who passed away in January, 1994.

When she was a young girl, Labrecque worked at Woolworth’s and then devoted her life to raising her family. A devout Catholic, she incorporated God into every aspect of her life as she raised her chil-dren. Her family was her career, teaching her children how to love the Lord, and each other, as much as she did.

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Visiting hours were held Nov. 1 at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick followed by a Mass of Christian Burial and internment at St. John’s Cemetery, Brunswick. Memorial condolences may be expressed at stet-sonsfuneralhome.com.

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1 after battling pancreatic cancer.She was born Nov. 25, 1946 in Beverly,

Mass., the daughter of Elmer B. Thomas III and Laura Catherine Cooney. Raised in Rockport, Mass. and Brunswick, she graduated from Brunswick High School in 1965 and Bates College in 1968.

After college she got married and had two sons, later moving to Arizona. As that marriage ended, she returned home to Maine and spent the majority of her life in her adopted state.

She spent her life raising her children and devoting herself to activities pur-sued by her family. It was through her children’s activities that she met Joseph Pluto, a naval officer. They were mar-ried May 7, 1977 and traveled with the Navy to Bermuda, the Azores and the Philippines.

She enjoyed all manner of sewing and was skilled enough to make her own wedding dress. A true outdoorswoman, she enjoyed fishing and was skilled at archery and riflery. She served for years as a dance and figure judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Association and later in her life turned her attention to civic du-ties such as being an election clerk and acting as a member of the Mayflower Society.

She is survived by her husband of 34 years, Joseph, and their daughter Laurie

Pluto of Hebron and her partner Jason Strong and his children Joanna, Jordan, and Spencer. She also leaves behind her two sons, Jim Gameros of Gray and his partner Karen Hall, and Bill Gameros of Dallas, Texas, and his wife Kathryn and their children Zoe, Isabel, and Nina.

A celebration of Pluto’s life will be held on Nov. 12 at 10 a.m. at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 federal St., Brunswick, ME. Burial will take place at 1 p.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to any of the following: Maine State Music Theater, 22 Elm St., Brunswick, ME 04011; Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 1500 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 200, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; or the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, 10 High St., Suite 301, Lewiston, ME 04240.

Memorial condolences may be ex-pressed and a video tribute viewed at stetsonsfuneralhome.com.

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Norton also said spending $308,000 would allow the skatepark “to function as efficiently as, and probably more ef-ficiently than, in its current location.”

The council last month authorized the Parks and Recreation Department to move the existing assets of the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and skatepark to the Old Brunswick Road armory for stor-age, until a use for the building has been determined.

Besides being a possible new home for the skatepark, another proposed use for the armory – purchased by the city last year with $175,000 of borrowed funds – is to have it house the local Box 19 Club’s antique fire trucks. Parks and Recreation Director Steve Balboni, whose department maintains the old Y, said he thinks the facility could accom-modate both uses.

With interest included over a 10-year loan, the estimated cost of the $308,000 bond is between $35,000 and $40,000 a year. Balboni said the skatepark board is willing to give up its $40,000 annual subsidy from the city so that the cost of the borrowing would not fall on taxpay-ers. He said he is confident in the board’s ability to make up the funds through fundraising.

Balboni said he expects the skatepark’s revenue and use to increase if it moves to the armory, since that building is closer to Bath Middle School, which many of the

skatepark’s young patrons attend.Claire Berkowitz, chairwoman of the

skatepark board, called $308,000 an in-vestment in the future of the community’s children.

“I’m concerned that we’re going to walk away from these kids, and that breaks my heart,” she said.

Brackett said 11 people had contacted him about the issue, all of whom said the bond question for the armory renovation should go to the voters, and not be de-cided by the council.

He said after the meeting that he does support the skatepark, and that “if I had to vote tomorrow, in the voting booth, I personally would vote to (bond the money).”

But he said he has “heard loud and clear, clearer than I’ve heard in the one year I’ve been on the council, that people want to speak on this matter. That’s why I voted as I did.”

Rogers requested tabling the skate-park’s move to the armory until after the Dec. 7 second vote on the armory bond.

“I just feel that there’s no reason to have this order put in place if we don’t have the funding,” he said.

Councilors James Omo, Sean Paulhus, Mari Eosco and Andrew Winglass op-posed the motion to table, while Coun-cilors David Sinclair, Rogers, Brackett and Pagurko favored it. With the council split 4-4, Chairman Bernard Wyman cast the deciding vote in favor of tabling the matter.

Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

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A few fall teams still aliveWith just soccer and football

still remaining on the fall sports docket, a handful of Mid-Coast teams are still kicking. Here’s a glimpse at the week that was:

Cross countryBrunswick and Mt. Ararat

took part in the Class A state cross country meet Saturday at Twin Brook Recreation Center in Cumberland.

The Eagles girls’ tallied 92 points to finish second behind three-time champion Cheverus (41). Mt. Ararat was led by sophomore Kelly Lynch, who completed the 5,000-meter course in 20 minutes, 37.53 seconds, good for seventh place. Also scoring for the Ea-gles were senior Emma Wood (14th, 21:04.44), freshman Olivia Swan (22nd, 21:41.53), junior Lauren McNett (23rd, 21:44.20) and junior Brennie Radulski (26th, 21:53.81).

The Dragons had 112 points and came in fourth. Leading the way was sophomore Teresa Murphy (sixth, 20:34.95). Also scoring were junior Madsy Schneider (20th, 21:23.24), se-nior Kathleen McMahon (21st, 21:33.71), freshman Brooke Es-coe (29th, 22:05.09) and senior Jasmine Boyle (36th, 22:14.28).

In the boys’ meet, won by Scarborough with 85 points, Mt. Ararat placed fourth with 140. Senior Andy Reifman-Packett led the way by coming in fifth (17:16.83). Also scor-ing were sophomore Nathan Mackenzie (12th, 17:46.59), sophomore Sam Wood (26th, 18:07.35), sophomore Jake De-mosthenes (40th, 18:31.52) and junior Zach O’Connor (57th, 18:56.00).

Brunswick had 217 points and was ninth. Senior Benson Worthington wound up fourth with a time of 16:58.94. Also scoring were sophomore Ja-mie Ross (14th, 17:53.39), senior Jacob Schwab (55th, 18:49.12), sophomore Dono-van Shea (63rd, 19:04.77) and sophomore Alex Nichols (81st, 19:38.48).

RogeR S. Duncan / FoR The FoRecaSTeRBrunswick sophomore Ryan

Maciejewski turns the corner and heads for a big gain during the

Dragons’ 51-0 win at Mt. Ararat in the regular season finale Saturday.

John JenSenIuS / FoR The FoRecaSTeRBrunswick senior Benson

Worthington sprints toward a fourth-place finish in the Class A boys’

cross country state meet Saturday afternoon. The Dragons finished

ninth as a team.

RogeR S. Duncan / FoR The FoRecaSTeRMt. Ararat sophomore Kelly Lynch holds off Massabesic’s Gabrielle

Johnson to finish seventh in the Class A girls’ race. The Eagles finished runner-up to three-time champion Cheverus.

Bowdoin field hockey advances

BRIan BeaRD / FoR The FoRecaSTeRBowdoin senior Liz Clegg possesses the ball during the Polar Bears’ 2-0 home win over Hamilton in last Saturday’s

NESCAC quarterfinal. Bowdoin advanced to host Trinity in the semifinals Saturday at 11 a.m. If the Polar Bears win that game, they’ll host either Amherst or Middlebury Sunday at 12 p.m., in the championship contest.

Taylor tip-off upcoming

The third annual Taylor tip-off basketball tournament will be held Sunday at Falmouth High School and Middle School’s gyms. The tournament is a fund-

raiser for the Taylor Memorial Fund which supports children across the state of Maine who have lost parents to domestic violence. The entry fee is based on donation with the target mini-mum of $200 per team. FMI, taylortipoff.org.

FootballMorse football’s playoff run

came to a quick end last week-end. The Shipbuilders, ranked eighth in Eastern B, were humbled by top-ranked Leavitt, the two-time defending regional champion, 61-12. Morse fin-ished its season at 4-5.

The Eastern A regular season came to a close Saturday when Brunswick went to Mt. Ararat and prevailed, 51-0.

The Eagles finished 0-9.The Dragons, meanwhile,

completed their regular season at 7-2 and wound up third in the final Crabtree Points standings. As a result, Brunswick will go to No. 2 Bangor (7-2) for the semifinals Friday at 7 p.m. In the opener, way back on Sept. 2, the Dragons dominated the Rams statistically, but turned the ball over six times and lost, 21-20.

Boys’ soccerThe boys’ soccer season

concluded for local teams last week.

In Eastern A, Brunswick took its fifth seed to No. 4 Hampden Academy for the quarterfinals and suffered a tough 1-0 loss to the Broncos to finish the year 7-4-4.

Mt. Ararat, ranked third, hosted No. 6 Messalonskee in the quarterfinals, but was upset, 1-0, to finish the year 8-2-5.

In Western B, fifth-ranked Morse had to go to No. 4 Ma-ranacook for the quarterfinals and suffered a 2-1 loss to finish 8-6-1. Cody Snyder scored for the Shipbuilders.

“It was playoff soccer, a great crowd, good play and chances

both ways,” said Morse coach Tom Rackmales. “We had our chances over the last half hour and even in the final couple of minutes, but didn’t find the net. We had a wonderful crowd come up to support us and we’re grateful. The boys played their hearts out.”

Girls’ soccerOn the girls’ side, two local

squads reached Wednesday’s regional final round (played too late for this edition)

In Western B, top-ranked Morse continued its dream season by eliminating No. 9

Lake Region (4-0) and No. 5 Maranacook (3-1) to improve to 16-0. Christina Stuart had two goals against the Black Bears while Bess Howell also scored. The Shipbuilders hosted defending state champion and No. 3 seed Falmouth (11-4-1) in the regional final. It was the first ever meeting between the schools. If Morse advanced, it would face either Presque Isle (14-1-1) or Hermon (13-2-1) in the Class B state final Saturday at a time to be announced at Hampden Academy.

In Eastern A, Brunswick, the No. 2 seed, had no problem with No. 7 Hampden Academy (6-1) or No. 3 Oxford Hills (5-0) to advance to a regional final showdown at top-ranked, undefeated, defending regional champion Bangor. The Drag-ons lost at home to the Rams, 5-1, on Sept. 24. If Brunswick could spring the upset, it would face either Gorham (16-0) or Scarborough (13-1-2) in Saturday’s Class A state final, at a time to be announced at Falmouth High School.

Mt. Ararat, the fifth seed, had its season end at 9-5-1 after a 1-0 quarterfinal round loss at No. 4 Waterville.

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Portland Ovations presents ‘101 Years of Broadway’By Scott Andrews

Musical theater has been a fixture of the New York scene since the middle of the 1800s, but the past century has represent-ed a golden age. That’s the central concept of Neil Berg’s historical revue,“101 Years of Broadway.” It’s a touring show, and it motors into Merrill Auditorium on Friday thanks to Portland Ovations.

Opera is another, much older form of musical theater. Excerpts and highlights from a number of shows will be presented on Friday when the University of South-ern Maine’s Spotlight Series features a husband-wife duo of opera singers in a revue titled “Cornucopia of Songs and Arias” on the Gorham campus.

Jorma Kaukonen was a founding mem-ber of Jefferson Airplane, the seminal San Francisco psychedelic rock en-semble of the 1960s. The Airplane’s been grounded for decades, but Kaukonen still flies around the world singing and play-ing guitar. He flies into Portland’s One Longfellow Square on Saturday.

‘101 Years of Broadway’Neil Berg is a pianist, composer,

lyricist, accompanist, music director and producer who has been active on the New York theatrical scene for three-plus decades. For the past few years he’s been combining these many talents in a revue that’s titled “100 Years of Broadway.” It’s been traveling around the country and it’s been so extraordinarily successful – including a 2010 stop in Portland – that Berg has produced a sequel: “101 Years of Broadway.”

That show visits the Port City on Friday, under the auspices of Portland Ovations.

The formula is simple. A team of five singers – each having starred in at least one Broadway show – performs a retro-spective revue of great songs and scenes from the past century, which represents a sort of golden age of American musi-cal theater. Berg himself will play piano, plus there’s a small orchestra to back up the singers.

ContributedA cast of five will sing favorite show tunes from the past century in Neil Berg’s “101 Years of

Broadway,” which plays Merrill Auditorium in Portland on Friday night under the auspices of

Portland Ovations.

The show also represents a microcosm of American culture. “The American musical is like the Frankenstein monster of musical art form,” Berg said. “Pieces have been liberally borrowed from opera, vaudeville, operetta, jazz, blues, pop mu-sic, rock ‘n’ roll, etc. This variety matches the ‘melting pot’ of immigrant cultures which makes up America. All these styles are represented are inherent to the ‘Broad-way’ sound.’”

American musical theater has evolved through a number of different eras, and “101 Years of Broadway” begins during the heyday of George M. Cohan, who was the leading impresario of the early 1900s. It continues through the dazzling era dominated by Florenz Ziegfeld’s an-nual “Follies” revues, and continues into the era dominated by the integrated book shows pioneered by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It concludes with the present day, including a number of mega-hits that originated in Europe.

Portland Ovations presents “101 Years of Broadway” at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

‘A Cornucopia of Songs and Arias’

Voice students at the University of Southern Maine School of Music have long benefited from the expertise of two senior teachers who have vast experience on the global opera scene. Remarkably, the pair are also celebrating their 36th wedding anniversary this fall.

Students and the public are invited to hear them this Friday as Malcolm Smith and Margaret Yauger present highlights from their operatic careers in “A Cornuco-pia of Songs and Arias,” part of the school of music’s Spotlight Series, which features faculty artists.

Smith and Yauger don’t intend to merely showcase their own considerable talents, but to turn the evening into a learning experience.

Yauger and Smith selected the collec-

tion of masterworks to demonstrate the variety and flexibility American singers need. “We’re trying to bring a little bit of our experience – everywhere we’ve sung and what we’ve done,” Smith said. “We didn’t want to specialize in something but to show the young artists that are going to be singers and teachers that they have to have this flexibility.”

The two also want to emphasize to their students that having performed a piece successfully doesn’t mean you’re done learning about it. Yauger is returning to the Gustav Mahler work that she sang in her own senior recital. “I later sang it with symphony orchestras, and now with this recital, which underscores the principal of varying and reworking a piece that I never finish,” Yauger said.

And Smith is singing the duet from “La Gioconda” that he performed in his Metropolitan Opera premiere. “After I premiered ‘La Gioconda’ at the Met, Margaret and I both sang the opera in Fort Worth, Texas. You never finish some-thing; you always go back and rework the songs,” Smith said.

One of America’s leading basses, Smith has appeared with the world’s major operatic and symphonic organizations.

He has performed with such renowned companies as the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ham-burg Opera, Munich Opera, Vienna State Opera and the Paris Opera Bastille. He has been heard in concert repertoire with such leading orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, the Baltimore, Montreal and National symphonies.

Yauger was the leading mezzo-soprano of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Duessel-dorf-Duisburg, Germany) for more than 10 years where she performed in more than 21 productions. In her operatic career she has performed more than 50 roles.

Both have sung with the Portland Sym-phony Orchestra and performed roles with PORTopera.

Catch the Cornucopia at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 at Corthell Hall on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Call the music box office at 780-5555.

Jorma KaukonenGuitarist-singer-songwriter Jorma

Kaukonen is still enjoying a career that began more than half a century ago when he started playing clubs and music rooms in San Francisco during the early 1960s. (Among his early efforts was accompany-ing the young Janis Joplin in her pre-Big Brother days.)

Kaukonen skyrocketed to fame as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, the seminal San Francisco psychedelic rock band. Around 1970 he also co-found-ed another group that still plays together, at least occasionally: Hot Tuna.

As a guitarist, Kaukonen pioneered the finger style that helped define Jefferson Airplane’s distinctive sound, and he’s been rated by Rolling Stone as the 54th greatest rock guitarist of all time and the 14th great-est acoustic guitarist. Plus he’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Catch Jorma Kaukonen at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State streets) in Portland. Call 761-1757.

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BrunswickMon. 11/7 1 p.m. Staff Review Hawthorne SchoolMon. 11/7 7 p.m. Town Council BSTue. 11/8 4 p.m. Police Station Building Committee BSTue. 11/8 4:30 p.m. Teen Center Advisory People PlusWed. 11/9 5 p.m. Conservation Commission BSWed. 11/9 7 p.m. School Board BSThu. 11/10 7 p.m. Cable TV Committee BS

HarpswellMon. 11/7 4 p.m. Energy Committee THMon. 11/7 5:30 p.m. Mitchell Field and Affordable Housing Workshop with Board of Selectmen THTue. 11/8 8 a.m. Voting (polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) THWed. 11/9 3:30 p.m. Budget Advisory Committee THWed. 11/9 6:30 p.m. Selectmen Meeting w/Harpswell Businesses THThu. 11/10 6 p.m. Selectmen’s Meeting TH

BathMon. 11/7 7 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals CHThu. 11/10 4:30 p.m. Community Development Committee CH

TopshamMon. 11/7 7 p.m. Board of Appeals MBTue. 11/8 6 p.m. Energy Efficiency Workshop MBTue. 11/8 6:30 p.m. Conservation Commission MBWed. 11/9 7:30 a.m. Topsham Development Inc. MBWed. 11/9 3:30 p.m. Tree Committee MBWed. 11/9 6 p.m. Historic District Commission MBThu. 11/10 2:30 p.m. History Committee MBThu. 11/10 6:30 p.m. Comp Plan Implementation Committee MB

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Saturday 11/5Auction to benefit St. John’s Catholic School, 5 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, Brunswick, FMI 725-5507.

Saturday 11/12Opus One Big Band Performance, to benefit Brunswick High School, 6 p.m., 116 Maquoit Road, Bruns-wick, $10 adults/$5 students, FMI Mary 798-2064

Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Mid Coast Presbyterian Church, 84 Main St., Topsham, FMI 729-3193.

Saturday 11/19Thanks for Giving Gala Charity Event, 6-10 p.m., Inn at Brunswick Sta-tion. Proceeds benefit the Dean Snell Cancer Foundation. FMI 789-5891.

Bulletin BoardFriday 11/4Maine Association of Payroll Professionals Seminar, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Augusta Civic Center, to register or FMI 626-2405.

Saturday 11/5Bells of St. Mary Christmas Fair, 8 a.m.-2 p.m, St. Mary’s Church Hall, 114 Lincoln St., Bath, FMI Pauline 443-6170.

Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Eli-jah Kellog Church, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell, FMI Gladys Wright 729-5702 or Carrie Bubbier 729-6267.

Sunday 11/6Interfaith Memorial Service, 2 p.m., Bath United Church of Christ Congregational Sanctuary, 150 Congress Ave., Bath, 721-1357.

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Wednesday 11/9Bath-Tsugaru Japan Exchange Program, public meeting, 6-8 p.m., Winter St. Church, 880 Washington St., Bath, 443-8330.

Personal Finance & Investing: Doing your own research, 5:30 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, FMI 725-5242 ext. 216.

Friday 11/11Art and Book Sale, Nov. 11, 12-3 p.m and Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Maine Maritime Museum’s Long Reach Hall, Bath, FMI mainemari-timemuseum.org or 443-1316.

Saturday 11/12Curtis Kids book sale, 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, 725-5242, [email protected].

Sunday 11/13Bath Antiques Show, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Bath Middle School, $4 ad-mission. FMI 443-8983.

Tuesday 11/15Midcoast Retired Educators As-sociation Annual Meeting, 11 a.m., Maine Vocational Region 10 High School, Church Road, Brunswick. FMI 721-0659.

Wednesday 11/16eReader Information Session, 6 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Sum-mer St., Bath, FMI 443-5141 ext. 25.

Thursday 11/17Tedford Housing Annual Meeting, 5:30 p.m., Cram Alumni Building, Bowdoin College, suggested $20 donation, RSVP by Nov. 9, FMI 729-1661 ext. 101 or [email protected].

Saturday 11/19Brunswick Visitor Center Craft Fair, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Brunswick. FMI 789-5891.

Early Bird Downtown Sale Day, 7-11 a.m., Downtown Brunswick. FMI 729-4439.

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ing of selling coal, too, which he said is cleaner and more efficient than it used to be.

But Feenstra is also relying on a niche to carry his oil business: customers in the Low Income Energy Assistance Program and municipalities.

“We’re one of the few companies that will go out and do a 25-gallon or 50-gallon drop” without charging extra for the small amount of fuel being delivered, he said. Most other oil companies charge a fee for anything less than 100 gallons.

“We do a lot of general assistance to the towns,” he said. “We’re there for the people.”

Some other oil companies aren’t adding any new products. Instead, they’re trying to win customers the old-fashioned way: by under-cutting their competition.

Dale Brown, owner of Richmond-based Dale’s Cash Fuel, which delivers in the greater Portland area, said he has definitely noticed that his customers are switching to alternative fuels, and he doesn’t blame them. In fact, he heats his home with pro-

pane, he said, “because it’s cheaper.”But as the only employee of his company

– he answers the phone, drives the truck, pumps the oil and does the accounting – he’s not in a position to offer his customers anything else.

Instead, he thinks his one-man company works to his advantage by allowing him to sell oil more inexpensively than larger com-panies with more overhead. For example, Dale’s Cash Fuel was selling heating oil for $3.39 on Oct. 31, while Dead River Co., one of the largest in the region, charged $3.60 on Nov. 1.

“I can sell fuel cheaper than a lot of people because it’s just me and a truck,” Brown said.

But unlike Dead River, Brown doesn’t offer pre-payment plans, emergency deliv-ery, boiler service or lines of credit. He’s cash only, and delivers only if the drop is arranged in advance.

“I’m as small-scale as you can get be-cause I haven’t invested in a bulk plant and all these things,” he said. “That’s why I can sell my oil cheaper than anyone else.”

As a one-man operation, it may seem that

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Cell towerfrom page 1



and his wife, Laura, grow organic veg-etables and raise livestock, he prompted them to think about what they were doing.

The answer – distributing the manure adds nutrients to the soil – led to a discussion about soil formation and decomposition.

Experiences like these form the core of Grady’s farm science class, called “Na-ture’s Design on the Farm.” This is the first time Grady, a former high school sci-ence teacher, has offered the class, which integrates his family’s work on the farm with a science curriculum tailored to 8- to 13-year-olds.

His goal is that his students, who include his two daughters, gain a better understand-ing of where food comes from and the sci-ence behind growing what they eat, as well as learning about farming.

“Kids are not nearly connected enough to what happens on a farm,” he said.

Grady also wanted to make learning more physical and interactive.

application to build a 75-foot monopole tower at 14 Oak St., in Topsham’s Heights neighborhood, in June 2010. The company needed conditional approval for the tower

before undergoing site plan and transmis-sion tower reviews.

Mariner and T-Mobile, which would have been a carrier on the tower, sued the town in July 2010 to obtain the permits the Planning Board denied. The lawsuit sought an injunction and a conditional use permit, along with every other permit required for the tower to be built and operated.

T-Mobile withdrew from the case in September 2010. Topsham residents voted 2,358 to 1,933 two months later to ban new cell towers in the town’s Urban Residential Zone. The ban was retroactive to April 1, 2010.


Although the class ends next week, Grady hopes to offer it again in the spring, and eventually to take his programming on the road to local schools.

“Part of it is bringing kids here and work-ing, but part of it is bringing a little taste of what we do into schools,” he said. “That’s a niche that needs filling.”

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Waterfrontfrom page 1


partly on half an acre of town property and on waterfront land owned by the Fore River Co., which also owns the Bowdoin Mill.

Roedner said the constraints and oppor-tunities of the space – a total of about two acres – are being investigated.

One constraint is a 24-foot drop to the water.

“It’s not this gentle walk to the water, car-rying your boat with you; it’d be a process to get there,” Roedner said.

The Wright-Pierce engineering firm, the

Brown is vulnerable to the ups and downs of the price of heating oil, as well as any circumstances that could interfere with his ability to deliver oil.

But he’s not nearly as vulnerable as mid-sized oil companies with more staff, infrastructure and equipment, Py said.

“The one-, two-truck operators are the most flexible and have the lowest over-head,” Py said. “They may have some difficulties, but really it’s the mid-level companies that have a lot of overhead they have to carry.”

He pointed to last January’s sudden col-lapse of Brunswick-based Thibeault Energy as an example.

It’s still unclear what contributed to Thibeault’s demise, but owners of other oil companies speculated that Thibeault may have been struggling to pay off its new oil terminal, constructed in 2003, or incorrectly guessed the price of oil and been forced to buy it at a higher price than what was offered to customers in pre-paid contracts.

“If you’re a company and you’re guessing on what your commodity costs will be ... that’s a bad place to be,” Py said.

From oil to ‘energy’Perhaps the clearest indication of how

oil companies are adapting to the change in the market may be the way Maine Energy Marketers Association, a trade group for fuel companies, has rebranded itself.

Two years ago, the organization changed its name from Maine Oil Dealers Associa-tion, “to reflect the business practices of our existing membership, which included pro-viding other products besides oil,” Py said.

“While the branding was good, the reality was the members were not just doing that anymore,” he said.

Downeast Energy recently announced a new partnership with ReVision Energy, a solar panel manufacturer, which will help to further its identity as an energy company, not just an oil company.

“We’re not fighting the tide,” McCor-mack said. “... We need to find out what people will be buying for energy, and adapt and change.”

Emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext.123 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter:

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lead consultant on the project, produced a draft waterfront access study report.

That report noted that as a result of the input-gathering process, there was general consensus in favor of hand-carry boat ac-cess, with some public gathering space or an area for a park. Improvements to pedes-trian and bicycle access and vehicular traf-fic flow throughout the Lower Village were also desired, as well as adequate parking for local businesses and park users.

The draft report recommends the town proceed with a preliminary design plan out-lining “the scale and location of park and waterfront improvements with the Village

Area that it feels will best meet the needs of the community.”

Its plans should consider the immediate and long-term goals for waterfront access in light of existing resources, the report states.

Those plans should also consider the need to acquire additional land or ease-ments if necessary, and show any possible private landowners a clear plan of Top-sham’s development goals “with the un-derstanding that it may be unlikely that the Town will be able to acquire a significant

portion of remaining undeveloped land in the Lower Village with waterfront access,” according to the report.

The document also notes that the scale of project construction costs and impact on environmentally regulated resources should be closely examined to come up with a real-istic schedule for implementing the project, and its funding needs.

A public meeting on the preliminary plan will be held Nov. 21, with a final plan expected in December.


“The need to sit down and be quiet all day is brutal,” he said, especially for boys. Grady believes that education centered around doing activities is not only better for many students, but is more realistic than shuffling between classrooms inside a school building.

“What we want to provide our kids, more than anything else, is that knowledge and understanding of what life is like day to day,” he said. “School in general is not realistic in a lot of ways.”

Every Monday and Wednesday, a group of students from Harpswell and surrounding towns spend most of the day at Two Coves Farm learning how farm life works. They care for animals, make compost, and use tools, while also studying ecology, physics and chemistry.

The blurring of the lines between work, school and play is what makes the class so appealing to students and parents.

When asked if they enjoyed Grady’s class, the six students who attended on

Monday were quick to answer with a re-sounding yes.

“It feels like having fun, it doesn’t really feel like school,” said 13-year old Nick Comey, of Harpswell.

“We get to be outside a lot and we spend time with animals,” said Yvette Grady, 10, Joe Grady’s daughter.

Parent Elizabeth Davis, whose 10-year old daughter Rose participates in the class, is equally thrilled.

“This morning (Rose) was shoveling cow manure,” she said. “That’s fabulous. And she really gets what’s going on with cow manure and why it makes the soil rich when it goes into the earth.”

After feeding the turkeys during Mon-day’s class, the students walked back up the hill to the woodshop to learn about worms and the role they play in decomposition.

They assembled wooden boxes to hold worms and compost, and as they took turns hammering and holding the wood, Grady moved between the pairs, straightening bent nails and wiggling the pieces into place. Then they rooted through the compost for worms.

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asked at a recent legislative committee meeting how long it typically takes to inspect a dam.

“I don’t know the answer to that,” he said.

Even if it took two weeks to inspect a dam, that would mean 26 could be in-spected per year, very close to the bench-mark needed to keep up with the law.

In an email, McAleer, replied:“If all ( Fletcher) did was inspect dams,

then one might expect that more than six inspections could be completed in a year. (It should also be noted that Mr. Fletcher has completed external inspec-tions on approximately nine other dams and is scheduled to complete the internal inspections when water levels will allow him to gain entry.) I have provided a list of Mr. Fletcher’s responsibilities that de-tails the numerous duties his job entails. Mr. Fletcher must decide on a daily basis which of those numerous tasks are most important for him to do based on the pri-orities of the Agency.

“Given the fact that most of the State’s dams are in reasonably sound condition, spending time inspecting a healthy dam may not be as important as working with dam owners to ensure they have a work-able Emergency Action Plan. The real crux of the matter, however, is in having a clear understanding of what a thorough dam inspection entails ... .”

The list provided by McAleer includes 24 “Job Tasks,” from conducting hazard classification inspections to ensuring that

Emergency Action Plans are completed for the high and significant hazard dams.

Dams: safe or not?McAleer’s statement that most of the

state’s dams are in “reasonably sound condition,” however, is not in accord with previous statements by him and Fletcher.

In May, Fletcher said, “There are dams that are in poor condition. It’s very diffi-cult to predict if a dam’s going to breach. ... There are no dams that I can say are in an imminent stage of failure, but it’s a very difficult call to make.”

Two months ago, McAleer said, “It’s incumbent on you to inspect them and see what their condition is. You can’t assume that a dam that was built 100 years ago is as solid today as it was 100 years ago.”

MEMA records shows 25 of the 93 hazardous dams are 100 years old or more.

Uncompensated hoursMcAleer defended Fletcher’s work

habits: “Tony is a unique individual who could probably make a lot more money who is also dedicated to this program. It’s phenomenal the times of day I get emails from him. We basically have to chase him out of the office.”

In his email, McAleer added, “Unlike many State employees, the nature of Mr. Fletcher’s position does not afford him the luxury of a regular eight-hour-per-day schedule. Because of travel requirements and the frequent necessity to meet with dam owners at their convenience, Mr. Fletcher very frequently works early in the morning, late into the night and on weekends. ... Because of this requirement, we are flexible with exactly what hours he works in the office.”

For example, he said on Oct. 12, one of the days Fletcher coached the rugby team, he worked 8.5 hours, not the eight hours on his time sheet, because he began work at 7 a.m. in Newport.

“Generally speaking,” McAleer wrote, “on practice days (Fletcher) will arrive at work early and/or return to work after practice. Given the tremendous number of non-compensated hours he works on a regular basis, any concerns about him working a full 40-hour work week are simply baseless.”

“This past weekend he worked over seven hours on Sunday,” McAleer said, referring to Oct. 22-23 “All of those extra hours are uncompensated.”

State carMcAleer estimated that Fletcher has

used his state vehicle to drive to Colby “10 percent of the time or less.”

“Technically speaking, this is not an authorized use of the vehicle,” McAleer said. “Mr. Fletcher lives north of Water-ville, so some might consider a slight detour to Colby ‘incidental’ use. However, we have taken steps to avoid such use in the future.”

Fletcher lives in Farmington. Driving from Augusta to Colby and then to Farm-ington adds another 20 miles to Fletcher’s trip home from the office in the state car.

McAleer said Fletcher is authorized to use the state vehicle to commute to his job because he “often leaves directly from home to do field work or returns late in the evening from trips.”

Lax approach not newIn McAleer’s defense of his program, he

cites the improvements made in producing

Emergency Action Plans for the hazard-ous dam locations. The EAPs set out procedures in the event a dam fails, such as notification to downstream residents to evacuate.

But those plans improved only after media scrutiny.

“I believe we are running as strong a program as can be expected with the re-sources we have available and it is getting better,” McAleer wrote. “As an example, in the last five years, EAP compliance on State-regulated high hazard dams has risen from around 5 percent to 100 percent and significant hazard dams are now at 87 percent.”

But the state began improving its EAP program only after a news story by Kevin Wack in the Blethen Maine Newspapers in 2006 revealed that 71 percent of the high and significant hazard dams had no emergency plans or the plan expired.

Fletcher told reporter Wack the emer-gency plans are needed because “a dam is like a loaded gun.”

McAleer, though, remains certain MEMA can do the job:

“I am confident that we have met the intent of the Legislature to ensure the safety of Maine’s citizens,” he said. “And we will continue to do so in spite of the challenges we face.”

John Christie and Naomi Schalit are senior reporters at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism organization that provides in-depth reporting as a public service to its Maine media partners. The e-mail address is [email protected]. The website is pinetreewatchdog.org.


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preserving Portland’s historic Stroudwater neighborhood.”

A press release at the time noted that “her projects have included the Tate House, which operates as a public museum, and which has restored to original condition one of the first houses built in Portland. Our neighborhood and future generations of Portland citizens owe Mary Lou Sprague our profound thanks for her extraordinary

leadership.”Stroudwater is just one of the organiza-

tions dedicated to historic preservation that have benefited from Sprague’s support and vision. Others include the Maine Maritime Museum, the Owls Head Transportation Center, and Strawberry Banke.

In explaining her commitment to keeping history alive, Sprague said, “we have to know where we’ve come from.”

Her many hobbies, most of which she continues to this day, confirm that this is a woman on the move: skiing, tennis, trout

fishing, sailing, and gardening. But driving a pair of Morgan horses around her farm three or four days a week is her greatest outlet.

“Some people study yoga,” she said. “I drive my horses. It’s just fabulous being outdoors.”

A Mainer through and through, Sprague said this of her home state: “Here in Maine we’re comfortable with ourselves. We say

what we darn well please, and we mean it.”With six children and 14 grandchildren

(and a 15th on the way), Sprague has many young people right in her family to whom she can pass on her wisdom and energy.

If you listen to what Sprague might say if she were asked to speak at a Waynflete graduation, you know she has walked the talk: “Don’t just follow your own dream,” she said. “Cultivate companionable dreams so you can work with others to achieve them.”


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