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Christopher Vail (right), candidate for mayor, gets a briefi ng on how to gather signatures from elections offi cial Bud Philbrick while picking up nomination papers at the City Clerks’ offi ce Thursday. (CURTIS ROBINSON PHOTO)

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Play aims to support labor mural fi ghtEfforts to restore the famous mural depict-

ing Maine's labor history to state offi ce walls will receive a fi nancial boost on Saturday in Portland.

Sparking an outcry in late March, Gov. Paul LePage ordered the removal of the 36-foot-long labor mural from the lobby of the Department of Labor headquarters in Augusta.

On Saturday at 8 p.m., Harlan Baker, a former legislator and longtime activist and actor, will appear as the title character in "Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Move-ment," at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard in Portland.

Although event organizers said that specif-ics of where the money would be used would be decided in the future, they added that all proceeds will support the return of the mural,

Harlan Baker practices lines at Lucid Stage, a recently opened performance and arts venue on Baxter Boulevard. On Saturday, he returns there to per-form a benefi t for the Maine labor mural. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

In reversal, city worker cleared for mayoral run

A city employee blocked from running for mayor by municipal employment policies will be allowed to run after all, based in part on a legal argument that Port-land’s newly elected mayor will not actually supervise anyone.

Chris Vail, a city fi refi ghter since 1999, picked up his formal nomination papers yesterday at the City Clerk’s offi ce after a week-long legal argument caused Portland Corporate Counsel Gary Wood to reverse an opinion that city workers could not seek the mayor’s offi ce.

Vail became the 17th person to take out petition papers necessary to become a formal mayoral candi-date.

Vail said trouble surfaced about two weeks ago when Wood called the fi re chief and noted that city policy forbids employees from seeking offi ce. That notice prompted Vail to engage an attorney. Based on legal advice, he explained, he went through the motions of seeking candidate forms knowing they would likely be withheld.

Will Mallett (left) and Luke Mallett perform as part of The Mallett Brothers Band Thursday in Monument Square at the launch of the Alive at Five free concert series. The series is sponsored by Sebago Brewing Co., the Portland Downtown District, WCYY and several other businesses, and kicks off every Thursday at 5 p.m. in the square. The Mallett Brothers Band, a Portland-based alternative country group, released a self-titled debut album that hit No. 1 for local albums at Bull Moose Music. They were followed on stage by Paranoid Social Club. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Alive at Five hits the stage

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BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Forest Ave. needs a ‘Main Street’ treatmentSee Jeffrey S. Spofford’s column on page 4

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“We would go swim every single day,” said Olivia, sitting behind by a wire fence near a “Keep Out” notice. “And we’d get there the next day when it opens.”

There are few things in life more doleful than a child looking at a closed pool on a steamy summer day, and yet that sad scene has become as common as sunburns and mosquito bites as struggling local governments make the painful choice to shut their pools to save the budget. The list of locales where public pools have been in jeop-ardy in recent years includes some of the sweatiest spots in the nation, including Cen-tral Florida (90s and humid on the Fourth), Atlanta (90), and Houston (97). And while corporate and nonprofi t white knights sometimes appear at the last minute to salvage at least some of the summer, some say that the age of free dips on the public dime is increasingly endangered.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Obama said on Thursday that budget nego-tiations at the White House had been “very constructive,” though the two sides “were still far apart on a wide range of issues.”

He said that the talks would continue into the weekend, and that Congressio-nal leaders would meet with him again on Sunday.

At the weekend session, the president said, he hoped that Democrats and Repub-licans would “at least know where each other’s bottom lines are,” allowing them to enter critical bargaining over a multitril-lion-dollar package that would reduce the

defi cit and spare the federal government from defaulting on its debts.

Obama, appearing at the White House after meeting with Speaker John A. Boeh-ner and other Republican and Democratic leaders, said both sides had pledged to come to an agreement before Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department says the govern-ment will reach a debt ceiling that will make further borrowing impossible.

“Nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to,” Obama said of the substance of the talks, which are ranging across enti-tlement programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, as well as

tax-related measures like the closing of loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthy and corporate interests.

“People were frank,” Mr. Obama said. “We discussed the various options that are available to us.”

The president’s renewed efforts follow what knowledgeable offi cials said was an overture from Mr. Boehner, who met secretly with Mr. Obama last weekend, to consider as much as $1 trillion in unspeci-fi ed new revenue as part of an overhaul of tax laws in exchange for an agreement that made substantial spending cuts, including in social programs.

Obama calls debt talks constructive

LONDON (NY Times) — The media titan Rupert Murdoch sought to stanch damage from a deepening phone-hacking scandal on Thurs-day by sacrifi cing the mass-circula-tion British weekly The News of the World, in a bid to protect his News Corporation empire. The paper will publish its fi nal issue on Sunday.

The saga turned yet more dis-turbing Thursday with sugges-tions that the paper had broken into the voicemail not only of a 13-year-old murder victim but also of relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the paper had paid tens of thou-

sands of dollars in bribes to police offi cers for information.

The scandal had been taking a toll on the News Corporation, driving down its stock price. Some advertisers were fl eeing The News of the World, and new doubts emerged about Murdoch’s proposed $12 billion takeover of the pay-television company Brit-ish Sky Broadcasting, in which he already owns a large stake. Many legislators have now criticized the deal, and it appears unlikely that the government will decide before the end of the summer whether to let it go ahead.

Murdoch to close tabloid amid fury over hacking

SANA, Yemen (NY Times) — President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen appeared on television Thursday for the fi rst time since he was injured in a bombing of his presidential com-pound’s mosque a month ago. The prerecorded broadcast from Saudi Arabia, where he has been recuperating since the attack, showed him speaking with diffi culty, with a red Saudi head-dress and a darkened face from the severe burns he suffered.

Saleh, who remained seated, said “I underwent eight surgi-cal operations.” Both of his arms were bandaged and did not move. It was unclear precisely when the message was recorded.

Saleh’s televised appearance comes amid growing political uncertainty in the impoverished nation and appeared likely to embolden Saleh’s supporters while riling the thousands of pro-testers still massed in the streets of the capital, Sana, calling for him to resign. After the speech, supporters in the capital and cities around Yemen celebrated with fi reworks and bursts of gunfi re.

His appearance seemed aimed at buttressing those supporters and dispelling rumors that he had succumbed to his wounds. He made no mention of when — or if — he would return to Yemen.

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including supporting legal challenges to the governor's actions.

The performance aims to "keep the issue of the labor mural in focus," Baker said Thursday.

In deciding to take down the mural, LePage cited an anonymous fax from a “secret admirer” comparing the 36-foot wall painting to something in “communist North Korea." The governor won a key legal victory in April when a federal judge ruled that LePage did not violate the free speech clause of the First Amendment when he ordered the mural removed. Deny-ing an injunction, Justice John Wood-cock Jr. said that state-owned works of art are "government speech," and that political leaders are entitled to select the art that is displayed in state offi ces.

But the mural battle continues, with a group called Mainers United for the Rights of Art & Labor seeking the art's restoration and others seek-ing legal remedies.

"I frankly don't think there was a heavy-handed message in that mural, it was just a representation of what people did," Baker said. "I don't think you can deny history."

Rob Shetterly, a member of Main-ers United for the Rights of Art & Labor, one of the plaintiffs in a law-suit against the governor, said Thurs-day that initially a team of lawyers was handling the group's mural case pro bono; but now that the case has taken longer than expected to resolve, litigants understand that legal costs will come due.

A blog dedicated to the mural's res-toration, M.U.R.A.L.: Saving the "His-tory of Maine Labor" mural (http://mainelabormural.blogspot.com), calls this Day 102 in the group's "mural hostage vigil."

Baker said the goal of Saturday's performance is twofold: "We know that there are expenses involved in that (legal fi ght)," so the benefi t show will donate to the cause; but there's also an educational component, he said.

"We're also trying to raise a little consciousness about labor history, which is really what the mural is all about," Baker said.

"One of the things I found in doing my show primarily to non-union audi-ences is that people had no idea about some of the things that happened in history," as related to the labor move-

ment in America, Baker said.A fi ctional portrait of a labor activist

in the early 1900s, "Jimmy Higgins" premiered at the St. Lawrence Arts Center in April of 2008 and has since been performed at colleges, union halls and theaters throughout New England. Baker, an adjunct lecturer for the theater department for the University of Southern Maine, and a former member of the Maine Legisla-ture who served on the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, recently per-formed "Jimmy Higgins" in another hotbed of labor controversy: Madison, Wis.

On March 31, "Jimmy Higgins" played to a packed house in Madison at the dedication of a Madison Labor History mural there.

"When I did the show in Madison, it was at the dedication of the Madi-son Labor History mural, which was less than a week before the mural in Augusta was taken down," Baker recalled.

"I was doing the show in between walking picket lines outside the Capi-tol," he said of his Madison visit.

The idea of staging "Jimmy Hig-gins" here as a benefi t emerged from a conversation between Baker and Maine Rep. Diane Russell, D-Port-land. Baker remembered talking with Russell about doing a special show. Russell herself had traveled to Madi-son to join protesters of that state's Republican governor and legislators amid a fl urry of union-related legisla-tion in Wisconsin. Baker said Satur-day's show will serve as a reminder of what has happened with the mural in Maine while offering a refresher on the upheaval in Wisconsin.

"The issue I think has faded some-what obviously, just as the issue in Wisconsin is no longer front-page news," Baker said.

Tickets for Saturday's show are $15 and can be purchased online at www.LucidStage.com or by calling 899-3993.

Harlan Baker will appear as Jimmy Higgins in a one man show he has written, “Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement,” 8 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard. Baker is the Vice President of Local No. 4593 American Federation of Teachers, which repre-sents the part time faculty in the University of Maine System. The show will be a fundraiser to restore Maine’s Labor Mural. (COURTESY PHOTO)

MURAL from page one

On March 31, ‘Jimmy Higgins’ played to a packed house in Madison, Wis.

Volunteers are mobilizing to circulate a petition for citizens who want to reject a recently enacted law that would move voter registration back to the Thursday prior to Election Day.

On Wednesday, Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers fi nalized a ballot question.

LD 1376, “An Act To Preserve the Integrity of the Voter Registration and Election Process” was passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Paul LePage on June 21. The law, ending Election Day voter reg-istration, is scheduled to take effect as Public Law Chapter 399 on Sept. 28, Summers noted.

But signature gathering kick-off media events will be held in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland today for volunteers to pick up petitions and for supporters to sign on in a bid to repeal the law, the Maine Peo-

ple’s Alliance announced Thursday. A coalition for a people’s veto will announce the formation of a politi-cal action committee to support signature collection and the election campaign, the alliance announced.

Citizens have until the 90th day after the recess of the Legislature to collect and have verifi ed sig-natures of registered Maine voters equivalent to 10 percent of the total votes for governor in the last gubernatorial election in order to force a statewide vote on the enacted measure. The current number of certifi ed signatures required is 57,277, Summers reported.

The Secretary of State is charged with drafting the question for the ballot, Summers noted in a press release. He said the question will appear on the ballot as follows: “Do you want to reject the sec-tion of Chapter 399 of the Public Law of 2011 that requires new voters to register to vote at least two

business days prior to an election?”In order for the people’s veto question to appear

on the Nov. 8, 2011 referendum ballot, the petition must be submitted to the Secretary of State by Aug. 8, and the Governor’s Proclamation must be issued by Sept. 8, Summers explained. If the Governor’s Proclamation is not issued by this date, the ques-tion will appear on the ballot for the next statewide election on June 12, 2012. If the Secretary of State rules suffi cient signatures have been submitted by petition, a stay would continue until after the voters decide on the question during a statewide election.

The paperwork to initiate a people’s veto was sub-mitted on June 21 by Barbara McDade, the presi-dent of the League of Women Voters of Maine, and fi ve other signers, the alliance reported.

Those interested in volunteering can sign up at: www.protectmainevotes.com.

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It’s starting to come together.Forest Avenue, for years victim

to the automotive age with its wide expanse, barren landscape and an overall feel that makes you want to do exactly what the road is currently designed for – drive right through it – is being thoroughly studied by an offi -cial city committee for aesthetic, pedestrian, public transport and even traffi c fl ow improvement.

Available for public consump-tion at portlandmaine.gov/forestave.htm, the plan is a great start. I love the way the design team has included more trees, lighting fi xtures that are sure to attract foot traffi c after sunset, brick crosswalks, and bike lanes. The plan, which starts at Wood-ford’s Corner and heads inbound right up to the interchange with 295, serves to reconnect us Deer-ing types with the rest of the city.

Landlords along the entire stretch who may have a hard time fi nding tenants will sud-denly fi nd themselves staring at waiting lists of businesses look-ing to locate here. Because Forest Avenue has been treated like a slow-speed turnpike over the last 40 years, there just hasn’t been much incentive to do any more

Let’s give Forest Avenue the ‘Main Street’ treatment it deserves

than standard upkeep. Building owners, noticing the changes, will want to make aesthetic improve-ments to their buildings to attract higher rents.

The fi rst thing I think of as a Portland taxpayer, of course, is the cost of all these changes. But it seems to me that a major investment on what is THE main street for this side of town will only serve to pay itself back many times over. Based on the presen-tation I saw, building values and hence tax revenue is sure to go up. Fees collected from building permits issued to landlords, busi-nesses and even homeowners looking to capitalize on the revi-talization for increased equity, cash fl ow and value will add to the pot. The new jobs that could be potentially created at any new business and the retail or service sales they garner will only serve to improve our local economy as

a whole.No initial plan is perfect, and

there are some things that I would like to see that are miss-ing. The Metro is a great service, but as anyone who takes the 2 bus inbound can attest, it’s not partic-ularly reliable time-wise once car traffi c picks up. It may be the pipe dream of a train-enthusiast; but a dedicated, center track trolley going all the way from Riverton to Congress Street would do a lot to not only get people into town, but also attract peninsula-dwellers to Forest Avenue to help pay for the improvements in the plan with their commerce.

I would also like to see more formal planning surrounding the exit 6 interchange with 295. The Maine DOT has put off perform-ing any improvement work, which is badly needed no matter what for safety alone, until our local study is complete. Before making any changes to exit 6, the DOT will take the city’s fi ndings into consid-eration. No matter what they come up with for an exit layout, a huge key to a successful reconnection of Forest Avenue with the peninsula would be to eliminate the ability

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The House speaker, John Boehner, suggests that the Republican threat of letting the United States default on its debts is driven by concern for jobs for ordinary Americans.

“We cannot miss this opportunity,” he told Fox News. “If we want jobs to come to America, we’ve got to give American businesspeople the confi -dence to invest in our economy.”

So take a look at one of the tax loopholes that

Taxes and billionaires

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Congressional Republicans are refusing to close — even if the cost is that America’s credit rating blows up. This loophole has nothing to do with creating jobs and every-thing to do with protecting some of America’s wealthiest fi nanciers.

If there were an award for Most Unconscionable Tax Loophole, this one would win grand prize.

Wait, wake up! I know that “tax policy” makes one’s eyes glaze over, but that’s how fi nanciers have gotten away with paying a lower tax rate than their chauffeurs or personal train-ers. Tycoons have bet for years that the public is too stupid or distracted to note that in many cases they’re paying just a 15 percent tax rate.

What’s at stake is the “carried interest” loophole, and President Obama is pushing to close it. The White House estimates that this would raise $20 billion over a decade. But Congressional Republi-cans walked out of budget talks rather than dis-cuss raising revenues from measures such as this one.

The biggest threat to the United States this summer probably doesn’t come from Iran or Libya but from the home-grown risk that the nation will default on its debts. We don’t know the economic consequences for America or the world, and some of the hand-wringing may be overblown — or maybe not — but it’s reckless of Republicans even to toy with such a threat.

This carried interest loophole benefi ts managers of fi nancial partnerships such as hedge funds, pri-vate equity funds, venture capital funds and real estate funds — who are among the highest-paid

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people in the world. John Paulson, a hedge fund manager in New York City, made $4.9 billion last year, top of the chart for hedge fund managers, according to AR Magazine, which fol-lows hedge funds. That’s equivalent to the average per capita income of 184,000 Americans, according to my back-of-envelope calculations based on Census Bureau fi gures.

Mr. Paulson declined to comment on this tax break, but here’s how it works. These fund managers are compensated mostly with a perfor-mance bonus of 20 percent or more of the profi ts they make. Under this carried interest loophole, that 20 percent is eligible to be taxed at the long-term capital gains rate (if the fund’s underlying assets are held long enough) of just 15 percent rather than the regular personal income rate of 35 percent.

This tax loophole is also intellec-tually vacuous. The performance fee is a return on the manager’s labor, not his or her capital, so there’s no reason to give it preferential capital gains treatment.

“The carried interest loophole rep-resents everyone’s worst fear about the tax system — that the rich and powerful get away with murder,” says Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of Colorado, Boul-der, who has written about the issue. “Closing the loophole won’t fi x the budget by itself, but it gets us one step closer to justice.”

At a time when the richest 1 per-cent of Americans have a greater collective net worth than the entire

bottom 90 percent, there are other ways we could raise money while also making tax policy more equi-table. The White House is backing some of them in its negotiations with Congress, but others aren’t even in play.

One important proposal has to do with founder’s stock, the shares people own in companies they found. Professor Fleischer has written an interesting paper persuasively argu-ing that founder’s stock is hugely undertaxed. It, too, is essentially a return on labor, not capital, and shouldn’t benefi t from the low capi-tal gains rate.

Likewise, Europe is moving toward a fi nancial transactions tax on trades made in fi nancial markets. That is something long championed by some economists — especially James Tobin, who won a Nobel Prize for his work — and it would also raise tens of billions of dollars at a time when it is desperately needed. It makes sense.

The larger question is this: Do we try to balance budget defi cits just by cutting antipoverty initia-tives, college scholarships and other investments in young people and our future? Or do we also seek tax increases from those best able to afford them?

And when Congressional Republi-cans claim that the reason for their recalcitrance in budget negotiations is concern for the welfare of ordinary Americans, look more closely. Do we really want to close down the Ameri-can government and risk another global fi nancial crisis to protect the tax bills of billionaires?

of vehicles to simply yield and instead make them come to a complete stop when exiting the highway. It is too dan-gerous to walk beneath 295 any other way.

The fi nal wish of mine lands squarely in the hands of the Univer-sity of Southern Maine. USM owns the building that serves as not only the gateway to their campus, but also as the gateway to Forest Avenue. For the last few years, the front of the building facing our “main street” has been locked shut.

On the website for the Glickman Family Library, the university claims the building was designed to “symbol-ize a gateway to USM, and to serve as a tangible reminder of USM’s pres-ence in the community.” Former Uni-versity President Richard Pattenaude even spoke about the important sym-bolism of having the front door facing outward toward the community in his library dedication speech. Today, the only way to enter the building is around back and the inviting picnic tables that used to encourage stu-dents to gather on the front patio have been removed. The front of the build-

ing is also now especially unwelcom-ing at night, as when the sun ends its day, so too does any light in the front of Glickman. The library’s neighbor, Oakhurst, has done its part for the block by renovating the building that used to house World Over Imports; the university needs to “tear down that wall,” or at the very least, unlock the front door and fl ip on a light at night.

All in all, plans designed by cities can never be all things to all people. The Forest Avenue Transition plan, even in these early stages, is about as close to accomplishing that feat as I have seen come from the city in a long time. If the city, businesses, homeowners, the state DOT and USM can all come together, and some add-ons mentioned here or brought forth by others can be molded in, this proj-ect would be everything 1970s Urban Renewal wasn’t and the “all things” I never thought possible.

To get there, it certainly deserves the support of us all.

(Jeffrey S. Spofford is the circulation manager for The Portland Daily Sun and can be reached by emailing jspof-ford@maine.rr.com.)

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His attorney, David Lourie, said the next step seemed to be the courthouse before Wood changed his position.

“I prepared all the papers to go to court,” said Lourie. “I was about to fi le them.”

Wood’s reversal came in a letter to city offi cials, copied to Vail, saying in part, that “... based on further research and discussions initiated by Mr. Vail’s lawyer, David Lourie, I am changing my opinion about the legal strength of our personnel policy restriction in relation to his right to run for an elected municipal offi ce, including the position of Mayor. ... Please give him his nomination papers when he comes to get them.”

Wood did not return calls seek-ing comments by presstime. Exerpts

from the letter were provided by Vail’s attorney.

Lourie, a former Portland city attor-ney, said his arguments were twofold: First, denying the nomination papers was “prior restraint” because city rules only say you can’t actually run for offi ce, they do not forbid thinking about running or even taking steps toward running.

Secondly, Lourie explained, the courts have upheld such employee-election bans because of potential problems of somebody suddenly

becoming their supervisor’s boss. That is not an issue in Portland, he contended, because the City Charter makes it clear that a city manager will handle day-to-day municipal operations and the mayor will not have supervisory powers.

“The mayor is not in a position where they supervise anybody,” he said.

That was apparently enough to con-vince Woods to change the city’s posi-tion.

Vail, in a press release, said he wanted to “... thank the city of Port-land for their time and reconsidering this matter.”

But at City Hall he also said the delay means his campaign for nomi-nating signatures gets a slower start than other candidates. The delay means he missed a very crowded Fourth of July celebration where

other candidates were gathering sig-natures.

He also noted that his campaign actually “began fi ve months ago” when he took out preliminary papers that allowed him to organize and begin raising money. It seems odd, he added, that the problem over his employment surfaced just before the formal process began.

After a voter-approved city charter change, Portland is choosing its mayor by popular vote for the fi rst time since 1923.

Currently, the mayor is chosen by a vote of fellow city councilors and serves a largely ceremonial role. The post carries a $66,000 annual salary and will be chosen by a “ranked choice” method that will count second-choice selections if nobody gains a majority in the initial vote count.

Vail became 17th person to take out petition papersMAYOR from page one

“I prepared all the papers to go to court. I was about to fi le them.” — Christopher Vail’s attorney, David

Lourie

Casey Anthony, who earlier this week was found not guilty of kill-ing her daughter, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in jail for lying to investigators, but will be released next Wednesday after getting credit for time served.

Her case has riveted much of the country, which became entranced by tales of a duplicitous young mother who was said by prosecutors to be more interested in bar hopping than

caring for her child.It was not immediately clear where

Ms. Anthony, 25, would go after her release. She lived with her parents in Orange County, in Florida, before her 2008 arrest in connection with the killing of her daughter, Caylee Marie, 2, but part of her trial defense was that she had been abused by her father and that her family was dys-functional.

Ms. Anthony was fi ned $1,000 and sentenced to the maximum term of four years for each of the misdemeanor

counts of lying to law enforcement offi cers investigating Caylee’s disap-pearance and death. Ms. Anthony showed no visible emotion Thursday as her sentence was being read, but had been smiling and talking to her lawyers beforehand.

As the hearing was taking place inside the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando on Thursday, a small group of protesters outside rallied against Ms. Anthony’s acquittal on murder charges. One sign read, “Arrest the Jury.”

Her lawyers have said she has received numerous death threats since she was acquitted of the most serious charges on Tuesday.

The four counts of lying that Ms. Anthony was convicted of occurred when she falsely claimed that her daughter had disappeared, that she was employed at Universal Studios when she did not work there, that she had left Caylee with a baby sitter when there was no baby sitter, and that her daughter had called her on the telephone the day she was reported as missing.

Ms. Anthony’s lawyers on Thursday had sought to have those charges com-bined into a single criminal act, but Judge Belvin Perry Jr., of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, ruled against the motion.

During the nearly six-week trial, prosecutors said Ms. Anthony had rendered her daughter unconscious with chloroform before suffocating

her by placing duct tape over her nose and mouth. Afterward, prosecutors said, she had dumped the girl’s body in a wooded area, where it was found about six months later by the authori-ties not far from the Anthonys’ house.

The defense had argued that Caylee had drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool and that the death had been concealed by Caylee’s grandfather, George Anthony, after he panicked.

The jury, which had been seques-tered for the trial, reached its decision to acquit Ms. Anthony on charges of murder and aggravated child abuse in less than 11 hours. If convicted of those crimes, Ms. Anthony would have faced a possible death sentence.

There was no direct evidence link-ing Ms. Anthony to the death of her child, and the prosecution’s case rested on circumstantial evidence. The child’s body, once found, was too badly decomposed for a cause of death to be determined.

At least one juror, Jennifer Ford, a 32-year-old nursing student, has said that while the panel was not convinced that Ms. Anthony was innocent, there simply was not enough evidence to con-vict her.

“I did not say she was innocent,” Ms. Ford told ABC News. “I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be.”

With time served, Casey Anthony to be released next weekBY TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

THE NEW YORK TIMESCasey Anthony (left) with her attorney, Dorothy Clay Sims, during her sentencing hearing on Thursday in Orlando, Fla. (Pool photo by Joe Burbank/New York Times)

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The Maine Red Claws have intro-duced the Philadelphia 76ers as an NBA affi liate, the basketball team announced Thursday. The 76ers will join the Boston Celtics and Charlotte Bobcats as a parent club to the Red Claws. Each NBA team can assign up to two NBA players at one time to their NBA D-League partner.

“The Philadelphia 76ers are an excel-lent team with a great coaching staff and management,” said Red Claws President and General Manager Jon

Jennings. “The 76ers have shown a strong commitment to developing young talent and we are thrilled to add them as an NBA affi liate. Philadelphia has been a hotbed of great basketball for generations, and we look forward to continuing that tradition in Maine.”

The 76ers join the Red Claws after one season as an NBA affi liate to the Springfi eld Armor. Philadelphia moves to Maine after the Armor adopted the hybrid model, with the New Jersey Nets purchasing the sole rights to the Armor’s basketball operations. Nine NBA Development League teams will

enter the 2011-12 season with one-to-one NBA affi liations with the remain-der of the teams having agreements with two or three NBA teams.

“The Red Claws have enjoyed tremen-dous relationships with the Charlotte Bobcats and Boston Celtics for two sea-sons, and we are looking forward to an equally benefi cial relationship with the 76ers,” Jennings said. “We believe the addition of the 76ers can only benefi t the tremendous talent we have already seen in Portland during the Red Claws fi rst two seasons.”

The Red Claws have played for two

seasons in Portland. Season ticket prices range from $240 to $600 for the 24-game regular season. A limited number of premium seats are also available. Fans interested in purchas-ing Hollywood, Gold or Silver ticket packages should call for 210-6655 for information. End zone seats, which are reserved for individual ticket sale and group sales, will once again not be available in a season ticket packages to make them available to community and school groups. Individual tickets will go on sale in November. For details, visit www.maineredclaws.com.

Hobbled by two errors and four unearned runs as part of a second-inning collapse, the Portland Sea Dogs lost to the Binghamton Mets 10-4 on Thursday after-noon.

The Sea Dogs committed two errors and allowed four unearned runs as part of a fi ve-run second inning for the Mets. Binghamton erupted against Stolmy Pimentel (0-9), snapping Portland’s three-game win streak, the team stated in a game report.

The Sea Dogs took the lead in the top of the fi rst inning against Brandon Moore (6-7). Moore retired 17 of 19 Portland batters from the last out of the fi rst inning, to the fi rst out of the seventh inning. The only hit he gave up in that time was a double to Will Middle-brooks who extended his hitting streak to six games.

Miguel Gonzalez came on in relief of Pimentel and struck out a season-high six batters over three and one-third innings. Chih-Hsien Chiang tacked on an RBI single in the ninth to round out the scoring for Portland.

Portland is now 8-3 in its last 11 games and has won two of its last three series away from Hadlock Field. Over the course of the fi ve game series, the team hit .321 (53-for-165) and averaged more than seven runs per game. The Sea Dogs’ road trip continues tonight in New Hampshire against the fi rst-place Fisher Cats. Portland and New Hampshire meet for four games prior to the All-Star break. After the break, the Sea Dogs are back at Hadlock Field for a seven-game homestand starting July 14. For tickets, log on to www.seadogs.com or call 879-9500.

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The Sudanese Com-munity Association of Maine will present a Celebration of Indepen-dence for South Sudan on Saturday, July 9, shortly after 10 a.m. at the Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave. This event is free and open to the public, organizers said. The Independence Cel-ebration will feature Sudanese music, food, dancing, and speeches by local activists, elected offi cials and Sudanese community leaders.

The celebration at The Portland Expo will be preceded by a Raising of the Flags in Monument Square on Congress Street across from the Portland Public Library at 9 a.m. The fl ag of The United States of Amer-ica will be raised, along with the new fl ag of South Sudan, organizers announced.

This will be followed at 10 a.m. by a march on Congress Street to the Portland Expo, where the celebration will con-tinue.

For more information, contact Mariano at 239-6772 or email him at menonata@hotmail.com, Abaker at 272-3177, or El-Fadel at 221-5197.

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Sudanese celebration planned

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Radio station WCYY displays its logo in Monument Square Thursday as part of the Alive at Five concert series. WCYY is one of the sponsors of the weekly concert series, which offers free concerts at 5 p.m. every Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Bar-raged with images of models and celebrities every day, it’s no wonder so many suffer from low self-worth. Those people center their lives on looking good. Measure yourself against your own standards of “normal.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be made to feel very special. Someone will ingratiate him or herself to you by offering you passes and privileges not given to “just anyone.” Your enjoyment and appreciation of the act will ensure that it happens again. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You keep up a certain pattern of behavior so as not to disappoint the ones who have grown used to it. As you go through the motions now, you may question whether you still want to do these things. CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you were a child, your face transpar-ently refl ected your displeasure. Now you skillfully hide the sour faces of your youth as you opt for more mature and constructive ways to conduct yourself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You would be wise to help the authority fi gures you’re dealing with to feel comfortably superior. They will appreciate your sup-port, friendship and loyalty and do not need the threat of your competition. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Wake up and notice how rare your contributions are. No one else can do what you do in the way you do it. You don’t always get credit, either. But give yourself credit, and celebrate your uniqueness. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll have complete control over who you see today. So you’ll likely hang around a certain person who always seems to have a way of making you feel comfort-able and acknowledged.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You won’t have the same reaction to today’s circumstances as the others around you. However, you’ll still recognize that others have a right to their feelings, whatever they may be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your deep sense of inner security makes it unnecessary for you to acquire certain trappings. You know that you’re not in competition with the rest of the world. What matters is what you think of you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You will work brilliantly on a team of two. Like an expert improvisational actor, you’ll have a complementary response to whatever twists your co-star throws at you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll enter a “safe zone” in which it is acceptable to want whatever you want in whatever quantity you believe would be most satisfying. This zone might be a space in your own mind. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Com-pliments must be true to be believ-able. You’d rather be acknowledged for something small than accept a big compliment that doesn’t seem to fi t. You’ll use this principle to make some-one feel good. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 8). You create a sense of sacredness in every-day life. July brings emotional nurturing to you, and later you’ll turn around and nurture someone else. You’ll get a loan in August, and you’ll invest in the edu-cation and resources needed to be self-suffi cient. In December, you’ll use your talents to make people happy. Leo and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 20, 1, 24, 3 and 14.

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material 63 Make into law 64 Achy 65 Likelihood 66 __ up; absorbs 67 Toboggan

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49 Bylaws 50 Dimwits 51 Cincinnati, __ 52 Drape puller 53 Trampled 54 Actor Gregory 55 False deity 56 Villain 57 Have to have 60 Lamb’s cry

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FRIDAY PRIME TIME JULY 8, 2011 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5 CTN 5 Profiles The Build Drexel Int. Bike TV Penny Dreadful’s Shilly Shockers

6 WCSHFriday Night Lights Coach Taylor recevies a promising offer. (N)

Dateline NBC (In Stereo) Å News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOBones The team analyzes a BMX rider’s remains. Å

House “Recession Proof” A patient develops a severe rash.

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier (In Stereo) Å

According to Jim Å

8 WMTWShark Tank Environ-mental lawn-mowers. (In Stereo) Å

Primetime: What Would You Do? (In Stereo) Å

20/20 (In Stereo) Å News 8 WMTW at 11 (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNWashing-ton Week (N) Å

Maine Watch

McLaughlin Group (N)

Inside Washing-ton Å

Need to Know (N) (In Stereo) Å

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHPriceless Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow “Ventnor”

History Detectives Raid on federal armory. (N) (In Stereo) Å

Great Old Amusement Parks (In Stereo) Å

POV “Sweetgrass” Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

12 WPXTSmallville “Finale Part 1” Lionel abducts Tess. Å

Supernatural Probing a possible werewolf killing. (In Stereo) Å

Entourage “Aquamom”

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMEFlashpoint “Personal Effects” Ed is rushed into surgery. (N) Å

CSI: NY “Vigilante” Someone murders a se-rial rapist. Å

Blue Bloods “To Tell the Truth” Danny witnesses a murder. Å

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Monk (In Stereo) Å Monk (In Stereo) Å Curb Local Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Dual Survival Å Swamp Loggers Å Swamp Loggers (N) Swamp Loggers Å

25 FAM Movie: ››› “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (2002, Fantasy) The 700 Club (N) Å

26 USA NCIS “Identity Crisis” Law & Order: SVU CSI: Crime Scene Royal Pains Å

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Orioles at Red Sox Innings Red Sox Daily Outdoors

28 CSNE Boxing Marcos Jimenez vs. Diego Magdaleno. Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Feed the Children 300. SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å

31 ESPN2 Golf Boxing Friday Night Fights. (N) (Live) Å MMA Live Nation

33 ION Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds “Lo-Fi” The Border (In Stereo) The Border (In Stereo)

34 DISN Wizards ANT Farm Fish Phineas Vampire Random Good Luck Wizards

35 TOON Adventure Adventure King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK Big Time Victorious My Wife My Wife ’70s Show ’70s Show Lopez Lopez

37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Documentary MSNBC Documentary

38 CNN In the Arena (N) Piers Morgan Tonight CNN Presents Å Anderson Cooper 360

40 CNBC 60 Minutes on CNBC Crackberry’d Crime Inc. Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Hannity (N) Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor

43 TNT Movie: ››‡ “The Da Vinci Code” (2006, Mystery) Tom Hanks. Å Memphis Beat Å

44 LIFE Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Drop Dead Diva Å

46 TLC Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes

47 AMC Movie: ››› “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) Keanu Reeves. Å “Matrix Revol.”

48 HGTV Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters

49 TRAV Paranormal Challenge Paranormal Challenge Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures

50 A&E Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å The Glades Å

52 BRAVO Movie: ››› “Troy” (2004, Adventure) Brad Pitt, Eric Bana. Premiere. Movie: ››› “Troy”

55 HALL Little House on Prairie Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier

56 SYFY WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) Å Haunted Collector Hollywood Hollywood

57 ANIM Whale Wars Å Whale Wars (N) Å River Monsters Whale Wars Å

58 HIST American Pickers Å Pawn Pawn American American How the States

60 BET Movie: ›‡ “A Man Apart” (2003) Vin Diesel. Movie: “Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club” (2008)

61 COM Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Ben Bailey: Road Rage Comedy Comedy Comedy Chappelle

62 FX Movie: ››› “Men of Honor” (2000, Drama) Robert De Niro. Movie: ››› “Men of Honor” (2000)

67 TVLND All/Family All/Family Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Cleveland Divorced

68 TBS Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Movie: ››‡ “Last Holiday” (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah. Selena

76 SPIKE Movie: ›‡ “Punisher: War Zone” Movie: ›› “The Punisher” (2004) Thomas Jane. (In Stereo)

78 OXY To Be Announced The Glee Project Å Movie: ››› “Clueless” (1995, Comedy) Å

146 TCM “The Old Corral” “Home on the Prairie” Movie: ›› “Back in the Saddle” Texans

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Today is Friday, July 8, the 189th day of 2011. There are 176 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On July 8, 1776, Col. John Nixon gave

the fi rst public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.

On this date:In 1663, King Charles II of England

granted a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.In 1853, an expedition led by Commodore

Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.

In 1889, The Wall Street Journal was fi rst published.

In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld staged his fi rst “Follies,” on the roof of the New York The-ater.

In 1911, cowgirl “Two-Gun Nan” Aspinwall became the fi rst woman to make a solo trip by horse across the United States, arriving in New York 10 months after departing San Francisco.

In 1947, demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new perma-nent headquarters of the United Nations.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. (But Truman ended up sacking MacArthur for insubordination nine months later.)

In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford announced he would seek a second term of offi ce.

In 1991, actor James Franciscus died in North Hollywood at age 57.

In 1994, Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s com-munist leader since 1948, died at age 82.

One year ago: The largest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War unfolded as 10 people accused of spying in suburban America pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were ordered deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four prisoners accused of spying for the West.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Jerry Vale is 79. Singer Steve Lawrence is 76. Actor Jeffrey Tambor is 67. Actress Kim Darby is 64. Children’s performer Raffi is 63. Actress Anjelica Huston is 60. Writer Anna Quindlen is 59. Actor Kevin Bacon is 53. Actor Robert Knepper is 52. Rock musician Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode) is 50. Country singer Toby Keith is 50. Rock singer Joan Osborne is 49. Writer-producer Rob Burnett is 49. Actor Rocky Carroll is 48. Actor Corey Parker is 46. Actor Billy Crudup is 43. Actor Michael Weatherly is 43. Singer Beck is 41. Country singer Drew Womack (Sons of the Desert) is 41. Christian rock musician Stephen Mason (Jars of Clay) is 36. Actor Milo Ventimiglia (MEE’-loh vehn-tih-MEEL’-yuh) is 34. Rock musician Tavis Werts is 34. Singer Ben Jelen is 32. Actor Lance Gross is 30. Actress Sophia Bush is 29. Rock musician Jamie Cook (Arctic Monkeys) is 26. Actor Jake McDorman is 25. Actor Jaden Smith is 13.

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growth 35 “The Good Earth”

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house 57 A 62 Throw forcefully 63 Yemen’s capital 64 Spills the beans 65 Those in favor 66 Horse’s pace 67 Smooth and silky

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Election Day voter registration people’s veto event1 p.m. “Language for a ballot question that seeks to protect Election Day reg-istration was completed Wednesday, signaling the start of a people’s veto campaign. Signature gathering kick-off media events will be held in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland on Friday, July 8, for volunteers to pick up petitions and for supporters to sign on. Members of the coalition and volunteers will speak. In addition, the coalition will announce the formation of a political action committee to support signature collection and the election campaign.” Maine People’s Alli-ance Offi ce, 565 Congress St., Suite 200, Portland. Coalition members include: Engage Maine, the Maine Civil Liber-ties Union, Maine League of Conserva-tion Voters, League of Women Voters of Maine, Maine AFL-CIO, Maine League of Young Voters, Maine People’s Alliance, Opportunity Maine, Maine Equal Justice Partners, EqualityMaine, Maine Wom-en’s Lobby, Maine Education Associa-tion, MSEA-SEIU, Speaking Up for Us, Disability Rights Center, Preble Street Resource Center and Homeless Voices for Justice. Those interested in volun-teering can sign up at: www.protectmai-nevotes.com.

Boat Building Festival by Compass Project3 p.m. to 6 p.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Exten-sion (across from Hannaford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth devel-opment organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs. These hands-on programs help youth fi nd new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and job-skills training. “Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Location, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland. Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and helping to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along with our new location, we have new activities! We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Row-down to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Festival. The Portland Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. Come fi nd out who has the best rowing skills in town!” Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from Back Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. http://www.compassproject.org/bbfest.htm

Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale Preview5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale Pre-view. Mark Goettel and Andy Abrams, Portland Trails Board Members and experienced runners, will be offering a pre-view of the Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale as part of the Portland Trails Discovery Trek Series. Runners of all abili-ties are invited to meet at Ocean Gateway and run the 10K course. The 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) race course is run exclu-sively off-road and allows beautiful views of the Casco Bay as runners enjoy the Eastern Prom and Back Cove Trails. This will give runners an idea of what to expect the day of the Trail to Ale 10K race which will be held on Sept. 18 this year. Folks training for the run are encouraged to come. Bring running shoes. Meet at Ocean Gateway Terminal on the Eastern Prom Trail just after the intersection of India and Commercial streets. Free for Portland Trails members, $5 suggested donation for non-members ($5 can go toward new or renewed membership.) Reservations suggested. Call Portland Trails: 775-2411. For a full schedule of Port-land Trails Discovery Treks, visit http://trails.org/events.html

East Bayside Neighborhood Organization talent show at Mayo Street Arts Center7:30 p.m. Support the East Bayside Neighborhood Orga-nization by coming out to a night of great local talent! MC ALex Endy! A Bake Sale too! Mayo Street Arts. Break danc-

ing, Taiko drumming, bake sale and much more! Proceeds benefi t East Bayside Neighborhood Organization and Mayo Street Arts. Contact Alex Endy to sign up for a performance slot! http://www.eastbayside.org/

Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn7:15 p.m. Open Mic/Poetry Slam. First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Free. FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Maine State Music Theatre’s ‘Annie’7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre’s “Annie” plays through July 16. MSMT’s 2011 summer season continues July 20 with “Xanadu,” and closes out the season with “The Wiz.” Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air condi-tioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to msmt.org.

A Theater Tasting8 p.m. A Theater Tasting is a twist on the traditional wine tasting, and a fundraiser for Lucid Stage (www.lucidstage.com). A roster of performers will present, and between the acts the audience will be invited into the lobby for a wine and appetizer pairing that is chosen to go with each per-formance. Performers will include: Carolyn Gage (excerpt from her play The Parmachene Belle); stand-up comedy from Mike Sylvester; Michael Lane Trautman; Dark Follies (burlesque); Jake Brooks (musician); Naya’s Trance (bel-lydancing); The Green Room musical, produced by New Edge. $25.

Tom Clark at Freeport Factory Stage8 p.m. Freeport Factory Stage features Tom Clark. “Tom Clark has been called the ‘Mel Tillis of stand-up comedy,’ his slight stutter disappears when his comedic voices hit the

stage. He has appeared on A&E’s “An Evening at the Improv.” Performances are Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15/$12 seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets; www.freeportfactory.com or 865-5505. Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘Summer of Love’ continues at Ogunquit Playhouse8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Offi ce 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” “When a runaway bride discov-ers the countercultural revolution of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hip-pies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the powerful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most infl uential artists of the love gener-ation: The Mamas and the Papas, Don-ovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.” Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Saturday, July 9

Alliance for Responsible Communities yard sale8 a.m. to noon. The Alliance for Respon-sible Communities yard sale event at 34 Clinton St., Portland. For sale will be items from over six different families: books, lamps, games, toys, odds and ends, some shelves, etc. 650-1892. “ARC is a 501c3 nonprofi t that works in solidar-ity with Maine’s multicultural communi-ties to educate, support, and empower youth and their families through civic leadership mentoring, afterschool aca-demic help, civic leadership, and cultural heritage.” www.facebook.com/pages/Alliance-for-Responsible-Communi-ties/142759748825

Kids First Program in Topsham8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Woodside Elementary School, 42 Barrows Drive, Topsham. “This four-hour co-parent-ing education workshop for parents is designed to help address problems and

reduce the negative effects of separation and divorce. ... Participants are encouraged to attend the program as early in the separation and divorce as possible. But it’s never too late to break old bad habits and learn healthy new ones!” Fee: $60 per person.

Raising the fl ag in Southern Sudan9 a.m. The Sudanese Community Association of Maine presents the Celebration of Independence for South Sudan Festivities start at 9 a.m. in Monument Square in downtown Portland — the fl ag of the United States of America will be raised, along with the new fl ag of South Sudan. At noon everyone will march to the Portland Expo where there will be celebration including continuous music, dancing and food. This event is free and open to the public. Supporters of independence for South Sudan are encouraged to attend. The Independence Celebra-tion will feature Sudanese music, food, dancing, and speeches by local activists, elected offi cials, and Sudanese community leaders. “On January 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan voted to separate themselves from the gov-ernment of Sudan. This vote followed 22 years of civil war in Sudan. In accordance with the Peace Agreement made between the government of Sudan and the people of South Sudan in 2005, the people of South Sudan were offered an opportunity for separation from the government in the North in a vote on January 9, 2011. This referendum resulted in 98% of the vote favoring independence. On July 9, 2011, South Sudan will offi cially become a new nation.” For fur-ther information about this event, please contact Mariano at 239-6772 or email him at menonata@hotmail.com, Abaker at 272-3177, or El-Fadel at 221-5197.

Youngsters enjoy a visit with Steamer the Clam, mascot for the Yarmouth Clam Festival, one of Maine’s most popular summer events. This year the festival is Friday through Sunday, July 15-17. Admission is free. Proceeds from food booths and parking support nonprofi t student, sporting, music and church groups, the festival’s Facebook page states. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Boat Building Festival 9 a.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extension (accross from Hannaford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth development organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs. These hands-on programs help youth fi nd new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and job-skills training. “Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Location, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland. Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and help-ing to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along with our new location, we have new activities! We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Row-down to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Festival. The Portland Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. Come fi nd out who has the best rowing skills in town!” Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from Back Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. http://www.com-passproject.org/bbfest.htm

Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pony rides, bargain hunting, lobster, dessert, live music and more are featured during Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration fundraiser. A Barn Sale under the tent will offer shoppers an assort-ment of items, including antiques, collectibles, and horse-drawn carriages. If you have items to sell, rent your own table for $20, or have Skyline sell your items for a commission. Contact Greg at 239-5782 or Lisa at 829-6899. Skyline Farm, a nonprofi t, all-volunteer organiza-tion, is located at 95 The Lane in North Yarmouth (near the junction of Routes 9 and 115). See www.skylinefarm.org for more information and directions.

Summer Solstice Craft Show in Wells10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seventy crafters and artisans from all points of New England and beyond are expected at Wells Elementary School for the 29th annual Summer Solstice Craft Show. The best of Traditional, Country and Contem-porary arts and crafts featuring Pottery, stained glass, jew-elry, herbs and everlastings, knits, folk art, graphics and more. Musical entertainment by John Tercyak. Gourmet lunch available. July 9 and 10. Free parking and admission.

‘Knit A Bunny’ workshop10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Knitters from all skill levels are welcomed to enroll in a “Knit A Bunny” workshop that will create a crouching bunny with fl oppy ears at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Fee: $30. For details call 926-4597 or www.shaker.lib.me.us.

Urban Epic Challenge10 a.m. “The Urban Epic Challenge presented by Oxford Networks offers a course that rivals any existing race in terms of variety of terrain, unique elements, and stunning views. The run starts near the East End Beach and winds from one end of the prom to the other and back There are two times when you will be able to sign in and get your packet: Friday, July 8 at Maine Running Company in Port-land from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 9 at the Eastern Prom (near the Beach) from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Participants will line up at the start line at approximately 10 a.m., which is located on the paved trail near East End Beach.” www.urban-epic.com/urbanepicchallenge

Spring Point Ledge Light open11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Spring Point Ledge Light lighthouse is open every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help raise money for much needed repairs. “Tickets are $5 for adults and children 18 and under are free. We are a non-profi t trust and we maintain an historic lighthouse with the best view of Casco Bay.” www.springpointledgelight.com

‘The Other Dickens’ at Boothbay12:30 p.m. Lillian Nayder, a Bates College professor whose biography “The Other Dickens” is the fi rst comprehensive portrait of the woman whom novelist Charles Dickens mar-ried and then repudiated, discusses the book at Books in Boothbay: Maine’s Summer Book Fair at Boothbay Railway Village, Route 27 South, Boothbay. Nayder is one of 40 Maine authors who will discuss and sign their books at the fair. A reception with the authors begins at 3:30. The event is open to the public at no cost. Learn more at http://book-sinboothbay.blogspot.com/.

Nine Nation Animation2 p.m. The World According to Shorts presents Nine Nation Animation, a selection of recent award-winning animated short fi lms from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand and

others. Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, July 9, 2 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 2 p.m. NR. http://www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

Truth About Daisies on Peaks 7:30 p.m. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $8 adult; $5 seniors and students. “Popular trio, Truth About Daisies, features original song-writing and beautiful harmonies of Sheila McKinley, Doug Swift and Ronda Dale. Their music draws on many tra-ditions including urban folk, country, and melodic pop.” The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonprofi t museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regi-ment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities. Membership is open to the public. For more information call 766-3330 or email fi fthmainemuseum@maine.rr.com.

Maine State Music Theatre’s ‘Annie’7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre’s “Annie” plays through July 16. MSMT’s 2011 summer season continues July 20 with “Xanadu,” and closes out the season with “The Wiz.” Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air condi-tioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to msmt.org.

Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement8 p.m. “Harlan Baker will appear as Jimmy Higgins in a one-man show he has written, ‘Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement.’ The play is set on the eve of the 1960 presidential race. A rank and fi le union activist is being interviewed by a college student about his life. Hig-gins recounts his days as a newspaper boy in Sandusky Ohio during the First World War, his meeting with Eugene Debs and other radicals opposed to American participa-tion in the First World War, his experiences in the Lafollette campaign for president in 1924 and his experience covering the union organizing drives of tenant farmers and auto work-ers in the 1930s. Harlan Baker is an adjunct professor in the Theatre department at the University of Southern Maine, an actor, a former member of the Maine legislature, a union activ-ist, and democratic socialist. ‘Jimmy Higgins’ has long stood for the name of the rank-and-fi le union and socialist activist.” The July 9 show is a fundraiser to restore Maine’s Labor Mural. $15 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. 899-3993.

‘Summer of Love’ continues at Ogunquit Playhouse8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Offi ce 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” “When a runaway bride dis-covers the countercultural revolution of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hippies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the powerful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most infl uential artists of the love generation: The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.” Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” star-ring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Sunday, July 10

Boat Building Festival concludes9 a.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extension (accross from Han-naford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth devel-opment organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs. These hands-on programs help youth fi nd new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and job-skills training. “Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Loca-tion, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland. Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and helping to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along with our new location, we have new activities! We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Row-down to be held at 4 p.m. on Satur-day, July 9 at the Festival. The Portland Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. Come fi nd out who has the best rowing skills in town!” Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from Back Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. http://www.com-passproject.org/bbfest.htm

Hidden studios of Portland’s East End Artists10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Get a peek into one of Portland’s most vibrant arts communities by joining the Society For East End

Artists, seventh annual Open Studios Tour and Art Sale. On this one day, the artists of Portland’s East End open their working studios to the public. Experience the source point for some of Portland’s most eclectic creators and qualify to win prizes from East End vendors just by participating. Connect to community, expand your horizons and/or add to your art collection all on a summer day! The tour is a free self-guided walk through the Munjoy Hill neighbor-hood. It is held in conjunction with the Munjoy Hill Garden Club tour. Maps of the Open Studios will be available the day of the event at 81 Congress St. and in participating artists’ studios. Open studios will be marked with green, blue and white balloons. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the many and unusual ways artists make it work: hall-ways, extra bedrooms, garden sheds — you name it, some artist on Portland’s East End is using it to spin their creative vision! Tour will be held rain or shine. For more information, please call Colleen Bedard at 233-7273 or visit the website http://www.SEAportland.org

The Hidden Gardens of Munjoy Hill10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Hidden Gardens of Munjoy Hill offers an opportunity to explore a dozen lush city gardens tucked away in this charming Portland neighborhood. The self-guided garden tour will feature a dozen unique urban retreats scattered throughout Munjoy Hill. Members of the Society for East End Arts (SEA) will also open their studios for visitors. The tour is presented by Friends of the Eastern Promenade. “Visitors can stroll through a delightful English Victorian garden, a tranquil Japanese garden and a “wild” fl ower garden that attracts butterfl ies and hummingbirds. Some gardens are brand new, with others tended by gar-deners for several generations. All of the gardens highlight the creativity of gardening in the city.” Advance tickets are available for $15 online at hiddengardensofmunjoyhill.org or at Skillin’s Greenhouse, O’Donal’s Nurseries, Allen, Ster-ling & Lothrup, Broadway Gardens, Rosemont Market and Coffee by Design. On the day of event, tickets will be sold for $20 at the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization’s Hill House at 92 Congress St., where the tour begins. For more information, visit hiddengardensofmunjoyhill.org.

Library Sundae in Falmouth1 p.m. to 4 p.m. “Join us for a fun-fi lled afternoon featur-ing antique cars, ice cream sundaes, and Doc’s Banjo Band. Bring your friends and family. Sponsored by the Friends of the Falmouth Memorial Library.” Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. Tickets for Sundaes and rides are $2.50 each. Everything else is free. www.falmouth.lib.me.us

Defenders of the Funny7:30 p.m. Defenders of the Funny is a new improv group in Portland. Expect new games, sketches, music, and audi-ence participation. Special guest: Comic Stephanie Doyle. Tickets $7. Defenders of the Funny will also be participating in the second annual Portland Improv Festival, held at Lucid Stage Aug. 11-13.

Monday, July 11

MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and schol-ars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. July 11: Sina Najafi ; Najafi is the Editor of Cabinet Magazine. July 18: Anne West; West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She teaches in the graduate program at RISD. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist andland artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recre-ations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artis-tic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writ-ing by Anne West. Her lecture on July 18 will be followed by a book signing. West is an educator, writer, and independent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. http://www.meca.edu/mfa

Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston7:30 p.m. The Bates Dance Festival based in Lewiston announces its 29th season of public events, taking place July 1 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus. The six-week festival showcases contemporary perfor-mance works by Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Nicholas Leichter Dance, Zoe | Juniper, The Equus Projects and Black Label Movement, and David Dorfman Dance. Per-formances, panel discussions and lectures by more than 40 internationally recognized dancers from across the United States and abroad. Performance times and loca-tions appear on the festival website: www.batesdancef-estival.org.

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