The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, September 7, 2012

September 7, 2012 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 8, No. 36

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IndexObituaries ......................13Opinion ............................9People & Business ........14

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Arts Calendar ................16Classifieds .....................22Community Calendar .....17Meetings ........................17

Petition likely to force vote on fireworksBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — Selectman David Douglass, who in June launched a petition to overturn a local ban on the sale and use of consumer fireworks, believes he has enough signatures to take the matter to a vote.

Douglass’ petition calls for the ban to be overturned, and for the sale and use of fireworks to be allowed in accordance with state law.

Under that law, fireworks were permitted in Topsham from Jan. 1-June 12, when a referendum vote enacted the ban. Douglass has said he would like the ques-tion to go to referendum again in November, when he expects a larger turnout for the general election.

Douglass began collecting sig-natures June 15 and has to submit 459 (10 percent of Topsham residents who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election) by Sept. 21.

As of Monday, he said, about 475 had been collected and he hopes to exceed 500.

“We have enough signatures at this time,” Douglass said, adding “we’re trying to get some extras in case any aren’t valid for any reason.”

Douglass said he plans to pres-ent the signatures at Town Hall on Friday morning, Sept. 7.

“I think ... it’s going to be

Bath museum celebrates launch of BIW’s latest By Alex Lear

BATH — With plenty of pomp and circumstance, Bath Iron Works on Wednesday launched its latest vessel, which left to join the fleet of the U.S. Navy.

The Maine Maritime Mu-seum, marking 50 years of dedication to preserving and promoting the four-century history of ships being built on this state’s shores, celebrated the event, just down the Ken-nebec River from the launch, with a sail-away salute.

The vessel – dubbed the Michael Murphy, or DDG-112 – is the 34th Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer to be built by BIW. The vessel departed for New York City, where it will be ceremoniously com-missioned.

The Michael Murphy is named for a Navy SEAL lieutenant who earned the Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan. He and his team

The Michael Murphy, DDG-112, top photo, leaves Bath Iron Works on Wednesday, Sept. 5, to join the U.S. Navy fleet. The DDG-112’s crew, above, salutes spectators gathered on the shore of the Kennebec River.

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Snub fuels Brunswick vote to end MRRA tax sheltersBy Dylan Martin and Chris CousinsBangor Daily News

BRUNSWICK — Negotiations for tax-shelter agreements be-tween the town and the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Author-ity – governed by the state’s Tax Increment Financing laws – were

terminated Tuesday night by an 8-1 vote of the Town Council.

Town Manager Gary Brown told the Bangor Daily News Wednesday morning that the town’s financial situation – most notably, a reduction in revenues for public schools – and uncer-tainty about changes to TIF laws

being considered in Augusta led to the council vote.

But Councilor Benjamin Tuck-er, one of the eight who voted to end the TIF for MRRA, said there was also a tipping point that pushed the council to the vote: an email from a state employee to Brown that indicated to Tucker

that Gov. Paul LePage’s admin-istration wants to cut the town out of the decision-making about the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

The Aug. 21 email, which Brown forwarded to councilors and two town employees, said that a town official nominated for the

MRRA board – special projects assistant Denise Clavette – was already ruled out for the spot.

“I understand that you are likely disappointed that Denise (Clavette) was not selected to sit on the Board,” wrote Kristine

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Brunswick man arrested in connection with Nov. 2011 robbery of Game StopBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — A local man was ar-rested Tuesday in connection with a robbery at a video game store in November 2011.

Janra Rodriguez Baltazar, 26, of C Street, was arrested by Officer Mike Andreotti at a traffic stop on Old Bath Road, police Detec-tive Sgt. Martin Renaldi said.

The arrest was a result of an investiga-tion after a man entered the Game Stop on

By Dylan MartinBRUNSWICK — Two incumbents and

a seasoned state politician may be running uncontested campaigns for three Town Council seats in the Nov. 6 election.

As of Wednesday, there were still no candidates for one of the three open School Board seats.

Three seats on the School Board and three on the Town Council are on this year's ballot. The deadline for submitting nomi-nation papers to the town clerk is Friday at 4:30 p.m.; seven candidates turned in enough verified signatures by late Wednes-day morning.

Town Councilors Suzan Wilson and John Perreault could be unopposed for re-elec-tion in District 3 and District 4, respectively.

cumbent School Board Vice Chairwoman Corinne Perreault in District 4.

Joy Prescott, a former member of the Conservation Commission, and Dale King, a current member of the Personnel Board, are running for the School Board at-large seat being vacated by Michelle Small.

Candidates for the District 3 and 4 seats must collect 25 signatures from registered voters within those districts. At-large can-didates must collect 100 signatures from registered voters anywhere in town.

Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

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Tow n C o u n c i l Chairwoman Joanne King is not seeking re-election to her at-large seat. Political veteran John G. Richardson, so far, is the only can-didate who will be on the ballot.

Richardson, a law-yer at Moncure & Barnicle, served the maximum four terms as a state representa-tive from Brunswick between 1998-2006. From 2002-2004, he was the House major-ity leader, and he served as speaker of the House his final two years in office.

Between 2007-2009, Richardson served as the commissioner of the Maine Depart-

ment of Economic and Community Devel-opment.

The former legislator also was a Demo-cratic candidate for governor in 2010 and withdrew after the Maine Ethics Commis-sion found that three campaign workers committed public financing fraud. Neither Richardson, nor his senior campaign staff, were implicated.

In School Board District 3, James Corey is not seeking re-election. Christopher McCar-thy, Kitt Scarponi and Sarah McGinn have taken out nomination papers, but had not returned them as of Wednesday morning.

Frederico Senence is challenging in-

Bath Road at 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2011, displayed a firearm and stole more than $2,000 from the cash drawer and safe, the detective said.

The store was open later than usual that night to celebrate the release of a new video game, and the perpetrator entered as the store was closing.

Although Baltazar is not believed be the armed man, Renaldi said, he is "believed to be directly involved." The detective said Baltazar appeared in security camera foot-age from the store.

On the same day as Baltazar's arrest, police conducted a search warrant at his residence and found evidence supporting his participation, Renaldi said.

Baltazar was being held at Cumberland County Jail in Portland with bail set at $5,000. He is scheduled to appear Nov. 20 in Cumberland County Superior Court.

Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him onTwitter: @

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BATH — A 14-year-old boy has been charged with arson in connection with a fire last week at 69 Pearl St.

The Bath teenager was arrested Sept. 1 by the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office and taken to the Long Creek Youth Develop-ment Center in South Portland, Bath Police Lt. Stan Cielinski confirmed on Tuesday.

The fire was called in at 7:42 p.m. Aug. 30 and took about 20 minutes to knock down, Bath Fire Chief Steve Hinds said on Tuesday. Firefighters also responded from Brunswick and West Bath.

The fact that the fire started outside the house, and that the residents – Debbie Pat-terson and her son, Nick – had not been home for hours, made the cause of the fire suspicious, Hinds said.

The fire started at the rear of the house and burned across the entire back of the

building, the chief explained, noting that while the rear of the structure was badly damaged, the front could be cleaned up and painted.

Hinds said he understood that the own-ers will continue to live in the home.

“The building can be repaired,” he said. “... It’s not a totalled building. But it’s cer-tainly going to take some work.”Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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Bath council postpones decision on park pond fundsBy Alex Lear

BATH — The City Council on Wednesday postponed a decision on whether to partially fund Library Park pond improvements until next June, the end of the current fiscal year.

Councilors Mari Eosco and Ruthe Pagurko sponsored an order that called for $10,000 to be appropriated from the council's contingency account to contrib-ute to fundraising for the improvements. The funds were to be donated to the Friends of the Zorach Fountain, a group

named for a sculpture – "Spirit of the Sea," crafted by William Zorach – that marked its 50th birthday last month.

Liz Messler, a member of the Friends board, noted in July that the group's on-going job "is the constant conservation of that piece of art. ... It's kind of ongoing maintenance."

The sculpture was restored in 2005, but work on the pond around it also requires attention, Eosco said.

"We've got this amazing statue," she said, "and the Friends of the Zorach

Fountain would like to make sure that that pond is in great working condition."

Eosco noted that a contribution from the City Council could serve as an incen-tive for other people to give to the project.

Councilor Bernard Wyman expressed support for the project, but he pointed out that $10,000 would consume 25 per-cent of the contingency fund. He noted that the council was only three months into the current fiscal year, and opposed spending the money at this time.

"If there were some way that we could ... pay (the money) at a later date, I would be in favor of it," Wyman said.

Councilor Andrew Winglass said the council had already spent a quarter of this year's contigency funds.

Linda Wood, president of the Friends, said the group was in the initial phase of creating a capital campaign. The entire project could cost around $275,000 to $300,000, and would comprise work like landscaping around the pond, improving water quality and stone work, she said.

Wood called the fountain "a real as-set to the city of Bath and the state of Maine."

Councilor Kyle Rogers's motion to table the matter until next June received unanimous council support.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@




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BRUNSWICK — The town will begin negotiations to acquire the land proposed for a future police station after the Town Council voted 6-3 for the action on Tues-day night.

Councilors John Perreault, Bennet Pols and Sarah Brayman were opposed.

The negotiations with the Brunswick Development Corp. will swap 28 Federal St., where the town office and police sta-

tion are currently located, and the corner of Stanwood and Pleasant streets, where the future police station will be built.

The BDC bought the land at Stanwood and Pleasant in June 2011 after Town Council Chairwoman Joanne King asked the quasi-municipal economic develop-ment group to do so in order to speed up the site acquisition and reduce the burden for taxpayers.

Town Manager Gary Brown said the town office will be moved to the McLel-lan building at the corner of Station Road and Union Avenue in 2014. The town acquired the McLellan building after a land swap for Longfellow School, at the corner of Noble and Unions streets, with Bowdoin College in October 2011.

• And the BDC will be responsible for any capital improvements necessary for 28 Federal St. and can make any other improvements it desires.

Perreault said he believes the agree-ment is premature.

"There's nothing wrong with this deci-sion, but I want to hear what the people and the Planning Board have to say," the councilor said. "Before we endorse this transfer, I want to know where the people stand."

Pols said Wednesday he opposed start-ing negotiations because he and other councilors didn't have a chance to ask more questions about the negotiation process and the state of the 28 Federal St. zone.

"I'm not against the transaction. I just want my questions answered," Pols said.

One concern Pols said he has is a potential conflict of interest for two the councilors who sit to BDC's board: Suzan Wilson and Chairwoman Joanne King.

Pols said you would never have the same person represent the buyer and the seller in a real estate transaction.

Wilson and King were not available for comment Wednesday evening.


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• The town will be responsible for maintenance and utilities at 28 Federal St. until the transition is complete.

• The BDC will have the right to use the 28 Federal St. property as it wishes, subject to zoning regulations.

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traveled the world in search of inspiration for his art.

And he found plenty along the rocky shores of Scarborough, working in a con-verted carriage house on Prout’s Neck that will be opened to public tours beginning Sept. 25.

‘We want an authentic experience. We want people to come here and get a sense of who Homer was,” said Kristen Levesque, director of marketing and public relations at the Portland Museum of Art.

Levesque said Homer would wander Prout’s Neck and sketch scenes, but fin-shed his work indoors and lived nearly year round in the studio. Much of the work competed at the studio captures seas roiling over rocks to a view from the shore looking up to the fog-bound studio.

Through a $10.5 million capital cam-paign, the museum was able to buy the property in 2006. It spent $2.8 million to restore the 2,300-square-foot, two-story


Homer’s sweet home: Museum prepares Prout’s Neck studio for tours

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Melville D. McleanWinslow Homer painted “Weatherbeaten” in 1894. The oil on canvas at the Portland

Museum of Art is a bequest of Charles Shipman Payson.

Homer on display

To help celebrate the opening of the Homer studio at Prout’s Neck, the Portland Museum of Art, which owns more than 400 of Winslow Homer’s works, will feature 35 oils and water-colors on loan from museums around the country in a exhibi-tion called “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine.” The exhibition will run Sept. 22-Dec. 30 at the museum, 7 Congress Square, Portland.

Top: Winslow Homer’s furniture, fishing gear and china painted by his mother are among artifacts visitors to his restored Prout’s Neck

studio, above, will see during tours this fall and next spring. The $2.8 million studio restoration commissioned by the Portland Museum of Art

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Plan to take over Parkview hospital draws oppositionBy Christopher CousinsBangor Daily News

BRUNSWICK — Central Maine Healthcare moved forward with plans to take over Parkview Adventist Medi-cal Center in Brunswick with a filing Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Neighboring Mid Coast Hospital said Aug. 30 that it will oppose the move with a counter-proposal.

Chuck Gill, vice president for public af-fairs for Central Maine Healthcare, which is the parent organization of Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston as well as Bridgton and Rumford hospitals, said he filed a Certificate of Need application with the state on Aug. 29.

He said he expects it will take up to three months for the state to approve or reject the application, which would give CMHC overarching administrative con-trol of Parkview, though Parkview’s local board of directors would remain in place.

“There’s no money changing hands and we’re not buying anything,” said Gill. “This is a change of control application that’s been done multiple times in Maine and across the country.”

Lois Skillings, president and CEO of Mid Coast Hospital, which is just a few miles from Parkview in Brunswick, said Mid Coast opposes Parkview’s merger with CMHC because the board of direc-tors believes that control of a local hospital should remain in local hands.

She said a Parkview/Mid Coast merger would reduce health care costs in the com-munity by $22 million.

She told the Bangor Daily News during a recent interview that Mid Coast would file a competing application in the event that CMHC and Parkview moved forward with their proposal. Stephen Trockman, a spokesman for Mid Coast Health Services, said Aug. 30 that an application would be filed “very soon.”

“We feel that it is time for our hospitals to work together to improve health care in our community,” said Skillings. “We

feel very strongly that Central Maine Healthcare should not be allowed to take over Parkview. To me it’s like a lobsterman in Rockland putting traps around Bailey Island.”

According to a letter of intent filed by Parkview and CMHC in June, the proposal is for Parkview’s articles of incorporation and bylaws to be rewritten to accommo-date the change. CMHC already provides administrative and emergency room ser-vices, among other things, for Parkview.

Gill said Mid Coast’s opposition to the proposal flies against a trend of smaller standalone hospitals joining larger orga-nizations, which he said is happening on a large scale in Maine and beyond. In Maine, he cited the Rumford and Bridgton hospital mergers with CMHC as well as Waldo County General Hospital in Bel-fast and Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, among others, joining with MaineHealth, parent company of Maine Medical Center in Portland.

“(Mid Coast’s) opposition is an inter-esting and self-serving argument that’s contrary to what’s going on in Maine and the United States,” Gill said. “For a small, standalone hospital, the best way into the future is to be part of a larger system.”

In its letter of intent, Mid Coast pro-posed a takeover of Parkview’s services at its campus at Cook’s Corner. To attain financial thresholds required by the state’s certificate of need process – which hos-pitals must undergo before making major investments – Mid Coast would establish a $10 million Parkview Health Trust, the proceeds of which would “support efforts to improve the health and well-being of the midcoast communities through prevention and other population health activities.”

According to data provided by Skill-ings, which she said came from the Maine Health Data Organization, a state agency that collects financial and clinical data from medical providers, neither Mid Coast nor Parkview is operating near capacity and that Mid Coast could accommodate the area’s health-care needs while eliminat-ing millions of dollars in overhead.

“If we’re going to get out of this re-cession, we need to work together to reduce health care costs, rather than have another system duplicating our services,” said Skillings, who took over leadership of the hospital last year. “The health-care system as it is today is not sustainable. We are going to have to shrink something over time. I think there’s a great opportunity for us to merge.”

In years past, the conflict between the two Brunswick hospitals has at times spilled into the public realm. Mid Coast proposed similar merger plans in 2008 and 2010, which prompted the two organiza-tions to purchase competing advertising campaigns in local newspapers for and against the change. Skillings said she regrets that “the chasm between our orga-nizations is very deep.”

“The division between these two organi-zations has gone on for too long,” she said. “It’s time for us to heal. It’s time for us to stop fighting.”

Skillings said among her fears is that some Parkview patients will be forced to

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Harpswell may accept ownership of Lower RoadBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — Whether the town is responsible for a one-way road on Orr’s Island may soon be decided, after town officials and others met on Lower Road Tuesday night to determine where past snow plowers have traditionally turned around.

Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said the next step is for the Board of Select-

men to authorize the road’s legal status, which might happen Sept. 20.

For now, the town has determined the turn-around is where it has been since 1980: at the front of Arnold and Nancy Bennett’s driveway, Eiane said.

They didn’t mind.In fact, they prefer Lower Road as a

town road, so town workers could con-tinue to work on damaged culverts along

the drive and other future maintenance that might be required, according to the minutes from the Aug. 9 selectmen’s meeting.

This week’s site visit was authorized by the board at an Aug. 23 meeting, on the recommendation of the town admin-istrator.

The issue came up when Ronald Pon-ziani became the town’s current road commissioner, Ponziani said, and he was asked by Arnold Bennett why culverts on Lower Road weren’t being repaired.

“It used to be taken care of,” Ponziani said on Tuesday.

While the road commissioner said he maintained that the road belongs to the

town, Eiane indicated that was unclear and began to look into the matter.

After hearing testimony Aug. 9 from several residents – including Ed Johnson, who said the road had been maintained for 80 years – Eiane said she sought ad-vice from the town’s attorney.

There had been “incomplete” and “inconclusive” records prior to 2000 on whether the town was responsible for plowing the snow on the one-way road, Eiane said.

If the Board of Selectmen authorizes Lower Road as a town road, Eiane said, “it will become a responsibility of the town.”

And although no one has challenged the road’s path to legal status, she said anyone is free to dispute the decision in court.


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My first sight was the lake, a sheet of glass with a mist hovering a few feet above. It was like waking up in an enchanted forest — on a backbreaking sur-plus Marine Corps cot, in a drafty cinder block cabin with no indoor plumbing and inadequate screening — because as a Midwesterner, I had no business enjoying some-thing that someone else may have missed, and as a Protestant, even my fantasies were filled with mosquitoes.

Despite being unable to enjoy it fully, the fantasy hung around in the background until last fall when some friends made it a reality. They asked us if we would do them “the favor” of staying in their beautiful lake house for the winter. Do them a favor? Lemmethinkaboutityes! Autumn was delightful. We had the still water and hovering mists, but not the insects. Indoor plumbing. It was five months of living the dream without having to buy the dream.

Getting Elizabeth to school every morning was a little more time consuming, although it was a nice change from driving the same stretch of outer Con-gress Street. I was weary of seeing the same strip malls and gas stations every day, not to mention try-ing to resist the siren song of Tony’s Donuts.

There would have been more time to engage with my daughter, except for the unspoken rule Elizabeth and I have developed about conversation in the car. I don’t speak, and that’s the rule. The longer silence, coupled with increased stop-and-go traffic on the new route, gave me a chance to observe the route, and I found myself increasingly drawn to the signage on the various businesses. An earlier contribution to these pages suggested how a few intriguing local businesses contribute to Portland’s unique personal-ity. A completely unscientific study of how some of them choose to draw attention to themselves, undertaken from my car window on the way to my daughter’s school, confirms that unique character.

The main thing, no pun intended, is how un-cor-porate Portland is. I’m sure the long-time Mainers would disagree, but they’ve never lived in southern California.

L.A. is all about branding. On Ventura Boulevard, a car wash would either have an enormous sign conceived and executed by an out-of-work Disney animator, or a three-story tall pole dancer holding a sponge. You may run off the road, but you won’t forget it’s a car wash. Here’s what you won’t see: a smallish generic movable letter sign like one I saw on one of the lesser business streets. It carried the almost cryptic message, “Salt Eats Cars” with a hand drawn monster face poised over the word “Cars” like a Pac-Man with teeth.

What really got me about this place though — and I’m sure it was just an accident of timing — was that the sign always seemed to say, “Salt Eats Cars — Car Wash Closed,” as if the owners were saying, “Sure, we could wash your car. Washing your car is no problem. But the salt will get you eventually, so, what’s the point?”

I’m probably reading all this into the message, and I was simply driving by before they opened, but

maybe, just maybe, this sign is brilliant advertising. It doesn’t fit the Western marketing model. Instead, it takes a Zen approach. By making it a challenge to find out when they are open, the business insures a customer base that truly wants their cars washed. It makes sense if you think about it, but not too much.

Another sign I love is the one with the dog drinking out of a stein. A picture is worth a thousand words. Portland is a dog-friendly city. I applaud that. You can feel comfortable bringing your dog into the club. The Snug on Munjoy Hill usually has several dogs roaming around. It gives the place a homey feel. I don’t go to bars much, but I like the thought of my local joint welcoming pets.

However. The dog is drinking out of a beer stein. I’m not saying it’s beer. For all I know, beer is good

for dogs. I’m not implying any irresponsibility at all, but it’s a human beer stein. I have two dogs, I don’t even like it when they lick my face, because I’ve seen some of the places they go. So, I love the sign. I love how efficiently it conveys a message of warmth and inclusiveness, but I’m not joining the mug club. That’s all I’m saying.

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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Republican national convention last week.The media was playing up Todd Aiken’s immoder-

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But the Romney cam-paign did not panic. It remained resolute and stayed the course. It kept focused on the people, principles and policies that distinguish the Re-publican agenda.

It began when Mitt Romney chose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate. In doing so, Romney made a deci-sion not to make some sort of appeal for votes from those in the middle of the political spectrum. He elected to sharpen the ideological divide between himself and the president.

The convention was crafted to illustrate that divide with speakers who personified the American Dream: that with hard work you can start from humble ori-gins and build a business, become a congressman, a governor, a stateswoman, even president. They gave eloquent testimony about the goodness of Romney as a person, and the virtues of the policies he proposes for America.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley introduced her-

self as the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who came to America, started a business, and built it into a multimillion-dollar company. As governor, she worked to encourage private enterprise, like Boeing, to come to her state. But it wasn’t easy, because the Obama administration fought her. She explained that as president, Mitt Romney would support business, not oppose, business development.

Ann Romney told the audience how her husband is a hard-working businessman who will work hard to restore American prosperity. He was not handed suc-cess on a silver platter. He did not go into the family business. He built his own with hard work.

Romney is a good Samaritan. He quietly helps his neighbors, a friend in trouble or a parent whose child is in the hospital. He saved the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Guided Massachusetts out of economic crisis. Ann Romney explained that he is modest about his good works because he doesn’t do them to win political points; he does them because helping others is its own reward.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke of how his parents raised themselves up from poverty. How he gets his own plain-spoken bluntness from his mother, who was the family enforcer. She taught him that it was better to be respected than loved, because love without respect is fleeting, while respect can grow into real and lasting love.

Christie delivered the tough-love truth about the difference between Democrats and Republicans: Democrats believe that people cannot solve their problems themselves, that they need government to do it for them. Republicans believe that we can fix our own problems with good values and leadership. In New Jersey, he inherited a history of raising taxes

and an $11 billion dollar deficit. People said that it would be impossible, but Christie balanced the bud-get and lowered taxes.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee noted that in addition to the at least 13 percent of income that Mitt Romney pays in taxes, he gives 16 percent to charity and his church. Huckabee pointed out that for years, Vice President Joe Biden gave less than 2/10s of 1 percent to charity.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ob-served that the Arab Spring is proof that the desire for freedom is universal. She argued that the world is a better place when America clearly and unambigu-ously stands for freedom and opportunity. It is a more dangerous and chaotic place when, as now, friends and foes don’t know where America stands.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez emphasized that success is not something to be ashamed of or demonized — it should be celebrated. She explained how a little girl from a border town grew up to be the first Hispanic woman governor of a state. Her parents started a security guard business with nothing and grew it into a small business that employed 125 employees in three states. She went to law school, became a prosecutor, then the district attorney, then governor. As governor, she inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, but turned it into a surplus.

Former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healy re-called how as governor, Mitt Romney assembled a cabinet of the best and the brightest men and women, Republicans and Democrats. He cut taxes, improved education, and turned around a $3 billion deficit.

Ryan, Romney's running mate, pointed out that the president has been in power for almost four years. Rather than use that power to make job creation his first order of business, he borrowed and wasted trillions of dollars on government programs like the stimulus and government-controlled health care. As a result, 23 million Americans are struggling to find work. Instead of accepting responsibility for that failure, Obama continues to blame the prior admin-istration.

Ryan promised that he and Romney will not duck the tough issues. They will take responsibility, reap-ply our country’s founding principles, limit federal spending to 20 percent of GDP or less, reform taxes and regulations, generate 12 million new jobs, and get the economy growing.

Romney and Obama are both decent, honorable men. But they personify very different experiences of, and visions for, America. They provide us with a very real choice in November. The president puts his faith in government: the stimulus, bank bailout, bailout for Detroit, cash for clunkers, mortgage re-structuring, and government mandated health care.

Romney puts his faith in people’s ability to provide for themselves.

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

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William James can take Ayn Rand any dayWhile vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul

Ryan was reading Ayn Rand, I was reading Wil-liam James.

Well, not at the same time, but just as Ryan’s young mind was receptive to and formed by Rand’s absolutist philosophy of self-interest, James’ New England philosophy of radical em-piricism made more sense to me than any-thing else I read as a college student and it informs my thinking to this day.

I read Ayn Rand when I was a student and found her black-and-white thinking simplistic. What at-tracted me to the writ-ings of William James was the way he was able to handle the shades of gray that color most of experi-ence.

The fundamental philosophical dilemma that James helped me work my way through was how, in all intellectual honesty, I could profess a belief in Christianity given that my most profound per-ception of life is that no one is in possession of the truth. Anyone who claims to know the mean-ing of life or the mind of the Creator, be she a theoretical physicist or a metaphysical preacher, is deluded, a charlatan, or both.

So my starting point is always this: we are all ultimately clueless. Given this one simple truth, how then do we live a meaningful life?

Some folks seem to believe that God is neces-sary for a moral universe, that it is only our fear of God and eternal damnation that keeps us from living like barbarians. I don’t believe that at all. It seems to me that a code of human compassion and moral behavior would be even more neces-sary in a godless universe. We’re all in the same boat (or whirling through space on the same mysterious planet) without any clue where we are going or why, so let’s do what we can to take care of one another.

Before I read William James, I read Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. "The Stranger" is still my all-time favorite novel and I certainly under-stood the existentialists’ sense of the absurd, the meaninglessness of existence. But I still wanted to believe in the loving God of my Congrega-tional upbringing and William James’ pragmatic philosophy helped me do so.

“Grant an idea to be true, what concrete differ-ence will its being true make in any one’s life?” James asks. “How will the truth be realized? ... What, in short, is the truth’s cash value in experi-ential terms?”

If I believe in God and the teachings of Jesus Christ will my life be better than if I do not? I believe so. That’s why I fight through my doubts and try to live into the Christ story, a story of for-giveness and selflessness.

“Believe, and you shall be right, for you shall save yourself; doubt, and you shall again be right, for you shall perish,” writes James. “The only difference is that to believe is greatly to your advantage.”

James proposed that “Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”

Truth then is relative. There is no objective reality, no absolute truth. We all know this in our bones, but we have a hard time accepting it in our minds. True ideas are just those that get us into better relationships with experience and with one another. My old philosophy professor Bill Gavin, a James scholar and a philosopher in the American process tradition, would probably shudder at my corrupted interpretation of the great man’s thought, but, hey, it works for me.

Scientists, of course, would like us to believe that there are immutable and discoverable laws of nature, that only verifiable, replicable truths are valid, but science only describes the “how” of life, not the “why.” No matter how far out into the cosmos or how deep down into the microcosm you push the known, it is always dwarfed by the unknown. You can’t reduce life to a set of empiri-cal facts. Science is every bit a belief system as religion. By the time a science major graduates from college, half the things he’s learned have been proved wrong.

The idea that we create our own truths, that we transform reality by virtue of our beliefs has a distinctly Buddhist flavor to it, but it is central to my practice of Christianity. We are working for the transformation of this world into the kingdom of God. It is a very liberating and, I would argue, a very liberal way to live one’s life.

And if you’re not trying to make the world a better place for all living things, what in heaven’s name are you doing here?

Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

As a grandmother I worry about my grandchildren’s future. That’s why I’m voting to re-elect President Obama. President Obama’s policies take the long-term perspective. He doesn’t look for short-term fixes that will fail in the long term even if that means losing politi-cal support. For that I am grateful.

He was tested from the very first day he took office. The economy was in a tailspin, we were involved in

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8/26, no time listed. Karen Nutting, 54, of Tailwind Court, Auburn, was arrested in Woolwich by Officer Jason Aucoin on a charge of operating under the influence.

8/27 at 9:47 p.m. Paul McClain, 43, of Washington Street, was arrested on Front Street by Officer Brett McIntire on charges of operating after license revocation, operating under the influ-ence and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

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43, of Wadsworth Road, Brunswick, was arrested on Bluff Road by Officer Garrett Olson on a warrant, and issued a summons on a charge of violation of condition of release.

9/3 at 4:40 p.m. Benjamin Woodruff, 41, of Lincoln Street, was arrested on Court Street by Officer Ted Raedel on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

9/3 at 5:30 p.m. James York, 19, of Main Road, Phippsburg, was arrested on High Street by Officer Ted Raedel on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses8/28, no time listed. Brian Emmons,

36, of Fowle Hill Road, Wiscasset, was issued a summons in Brunswick by Officer Michelle Small on charges of stealing drugs and burglary.

8/28, no time listed. James Mayer, 40, of Hopkinton, Mass., was issued a summons in Georgetown by Officer Richard Ross on a charge of theft.

8/28, no time listed. Desiree Garner, 30, of Court Street, was issued a sum-mons on Court Street by Officer Richard Ross on a charge of theft.

8/31, no time listed. Kenneth Bailey Jr., 56, of Middle Street, was issued a summons on Middle Street by Officer Richard Ross on a charge of criminal threatening.

Fire calls8/28 at 12:43 a.m. False alarm at

Bath Iron Works.8/29 at 11:17 a.m. Mulch fire on

Commercial Street.8/29 at 1:51 p.m. Wires down on

Washington Street.8/30 at 7:42 p.m. Structure fire on

Pearl Street.8/31 at 9:16 a.m. Mulch fire on Chan-

dler Drive.9/1 at 7:04 p.m. Appliance fire on

Seafarer Lane.9/2 at 5:11 p.m. False alarm on

Lower Washington Street.EMS

Bath emergency medical services responded to 43 calls from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3.

BrunSwickarrests

8/29 at 5:03 p.m. Christopher F. Koch, 25, of Winterberry Lane, Harpswell, was arrested at Merrymeet-ing Plaza by Officer Julie Gillespie on a charge of operating under the influence.

8/30 at 11:50 a.m. Timothy B. Nadeau, 35, of Ford Fair Lane, Harpswell, was arrested at Water Street by Officer Keith Norris on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

8/30 at 11:38 p.m. Jourdain L. Fran-cine, 18, of Goldeneye Drive, Topsham, was arrested on Lincoln Street by Of-ficer Matthew Swan on a charge of operating under the influence.

9/1 at 12:28 a.m. Joseph H. Sprag-gins, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla., was ar-rested at the corner of Mill and Swett streets by Lt. Todd Ridlon on charges of operating under the influence, driv-ing to endanger and violating condition of release.

9/1 at 6:34 a.m. a 17-year-old ju-venile was arrested on Old Bath Road by Officer Justin Dolci on a charge of

operating under the influence.9/2 at 1:44 a.m. Jeffrey R. Dolloff,

55, of Lewiston Road, Topsham, was ar-rested on Gurnet Road by Officer Brian Funke on a charge of violating condition of release.

9/4 at 10:32 p.m. James M. Kempf, 37, of Brunswick, was arrested on Pleas-ant Street by Officer Patrick Scott on charges of domestic violance assault and domestic violence terrorizing.

Summonses8/31 at 1:41 p.m. Abraham M. Chip-

man, 35, of Maine Street, Brunswick, was summonsed on Maine Street by Officer Justin Dolci on a charge of ha-rassment.

9/1 at 2:43 p.m. Charles J. Clark, 19, of River Road, Topsham, was sum-monsed by Officer Patrick Mahar on a charge of possession or distribution of dangerous knives.

it's about time you called8/29 at 10:12 a.m. Police received a

call about two lawnmower tires missing from a workshop at Bowdoin College. It turns out they have been missing since April. The tires were valued at $250.

Fire callsNo fire calls were reported from Aug.

29-Sept. 4.EMS

Brunswick emergency medical ser-vice responded to 27 calls from Aug. 29-Sept. 4.

topShaMarrests

8/24 at 1:41 p.m. Justin Sewall, 19, of Rocky Ridge Lane, Bowdoin, was arrested on Bridge Street by Officer Robert Ramsay on a warrant.

8/28 at 9:48 a.m. Jeffrey Dolloff, 55, no address listed, was arrested on Lewiston Road by Officer Troy Garrison on a charge of violation of condition of release.

Summonses8/24, no time listed. John Yates, 41,

of Hannah Drive, was issued a summons on Old Portland Road, Brunswick, by Officer Robert Ramsay on a charge of unlawful use or possession of inhalants.

8/27 at 9:13 a.m. Joseph Cobb, 24, of Forest Pass, Bowdoin, was issued a summons on Route 201 by Detective Mark LaFountain on a charge of operat-ing after suspension.

8/30 at 4 p.m. Susan Saveikonis, 60, of Bath, was issued a summons on Main Street on a charge of theft of mislaid property.

Fire calls8/26 at 1:29 p.m. Fire alarm on

Topsham Fair Mall Road.8/26 at 6:42 p.m. Motor vehicle leak-

ing oil on Topsham Fair Mall Road.8/27 at 8:17 a.m. Fire alarm at Bow-

doin Mill.8/27 at 9:13 a.m. Motor vehicle ac-

cident on Augusta Road.8/29 at 10:13 a.m. Motor vehicle ac-

cident on Lewiston Road.8/29 at 7:50 p.m. Motor vehicle ac-

cident on Lewiston Road.8/30 at 11:13 a.m. Motor vehicle ac-

cident on Topsham Fair Mall Road.EMS

Topsham emergency medical services responded to 24 calls from Aug. 24-31.


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Lena C. Swindler, 79BRUNSWICK — Lena C. Swindler,

79, died after a long illness Aug. 29 at home with her daughter by her side.

Swindler was born in Shanghai, China, on Christmas Day, 1932, the daughter of May Chuck.

On Dec. 26, 1948, she married Jack L. Swindler in the Union Protestant Church in Shanghai. She came to the United States via ship, arriving in San Francisco on July 4, 1949. She lived with her in-laws Vernon and Muriel Swindler of Dayton, Ohio, for several years until traveling around the world with her husband and growing family.

Swindler enjoyed traveling with her husband, and made several trips to Florida, Mississippi and Ohio to visit family and friends. She enjoyed all types of cuisine, especially Maine lobster. She was loved by all who knew her and will be remembered as a dedicated mother of eight children, with a special bond to her only daughter, DeAnn.

She is predeceased by her husband of 63 years, Jack L. Swindler.

She is survived by son Danny and his wife, Vicki, of Warren; son David, of Bath; son Dennis, of Brunswick; son Dwain and his wife, Wanda, of Bruns-wick; son Dean and his wife, Laura, of Greene; son Darel and his wife, Jacky, of Raymond; son Dick and his wife, Sherri,

of Brunswick; daughter DeAnn and her husband, William Riley, of Brunswick; 18 grandchildren; and 11 great-grand-children.

A memorial service was held Sept.5 in the chapel of the New Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Augusta.

Condolences may be expressed at stet-sonsfuneralhome.com.

Patricia A. St. Pierre, 78BRUNSWICK — Patricia A. St. Pierre,

78, died Aug. 28 at Mid Coast Senior Health Center after a short illness. She was born March 6, 1934 in Freeport, a daughter of Kenneth R. and Florence M. (Brett) Gould. She was educated in Freeport schools.

S t . P ie r re was owner/operator of Pat’s Poodle Parlor in Brunswick for 35 years until her retire-ment in 2000.

She married Leo F. St. Pierre on Dec. 24, 2002, in Brunswick, and was predeceased by him. She also was predeceased by a grandson, Charles Jacob Troxell.

She is survived by her daughter, Wendy, and her husband, Norman Wesley of Sci-ence Hill, Ky.; son Kenneth and his wife, Christine Laffely, of Massachusetts; four grandchildren, Tammy L. Helton, Leslie R. Lawson, Leanna L. Laffely and Ma-rissa R. Laffely; four great-grandchildren, Jessica L. Whitehead, Katelynn P. White-head, Caroline E. Lawson and Leslie E. Lawson; and one great-great- granddaugh-ter, Kendall G. Whitehead.

A funeral service was held Aug. 31 at the Brackett Funeral Home in Brunswick with the Rev. Randy Kelloway officiating. Interment followed in Burr Cemetery, Freeport.

BATH — Robert Bridgham Bussey, 68, a prominent educator and local business-man, died Aug. 19 at his Bath home after a courageous 12-year battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Born in Gadsen, Ala. on Jan. 26, 1944, he was the first child of Janet Bridgham Bussey and Lynn MacPherson Bussey. He was educated in Bath schools and g r adua t ed f r om Morse High School in 1962. In 1966, he graduated from Wes-leyan University with a bachelor's degree in history. In 1968, he received a master’s in European history from Vanderbilt Uni-versity.

Bussey taught history and coached at the Pomfret School in Connecticut and also served as the academic headmaster of The American School in Switzerland. In 1976, Bussey was appointed headmaster of Miss Hall’s School and served in that capacity for the next eight years.

After leaving Miss Hall’s, and in his words, “released from a responsible life,” Bussey opened Bridgham & Cook Ltd., a British import store, in partnership with his brother Bill. The venture was motivated in large measure by Bussey's love of the Brit-ish Isles and an avenue that would put him in “regular contact with British and Irish pubs.” The store eventually found its way from Exeter, N.H., to its current location in Freeport.

Bussey was a life-long voracious reader, a gifted writer and a man of strong loyal-ties who treasured his family and friends. His irreverent sense of humor wrapped its arms around the outrageous and the inap-propriate. Throughout his life he would go to infinite lengths to pull off pranks on unsuspecting friends, who not only endured them over the years but also came to embrace their insanity.

In 2000, at the time that he was diag-nosed with ALS, his neurologist attempted to dissuade Bussey from his plans to “go all the way” with the disease – the assess-ment being that such a course would be bleak. But to those closest to him, Bussey was a tower of strength.

He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Anne Norment Bussey, of Bath; his daugh-ter, Kate Bussey Paulus and husband, Jay, of Bath; Kate's mother, Bussey's first wife, Karen Back Bussey, of Bath; his son, Nicholas B. Bussey, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; his mother, Bussey's second wife, Lisa S.

Bussey, and her partner, Nan Barbour, of Portland; sister Anne Bussey Dale and her husband, Michael, of Ellsworth; brother John M. Bussey and wife, Jiraporn, of Bath; brother William C. Bussey and wife, Nan, of Dedham, Mass; his grandchildren Alexander, Christopher and Isabelle Pau-lus, all of Bath; several nieces and neph-ews; and an uncle, F. Robert Bussey and wife, Ruth, of New Orleans.

A celebration of Bussey's life will take place at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8, at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St., Bath. A luncheon reception will follow at the Bath Country Club. Donations in Bussey's memory may be made to Fields For Our Future, c/o Bath Parks & Recre-ation Department, 4 Sheridan Road, Bath, ME 04530.

Joan Brewer, 88BRUNSWICK — Joan Brewer, 88, died

Aug. 28 at Mid Coast Hospital. She was born in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 1, 1924, the daughter of Arnold and Cornelia Dodd Brewer. She grew up in Ridgefield, Conn., where she loved riding horses.

Brewer graduated from Chatham Hall in Virginia in 1941, attended Vassar College and graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1991. She married and was divorced from Maynard Williamson and Frank Warner.

A former resident of New Castle, Del., where she was a championship tennis player, Brewer also lived in Mexico City and Tokyo. While living in West Lebanon, N.H., Brewer was one of the founders of The Upper Valley Haven in White River Junction, Vt. She also was a founder of Quest women’s groups in West Lebanon and Brunswick, and was an active volun-teer at the Curtis Memorial Library and for the Brunswick Police Department. She was an avid skier and swimmer, and was known to write letters expressing her opinions to local newspapers.

Brewer is survived by her son Chris-topher Brewer Williamson and his wife, Peggy, of Fitchburg, Mass. and Spruce Head; son James Maynard Williamson, of Cambridge, Mass.; three grandchil-dren, Abigail, Sarah and Thomas; great-granddaughters Anya, Lyla and Molly; and two nephews.

Following her wishes, a private celebra-tion of Brewer’s life will be held for her many friends and family at a later date.

Memorial contributions may be made to The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick, ME 04011; to CHANS Home Health Care, 50 Baribeau Drive, Bruns-

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Modern Pest Services recently ranked 44th in this year’s top 100 pest control companies in North America. The Pest Control Technology list is based on revenue from 2011. PCT, a pest control news and resource center, compiled the top 100 list after reviewing the revenues of 20,000 pest control companies in North America.

OA Centers for Orthopaedics an-nounced recently that it has been named one of “154 Orthopedic and Spine-Driv-en ASC’s to Know” by Becker’s ASC Review. With over 5,900 ambulatory surgery centers in the United States, that places OA’s Orthopaedic Surgery Center in the top 3 percent nationwide. Becker's ASC Review is a Chicago-based publi-cation focusing on the latest business and legal trends and issues related to ambulatory surgery centers.

Awards

The United Way of Greater Portland Foundation recently awarded Richard P. LeBlanc and Nathan H. Smith with the 2012 Meg Baxter Legacy Award. The event recognizes individuals whose leadership and contributions to the Foundation are vital in helping United

Way improve thousands of lives in the community.

David Turin, head chef and owner of David’s Restaurant and David’s 388, has been recognized as a culinary innova-tor by the International Food, Wine and Travel Writer’s Association. Turin is the recipient of the IFWTWA’s prestigious Culinary Excellence Award, which hon-ors the top restaurateurs and chefs from around the globe throughout the year.

Greater Brunswick PeaceWorks re-cently awarded the Peacemaker Award to the MidCoast Hunger Prevention Pro-gram, whose mission is to reduce hunger by providing food assistance, sustainable living education and referral services to households living at or below poverty.

HomeHealth Visiting Nurses recently announced that it has been awarded two one-year grants totaling $92,462 by United Way of Greater Portland. These investments will support charity care for adults and children who need home health services but lack insurance and/or financial resources to pay for neces-sary care.

The American Cancer Society was recently named a recipient of the 2012 Bowdoin College Common Good Grant to help support their Road to Recovery Program. The Society’s Road to Recov-ery program matches volunteer drivers with cancer patients to provide safe and reliable transportation to and from cancer treatment. Since 2001, an anony-mous alumni donor has contributed $10,000 annually for Bowdoin students to allocate to local agencies looking for funding to start new initiatives and as well as maintain existing programs. Act-

ing much like a community foundation, students that are a part of the program evaluate grant proposals to determine which local nonprofits will receive the Common Good Grants each spring. The purpose of the program is to provide students the opportunity to learn about grants, foundations and philanthropy while becoming familiar with local non-profit organizations.

The International Map Collectors’ So-ciety recently named Harold Osher the 2012 recipient of its annual Helen Wallis Award. The award, named for the scholar, researcher, and longtime superintendent of the British Library’s Map Library, is presented to an individual who has been responsible for cartographic contributions of great merit and wide interest to map collectors worldwide.

New Hires and Promotions

Friends School of Portland recently promoted Jen McNally to the newly cre-ated position of director of admissions and marketing. She has an extensive background in marketing and has served as the school's marketing coordinator since March 2011.

John Orlowski recently joined Sweet-ser as the human resources director. Orlowski will oversee the operational functions of the department, which serves nearly 700 employees throughout the state.

The Portland Museum of Art recently announced that Dana Baldwin has been named director of learning and interpreta-tion. Baldwin is the 2011 National Mu-seum Educator of the Year and has been the Museum’s Peggy L. Osher Director of Education since 1992. Baldwin’s new title and the creation of the department

of learning and interpretation is a new initiative toward museum education that focuses on creating more dynamic and engaging experiences in the museum’s galleries.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care recently announced that Charles R. Goheen, a sea-soned finance executive with more than 25 years experience in both the provider and payor environments, has been named as chief financial officer. In this role, he will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of Harvard Pilgrim's accounting, financial planning, tax, actuarial, under-writing and treasury operations.

Appointments

Portland's Downtown District has an-nounced the following officers for 2012-2013: Doug Fuss, president; Nicholas Morrill, vice president; and Catherine Lamson, treasurer. Also, newly elected to the board are: Bill Duggan, Dan Ed-wards, Phil Haughey Jr. Re-elected to the board is Brad McCurtain. Portland's Downtown District represents over 600 property owners and 400 businesses in the Old Port and Arts District.

Good Deeds

The American Lung Association of the Northeast recognized L.L Bean as top fundraising team at the 2012 Trek Across Maine. L.L. Bean, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, is a longtime corporate sponsor of the annual cycling event which takes riders on a challeng-ing yet picturesque journey from Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry to Steamboat Landing Park in Belfast.

New location

J. Kelley Salon, formerly of 81 Bridge St. in Yarmouth, has moved to 21 Main St. in Freeport and is operating under the name L.A. Style Beauty Boutique. The Salon is owned by Jill Kelley and Emma Arenstam.

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Matt Cosgrove in the teams' opener Friday night. The Dragons sprung a 36-28 upset.

The trade that saved the Red SoxBy Bryan O’Connor

Two weeks ago, I told you that the Red Sox were not only headed for their worst season since 1997, but that the future looked bleak, with bad con-tracts tying up payroll for years to come.

Since then, things have gotten worse for the 2012 Sox. David Ortiz is back on the disabled list. They lost a game 20-2. At this point, they’ll almost certainly have the team’s worst record since the 1992 team went 72-90, if not since the 1965 team went 62-100.

But things are looking up for the Red Sox.

Boston had three unquestion-ably bad contracts on its books in early August, and a fourth that didn’t make sense unless the team was competitive. In perhaps the biggest Red Sox trade since Babe Ruth went to New York, and certainly the big-gest waiver wire trade ever, the Los Angeles Dodgers claimed two of those bad contracts- Josh Beckett’s and Carl Crawford’s- and the other questionable one- Adrian Gonzalez’s, and took Nick Punto for good measure.

Somehow, the Sox convinced LA to part with a few pros-pects, including promising pitchers Rubby de la Rosa and

Allen Webster, in addition to the salary relief.

John Lackey is still owed $30.5 million over the next two years, and is a long shot to justify half of that salary. Aside from Lackey, the only players signed to the Red Sox after 2012 are Dustin Pedroia, the team’s best player, and Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz, its two best pitchers.

As bad as they look right now, this team has a solid core for the future with Lester, Bu-chholz, and Felix Doubront in the rotation and Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks anchor-ing the lineup. They’ll have

difficult decisions to make with David Ortiz entering free agency and Jacoby Ellsbury in his final arbitration year, and they may be tempted to make a splash on the free agent market, with Josh Hamilton and Zack Greinke up for grabs and more payroll flexibility than they’ve had in years.

Whatever the Red Sox choose to do in 2013, the future looks brighter today than it did when Josh Beckett was pitching every fifth day and Carl Crawford was playing every fifth month.

Now let’s ship Bobby Valen-tine out of town and start win-ning again.

By Michael HofferA new fall sports season is

underway for just about every-one in the Mid-Coast area and there has already been plenty of excitement.

Here's a glimpse:Football

Brunswick's football team made a huge statement Friday night by upsetting host Bangor, 36-28. Jared Jensen dazzled with 428 yards rushing and five TDs. The Dragons erased an early 15-0 lead and cruised to victory.

“That was the plan from the get-go, for me to get 40 carries,” said Jensen. “That’s what coach [Dan Cooper] wanted from me, and once we got going we all got excited and showed we can do good things this year. This is a big momentum boost for our team. Everyone around the state was saying we were going to be near the bottom of the East this year, but we proved tonight we can be at the top of the charts.”

“We just knew if we were go-ing to beat a team like Bangor we had to give our best player the ball every time,” said Coo-per. “We thought he might ap-proach 40 carries, but we knew we had to do that to beat them."

Brunswick has its home open-er Friday versus Skowhegan.

Mt. Ararat wasn't as fortunate. The Eagles, in a game post-poned 24 hours by lightning, fell at home to Lewiston, 26-14. Mt. Ararat tries to get in the win column Friday at Oxford Hills.

In Eastern B, Morse dominat-ed visiting Camden Hills in its opener, 39-6. The Shipbuilders are at Gardiner Friday.

Boys' soccer Brunswick's boys' soccer team

started a new era under new coach Mark Roma by beating visiting Oxford Hills, 5-0. The Dragons went to Erskine Tues-day, visit Mt. Ararat Friday and Edward Little Tuesday of next week.

Mt. Ararat's first game was at Oxford Hills Tuesday. After go-ing to Lewiston Wednesday, the Eagles host Brunswick Friday.

Morse lost, 5-0, at reigning Eastern B champion Camden Hills to start the season. The Shipbuilders looked to even their record Wednesday at home versus Maranacook. Friday, Morse goes to Winslow. The

Shipbuilders host Leavitt Mon-day.

Girls' soccer In girls' soccer, Brunswick

opened with a 4-0 victory at Oxford Hills. After going to Er-skine Tuesday, the Dragons host Mt. Ararat Saturday and Edward Little Tuesday of next week.

Mt. Ararat beat visiting Lewiston, 3-1, in its first game. The Eagles were at Oxford Hills Tuesday and go to Brunswick Saturday.

Morse, a regional finalist last season, lost a 3-2 home match to Camden Hills its first time out. Miracle Trimble scored both goals. The Shipbuilders were at Maranacook Wednesday and

host Winslow Friday.Field hockey

Mt. Ararat's field hockey team opened against defending Class A champion Skowhegan and lost, 5-0. The Eagles went to Lewiston Tuesday and Edward Little Thursday. They go to Brunswick Saturday and host Brewer Tuesday of next week.

Brunswick was scheduled to open Friday at home versus Messalonskee, but no result was report. The Dragons were home with Cony Tuesday and went to Lawrence Thursday. They host Mt. Ararat Saturday.

Morse dropped a 6-0 decision at Waterville its first time out. The Shipbuilders were home

with MCI Tuesday and Leavitt Thursday. Saturday brings a trip to Gardiner.

Cross country Brunswick's cross country

teams took part in a five-team meet at Maranacook. The boys (behind individual winner Jamie Ross, 19 minutes, 3 seconds) came in first. The girls were sec-ond to the hosts (Tiffany Tanner placed third, 22:07).

Morse joined three other teams at Winslow. The girls, paced by Amy Franklin (third, 22:08), came in second. The boys, led by Nate Stover (fifth, 19:04), placed third.

Mt. Ararat was part of a six-team meet at Oceanside. The boys were first (Nathan Macken-zie finished second individually, 17:30.23). The girls came in second to Camden Hills. Kelly Lynch placed third individually (21:23.34).

GolfBrunswick's golf team split its

first two matches, beating Morse (9-0) and falling to Edward Lit-tle (6.5-2.5). Mt. Ararat lost to Oxford Hills (8-1) and Lewiston (8.5-0.5) in its early action.

Bangor Daily News staff writer Ernie Clark contributed to this story.

Youth Sports Jamboree upcoming

The Brunswick Youth Sports Council is holding a Youth Sports Jamboree Saturday from 1 to 4:30 p.m., at Bowdoin Col-lege's Farley Field House. The program is designed to expose boys and girls to a wide variety of sports activities they have yet to try. FMI, [email protected].

Special Olympics seeks basketball volunteers

The Cumberland County Special Olympics Unified 3-on-3 Basketball League is ready to start another action packed season and is looking for high school student-athletes or other volunteers. The hour-long 6-week Tuesday evening program starts Sept. 11 and takes place at the Deering high school gym. Basketball experi-ence is not required to play or assist in scorekeeping. FMI, Judi Joy, 956-1604.

Roundup

Arts CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.


Museum of Art, 9400 College Sta-tion, Brunswick, 725-3124.

Promenade: A Walk in Style Through Pejepscot’s Past, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through October, Pejepscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, Tue.-Sat., 729-6606.

The Dragon Sleeps, Jean Kigel, through Sept., Summer Island Studio, 149 Maine St., Brunswick, 373-1810.

Wearable Art, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. daily, Sept. 1- Oct. 31, Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, 443-1499.

Theater/DanceSage Swingers, Square and Round Dance Club, 6:30 p.m. Monday round dance workshops, Coffin School Cafeteria, Barrows Street, Brunswick; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday square dance workshops, Jordan Acres School Cafeteria, Brunswick, 389-2568 or sage.squaredanceme.us.

Greater PortlandAuditions/Calls for ArtYarmouth Art Festival accepting entries through Sept. 21. Painting,

Mid CoastBooks & AuthorsWednesday 9/12Skowhegan Diaries, a presen-tation by Houghton White and Candace Kanes, 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, 729-6606.

Friday 9/14“When We Were the Kennedys- A Memoir From Mexico, Maine,” Monica Wood, 7 p.m., Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine Street, Brunswick, 729-5083.

GalleriesAfter Hours (2012), staff artists of Spindleworks, Mon.-Sat. 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.-6 p.m., through Sept., Little Dog Coffee Shop, 87 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-8820.

A River Lost and Found: The Androscoggin in Time and Place, through Sept. 16, Bowdoin Col-lege Museum of Art, 3900 College Station, Brunswick, 725-3964.

Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography, runs Sept. 6- Dec. 23, Bowdoin College

sculpture, photography, etching and digital media; from any artist 18 and older who maintains a resi-dence in Maine. $15 per person for the first piece, $10 for the second and $5 for each additional one. All fees and commissions support St. Bart’s community services. FMI: yarmouthartfestival.com.

Saturday 9/15“Nutcracker Burlesque,” audition, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Vivid Motion, Acorn Studios, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook, 432-0500, 18+

Portland Youth Dance Company, auditions, hip hop 12 p.m., inter-mediate 1 p.m., advanced 2:30 p.m., 450-1735, ages 10-18.

Books & AuthorsFriday 9/7 “Song of the Vikings: Snoori and the Making of Norse Myth,” Nancy Brown, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Thursday 9/13“Cascade,” Maryanne O’Hara, read-ing and signing, 7 p.m., Longfellow Books, Monument Square, Port-land, 772-4045.

Friday 9/14 “Maine Mothers Who Mur-dered,” Annetee Dorey, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Saturday 9/15“Maine: The Wilder Half of New England,” William David Barry, book signing, Nonesuch Books & Cards, Mill Creek Shopping Center, 50 Mar-ket St., South Portland, 799-2659.

ComedyPortland Improv Festival, comedy festival, Sept. 6-9, 8 p.m., Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 318-6348, $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $40 for a four-day pass.

FilmWednesday 9/12“The Green,” doors 7 p.m., film be-gins 7:30 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, admission $7, SPACE members and students w/ID $5.

Thursday 9/13“The Invisible War,” 6:30-9 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, 878-9414.

GalleriesAmanda Edwards, stained glass exhibit, through August, Cape Elizabeth Arts Commission, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, 807-9287.

Travels Near and Far, A Retro-spective, Ethel Halsey Blum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., runs through Sept. 29, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, 251 U.S. Route One, Falmouth, 801-5623.

Friday 9/7Andrea van Voorst van Beest and Jim Kelly, art reception, 5-8 p.m., Addison Woolley, 132 Washington Ave., Portland, 450-8400.

Addiction to Perfection, Kimber-ly Curry and Jeanne Titherington, 5-8 p.m., through Oct. 27, 3fish gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland, 773-4773.

Art in Our Front Yard: Portland’s Public Art Collection, Pullen Foun-tain, 5:30 p.m., behind Central Fire Station and across from the Federal Courthouse, Portland, 756-8173.

Botanicals of Maine, Barbara Bean, 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 30,

Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Congress St., Portland, 773-6011.

Diorama, art exhibit with Jodi Explodi’s 10th anniversary show, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Geno’s Rock Club, 627 Congress St., Portland, 838-7030.

First Friday Reception, Maine Artists Collective, 5-8 p.m., Con-stellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland, 409-6617.

Gallery Reopening, 5-9 p.m., Two Paths Gallery, 164 Middle St. No. 4, Portland, 756-3264.

Gilded Roots, Native Grace, Ed-wige Charlot and Rachel Gloria Manly, 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 28, Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Port-land, [email protected] or [email protected].

MuseumsMaine Landscapes by Frederic Church, runs through Sept. 30, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Con-gress Square, Portland, 775-6148.

Portland: Capturing a Changing Neighborhood, Rush Brown, runs through Sept. 10, Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Port-land, 400-7510.

MusicFriday 9/7Lauren Rioux and Brittany Haas, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, $15 advance, $18 door.

David Mello and the Travis James Humphrey Blue Review, 5 and 9 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, [email protected].

Bluegrass Gospel Project, 7 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Con-gress St., Portland, 347-3075, $15 advance, $18 door.

Naia, 6-8 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Saturday 9/8OLS Presents: The Portland Song-writers Celebration, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, $15 advance, $20 door.

Sunday 9/9 Henryfest, family-oriented music

festival, 12-7 p.m., Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, 846-9559, $18 individual and $35 family in advance, $20 individual and $40 family at gate.

Monday 9/10AWOLNATION, 8 p.m., State The-atre, 609 Congress St., Portland, 800-745-3000, $18 advance, $20 day of.

Thursday 9/13Hot Club Du Monde, 8-11 p.m., Ginko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, [email protected].

Friday 9/14An Evening of Celtic Music, 7:30 p.m., Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, 774-0465, $18.

Gary Richardson and Pam Baker & the SGs, 5 p.m., Ginko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, [email protected].

Theater & DanceFriday 9/7Portland Playback Theatre, 7:30 p.m., 516 Congress St., Portland, [email protected], $7 suggested donation.

Thursday 9/13“Tess of D’Ubervilles,” 8 p.m., Dead Wessex Fair, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portlnad, 899-3993, $12 adults, $10 students and se-niors.

Friday 9/14Can U Rel8? a showcase of short plays by Maine playwrights, 7:30 p.m., Freeport Players,Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Hol-brook St., Freeport, 865-2220, $10 advance, $15 door.

“Tess of D’Ubervilles,” 8 p.m., Dead Wessex Fair, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993, $12 adults, $10 students and se-niors.

Saturday 9/15Can U Rel8? a showcase of short plays by Maine playwrights, 7:30 p.m., Freeport Players,Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Hol-brook St., Freeport, 865-2220, $10 advance, $15 door.

Exhibit announces fall’s arrival

ContributedDuring September, Summer Island Studio at 149 Maine

St. in Brunswick welcomes back watercolorist and Asian brush painter, Jean Kigel for a show entitled The Dragon Sleeps. The gallery is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Summer Island Studio will be open for

the Friday night art walk until 8 on Sept. 14.

Community CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.

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The Lewiston/AuburnGreek Festival is slatedtobeginThursday, September 6th at

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community support has transformedwhathadbeena local fair into a regional cultural

attraction.Highlightswill include agenerousmenuofGreek andMediterranean foods andpastries.Ethnicmusicwill beperformedduring theeveninghours. Traditional dancingwill be a

focus,withdancing lessons availableondemand. The festivalwill also includechurch tours, activities for children, a

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BathWed. 9/12 7 p.m. Forestry Committee CHThu. 9/13 4:30 p.m. Community Development CH

BrunswickMon. 9/10 5:30 p.m. Water Board 266 River RoadTue. 9/11 4:30 p.m. Teen Center Advisory Board People PlusTue. 9/11 7 p.m. Planning Board BSWed. 9/12 4:30 p.m. Conservation Commission BSWed. 9/12 7 p.m. School Board BSThu. 9/13 7 p.m. Cable TV Committee BS

HarpswellMon. 9/10 2 p.m. Comp. Plan Implementation THMon. 9/10 4 p.m. Energy Committee THTue. 9/11 3 p.m. Conservation Commission THTue. 9/11 5:30 p.m. Shoreland Zoning Review THThu. 9/13 7 p.m. Town Lands TH

TopshamMon. 9/10 4 p.m. Tree Committee THTue. 9/11 6:30 p.m. Conservation Commission THWed. 9/12 6 p.m. Historic District Commission THWed. 9/12 6 p.m. Route 196 Corridor LibraryThu. 9/13 6:30 p.m. Comp. Plan Implementation TH

Mid Coast BenefitsSilent auction to benefit the Coastal Humane Society, begin-ning Aug. 1, list of items at At Last... Salon & Day Spa, 185 Park Row, Brunswick, and online, atlast2010.webstore.com

Silent auction, through Sept. 21, to benefit Ending Hunger in Maine, Five County Credit Union, 765 Washington St., 800-750-0959x2113.

Bulletin BoardCurrent events forum, Thursdays, 12-1 p.m., through Nov. 19, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242x211.

Saturday 9/8Women and money/investing, Maine Media Women’s meeting, 9 a.m., Captain Daniel Stone Inn, 10 Water St., Brunswick, 549-5518.

Sunday 9/9Family Arts & Science Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Brunswick Mall, Brunswick, [email protected].

Harpswell Republican Commit-tee potluck, 5 p.m., Old Orr’s Island Schoolhouse, 1594 Harpswell Is-land Road, Orr’s Island, 833-3065.

Saturday 9/15Blues & ‘Que street party, 6-9 p.m., Winter St., Bath, 442-2174, adults $25, $15 children 5-12, under five free.

Harpswell garden club fall sale, 9:30 a.m., Centennial Hall in Harpswell Park, Route 123, Harpswell, 729-3509.

Call for VolunteersAndroscoggin Home Care & Hospice has a growing need for hospice volunteers in the Bruns-wick area, training, call 777-7740, AHCH.org.

ArtVan Program seeks volunteers

to help with art therapy program-ming with children and teens, promotional support and fund-raising efforts, contact 371-4125 or visit artvanprogram.org.

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteer mentors (must be 18+) willing to commit one year and spend eight hours a month with a child 6-14 who lives in a single parent home, contact Brunswick office at 729-7736 or [email protected].

Chocolate Church Arts Center seeks volunteers for the art gal-lery and more, 798 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455.

The Greater Bath Elder Outreach Network, a program of Catholic Charities Maine, is looking for volunteers a few hours a week to assist seniors by providing companionship, transportation, assistance with errands and tele-phone reassurance for elderly and disabled people who live in Sagadahoc County and the Brunswick area, Martha Cush-ing, 837-8810; meetings 6-7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month, Patten Free Library, Bath, 837-8810.

Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine needs volunteers at ReStore in Bath, minimum four-hour shift commitment, 386-5081 or [email protected].

Home to Home, an organiza-tion providing a safe place for parents to exchange children for visitations, needs volunteers, com-mitment of 1-2 hours per exchange period, police check and train-ing required, Mid-Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Rich Siegel, 837-4894, mainehometohome.org.

Meals on Wheels drivers urgently needed, Wednesdays and Fridays, information, 729-0475, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham.

Mid Coast Hospital, dozens of positions at the café, gift shop, or greeting patients, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Mid Coast Senior Health Cen-ter needs volunteers for various activities with seniors Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, welcome

desk openings, 373-3646.

Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter, gift shop needs volunteers, four-hour shifts mornings, after-noons and early evenings Monday through Friday, every other Sun-day 1-4 p.m., will train, 373-4518 or visit the gift shop at 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Pejepscot Historical Society needs volunteer tour guides for Skolfield-Whittier House and Josh-ua L. Chamberlain Museum and volunteer staff for Chamberlain Museum gift shop, 729-6606.

People Plus Center, ongoing op-portunities, 6 Noble St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

Red Cross training, Disaster Action Team, free, basic classes provide foundation for delivering assistance in emergency situa-tions, weekday evenings, course schedules at midcoast.redcross.org, register on line or call 729-6779, 563-3299, MidCoast-RedCross.net, 16 Community Way, Topsham.

Road to Recovery, American Cancer Society’s transportation program seeks volunteers to help cancer patients get to their treat-ment appointments, call Janice Staples, 373-3715, [email protected], American Cancer So-ciety, One Bowdoin Mill Island, Topsham.

Spectrum Generations has vol-unteer opportunities in program development, outreach, and re-ception at its new Community Center at 12 Main St., Topsham,

Dave, 729-0475.

Sexual Assault Support Services of Mid Coast Maine needs vol-unteers to provide support and information to callers on 24-hour hotline, 725-2181.

Garden & OutdoorsSaturday 9/8Garden party, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road, Topsham, 725-1727.

Health & SupportCreating Meditation in Action, five week class, Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m., starting Sept. 4, Shambhala Meditation Center 19 Mason St., Brunswick, 617-308-8637, register online: shambhalabp.org, $55.

Greater Portland BenefitsFriday 9/7Art auction, 5-8 p.m., to benefit Grace Street Ministry, Hope.Gate.Way Church, 185 High St., Portland, [email protected].

Open Studio, 4:30 VIP art sale and 6 p.m. reception to benefit Safe Passage, Shaarey Tphiloh Temple, 151 Newbury St., Portland, 761-3917, VIP $50, general $20.

Saturday 9/8Lucidfest, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., to ben-efit Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 807-7320.

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Homer’s studio was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and is tucked into an area his family bought in the mid-1880s and hoped to develop as an artist’s colony.

By then, Homer was approaching 50 and known for his magazine illustrations from the Civil War, and oil or watercolor landscapes.

Before making Scarborough his perma-nent home, Homer lived in Cullercoats, a

North Sea town in the United Kingdom. Levesque said Homer continued to travel after settling in Scarborough, but died in his studio in 1910 at age 74.

Levesque noted Homer did not enjoy distractions as he worked in the studio, which was moved from its original site near a family home called “The Ark,” and rede-signed by Portland architect John Calvin Stevens. Yet there are extensive photos of him at work and of the studio, which proved invaluable in the restoration process.

The photos allowed restorers to count ex-terior clapboards, and Levesque said the in-

terior pine walls and floors were dismantled and cleaned. Excavation below Homer’s painting room turned up empty paint bottles and brush tips. His name is etched into a first-floor library window, and his pencilled literary quotations are still visible on walls.

The interior restoration recaptures Hom-er’s working environment, and the exterior piazza facing the ocean has been reinforced with steel beams so visitors can step into the view, which on a sunny day extends beyond Old Orchard Beach to the mouth of the Saco River.

The piazza was a major addition by Ste-vens, but was already faltering while Homer was alive. Workers also rebuilt the studio’s mansard roof and the ladder Homer used to climb to a rooftop perch.

The artist’s passions beyond the palate are well represented inside with his pipe, fishing rod, an eel spear and nets. A sign on the mantle warning of abundant snakes

Launchfrom page 1


were ambushed by at least 40 guerrillas during a search for a Taliban leader, ac-cording to information provided by the Maine Maritime Museum. Despite be-ing severely wounded during a firefight, Murphy made his way to open ground to call for assistance and for his team to be rescued. He was killed after he completed the call.

Wednesday’s event included speeches from U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, D-

and mice was once posted outdoors as a way to keep out sightseers Homer called “rusticators.”

On the second floor, space has been devoted to highlighting other artists who have worked in Maine or called it home. Levesque said the multimedia presentations will be changed to keep things fresh.

The studio will open with a Sept. 17 ceremony and press preview, and public tours begin Sept. 25. Access is limited to 10 visitors at a time, who will be driven to the studio in a van from the Congress Square museum in Portland.

Studio tours will end for the year on Dec. 2, and resume next spring from April 2 to June 14. Levesque said no tour schedule has been determined beyond next spring.

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

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close,” he said, “because there’s a fair amount of people that have politely de-clined (to sign); they’re happy with (the ban) as it is.”

He said response to the petition drive had been “very good,” noting that some people expressed confusion with the wording of the original referendum question.

Two ballot questions on June 12 each presented voters with three choices on fireworks. The first question asked about the sale of consumer fireworks, while the second involved fireworks use. Voters were asked to pick one of the three options pre-sented under each question.

Question 1A asked whether the town should “neither regulate nor prohibit the sale of consumer fireworks and therefore permit the sale of consumer fireworks in accordance with state law?” That question received 436 votes.

Question 2A asked the same thing, but in respect to the use of consumer fireworks, and received 419 votes.

Question 1B asked voters if they wanted to enact a zoning ordinance regulating fireworks sales, which 227 voters favored. Question 1C asked whether an ordinance prohibiting those sales should be enacted, and 565 – the majority – voted for that option.

The second and third parts of Question 2 also involved ordinances to either regulate fireworks use, or ban it. Two hundred fifty-nine voters favored regulation, while 540 preferred prohibition.

Douglass has noted that if the first two parts of each question – which called for some kind of legal sale or use – were added together, their total be greater than the third, which called for a ban on the sale or use. Fifty-four percent voted for some kind of sale, while 56 percent favored some man-ner of use.

“In my opinion a majority, because it was split three ways, essentially didn’t get what they were looking for,” Douglass said in June.

He said his proposed November referen-dum would simply ask voters if they want the sale and use of fireworks.

Douglass has been circulating the peti-tions as a private citizen. Donald Russell, chairman of the Board of Selectman, noted in June that the petition is not endorsed by selectmen, but is an “individual’s decision, as a selectman, and he has the perfect right to do that. As a citizen, he doesn’t give up his right any more than any of us does.”

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

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Kevin Plowman, a Coast Guard inspector in Maine, estimated that of 2,400 vessels that fall under the new law, only about 20 percent of the fleet is currently examined.

Plowman said although the exams do not impose any new regulations, he thinks they will help improve safety for commercial fishermen.

“It certainly is a step in the right direc-tion,” he said. “What we want to know is, do you have the equipment to survive if something happens? We look at it a part-nership with the fishermen.”

Besides Plowman, there is only one inspector for the Coast Guard’s 1st Dis-trict, which covers Maine and part of New Hampshire. Although another inspector is expected this fall, Plowman admitted it will be difficult to get all the inspections done before Oct. 16.

“Can you do 2,000 exams in a month and a half?,” he said. “No, but we’re going to do the best we can.”

The Coast Guard can board a vessel at any time three or more miles out from shore, Plowman said, but they look only for proper safety equipment, such as flares and life jackets, not necessarily at the integrity

“When I was younger, I was one of the ones who wasn’t for the requirements and I kind of bucked things,” he said. “It’s one of the things you just don’t like being told what to do.”

Drouin has now been having the dockside inspections for about nine years, he said.

Drouin, who is the chairman of the Maine Lobster Council, and his wife, Janine, who sits on the Maine Commercial Fishing Safety Council, said they think the required examinations are a good thing.

But they also said the new regulations in the coming years could have some push-back because of the expense.

“It’s a concern for everybody,” Drouin said. “We have a lot of expenses on main-tenance, and fishing is expensive in general. It’s one of the things that discourages me.”

For fishermen, Drouin said, no exami-nation or regulation can protect you from danger; the best prevention is preparedness.

“When you’re fishing, you just can’t pull over to the side of the road and wait for AAA to come and get you,” he said. “Accidents happen, but I don’t believe in accidents. Everything is preventable.”

Tom Groening of the Bangor Daily News contributed to this report. Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow Will on Twitter:

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of the boat.“If you do it dockside, its easier to com-

plete the exam than if you get boarded out there by the Coast Guard,” he said. “All your stuff is in order already and you don’t have to worry about it.”

Under current federal law, fishing vessels must carry an emergency position-indicat-ing radio, known as EPIRB; a lifeboat or life float; a flare kit; life jackets or immer-sion suits; a ring buoy; a fire extinguisher; a sound producing device and running lights. The at-sea inspections by the Coast Guard for such equipment, described as “volun-tary,” will now become mandatory.

Elliot Thomas, a lobstermen from Yarmouth and board member of the Maine Lobster Fishing Safety Council, has been having the dockside inspections for years.

“The exam showed me down to where things will chafe,” he said. “They do a re-markably fine job of getting people going. They actually work with you to make sure everything is ready to go.”

He said that it goes beyond what some-one might think of in terms of immediate safety needs – for example, showing how the routing of a wire might be improved.

Recommendations, realities Jennifer Lincoln, director of the NIOSH

Alaska Pacific Office and chief of the

agency’s Commercial Fishing Safety Re-search and Design Program, said there are three key steps that can be taken to improve safety for people who fish commercially.

She recommended all people working on the boats take an eight-hour marine fishing safety class, have a policy for use of life jackets and find one comfortable to work in, and maintain the watertight envelope by making sure all the doors and hatches are closed when coming back to fishing grounds.

“The tagline I’ve been using is: ‘Take the class, put one on and shut the door,’” she said. “That pretty much covers it.”

In Maine, in order to get a license, a fisherman must complete a safety course, which has helped create an awareness of safety, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobsterman’s As-sociation.

“What we’ve tried to do is promote awareness,” she said, noting that MLA offers a discounted membership if the course is completed. “But, I would say the majority of people in the industry have not participated in these safety courses.”

John Drouin, 47, of Cutler, who has been fishing lobster since he was 14 years old, said the new examination will help, but it’s difficult to get people to always do things safely.

TIFfrom page 1


Schuman, the governor’s account executive at the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, in response to a query from Brown about new MRRA board appointments.

The town has not had an official on the board since Brown wasn’t reappointed by former Gov. John Baldacci in 2009, and Tucker said this is a problem.

“(MRRA) is a long-term redevelopment strategy and we don’t want to lose control of where our tax dollars are going,” the councilor said.

Echoing statements from Tucker and Brown, Councilor David Watson said at Tuesday night’s meeting that he wanted to be clear that the problem isn’t between Brunswick and MRRA.

“The two entities have negotiated in good faith. It’s important we make a public statement that this has nothing to do with MRRA and we’ll work out this agreement,” Watson said before councilors voted to eliminate the TIF districts.

MRRA Executive Director Steve Levesque said his organization has no input on LePage’s appointments, and does not make recommendations.

“Unfortunately, MRRA has to take the brunt of the town’s anger,” Levesque said.

Brunswick and the redevelopment group were in the midst of negotiations to cre-ate two Tax Increment Financing districts on the former Brunswick Naval Air Sta-tion property that would have allowed the MRRA to keep a portion of its property tax payments to the town for various infra-structure improvements on the former base, according to Brown.

Though the exact terms had not been ironed out, Brown said early negotiations indicated that the TIFs could have involved about $12 million over the next 30 years that would have gone back to the MRRA instead of supporting the municipal budget.

Levesque told the Bangor Daily News Wednesday morning that his organization had just heard of the vote and was exploring

what exactly it means for the redevelop-ment effort.

“We’re in the process of fact-finding,” Levesque said. “We hadn’t finished with negotiations yet ... but I thought we had reached an accord. If there’s not a TIF program with the town of Brunswick, we’ll have to find other sources of money.”

Levesque said the TIF dollars, which would have dispersed to the MRRA on an annual basis at a rate that had not yet been determined, would have been used for infra-structure improvements and maintenance.

Brown said there were two TIFs pro-posed because of limits the state has on how large a TIF district can be. In general terms, he said, one of the TIFs involved hangars and other buildings associated with the airfield’s twin runways and the other would have encompassed most of the other buildings on the former base.

Brown said he was unsure of what changes to TIFs might be in the works at the state level, but that “people close to the administration” have told the town that changes may be proposed in the next leg-islative session.

On the budget front, according to Brown, the council faced a $2.2 million deficit in the School Department alone for the current fiscal year, which began July 1.

“This is not a one-year phenomenon,” Brown said. “The position of the council is that there’s certainly a willingness to re-examine this issue in the future. This is a huge deal for the town of Brunswick to enter into an agreement like this with any organization.”

Adrienne Bennett, a spokeswoman for LePage, along with George Gervais, com-missioner of the state Department of Eco-nomic and Community Development, told the Bangor Daily News that there is nothing proposed that would alter TIF laws.

“We don’t have anything in the works right now,” she said. “We certainly wouldn’t advise any town official to vote on the premise of what we may or may not intro-


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duce in a future legislative session.”In late March, Gervais introduced an amendment to the

state budget during a legislative workshop that would have given MRRA 80 percent of the revenue generated from the TIF districts, although he said the bill’s language wasn’t specific to Brunswick.

The legislative maneuver was done without much chance of a public hearing, and it alarmed Brown and councilors, ultimately causing the bill to die.

Gervais said in April after the bill died that he would possibly consider introducing it again.

The lone vote Tuesday against terminating the TIF talks was cast by Councilor Benet Pols, who said he was not comfortable supporting the move to rescind the deals be-cause he was unable to attend an executive session on the issue, which was held prior to Tuesday’s regular council

meeting.Pols said he doesn’t think the issue with the TIF districts

is related to LePage’s decision to not choose a town official as a board member for MRRA. He added that he has been generally pleased with the MRRA board appointments.

“At the same time, I’d be happy to see (Clavette) ap-proved,” Pols said.

Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him onTwitter: @DylanLJMartin.

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Administrative Assistant forSt. Bartholomew’s Episcopal

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COASTALMANOR

Nursing Homein Yarmouth

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F/T and P/T LABORERSLP Murray & Sons seek labor-ers, seasonal and permanent,for earthwork/excavating com-pany located in Cape ElizabethExc. pay and benefits.Call 799-4216.

Pownal, Maine

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688-4282Delivery fees may apply. Prices subject to change.

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VISA • MC

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travel to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston for services, but Gill said that’s not likely.

“The fact of the matter is that patients have a choice about where they’re treated,” he said. “I don’t see that changing. We have a track record of working with Parkview and that’s the reason their board of direc-tors wants to move forward with this. We’re trying to move forward for a positive reason for the people of the Brunswick area.”

Asked whether the reason for the merger proposal has anything to do with financial problems at Parkview, Gill said “Parkview has been operating in the black for the past couple of years” and the merger would help with financial stability into the future.

Parkview board Chairman Mike Ortel said in a press release that the proposed merger with CMHC would be “a marvelous step forward.”

“We are very excited to take this very positive step of becoming a member of the most progressive health care system in Maine,” he said. “This is by far the best

option for both Parkview and the commu-nities we serve as we go forward into the 21st Century.”

Parkview President Randee Reynolds noted that CMHC has already helped Parkview launch many new services, in-cluding providing the Brunswick hospital access to physicians specializing in cardiol-ogy, orthopedic surgery, emergency medi-cine, family medicine and gastroenterology, as well as assisting with the installation of a helicopter landing pad for LifeFlight of Maine.

“They have proven to be an outstanding

health care partner and we look forward to our future association, which will bring us so many benefits,” Reynolds said. “They have been able to improve our financial performance and operations with their as-sistance in the areas of purchasing, financial management and other support services.”

Trockman, the Mid Coast spokesman, said he hopes whatever happens, commu-nity members will have the opportunity to weigh in.

“There should be a community conversa-tion about this,” he said. “It’s important for the community to have a say.”


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Earning Maine’s #1 hospital ranking from U.S. News & World Report, aswell as best for cancer care, gynecology care, nephrology care, urology care,and orthopedic care, is a true honor. This recognition, the latest in a seriesof awards, is all due to the professional and personal care we provide everyday. While these achievements are a source of pride for all of us at MaineMedical Center, our source for inspiration will always be our patients.

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