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June 16, 2011 News of Falmouth, Cumberland, North Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport and Chebeague Vol. 25, No. 24

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IndexObituaries ......................15Opinion ..........................10Out & About ...................28People & Business ........18

Police Beat ....................12Real Estate ....................39School Notebook ...........16Sports ............................19

Arts Calendar ................26Classifieds .....................34Community Calendar .....29Meetings ........................29

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PAul CuNNiNghAM / FOR ThE FORECASTERPreparation for last Sunday’s commencement at Freeport High School included opportunities for photographic keepsakes of the Class of 2011. More

photos from graduation ceremonies at Freeport, Falmouth and Greely high schools on Pages 8 and 9.

‘Town center’ referendum fails in FalmouthBy Emily Parkhurst

FALMOUTH — After an emotionally charged, divisive campaign, Question 1, the so-called “town center” referen-dum, was defeated Tuesday by a vote of 1,938 to 1,777.

Pierce, Orestis elected to councilLarson, Tucker, Andrews winBy Emily Parkhurst

FALMOUTH — In an elec-tion that brought more than 42 percent of registered voters to the polls, residents elected an incumbent and a political newcomer to two Town Council seats Tuesday.

Current council Vice Chair-woman Teresa Pierce was re-elected to the council for a second term, with 1,778 votes.

RSU 5 voters reject $3M for athletics complex$24M school budget is approvedBy Amy Anderson

FREEPORT — Voters in Freeport, Durham and Pownal passed the Regional School Unit 5 budget Tuesday night, but de-feated a nearly $3 million bond for an athletics complex.

Both decisions were made along community lines, illustrat-ing the divide between voters in

Cumberland voters ban gravel pits, elect GruberBy Alex Lear

CUMBERLAND — Voters on Tuesday banned gravel pits in the town’s two Rural Residential zones.

They overwhelmingly sup-ported a referendum on the ban, 862-507.

Voters also elected Thomas Gruber to an at-large Town

Council seat. He received 594 votes, defeating Michael Edes with 450 and Sally Leavitt with 313. Gruber will replace Jeff Porter, who chose not to run again after 12 years on the council.

“I’m very excited about get-ting the opportunity to represent our town at a different level,”

said Gruber, who will step down from the Planning Board to serve on the council. “... I just feel honored.”

Retired from the U.S. Army and the health-care field, Gruber also sits on Cumberland’s Lands and Conservation, Shellfish and Coastal Waters commissions.

Councilor William Stiles ran

uncontested for re-election to his Cumberland Center seat and received 1,151 votes.

Robert Vail and William Rich-ards were also uncontested for their seats on the School Ad-ministrative District 51 Board of Directors and received 1,047

More than 42 percent of reg-istered voters turned out at the polls. Question 2, the school budget, and Question 3, the wood-chip boiler for the middle school, both passed.

“Common sense prevailed,”

said Dave Libby, a former town councilor and co-founder of Falmouth Citizens for Sound Choices, which opposed the referendum. “I think through the new electronic media, like the Google Group, we were able

to get the facts out and the facts prevailed.”

The $5.65 million plan would have turned the Lunt School building into a space for Fal-mouth Memorial Library, cre-ated a community center at the

Motz School and converted the Plummer School into a building available for lease to a private organization or business.

The plan was contingent on

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FREEPORT — Regional School Unit 5 teachers, who have been working without a contract for a year, have decided it’s time to tell the community.

On June 8 – the night of the annual RSU 5 budget meeting – dozens of teach-ers stood at the corner of Main and Hol-brook streets with signs asking for equity between the three towns, a contract for teachers and community support.

Hank Ogilby, a Freeport High School social studies teacher and negotiator for the teacher’s union, said the primary goal of the demonstration was to get the word out about the teachers’ situation.

“It is not a protest. We know our com-munity supports us,” he said. “We haven’t wanted to embroil the community in this, but we just feel that now that the commu-nity is voting on two big-ticket expensive things, it’s awareness more than anything else. There are educators who feel frus-

Paul Cunningham / For The ForeCasTerRegional School Unit 5 teachers demonstrate at the corner of Main and Holbrook streets on June

8 before the district’s annual budget meeting to let the public know they’ve been working without a contract for a year.

trated and in some ways they just need to be heard.”

Ogilby said people should know not only that teachers have worked the year without a contract, but also that the pay scales, benefits and work conditions vary in Freeport, Pownal and Durham.

“I know it’s a tough economic environ-ment, but our No. 1 goal has really been all along to bring the three towns together and to create a work environment that is consistent with the past histories of the town. We don’t feel that has been a focus and a priority,” Ogilby said. “I wonder if the taxpayers in Durham and Pownal know that their beloved teachers have not been moved to one RSU salary scale, that they have not been moved to one contract, that their teachers are basically valued less than the other teachers in the

neighboring towns?”Nancy Drolet, who is the president of

the Coastal Education Association and a heath and physical education teacher at the high school, said teachers in all three communities have worked together for the benefit of the students, and it is time to make the contract a priority.

“This is not primarily about money ...,”

Drolet said. “It’s about the language. We want to bring everyone together.”

She said the evaluation process is different in each town, along with the grievance process, leave time, vacation and sick days.

“The community doesn’t know we are under fire because we are profession-als,” Drolet said. “We don’t allow what

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NORTH YARMOUTH — The town could lose recreation, library and other services it receives from Cumberland if it does not add nearly $20,000 to its fiscal 2012 budget at Town Meeting on Saturday, June 18.

North Yarmouth pays Cumberland annually for recreation, library, snow removal, public access TV and animal control services. Cumberland is also in need of help with its parks budget, Town Manager Bill Shane has said, and the town has planned to phase in parks costs for North Yarmouth over three years, starting with about $11,000 in fiscal 2012.

The spending plan the North Yarmouth Board of Selectmen approved in April calls for a three-year contract with Cumberland for recreation, about $59,000 a year, and a one-year $134,500 agreement for library services. But that budget does not include money for parks services.

Rob Wood, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said June 10 that the board is trying to reduce the increase in costs, and that it put off discussion on parks “until we have more firm figures on that.”

“I believe there was not a compelling reason (as to) what the cost included, and why it should be paid for by the residents,” he said.

The budget also does not include about $8,700 in extra library and recreation money to Cumberland to reflect North Yarmouth’s population increase between 2000 and 2010.

North Yarmouth Administrative As-sistant Marnie Diffin said the budget numbers the town worked on in January were based on the 2000 census. She said the new census numbers were available in

March, but that the town did not receive Cumberland’s request reflecting updated figures until May, after selectmen had approved a fiscal 2012 budget to send to Town Meeting.

Town Manager Bill Shane said he sent letters to Diffin in November and January stating that the money Cumberland re-quested for recreation, library and parks was a draft assessment and that the num-bers would be updated when new census information was released.

Wood said appropriation of money to cover the census increase is “a valid request,” and that those funds could be added by Town Meeting.

Diffin noted that “Cumberland’s posi-tion is that they would prefer that all six services be bundled together, and that if you don’t pay for parks, then you can’t have any of the other five. North Yar-mouth’s position is that parks was never part of the bundle, because it’s new; we prefer not to bundle it in, and so that’s where the difference is.”

But she added that “we have yet to see anything from an official (Cumberland)

council agenda that says it’s all or noth-ing. It came out of a workshop; there are no minutes from that workshop.”

Shane said the Cumberland Town Council opposed holding off on North Yarmouth’s parks fee in fiscal 2012. He noted that parks has a budget of more than $184,000, and Cumberland is asking only about $11,000 from North Yarmouth for next year.

He said that between the census data difference and the lack of money for parks, there is a nearly $20,000 gap between what North Yarmouth’s budget proposes and what Cumberland is re-questing.

Shane said the Cumberland council supports meeting with North Yarmouth officials more frequently as Cumberland builds its future budgets, but that North Yarmouth “can’t not have some type of assessment for parks, so that’s kind of the line in the sand.”

“It’s not an a la carte menu,” he said. “We can’t budget that way, we can’t pro-gram that way.”

Shane also said that charging non-

resident program fees of North Yarmouth residents would not work, given the large number of North Yarmouth residents who use Cumberland services.

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North Yarmouth resident Heather Gian-drea recently served on an ad hoc com-mittee that studied existing and future agreements between the two towns. She said she supports adding the extra money into the budget to fund all six services at the levels Cumberland has requested.

Giandrea said she supports the parks maintenance fee because “we are renting a service, just like we are renting a home. We’re not paying the mortgage, but we are helping pay the utilities.”

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Voters oust incumbent Yarmouth town councilorBy Amy Anderson

YARMOUTH — In an election that attracted about 14 percent of registered voters, residents on Tuesday elected three fresh faces to the Town Council.

Incumbent Judiann Smith will serve another three-year term on the School Committee with newcomer Margaret Groban.

Newcomer Susan Bogle Krauss will join incumbent and longtime Trustee Irving Felker Jr. on the Water District Board of Trustees.

In a referendum vote, the $19.8 million school budget passed 779-210.

Town CouncilIn a race where six candidates fought

for three seats on the Town Council, the

newcomers stole the show.Andrew Kittredge re-

ceived 565 votes, Randall Bates had 536 and Leslie Hyde received 391.

They defeated incum-bent political neophyte Jim MacLeod, who received 371 votes, former Town Councilor Mark Hough, with 305, and incumbent Councilor Bill Schaffer, who trailed with 299 votes.

Kittredge, 32, of North Road, is a proj-ect superintendent at CPM Constructors in Freeport. He said he is looking forward to his three-year term on the council.

“I am so excited,” he said Tuesday night.

Bates, 43, is a member of the Planning Board and lives on Tannery Lane with his wife and two children. After a narrow defeat at the polls last year, the criminal defense attorney at Strike, Goodwin & O’Brien in Portland said he is pleased to have received enough votes to serve on the Town Council.

“We’re heading into a new time,” Bates said. “We have plans for the gateway to Route 1, the McKearny Village subdivi-sion, and other exciting new develop-

ments. I’m looking forward to working with the town, the School Committee and seeing the changes ahead.”

Hyde, 56, ran the nonprofit organiza-tion Maine Teen Talks for the past three years and has worked in international business publishing. She is a resident

of Pleasant Street and said she will be the first woman councilor in the past six years.

“I think we are overdue, and I think a big reason I was elected is because I am a woman and because they want to see a woman on the council,” she said.

She said she was sad Schaffer was not re-elected because he was her mentor and role model.

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Walsh, Hamlin win seats on Board of SelectmenBy Alex Lear

NORTH YARMOUTH — Andrew Walsh and Darla Hamlin claimed two seats on the Board of Selectmen in Tuesday’s election, narrowly defeating Mark Girard.

Walsh and Hamlin earned 265 and 259 votes, respectively, while Girard received 250 votes. Walsh and Hamlin will replace

Selectmen Carol Burgess and Mark Verrill, who chose not to run again.

Martha Leggat, who ran uncontested for a three-year term on the School Administra-tive District 51 Board of Directors, received 411 votes. The seat is being vacated by David Perkins.

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Voters approve SAD 51 budget, closing of Drowne Road SchoolBy Alex Lear

CUMBERLAND — Voters approved a $28.9 million fiscal 2012 budget for School Administrative District 51 twice in the past week – at a Town Meeting-style vote June 9 and in Tuesday’s budget validation refer-endum, 1,184 to 643.

Cumberland voters passed the spending plan, 874-477, while North Yarmouth ap-proved it 310-166.

The closing of the Drowne Road School in Cumberland also received district-wide approval, 1,697 to 224, on Tuesday.

The referendum passed 1,276 to 172 in Cumberland and 421-52 in North Yarmouth.

The school budget will rise by more than $821,000 from the current year. Of that 2.93 percent increase, 1.62 percent is for operations and 1.31 percent is debt service from the recent renovation and expansion of Greely High School.

The budget follows three years of flat budgets of $28 million.

Cumberland’s tax assessment is due to increase more than $524,000, to $12.3 million. North Yarmouth’s is to increase by more than $296,000, to nearly $5 million.

The School Board voted last year to close the Drowne Road School and use it for other purposes, and to move third grade to the Mabel I. Wilson School. The building will revert back to the town.

SAD 51 administrators have said closing Drowne Road School will save more than $244,000 next year. The 17,600-square-foot building has been proposed to be reused as

a senior housing/community center as part of the Village Green Revitalization Master Plan.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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will approach him about serving again.Residents also approved three Town

Charter amendment questions.The first charter amendment, which dis-

tinguished between the annual municipal election and annual Town Meeting, passed 429-36. The second, which separated the two events, passed 420-42.

The third amendment, which passed 435-22, brought North Yarmouth’s charter language on the Shellfish Conservation Commission in line with Yarmouth’s. Both towns belong to the same shellfish district.

“I’m honored that I got elected, and the other two candidates were good people,” said Walsh, who is founder and president of Fat Andy’s Hardwoods on Walnut Hill Road. “I think the community would have been served fine by any two of the three.”

“I’m very excited; I look forward to working with the members of the board,” said Hamlin, who is co-founder and presi-dent of Soft Trac, a Falmouth consulting firm that specializes in nonprofit technol-ogy. “There are a number of challenges that

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Girard, who lost by just nine votes, said he does not plan to seek a recount.

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Election clerks: Absentee ballots more problematic than same-day voter registrationBy Nat Herz

BRUNSWICK — As a bill to elimi-nate same-day voter registration worked its way through Maine’s Legislature last week, proponents frequently cited the plight of the state’s municipal clerks.

One of those proponents was Secretary of State Charles E. Summers Jr., who, in testimony before a legislative committee in May, argued that the clerks are over-whelmed with work in the days leading up to elections, and need some “breathing room.”

“They do not have the flexibility or the resources to simply bring in more staff to handle the final days of an election, and they struggle to perform their regular mu-nicipal functions alongside this increas-ingly concentrated voter registration and absentee ballot process,” Summers said.

But in a canvass of area clerks last week, not all agreed with Summers. Some said they welcomed passage of the mea-sure, saying that same-day registration gave them headaches, and resulted in long lines at the polls. But others, like Bruns-wick’s Fran Smith, were opposed, since their offices, bolstered by extra workers, are capable of withstanding the onslaught.

“It’s really not about me. It’s about my voters,” Smith said. “It’s my job to get people to vote.”

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Nat Herz / For tHe Forecaster Yarmouth Town Clerk Jennifer Doten prepares absentee ballots for this week’s local election. She

said absentee balloting takes up a “phenomenal” amount of her time.

dential election, Brunswick officials reg-istered nearly 800 new voters on Election Day and in the two business days prior – the period restricted by LD 1376.

The measure would also prohibit people from requesting absentee ballots in that period. In Brunswick, Smith said, almost 400 residents did so in 2008.

To accommodate all those voters, Smith said she hires extra staff, at a cost she es-timated at $500 for the three-day window.

“We’re very fortunate that we have a community that’s supportive, and a coun-cil that’s supportive,” she said. “Because I have enough people to do it, I have a hard time supporting something that takes something away from the people that I’m trying to get to vote.”

Like Smith, the Maine Town and City Clerks’ Association opposed the elimina-tion of same-day voter registration, ac-cording to Patti Dubois, the association president. But it did support restrictions on the issuing of absentee ballots.

“The shift is on, statewide,” she said. “We’ve been at the point for several years now, saying that something has to give with absentee voting.”

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election-day voting.“Most clerks, including myself, are so

tired by Election Day, because we have spent, literally, 16-hour days printing lists, preparing lists, highlighting things that need to be highlighted, setting up polls, getting notices out,” Doten said. “When we have people coming in all day doing absentee voting, the only other time to print that list, set up your polls, and do everything else is either before that time, or after that time. And it’s crazy.”

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Founder of Center for Preventing Hate turns the page in civil rights fightBy Randy Billings

PORTLAND — Stephen Wessler re-members sitting in the living room of his parent’s Cambridge, Mass., home as a young boy watching Walter Cronkite report on the civil rights movement.

Later, in 1968, Wessler recalled Cronkite reporting on the assassination of civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

They were events that put Wessler on a path to becoming a leading voice against discrimination, harassment and hate.

“Those are among the most indelible memories as a kid,” Wessler said. “It just struck me as such an injustice. It stayed with me.”

Wessler in 1999 established the Portland-based nonprofit Center for Preventing Hate, which over the last 12 years has been a pub-lic voice against hate crimes and a proactive voice against discrimination in schools.

But the Forest Avenue center is gradu-ally winding down its operations, now that Wessler has decided to step down as execu-tive director to tackle other pursuits.

Wessler has been the center’s dominant voice and fundraiser, and its trustees de-cided last month that it would be too dif-ficult to replace him.

Wessler, a Harvard College and Boston University School of Law graduate, came to Maine about 20 years ago and worked in the state attorney general’s office from 1992 to 1999.

He established a civil rights unit in the AG’s office, designed to enforce the Maine Civil Rights Act of 1989, which allows state prosecutors to seek restraining orders against people who threaten or commit

Stephen Wessler, the founder and

executive director of the Center for Preventing Hate, is stepping down to devote more time to writing books, teaching

and leading seminars.

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violence out of bias.But before even starting his state job, hate

landed at his front door. He said someone painted “F--- you, Jews” on the white picket fence surrounding his Litchfield home.

“My oldest son came in looking kind of pale,” he said. “The impact of hate crimes is extraordinarily strong and leads to a real deep-seeded fear. ... Behind the message is a treat of violence.”

But rather than cower and hope it was an isolated incident, Wessler called local news outlets, because he felt the “shame factor” from a public response and repudiation of the hate crime would be the best deterrent against future acts.

It’s that organized community response to hate speech that has been the center’s hallmark. The group often organizes demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for hate crime victims and denounce perpetrators.

During his work in the AG’s office,

Wessler discovered that hate-based vio-lence was the result of an escalation of hate speech.

“It starts with the routine use of degrad-ing language that goes interrupted,” he said. “What they’re getting from the silence is that everyone thinks it’s OK.”

As an attorney, Wessler was frustrated with dealing with the aftermath of hate crimes, whether it was a cross-burning in Hallowell, an ex-boyfriend shooting into a second-floor apartment window in Bruns-wick where he thought his ex and a black boyfriend were staying, or a biracial woman getting a brick thrown at her in Portland.

“Prosecution is at the wrong end of the spectrum,” he said.

Wessler said he started the center to take a more proactive stand against discrimina-tion and harassment, trying to nip hate speech in the bud before it flowers into violence.

And Wessler said he has noticed a shift in the state’s culture since the center, which once employed 13 people, began its work.

“The great thing about Maine is that when there is a hate crime, people expect something to happen,” he said.

Wessler said he expects the center will be


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A dance recital reveals more than ballet clicheBy Mike Langworthy

I was in no mood to go to our daughter Elizabeth’s dance recital at Maine State Ballet in Falmouth.

It was the Saturday after the Tuesday I got my new hip. Before minimally invasive surgery, hip replacement meant days in the hospital, weeks of inactivity and months of painful rehab. I had been out of the hospital in a day, with a pain-free, bionic joint and muscle soreness that receded every day. The mandatory-for-the-first-week walker gave me mobility, and, no brag, I was getting pretty good with it.

So I should have been grateful. And I was – if by

“grateful” you mean “feeling sorry for myself.” Did I mention the walker? Old people used walkers. Weak people used walkers. Even my 88-year-old father, bone

on bone in both knees since his 40s, only used a cane. Of course, he also passed his Marine Corps physical fitness tests three days after an emergency appendectomy (Great-est Generation? Try Superhuman Generation).

Plus people who liked me asked how I felt, complimented my progress, wished me well – who enjoys that? OK, maybe everybody but me, but I still wanted to run – well, hobble – for the nearest exit.

So I was pretty much pouring water out of my over-flowing glass so I could call it half empty when the curtain rose on Elizabeth and the rest of the adaptive dance class.

There is something arresting about dancers at rest. The teacher, graceful and radiant two months after childbirth, flanked by two girls with Down syndrome and three swan-necked Maine State dancers who gave up their Saturday mornings to assist. The volunteers’ faces were largely neutral, almost expressionless. The students’ ranged from concentration to pride to barely concealed ecstasy. The whole tableau was riveting.

Elizabeth, one of two non-Down dancers, was in the second row, next to a delightful girl with a medical

history that makes my bad hip look like a nosebleed. Further down was the other non-Down child, also de-lightful, with a strong personality to match Elizabeth’s, which may explain why our daughter has always had a difficult relationship with her. For whatever reason, Elizabeth has butted heads with her over everything from restaurant seating to speech volume, but at that moment, they coexisted peacefully, their faces were nearly identical masks of concentration.

It took about a nanosecond to forget about my sore leg as the class performed a warm-up. The teacher explained that besides stretching cold muscles, the exercises got the dancers listening and moving to the music. Each girl has physical and developmental challenges that impact her coordination, but when the African-sounding drum track began, each found the part of the beat that spoke to her and responded as she heard it and felt it. They didn’t move together or even complement each other, but between them, they seemed to express every beat of the rhythm in a complex, well, ballet. I wanted to concentrate only on my own child, but I couldn’t. Everybody else was too interesting.

Make no mistake. Elizabeth and her classmates will


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The perils of parking in PortlandWhile attending the First Friday Art Walk earlier

this month, I got a $25 ticket for parking in a no-parking zone on Oak Street in Portland. I must say, I got no sympathy from my lovely wife Carolyn:

“You saw the no-parking sign. You parked there anyway. You got a ticket. And you’re complaining about it?”

As I explained to her, there didn’t seem to be any obvious reason for a no-parking zone – no fire hydrant, no driveways, no busi-nesses. So I figured it wouldn’t hurt anything if I parked there for a few minutes while I ran into a gallery before it closed. Anyway, why would anyone be ticketing at all after 7 p.m. on a Friday night, right?

Wrong.Until the economic downturn, Portland had an

enlightened approach to parking tickets. Drivers could get one ticket forgiven every six months. But in the money-starved second decade of the 21st century, the city decided it needed the estimated $500,000 in parking ticket revenues it was giving away.

I’m not sure Portland was getting a half-million in good will from its ticket forgiveness program, but I do know I appreciated not having worry about getting towed or booted. And I also know a lot of people rarely if ever go into Portland because it’s such a hassle to park. I have no sympathy for them.

I go into Portland several times a week and I’ve never failed to find a legal place to park – until now. Usually, I just drive around a widening block once or twice and something opens up. People will go to the mall and happily park the equivalent of three city blocks away from the stores just because

parking is free and they can see their destination.My biggest complaint about parking in Portland

– until now – is cheater meters that eat your first quarter without registering the 15 minutes you just purchased. Happens to me at least once a week. When I complain about it, I am told to report the offending meter. That’s the only way the city knows a meter’s battery is running low. Oh, really, maybe checking batteries would give the meter men some-thing to do that is actually useful.

By early fall, Portland will be piloting its first 10 to 15 multi-space meters, mid-block pay-and-dis-play machines that will accept coins or credit cards. I can only begin to imagine the perils of giving your credit card numbers to a parking meter.

When you get a parking ticket in Portland, you also get a handy-dandy parking ticket blue map showing 37 downtown parking lots and parking garages. Like most people, however, I have an aver-sion to parking garages. In the first place, it’s just wrong to drive a car inside a building. But, more importantly, parking garages are dangerous. Nation-ally, close to 40 percent of muggings and assaults take place in parking lots and garages. Then, too, parking garages tend to smell like urine, serving as they do as the public toilets the city doesn’t have.

Upon inquiring about the no-parking zone at the foot of Oak Street, a very nice gentleman in the Portland Parking Division explained to me that Oak Street was probably too narrow to have, as it does, parking meters on both sides of the street, but that the city’s traffic engineers had only designated the foot of the street a no-parking zone because they felt the hill was too steep for cars to park in winter. They didn’t want cars sliding down into Cumberland Avenue.

But – I got this ticket on June 3. When was the last time we had snow on the ground in June?

See, honey, I was right. There is no good reason for a no-parking zone at the foot of Oak Street – unless, of course, there’s snow on the ground.

Now, can I borrow $25?Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in

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probably never interpret “Giselle” at the American Ballet Theater (on the other hand, at ABT you prob-ably won’t see one of the ballerinas’ heads pop out of the bottom of the curtain and check out the house – a moment I would put up against, say, Fonteyn’s dying swan, for pure entertainment value). Still, they were dancers. In one number, they crossed the stage one at a time, personifying in dance different animals. If dance is self-expression through movement, each trip across the floor was pure dance.

As each girl showed us exactly who she was, how she perceived the world, and what was necessary to com-municate that perception, I wondered how many times I had missed the point at a recital or concert or play, so concerned about whether the performers were “doing it right” that I completely missed that for them, they were doing it perfectly.

Even on the “doing it right” scale, there was real art, those priceless times when you lose sight of yourself and just experience the moment. It is amazing to see anyone, much less a special needs teenager, capture the erratic rhythm of a butterfly in flight, moving to con-template the enormous achievement of 10 girls with a variety of physical and mental challenges all doing the same tap routine.

Maybe it was just these dancers. Maybe my weakened state broke down some barrier. All I know is, I found myself experiencing the recital, not just watching it, and now, sitting in judgment at a performance seems beside the point.

For a glimpse of what the human spirit is really capable of, I recommend a recital of the Maine State Ballet’s adaptive dance class.

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Falmouth arrests

No arrests were reported from June 3-10.

Summonses5/20 at 9:46 p.m. A 17-year-old boy, of Falmouth, was issued a summons on Middle Road by Officer Stephen Hamilton on charges of illegal transportation of liquor by a minor and illegal transportation of drugs by a minor.5/20 at 9:46 p.m. A 17-year-old boy, of Falmouth, was issued a summons on Middle Road by Officer Stephen Hamilton on charges of illegal transportation of drugs by a minor and possession of marijuana.6/2 at 4:40 p.m. Janny Mao, 21, of University Street, Portland, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Officer Daniel Austin on a charge of operating when a license was suspended or revoked.6/2 at 6:13 p.m. Anthony V. Rosa, 29, of Eider Point Drive, Yarmouth, was issued a summons on Bucknam Road by Officer Daniel Austin on a charge of operating when a license was suspended or revoked.6/4 at 10:17 a.m. Mary Elizabeth Anderson, 30, of Rust Road, Gorham, was issued a summons on Foreside Road by Officer Lucas Hallett on a charge of operating when a license was suspended or revoked.6/4 at 6:43 p.m. David M. Calkins, 54, of

Hawthorne Street, Portland, was issued a sum-mons on Route 1 by Officer Daniel Austin on a charge of possession of marijuana.6/5 at 2:55 a.m. Emily W. Green, 21, of Val Halla Road, Cumberland, was issued a summons on Foreside Road by Officer Dean Mazziotti on a charge of operating under the influence.6/5 at 12:30 p.m. Adam W. Fenderson, 22, of Toule Road, Gorham, was issued a sum-mons on Field Road by Sgt. Kevin Conger on a charge of operating a vehicle without a license.6/8 at 5:02 p.m. Andrea W. Rand, 55, of Ramsdell Road, was issued a summons on Lunt Road by Officer Jeffrey Pardue on a charge of operating after a license was suspended.

Grave crimes6/3 at 2:38 p.m. A caller reported that some-one stole a brass World War I veteran plaque from a grave in Pine Grove Cemetery. Later in the week, another caller reported that someone dumped four boxes of asbestos pipe covering on the Pine Grove property. Police do not have suspects for either alleged crime.

Plot tryst6/8 at 12:25 a.m. A caller reported seeing an unknown car parked at Winn and Inverness roads. Police ran the license plate and called the vehicle's owner, who reportedly said he thought the car was in his garage, but that he would call his son. His son reportedly answered his cell phone and said the car was indeed parked at the end of the road his girlfriend lives on. Police determined no further investigation was necessary.

Coyote island6/9 at 6:47 p.m. A caller reported seeing a dog or coyote near the causeway between

The Cumberland Town Council will hold its regular meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, June 20, 2011 in the Town Council Chambers. An opportunity for public comment will be provided. The following items will receive a public hearing: • To swear in newly elected Councilors. • Election of Council Chair and Vice-Chair. • To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on a Mass Gathering Permit for the Cumberland Soccer Club Labor Day “Just For Fun” Soccer Tournament to be held at Twin Brook Recreational Facility on September 3rd & 4th, 2011. • To hold a Public Hearing to authorize the Code Enforcement Officer to enter into a Consent Decree with property owners located at 18 Frye Drive. • To consider and act repealing and replacing the Twin Brook Facility Use Policy as recommended by the Twin Brook Facility Advisory Committee. • To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on amendments to the Coastal Waters Ordinance as recommended by the Planning Board. • To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on amendments to the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance as recommended by the Planning Board. • To award the Tax Anticipation Note borrowing for FY’12 for $3 million dollars. • To consider and act on Commercial Hauler’s License renewals for FY’12. • To hear a report from the Finance Committee Chair and to authorize the • Town Manager to transfer inter-departmental operating funds. • To hear a report on potential amendments to the Resource Protection setbacks. • FY’12 Council Committee Assignments. • To hold a Public Hearing to consider and act on a Class I Liquor License, and Victualer’s License for The Cumberland County Republican Committee for the period of June 26, 2011, Cumberland Fairgrounds Republican Committee Fundraiser “The Reagan Rodeo”. • To hear a report re: agreement between the Towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth for Recreation, Library, Parks Maintenance, Government Access Channel (Channel 2), Animal Control Officer and winter sidewalk plowing services.Additional agenda items will receive consideration and action. Please refer to the town’s website: www.cumberlandmaine.com for a complete agenda.

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Mackworth Island and the Flats. Police report that there have been several sightings of a wild animal, likely a coyote, crossing the causeway. There are no reports of the animal harming anyone and police said they would leave the animal alone.

Fire calls6/3 at 3:31 a.m. Fire alarm on Gray Road.6/3 at 12:40 p.m. Fire alarm on Blueberry Lane.6/3 at 1:07 p.m. Fire alarm on Blueberry Lane.6/6 at 8:46 p.m. Vehicle fire on Blackstrap Road.6/8 at 3:37 p.m. Brush fire on Huston Road.6/8 at 8:03 p.m. Brush fire on Huston Road.6/10 at 7:04 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Longwoods Road.6/10 at 10:10 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Route 1.

EMSFalmouth emergency medical services re-sponded to 22 calls from June 3-10.

FrEEport Arrests

6/8 at 12:31 a.m. Morgan P. Pettit, 30, of South Freeport Road, was arrested by Officer Keith Norris on Mallett Drive on charges of operating under the influence and failure to register a vehicle.

Summonses6/8 at 5:38 p.m. Marcia Cohen, 60, of Port-land, was issued a summons by Officer Jason Bartlett on Main Street on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.6/10 at 10:48 p.m. Rebecca R. Howard, 30, of Lisbon, was issued a summons by Officer Brandon Paxton on Durham Road on a charge of failing to notify of a motor vehicle accident.

Honest Abe6/9 at 1:08 p.m. A resident found a $100 bill on the street outside Isabella's and brought it to the Police Department.

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YARMOUTH — James M. Meikle, 83, died June 8 at Mid Coast Hospital in Bruns-wick surrounded by family.

Born Jan. 21, 1928, in Arlington, Mass., the son of James Meikle and Agnes “Nancy” Tait. He was immensely proud of his Scottish heritage and was a 50-year life member of the Scots Charitable Society.

During World War II, while still in high school, he enlisted in the Massachusetts State Guard. After receiving his high school diploma in 1945, he enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. Navy.

He attended Cambridge and Suffolk University in Boston, and received his bach-elor’s degree from the College of Business Administration in 1950.

On Oct. 12, 1950, he married his long-time sweetheart, Alice May Hooton, and raised their four children together until her death in 1963 from cancer. He later married Nancy A. Carter on Aug. 19, 1966.

His successful career in the public utility business spanned 34 years, beginning in 1952 as manager of systems and procedures with New England Gas and Electric Com-pany in Cambridge, until he retired from the company in 1984 as vice president of administrative services.

In 1992 he and his wife Nancy moved to their retirement home, “Lucky Ledge,” on Cundy’s Point in Harpswell, where he pursued his love of boating and flower gardening. He derived much pleasure by introducing his children and grandchildren to the pleasures of nature, especially the ocean. In 2005 they sold “Lucky Ledge” and moved to Yarmouth.

His community volunteerism was re-markable, and he made lasting contributions to every community he lived in. Over the years he served as director of the Bedford, Mass., Lions Club; founding member of the Westborough, Mass., Rotary International chapter; vice president of the Boy Scouts of America, Algonquin Council in South-borough, Mass.; chairman of the United Way of Worcester, Mass.; president of the Cambridge, Mass., Chamber of Commerce; member of Brunswick Rotary and Paul Harris fellow; and charter member of John Leo Murray Jr. American Legion Post 171 of Harpswell.

After a 1969 car accident left his daugh-ter Linda with serious brain injuries, he also served as an advocate for her and others with brain injuries. He served as director of the national Head Injury Association in Framingham Mass., and later served as a director of Shoreline Mental Health in Brunswick.

He and Nancy actively pursued their interest in genealogy after he retired. They traveled to Scotland twice to learn more about his ancestors, visited the Midwest to learn about Nancy’s heritage, and enjoyed learning about Alice Hooton’s colonial an-cestors who participated in the founding of Boston’s Old North Church and the Boston Tea Party. Several years ago he donated his research to the Manuscript Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

He was passionate in all his life pursuits and felt enormous gratitude for his friends and family. In 2009 he wrote his life story, “The Ride of My Life,” and encouraged everybody he met to write their story.

He was predeceased by his first wife, Al-ice May Hooton, his oldest daughter, Linda J., and a sister, Margaret Birch.

Surviving are his wife of 44 years, Nancy A. Carter of Yarmouth; three children and their spouses, daughter Nancy J. and husband Steve Orlando of Westborough, Mass., son James D. and wife Carole Stenger of Westborough, Mass., and son David C. and wife Carol Bibbo of Bokeelia, Fla.; seven grandchildren who lovingly called him “Jimpa,” Mikayla O. Smith, Joel S. Orlando, James A., Kathryn E. , and Denise N. Meikle, and Robert J. and Lisa M. Campbell; his sister Janet Barr of East Greenwich, R.I.; one niece and six nephews.

Calling hours will be held from 4-7 p.m. Friday, June 17, at Brackett’s Funeral Home in Brunswick.

A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, June 18, at 1:30 p.m. at First Par-ish, Brunswick.

Memorial donations may be made to Mid Coast Hospital, in benefit of the nursing staff, P.O. Box 279, Brunswick, ME 04011, or to the New England Historic Genea-logical Society, to benefit the Manuscript Collection, 101 Newbury St., Boston MA 02116-3007.

William E. Miles, Jr., 74YARMOUTH — William E. “Bill”

Miles, Jr., 74, died June 4 surrounded by

loved ones after a long battle with cancer. Born in South Portland on Sept. 18, 1936,

he was a son of William E. and Marion Miles and graduated from South Portland High School.

From 1957 to 1961 he served in the U.S. Navy. After the ser-vice, he spent his ca-reer in the plumbing and heating business.

Dedicated to the Yarmouth commu-nity, he served on the Yarmouth Town Coun-cil from 1971-1992, and was also a member of many nonprofit organizations.

In 1998 he received the Latchstring Award in recognition of his time and ef-fort spent for the benefit of the citizens of Yarmouth.

He was a loving husband, father, son and grandfather.

He loved hunting, reading and spending time with his family, especially going to Friendly’s every Wednesday with his grand-

daughter Alicia.He was predeceased by his father Wil-

liam Miles, Sr. in 1994, his sister Judy Leeman in 2001, and his grandson in 1985.

Surviving are his beloved wife of 53 years, Mina M. Miles of Yarmouth; five daughters, Cindy Bragdon and her husband Jerry of Yarmouth, Jody Sawyer and her husband Thomas of Gray, Wanda Merrill of Freeport, Melissa Dwinal of Gray, and Kellie Day of Yarmouth; three brothers, Robert Miles, Sr., and his wife Jane of Yarmouth, Bruce Miles and his wife Kathy of Kingfield, George Mason and his wife Joann of Howland, and two sisters, Janice Piston and her husband Richard of South Carolina, and Sandra Miles of Yarmouth; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of his life was held June 12.

Arrangements are by Lindquist Funeral Home, One Mayberry Lane, Yarmouth.

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Caroline McAleese Riley of Falmouth has been elected to serve on the board of directors for Girl Scouts of Maine. Riley is managing principal of public rela-tions for Garrand, an integrated public relations and marketing agency based in Portland. She also serves as a member of the Maine Women’s Fund, on the advi-sory board of Operation Tribute, and as a board member with the Noyes Brain Tumor Foundation.

Ferry Beach Ecology School has re-cently added two new board members, Kelly Towle, an environmental educator at Maine Audubon in Falmouth and Co-rey Hascall, a public relations consultant at Barton & Gingold in Portland.

Freeport Shakespeare Festival has re-cently elected the following new board

members: clinical psychologist Mary E. Plouffe of Freeport; Bill Muldoon of Harpswell, former chairman of the Freeport town council and past president of The Freeport Historical Society; and Linda McGill of Freeport, attorney with Bernstein, Shur employment law practice group and litigation department.

The Bath Area Senior Citizens Cen-ter recently elected officers for 2011. Newly elected officers include Richard Higgins, president; Bernie Wyman, vice president; Jerry Little, secretary; Bonnie McDonald, treasurer; Barbara Belanger, assistant treasurer. Donna Waterman and Phyllis McNelly joined current executive board members Paul Karass, Beryl Gallant, Shirley Thi-beault and Paul James. Supporting the executive board are the trustees, who are responsible for the daily operation of the center. The trustees are Jerry Little, chairman; and Herman Merkord, Paul James, Bernie Wyman, Bob Turcotte and Stan Caton.

At the annual meeting of the Avesta Housing board of directors, the following board officers were elected: Chairman Neal Allen, executive director of Greater Portland Council of Governments; Vice Chairman Drew Sigfridson, designated broker at CB Richard Ellis/The Boulos Company; Treasurer Glen Blackall, chief deposit officer at Gorham Savings Bank; and Secretary Rebecca Greenfield, at-torney at Pierce Atwood LLP.

The board of directors of Clark Insur-ance has elected Jeffrey Lind of Limin-gton as treasurer and Lee Ramsdell of Scarborough as secretary.

The Commission on Adult Basic Edu-

cation recently elected Thomas Nash of Falmouth, director of Windham Raymond Adult Education, as the Region One Rep-resentative on the board of directors. Nash will serve a three-year term representing New York and all of New England.

Aaron Pratt has been elected to Drummond Woodsum’s board of direc-tors for a three-year term. Pratt, a mem-ber of the firm’s business services group, joins current board members, Harry Pringle, Dan Rose, Jerry Crouter and Ben Marcus.

Maine State Ballet has recently added new members to its board of directors and named a new president. Langston Snodgrass of Lewiston, co-founder of Androscoggin Dance in Lewiston-Auburn, has been elected president. New members include Steve Carter of Falmouth, president of Mason Associates Inc.; and Jeffrey Thomas of Falmouth, vice president of instrument development at IDEXX. Returning to the Maine State Ballet board of directors after a 6-year absence is Dr. Judith Kimball. Kimball had formerly served as board president for 18 years.

Robert Clark of Yarmouth, chief professional officer of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine, has been ap-pointed to serve on a subcommittee to promote a youth in philanthropy initiative in northern New England. As a member of an Association of Fundraising Profes-sionals - Northern New England subcom-mittee, Clark will help to publicize the AFP-NNE Demont Scholarship Award for outstanding youth in philanthropy and will participate in the final selection process.

Yarmouth Lions support town libraryThe Yarmouth Lions Club recently donated $9,000 to the Merrill Memorial Library to rebuild the first floor circulation

desk. Pictured here is Bill Goddard, on left, director

of the Yarmouth Lions Club, presenting the

check to Heidi Grimm, director of the Merrill Memorial Library. The library plans to start

construction of the new desk this summer.

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Falmouth king and queen of Class B tennis worldBy Michael Hoffer

The Falmouth boys’ and girls’ tennis teams once again have no peer in Class B.

Saturday afternoon at Col-by College in Waterville, both Yachtsmen teams blanked the op-position to win the championship.

The girls made it four cham-pionships in succession and six in seven years by virtue of a 5-0 blanking of Waterville, ensuring the team didn’t drop a single point all spring. Falmouth extended its four-year win streak to 61 matches.

The boys also won by a 5-0 score, over Ellsworth, to capture Class B for the third time in six seasons and first time since 2007.

It was the first time since 2006 that both Yachtsmen teams won in the same year.

The girls lost only 13 games in the 10 sets they swept Satur-day. First singles player Annie Criscione had the toughest test, beating Waterville’s best player, Colleen O’Donnell, 6-3, 6-4. Analise Kump was flawless at second singles (6-0, 6-0) and Libby Voccola only lost once game at No. 3 singles (6-1, 6-0). At first doubles, Abby Payson and Steffi Rothweiler cruised, 6-1, 6-1. Katie Carew and Katie Ryan were 6-0, 6-3 victors at No. 2.

“This season is again a stand-out, as the varsity team only dropped two sets (155-2) and we can officially boast a winning streak of 61 matches including playoffs, a feat of every match won this year with a score of 5-0

and a run of 41 matches including the playoffs at 5-0,” said Falmouth coach Sandy Stone. “Our varsity co-captains, Annie, Analise and Steffi, set such a positive tone and high bar of mentorship. And I think the girls had fun. The depth of the team was again amazing due to the strength of our singles and skill of our doubles.”

You might as well get used to Falmouth winning. The Yachts-men have no seniors among their top seven and will be heavy favor-ites to do it again in 2012.

“We could return our winning varsity roster intact,” Stone said. “We may have a strong eighth grader or two coming up and the top of the JVs hoping to challenge into the varsity lineup.”

The boys won the 2006 and 2007 Class B championships, but lost to Caribou in the 2008 state final, Yarmouth in the 2009 regional final and York a year ago in the quarterfinals.

This year, the Yachtsmen had no peer and they too were emphatic in victory Saturday.

First singles player Justin Bro-gan didn’t lose a game (6-0, 6-0). At second singles, Brendan Mc-Carthy was pushed, but won, 6-1, 6-3. Taylor Dimick cruised at No. 3 (6-0, 6-1). At first doubles, Harlan Cutshall and Sam Holland were victorious, 6-3, 6-2. Connor Burfeind and Tom Wilbert were triumphant, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 2 doubles.

“I was very pleased with the way these players came together as a team, realizing that tennis is

essentially an individual sport,” said longtime Falmouth coach Bob McCully. “The seniors were great at welcoming two outstand-ing freshmen onto the team. For the past three years, we have had very good teams, but we had to face even better teams. This year, we had an excellent blend of promising younger players and veterans that were anxious to win a title.

“It was a very deep team, which made it difficult to establish a

lineup,” he added. “The singles players were pretty evident, but doubles are extremely important, and it took a lot of experimenta-tion to establish two pairs that were the best fit for each other. I felt badly for Hutch Hurwitz. He is a solid player who has lettered three times, has worked very hard and has steadily improved. He would play on just about any other team, and I am counting on him to be an important part of next year’s team.”

Speaking of next year, the Yachtsmen figure to be near or at the top of the heap again.

“Harlan and Connor are seniors and will be missed, but Sam and Tom are sophomores who will continue to improve and be es-sential parts of future teams,” said McCully. “I anticipate that we will be a very strong team going for-ward, as these outstanding players continue to develop.”Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on

Twitter: @foresports.

Four lax teams one win from states

By Michael HofferHeading into Wednesday’s re-

gional final round, two boys’ and two girls’ lacrosse teams from Forecaster Country still enter-tained championship dreams.

The Falmouth boys, arguably the top team in the state in the regular season, and the top seed in Western B, hosted nemesis Cape Elizabeth, the defending cham-pion and No. 2 seed.

North Yarmouth Academy, ranked fourth, went to surprise finalist, No. 3 Gardiner, in the Eastern B Final.

Yarmouth’s nine-year streak of reaching the regional final round was snapped Saturday when the second-ranked Clippers were up-set in overtime by Gardiner.

No. 3 Greely was eliminated from the Western B playoffs with a loss at Cape Elizabeth.

On the girls’ side, for the eighth year in a row, No. 1 Yarmouth and No. 2 NYA, the defending cham-pion, did battle in the Eastern B Final.

Falmouth and Greely were ousted in the Western B semi-finals. The Yachtsmen, ranked second, suffered a close home loss to No. 3 Cape Elizabeth, while the unheralded fourth-seeded Rangers

BrIan BEard / For THE ForEcaSTErNYA junior Forrest Milburn takes a tumble during his team’s Eastern B quarterfinal versus Morse last week. The Panthers beat the Shipbuilders, then knocked off top-ranked St. Dom’s in the semis Saturday to earn a

date at Gardiner for the regional final Wednesday.

JaSon VEIllEux / For THE ForEcaSTErGreely sophomore Meg Finlay looks to turn the corner on Waynflete sophomore Martha Veroneau during the teams’

Western B semifinal Saturday. The Rangers played valiantly before falling, 12-11.

gave No. 1 Waynflete a mighty scare before going down to a one-goal defeat.

Game of the yearSince the onset of the 2011

season, it’s been clear that Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth are the two top boys’ teams in the state. The rivals got a chance in the regional final to determine once and for all who was num-ber one.

The Yachtsmen, 11-1 in the regular season, had no trouble with No. 4 Waynflete in the semifinals Saturday. Falmouth shot to a 6-0 lead after one pe-riod, stretched it 12-0 in the sec-ond, then, with a running clock the final 24 minutes, cruised to a 17-1 triumph behind four goals from sophomore Charlie Fay, three goals and four assists from junior Mitch Tapley and three goals and two helpers from senior Brendan McDonnell.

Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth split in the regular season (the Yachtsmen won at home, 12-4, and lost in OT at the Capers, 8-7). Cape Elizabeth eliminated Falmouth from the playoffs each of the past two seasons in the regional final.

Greely saw its year end at

8-5 after Saturday’s 15-3 loss at Cape Elizabeth in the other Western B semifinal. Senior Austin Spencer bowed out with a pair of goals.

In Eastern B, NYA went 5-7 in the regular season and earned the No. 4 seed. After demol-ishing visiting No. 4 Morse, 15-1, in the quarterfinals last Wednesday (behind three goals apiece from senior Finn Hadlock and junior Forrest Milburn), the Panthers outlasted undefeated top-ranked St. Dom’s, 10-7, Saturday in the semis. Hadlock scored four times, including back-to-back tallies which broke a 7-7 deadlock.

“At that point, we just wanted to get some goals in the net really quickly and kill their mo-mentum,” Hadlock said. “Their goalie made some great stops there in the beginning, and that had us rattled a little bit.”

“Ball movement was key, that’s something we focus on from day one,” NYA coach Chris Carpentier said. “They worked the ball around well and we got some nice layups down low. It was a fun game, very

Greely downs Yarmouth to win Western B

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plete Falmouth-Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth-Greely, Yarmouth-Lincoln Academy and Yarmouth-Greely game stories, visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

The Greely and Yarmouth baseball teams had plenty at stake when they squared off Tuesday afternoon.

Not only had the teams split in the regular season and tied in the final Heal Points standings, necessitat-ing a coin toss to determine the No. 1 seed, but more im-portant than bragging rights, the Western Class B cham-pionship was on the line.

Since its an odd-numbered year, it’s no surprise that this game went to Greely.

The Rangers scored six times in the third inning and held on for dear life down the stretch for a 7-5 victory.

The 2007 and 2009 Class B champions will have a shot at doing it again Satur-day when they meet defend-ing champion Waterville in the Class B title game. Start time is 4 p.m., at St. Joseph’s College in Standish.

Falmouth and North Yarmouth Academy weren’t as fortunate.

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emotional. The boys knew how to put it together toward the end.”

The Panthers expected to meet Yarmouth in the playoffs for the 12th straight season, but the second-ranked Clippers were stunned by No. 3 Gardiner in the semis. Yarmouth led much of the game behind goals from six different players, but got stuck on six goals and the Tigers rallied to tie and force overtime, where they won, 7-6, ending the Clippers’ year at 6-7.

Here we go againEvery June the one constant in the state

of Maine is that the NYA and Yarmouth girls’ lacrosse teams will meet in the re-gional final. It’s been that way since 2004

and was again the case this spring, even though the circumstances were a little different.

The defending Class B champion Pan-thers only won four of 12 games this sea-son as several key players were suspended late in the season after a post-Prom party. NYA still wound up second in Eastern B and with the suspended players back, had no trouble with visiting Gardiner Saturday in the semifinals, rolling, 16-4, behind six goals from sophomore Molly Strabley and four from junior Megan Fortier.

The top-ranked Clippers were arguably the top team in the state this year and kept up their offensive onslaught versus No. 4 Morse in Saturday’s semis as seniors Bec-ca Bell (six goals) and Devin Simsarian (four goals) led the way to a 21-3 romp.

Yarmouth (12-1) beat NYA in both

regular season meetings this spring, 16-9 on the road in the opener, April 26, and 8-5 at home May 19. The Clippers swept the Panthers last year too, but NYA had the last laugh in the regional final, 9-5, en route to their first championship.

The Western B story didn’t feature happy endings.

No. 2 Falmouth hosted No. 3 Cape Elizabeth in Saturday’s regional final. The Yachtsmen led 7-5 at halftime and went up 8-5 early in the second half, but the Capers roared back. The hosts went scoreless over the last 9 minutes, 30 seconds and saw their season end at 7-6 after a 14-12 loss. Junior Sam Smithwick had four goals and senior Laura Fay three in defeat.

“It’s disappointing to lose today,” Fal-mouth coach Robin Haley said. “I felt really good with how we played in the

first half. Second half, (Cape) got some key draws. I think momentum shifted. That made the difference. The last three minutes, we had opportunities, but we couldn’t seize them.”

The Yachtsmen will be hard hit by grad-uation, but have established themselves as a top contender.

“We graduate a lot, but we have a nice group coming back,” Haley said. “I’m looking forward to that. I’m sad to see the seniors leave. They did an excellent job. We have some great athletes who worked hard. We get closer every year.”

No. 4 Greely, one year removed from a 1-11 campaign, gave top-ranked and longtime postseason nemesis Waynflete fits for 50 minutes in the other semifinal. The Rangers hung tough throughout, got four goals from sophomore Julia Mitiguy, three from classmate Paige Tuller and even had a shot to tie at the end, but it went wide and they finished 6-7 with a 12-11 setback.

“By far, it was our best game all sea-son,” first-year Greely coach Sara Dimick said. “We really connected and pushed each other and played 110 percent. I couldn’t have asked for more. It was very impressive. It’s really fun to play such a strong team and stay with them and keep it close. I’m really proud of (the girls). I think they knew from the beginning that we were mentally in it. (The girls are) used to coming from behind, which isn’t always a good thing, but they proved themselves today.”

All in all, the 2011 season was a re-sounding success for the Rangers.

“It’s tough sometimes when teams have a new coaching staff,” said Dimick, “But they worked so hard all season. They pushed each other. They peaked when they were supposed to be peaking and this loss will only prepare us more for next year. It’s really a young group. I lose five seniors who played today. The majority of girls will be back. We’ll build on this. It’s very exciting.”

Championship SaturdayState lacrosse titles will be handed out

Saturday at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Port-land. The Class B boys’ game begins at 3 p.m. The girls’ contest ends the festivities at 5:30 p.m.

Sun Journal staff writer Justin Pelletier contributed to this story.Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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men upset No. 3 Cape Elizabeth, 2-1, in the Western B quarterfinals, but couldn’t hold a sixth inning lead at Greely in the semifinals and went down to a 8-3 defeat.

The Panthers, ranked fifth in Western C, lost at No. 4 Telstar, 6-3, in the quar-terfinals.

Regional champsThere was little to no separation be-

tween Greely and Yarmouth in 2011. Each team went 13-3 in the regular sea-son and beat the other at home by one run in dramatic fashion.

After the Clippers earned the coin toss to wind up first in Western B, they appeared to have an easier road to the regional final, but both teams had to deal with challenges from the opposition and Mother Nature.

Yarmouth had a comfortable lead against No. 8 Gray-New Gloucester last Thursday in the quarterfinals, but after a long weather delay, the umpires called the game, even though a softball contest on an adjacent field continued. That wasted a stellar pitching performance from senior Campbell Belisle-Haley, sidelined him from pitching through the weekend and forced the teams to play again Friday. Undaunted, the Clippers blanked the Patriots, 5-0, behind senior Chris Lawlor’s gem. Senior Luke Pierce homered, singled and drove in two runs.

Saturday, Yarmouth was scheduled to host No. 4 Lincoln Academy in the semi-finals, but again, the game was postponed in questionable fashion. The teams went at it Monday and the Clippers were on the ropes, down 1-0, without a hit in the bottom of the fifth against Eagles’ senior ace Brandon Reilly, but an error gave them life and an error after a Belisle-Haley double tied the score. In the sixth, juniors Bryce Snyder, Max Grimm and Ryan Cody all had RBI singles and senior lefty Aidan Sullivan completed his two-hitter (he fanned nine) to give

Yarmouth a 4-1 win.“We have 10 seniors who refused

to walk off this field for the last time without a victory,” said Yarmouth coach Marc Halsted. “That’s a great example of mental toughness.”

Greely, meanwhile, hosted No. 7 Mara-nacook Thursday in the quarterfinals and as was the case a few miles away, had a big lead and was poised to close it out before bad weather postponed the game and forced it to be started from scratch. Friday afternoon, the Rangers had their way with the Black Bears. Senior Ben Shain earned the win, while senior Matt Labbe had three hits and two RBI and freshman Bailey Train doubled twice, scored two runs and had an RBI.

Greely got Saturday’s semifinal against No. 6 Falmouth (which had advanced by virtue of an upset quarterfinal win at Cape Elizabeth, keep reading for more on that game) in ahead of the rain, but had to get off the ropes to earn the victory.

The Yachtsmen took a 3-1 lead to the bottom of the sixth, where the Rangers finally came to life, scoring seven times to go on to an 8-3 triumph. An error, wild pitch, walk and hit batsman scored the first four runs. Labbe drove in a run with a single and two more wild pitches accounted for the final score.

“We didn’t press and we didn’t chase pitches and that one big inning good things started to happen,” said Greely coach Derek Soule. “We got base run-ners, walks, and hit batters. I think the key was that we kept our composure in that inning and didn’t press.”

That set up Tuesday’s battle.On May 17, the Clippers lost at the

Rangers, 5-4. Ten days later, Yarmouth rallied from an early 5-0 deficit to beat visiting Greely, 6-5.

The Clippers had taken two of the three previous postseason meetings, winning in the 2002 preliminary round (8-5, in eight innings) and the 2008 quarterfinals (9-2). The Rangers were triumphant in the 2006 quarterfinals, 12-2, in six innings.

This time, Greely survived.

The Rangers scored six runs on just one hit (a leadoff single from junior Liam Maker) in the top of the third. Greely took advantage of five walks, three hit batters and two wild pitches to seize control. Senior ace Mike Leeman took a no-hitter and a 7-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth, but there, Yarmouth’s bats came alive, producing seven successive hits and five runs. Leeman was able to work out of the jam, then, in the seventh, with the tying run at the plate, he got Sullivan to ground out to third, giving the Rangers the 7-5 victory.

“I tried my hardest,” said Leeman, who walked two and fanned seven. “I give (Yarmouth) props for coming back and battling. They caught up to my fastball and were hitting me good at the end.”

“I was pretty nervous because I’ve seen playoffs turn in our favor very quickly,” Soule said. “I think back to Mountain Valley in (the 2007 semifinals), where we down 6-1 bottom of the seventh and we won.”

Looking ahead to Saturday, Greely has never met Waterville (17-2).

The Rangers are oh so close to another crown, but know they’ll have their hands full.

“We want to win a championship,” Maker said. “We’re going to do our best. We’ll be loud. We’ll be prepared. We’ll come out ready to go.”

Try again in 2012Falmouth struggled much of the regular

season before capturing six of its final seven and closing on a four-game win streak (late-season victims included Cape Elizabeth, Wells and Yarmouth) to wind up 10-6, good for the No. 6 seed.

The Yachtsmen then upset No. 3 Cape Elizabeth, 2-1, in last Thursday’s quarter-finals. Falmouth went up 2-0 and had to wait out a two-and-a-half hour weather delay before the game resumed. When it did, senior pitcher Dillon Dresser al-lowed a seventh inning run, but worked out of a jam and closed the door on the 2-1 victory.

“(Dillon) pitched great for five innings and we had that two-hour rain delay, whatever it was, so I went to him and said, ‛How do you feel?’ and he said, ‛Coach, I want the ball.’ “ said Falmouth coach Kevin Winship. “He’s a senior, he’s been our horse, he’s pitching as well as anybody around.”

The Yachtsmen scored a fourth inning run on an error and senior catcher Matt MacDowell drove in the second run with an RBI triple.

Falmouth then couldn’t hold a 3-1 sixth inning lead at Greely in the semis and wound up 11-7 after the 8-3 loss.

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Greely game story, visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

The 2011 softball season came to a end for Forecaster Country teams last week.

Last Tuesday, in a preliminary round showdown, No. 9 Greely held off No. 8 Falmouth, 2-1, to advance.

The Rangers, who snared the final play-off spot in the region with a 9-7 record, trailed 1-0 heading for the fourth, where junior catcher Edith Aromando rocketed a two-run homer to center to put Greely on top to stay. Sophomore pitcher Danielle Cimino worked out of jams in the late in-nings and the Rangers held on to win.

“It feels awesome,” said Greely first-year coach Kelsey Bryant. “I knew we could do it. We had to play our game and we brought it. All seven innings. It could have gone either way.”

The Yachtsmen, who once again got a stellar pitching effort from senior Kelsey Freedman, wound up 8-9.

“You can’t ask for anything better than this,” said Falmouth coach John Keyes. “It comes down to the last inning with a run-ner in scoring position with two outs. Who knows what can happen? I thought we did

Jason Veilleux / For The ForecasTerGreely pitcher Danielle Cimino prepares to deliver a pitch late in last week’s preliminary round

win over Falmouth.

Greely centerfielder Katie Whittum exults after recording the final out in the Rangers’ 2-1 preliminary round playoff win at Falmouth

last week.

very well. Defensively, it was our best game. We just didn’t supply the offense today.

“We did a lot of good things this year,” he added. “This is the best group that I’ve had. They didn’t let me down today. The seniors played their hearts out. It’s a terrible way to end.”

Friday, the Rangers went to top-ranked Fryeburg and gave the Raiders a mighty scare before losing, 4-3. Greely erased a three-run deficit with three runs in the fifth, but Fryeburg Academy got the winner in the bottom of the seventh, ending the Rangers’ season at 10-8. Junior Emma Seymour had two hits in a losing effort. Cimino had an RBI single and went the distance.

Second-ranked Yarmouth, meanwhile, waited out a long weather delay in its quar-terfinal versus No. 7 Wells Thursday, but ultimately was upset, 3-1, in nine innings. The Clippers, who enjoyed a spectacular regular season, just couldn’t get a key hit and the Warriors pushed across two runs in the ninth to take it and end Yarmouth’s season at 14-3.

“It was a really good season for us,” said Clippers coach Jim Senecal. “The kids are really disappointed now, but (Wells) fin-ished the season very strong. We had a lot

of hard-hit balls early in the game that were right at people. They defended everything very well. They’re well coached. When they get people on base, they put pressure on. We made the call to load the bases and it cost us one run. It was a tough last in-ning for sure. Their pitcher did great. She improved as the game went on.

“Winning 14 games exceeded what we thought we’d do,” he added. “We knew we had two great seniors in Abbie Hutch (Ab-bie Hutchinson) and Jules (Julie Dursema). So many other kids stepped up. The other seniors did great things for us. The three freshmen really contributed for us. We’re proud of what we did. We lose a lot of kids, but the future looks good.”

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contributed photo The Seacoast United “Crew” U-13 boys’ soccer team won the Maine State Cup recently, beating Phoenix MCU, 3-1, in the finals on June 5.

The team next competes in the U.S. Region I championship in Lancaster, Penn., June 30-July 5. Left to right: Assistant coach Chris Wade, Nick Pronovost (Cumberland), Landon Pope (Auburn), Tyus Ripley (Harrison), Mackenzie Hoglund (Portland), Josh Morrissey (Scarborough), Nick

Kamra (Oakland), Jacob Nason (North Yarmouth), Andrei Vile (South Freeport), Sam Farr (Portland), Brady Cyr (South Portland), Jordan Kruguer (Fryeburg), Tylar Burgess (Springvale), coach Jim Wade. Sitting: Brady Darnell (Gray), Keenan Welzel (Brunswick), J.D. Souza

(Wiscasset), Mitchell Duncan (Springvale), Lucas Watt (Cumberland).

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The Downeast Lacrosse Camp for girls entering grades 3-9 will be held June 20-24 at the Yarmouth High turf field. The camp is conducted by Yarmouth varsity coach Dorothy Holt, assistant Cameron Powell and Colby College player Lucy Gerrity. Tuition is $122 and includes a T-shirt. There will also be a co-ed Stick-lets camp for boys and girls entering grades K-2 the same days at the field hockey field. That camp is conducted by Yarmouth assistant Jill Thomas. Tuition

Locals compete atNE track

Several local athletes took part in the 66th New England outdoor track champi-onship meet Saturday in Burlington, Vt. Greely’s Michael Burgess led the way with a fifth-place finish in the shot put (53 feet) and was 21st in the discus (135-9). Team-mate Jack Fellows was seventh in the shot put (52-2.25). Falmouth’s Jacob Buhelt was 15th in the 200 (23.28 seconds) and 22nd in the 100 (11.61). Teammate Andrew Kow-alsky came in 17th in the javelin (152-8).

Falmouth’s Brandon Tuttle was 18th in the javelin (151-1). NYA’s Alex Coffin placed 19th in the 800 (1 minute, 59.42 seconds). NYA’s Mohamed Dahia was 22nd in the 110 hurdles (16.07). Greely’s

Falmouth football registration ongoingRegistration for the 2011 Falmouth football season, grades 1 through 12, is underway at falmouthfootball.com. Click on the reg-istration tab. FMI, [email protected].

Maine Distance Gala upcoming

New Balance is presenting the Maine Distance Gala Friday at Bowdoin Col-lege in Brunswick. Former Portland High standout Sintayehu Taye and Bangor’s Riley Masters will be attempting to run a sub-4-minute mile. Entry cost is $10. FMI, headcountreg.com/meet/269.

Air It Out Passing Academy coming this summer

The inaugural Air It Out Passing Acad-emy football camp for offensive and de-fensive skill players, run by Scarborough football coach Lance Johnson and former Portland High and current Wesleyan Uni-versity quarterback Andrew Lieberman, will be held this summer in Scarborough. Players will get personal instruction, play 7-on-7 and get advice on college recruiting. A camp for high schoolers will be held June 27-30. Middle school camp runs from July 25-28. A youth camp will run Aug. 8-11. FMI, airitoutpassingacademy.com.

Local players part of Seacoast United state champ

ContributedPlayers from Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth and Scarborough were part of the Seacoast United U-12 girls’ state championship team, which beat Blackbear United for the title. The squad travels to Lancaster, Penn. later this month to take part

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3,200 relay team (Liam Campbell, Nester Taylor, Nathan Madeira and Isaac Emery) came in 22nd (8:24.76). NYA’s 3,200 relay squad (Evan Kendall, Grant McPherson, Asad Dahia and Brian Trelegan) was 32nd (8:48.61).

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of been our nemesis all year. One bad inning. I thought that we played five-and-a-half fantastic innings of baseball. We just didn’t get the job done.”

In Western C, NYA rode a late-season five-game win streak to a 12-4 mark and the No. 5 seed in the region. The Pan-thers drew No. 4 Telstar in the quarter-finals and dropped a tough 6-3 decision. NYA was done in by two home runs from Rebels’ slugger Corey Howard. Tom McGuckin drove in two runs for the Panthers, who scored their third on a

wild pitch, but it wasn’t enough as their season ended at 12-5.

“The Telstar game was a tough de-feat,” said NYA’s first-year coach Dick Kinsman. “We were outhit 10-6, but the damage was done by one individual. The game was a tug-of-war with a score of 4-3 in the sixth inning until Howard hit a two run shot to centerfield off of Jordan Haskell to make the score 6-3. In the top of the seventh inning, the sky opened up and the rain showers affected any chance we had to come back. Unfortunately we were not able to prevail.

“As a first-year coach at NYA, my goal was to have a winning season and

make it to the playoffs. We accomplished both goals and exceeded our expecta-tions. Losing last year’s top two starting pitchers, who pitched the majority of the games, put a heavy burden on a young, inexperienced pitching staff, not to men-tion the loss of five starting players due to graduation. That accomplishment was even more remarkable, considering that five players were deemed ineligible to play, including three starters due to an honor code violation with five games remaining on the schedule. We won four of our remaining five games with under-classmen.”

The Panthers have shown they can

compete with Western C’s best. Next year will be a challenge, however.

“In regards to the future, NYA was not able to field a middle school team this year which does not bode well and five senior starters will be lost due to graduation,” Kinsman said. “Eight boys will be returning. Only two with mound experience. My ace, Ryan Salerno, will be returning to anchor the pitching staff. We will have to develop some pitching prospects as we did this year and pitch by committee. Returning starting position players that should provide some punch to our line-up next year will be Ben Cole-man, McGuckin and Salerno.”

Freelance writer Ryan Robb contrib-uted to this story.Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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cilor,” Hyde said. “It’s what I learned from Bill. I think I will learn a lot and will get to work with interesting people.”

Schaffer, 69, of Cumberland Street, said he thinks the three new councilors are wonderful. He said was pleased to re-cently get to know Kittredge, was hoping Hyde would be elected and said Bates will serve the town well.

“I think you need to look at the council as a whole and see what is needed,” he said. “I think the age (changes) and hav-ing a woman serve will be great for the council because with this election it will no longer be an ‘old boy network.’ I know everyone elected will work hard to get up to speed.”

Town Clerk Jennifer Doten said about 1,000 of the town’s 6,900 eligible vot-ers turned out. For a June election with only municipal, school and water district candidates, the turnout was reasonable, she said.

“I was pleasantly surprised with the voter turnout,” Doten said. “Despite the

weather and the lack of other issues, vot-ers came to the polls to cast their ballots.”

School CommitteeIncumbent Smith will serve a second

three-year term on the School Committee with Groban of Starboard Reach.

Groban received 625 votes and Smith received 605. J. Philip Jones, 47, of East Elm Street, fell short with 450 votes.

Smith, 46, of Sandy Brook Lane, is married and has three children. She has worked at Spurwink Services for 16 years in human resources and as its director of regulatory and legislative analysis. She said she is looking forward to working with Groban and continuing to work with the other committee members.

“We are in a good place working with the Town Council,” Smith said. “I am hoping that a lot of changes to both com-mittees will not disrupt the flow we have going.”

Groban, 54, is married and has three grown daughters who attended Yarmouth schools. As an attorney, Groban has worked as a federal prosecutor in the Of-fice of the U.S. Attorney in Portland for nearly 30 years.

“I am happy to join the board and get

started,” she said. “Any of us would have served the schools well.”

Water District Board of Directors

In the race to fill two seats on the Water District Board of Trustees, incumbent Felker, 68, of Hillcrest Avenue, was elected to another three-year term. He received 552 votes.

He will be joined by Krauss, of East Main Street, whose late husband served on the board for about 11 years. Krauss, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Falmouth Middle School, received 492 votes.

Felker said he is pleased to keep the seat he has held for 20 years.

“I think the fact that I am on again tells me that the customers are pleased and we must be doing something right,” he said. “Hopefully we can continue in the way we have. We have a good board of trustees and excellent staff.”

Felker and Krauss defeated newcom-ers Andy O’Brien and Bill Stees, who received 384 and 154 votes, respectively.

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Books, Authors Thursday 6/16Dispatch Magazine Release Party, 7:30 p.m., free admission, 21+, The Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, dispatchmag.com.

Emma Straub, author of “Oth-er People We Married,” 7 p.m., Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Portland, 772-4045.

Friday 6/17Book Sale, Friends of Portland Public Library, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fri-day and Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, preview for members 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Catherine McAu-ley High School gym, 631 Stevens Ave., Portland, friendsofppl.org.

Book Sale, Friends of the Scarborough Library, June 17-19, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Satur-day; 12-5 p.m. Sunday bargain day, Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, 883-4723, scarboroughcrossroads.org/libraryfriends.

Brown Bag Local Author Series, with Helen Rivas-Rose, author of “Brave: A Memoir of Overcoming Shyness,” 12-1 p.m., Portland Public

‘Birdie Googins Live!’ at Freeport Factory

ContributedBirdie Googins, a.k.a. the Marden’s Lady, provides a “fun-filled evening of stories of high adventure,”

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SLANT Storytelling Series, with Bill Nemitz, Emilia Dahlin, Melissa Coleman, and more, 7:30 p.m., free, open to public, SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, presented by The Telling Room, FMI, telling-room.org, 774-6064.

Thursday 6/23Maureen Stanton, author of “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America,” 7 p.m., free, open to public, Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Port-land, 772-4045.

Summer Reading Book Sale, for adults and children, proceeds ben-efit library, June 23-25; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Thomas Memorial Library, Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, Ann Googins 799-1916.

Friday 6/24Michael C. Connolly, author of “Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen,” 7 p.m. reading, book signing, Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Port-land, Vinny O’Malley, 232-2001.

Summer Reading Book Sale, for adults and children, proceeds ben-efit library, June 23-25; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Thomas Memorial Library, Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, Ann Googins 799-1916.

ComedyThursday 6/16Jerry Seinfeld, 7 p.m., $86-$56, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, tickets, porttix.com or Merrill box office, 842-0800.

Saturday 6/18 “Subway Eat Fresh Comedy Show,” with Auggie Smith and Dax Jordan, 7:30 p.m., $25, St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Port-land, stlawrencearts.org, 347-3075.

FilmsFriday 6/17”Forks Over Knives,” 7 p.m. docu-mentary screening, followed by discussion led by Meg Wolff, Nickel-odeon Theater, Temple St., Portland, FMI, Patty McCarthy, 799-8882.

Rated Local: Short Works from Maine Filmmakers, monthly film screenings at St. Lawrence Arts Center, 7 p.m., $5, 76 Congress St., Portland, stlawrencearts.org, 347-3075.

Galleries Wednesday 6/15“Shift: Vivien Russe & Mary Hart,” 5-7 p.m. opening reception, exhibit through July 9, Aucocisco Galleries, 89 Exchange St., Port-land, 775-2222, aucocisco.com.

Monday 6/20“Three Summer Artists,” paint-ings, collage by Julie Waterman, Susan Roscoe, and Carol Beyna, 6-8 p.m. opening reception, ex-hibit through mid-August, The Royal Bean coffee shop, Main St., Yarmouth, 829-5082.

MuseumsSaturday 6/18Falmouth Heritage Museum, museum hours 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, June-August; closed for holidays, 60 Woods Road, Falmouth, [email protected].

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse,

tours 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Mondays-Sat-urdays, June 18-Sept 5; Sundays July 3-Sept. 5, $5 suggested donation, ages under 13 free, SMCC cam-pus, off Fort Road, South Portland, springpointlight.org, 799-6337.

Tate House Museum, museum tours June 18-Oct. 9; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. Sundays, $8 adults, $6 se-niors $3 ages 6-12; special tours include achitecture tours and gar-den tours, call for times, Tate House Museum, 1267 Westbrook St., Port-land, 774-6177, tatehouse.org.

MusicThursday 6/16The Decemberists, 7:30 p.m., $39.50, State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland, tickets, 800-745-3000, statetheatreportland.com.

Portland Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., $5 students, seniors, and advance/ $9 door, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, onelongfellowsquare.com.

Songwriter’s By The Sea, acoustic folk concert with Vanessa Torres, Putnam Smith and Connor Gar-vey, 7:30 p.m., $10, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, Phil Daligan, 766-4421.

Friday 6/17Loop 243 with Zemya, 8 p.m., $10, Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, mayostreetarts.org.

Saturday 6/18Band Concert, Civil War Sesqui-centennial, with Excelsior Cornet Band, 4 p.m., $10 person/ $15 fam-ily, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, 766-3330, fifthmainemuseum.org.

Brzowski, ”A Fitfull Sleep,” album release party, with Prayers For Atheists and Dollfight! 9:30 p.m., $8, Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, space538.org.

Hattie Simon, jazz, with bassist Nick Thompson-Brown, 6-9 p.m. Azure Cafe, 123 Main St., Freeport, 865-1237.

Sunday 6/19 Michael Franti & Spearhead, 4 p.m. doors, 6 p.m. show, $35 ad-vance, $40 door, Concerts on the Waterfront at Ocean Gateway, 14 Ocean Gateway Pier, Portland, tick-ets at statetheatreportland.com, 800-745-3000 or at Cumberland County Civic Center, One Civic Square, Portland.

Monday 6/20Dinosaur Jr., 8 p.m., $25 advance/ $30 door/ $40 VIP, Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland, tickets at frontgatetickets.com.

Friday 6/24International Piano Festival, pre-

sented by Portland Conservatory of Music, June 22-29, public eve-ning concerts: Frank Glazer, 7:30 p.m. June 24; Tamara Poddubnaya, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 26, Wood-fords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, portland-conservatory.net, 775-3356.

”Cafe Vienna,” presented by POR-Topera’s Young Artists Program, 7:30 p.m., Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Square, Portland, tickets, 842-0800, porttix.com.

Satoko Fujii and the Ma-Do en-semble, hosted by Dimensions in Jazz, 8 p.m., $10 students/ $15 advance/ $20 door, Portland Club, 179 Woodford St., Portland, ad-vance tickets at Starbird Music or Jet Video in Portland, or 828-1310.

Sunday 6/26International Piano Festival, pre-sented by Portland Conservatory of Music, June 22-29, public eve-ning concerts: Frank Glazer, 7:30

p.m. June 24; Tamara Poddubnaya, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 26, Wood-fords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, portland-conservatory.net, 775-3356.

Theater & Dance ”The Blue Moon Chronicles,” 7 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays, June 9-26, $20, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993, lucid-stage.com.

Birdie Googins, a.k.a. the Marden’s Lady, 7:30 p.m. June 17 and 18, $22.50 adult/ $17.50 seniors and students, Freeport Factory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport, freeportfac-tory.com, 865-5505.

“Cymbeline Underground,” pre-sented by the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 25-26, free/ $10 sug-gested donation, Battery Steele, Peaks Island, nakedshakespeare.org or 854-0065.

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Summer theater, festivals in full swingBy Scott Andrews

We’re still a week away from the as-tronomical start of summer, but Maine’s seasonal theater and music festivals won’t wait for the solstice.

In Brunswick, Maine State Music Theatre lifted the curtain on its 53rd summer season last week with a wonderful professional production of “The Marvelous Wonder-ettes,” a tuneful and nostalgic jukebox musical that recycles many popular songs associated with female artists of the 1950s and 1960s.

Arundel Barn Playhouse opened its 2011 summer season last week with a profession-al production of “The 39 Steps,” a comical send-up of the famous Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller.

Maine’s bluegrass aficionados have seen the number of festivals dwindle over the past few years, with several going out of business entirely or morphing into some-thing else. But one of the state’s best is get-ting better: The Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival has a new home at the Litchfield Fairground and top national and local artists are slated to appear daily through June 19.

‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’Summer theater schedules are tradition-

ally dominated by fluffy, funny, tuneful mu-sical fare. That’s exactly what’s offered in Brunswick through June 25 as Maine State Music Theater opens its 2011 season with “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” a nostalgic stroll down memory lane.

“The Marvelous Wonderettes” is an ex-emplar of the “jukebox musical,” a stage show where a selection of unrelated pop songs that were originally written and performed by various disparate artists are assembled around a minimal story line, thinly drawn characters and a few other unifying features.

Roger Bean wrote the script, and his unifying aesthetic is the female artists and girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. It was a period when solo singers Connie Francis

Courtesy Annie rose Girl groups and female artists of the 1950s and 1960s are fondly recalled in “The Marvelous

Wonderettes,” a jukebox musical that opens the 2011 summer season at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick.

and Brenda Lee were at their peak of popu-larity. Ditto an assortment of all-female close-harmony vocal ensembles such as the Chordettes, Marvelettes, Shirelles and Crystals. Some of these groups formed in high school and scored their biggest hits before they reached their twenties.

That’s the story of “The Marvelous Won-derettes,” four teenagers who won a high school competition. The setting is the 1958 Springfield High School senior prom, and Bean’s young ladies are performing at the big dance. Cindy Lou (Linda Seibert) is the prettiest, most popular and most poised. She knows it, and acts accordingly. Betty Jean (Brittney Morello) is her rival and tends to act out. Missy (Morgan Smith) is awk-ward and geeky, while Suzy (Danielle Erin Rhodes) is the archetypal dumb blonde, complete with a mouth full of malaprop-

isms and bubble gum.The second act is the class reunion 10

years later. The tone is more somber, and the women, now in their late 20s, have logged some experience in life, including unfaithful boyfriends and philandering husbands.

The music that Bean has selected re-cycles about two dozen hit tunes, including the Chordettes’ two biggest: “Mr. Sand-man” and “Lollipop.” Others fondly recall an assortment of different girl groups and female artists. Among the most memorable songs are “Lipstick On Your Collar” and “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To).”

I loved this very tuneful, joyfully nos-talgic show. MSMT’s four very appealing actresses boast fine voices and excellent stage presences, and their big crinoline skirts gaily recall the fashions of the times. “The Marvelous Wonderettes” is a perfect way to start the summer theater season on just the right note.

Maine State Music Theatre presents “The Marvelous Wonderettes” through June 25 at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick. Call 725-8769 or go to msmt.org.

‘The 39 Steps’Mysteries and comedies are the two other

legs of the summer theater triad, and Arun-del Barn Playhouse opens its 2011 season with a show that combines both genres. “The 39 Steps” is a comic send-up of the famous 1930s-era Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller of the same name.

The script follows a familiar Hitchcock story arc: An innocent man is falsely ac-cused and is pursued by a band of villains. In the hands of playwright Patrick Barlow, “The 39 Steps” has been transformed into

a British spy farce. As an added fillip, Barlow’s version faithfully reconstructs virtually the entire Hitchcock script – which involves a Nazi spy ring that’s stealing Brit-ish aviation secrets – using only four actors.

The principal male actor tackles the hero role, while one actress plays a trio of love interests. Two other actors play about 100 parts, often only for a few seconds at a time.

Barlow’s version of “The 39 Steps” is an over-the-top, fast-paced parody of the Hitchcock film that careens from crisis to crisis, interpolated with shootings and chase scenes.

Director Gary John LaRosa helms a cast of four professional actors from the New York area. Matthew Krob, playing the lead character, is a picture-perfect example of sophisticated, virile manhood who is a perfect fit for the hero role, while Jessica Morgan adroitly plays his three dim-witted love interests.

Robert Rice and Danny Prather gallop through a wide gamut of secondary parts, including policemen, railroad conductors, vaudeville actors and assorted villains.

Needless to say, the fiendishly clever Nazi plot unravels and Britain’s secrets are saved – with a million laughs.

Arundel Barn Playhouse, just off Route 1, presents “The 39 Steps” through June 25. Call 985-5552 or go to arundelbarn-playhouse.com.

Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival

It’s been a blue decade for Maine’s blue-grass fans, with two major festivals going out of business and a third transforming it-self into something else. But one of the best of the rest is getting better. The Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival has a new venue at the Litchfield Fairground and the 2011 lineup of artists includes major national acts plus a variety of local artists.

Most of the music is scheduled for Friday afternoon and evening, all day Saturday and Sunday into the early afternoon. Bring your own lawn chairs, plus sunscreen, bug dope and clothing suitable for chilly Maine evenings. (In case of rain, there’s a tent.)

The top three national headliners are Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Nothin’ Fancy and Dan Paisley & Southern Grass. New England acts include Cumberland Crossing, Wilf Clark & The Misty Moun-taineers, White Mountain Bluegrass and the host band, Blistered Fingers. The top Canadian act is Bluegrass Diamonds.

I’ve attended this alfresco shindig several times in the past, and this weekend I look forward to reacquainting myself with the Blistered Fingers Festival, and with Greg and Sandy Cormier, the energetic and af-fable Waterville couple who run the show. For details, including the full schedule, call 873-6539 or visit blisteredfingers.com.

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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FalmouthMon. 6/20 7 p.m. Town Council THTue. 6/21 7 p.m. School Board TH

CumberlandMon. 6/20 7 p.m. Town Council THTue. 6/21 7 p.m. Planning Board TH

FreeportTue. 6/21 7:30 a.m. Traffic and Parking THTue. 6/21 7 p.m. Conservation Commission FCCTue. 6/21 6 p.m. Town Council Workshop THTue. 6/21 7 p.m. Town Council THWed. 6/22 8 a.m. Freeport Economic Development Annual Meeting Harraseeket InnWed. 6/22 6 p.m. Cable TV TH

YarmouthTue. 6/21 7 p.m. Shellfish Committee THWed. 6/22 7 p.m. Planning Board LC

North YarmouthTue. 6/21 7 p.m. Selectmen TH

MSAD 51Mon. 6/20 7 p.m. School Board Greely HS

Greater PortlandBenefitsCall to Register Vehicles for ben-efit car show, to benefit Portland Police Youth Activities League, open to classic, new, green or mus-cle cars, trucks, motorcycles, $15 registration fee, includes T-shirt; June 25 show in Portland; hosted by Portland Police Department and Portland Motor Club, register at PortlandMotorClub.com, Kal Rogers, 233-9970.

Spring into Summer Online Auc-tion, to benefit Hour Exchange Portland, June 7-21, auction at biddingforgood.com/HEP, FMI, 619-4437.

Saturday 6/18Annual Yard Sale, fundraiser for Scarborough High School Academic Decathlon Team, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 311 Gorham Road, Scarborough.

Inaugural Maine 5K VisionWalk, fundraiser hosted by The Foun-dation Fighting Blindness, 9 a.m. registration at Payson Park; 10 a.m. walk at Baxter Blvd., Portland, to register, donate, VisionWalk.org, or Sara Hammel, 410-423-0624.

ITN Portland Walk For Rides, 9 a.m.-noon, Back Cove, Portland, to register, sponsor, volunteer, 854-0505, ITNPortland.org.

Deering Historic House Tour, tour of seven homes, 3 gardens, presented by Greater Portland Landmarks, proceeds benefit Greater Portland Landmarks pro-grams, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., advance tickets, $30-$35; door, $40-$45, tour begins at Woodford’s Congre-gational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, advance tickets, portland-landmarks.org, 774-5561 ext. 102.

Durham Eureka Community

Center Yard Sale, table rental proceeds benefit Durham Eureka Community Center, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., U.S. Routes 9 and 136, Durham, FMI, Nancy Decker, 751-1323.

Maine VisionWalk, to benefit Foundation Fighting Blindness, 9 a.m. registration; 10 a.m. walk begins at Payson Park, Back Cove, Portland, with family-friendly ac-tivities, register at blindness.org, Sara Hammel or Maribel Joa, 401-423-0624.

Neighborhood Yard Sale/Bar-becue, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland, 799-0407, elm-streetumc.org.

Wolfe’s Neck Farm Art Fest &

Plein Air Event, to benefit the Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free admission, art exhibit/sale by 50+ artists, kids activities, silent auction, live mu-sic, more, Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport, 865-4469.

Tuesday 6/21Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s An-nual Pizza Party and Fundraiser, 5-9 p.m., Flatbread Pizza Co., 72 Commercial St., Portland, Bike-Maine.org, 623-4511.

PSO Night at Local Buzz, to bene-fit Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Maestro & Musicians Fund, with raffles, door prizes, 5:30-8:30 p.m., hosted by The Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Road, Cape Eliza-

beth, capelocalbuzz.com.

Thursday 6/23“Light on the Point,” Southern Maine Community College cele-bration and fundraiser, with music by Floydz Boyz, refreshments, 5:30-8 p.m., $30, SMCC campus, Fort Road, South Portland, [email protected].

Friday 6/24Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere, to benefit Victoria Mansion, with music by the Pete Kilpatrick Band, self-guided tours of Victoria Man-sion, ale tastings, light supper, 5-8 p.m. advance tickets, $15 mem-bers/ $20 non-members/ $25 door, Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland, 772-4841, victoriaman-sion.org.

Book, Jewelry and Art Sale, 3-day festival fundraiser for scholarships, hosted by South Freeport Church Mission Committee, Friday: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. sale, 5-7 p.m. lobster dinner, $15-$20; Saturday: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. sale, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Gardens of South Freeport self-guided walking tour, rain or shine, $12; Sunday: 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. sale, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. picnic lunch with free concert, South Freeport Church, 98 South Freeport Road, South Freeport, southfreeport-church.com, 865-4012.

“Food/Hunger,” silent auction of prints by 10 artists, to benefit Cultivating Community, 4-7 p.m. reception June 24, auction ongoing June 20-26, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St., Portland, view art-work at eatedibleart.blogspot.com.

Saturday 6/25“Calling All Cars:” Giant Car Show, to benefit the Portland Police Youth Activities League, with raffles, live music, demonstrations, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Portland Motor Club, 275 Presumpscot St., Portland, FMI, Officer Ray Ruby, 233-1151.

Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk, fundraiser for Youth and Family Outreach, 8:30 a.m., Back Cove, Portland, register at active.com, FMI, yfoutreach.org, 874-1073.

June Jog 5K, to benefit RSU 5 Recreation and Community Educa-tion Scholarship Fund and The Port Teen Center, 7 a.m. registration; 8 a.m. 5K, $15; 8:30 a.m. 1 mile kids fun run, $2; Mast Landing School, 20 Mollymauk Lane, Freeport, 865-6171, rsu5-rce.org.

Quilter’s Market, to benefit First Parish Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., free admission, with 30+ vendors, First Parish Church UCC, 40 Main St., Freeport, firstparishmarket.com.

Bulletin BoardThursday 6/16Business After Hours, hosted by Martin’s Point Health Care, 5-7 p.m., Chamber members free/$15 non-members, Martin’s Point Health Care, Veranda St., Portland, regis-ter, portlandregion.com, 772-2811.

Ecomaine Annual Meeting, with guest speaker Maine DEP Commis-sioner Darryl N. Brown, 11:30 a.m.,

free, open to public, 64 Blueberry Road, Portland, ecomaine.org.

”Night of Champions,” USA box-ing and dinner show, with host Micky Ward, 5:30 p.m. doors, $65-$75, The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough, thelandingatpinepoint.com.

Maine Philanthropy Center, annual meeting, 3-5 p.m., $25 members/ $45 non-members, Abromson Center, USM Portland, mainephilanthropy.org.

Thursday 6/23Greek Food Festival, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. June 23-25, with artisans, live entertainment, church tours, more, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church grounds, corner of Pleasant and Park Streets, Portland, 774-0281.

New Gloucester Strawberry Festival, 6-8 p.m., Congo Ves-try, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester, 926-3188.

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Call for VolunteersFalmouth Heritage Museum needs volunteers/docents for new season, 60 Woods Road, Falmouth, 899-4435.

Freeport Factory Stage seeks vol-unteer ushers for shows, 865-5505, freeportfactory.com.

HART Cat Shelter volunteers needed, help homeless cats at no-kill shelter in Cumberland, many opportunities, call 829-4116 or HARTOFME.com.

Dining OutSaturday 6/18Baked Bean Supper, 4:30-

6 p.m. $7 adult/ $3 child, West Scarborough United Methodist Church, 2 Church St., Scarborough, 883-2814, wsumc.us.

Old Fashioned Bean Supper, seat-ings at 5:30 and 7 p.m., $8 adult/ $5 child, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, 766-5514 to reserve seat.

Gardens/OutdoorsCumberland Farmers Market Association Summer Markets, Wednesdays, 12-4 p.m., Walmart parking lot, US Route 1, Falmouth; Fridays, 10am - 12:15 p.m. Crick-et Hunt School, U.S. Route 1, Freeport, and 2-5:30 p.m., L.L.Bean Campus, Coyote Parking Lot, Freeport; Saturdays, 9 a.m.-noon, Cumberland Town Hall, Tuttle

Road, Cumberland, all markets rain or shine, FMI, cumberland-farmersmarket.org.

Friday 6/17 Portland Trails Discovery Trek Series, “A bit of history on the Eastern Promenade” 5:30-7:30 p.m. guided history walk with Herb Adams, members free/ $5 non-member suggested donation, space limited, must preregister for meeting place, 775-2411, trails.org.

Saturday 6/18Fort Williams Arboretum Project Community Volunteer Workday, 9 a.m.-noon, bring tools, no dogs or children, Fort Williams, South Portland, Janet Villiotte, 899-1657, [email protected].

Monday 6/20Eastern Trail Walk, 10 a.m., meet at Scarborough Memorial Cem-etery parking lot, Old Blue Point Road, Scarborough, canceled if raining, FMI, Jim Monroe, 934-3834.

Friday 6/24Hands-On Historic Gardening Workshop, hosted by Maine Histor-ical Society, 9-11 a.m., registration required, 489 Congress St., Port-land, 774-1822.

Getting SmarterThursday 6/16Cumberland Historical Soci-ety Meeting, 150th Civil War anniversary presentation and re-enactment, 7 p.m., free and open to the public, 1853 Schoolhouse, 4A Blanchard Road, Cumberland, Carolyn Small, 415-4589.

“How to Green Your Lawn,” workshop hosted by Greener Neighborhoods Cleaner Streams, 6:30-8:30 p.m., free, Riverton Com-munity Center, 1600 Forest Ave., Portland, FMI, 776-1066.

Wisdom at Work Series, hosted by Portland Public Library, “How to Make a Professional Impact” by Amy Wood, 12-1 p.m., free, open to the public, Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

World Affairs Council of Maine annual meeting, presentation by Admiral Dennis C. Blair (Retired), “Threats, Opportunities and Pos-sibilities in Asia,” 5 p.m. business meeting, 6:30 p.m. dinner/presen-tation, Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth, register, wacmaine.org, 221-4386.

Saturday 6/18Book Review Brigade: A Two-Session Workshop on the Art of Book Reviewing, with William D. Bushnell, hosted by Maine Writ-ers & Publishers Alliance, 1-4 p.m. June 18 and July 9, $75 MWPA members/ $125 non-members, Glickman Library, USM Portland, fellowships available, mainewrit-ers.org, 228-8263.

Family Finances Seminar, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., $50 adult/$75 cou-ple, hosted by The Institute for

Financial Literacy, 260 Western Ave., South Portland, registration required, 221-3601.

Monday 6/20Mid-Summer’s Eve at Stone-henge,” 7 p.m. lecture by Patrick Peoples, 8 p.m. presentation on the astronomy of Stonehenge, free/ by donation, USM Southworth Plan-etarium, USM Portland campus, 780-4249, usm.maine.edu/planet.

North Yarmouth Historical So-ciety Meeting, “Maine in the Civil War,” 6:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. pre-sentation by Steve Bunker, Old Town House, U.S. Route 9, North Yarmouth, 595-2997.

Yarmouth Historical Society Meeting, “Baked Beans and Fried Clams: How Food Defines a Region” presentation by author Edie Clark, 7:30 p.m., $3 members/ $5 non-members, Log Cabin, 196 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-6259.

Tuesday 6/21 Small Business High Speed Growth Tour, workshop hosted by Portland SCORE and American Express, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., free, open to all persons who own a small busi-ness, Holiday Inn By The Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, must prereg-ister, scoremaine.com, 772-1147.

Health & SupportFriday 6/17“Real Solutions to Life’s Prob-lems,” kirtan, spiritual teachings by Radanath Swami and Shyamdas, 7-10 p.m., $25-15 suggested do-nation, Sadhana: The Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland, 772-6898, sadhaname.com.

Tuesday 6/21Gong Meditation, hosted by Dragonfly Taijiquan to celebrate Summer Solstice/(post)Full Moon, 7-8:30 p.m., $12-$18 suggested donation, 222 St. John St., Suite 240, Portland, 761-2142, or [email protected].

Wednesday 6/22Maine Women’s Network annual event, 1-7 p.m. with presentations, silent auction, dinner, more, Holi-day Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, register at mainewomen-

snetwork.memberlodge.org.

Friday 6/24The Awake Collective Grand Opening Event, 4-9 p.m., healing arts clinic 4-6 p.m.; 6 p.m. space blessing; 7 p.m. dance event; 8:30 p.m. Gong bath, free and open to the public, 509 Forest Ave., Port-land, theawakecollective.com, Mo Bankey, 703-475-6392.

Kids & Family StuffKids First: Separation & Divorce Support Groups for Children & Adolescents, Group I (grades 1-3) Tuesdays, 4:30-6 p.m., 6/21-7/26; Group II (grades 4-6) Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m., 6/22-7/27; and Group III (grades 7-9), Wednesdays, 5:45-7:15 p.m., 6/22-7/27, Kids First Center, 222 St. John St., Suite 101, Portland, kidsfirstcenter.org.

Friday 6/17Children’s Summer Reading Program Kick-Off, 3-4 p.m., with magic show, music, Children’s Room, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, port-landlibrary.com, 871-1700.

Saturday 6/18Maine Youth Field Day, hosted by Royal River Rod & Gun Club, learn shooting with rifles, archery, wilderness safety, more, for ages 10-15, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m., free, in-cludes lunch, Royal River Rod & Gun Club, Fish Hatchery Road, New Gloucester, rain date June 19, reg-ister, Lou Haskell, 655-7757 or Bob Muir, 892-6096.

Wednesday 6/22 Stories by the Garden Program, with Amy MacDonald, author of “Little Beaver and the Echo,” 11 a.m., free, open to the public, hosted by Friends School of Port-land, Mackworth Island, Falmouth, friendsschoolofportland.org, 781-6321.

Thursday 6/23“The Legend of the Banana Kid,” puppet show by Frogtown Moun-tain Puppeteers, 2 p.m. Kick-Off Event for “One World, Many Sto-ries” Summer Reading Program, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Dr., Freeport, freeportli-brary.com.


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Falmouth survey deadline extended

FALMOUTH — The deadline for resi-dents and business owners to respond to a Comprehensive Plan survey has been extended to June 30.

Copies of the survey are available on the town’s website. Paper copies are available at Town Hall, Falmouth Memo-rial Library, and Hannaford and Shaw’s supermarkets.

Cumberland to display flag for 9/11 victims

CUMBERLAND — The Patriot Flag, a 75-pound, 1,725-square-foot American flag touring the country in honor of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, will be on display next week.

The flag is being shown in all 50 states before arriving at Ground Zero in New York City on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The flag will be displayed from the Cumberland Fire Department’s ladder truck at Moss Side Cemetery, 335 Main St., from 7 a.m. to noon on Thursday, June 23.

Family Fun Day, races Saturday in Freeport

FREEPORT — The 16th Close to the Coast 5K and 10K races are Saturday as part of Winslow Park Family Fun Day.

Race registration is from 7:15 to 8:45 a.m. and costs $15. There will be a 1K Kids Fun Run after the main race and ev-ery participant will get a prize from Wil-bur’s of Maine. Race proceeds support the Freeport Rotary Club Scholarship program. Visit www.freeport-rotary.org for more information or register through active.com.

There will be no entrance fee for Fam-ily Fun Day, which includes food and

Norway Savings Bank branch moves

FALMOUTH — A new Norway Sav-ings Bank office opened Monday at 266 Route 1, next door to the Foreside Tavern.

The bank branch moved from 240 Route 1, in the Shops at Falmouth Vil-lage, down the street to a free-standing building. The new bank has a “hybrid branch” design, which is a more open environment with “service stations” for customers to use, rather than the tradi-tional teller model.

News briefsrefreshments, ice cream, games, swim-ming, arts and crafts and a bounce house. Camping is available for those who want to stay the night.

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as many as 6,500 absentee ballots in a big election, City Clerk Sue Mooney said she would also welcome restrictions on that type of voting – even if it was just a single business day – to give her office more time to prepare for Election Day.

“If (voters are) around the day before the election, (they) should be able to get to the polls on Election Day,” she said.

As for same-day registration, Mooney said she didn’t see a need for a ban. But she did note that over the last few years, political parties performed “significant” outreach to citizens emphasizing the right to register on Election Day. It would be better, Mooney said, if the parties helped people to do so earlier.

“Rather than telling everybody, ‛oh, don’t worry about it, you can go and you can register to vote on Election Day,’ it should be in the opposite, that people are encouraged to make their change of

address, or register to vote, before the election, and then come down and vote on Election Day,” she said.

While Mooney said she’d like to see same-day registration preserved for the benefit of those who “get behind the eight-ball,” Bath City Clerk Mary White wants to hold her residents to a higher standard, and she said she would support elimination of same-day registration.

“You have to pay your registration on your car, you have insurances, you have all this stuff,” White said. “You know that

an election is coming up, you need to be more responsible.”

White said she keeps her office open on Saturdays prior to elections, so that residents can come in and fill out neces-sary paperwork. But, she said, Bath still averages 250 new or changed registrations each year, out of a total of 6,000 voters.

And because some of those people neglect to bring identification, or proof of residency, White occasionally has to challenge ballots, which grinds voting to a halt.

said Tuesday night that “we’re really thankful that the citizens got out to vote, and it really was truly about commercial land extraction, and everybody else’s property rights are still in place. ... I think this really secures the future of the resi-dential neighborhoods in Cumberland.”

Town Manager Bill Shane said Tues-day that the ban would go into effect immediately.

The Town Council enacted a 180-day moratorium on new applications for gravel pits and water extraction sites last November. In March it extended that moratorium to June 28.

The Planning Board had in part


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and 903 votes, re-spectively.

William Lunt III of Falmouth, incumbent for the Portland Wa-ter District Board of Trustees, ran uncon-tested and received 1,148 votes.

The gravel extraction referendum was triggered by a petition drive by a citizens group, the Cumberland Environmental Action Network.

West Cumberland resident Teri Malo-ney-Kelly, the founder of the network,

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reviewed a Town Council ordinance subcommittee proposal that the town continue to permit gravel extraction, but only through contract zoning. But the ban takes precedence.

The moratorium was enacted after Elvin Copp and his son, Randy Copp, expressed interest in a gravel pit and water extraction site on land Elvin owns off Upper Methodist Road, which borders the Maine Turnpike and the Falmouth town line.

They later decided not to apply for a permit until after a town review, but not before clear-cutting and earth removal occurred on the site without town per-mits, according to Shane.

A stop work order was issued last fall after allegations were made concerning

the activities, and Cumberland notified DEP of the matter. Shane said in Febru-ary that the Copps are working with DEP on a mitigation plan.

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

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the sale of property behind the school buildings and the existing library build-ing on 5 Lunt Road, as well as a $1.25 million fundraising effort by the library Board of Trustees.

The town would have also contributed $1.5 million from its undesignated fund balance, or “rainy day fund.”

“There was no mandate there,” said Councilor Teresa Pierce, who won re-

election Tuesday night and had supported Question 1. “It was a hard-fought cam-paign. And it was close.”

The buildings will be vacated by the School Department this summer, as a new elementary school on Woodville Road is prepared to open. It will be up to the council to decide the fate of the buildings.

The $26.2 million school budget passed Tuesday night by a more than 2-to-1 margin, 2,622 to 1,002. The budget includes a tax increase of 6.3 percent.

Question 3 asked voters to approve a bond of up to $1.2 million for a new wood chip boiler for the middle school, which currently uses two aging oil fur-naces for heat.

In addition to the bond, the nearly $2 million project would be paid for by a $500,000 grant from the Maine Forest Service and funds from the School De-partment’s capital improvement fund.

That question passed 2,652 to 979.Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @

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“I’m very honored and excited to be back for the next three years,” Pierce said. “It was an exciting race. And thanks to everyone for their support.”

She will be joined by business owner Chris Orestis, who was elected with 1,953 votes.

“I’m really pleased voters responded to the positive message and optimistic outlook we discussed in our campaign,” Orestis said. “I’m looking forward to working with all sides to achieve what’s best for the town.”

Patricia Kirby and Jonathan Berry were defeated; they received 1,555 votes and 1,043 votes, respectively.

Voters also elected one incumbent and two new members to the School Board.

Analiese Larson, the current chair-woman of the Finance Committee, was re-elected with 2,035 votes.

“I’m humbled,” said Larson, who received the highest number of votes. “I’m deeply appreciative to continue to

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be able to drive to get the best results for the children of Falmouth. The voters have spoken.”

Lucy Tucker and Jan Andrews were also elected, with 1,866 and 1,303 votes, respectively.

“I’m very excited,” Tucker said. “This has been an interesting experience. I’m really excited to get down to business and excited to be there for Falmouth in a new way.”

Eydie Pryzant was only four votes shy of a tie with Andrews, receiving 1,299 votes. Karyl Hazard received 1,195 votes.

Michael Doyle, a frequent and outspo-ken critic of the School Board, was not

elected after receiv-ing 909 votes.

“Win or lose, it was a great experi-ence,” Doyle said. “My deep apprecia-tion to all my sup-porters, both voters and financially.”

Andrews could not be reached for com-ment Tuesday night.

William Lunt III, incumbent for the Portland Water District Board of Trustees representing Falmouth and Cumberland, ran uncontested and received 1,148 votes.

Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @

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N. Yarmouthfrom page 3

She noted that North Yarmouth’s fee for next year would only be 6 percent of the total parks cost.

Diffin said the extra $20,000 would add 5 cents to next year’s municipal tax rate, increasing it from $12.52 per $1,000 of property valuation to $12.57.

Other warrant itemsAlso at Town Meeting, residents will

vote on a $3.5 million municipal budget for fiscal 2012. Nearly $906,000 would come from taxes – a 7.44 percent in-crease over the current year. The increase

would hike the municipal tax rate from $12.45 per $1,000 of property valuation to $12.52, unless the additional money to Cumberland is included.

A $1 million bond is factored into next year’s spending plan. The resurfacing and partial reconstruction of Mill Road would use $900,000 of that bond, and the rest would go toward the balance of the $350,000 expense of a replacement fire truck.

Also proposed is about $160,000 to resurface all of Mountfort Road.

Another warrant item is an ordinance to create an official Fire Department.

“Right now the town has never offi-

cially created a Fire Department,” Diffin said, noting that the town has used the fire and rescue services of the existing fire company, and has paid fire company members as if they are town employees.

The fire company is an entity indepen-dent of the town, Diffin explained. State law requires the Board of Selectmen to appoint a fire chief, and in the past it has appointed the person chosen by the company, she said.

Establishing the department is “really just declaring what (the town has) actu-ally been doing, and not changing it in midstream.”

North Yarmouth should save nearly

$80,000 next year when solid waste and recyclables are picked up by one truck instead of two. The town could also save about $15,000 by closing Town Hall on Fridays. Two full-time employees and one part-timer would have reduced hours.

The budget also includes $19,000 to pay for a 20-hour position to assist in areas like paperwork, training, scheduling and ambulance inventories. An increase of almost $7,000 for fire and rescue gear, and an additional $20,000 for narrow-band radios to comply with a federal mandate, are also proposed.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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shuttered this fall. But he is confident that two of the center’s signature programs will continue: The Unity Project, which works to discourage bullying in schools, and the New Migration Project, which fights bias and discrimination against immigrants.

Those programs, especially the Unity Project, have not only been successful in Maine, but in 26 other states and eastern

Europe. Wessler said the Unity Project has at one time or another been implemented in 80 to 90 schools, including 12 schools in Northern Ireland.

Although he is stepping down from the center, Wessler, who will turn 60, this sum-mer, said he does not pine for a tranquil retirement.

He plans to write at least one more book (Wessler previously authored “The Respect-ful School: How Educators and Students Can Conquer Hate and Harassment”) and

continue teaching courses at the University of Southern Maine and Bates College.

He also plans to continue lecturing at conferences and training human rights workers, which has taken him to Israel, Pal-estine, Cairo, Jordan, and Morocco, among other places.

Wessler said he is disappointed the cen-ter will close and a group of hardworking people will lose their jobs.

“That’s been among the hardest part,” he said. “My overwhelming emotion is feeling

sad – for the employees and for the loss of the work.”

But he takes pride in knowing that the aim of the center’s work will continue in one form or another, whether by other nonprofit groups or through his writing and speaking events.

“It’s really gratifying,” he said. “We have a model we know can travel.”

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Freeportfrom page 1


Freeport and the two other towns.The $23.9 million school budget was

approved 1,289 to 898. Voters in Pownal and Durham rejected the spending plan by 513 votes, but Freeport’s overwhelm-ing support of the budget pushed it through.

Pownal voted against the budget 204-134; voters in Durham rejected it 309-214; and Freeport voted in favor, 941-385.

The referendum to borrow for an eight-lane track, artificial turf field, lights, bleachers, press box and conces-sions area at Freeport High School was rejected 1,350 to 884.

Voters in Pownal voted against the pro-posal 273-74; voters in Durham rejected it 431-102, and Freeport residents voted in favor of the project 708-646.

The referendums attracted about 21 percent of registered voters in the three towns. Unofficial results on Tuesday night revealed about 22 percent of reg-istered voters cast ballots in Freeport, 28 percent came out in Pownal and about 17 percent participated in Durham.

The $23.9 million budget will increase taxes for residents in all three towns.

In Pownal, residents will pay $5,400 in new taxes, a 0.33 percent increase. Durham residents will face a $44,400 tax hike, or 1.45 percent. And Freeport residents will pay an additional $170,900, an increase of 1.30 percent.

Superintendent of Schools Shannon Welsh said she is very pleased that the budget was approved.

“It is a fiscally responsible budget that will ensure a strong economic program for our students,” Welsh said.

While the the total budget referendum passed by about 400 votes, Welsh said

the campus complex was voted down by about the same amount.

She speculated that the economic cli-mate may have been a factor in the vote on the athletics complex.

“Although it appears the economy is recovering, people are not as confident about the financial environment as we hoped,” Welsh said.

She said the $56,000 put aside for the first interest payment on the $3 mil-lion, 15-year bond would remain in a contingency fund and could be used for emergency purposes or when the RSU 5 School Board deems it necessary.

“In presenting the plan, we heard it was a great concept, but people are concerned about the economic times,” she said. “We need to address the field issues at the high school, but the residents told us this is not the economic time to make those improvements.”

Durham resident Maryhelen Rice said

she did not support the athletics complex, and called the increase in taxes “awful.” She said residents in Durham feel like a minority in the RSU 5 district.

“It’s about time we said no to the children,” she said. “Kids don’t need all of this.”

Craig Sickels, athletic administrator for RSU 5, called the vote disheartening. He said he is unsure how to proceed.

“I think the fundraising committee will have to regroup,” Sickels said. “(Nearly $3 million) is a lot to raise on our own and I’m not sure if there is any energy or motivation to do that at this point.”


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happens in the outside world to interfere with our students and their world-class education.”

Ogilby said teachers have held off on public action all year because they didn’t want to hurt the negotiation process or the learning environment. But, now that the school year is winding down, they are ready to tell the community about the lack of a contract and different pay scales.

Negotiations are being handled with a state mediator, he said. The teacher’s union has representation from the Maine Educa-tion Association and the School Board has a representative from it’s law firm.

At the budget meeting, John Patterson of Freeport said he was shocked to learn that the teachers have been working without a

contract. He called it appalling and said Tuesday’s referendum on athletic facilities showed a “misplaced set of priorities.”

“To have a referendum to vote on a $3 million track with lighting is extremely troubling,” he said. “(Teachers) deserve a contract, it is shameful we don’t have one and I find it shameful what you pay them.”

Superintendent Shannon Welsh said RSU 5 teachers were offered a 1.7 per-cent wage increase in December, but they refused.

She said when the three communities consolidated, Durham and Freeport needed a one-year contract extension to align with Pownal. Work began on the contracts in February 2010, but by December it became apparent that working through the contract language would take more time. Freeport’s contract alone is about 63 pages, she said.

“We are working to bring all three (dis-tricts) together under one RSU 5 contract,”

Welsh said. “Despite everyone’s best ef-forts, it’s a time-consuming process.”

Ogilby said the offer of a 1.7 percent wage increase in December was rejected because it didn’t help to bring Pownal and Durham teachers together as part of the RSU.

“We really felt it was our job as a team, teachers and board, to start working toward one contract,” he said. “It felt disingenuous to us that the Freeport teachers would ac-cept something that would have been fine ... but it didn’t feel good to us to lock in our colleagues at their lower salaries.”

Ultimately, Ogilby and Drolet said they don’t want to start with new contracts, but favor working with existing contracts to fit the needs of all three communities. They also said they want the School Board to make teacher contracts a higher priority.

“We’ve come to agreements in the past and we don’t mind tweaking (the con-

tracts), but a fresh start is scary for us at times,” Drolet said. “We just need to have the tools, and a solid contract supporting the teachers is a great tool.”

Nelson Larkins, chairman of the School Board, said working to develop contract language has been time consuming. He said the people involved in the process have other jobs, and scheduling and at-tending meetings can often be a challenge.

There is no deadline for a contract, but Larkins said he is confident work will continue through the summer.

“The board, as much as the teachers, wants it done,” he said. “We are balanc-ing everything, trying to make it fair for the teachers in the three communities and working to ensure everything is in the best interest of the students.”


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