The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, December 10, 2010

December 10, 2010 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 6, No. 50

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Downtown Bath holds ‘Old-Fashioned Christmas’ Page 5

Public gets more time to talk in Harpswell meetingsPage 2

Index Meetings ........................15Obituaries ......................10Opinion ............................7Out & About ...................14

People & Business ........12Police Beat .................... 11Real Estate ....................23Sports ............................13

Arts Calendar ................15Classifieds .....................17Community Calendar .....15

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Brunswick police station committee takes shapeBy Stephanie Grinnell

BRUNSWICK — Councilors on Monday added five residents to the police station subcom-mittee.

Councilor Benet Pols, chair-man of the appointments sub-committee, said three candi-dates were unanimously recom-mended and two others were recommended by votes of 2-1. Following the appointments subcommittee nominations, the floor was opened to allow additional nominations from councilors.

There were 13 applicants for the panel who were screened by Councilors Suzan Wilson, John Perreault and Pols.

Wilson said the number of applicants was “an embarrass-ment of riches.” She said all the applicants were well-qualified and the five chosen by the ap-pointments subcomittee would represent “a variety and diver-sity of skill sets.”

Pols noted appointments have to be made by the entire Town Council, not the appointments subcommittee. He commended the applicants for meeting the short application schedule as well as committing to weekly meetings for at least three months. Two applicants with-drew due to the time commit-ment, he said.

Three candidates were unani-mously approved by the council: McKeen Street resident Sarah Brayman, Cumberland Street

Councilors again endorse Brown for MRRA boardBy Stephanie Grinnell

BRUNSWICK — Town councilors unanimously urged Gov.-elect Paul LePage to ap-point Town Manager Gary Brown to the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority board of directors.

“I support this fully,” Coun-cilor Margo Knight said, add-

ing she is often approached by members of the public who say Brown should be on the MRRA.

“I’ve heard, ‘He’s isn’t on there?’” Council Chairman Joanne King said. “There have been so many transitional fig-ures and there needs to be sta-bility. The manager is the one that has a lot of the answers to

questions being asked.”Councilor Gerald Favreau

said continuity was lost when Brown, who previously served while he was the assistant town manager, was not renominated to the board last year by Gov. John Baldacci.

“We need him back on the board as soon as possible,” Fa-

vreau said.Responding to a letter from

a resident expressing concern Brown’s municipal duties may suffer if he is appointed to MRRA, council Vice Chairman Deborah Atwood said Bruns-wick Naval Air Station is part

Athletes of the Year2010: The best of Fall high School sportsPage 13

Brunswick school redistricting set, new start times delayedBy Stephanie Grinnell

BRUNSWICK — The School Board Wednesday unanimously approved a redistricting plan characterized by Superintendent Paul Perzanoski as the “East/West split.”

A decision about changing start times at each school was tabled pending further research by the board.

The district lines use Mere Point Road and Maine Street as boundaries between Coffin

and Jordan Acres elementary schools, effective July 1, 2011 for incoming kindergarten stu-dents. Current kindergarten and first-grade students will be “grandfathered” at the schools they attended this school year.

Several streets will be in-cluded in the Coffin district, in-cluding South, Coffin, Bowdoin, Berry and Whittier streets; an adjacent portion of Maine Street within walking distance of Cof-fin School; Longfellow Avenue,

Grove Street Extension, Atwood Land and the adjacent portion of Park Row.

A motion to include Meadow-brook Road in the Coffin district

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Public gets more time to talk in Harpswell meetingsBy Stephanie Grinnell

HARPSWELL — The Board of Se-lectmen approved changes to the public participation rules for the fourth time this year, adding an additional comment period of up to 15 minutes per person at the end of each meeting.

Speakers previously were loosely lim-ited to five-minute speaking times near the beginning of each meeting.

“This is the fourth change this year. A lot of the ideas are good but amending it is creating confusion,” resident Matthew

Rich said in last week’s meeting.He suggested including a time at the

beginning of the meeting to allow com-munity announcements and a separate time at the end of the meeting for public comment.

Resident Ann Standridge said a lot can be said in five minutes and suggested a comment period at the end of the meeting to allow town business to be completed first.

Selectman Elinor Multer said originally she suggested the comment period be at

the start of the meeting so people could speak and not “have to sit through the whole meeting.”

Multer said “for very selfish reasons” she is not in favor of unlimited time for public comments. “How much public comment should the board be expected to hear?” she said.

Chairman James Henderson suggested a five-minute comment period at the start of the meeting as well as a comment period at the end of the meeting to allow longer speaking times.

“I suspect there won’t be that many (speaking at the end of the meeting),” he said.

Multer said five minutes is enough.“I don’t know any other public body

that allows unlimited time,” she said, adding some meetings do not allow pub-lic comment of any kind. “By allowing five minutes and reading what they give us, we are doing all we are expected to do.”

Resident Elizabeth Davis said it is important people know selectmen are

willing to listen.“People could get the feeling it’s tire-

some and boring to listen to what they have to say,” she said.

Selectman Mark Wallace said people who wish to speak longer can request an item be added to the agenda, then select-men and the public “can talk all we want about it.”

“I don’t mind tinkering with it until we get it right,” Henderson said of the repeated changes to the rule.

He said if there are a large number of people addressing a particular topic for more than five minutes, “clearly there’s an issue” requiring discussion. Multer requested a limit to the number of speak-ers allowed at the end of the meeting or setting a specific block of time aside that could not be exceeded.

“The mind cannot absorb more than the seat can endure,” she said.

The rule was amended 2-1 to allow a comment period of up to 15 minutes per person at the end of regular council meet-ings, with no limit on time or number of speakers.

“It basically leaves a place for longer-winded people at the end of the meeting,” Henderson said.

The change was approved by Hender-son and Wallace. Multer was opposed.Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123

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Bath councilors reject proposal for twice-monthly meetingsBy Alex Lear

BATH — After weighing the idea of holding two regular meetings a month, the City Council chose last week to stick with one.

The order to hold the regular meeting the first Wednesday of each month was part of the council’s Dec. 1 consent agenda. Consent agendas are comprised of routine matters that tend not to require debate.

But Councilor Sean Paulhus asked that the order be removed from the consent agenda and discussed on its own, to broach the idea of two regular monthly meetings.

When the council only meets once a month, he said, “it doesn’t always work ... because you don’t get to talk and discuss issues quite as easily. I know many other towns and communities across the state that do at least two regular meetings.”

Councilor Andrew Winglass called the matter one of semantics, saying that while the council has its one regular monthly meeting, it can hold as many meetings as councilors desire.

City Solicitor Roger Therriault said the City Charter requires the council to estab-lish a place and time for its regular meet-

ings. But he noted that if another session is required in a given month, the council chairman can call a special meeting. The council also holds workshops for discussion without decision-making votes.

“I can remember … an era when the council met every Wednesday night, on and on forever,” Therriault said. “Fortunately things have changed over the years.”

He pointed out that the problem with des-ignating a second regular monthly meeting is that the council would have to meet, even if it had no business to conduct.

Councilor David Sinclair said he agreed with Paulhus “that there’s at least enough business that we can be addressing, that we might want to consider having two regular meetings each month. ... I think it would be good for us to actually agree, as a council, that we would meet more than once each month.”

Town Manager Bill Giroux said he has staff that would embrace two meetings a month, “because we have to do a lot of thinking ahead.”

He referred to ordinances that need two readings and contracts that need to be au-thorized by the council. But he reflected Therriault’s point, noting that the council can schedule a second monthly meeting without having to make it a mandated monthly occurrence.

Councilor James Omo said he has rarely seen meetings run past three hours, and that on occasion they have lasted only 15 minutes.

“I’m inclined to go along with what we’ve seen historically,” he said. “I don’t think anybody (has) outright said, ‘no, I’m not going to have a second meeting, be-cause I have to go play golf’ or whatever it might be. It seems like we are here for the city, and when it’s needed, we step up to it.”

Councilors ultimately voted unanimously to continue with one monthly meeting.

Alex Lear can be reached at 373-9060 ext. 113 or [email protected].

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BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust is 25 years old and on the verge of a major capital campaign.

President Tom Settlemire said the organization began in 1985 with six members who wanted to preserve a meadow. In the past quarter century, membership has grown to 914 families.

The goal of the organization is to conserve “areas that are just too beauti-ful and important for us to lose,” Set-tlemire said. He said not every property is automatically accepted, and there are guidelines for conservation.

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Town acknowledges Longfellow talks with Bowdoin CollegeBy Stephanie Grinnell

BRUNSWICK — Town Manager Gary Brown announced what he called “the second worst-kept secret in Bruns-wick” Monday night: the town and Bowdoin College are discussing the sale or trade of Longfellow School.

A letter from college Treasurer S. Catherine Longley, included in the Town Council’s information packet, suggests a price of $2 million for the elementary school, which is scheduled to be closed in 2011. The college would make an initial $1 million payment

followed by two annual $500,000 pay-ments.

Longley said there is the possibil-ity the building could be remodeled or demolished, subject to normal town ap-provals. The property should be zoned to allow uses beyond residence halls prior to the transfer, she said, with all asbestos and hazardous materials abated.

A “less attractive” option for the col-lege, Longley said, is a possible no-cost building exchange. Longfellow would be accepted by Bowdoin and in turn,

the town would receive the college’s McLellan property at 85 Union St.

If the town chooses the transfer op-tion, it will not take place until 2014 and the college wants use of the third floor at no charge through 2019.

Longley said the town will receive “value in excess of the appraisal of the Longfellow School” and property.

“I anticipate the council will discuss this in great detail next year,” Brown said Monday.

Brown and college officials have been

discussing the future of Longfellow for about a year, according to the letter. Any agreement between the town and college must be approved by the col-lege board of trustees as well as the council.

Councilors did not discuss the issue Monday night or schedule a meeting for further discussion.

Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected].

purchased, but the land trust “primar-ily buys easements,” Settlemire said. An easement allows the land trust to hold and manage development rights, he said.

During the past 25 years, the land trust has purchased six properties. The total amount of land either purchased or with easements held by the land trust is close to 1,600 acres and includes islands, he said. There are 17 miles of public trails that are open year-round.

Settlemire said the trust hopes to reach 1,000 memberships next year and is in the process of becoming a nationally certified land trust. He said a capital campaign will be announced in the spring to raise between $1 million

and $2 million for future projects.

The trust has already raised more than $7 million through “membership, grants, hard work and dedication,” Set-tlemire said. There is one full-time staff member.

One well-known property owned by the trust is the 320-acre Crystal Spring Farm, which is leased and operated as a working farm. During the summer, there is a camp for children and the property is used for one of the largest farmers’ markets in the state.

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“It’s not just conserving,” Settlemire said of the land trust goals. “There are more opportunites in front of us ... more on the table than complete.”

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Downtown Bath holds ‘Old-Fashioned Christmas’By Alex Lear

BATH — “An Old-Fashioned Christmas in Bath,” hosted by Main Street Bath, includes a large variety of events through New Year’s Eve to encourage people to celebrate and shop downtown.

Jennifer Geiger, director of Main Street Bath, said Monday that the old-fashioned element is a warm and cheerful hometown feel.

“Keeping it not hectic, not generic, but fun,” she said. “... We try to do a stress-free Christmas.”

People can sing Christmas carols aboard a trolley the next two Fridays, Dec. 10 and 17. The activity will run from 6-8 p.m., and

By Alex LearTOPSHAM — The design of the town’s

portion of the Androscoggin Riverwalk will be the focus of a public meeting on Monday, Dec. 13.

The project will run from the northern end of the Androscoggin Pedestrian Swing-ing Bridge to the Summer Street sidewalk. It will ultimately allow safe access from the Swinging Bridge to Main Street, and across the Androscoggin River and into Brunswick via the Frank J. Wood Bridge, also known as the “Green Bridge.”

A future section in Brunswick would link the two bridges.

carolers will be picked up at City Hall every half hour. Admission is free.

Downtown businesses, banks and res-taurants will stay open late during an open house Friday, Dec. 17, that will run from 5-8 p.m. Gifts, holiday music and refresh-ments will be available to shoppers while a downtown Christmas decorating contest takes place.

Throughout the month children and adults can bring new and unwrapped gifts or toys to “Santa bags” located in the lob-bies of the Patten Free Library, Bath City Hall and the Bath Area Family YMCA. The donations will be distributed Monday, Dec. 20, at the Bath Soup Kitchen’s holiday

party at First Baptist Church of Bath.Children and adults who want to write

to Santa or to area seniors can drop those letters in red boxes throughout downtown.

The holiday events will culminate New Year’s Eve with the ninth annual Paul Re-vere bell ringing ceremony at noon. Party hats and noisemakers are encouraged, and singing and a brief ceremony will precede the ringing of the historic bell. Refresh-ments will be served in the City Hall auditorium.

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The Board of Selectmen in October awarded a $12,000 contract to the Wright-Pierce engineering firm for design work on Topsham’s portion of the Riverwalk. The panel also authorized Town Manager Jim Ashe to sign an agreement with the Maine Department of Transportation to start the design phase, which is to be followed by construction next spring or summer.

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Debate intensifies over Bradbury-Pineland corridorBy Emily Parkhurst

POWNAL — The debate over a Brad-bury-Pineland trail is heating up as the mid-December deadline approaches for the state Bureau of Parks and Lands’ final draft of a management plan for the corridor.

While a mountain bike organization is pushing for extended loop trails that con-nect to the main corridor trail, other groups, including the Pownal Board of Selectmen, want the state to install only the connector and preserve the rest of the area.

“We’ve fought hard to keep it to just a single track trail,” Selectman Tim Giddinge said. “We want this to be available to a large group of people.”

Giddinge, whose property abuts the

Bradbury-Pineland corridor, said the instal-lation of several mountain bike trails would disturb more traditional uses of the area, such as hunting.

“There are already illegally constructed trails there,” Giddinge said.

The Friends of Bradbury Mountain, a mountain biking club that has pushed for loop trails bikers could use on and around Tryon Mountain, has suggested the area could be-come Maine’s answer to Kingdom Trails, a mountain bike trail system in Vermont.

“At the first of the meetings, we talked about that as possibility,” Brian Stearns, a mountain biker who has been pushing the state for a compromise to allow some loop-ing trails within the corridor. “It doesn’t

feel like we’re getting the support for that from the state, though.”

The Board of Selectmen sent a letter this spring to the Bureau of Parks and Lands asking that the mountain bike club’s re-quest for extended trail systems be rejected.

“We ask that you consider preserving this land in a way that does not concentrate the use for one specific group, diminish-ing the natural beauty that generations of Pownal residents have always traditionally enjoyed,” the letter stated.

Jo D. Saffeir, who was hired as a con-sultant by the Bureau of Parks and Lands in 2000 to begin land negotiations with 14 property owners who would eventually sell, grant easements or donate their land to the project, said she believes some of the land owners would be upset by the mountain bike club’s proposal.

“Some of the land owners were really concerned about mountain bikers,” she said. “There are some land owners, who, frankly, are dead now, who would turn over in their graves to see this project taken over like this.”

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would do the same in the new corridor.Narrow trails off the main corridor trail

already exist, Stearns said.“The trails were created temporarily, with

the state’s permission, for a 30-mile mountain bike race course a few years ago,” he said. “They were closed immediately after the race, but people still use them.”

He explained that it was legal to walk or bike around anywhere in the state-owned areas, but that creating regularly used trails is not allowed without state permission.

“It’s a gray area,” Stearns said.Saffeir said when she was negotiating

with land owners, she and the Pownal Land Trust, which has now merged into the Roy-al River Land Trust, pitched the project as a connection between Bradbury State Park and the Pineland trails that would be avail-able for a variety of non-motorized uses.

“It was a very conscious decision to call this the Bradbury-Pineland Corridor project,” Saffeir said. “By creating only a corridor, open space was protected.”

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Maine Democrats, Republicans face defining momentsBy Alan Caron

The conventional wisdom these days is that Demo-crats are in trouble while Republicans are soaring, re-versing roles from just two years ago. Actually, both of Maine’s major parties are at a defining crossroads today, for entirely different reasons. How each responds in the months ahead will shape the state’s future over the next decade and beyond, and go a long way toward deciding the fate of the two-party system here.

It’s easy to see the Democrats’ dilemma in the wake of the widespread losses in the recent elections. While Democratic analysts point to minor tactical mistakes and “spoiler” candidates, the simple truth is that the last election was a wholesale rejection of the policies and priorities of the Democratic Party in Maine.

Depite the good work that Gov. John Baldacci and some more moderate Democrats have done in recent years, during some difficult times, the party is now in disarray, lacking a believable message on the economy and the ideas it needs to reconnect with mainstream inde-pendent voters. The only medicine for Democrats, which they seem reluctant to take, is a period of honest and dif-ficult soul-searching to answer some troubling questions. How did the party of the little guy and of forward-looking ideas become the party of government and the defender of the status quo? When did the party become more concerned with the people who are paid by government than the people who pay for government? When did they begin to confuse adding public employees and passing bond issues with growing the economy?

The danger to Democrats is that they are steadily losing their blue-collar base to Republicans and inde-pendents, along with the trust and confidence of Maine’s working people, and they had better respond before the cement sets. Without blue-collar voters – their core constituency since the Roosevelt administration – Democrats risk becoming little more than a collection of social and environmental interests and comfortable folks along the coast – with insurmountable electoral math problems.

Historic and seismic shifts are underway in the economy, in the resources available for government and in the public’s perception of Democrats, and the party is not keeping pace. This last election was a warning of things to come without a new Democratic direction.

than not, different people.Oppositionist newcomers often find it difficult to

move beyond “us” and “them” and to broaden their base beyond the familiar. They are more inclined to move in the opposite direction to insulate themselves, reward their friends, over-reach, settle scores and assume an air of entitlement rather than humility. This often produces a series of blunders in the early stages of a new admin-istration, as it tries to push the pendulum too far and sets in motion the machinery of its own future defeat.

For the sake of Maine people, we all wish the new administration well. If they succeed in this transition, and the economy improves on their watch, this will be the beginning of a new era of Republican control of state government. If they fail on either count, given the public’s limited patience, they may well find themselves on the outside looking in quicker than we can say “this election is about change.”

Freeport resident Alan Caron is a lifelong Mainer and Democrat, and the founder and president of Envi-sion Maine, a non-partisan independent think tank. He was recently named to the transition team of Gov.-elect Paul LePage and is the author of a just-released report called “Reinventing Maine Government.”

Nineteen percent of voters said yes to Democrats; 81 percent said “no we won’t.”

Before Republicans pop more champagne bottles, though, they should appreciate the thin ice they’re on and reflect on where they were just two short years ago.

The public’s affection for Republicans ideas is no deeper than for Democrats, which is why 62 percent of voters voted for someone other than the Republican nominee for governor. People want ac-tion on a leaner government and a big-ger economy and they don’t much care

who delivers it.The immediate challenge for Republicans is to quick-

ly and effectively transition from the party of opposition to the governing party. History is awash with examples of what happens when parties long out of power sud-denly feel the adrenalin surge of control. Skilled rabble-rousers and habitual outsiders rarely handle power well, and tend to misunderstand the ways in which opposition to government are different than actually creating jobs, constructing budgets, fixing pension problems, manag-ing appropriate regulations or maintaining infrastructure. Those challenges require different skills and, more often



Thanks for putting your name on the lineWith journalism’s relatively recent emphasis on digital

delivery and the 24/7 news cycle, newspaper editors every-where seem to be debating, studying and furrowing their brows over what to do about anonymous reader comments.

In a perfect world, online comments would be concise, civil and always on topic. But in the real world, they’re often offensive, self-indul-gent and meandering. And sometimes they’re just spam.

Editors typically have responded by admonishing posters who violate the rules, censoring repeat offenders and putting up technical barriers to block spammers. Some news organizations require posters to register before they can contribute to discussions. Others review every comment prior to publication. Some have eliminated comments altogether. And some stoke the flames by allowing all-out anonymous commentary without referees.

At theforecaster.net, where our online audience gener-ally tends not to participate in scorched-earth commentary, we’ve taken a middle ground. We require posters to register on the site and we keep an eye on the comments after they are posted. We rely on our readers to police themselves and we only remove comments that are profane, libelous or poorly disguised advertisements. We believe in and

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encourage the open exchange of ideas and opinions, and recognize that publishing on the Web is not the same as publishing in print.

But while the Internet provides unlimited space and easy access, print has restrictions – there’s a finite amount of space in each edition. Website contributors can generally post to their hearts’ content, as frequently as they like and under either their real names or psuedonyms; letter-writers must meet a weekly deadline (noon Monday), provide their names (which we publish) and full addresses and phone numbers (which we don’t), keep their opinions under 250 words and consent to editing. They’re also limited to one letter a month to keep the most zealous contributors from dominating the Opinion pages.

Because of those distinctions – in particular the require-ment that letters be signed – print letters are perhaps seen as more legitimate, and more credible, than anonymous online comments.

But as journalism professor Bill Reader of Ohio Uni-versity pointed out in June at the annual conference of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, and more recently in the American Journalism Review, so-called “must-sign” letters policies became widespread only in the 1950s and 1960s.

“Anonymity isn’t anathema to American democracy; in fact, anonymous speech is exactly what the framers of the First Amendment had in mind,” Reader says. “On a philosophical level, anonymity allowed opinions to be considered on their own merits, without regard for who was stating them; on a practical level, it gave people a way to disagree with leaders without getting beaten and/or thrown in jail.”

Today, Reader argues, anonymity is the “one true cultural equalizer” that gives voice to the voiceless – particularly whistleblowers, women, non-whites, the poor and young adults who more often choose to be silent in the face of “must-sign” policies.

There may be a trade-off with credibility, but I, too, believe anonymity is an equalizer that makes it worth en-during the occasional website spam or rambling, off-topic online comment. And I’m intrigued by the impact anonym-ity could have on our print editions, too.

Does this mean The Forecaster is considering publish-ing anonymous letters in print? Not right away – although I’m waiting to hear from my colleagues Tim and Jeremy Waltner at the Freeman (S.D.) Courier, who for the past half year have been testing a policy that allows letter writers to request that their names be withheld. Every letter to the Courier must still be signed (so that the editors can verify the identity of the writers) and meet other editorial stan-dards, but the Waltners are hoping the availability of public anonymity will stimulate their letters pages and make their newspaper – and their community – better by promoting a more vigorous exchange of ideas.

Should The Forecaster follow the South Dakota ex-ample? Let me know what you think.

In the meantime, with the new year approaching, I’d like to thank all of the readers who this year have followed the rules, met the deadlines, adhered to the word limits, and most of all, put their names and opinions out there for everyone to read:

Susan Adams, South PortlandMrs. Allen’s Class, FreeportJane Anderson, Cape ElizabethCushman D. Anthony, North YarmouthMatt Arrants, FalmouthPenny Asherman, CumberlandDebbie Atwood, BrunswickNewell Augur, BrunswickPaul W. Austin, ScarboroughDr. Alan Avtges, CumberlandKathleen Babeu, CumberlandMary Bakke, North YarmouthRobert Baizley, ScarboroughMr. & Mrs. Philip M. Baker, FalmouthSally Bancroft, CumberlandLeanne Bard, FalmouthCraig Barnes, WoolwichDana Bateman, BrunswickRandall J. Bates, YarmouthVickie C. Bell, CumberlandPatricia Berg, FalmouthHolly Bernstein, FalmouthJudy Berghuis, YarmouthRep. Seth Berry, BowdoinhamSusan Bisbing, CumberlandEliav Bitan, FalmouthSusan Blackburn, CumberlandDorothy Blanchette, FalmouthJulie Blodgett, FalmouthLarry Bliss, South PortlandDick Boardman, ScarboroughDorothy A. Bowe, PortlandChase Boyd, FalmouthJohn Boylston, DresdenJohn Brautigam, FalmouthGayle A. Brazeau, PortlandCathy Breen, FalmouthSteven Brinn & Jody Sataloff,

Cape ElizabethDolores Broberg, South PortlandPope Brock, FalmouthShari Broder, FreeportJeff Brown, North YarmouthMarie C. Brown, FalmouthPatricia M. Brown, YarmouthFelice Bryan, FalmouthTim & Lisa Bryant, FalmouthCatherine Buotte, BathBrad Burns, FalmouthPat Buttner, ScarboroughRalph Cabana, South PortlandZoo Cain, South PortlandBen Campo, North YarmouthMark Carignan, BathLalla Carothers, CumberlandPeter & Janine B. Cary, Cape ElizabethBeppie Cerf, FalmouthMarsha Clark, FalmouthAndy Charles, South PortlandFred Chase, FalmouthLisa Chase, South PortlandRon Chase, TopshamEllen Clancy, South PortlandChad Coffin, FreeportLinda Collins, Cumberland

Deirdre Conroy-Vella, FalmouthJanice Cooper, YarmouthKerry Corthell, ScarboroughKim Corthell, ScarboroughLinda Cote, FalmouthRichard Couch, FalmouthJoseph Couture, Ipswich, Mass.Jonathan Crimmins, BrunswickGary Crosby, South PortlandJoseph R. Crosby, CumberlandJonathan Culley, FalmouthDick Curran, FalmouthStuart & Vickie Curran, CumberlandBob Dale, BrunswickRoger Dammer, FreeportMarian Day, CumberlandRosemarie De Angelis, South PortlandConstance Dayton, FalmouthRalph Dean, FreeportCindy, Mark & Scott Delano, ScarboroughLou Demers, PortlandMarge Merrill Devine, FalmouthBarbara DiBiase, FalmouthMike DiCenso, LincolnAlbert A. DiMillo Jr., South PortlandNancy A. Dix & Stephen P. Thomas,

CumberlandMargaret Donahue, South PortlandWilliam Downes, Cape ElizabethMichael Doyle, FalmouthSeth Dussault, PortlandRep. Jane Eberle, South PortlandSam Eddy, YarmouthAllen Evans, FalmouthRep. Mark Eves, North BerwickKevin Fallen, South PortlandRichard R. Farnsworth, PortlandKatie Fellows, ScarboroughAnnie Finch, FalmouthMayer S. Fistal, FalmouthCapt. Will A. Fitzgerald, BrunswickPauline Flemmings, PhippsburgMike Fletcher, South PortlandGeorge A. Fogg, North YarmouthTom Foley, CumberlandMichael Foley, WestbrookJill Fox, FalmouthGary C. Foster, GrayBeth Franklin, FalmouthCeline T. Frueh, FalmouthRichard Frost, FalmouthSharon Fuerst, YarmouthVincent E. Furey, Jr., FalmouthRudy Gabrielson, YarmouthWhit & Jane Gallagher, YarmouthBill Gardiner, FalmouthJennifer Gardiner, FalmouthAnne. B. Gass, GrayJohn Gerken, YarmouthHeather Giandrea, North YarmouthAlexandra Gildart, South PortlandJane Gildart, YarmouthGordon A. Glover, South FreeportCaroline Goggin, FalmouthRobert Goldman, South Portland

Andrea Goodrich, PownalJerry Gordon, PortlandBetts Gorsky, CumberlandJill Gorneau, South PortlandAnne Graham, North YarmouthMary Graham, WoolwichLew Graves, BrunswickRandy Greason, WindhamBruce Green, BrunswickMarji Greenhut, BrunswickJean & John Gulliver, FalmouthTex Haeuser, South PortlandDarla Hamlin, FalmouthRonald A. Hamlin, North YarmouthBethany Hanley, CumberlandTurner Hansel, North YarmouthChalmers Hardenbergh, YarmouthRonald A. Hart, FalmouthCharly Haversat, FreeportNicole Hawkes, Vineyard Haven, Mass.Dr. Samir & Marisa Haydar,

Cape ElizabethKathy Hayden, FalmouthSamuel Henderson, PortlandPatricia Hendrickson, TopshamRalph Hendrix, ScarboroughBob Heyner, CumberlandEmily Hilburn, FalmouthDaniel Hildreth, FalmouthJohn A. Hobson, FalmouthDan Hogan, South PortlandJudith Hopkins, PownalFred Horch, BrunswickDiane Howe, FalmouthFred Howe, FalmouthAl & Lois Howlett, YarmouthJohn W. Hoy, FreeportSherry Huber, FalmouthThomas J. Hudak, FreeportJim Hughes, South PortlandM. Roberts Hunt, FalmouthAlison Jacoby, South PortlandMarty Jensen, CumberlandRegan Johnson, South PortlandDoug Jones, South PortlandMichel Joncas, PortlandErin O. Jones, South PortlandGeorge O. Jones Jr., South PortlandGrace C. Jones, BathMartin Jones, FreeportBarbara Keefe, FalmouthChris Keiter, South PortlandJustin Keleher, BowdoinThomas H. Kelley, FreeportArne Klepinger, YarmouthHannah Klepinger, YarmouthClaudia King, FalmouthNed Kitchel, FalmouthKaren Klatt, BrunswickKurt & Elizabeth Klebe, FalmouthPete Kledaras, FalmouthPaul Knoll, YarmouthDaniel M. Knowles, FalmouthTed Koffman, FalmouthKeith Kreisher, Yarmouth

Kermit Krueger, Evergreen Park, Ill.Muriel Kruppa, South PortlandHoward Kunin & Annie Dunne,

South PortlandVictoria M. Kurtz, YarmouthMary Lancey, South PortlandJana Lapoint, FalmouthAnaliese Larson, FalmouthMartha Leggat, North YarmouthLois Lengyel, FalmouthCharles F. Leveroni, FalmouthSteven H. Levesque, BrunswickConnie Lewis, HarpswellBob Lezer, FreeportDave Libby, FalmouthKaren Libby, Cumberland CenterNancy Lightbody, FalmouthKelly L’Heureux, FalmouthNancy Lord, BrunswickRobert M. Lord, South PortlandKay Loring, South PortlandHenry Loughlin, FreeportJim & Pam Lowell, FalmouthNancy Lund, FalmouthJulie MacDonald, FalmouthBruce Macmaster, FalmouthJames H. Maier, ScarboroughPatricia Maloney, TopshamMartha Marshall, FalmouthJeff Marstaller, North YarmouthJeff Martin, PortlandMichael K. Martin, CumberlandAndrew T. Mason, TopshamRuss Mathews, FalmouthSally Maynard, Cumberland ForesideJenn & Tom McAdoo, CumberlandEd McCartan, BrunswickMelissa McCrea, PownalLawrence McDonald, South PortlandPeggy McGehee, FalmouthPeter McGrail, YarmouthRobert McIntyre, HarpswellDarren McLellan, Cape ElizabethBill McMahon, FalmouthDenise McSorley, ScarboroughDavid Melville, PortlandMrs. Merrifield’s Fourth Grade Class,

FalmouthLincoln J. Merrill Jr., North YarmouthSteve Mittl, FreeportMerridith, Todd, James, Erin & Quinn

Molloy, CumberlandPeter Monro, PortlandJoanne Moore, BrunswickPeter G. Moore, FalmouthMargi Moran, YarmouthJeffrey Alan Morse, BrunswickKatie A. Murphy, North YarmouthCarolyn Murray, CumberlandDavid R. Murray, FalmouthChristopher Murry Jr., FalmouthJane Neitzel, FalmouthEdward Palm, BathMary P. Nelson, FalmouthDr. Nicholas M. Nelson, Topsham

Miriam Nesset, FalmouthGloria Nicholson, North YarmouthKate Norfleet, ScarboroughJoe O’Donnell, FalmouthRyan O’Connor, BrunswickRichard O’Leary, FalmouthFrank Parker, FreeportDr. Karen L. Olson, CumberlandRichard Olson, FalmouthChris Orestis, FalmouthJordan Ossie, PortlandTimothy Ouellette, ScarboroughFrank Parker, FreeportRachel Parsons, GrayTony Payne, FalmouthMarc Payne, FreedomGeorge Pavloff, South PortlandCarrie Penrose, FalmouthSara Perfetti, CumberlandDave Perkins, North YarmouthJacquelyn A. Perry, ScarboroughKent Peterson, YarmouthJeffrey Piampiano, BrunswickAlex Piper, FreeportLouise Poppema, CumberlandBarbara Powers, FalmouthJames B. Price, South PortlandBecky Pride, FalmouthMary Lou Prieto, FalmouthLeora Rabin, YarmouthDr. John Radebaugh, FalmouthJanet Rathbun, PortlandMel Read, YarmouthNancy & Frank Read, CumberlandGary Reed, FalmouthRod Regier, FreeportJohn Rensenbrink, TopshamTodd Reynolds, North YarmouthMark Richard, FalmouthSybil Riemensnider, South PortlandDolores Rimkunas, FalmouthDawn Roberts, South PortlandBonny Rodden, FalmouthBob Roffler, North YarmouthInes Rogachevsky, South PortlandJen Rohde, CumberlandS. Wyatt Ross, South PortlandJacqueline Rouda, YarmouthNancy Rowe, BostonJudy Roy, ScarboroughJohn Russell, PortlandJohn W. Russell, Old Orchard BeachKen & Barb Ryder, FreeportAnn W. Sanborn, FalmouthLisa Sanford, YarmouthJoy Schaeffer, BrunswickPem Schaeffer, BrunswickJohn A. Scully, ScarboroughPeter Senger, YarmouthTom Shepard, CumberlandBecky Shepherd, BrunswickSuzanne Sherwood, WiscassetJudy Shirk, ScarboroughLeigh Silver, South PortlandWinnie Silverman, Brunswick

Kate Silvers, CumberlandPeter Simmons, BrunswickHeather Sirocki, ScarboroughTed Sirois, SacoRabbi Harry Z. Sky, FalmouthWilliam H. Slavick, PortlandGregory Smith, CumberlandHarry Smith, Cape ElizabethJoe Smith, YarmouthDave Snow, FalmouthLeo Soucek, TopshamSusan Spagnola, Cape ElizabethAaron Splint, FalmouthRose Splint, FalmouthPeter Stanton, South PortlandMary Stowell, FalmouthSvend Strandbygaard, FalmouthThe Rev. Frank C. Strasburger, BrunswickLynda L. Sudlow, FalmouthEmily Swan, BrunswickTeresa Swinbourne, South PortlandAnthony Taylor, BuxtonCatherine Taylor, South PortlandMark Terison, FalmouthAnne Theriault, FalmouthJames Thibodeau, FalmouthKarin Tilberg, AugustaJeff Toorish, North YarmouthKathleen Traynor, FalmouthDavid Treadwell, BrunswickCarolyn Treat, PortlandNancy Triggiani-Musco, FreeportChris Trout, South PortlandJulie Tupper, South PortlandBrian Undlin, ScarboroughTed & Delores Vail, FalmouthFaith Varney, FalmouthPatrick Venne, PortlandDr. John O. Vogt, FalmouthAmy Volk, ScarboroughChantal Walker, FalmouthStephen Walker, FalmouthJim Walsh, Cape ElizabethJill Ward, South PortlandDan Warner, BrunswickWayne Webster, North YarmouthCarole O. Welch, FalmouthBen Weigel, FalmouthJeff Weinstein, YarmouthJohn H. Whatley, TopshamLin White, PownalRachel Horton White, PortlandBruce Wildes, CumberlandIrving Williams, South PortlandBetty & George Willhoite, FalmouthDiane Winn, FreedomAmy Winton, FalmouthDoug Wodhams, Holland Landing,

Ont., CanadaLaurie Wood, North YarmouthMike Wood, ScarboroughRita Yavinsky, CumberlandDennis Yesse, South PortlandJay York, PortlandAndy Young, Cumberland

Mo Mehlsak is editor of The Forecaster. He can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 107 or [email protected]. You can also follow Mo @mmehlsak on Twitter.

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We were all better off when …Rationally, we all know the good old days weren’t.

Still, we tend to look back through rose-colored glasses to what we remember as simpler times.

Despite my best efforts to be forward-thinking and optimistic about the future, every once in awhile it oc-curs to me that we were all better off when ...

... Doctors made house calls. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when a child got sick, parents thought noth-ing of calling the family physician who, depend-ing on the severity of the problem, would show up in the middle of the night with his black bag to minister to the wretched patient. Hard to imagine now, isn’t it? Visit you, even in the hospital? Forget it. We’ve got hospitalists for that. Doctors now are too busy stacking cheese.

... Drug companies couldn’t advertise. Once, prior to 1980, the airways were blessedly free of legal pill pushers peddling pharmaceuticals designed to do everything from making you happy ever after to put-ting lead in your pencil. Now every pathology known to man has a nostrum marketed in TV. No wonder drugs are so over-priced and Americans so over-medicated.

(My favorite parts of the ubiquitous drug ads, how-ever, are the disclaimers. “Don’t take DopeX if you are lactating, salivating, urinating, or may do so in the future. Stop taking DopeX immediately and see your doctor if you notice hair growing on your knuckles or you have thoughts of Kalahari Desert Bushmen.”)

... Lawyers couldn’t advertise either. Until the mid-1970s, attorneys couldn’t advertise on TV. And we wonder why we live in such a litigious society. “If anything bad ever happened to you, call the lawyers

Beem points in the right direction

I had breakfast last week at Governor’s and brought The Forecaster home with me. I read a letter from Jerry Gordon of Portland, in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s previous column. I did not read that column, but my eyes opened wide at Jerry’s rant. Does Jerry regularly read newspapers, watch or listen to the news? Did he not pay any attention to the eight years of Republican “management” of the country? Is he unaware which

administrations deregulated the financial safe-guards, to keep the economy in balance? Whom does he think

inaugurated two wars, fought on a credit card, and be-gan the bailout of unrestrained Wall Street firms? After the bailout, no new safeguards (except a watered-down placebo), and bonuses all around. How can Jerry Gordon take Beem to task for pointing a finger at the Bush-Cheney years?

Joseph CoutureIpswich, Mass.

No sympathy for Beem’s critics

I’ve been thinking about sending this letter for a long time, and now I’m doing it in support of Edgar Allen Beem. I look forward to his columns because most of the time they reflect what I’m also thinking. It’s amazing to me that there are people, like those who are anti-Beem, who have their heads in the sand. If you don’t like what he says, don’t read it, just as I’m not going to read anything by Glen Beck or Sarah Palin. Keep writing, Mr. Beem.

Muriel KruppaSouth Portland

of Howling, Wolf & Downboy. You may be entitled to a pantsload of moolah, and, even if you’re not, we’ll scare the crap out of someone for you with our base-ball bats and boxing gloves.”

... There were only three television stations and they were free. You haven’t lived if you never sat in front of the television watching the test pattern and waiting for the Saturday morning cartoons to come on. And cartoons were only on on Saturday mornings. Less is more. Now some folks get 300-plus channels, but is there really any redeeming social value to being able to watch reruns of “Mayberry RFD” and treatments for morbid obesity 24 hours a day?

... Gas stations had mechanics on duty. Out for a Sunday drive and the family car breaks down? Good luck getting it fixed. Gas stations, gas stations every-where, but not a mechanic in one. If you don’t have AAA, you’re stuck in Mudville. Gas station attendants used to pump your 30-cent-a-gallon gas, wash your windshield and check your oil. Now you pump your $3-a-gallon gas yourself, the clerk wouldn’t know a tie rod end from his rear end, and even air will cost you 75 cents to a dollar. Progress? I don’t think so.

... Everyone had a landline telephone. And every-one was in the phone book, too. Yes, this is one of my recurring complaints – the infuriating lack of cell phone directories. There was a time you could make local calls by looking someone up in the phone book and dialing just five digits. (How many people know that telephone exchanges once had names? Portland’s 77 exchange was SPruce. Westbrook’s 85 exchange was ULster.) If the party were home, they’d answer. If not, not. No answering machines, no voicemail, no text messages, no e-mail, no tweets. Simple.

Come to think of it, those really were the good old days.

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

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Praise for Collins from MRRA

On behalf of the board of trustees of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, I want to commend Sen. Susan Collins for her recent vote against a sweeping amendment that would have not only placed a binding three-year prohibition on congressional earmarks, but also would have eliminated funding next year for important Maine projects already approved by the Senate Appropria-tions Committee.

One of these projects includes funding for a small business incubator and technology innovation center at Brunswick Landing, which represents a significant opportunity for job

creation at the redeveloping Brunswick Naval Air Station.The federal decision to close BNAS has had a dramatic

impact on the Maine economy. The employment decline and related economic dislocations associated with the base closure, combined with the general malaise of the state and national economies, has profoundly affected families, businesses and communities in the Mid-Coast region and throughout Maine. Projects such as the technology innova-

tion center represent a “light at the end of the tunnel” for job creation opportunities at BNAS, which are critical to Maine’s and the nation’s economic recovery.

Collins has once again demonstrated solid leadership in Congress in support of Maine’s businesses and families.

Steven H. Levesque, executive directorMRRA

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She graduated from Bliss College in 1937 with an administra-tive secretarial de-gree, and worked as an secretary and bookkeeper at Cowen Mill in Lewiston.

In July 1939, she married Albert E. “Pete” Pearl, and had two children to-gether, Susan and Douglas. They enjoyed taking vacations at Moosehead Lake and fishing.

When her children were older, she worked at Washburn Elementary School in Auburn, where she especially en-

joyed helping children.On May 9, 1964, her husband Pete died

unexpectedly.She later reconnected with her high

school boyfriend, Donald A. “Don” Osgood, and they were married on Dec. 27, 1965, in St. Petersburg, Fla., where they enjoyed life to the fullest, golfing as much as possible.

After Don’s death in April 1998, she moved back to Maine, and lived with her daughter, Susan, and her husband, Tim, in Brunswick.

She cherished her visits to Five Islands to see her son, Douglas, his wife, Carol, and their family.

She was an active member of the First Congregational Church, UCC, of Durham.

The family wishes to extend special thanks to all the staff at Winship Green for the excellent care she was given.

Survivors are her daughter, Susan Taylor and her husband, Timothy of Brunswick, and her son, Douglas Pearl and his wife Carol of Five Islands; three grandsons, Jeffrey, Kevin and Ryan

Pearl; a great-grandson, Nathan Pearl; and two stepsons, Tracy Pearl and his wife Teena, and David Osgood and his wife Nancy, all of Massachusetts; two nieces, Donna Michaud and her husband George, and Diane Markowski, and two nephews, Thomas and Linda Pearl, and Gregory Foster and his wife Cindy.

A memorial service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, at the First Congregational Church, UCC, in Durham.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Congregational Church, UCC, 773 Royalsborough Road, Durham, ME 04222.

Arrangements by Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.

Condolences can be expressed online at brackettfuneralhome.com.

Horace L. ‘Buddy’ Lubee, Jr., 80TOPSHAM — Horace L. “Buddy”

Lubee, Jr., 80, died Monday, Dec. 6, at home.

Born in Portland, Sept. 24, 1930, he was the son of Horace L. Lubee, Sr and Mabel Madison Lubee.

After he graduated from Brunswick High School, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.

For many years he was a self-employed painter and car-penter.

He was married to Mamie York Lubee until her death on Sept. 21, 2004.

On Aug. 25, 2005, he married Irene V. Reil in Topsham.

An avid dancer who enjoyed boating, he also was a member of the Brunswick Lodge of Elks, American Legion Post 202, Topsham and the VFW.

He was predeceased by his first wife,

Mamie, and later by a daughter, Sandra Lee Hughes Nappi on Feb. 2, 2007.

Survivors are his wife, Irene, of Topsham; two daughters, Rose Marie Wyman and Bonnie Lubee Bergeron, both of Topsham; two sisters, Patricia Wilson of California and Barbara Tucker of Florida; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services were held earlier this week.

Arrangements are by Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.

A tribute of his life may be viewed at brackettfuneralhome.com.

Raymond W. Bachand, 88BRUNSWICK — Raymond W.

Bachand, 88, died Wednesday, Dec. 1, at Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

On April 29, 1922, he was born in San-ford, a son of Joseph and Malvina Roussin Bachand, and was educated in Sanford schools.

During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy, where he earned the nickname “Whiskers,” from his shipmates.

On Jan. 29, 1953, he married Florence Bouthot.

Over the years he worked in construc-tion for local companies before working at Bath Iron Works for 20 years until retiring in 1985.

He enjoyed gardening and bicycling. He is survived by his wife Florence

Bachand of Brunswick; a brother, Robert Bachand, of South Portland; and many nieces and nephews.

Memorial services were held last weekend.

Arrangements are by Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.


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BrunswickArrests

11/30 at 11:35 p.m. Tyler S. Matias, 21, of Harpswell, was arrested by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphenalia following a motor vehicle stop near Harpswell Place and Hambleton Avenue.12/1 at 10:59 a.m. Haven John Willis, 36, of Cushing Street, was arrested by Sgt. Lynne Doucette on Cushing Street on charges of domestic violence assault and obstructing the report of a crime.12/2 at 9:24 a.m. Diana L. Dickinson, 34, of Merrymeeting Road, was arrested by Officer Gretchen Paxton on Merrymeeting Road on a charge of aggravated assault.12/3 at 11:14 p.m. Matthew R. Defio, 21, of Jordan Avenue, was arrested by Officer Brandon Ingahrro on charges of possession of marijuana and unlawful possessson of a scheduled drug following a motor vehicle stop on Union Street.12/5 at 1:02 p.m. Kristina M. Guimond, 24, of Sabbatus, was arrested by Officer Justin Dolci at Walmart on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

summonses12/6 at 6:31 p.m. Lloyd N. Bailey, 53, of Pleasant Street, was issued a summons by Officer Kristian Oberg at the Park and Ride on Cedar Street on a charge of trespassing on railroad property.

Fire calls 12/2 at 7:30 p.m. Disabled motor vehicle on Harpswell Road.12/3/ at 10:32 a.m. Miscellanious complaint on Katherine Street.

EMsBrunswick emergency services responded to 39 calls for service from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7.

HArpswEllArrests

12/2 at 11:26 a.m. Wendell Wessey Cressey, 26, of Harpswell Island Road, was arrested by a Cumberland County Sheriff to hold for another agency.

summonsesThere were no summonses reported from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7.

TopsHAMArrests

12/2 at 11:29 p.m. Wayne Brackett, 49, of Bowdoinham, was arrested by Sgt. Fred Dunn on a charge of operating under the influence.

12/4 at 7:42 p.m. Edmund Hanna, 69, of Pine-wood Drive, was arrested by Sgt. Mark Gilliam on a charge of operating under the influence.

summonses12/3 at 11:33 p.m. Russell Riendeau, 19, of Middlesex Road, was issued a summons by Officer Peter Kaminski on a charge of operating after suspension.

Fire calls and EMsFire and rescue information from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 was not provided before press time.

BATHArrests

11/28 at 1:45 a.m. Joshua Woodd, 21, of River Road, Woolwich, was arrested by Cpl. Marc Brunelle on a charge of operating under the influence.12/2 at 10:30 p.m. Joseph Smith, 41, of High-land Street, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Ted Raedel.12/2 at 3:30 p.m. Robert Holmes, 51, of Bumpy Hill Road, was arrested by Sgt. Dan Couture on a charge of domestic violence assault.12/4 at 1:08 a.m. David Jacobs, 22, of Phipps-burg, was arrested by Officer Ted Raedel on a charge of operating under the influence and issued a summons on a charge of sale or use of drug paraphernalia.12/5 at 9 p.m. Leann Miller, 19, of Barque Road, was arrested on a charge of violation of condition of release.

summonses11/30 Christopher Sweeney, 21, of Berry’s Mill Road, West Bath, was issued a summons on a charge of unlawful use of license.12/3 Michael Freeman, 33, of Windjammer Way, was issued a summons by Officer Jason Aucoin on a charge of theft.12/3 Conor Fahey, 18, of High Street, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on a charge of operating without a license.12/4 Lorraine Wing, 51, of Lincoln Street, was issued a summons by Officer Jason Aucoin on a charge of theft.

Egg-ression12/5 at 7:04 p.m. Police responded to the report of eggs being thrown at the front door of an apartment unit on Seafarer Lane. The messy missiles caused no damage.

Fire calls11/29 at 3:34 p.m. False alarm on Washington Street.11/30 at 3:34 p.m. Odor investigation on Of-fice Drive.11/30 at 10:10 p.m. Fuel leak in Shaw’s Su-permarket parking lot.12/2 at 5:36 a.m. Appliance fire on High Street.12/2 at 6:30 p.m. Carbon monoxide check on Palmer Street.12/3 at 3:34 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Congress Avenue.

EMsBath emergency medical services responded to 31 calls from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5.


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PORTLAND — At a recent White House conference addressing access to justice, of-ficials announced the launch of a website created and developed by Pine Tree Legal Assistance to help U.S. military and veteran families with legal problems.

The website, statesidelegal.org, focuses exclusively on the legal needs and rights of military and veteran families around the country, and features user-friendly legal information, self-help tools and identi-fies legal referral resources organized and searchable according to legal problem, military status, and state of residence.

Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a state-wide nonprofit that promotes access to justice by providing free legal assistance to low-income clients throughout Maine. For more information, please visit ptla.org.

SunriseGuide’s fifth edition available

WESTBROOK — The SunriseGuide has recently published the fifth edition of its coupon book and resource guide.

The guide, founded by Heather Chan-dler of Westbrook, includes over 300 cou-pons to sustainable businesses throughout southern and mid-coast Maine. The book-let also contains community resource listings and consumer advice for the eco-conscious.

The SunriseGuide is divided into seven categories, with coupons and local in-formation about food and dining, travel and transportation, home and garden, weatherization and efficiency, health and outdoor living, community and culture, and style and personal care.

SunriseGuides are available for $20 at participating local businesses, or online at thesunriseguide.com.

New Hires, Promotions

Rep. Melissa Walsh Innes, D-Yar-mouth, has recently joined the Maine Green Energy Alliance as a commu-nity outreach coordinator with a focus on Yarmouth and Cumberland. Innes will be helping homeowners find ways to conserve energy and take advantage of rebates and tax incentives available through Efficiency

Maine.Nell Shipman has been promoted to as-

sociate artistic director of Portland Ballet Company. Shipman joined PBC in 2004 as a principal dancer, and previously served as the resident choreographer in 2007.

Sarah Thompson of Portland has joined LivingSocial.com, Portland, Maine as a marketing consultant.

Kristin Melville was recently hired as development director at Tedford Housing in Brunswick. Melville was previously employed at Lincoln County Healthcare as director of development and major gifts.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra has named Lisa Dixon as executive director. Prior to her new position with the PSO, Dixon served as the chief operating officer for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Norton Insurance & Financial Services of Cumberland Foreside has promoted Kerri Willette to HR generalist. James O’Brien has joined the company as an account executive responsible for develop-ing new client relationships throughout the Northeast.

Maine College of Art recently hired Daniel Fuller as the director of the Insti-tute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Fuller previously worked as the senior program specialist for the Philadel-phia Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

TD Bank has promoted Ryan M. Nadeau of Westbrook to store manager at the store located in the Shaw’s Supermar-ket at 417 Payne Road in Scarborough. Ryan R. LeSieur of Saco was named the store manager at the 180 Waterman Dr. TD Bank location in South Portland. Matthew J. Woodside of Portland was promoted to designer/developer II with TD Univer-sity, TD Bank’s employee training and development center located in Falmouth. Sean J. Roy-Becker of Cape Elizabeth, was named private banking officer at TD Wealth Management in Portland, and Rob-ert A. Small of South Portland was named vice president - commercial loan officer in commercial lending in Portland.

The University of New England has named Karen O’Rourke as deputy direc-tor for program development at UNE’s

Center for Community and Public Health, located at the UNE Portland Campus, charged with coordinating the Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center, an obesity-related research program. In other UNE campus news, Professor Kenneth “Mac” McCall of Scarborough, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at UNE, was elected president of the Maine Pharmacy Associa-tion at their annual meeting held recently in Bangor.

Michael Miles was recently hired as the new human resources director for the city of Portland. Previously, Miles served as vice president of human resources and training for Youth Alternatives Ingraham.

Tilson Technology Management, an in-formation technology project management company in Portland, has hired Matt Mer-rill as a senior developer and Amy Hayes as a senior consultant.

David Connolly, most recently Chef de Cuisine for Roof and Cibo Matto with Chi-cago Wit Hotel properties, has joined the Back Bay Grill as its new Chef de Cuisine. The restaurant also recently welcomed Francesca Bowman to the kitchen staff as its Pastry Chef.

Drummond Woodsum law firm, with offices in Portland and Portsmouth, N.H., recently hired Elek A. Miller as a new as-sociate practicing intellectual property law with a focus on trademarks and copyrights at its Portland office. Also at Drummond Woodsum, attorneys Joanna Tourangeau, Matt Upton and Peter Felmly were unan-imously elected as the newest shareholders of the law firm.

iBec Creative in Portland has hired Leah Arsenault of Chebeague Island as a graphic designer responsible for designing mobile websites, e-newsletters and social media customization. Matt Smith has also joined iBec Creative as a mobile web developer.

Brad Hanscom recently joined the gov-ernment consulting group at Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, a certified public ac-counting and management consulting firm. Matthew Bowker of Yarmouth has joined the firm’s management and information technology consulting group.

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Former Mt. Ararat standout dominates at wrestling tournament

Former Mt. Ararat standout wrestler Kelly Golek, now wrestling for the University of Southern Maine, came in first at the recent Ted Reese Invitational. Golek had 16 points, earning all four of her wins by fall.

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Mt. Ararat honors top fall athletesAfter a competitive fall sports

campaign, Mt. Ararat recently honored its top athletes.

Football gave its coaches’ award to Brett Milliken. Jake Liedman won the JV football coaches’ award and the fresh-man award went to James Stemp.

Boys’ soccer gave its coaches’ award to Rolando Amador, while Nate Jackson won for the JV team and Justin Pierce took home the freshman award.

On the girls’ side, Mary Bas-tin won the coaches’ award. Julia MacDonald won for the JV squad.

Field hockey gave its coaches’ award to Amber Bowley. Haley Huston was the JV winner.

Cross country’s coaches’ award went to Alex Spies. Chloe Emerson won the girls’ award.

Varsity golf gave its coaches’

Nick Demonsthenes was named boys’ cross country’s Outstanding Senior this fall.

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Bowdoin’s men’s soccer run ends

The Bowdoin men’s soccer team came oh so close to play-ing for the Division III champi-onship last weekend, but its sea-son ended in heartache with a 2-1 overtime loss to Lynchburg (Va.) in the national semifinals in San Antonio, Texas. Former Cape Elizabeth High standout Ben Brewster scored early in the second half to give the Polar Bears a lead they would hold until 2:01 remained in regula-tion, when Lynchburg pulled even, necessitating overtime. There, with 16 seconds to go, Lynchburg scored again to end Bowdoin’s season at 15-2-3.

More all-stars namedIn addition to the all-stars

mentioned in last week’s edi-tion, local field hockey and soccer players received ad-ditional honors. Brunswick’s Kyia Jensen was named to the all-state field hockey team. The boys’ all-state soccer team

award to Michelle Brann. Mike Schuman took home the JV award.

Shelby Baillargeon won the cheering coaches’ award.

Outstanding Senior awards went to the following:

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included Brunswick’s Mitchell Black and Garrett Brann and Morse’s Eric Trautman-Mosher. On the girls’ side, Brunswick’s Allison Walton and Mt. Ararat’s Jaymee Wallace made the all-state squad. Walton was also named the girls’ Class A Player of the Year, all-New England and shared All-American hon-ors with Waterville’s Jordan Pellerin.

Alumni hockey game upcoming

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Music for Christmas, theater for HanukkahBy Scott Andrews

The biggest show of southern Maine’s Christmas season is the Portland Sym-phony Orchestra’s annual “Magic of Christmas,” a musical extravaganza that runs Dec. 10-19.

Rock My Soul is a 23-voice gospel choir that offers a special Christmas concert in Portland on Sunday.

Hanukkah concludes this week, but Mike Levine, an innovative creative force in greater Portland theater, is trying to establish a new Hanukkah tradition in southern Maine with a staging of “The World of Sholom Alecheim,” a trilogy of short plays.

‘Magic of Christmas’The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s

biggest draw is its annual December se-ries of pops-style concerts titled “Magic of Christmas,” which attracts about 20,000 people each year.

Maestro Robert Moody’s program re-volves around light orchestra music and holiday favorites played by the 70-plus members of the PSO, plus a number of guest artists.

Two guest solo vocalists are featured. Joe Cassidy has performed on Broadway in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” “1776” and “Les Miserables.” Suzanne Nance is a conservatory-trained soprano with a long performing resume.

Two vocal ensembles will add power: the Saco Bay Children’s Choir and the

contributed photoTrumpeters of the Portland Symphony Orchestra don festive headgear for one number in the annual

“Magic of Christmas,” which runs Dec. 10-19 at Merrill Auditorium.

Magic of Christmas Chorus. Freeport-based Figures of Speech Theatre per-forms a condensed version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” – with all the character voices provided by Cassidy.

All performances take place in Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Here’s the complete schedule: Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 12 at 1 and 5 p.m., Dec. 17 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 18 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and

Dec. 19 at 1 and 5 p.m. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Rock My SoulOne of the most intriguing Christmas

concerts in southern Maine takes place Sunday at One Longfellow Square. Rock My Soul is a 23-member choir and five-piece band that hails from South Berwick and Portsmouth, N.H. Rock My Soul per-forms music from all gospel traditions, including Negro spirituals, black gospel, white Southern gospel, folk and blues gospel plus a few selected secular songs.

Originally founded in the spring of 2004 by Dawn Boyer, lead soloist and president of the Gospel Music Project, Rock My Soul performs at concerts and benefits throughout New England.

Catch Rock My Soul in concert Dec. 12 at 4 p.m. at One Longfellow Square, corner of Congress and State in down-town Portland. Call 761-1757.

‘The World of Sholom Aleichem’Practically everybody in the world

loves Tevye, the pious Jewish dairyman at the center of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway hit musical about life in a shtetl in Czarist Russia.

This wonderful character was created by Sholom Aleichem, a writer (in Yid-dish) who was born in Russia and died in New York. As edited by Arnold Perl,

Aleichem’s stories formed the basis for “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Tevye has some neighbors in the fic-tional shtetl, and they’re the subject of a trilogy of plays by Perl, performed under the rubric “The World of Sholom Aleichem.”

They evoke the same sort of characters and the same milieu as “Fiddler.”

The finale is based on a popular story by Aleichem, while the second is based on a story by one of his contemporaries. The opener was written from scratch by Perl himself.

Acorn Studio Theater opened this show last weekend in Westbrook, and it runs through Dec. 19. In the future, producer Mike Levine hopes to present “The World of Sholom Aleichem” every year during Hanukkah.

I loved these three little dramatic gems, performed by a semi-professional acting company that is largely based on Acorn’s theatrical school. I particularly liked Perl’s, which is a wryly clever and humorous depiction of a mythical village of fools and how these fools multiplied, scattered and populated the earth.

Acorn Studio Theater, 90 Bridge St. in Westbrook, presents “The World of Sholom Aleichem” through Dec. 19 with Thursday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. (There are no Friday evening per-formances, in observation of the Jewish Sabbath.) Call 854-0065.

Acorn Studio Theater is the latest of a long series of thespian projects under the direction of Mike Levine, a personable chap from Peaks Island with a passion for teaching actors and producing the works of local playwrights. I first met Levine in the mid-1990s when he quit his job as business manager for Portland Stage Company to found the Oak Street Theater, a “black box” that hosted many dozens of plays and special events during the latter years of that decade.

For the past four years Levine has been based in the Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook, primarily running an acting school. Acorn Studio Theater is a new and related venture that provides an outlet for the adult students to showcase their talent before the public; Fairy Tale Players does likewise for the kids.

The tiny performing space seats about 40 and boasts a basic minimum of profes-sional accouterments such as sound and lighting. Levine also describes AST as “a work in progress” and a “lab theater” where the emphasis is on developing cre-ative talent rather than producing finished products.

“This is the sort of theater that I like,” he told me. “It’s a situation where we focus on text and character and action, rather than spectacle.”

Another comment: “Picture us as com-munity theater with a professional work ethic.”

Levine added, “This is a great place to spark the fire of creativity.”

Next in the Studio Series is “Crying at the Movies,” by John Manderino, which runs Jan. 13-30, and a playwrights show-case/festival which runs April 1-20.

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FilmsThursday 12/23”Meet Me in St. Louis” The Dreamland Theater film series, Winter Street Center, 880 Wash-ington St., Bath, 6 p.m., free/$5 suggested donation, presented by Sagadahoc Preservation Inc., saga-dahocpreservation.org.

GalleriesSaturday 12/11All-Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, gal-leries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Wid-geon Cove, 833-6081.

Sunday 12/12All-Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, gal-leries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Wid-geon Cove, 833-6081.

Music Friday 12/10 Castlebay, Celtic duo Fred Gosbee and Julia Lane, Side Door Coffee House, 7 p.m., $10, Unitarian Uni-versalist Church, 15 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-8515.

Richard Nelson Imaginary En-semble, 7:30 p.m., $10 advance/ $12 door, Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, Mill 3, 14 Maine St., Bruns-wick, 725-5222.

Saturday 12/11“Ceremony of Lessons and Car-ols,” St. Cecilia Chamber Choir 15th

BenefitsOrnament’s “Bags with Benefits” community partnership to benefit Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. for November and December, local businesses will donate 50% of tote bag sales, Ornament, 11 Center St., Bath, 442-6636.

Holiday Sock Tree, hang a new pair of socks on our tree, socks will be delivered on Christmas Eve to the Tedford Shelter in Brunswick, Dr. Angela Perron, 81 Medical Cen-ter Drive, Suite 1150, Brunswick, socks accepted Nov. 29 - Dec. 23, information, 725-5877.

Saturday 12/11Autometrics’ Auto Winter Checks/Repairs to benefit United Way of Mid Coast Maine and its Success By 6: Early Childhood initiative, call 729-0842 for appointments, Auto-metrics, 121 Bath Road, Brunswick.

Friday 12/17The Mutineers, holiday benefit concert for Preble Resource Center in Portland, 7 p.m., $5 donation, $8 day of show, Frontier Cafe, Bruns-wick.

Bulletin BoardFriday 12/10ABW Joy of Christmas Fair, theme gift baskets, handmade gifts, jew-elry, homemade candies, more, all proceeds go to missions, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., Corliss St. Baptist Church An-nex, 17 Weeks St., Bath, 208-7719.

Gift Wrapping for the gentle-men, snacks, movie, free wifi, donations welcome, Brunswick Visitors Center, 16 Station Ave., Brunswick.

Saturday 12/11Harpswell Community Tree Lighting sponsored by the Harpswell Historic Park Commit-tee, singing, hot chocolate, Santa, 5 p.m., Centennial Hall, Harpswell Neck Road, Rt. 123, Harpswell.

Journey to Bethlehem, 20-min-ute outdoor drama of the first Christmas, fellowship, hot soup, more, 6-8 p.m., Kellogg Congrega-tional Church, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Rt. 123, Harpswell, Susan, 666-3247.

Park Holiday Potluck and open house, The Bath Youth Meeting-house & Skatepark Center, 5-9 p.m., free skating 6-9 p.m., for infor-mation, to provide a dish, or to volunteer, call 443-8900.

Sunday 12/12PeaceWorks Community Holiday Party, music, dancing, food, friend-ship with Broadband Members of Different Drummers Drum Circle, Morgana Warner-Evans, bring fin-ger food, an instrument, a friend, 4 p.m., all welcome, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, 725-7675.

Holiday Gathering, Pejepscot Genealogy Society, member-gen-erated story-sharing, bring dessert and recipe, 2 p.m., second level Seminar Room, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, 833-7371.

Bath Antiques Show, 55 dealers, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., $4 admission, $3 w/ad, Bath Middle School, informa-tion, Polly Thibodeau, 443-8983, [email protected].

Vesper Service, traditional service with carols, 2 p.m., public invited, East Harpswell Baptist Church, Cundys Habor Road, sponsored by the Sebascodegan Garden Club.

Thursday 12/16Bath Lions Club, initial meeting, public invited, encouraged to join

Ring in the holidays ‘gospel-style’ Dec. 12

Contributed photoRock My Soul, a roots-based, secular, gospel choir and band will perform a holiday concert on Sunday, December 12 at 4 p.m. at One Longfellow Square, State St., Portland. Advance

tickets are available for $12 at onelongfellowsquare.com or at the box office. Tickets at the door are $15. Children 12 and under are admitted free. Refreshments will be available

during intermission. The Rock My Soul Choir is part of The Roots & Gospel Project, an arts nonprofit that performs free outreach concerts at hospices, homeless shelters, nursing homes

and other facilities that support people in need.

Anniversary Christmas Concert, 3 p.m., $10 advance/ $12 door/ kids, students free, Bowdoin College Chapel, Brunswick, 380-2768, ce-ciliachoir.org.

Dorie Barnes and Jesse Feinberg, jazz concert, 6 p.m., $10 adult / $7 students and seniors, Merrico-neag Grange Hall, U.S. Route 123, Harpswell.

Sunday 12/12”Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols,” concert by Bowdoin College students, faculty, staff and commu-nity, 6:30 p.m., free and open to public, Bowdoin Chapel, 798-4141.

DaPonte String Quartet Festive Concert, 7:30 p.m., free and open to public, Kellogg Church, Harpswell, daponte.org.

Monday 12/13Coastal Youth Orchestra Annual Winter Concert, 7 p.m., free and open to the public, Orion Perform-ing Arts Center, 66 Republic Ave., Topsham, Nancy Roderick, 729-5156 or [email protected].

Thursday 12/16Morse High School Winter Con-cert / Fine Arts Auction, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. concert, free admis-sion, Morse High School, 800 High St., Bath, 442-7049 or [email protected]

West Bath Candlelight Christmas Service and Caroling, presented by West Bath Historical Society, with fiddler Hope Hoffman and Pastor Sam Francis, 7 p.m., free, open to public, Old West Bath Meeting House, Berry’s Mill Road, 443-4449.

Theater & DanceFriday 12/10”It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented

by Studio Theatre of Bath, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Satur-day-Sunday, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Saturday 12/11”It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Satur-day-Sunday, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Sunday 12/12 ”It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 2 p.m., $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Friday 12/17”Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Project’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19, $6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

Saturday 12/18”Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Proj-ect’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19, $6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

Sunday 12/19”Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Project’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19, $6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

an organization working to pre-vent blindness and help diabetics, 6:30 p.m., Bath City Hall audito-rium, Elliot Zimmerman, 386-1085 or [email protected], for information on the Lions Club, mainelions.org.

Friday 12/17Consumer Council of Maine, Brunswick Local Coucil, represent-ing consumers of mental health services, monthly meeting, 1-3 p.m., Parkview Hospital Board-room, 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Gift Wrapping for the gentle-men, snacks, movie, free WiFi, donations welcome, Brunswick Visitors Center, 16 Station Ave., Brunswick.

Saturday 12/18Rabies Plus! Clinic, various ser-vices, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., all proceeds benefit the Coastal Humane So-ciety, 30 Range Road, Brunswick, 725-5051, coastalhumanesociety.org.

Dining OutSaturday 12/11Public Baked Bean and Casserole Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., $8 adults, $4 children (6-12), under 6 free, Bruns-wick United Methodist Church, corner of Church and Raymond Roads, Brunswick, reservations ac-cepted, 725-2185.

Public Supper, baked ham with raisin sauce, 4:30-6:30 p.m., sug-gested donation, $7 adults, $3 children under 12, Knights of Co-lumbus Hall, 807 Middle St., Bath.

Getting SmarterThursday 12/16Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table monthly meeting, lecture by Bob Green, “The Color of War,” free, open to public, 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, information, Dan Cunningham 729-9520, or Jay Stencil 721-0235.

Health & SupportSupport Through The Holidays, sexual assault support group for women, begins mid November, to schedule pre-group appoint-

ment or additional services, call 725-2181 or e-mail [email protected]; 24-hour support line, 1-800-822-5999, sassmm.org.

Saturday 12/11Senior Care Advisors: How They Can Benefit You, 9:30-10:30 a.m., free, open to public, The Stevens Home, 52 Harpswell Road, Brunswick, contact Nova Ewers, 756-2901, or [email protected] to confirm your attendance.

Thursday 12/16Memory Loss: When is Forgetful-ness a Problem? 12-1 p.m., free, open to public, The Stevens Home, 52 Harpswell Road, Brunswick, contact Nova Ewers, 756-2901, or [email protected] to confirm your attendance.

Just for SeniorsBath Area Senior Citizens, bridge club, cribbage, crafts, line dancing, bocce, bingo and more, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.

Meals on Wheels, delivery avail-able for homebound seniors and disabled adults, offered by Spec-trum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

Money Management Program, help low-income seniors with rou-tine financial matters, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

People Plus Community Center, multipurpose facility provides recreational, social, informational, educational and personal services to persons 55+, 6 Noble St., Bruns-wick, 729-0757.

Kids and Family StuffSaturday 12/11Candy Cane Train, meet Santa and his elves, storytelling, songs, hot chocolate, 90-minute trips, departures, 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m, 3 p.m., $17/person, Bath Train Sta-tion, tickets at candycanetrain.org or call 800-838-3006.

Photos with Santa, $5 donation, Brunswick Visitors Center, 16 Sta-tion Ave., Brunswick.

BrunswickMon. 12/13 1 p.m. Staff Review 46 Federal St.Mon. 12/13 4:30 p.m. Teen Center Advisory 35 Union St.Mon. 12/13 5:30 p.m. Brunswick/ Topsham Water Board 266 River Rd, TopshamMon. 12/13 6 p.m. Maine Dept. of Transportation Maine St. StationTue. 12/13 4:30 p.m. Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Auth. MSSTue. 12/14 7 p.m. Planning Board MSSWed. 12/15 6 p.m. Appointment Subcommittee 28 Federal St.Wed. 12/15 7 p.m. Recreation Commission MSS

BathThere are no meetings scheduled during this time period.

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failed, and a clarification will be provided at a later date to residents of Rossmore Road, which was split in half on the re-districting map.

“When does it stop?,” board member Michelle Small said, referring to the ad-dition of individual streets at a family’s request.

Perzanoski said redistricting will be re-visited in two years, after current students have moved on to the next school.

Perzanoski had also suggested stagger-ing start times along with the redistricting

plan. He suggested start times at the high school and junior high school be moved to 7:35 a.m. and 7:50 a.m., respectively, from the current 7:50 a.m. and 8 a.m., while elementary school times remain the same or be pushed back 15 minutes to 9:10 a.m.

Several parents expressed concern about changing start times, particularly at the high school and junior high. Dana Bateman said there are benefits to later start times for teenagers, and noted the most common objection to starting the school day later regards the impact on after-school activities and athletics.

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staggered start,” she said, but maintained that an earlier start at the high school is “the wrong direction.”

Board members noted the need for ad-ditional information following a vote to table the matter. John Jones was the only member who objected to tabling.

“The (new elementary) school isn’t go-ing to open for a while,” board member Janet Connors said. “We need to discuss in detail, we need to do more research.”

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resident Dennis Knox and McKeen Street resident John Donovan. All three were also unanimously recommended by the appointments subcommittee.

The remaining two appointees were subcommittee recommendation Bernard Breitbart of Cumberland Street and Lou-ise Ansari of Merrymeeting Road, who was nominated by Councilor Gerald Favreau.

The citizen representatives will join Councilors Joanne King, Ben Tucker, David Watson and Perreault on the police station subcommittee.

The police station subcommittee will research options for a new police sta-tion, including purchase and construction

on property at Stanwood and Pleasant streets, building on town-owned property, establishing a police station on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station property, use of the former Times Record building or reusing the current location on Federal Street.

Last month, councilors rescinded ap-proval for purchase of the Stanwood and Pleasant Street properties following pub-lic objections and requests for citizens on the police station subcommittee.

The next meeting of the police station subcommittee is tentatively scheduled for Dec. 15.Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123



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of the town, and “an important part of the town manager’s role.”

Councilor Ben Tucker agreed. He said

it is “essential” for Brown to be on the MRRA because he knows both Topsham and Brunswick, the two towns most im-pacted by the base closure.

In a letter to LePage, councilors said “... the closing of Naval Air Station Bruns-wick (NASB) is a significant issue in Maine, and even more so here in the host community. ... The main base is located in the geographic center of Brunswick. As the base redevelops into the community, it

is the Town of Brunswick that will be in-volved with planning, zoning, permitting, police, fire, ems protection, education and virtually every other service that munici-palities provide.”

The letter also notes the importance of having local representation and stability on the MRRA board:

“As this community struggles with the current economy, we are further impacted by the closing of NASB. It is critical that the Town government be represented at the policy setting level of the redevelopment of NASB. In just over three years, this 11 member Board has had 19 different mem-bers. There has been a recent resignation on the MRRA Board, bringing the total to 20 members in three years. Clearly it has been difficult to maintain stability in light of the level of turnover on Board members. The Council would specifically and respectfully request that Gary Brown, Brunswick Town Manager be re-appointed to the MRRA Board of Trustees.”

MRRA board members are nominated by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Despite letters of support from Brunswick councilors, Bowdoin College officials and the MRRA board chairman, Baldacci did not renominate Brown in 2009.

Brown’s supporters claimed the gov-ernor’s action politicized the process, al-though Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, who advised Baldacci, said he omitted Brown in an effort to depoliticize the MRRA.

State law prohibits politicians from serving on the board. Gerzofsky argued that Brown was too closely tied to his em-ployer, the elected Brunswick Town Coun-cil, and would not have been confirmed.Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123



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The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, December 10, 2010