The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, January 18, 2013

January 18, 2013 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 9, No. 3

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Mid-Coast teams hit midway pointPage 13

IndexObituaries ........................8Opinion ............................6People & Business ........ 11

Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................23Sports ............................13

Arts Calendar ................14Classifieds .....................18Community Calendar .....15Meetings ........................15

Brunswick hires lobbyists to defend control of former basePage 2 Page 12

Police charge Topsham selectman candidate with drunken driving

By Alex LearTOPSHAM — Jean

Wolkens, a candidate in Tues-day’s three-way special elec-tion for a seat on the Board of Selectmen, was charged last week with operating under the

influence of alcohol.The 43-year-old Meadow

Road resident was charged in connection with a motor vehicle accident the evening of Dec. 16, 2012, where she drove off Meadow Road in

snowy conditions and into a tree, according to police.

Wolkens was issued a sum-mons Friday, Jan. 11, after testing revealed her blood

AlEx lEAR / ThE FORECASTERTopsham Board of Selectmen candidate Jean Wolkens, right, speaks with Miriam Conners of Topsham at the polls on

Tuesday. Wolkens later acknowledged she was charged Friday, Jan. 11, with operating under the influence.

Topsham election

Trusiani regains Board of Selectmen

seatBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — Former Selectman Jim Trusiani was returned to the Board of Se-lectmen Tuesday in a special election that drew little voter interest.

Trusiani, of Main Street, received 166 of the 371 votes cast. Bill Thompson of Arbor Avenue received 124 votes, while Jean Wolkens of Meadow Road received 79. There were two write-in votes.

Wolkens confirmed on Tuesday that she was sum-monsed last Friday for drunk-

Topsham voters elected former Selectmen Jim Trusiani to the

board on Tuesday.

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Harpswell residents renew fight for beach accessBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — In 1937, Pam Johnson was only 3 years old when she first stepped onto Cedar Beach with her family. After continuing the tradition for many years, it eventually became a place where she raised her own.

“It was all special,” Johnson said Tuesday. “It was just something we looked forward to everyday.”

Now 79, Johnson said she will prob-

ably never step on the beach again.But her children, her grandchildren

and future generations might get an-other chance, after the Board of Select-men approved a proposal last week that could let voters help restore access to Cedar Beach.

At the board’s Jan. 10 meeting, a new group called Cedar Beach/Cedar Island Supporters asked the board to put the question of reopening access to Cedar

Beach on the warrant for the March 9 Town Meeting.

The question, as proposed by CB/CIS, specifically asks the town to spend up to $220,000 “for the purpose of ac-quiring, providing and maintaining ac-cess to Cedar Beaches and Cedar Island on Bailey Island.”

With a few caveats, the board unani-

Pam Johnson in a 1963 photo with her daughter Wendy at Cedar Beach in Harpswell.

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Court hearsBath’s request to remove couple from houseBy Alex Lear

BATH — The residents of a house deemed unsafe by the city face possible removal from their home, pending a court hearing on the matter scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17.

Alan and Yvonne Orchard of 45 Windjammer Way do not believe repair of the dilapidated 1920 house is an option. They have said they hope to move into a partially subsidized one-bedroom apartment on Bluff Road, which they have been told would be available soon.

The City Council ruled 7-1 on Dec. 5, 2012, that the Or-chards’ home is dangerous. Two weeks later the council gave the couple four months to decide if they will repair or demolish the building. If they choose demoli-tion, that must occur within 11 months.

The council also ordered the Orchards to secure the building when they leave, preventing entry except for repairs, demoli-tion, or removal of their personal property.

Code Enforcement Officer Scott Davis enforced that order by posting the house Dec. 29, 2012, and informed the Orchards that they would be in violation

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Brunswick hires lobbyists to defend control of former baseBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — The town has en-listed a top legal firm to fight legislation officials say will supersede local control of economic redevelopment at Brunswick Landing.

Town Manager Gary Brown on Mon-day announced the town hired a team of lobbyists from the Preti Flaherty law firm to work at the statehouse in Augusta.

The team will be coordinated by lobby-ist Andy Cashman, who has served as the chairman of the Brunswick Democratic Town Committee. The team also will include Severin Beliveau and Ann Robin-son, who worked on Gov. Paul LePage’s transition team.

“We felt given the significance of the issue we’re anticipating to deal with, we felt Preti Flaherty would be the firm to

use,” Brown said.Brown estimated the costs of Preti

Flaherty’s services will land somewhere between $50,000 and $75,000. He said the expense will be justified if the firm successfully defends the town against legislation that has alarmed local of-ficials.

“We’re confident once the legislators hear the facts, that we will prevail,” Brown said.

One of the bills the town of faces is L.R. 492, a bill submitted by Maine’s De-partment of Economic and Community Development that seeks to clarify prop-erty tax exemptions at municipal airports.

In a statement issued Monday, Brown said the bill “would effectively remove facilities used for aircraft design, material testing and development of aircraft to be built in other states from local control.” He noted the implications for Kestrel Aeroworks, whose property is being taxed at Brunswick Landing.

The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, which manages the prop-erty and includes DECD Commissioner George Gervais as a board member, has already made it clear it believes the prop-erty is tax exempt.

Gervais said earlier in January the bill was spurred by the tax dispute between Brunswick and MRRA.

“We have a statute that is being in-terpreted differently by municipalities throughout the state,” Gervais said, “and it needs to be resolved because we need to have certainty in determining (tax-exempt) status.”

Kestrel’s tax bill for the current fiscal year is $114,000, which represents 25 percent of property tax revenues coming from Brunswick Landing.

Brown said the Town Council is “fully

committed to fighting this bill.”“If it were to pass, it would overturn

centuries of established local control, hinder economic development and deny Brunswick desperately needed resources to backfill the loss of State funding for education and other critical needs of the Town of Brunswick,” he said.

Given the governor’s recent budget proposal, which could cost the town about $4.3 million in state subsidies over the next two years, he said a tax exemp-tion for Kestrel could put further strain on local finances.

“If the Legislature is going to push for more costs at the local level and more (tax) exemptions at the local level, that’s ridiculous,” Brown said.

The town also is getting ready to face a bill from Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Bruns-wick, which would prevent towns from blocking redevelopment efforts.

But Preti Flaherty’s involvement with Brunswick’s affairs “may not all be about an adversarial relationship” between the town and state, Brown said. He said there may be some bills that affect Brunswick Landing that the town may end up sup-porting.

To keep the town briefed on Preti Flaherty’s activities, Brown said Town Council Chairwoman Suzan Wilson has appointed Councilors Ben Tucker and John G. Richardson to serve as interme-diaries between the town and law firm. Brown said the councilors also will help develop strategies with the law firm.

Richardson is a former DECD com-missioner and House speaker. While he served the House of Representatives he sponsored legislation that led to the creation of MRRA.

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

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Harpswell to close road for culvert repairBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — The Board of Select-men avoided doubling costs for a culvert repair project by opting to close a residen-tial road for three days later this year.

But as Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said, that could be a problem for residents who live on that portion of Bethel Point Road.

Repairs of the culvert were deemed necessary last fall when the Maine De-partment of Transportation determined it was deficient, according to a memo from Gorrill-Palmer Consulting Engineers.

Though smaller repairs were initially planned, the memo said, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suggested replacing the entire culvert would have a smaller environmental impact, so Gorrill-Palmer decided to take that option.

The challenge in replacing the entire culvert, however, is the road will have to be closed for three days to complete the project. There will, however, be pedestrian access.

The project will cost around $175,000, according to Gorrill-Palmer, but could have doubled if the Board of Selectmen decided to keep the road open, which would have caused the project to last three to four weeks.

Since unanimously deciding Jan. 10 on the cheaper, but more restrictive route, the board now must wait for permit approval from the Army Corps and then a bid pro-cess for a contractor to do the culvert work.

Until that happens, the expected three-day road closure can’t be scheduled.

Once all the information and permits are in hand, Eiane said, “we will have a com-munity meeting for the people out there who will be affected.”

She said the town already held a meeting last fall for Bethel Point Road residents, and their “preference was not to close the road,” though they reportedly said week-ends were preferred.

“The selectmen weren’t willing to double the cost of the project,” Eiane said, which could have amounted to around

$400,000. “Hopefully we can address those issues without incident.”

One of the issues the town will consider is how to ensure safety for the residents.

Eiane said the town will coordinate with police and fire departments to ensure residents will have access to those services during the road’s closure. That may result in leaving a fire truck on the closed side of the road.


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Brunswick School Board considers 2013 goalsBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — At its annual goal-setting workshop Wednesday night, the School Board considered ways to become more effective and to measure that suc-cess.

While the board’s goals are largely the same as the ones for 2012, the board now will look into tying them to specific objectives and tactics from each of its committees. The board also expressed interest in completing a self-evaluation later in the year.

“I would feel better about having goals

if it drove our business,” board member Rich Ellis said. “I would feel more com-fortable with having a committee meeting and say we are doing this because of a goal.”

The process would include each board committee having its own objectives and tactics, with deadlines that members would set.

Board member William Thompson suggested committees do this at their first meetings of the year.

Besides creating more specific goals for board committees, the board also dis-

cussed how to get residents more involved and even the role of the board itself.

The 2013 goals include improving academic achievement for all students, providing oversight of the school district’s fiscal management, effective short- and long-term planning, and fostering com-munity engagement with communication. All of these would be reviewed in June.

A full list of the goals along with any additions will be provided at the board’s meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 13.


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Topsham selectmen OK tree inventory fundingBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — With a state Project Canopy grant in hand, the town is plan-ning this year to conduct an inventory of its trees.

The Board of Selectmen on Jan. 3 unanimously accepted the funding, accord-

ing to Rod Melanson, Topsham’s natural resource/assistant planner.

The program recently aided 21 proj-ects in 19 communities with more than $100,000 in an effort to help community forestry endeavors, according to Maine’s Project Canopy Facebook page. A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Urban and Community For-estry Assistance Program funds the Project Canopy Assistance Program.

Project Canopy, which is administering federal program funds, is part of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Melanson said.

Topsham is using the funds to conduct a street tree inventory within the town’s growth area, covering parts of town like Main Street, Route 24, Route 196, Route 201, Topsham Fair Mall Road, and Winter, Bridge and Elm streets, Melanson said.

The town received $4,650, which it is matching with $800 and in-kind work, such as people doing tree inventories and the planning office covering mapping ser-

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Harpswell development plan sharpens focusBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — Now well into the new year, the planning firm hired by the town to write an economic development plan is starting to hone in on specific ideas to make Harpswell’s economy more vibrant and sustainable.

Frank O’Hara, vice president of the firm Planning Decisions, said the Eco-nomic Development Strategy Committee chose three areas at its Tuesday night meeting where the town might focus: the “buy local” movement, the fishing and aquaculture industries, and the tourism industry.

The town will hold a community forum in conjunction with Planning Decisions on Monday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m.

O’Hara said the purpose of the meet-ing is to get public feedback on the three focus areas. He said his team will then recommend actions the town and com-

munity can take to develop those sectors.“What we need now is take the 100

ideas (from the beginning of the project) and focus on a few,” O’Hara said.

When discussing the idea of Harpswell having its own “buy local” movement, committee member John Halpin sug-gested they change the wording.

“I like the idea of ‘support local’ than ‘buy local.’ It presents a more holistic look,” Halpin said. “It would be a better way to create this Harpswell brand. It’s a little more encompassing. It’s not saying ‘we don’t want you down here because we want you to buy something; we want you down here because we want you down here.’”

“I like that too. It could be more en-compassing to the service industry,” Se-lectman Alison Hawkes said in response.

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Brunswick entrepreneur hopes to launch ‘fab lab’By Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — Local inventors and visionaries may soon have a place to meet and fabricate their own creations using sophisticated computer technology.

Sarah Boisvert, who is a Brunswick resident and co-founder of a Maryland micro-manufacturing company, said she is in talks with a private school to start the Maine Fab Lab, a digital fabrication center that will offer public access to 3D printers, laser cutters and other fabrica-tion tools.

The school’s name could not be dis-closed because negotiations are still un-derway, Boisvert said, but the lab could possibly become a fixture of the school, with its own staff and allow public access.

“(The school is) a very special place, so a fab lab will tie into learning opportuni-ties for students who don’t fit into the standard school system,” Boisvert said.

A decision could happen by the end of January, she said.

Boisvert co-founded Potomac Photon-ics and is a fellow at the Laser Institute

of America.She said the Maine Fab Lab will join a

worldwide network of fab labs started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy.

According to MIT’s website for the program, fab labs “have spread from in-ner-city Boston to rural India, from South Africa to the north of Norway.”

Boisvert said fab labs can have different applications, whether it’s for an entrepre-neur who wants to create prototype for an invention or an artist who wants to use modern technology to fabricate new creations.

She said fab labs also can lead to new opportunities for business growth.

“I moved to Maine because I love the quality way of life, but as I’ve talked to people, I wanted them to have the same opportunities I had in starting a high-tech company,” Boisvert said. “It may not be a high-tech business, but a business that gives them real results and a way to make a living, but also to give them a sense of great accomplishments.

“Maybe a kid in a fab lab will create a better lobster trap, it can be an inven-tion that is important to people’s lives,” Boisvert added.

In Deer Isle, Haystack Mountain School of Arts houses its own fab lab, where residential artists and students from nearby schools use the facility to work on projects from printing plates to making molds.

“It’s been really exciting that way in terms of looking at the idea of who’s creative or how you use things,” Haystack director Stuart Kestenbaum said. “It really brings together the art mind and the sci-ence mind.”

Kestenbaum said Haystack’s fab lab began as a partnership with MIT after the

school had Neil Gershenfeld, a professor and fab lab inventor, first visit in 2010 for a four-day lab.

“It was a really interesting addition to what we do with our tools and materials,” Kestenbaum said.

Kestenbaum said because children, teenagers and young adults will have more likely grown up with computers in their life, fab labs now make for a seam-less fit in places like an art school.

“Increasingly, I think more people are seeing it as another tool and not something that’s part of the vocabulary,” Kestenbaum said. “I think it can all fit together.”

If Boisvert’s fab lab gets board approval

Hyde School headmaster to step down

BATH — Don MacMillan, who has spent almost 30 years at Hyde School and the past five as headmaster, plans to leave his post at the end of this school year.

“I have appreciated the opportunity to provide leadership to the school dur-ing the past five years,” he wrote this week to the school community. “Hyde School’s unique approach to education, in which the teacher’s and parent’s growth is encouraged and is as essential as the student’s growth, is what first attracted me to Hyde nearly 30 years ago and has kept me intrigued and involved all these years later.”

Laura Gauld, a Hyde graduate, will move from Hyde’s campus in Woodstock, Conn., to Bath to continue her position

as executive director of Hyde’s boarding schools, and will act as head of school. She taught and served as an administrator in Bath for several years before becoming head of the Woodstock campus in 2006.

Bath YMCA exceeds fundraising goal

BATH — The Bath Area Family YMCA exceeded its $170,000 annual campaign goal for last year, the Y an-nounced Wednesday.

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Gifts came from nearly 400 people, and more than 30 volunteers worked on the campaign.

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Gone skatingParenting was hard even for Albert Einstein. I mean,

he is the man who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Clearly, he had that breakthrough after commanding “indoor voices!” and hearing no reduction in volume.

I don’t understand most of what Albert said, but I can keep up with him on this one. Preach, Albert. Preach.

I feel myself getting crazier every day as a par-ent, and I’m not even five years into my gig. By the time my daughter is in high school, I’ll probably consider myself someone she likes talking to.

Every day, I think of-fering my toddler a snack is the ultimate problem-solver. Every night, I think leaving a light on will mean my preschooler will stay in her bed. And every time I come up with some hare-brained idea about a wholesome family adventure, I think it will go off without a hitch if I talk about it with high-pitched enthusiasm and organize it down to the last Disney princess accessory.

It’s delusions like these that lead you to standing on a bumpy ice rink in a snow storm with one child crying next to you and the other crying in front of you as your husband falls, in slow-motion, from a standing position

to a he-will-be-complaining-he-threw-out-his-back-from-the-fall-for-days position.

Allow me to back up.The big-ticket item my daughter threw down for

Santa this year was ice skates. Being a good guy, and perhaps something of a champion for lost causes, Santa delivered the ice skates. They are pink and white, with dull double-blades and hopefully a high resale value.

My enterprising daughter recently decided it was time to put those skates on some actual ice, as nature and Fogdog intended. Because I feel like a good way to ruin anything is to blow it completely out of proportion, I set a date for the inaugural skate and talked it up for days beforehand. Brushing teeth, bedtime stories, find-ing lost mittens: these all became occasions for ramping up expectations.

The day dawned, gray and chilly. We instituted a countdown for the arbitrarily appointed hour of The Skate: 10 a.m., Eastern Standard Time. We wrestled our way into snow gear, stocked the diaper bag with celebratory snacks, and waved a triumphant goodbye to our cat.

When we arrived at the public rink in Falmouth, it was closed. That simply became a sign that our daughter was destined to skate in Yarmouth. Onwards to Yarmouth.

By the time we made rink-fall, it was snowing and the temperature was plummeting. I shoved the skates on my daughter’s feet, stumbled through 18 inches of snow with her on my hip, and eased us onto the ice. We waited for my husband to arrive so that he could witness the glory up close. His trek from car to ice was slowed because he was carrying our son in an L.L. Bean

backpack contraption. Neither of them seemed terribly confident with the situation.

With everyone in place, my daughter took one step and began crying. She felt unsteady, scared, and “slip-pery.” I held her hand and started shouted encouraging things, like “You’re the one who wanted to skate!” My husband decided that she needed something to hang onto and push. Something other than her mother.

He went back to the car, got her car seat, and gingerly returned to the rink. As soon as his booted foot made contact with the ice, he was airborne. He landed, hard, on his wrist and his backside, which was populated by that L.L. Bean contraption and that son.

Now everyone was crying. (In my defense, I was only doing it on the inside.) We quickly agreed it was time to leave. Back at the car, the children expressed their discontent at not being able to feel their extremities, and I wondered why I couldn’t feel my optimism.

Then I looked at the clock and realized that we’d been at the rink for a total of seven minutes.

But I’m sure that next time, if I just make the whole thing seem more exciting and overblown, skating will be a huge success.

Abby Diaz grew up in Falmouth and lives there again, because that’s how life works. She blogs at abbysleft-overs.blogspot.com and hellogiggles.com/abby-diaz, and can be reached at [email protected]. Follow Abby on Twitter: @AbbyDiaz1.

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Looking forward to more from Delogu

I’m glad Orlando Delogu is writing for your paper. I enjoyed his column on corporate welfare in Maine and the huge burden it’s been for Maine’s taxpayers. It re-minded me of the books David Cay Johnston has written about how the U.S. tax code and other laws have been twisted over the years to subsidize the richest 1 percent.

One thing I disagree with, however, is Mr. Delogu’s

characterization of corporations “playing one town or one state against another” to get the best corporate welfare deal as being a “zero-sum game” (which is when the amount lost by the losing party is exactly the amount gained by the winning party). It seems to me a community loses a lot more than just the amount of taxes a corporation will not have to pay, because all the community’s taxpayers end up hav-

ing to eventually make up the amount forgiven. Plus there are non-monetary losses, such as the effects on a town’s self-esteem from giving in to the cor-poration’s threats of not building or expanding.

I look forward to more columns by your paper’s “Policy Wonk.”

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Gov. Paul LePage has nothing but contempt for public education, public school teachers and admin-istrators and public school students. A man possessed of the worst combination of ignorance and arrogance, he seems to have no idea of the damage he does every time he opens his big mouth and badmouths Maine education.

“I don’t care where you go in the country,” LePage told the world back in July, “if you come from Maine you’re looked down upon.”

Well, if Mainers are looked down upon, Mr. LePage, it is because we elected a dunce governor.

Then in November, he went off again, advising Maine students, “If you want a good education, go to an academy. If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.”

LePage himself supposedly went to Lewiston High School, Husson College and the University of Maine, but he shows no signs of being an educated person, so all three institutions clearly failed him.

Now LePage is ticked off at the Maine Education Association, Maine School Management Association and Maine Charter School Commission, because the commission just turned down four out of five recent proposals to start charter schools.

LePage blames the MEA and MSMA for the com-mission’s decisions, going so far as to demand that

those members who refuse to do his bidding “please go away.” And his Commissioner of Education Stephen Bowen echoes his boss by saying, “There’s obviously a problem here.”

The “obvious problem,” Mr. Bowen, is that neither you nor LePage believes in public education.

All you really need to know about ultra-conservative reactionaries like LePage and Bowen is that they will try to turn government functions over to private indus-try every chance they get. And that’s why LePage is pissed – neither the Legislature nor the charter school commission will let him sell public education in Maine to private corporations.

As I explained in this column way back in Febru-ary 2011, Stephen Bowen came to the Department of Education straight from the ideological sandbox of the Maine Heritage Policy Center with an agenda of turning public education over to charter schools and replacing hands-on, in-school learning with digital learning – virtual schools that are not schools at all.

In an important series of articles in the Portland newspapers back in September 2012, reporter Colin Woodard detailed exactly what I had suggested – how Bowen takes his marching orders from right-wing groups like MHPC, American Legislative Exchange Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Educa-tion, and “educational” corporations such as K12 Inc. and Connections Education.

LePage and Bowen were rebuffed by the Legislature when they proposed allowing state tax dollars to pay for religious schools. They were successful, however, in passing charter school legislation that took effect in 2011. The Maine Charter School Commission, led by Republican businesswoman Jana Lapoint of Falmouth – not some socialist union organizer – is authorized to approve 10 charter schools in its first decade of opera-tion and it has already approved five.

So what is LePage ranting and raving about? A petty tyrant, he goes ballistic any time he doesn’t get his own way, but what his latest tirades are about is the fact that the charter school commission has turned down proposals by the virtual school corporations that contributed to his campaign.

Though LePage claims to “put students first,” what he wants is for Maine kids to sit alone at laptop com-puters being fed curricula generated by these educa-tional corporations, a methodology that has failed mis-erably everywhere it has been tried. But it’s cheaper for the state and it makes money for business.

You should know intuitively, and the evidence is there empirically, that virtual education is not real edu-cation and charter schools are not better than public schools. All that virtual schools and charter schools accomplish is taking away local control and instituting corporate control. They also help their investors get rich off taxpayer subsidies the way former Republican Gov. Jock McKernan did at Education Management Corp. Stephen Bowen will no doubt wind up shilling for one of these shadowy virtual school groups when LePage gets dumped in 2014.

There is a place for public charter schools in Maine, but they need to be locally controlled non-profits, not out-of-state profiteers. The fact that LePage is angry at it should tell you that the Maine Charter School Commission is doing a good job of protecting Maine students against the ruinous, self-serving agenda of our unqualified education commissioner and our renegade governor.

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Irving Brookings Wright Jr., 84DRESDEN — Irving Brookings

Wright Jr., 84, died Jan. 7 after a brief illness.

He was born in Bath on Aug. 2, 1928, the son of Irving B. Wright and Lura Pearl Davis. He attended Bath schools and worked at the Wing Farm until join-ing the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Korea, receiving two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star.

Wright was employed at Bath Iron Works for 14 years and at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for seven years. He also

Elizabeth M. Berry, 82BATH — Elizabeth M. Berry, 82, died

Jan. 6 at her home surrounded by her family.

She was born in Bath on Aug. 12, 1930, the daughter of F. Horace Jr. and Kathleen J. Ritall.

She attended Georgetown and Bath schools and was later employed by Stin-son Canning Factory, Congress Sports Wear and by the late dentist Hurbert T. Caverly.

Berry loved wintering in Florida with her husband and traveling to Five Islands in the summer. She loved her family, garage sales and shopping. She also en-

Angela Mary Caruso, 97: Defied all oddsBRUNSWICK — Angela Mary Ca-

ruso, 97, died Jan. 8.She was the wife of the late Joseph

S. Caruso and a long time resident of Everett, Mass. Caruso was born in East Boston, Mass., on March 21, 1915, the daughter of Joseph ad Mary Grilli. She was raised in Everett and graduated from Everett High School in 1933.

She was afflicted with polio at the age of 18 months and was one of the first sur-vivors of electric shock treatment, which proved to be successful for her disease. Told she would always have difficulties walking, she defied all odds by not only walking and dancing but with extensive travel, white-water rafting and hot-air ballooning into her 80s and 90s.

Caruso graduated with an associate’s degree from Salem State College and ran her own sewing business, specializing in invisible mending. She also retired from the U.S. Postal Service, where she sorted mail for many years and directed the Boston Post Office Choir.

She was a devoted mother, loving grandmother and proud great-grand-mother.

A deeply devout Roman Catholic, Ca-ruso was one of the original parishioners of St. Anthony’s Chruch on Oakes Street in Everett.

She is survived by her children Virginia Caruso of Brunswick and John Caruso and his wife, Virginia, of Ocoee, Fla.; two grandchildren, John Caruso of Chicago, and Christy Williams of East Brunswick, N.J.; three great-grandchildren, Ethan Murdock, Catlyn Celeste and Ronan Sal-vatore Williams; her brother, Joseph M. Grilli and his wife, Jennie; Louisa Grilli; and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted Jan. 11 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Brunswick. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, ME 04011.

joyed visiting local nursing homes and was a member of the Five Islands Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband, Edwin O. Berry; daughter Kathleen E. Perkins; grandson Michael Perkins and his wife, Christine, and their four children; grand-daughter Melissa Peterson and her hus-band, Eric, and their two children; grand-daughter Michelle Long; granddaughter Melinda Houseon and her husband Greg, and their three children; sister Beverly Berry and her husband, Arthur; a niece and two nephews; and many cousins.

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Wright enjoyed spending time at his camp with his family and friends.

He was predeceased by his wife of 40 years, Beverly Yeaton Wright, in 1995.

He is survived by his children Vanessa Reynolds, Vance Wright and his wife, Tashar, Kimberly Brassard, Todd Wright and Mark Wright; seven grandchildren; a great-grandson; a sister; a brother; and many nieces and nephews.

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BOSTON — Marilla Rose Feldman, daughter of Samuel Feldman and Skioka Kudo, died shortly after birth in a Boston hospital on Jan. 4.

She is survived by her parents; twin sister, Maya Rachel Feldman; paternal grandparents Michael and Mary Beth Feldman of Bowdoin; maternal grandpar-ents Makoto and Etsuko Kudo of North-vale, N.J.; great-grandparents Lucille Hornbeck of Brunswick, Emi and Uta Shirase of Akita Prefecture, Japan, and Fumiko and Tamotsu Kudo of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Shirley Gilliam, 75BRUNSWICK — Shirley Gilliam, 75,

died Jan. 8 after losing her battle with cancer.

She was the daughter of Charles and Marguerite Lessner. She was born in Damariscotta in 1937, and lived and raised her family there until 1964, when she moved to Bath.

She cooked for and managed the snack Allan James Caldwell, 93

BRUNSWICK — Allan James Caldwell, 93, died Jan. 12.

Born and raised in Burlington, Vt., Caldwell graduated from the University of Vermont in 1941 and from Harvard Busi-ness School in 1943. Weeks later he en-tered the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant assigned to the Quartermaster Corps. Over the next three years, he served in Eng-land, France and other theaters of World War II, eventually being transferred to the Air Transport Command and finally discharged as a captain in 1946.

Four years later, during the Korean War, the U.S. Air Force recalled Caldwell and he served until 1952.

He worked at Hartford National Bank in Connecticut from 1946 to 1977, and re-tired as senior vice president and treasurer of the Hartford National Corporation. He then moved to Maine where he worked as a vice president and commercial loan officer at Canal Bank in Portland before again retiring in 1984.

Outside of work, Caldwell was presi-dent of the Hartford-area UVM and

Harvard Business School alumni groups, president of Junior Achivement of Hart-ford and a long-time treasurer of the YMCA in Hartford. He served as chair-man of the Simsbury, Conn., town board of finance and as chairman of the board of finance for the First Congregational Church there.

In Maine, he was an active member of the First Parish Church in Yarmouth.

Caldwell enjoyed skiing, tennis, read-ing, travel, trains, summer afternoons on the beach and good food and drink.

Most of all he loved his family.He is survived by his wife of 59 years,

Dinah Caldwell of Brunswick; son Jamie and his wife, Kathy of Avon, Conn.; son Phil and his wife, Alice, of Yarmouth; son Rob and Emily Harradon of Port-land; granddaughter Hannah Caldwell of Darien, Conn.; and stepgranddaughter Caroline Nash of Oregon.

The family would like to thank the staff at Thornton Hall and Mere Point in Bruns-wick for their care of Caldwell.

A memorial service was held Jan. 16 at

First Parish Church in Yarmouth. In lieu of flowers, donations may be

made to the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry, c/o Yarmouth CAN, P.O. Box 533, Yarmouth, ME 04096.

bar at Yankee Lanes in Brunswick.Gilliam’s whole life was dedicated to

her family, and she took great pride in her role as a daughter, wife, mother, grand-mother, sister and friend.

She was predeceased by her husband, Frank Gilliam.

Gilliam is survived by her son, David Jacobs; daughter, Nancy Bulges; son-in-law, Frank Bulges; granddaughter, Crystal Bulges; grandsons David Jacobs Jr. and William Pinkham; sister, Mabelle Sykes; and many nieces and nephews.

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Arrests1/8 at 3:27 p.m. Dale E. Havens, 33, of River Road, was arrested on Columbia Avenue by Officer Justin Dolci on a warrant.1/10 at 8:36 a.m. Hallie O’Connor, 21, of Simon Willard Road, Concord, Mass., was arrested on Medical Center Drive by Officer Jonathan O’Connor on a charge of operating under the influence.1/11 at 11:38 a.m. Harold H. Owen IV, 24, of Dunning Street, was arrested on Dunning Street by Officer Daniel Sylvain on a warrant.1/11 at 7:42 p.m. Derek J. Elliot, 21, of Farley Road, was arrested on Farley Road by Officer Edward Yurek on a warrant.1/11 at 11:57 p.m. David L. LaFave, 37, of Pleasant Street, was arrested on the corner of Lincoln and Maine streets by Officer Patrick Scott on two warrants and a charge of refusing to submit to arrest or detention.1/12 at 12:58 a.m. Kyra J. Graffam, 25, of Cushing Street, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Sgt. Paul Hansen on a charge of assault.1/13 at 1:22 p.m. Christopher L. Lunt, 21, of Cedar Lane, Freeport, was arrested on Baker Road by Officer Daniel Sylvain on a charge of operating under the influence.

summonses1/10 at 12:32 a.m. Derek J. Elliot, 21, of Farley Road, was issued a summons on Farley Road by Officer Jason McCarthy on a charge of assault.1/12 at 3:28 p.m. Kim Gauthier, 37, of Oak Street, Lewiston, was issued a summons on River Road by Marine Patrol Officer Paul Plum-mer on a charge of operating with suspended registration.1/13 at 12:23 a.m. Joshua J. Robbins, 31, of Independence Street, was issued a summons on Maine Street by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of operating while license suspended or revoked.

Fire calls1/8 at 9 a.m. Vehicle crash on Bath Road.1/8 at 9:25 a.m. Medical emergency on Bari-beau Drive.1/8 at 9:29 a.m. Medical emergency on Mallett Park Road.1/8 at 10:10 a.m. Medical emergency on Lincoln Street.1/8 at 10:52 a.m. Vehicle crash on Bath Road.1/8 at 12:56 p.m. Medical emergency on Maurice Drive.1/8 at 7:51 p.m. Medical emergency on McLel-lan Street.1/9 at 2:26 p.m. Medical emergency on Jordan Avenue.1/9 at 2:50 p.m. Medical emergency on Ba-ribeau Drive.1/10 at 3:40 a.m. Medical emergency on Stone Street.1/10 at 4:12 p.m. Vehicle crash on Pleasant Street.1/10 at 8:12 p.m. Medical emergency on Pej-

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1/8 at 12:37 p.m. Ian Strang, 26, of Turner, was arrested on Lewiston Road by Officer Troy Garrison on a charge of operating under the influence.1/9 at 6:04 p.m. Alison Harding, 27, of Maple Street, was arrested on Mallett Drive by Sgt. Mark Gilliam on charges of theft by unauthor-ized taking or transfer and violation of conditions of release.

summonses1/11 at 6:04 p.m. Jean Wolkens, 43, of Meadow Road, was issued a summons by Sgt. Mark Gil-liam on a charge of operating under the influence.

Fire calls1/8 at 4:13 p.m. Shed on fire on Felspar Circle.1/8 at 5:35 p.m. Fire alarm on Eagles Way.1/9 at 11:11 a.m. Medical call on Riverview Drive.1/11 at 7:49 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Lewiston Road.11/11 at 2:29 p.m. Mutual aid to Brunswick.11/14 at 10:50 a.m. Fire alarm on Sky-Hy Drive.

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1/12 at 1:17 p.m. Anthony Bullentini, 43, of Yarmouth Road, Gray, was arrested on Water Street by Officer Richard Ross on a charge of violation of a protection order.1/12 at 9:54 p.m. Eric Harris, 21, of Middle Street, was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Brett McIntire on a warrant.1/12 William Churchill, 48, of Pleasant Street, was arrested by Officer Jason Aucoin on charges of operating under the influence and operating after habitual offender revocation.

summonses1/10 A 13-year-old male, of West Bath, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on a charge of assault.1/10 Tina Donovan, 41, of Middle Street, was issued a summons on Washington Street by Officer Brett McIntire on a charge of criminal mischief.1/12 Shawn Milliken, 40, of Eider Lane, Top-sham, was issued a summons on Washington Street by Officer Michelle Small on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.

Modular mayhem1/8 at 8:06 a.m. Offier Ted Raedel responded to a report that someone punched holes into the drywall of a section of a modular house. The piece, which had been sitting in a vacant lot on Middle Street, sustained about $200 worth of damage. Police have no leads or witnesses.

Fire calls1/8 at 7:20 p.m. Oven fire on Windjammer Way.1/9 at 11:26 a.m. Carbon monoxide check on Bluff Road.1/9 at 3:28 p.m. Carbon monoxide check on Floral Street.1/10 at 11:31 a.m. Wire down on Windlass Court.1/10 at 12:14 p.m. Wire down on Whiskeag Road.1/11 at 12:26 p.m. Odor investigation on Elm Street.1/11 at 2:35 p.m. Structure fire in Brunswick.

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The Portland Performing Arts Festival recently received a $4,000 grant from the Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Com-munity Foundation in support of the expan-sion of the festival’s activities in 2013.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra re-cently received a first-year Getty Education and Community Investment Grant. The grant was awarded to develop the orches-tra’s music and wellness program and is in recognition of its innovation and dedication to increasing its relevance to the community.

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People’s United Community Foundation recently announced that it has awarded a $2,500 grant to Maine Boys to Men. The mission of Maine Boys to Men is to reduce interpersonal violence through programs that support healthy development of ado-lescent boys. The organization also provides assistance and educational resources to parents, teachers and student peers.

Good Deeds

PowerPay hosted its second annual Start Something Big Event in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine. The event, which took place at the Pow-erPay offices, raised over $4,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine.

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The Rotary Club of Breakwater Day-break, South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, in-ducted the following new members: Adam Rothbarth, Russell Strout, Abbey Forcier and David McKenna.

New Hires

Tilson, a Portland-based information technology and telecom services company, recently hired Vicky Park as its new direc-tor. Park will work in Tilson’s telecom group as the director of wireless carrier programs. Prior to joining Tilson, she was a program manager for the U.S. Air Force at Hanscom Air Force Base in Lincoln, Mass.

Avesta Housing recently made sev-eral new hires. Emily Kosnow and Abbie McEwen were both hired as administrative support specialists. Darlene Stuart has been hired as a property manager and Kayla Breese was hired as a resident service coor-dinator. Juana Morcillo Leganes was hired as an accounting specialist.

Leo Maheu was recently hired as an environmental educator for ecomaine, a nonprofit municipality-owned recycling and waste-to-engergy organization. He previously worked for Portland Trails, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and the Merryspring Nature Center.

Penny Wheeler-Abbott and Gregory Im have been hired at Drummond Woodsum. Wheeler-Abbott will work as a nonlawyer policy and human resources consultant. For more than 17 years she worked as a teacher and school administrator and has devel-oped extensive experience in dealing with employee, student and education issues of all kinds. In addition to providing staff and student training for the firm’s school cli-ents, she will be working with private and public sector clients on policy and human resources issues. Im joins the firm’s public sector group, practicing in the area of pub-lic finance. He will work with the finance attorneys on school borrowing and budget issues as well as school recognition matters. Prior to joining the firm, Im worked as an assistant attorney general for Maine, advis-ing and representing various state agencies in the area of contract, finance, leasing and

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Recognition

Kathleen Pierce was recently recognized by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage real estate office in Cape Elizabeth for her outstanding achievements and named Bro-ker of the Month in November for superior sales.

Ellyn Touchette, a Portland poet, won the 2012 Port Veritas Women of the World Poetry Slam competition held on Nov. 27. The win comes on the heels of her first pub-lished book “Dead was the Machine God.”

The Cynthia A. Rydholm Cancer Treat-ment Center was recently awarded a three-year term of accreditation in radiation on-cology following a review by the American College of Radiology.

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Sue McCarthy was recently promoted to commercial services officer at Maine Finan-cial Group. McCarthy joined the company in 1993 as an administrative assistant and was later promoted to office manager and then commercial services specialist.

Stephen Thompson was recently pro-moted to senior customer service associate at the Falmouth branch of People’s United Bank. With the promotion Thompson is responsible for providing quality customer service to everyone who visits the branch. He joined the bank in 2011.

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• Lower cholesterol: Lifestyle fac-tors associated with pet ownership, particularly a focus on increased physi-cal health and activity, can help lower cholesterol levels. Also, having a pet works to reduce stress, which may keep individuals from looking to fatty foods as sources of alleviating anxiety.

• Fight depression: Many therapists have prescribed pet therapy as a method to alleviating and recovering from depres-

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• Improve physical activity levels: Heading to the gym is one way to get a workout, but spending an hour walking the dog or tossing around a ball for a game of chase and fetch is another way to get the heart pumping. Many dog own-ers benefit from the “forced” exercise that goes with daily walks. Some people choose to exercise with their pets, enjoy-ing the companionship and the physical activity.

• Reduce stroke incidences: There has been evidence that cat owners are less likely to suffer strokes than people who do not have cats. Research-ers are not sure of the connection, but surmise that cats have a more calm-ing nature than other types of pets.

• Greater opportunities for socializa-tion: Humans are social animals and need to interact with others. Pet owners have a tendency to want to share time and experiences with other pet owners. Pets can provide opportunities for people to get together.

• ADHD therapy: Children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity dis-order often benefit from working with a

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Editor’s noteIf you have a story idea, a score/cancellation to report, feedback, or any other sports-related information, feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]

Bowdoin men’s hockey keeps winning

BrIan Beard / For The ForecasTer

Bowdoin’s Ollie Koo scores one of his two goals during the Polar Bears’ 5-2 win over

Trinity Saturday.

Bowdoin’s Harry Matheson, right, launches a shot versus Trinity. The Polar Bears improved to 13-1-1 (8-1-1 NESCAC) with the victory.

Bowdoin is back in action Friday at Williams.

Mid-Coast teams hit midway pointLocal teams have reached

the midway point of the 2012-13 winter sports season.

Here’s a glimpse at where things stand and what’s to come:

Boys’ basketballHyde’s boys’ basketball team

began the week 8-0 and second to Forest Hills in the Western Class D Heal Points standings after wins last week over host Islesboro (71-28) and visit-ing North Yarmouth Academy (49-44). The Phoenix goes to NYA Tuesday and plays host to Western C power Waynflete Thursday.

In Eastern A, Brunswick was 7-4 and sixth at press time af-ter Friday’s 55-43 loss at top-ranked, undefeated, defending regional champion Hampden Academy and Monday’s 62-57 home win over Skowhegan. The Dragons are home with Cony Friday and visit Law-rence Monday.

Mt. Ararat was eighth at 4-6 after losing at home to Hamp-den (59-37, despite 18 points from Shyheim Ulrickson) and at Brewer (83-50) last week. The Eagles were at Mt. Blue Tuesday, host Edward Little Friday and visit Oxford Hills Monday.

In Western B, Morse was 4-6 and 10th after losing last week to host Oceanside (67-42) and visiting Waterville (64-43). After hosting Winslow Thursday, the Shipbuilders go to Nokomis Saturday and visit Camden Hills Monday.

Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, Mt. Ara-

rat continues to dazzle with a 10-0 record, good for first in the Eastern A Heals. The Eagles defeated host Hampden (60-30) and visiting Brewer (47-40) last week. Mt. Ararat was at Mt. Blue Tuesday, visits Edward Little Friday and plays host to Oxford Hills Monday.

John JensenIus / For The ForecasTer Hyde’s Joel Harris takes part in the high jump at a meet last weekend.

Hyde’s Xi Wang, right, was eighth in the girls’ mile.

Brunswick hosts winter softball clinicThe 2013 REPS winter softball clinic, featuring personal-

ized instruction in all areas of the game, will be held Sundays through March 17 (excluding Feb. 17 and March 10) from 9 to a 11 a.m., at the Brunswick High School gymnasium. The cost is $75 for eight sessions or $15 per session. The clinic is for players ages 8-13. FMI,[email protected].

Roundup

Brunswick was 2-9 and 12th at press time after beating visiting Hampden, 39-35, and losing at Skowhegan, 59-50. The Dragons go to Cony Fri-day and welcome Lawrence Monday.

In Western D, Hyde is third behind Richmond and Range-ley at 9-0 after beating host Hebron (40-27), Islesboro (41-27) and NYA (49-22) last week. Chloe Blaylock had 12 points against Hebron. Diamond Brown and Katie Comeaux both had 10 versus Islesboro. In the win over the Panthers, Jailene Martinez had 12 points, four rebounds and a blocked shot. The Phoenix is at Kents Hill Friday and wel-comes NYA Tuesday.

In Western B, Morse is 4-6 and 13th after losing at home to Oceanside, 44-25, and edg-ing host Waterville, 33-31. The Shipbuilders were at Winslow Thursday, host Nokomis Sat-urday and welcome Camden Hills Monday.

HockeyOn the ice, Brunswick and

Mt. Ararat’s boys’ teams would both make the playoffs if they began today.

The Dragons were seventh at 4-5 after close losses to Cheverus (4-1) and Scarbor-ough (2-0) last week. Bruns-wick was home with Mt. Ararat Wednesday, hosts Gray-New Gloucester/Poland Satur-day and Cony Monday.

The Eagles beat Edward Little, 3-2, last Thursday, then fell to 3-6 after a 4-1 loss to Skowhegan. After playing at Brunswick, Mt. Ararat goes to Fryeburg/Lake Region Satur-day and Skowhegan Monday.

On the girls’ side, Brunswick was sixth (only five teams make the playoffs) at 4-9 after losing to Cheverus in overtime (6-5), dropping a close game to Scarborough (2-0) and falling

to Leavitt/EL (9-1). The Drag-ons were home with Mt. Ara-rat Wednesday, then welcome defending state champion Greely Saturday.

Mt. Ararat was eighth at

0-12 after losses to Winslow (3-1) and Lewiston (5-0). The Eagles sought their first win Wednesday at Brunswick, hosted St. Dom’s Thursday, then go to St. Dom’s Saturday.


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MusicFriday 1/18Meteora, 7 p.m., Side Door Coffee House, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-7493.

Sunday 1/20Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, 2:30 p.m., Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Ave., Topsham, 846-5378, $18.

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Greater PortlandAuditionsMusica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158.

Books & AuthorsFriday 1/18“The Russian Coup and the Girl,” Kira von Korff, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

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Luis Montalvan book signing, 6-8 p.m., Planet Dog, 211 Marginal Way, Portland, 347-8606.

Tuesday 1/29Page to Stage: “Greater Tuna,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Film Saturday 1/19“How to Survive a Plague,” 7 p.m., SPACE, 538 Congress St., Portland, $7, 828-5600.

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Friday 1/25“Chasing Ice,” 7 p.m., SPACE, 538 Congress Street, Portland, $7, 828-5600.

GalleriesBoys and Girls Club 2013 National Fine Arts exhibit, runs Jan. 20-25, Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Despite Winter, Gardens, 5-7 p.m., Elizabeth Moss Gallery, 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, runs Jan. 17 - March 10, 781-2620.

USM Faculty Exhibition, 4-6 p.m., Woodbury Campus Center, Bed-ford St., Portland, runs Jan. 24 - April 3, 780-5003.

MusicSaturday 1/19Tenley Westbrook, 6:30 p.m., The Church of the Holy Spirit, 1047 Congress St., Portland, 874-9729.

5G Fire and Ice, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, 775-1248, $12.

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Mid CoastBulletinSaturday 1/19Martin Luther King birthday cel-ebration, 11 a.m., outside of Bank of America, Maine St., Brunswick.

Monday 1/21A children’s celebration of Martin Luther King, 10:30 a.m., Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall, Bowdoin Col-lege, 725-3964.

Harpswell Community Blood Drive, 12-5 pm., Kellogg Church, Route 123, Harpswell, call for an ap-pointment or just walk in, 833-5567.

Thursday 1/24First Light Camera Club meeting, 7 p.m., Topsham Medical Building, 4 Horton Place, Topsham, $10, free to members, firstlightcc.com.

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Gardens & OutdoorsOrganic gardening methods, Jan. 13-March 17, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-7694.

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Dylan Martin / the ForecasterCedar Beach/Cedar Island Supporters filled the room at the Jan. 10 Harpswell Board of Selectmen

meeting to ask the town to help reopen access to Cedar Beach.

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mously voted to consider doing so, which means residents of Harpswell could vote within two months on whether they want the town to acquire access to the beach.

But reopening access to Cedar Beach won’t be as easy as just voting for it.

In 2011, Charles and Sally Abramham-son closed off the end of Cedar Beach Road, for which the couple owns - and it effectively blocked access to Cedar Beach (also known as Robinhood Beach) located near Route 24 on the northeast side of Bailey Island.

The question of access to Cedar Beach had been on many residents’ minds for a few years because the road leading to it is owned by the Abramhamson’s.

And the town got close, but ultimately failed, to acquire a right of way in a 2011 vote that was spurred by another group that advocated for the beach’s open ac-cess.

But with nearly two years gone since then, the cards are being played a little differently.

CB/CIS President Michale Helfgott said there are two main differences that separate his group’s attempt to open ac-cess on the beach from past ones.

For one, CB/CIS is working on the foundation created by past groups, like Friends of Cedar Island. Second, the group has enlisted attorney Martin Eisen-stein, of Brann & Isaacson in Lewiston, who is suing the Abramhamsons on their behalf. The attorney also has entered negotiations with other nearby property owners.

Eisenstein is representing CS/CIS on a pro bono, or no-fee, basis.

“The people two years ago didn’t have Marty doing all this fantasitic research for them. He’s done a lot of leg work,” Helfgott said. “He’s doing it for the is-landers - for those around today and for those before them.”

Eisenstein filed a lawsuit against the Abramhamsons on Oct. 24, 2012, in Cumberland County Superior Court, that seeks a declaration that the public has a prescriptive easement on Cedar Beach Road – an action that would allow any-one to pass on through to the beach.

“(Cedar Beach supporters) would like to pass over property owned by the neighbors like they have done since

1930,” Eisenstein said.But to fully make that work, Eisenstein

said the group needs assistance from the town.

And that comes in the form of the Ce-dar Beach warrant article, as proposed by CB/CIS, which the town may vote on at the March 9 Town Meeting if the Board of Selectmen finalizes it at their next meeting.

Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said since the Board of Selectmen have ap-proved consideration of the motion, they will now send it to the Town Attorney to create the official language for the pos-sible warrant article.

Eiane said that means the official lan-guage of the Cedar Beach warrant article might come back to the selectmen as early as their Jan. 24 meeting, where they will possibly decide on whether to put it on the warrant.

“I’m interested to see how the attorney will deal with that,” Eiane said.

But because CS/CIS is litigating with the Abramhamsons and negotiating with others, the language of the Cedar Beach warrant article wouldn’t immediately allow the town to retain access to the beach.

Instead, voters could be asked to vote for appropriating or borrowing a total of

To cultivate tourism in Harpswell, members of the committee mentioned the possibility of creating smartphone or tablet apps, websites, kiosks, maps and brochures.

“I get my business from the world be-cause it’s on the Internet,” said Eric Smith, a member who owns several cottages. “But when (my guests) get here, they don’t know how to get around. We put brochures in the cottages, but most of the time there are still at least half of (the guests) who ask

me ‘what can we do around here?’”O’Hara said the fishing and aquaculture

industries also were major points of discus-sion for the committee members.

He said using education to get young people interested in those industries could do much for the town. More specifically, O’Hara said children as young as 8 and 14 can get limited lobstering licenses, which means lobstermen could potentially pro-vide mentorships that keep future genera-tions interested in the industry.

“It’s an opportunity people don’t seem to be aware of,” O’Hara said.

O’Hara said he thinks work on Harp-swell’s economic development plan is on schedule. After the Feb. 11 public meet-ing, he said his firm will then review all of the data it has collected since September 2012 – including interviews and feedback from meetings – and collate the input into a report.

The firm also will lay out a strategy for how the town can improve its economy, possibly in the three sectors discussed Tuesday.

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$220,000 for the purpose of acquiring public access through Cedar Beach Road, Eisenstein said.

And then, if voters voted for the expen-diture, the town would only release the money if there are documents that prove access has been granted, either through litigation or negotiation.

Eiane said those conditions are similar to the warrant article voters acted on in 2011. The town voted to set money aside for the purpose of opening access to Ce-dar Beach, but the conditions were not met within the time allotted.

“We had the authorization to borrow it,” Eiane said, “but we didn’t because we weren’t able to fulfill the requirements. We weren’t able to close any deals before the year-end.”

Richard Abbondanza, of Hopkinson & Abbondanza, represents the Abramham-sons. He said they “haven’t been able to come to financial terms (with CB/CIS), but we hope to negotiate terms that work with Charles and Sally.”

Abbondanza said the Abramhamsons

are willing to work something out, but they’re disputing the lawsuit.

“First, we don’t think (the plantiffs) met the criteria for granting (a public easement), plus we don’t know where the public will go,” Abbondanza said.

He says this is because Cedar Beach only has an easement for Harpswell residents, which means the beach isn’t technically meant for the public.

Abbondanza said this is why the Abramhamsons don’t want public access – it would be too busy for an area that has no nearby parking, and access for the public never existed since it was always just for Harpswell residents.

Eisenstein said his party would “prefer to negotiate on reasonable terms.”

“And what that means depends on the party,” Eisenstein said. “If we can’t reach an agreement on reasonable terms, we will litigate.”

Eisenstein said the purpose of negoti-ating with other land owners around the road is to “make sure public use of the property is in a responsible fashion” and “try to minimize disruptions in their life.”

Johnson said her support for opening access to Cedar Beach is “all sentiment.”

“I was there at least five days a week (with my four children) and they (now) range from 57 and down to 43,” she said.

Johnson said her son, in particular, who now lives in Florida, would give anything to open access to Cedar Beach again. Johnson recalled that when he was young, he used to go there to take a break from the world.

“If he was sad or happy, that’s where he would go to do his thinking,” Johnson said. “I have a letter he wrote in fourth grade – that was his special place.”

That special place now might get its own spot on the Town Meeting warrant.

“What a wonderful place to bring children up,” Johnson said. “It was just relaxing. My kids learned how to swim down there. I will probably never go down there again, but at least my children will, maybe.”

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

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of the city code if they chose to live there after that point. He previously deemed the building dangerous after he inspected it with a structural engineer last September.

He said Wednesday that the city is tak-ing the matter to West Bath District Court to seek an order from that the Orchards leave the house. If granted, and the Or-chards did not leave voluntarily, the city could take the couple back to court on contempt charges.

Another option could be to have po-lice remove the couple from their home, Davis said, adding that he would rather

it not come to that.“Hopefully they’re going to be living

in safe, decent housing by then,” he said. “... I’d hate to show up there and force them to leave their home.”

Putting the Orchards out on the street is “my absolute last hope as to how this goes,” Davis said, also noting that it is not a foregone conclusion that the judge would rule in the city’s favor.

Alan Orchard, an 81-year-old former carpenter, has acknowledged that the house they have lived in for 26 years is in bad shape, and said he and his 55-year-old wife have tried to find another place, but money is their problem.

Yvonne Orchard has said she and her husband approached the Bath Hous-ing Authority for help, but they were

told there is a two-year waiting list for Section 8 housing – government as-sistance to low-income renters – and a six- to 12-month wait for elderly disabled people.

She said Wednesday that she has not heard anything new about when the apartment would be available, and that she and her husband did not have any-place else to go if they have to leave their home.

She said last month that the city has of-fered them temporary housing in Bruns-wick, but that they declined out of fear of the pipes freezing at their Windjammer Way house.

City Manager Bill Giroux has said that all the city officials involved in the matter have been doing all they can to assist the couple “in every way possible.”Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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alcohol content at the time of the ac-cident allegedly was 0.22 percent, or nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Wolkens, who was transported to Mid-coast Hospital in Brunswick as a precau-tion, but was not seriously injured, is scheduled to appear in West Bath District Court on March 12, according to Police Chief Christopher Lewis.

Wolkens, who ran unsuccessfully last November to represent House District 60 in the Legislature, did not publicly acknowledge the accident or summons until she was questioned Tuesday as she greeted voters outside the polls at the Topsham Fairgrounds.

She said, however, that she had talked privately to people in the community when deciding whether to continue her campaign. Wolkens said she did not consider going public about the incident because, while she understands it is a

matter of public record, “I also feel like it’s a personal thing.”

“I’m mortified that I allowed it to hap-pen,” Wolkens, the only person involved in the accident, said. “... I still want to serve my town. I guarantee it won’t ever happen again. But the biggest thing is that I’m sorry.”

She called the incident a reminder that “everyone needs to be careful.”

“It can happen to anybody, and it hasn’t stopped other people from serv-ing,” she said. “It doesn’t change who I

am; it doesn’t change what I believe in. I know it shouldn’t have happened; I know it was a terrible thing. I’m insanely glad that ... nobody else was involved.”

Wolkens ran for the board against former Selectman Jim Trusiani of Main Street and Finance Committee Secretary Bill Thompson, an Arbor Avenue resi-dent.

Neither Thompson nor Trusiani would comment Tuesday on the charge against Wolkens. Each said it is a private matter.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@


en driving in connection with a single-car accident last month on Meadow Road. Her blood alcohol level at the time of the crash was 0.22 percent, or nearly three times the legal limit, according to police.

Trusiani replaces Andrew Mason, who

stepped down from the Board of Select-men after his election in state House Dis-trict 60 last November. One year remains in his three-year term.

Trusiani Tuesday night said he appreci-ated the votes he received. He has called experience one of his key attributes, and noted the town’s budget deliberations will begin soon.

Thompson said Wednesday that he was

not surprised by the results, given how well-known Trusiani is around town. He is undecided about whether to run again in the next election.

Trusiani served three terms on the Board of Selectmen before being de-feated by David Douglass and Ronald Riendeau last November in a three-way race for two board seats. The 52-year-old has lived in Topsham nearly all his life,

and has worked as an equipment operator with Harry C. Crooker & Sons.

Trusiani’s public service includes a committee that looked into consolidation of School Administrative District 75 with the Lisbon school district. He has chaired the Sagadahoc County Budget Advisory Committee for four years.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@


Wolkensfrom page 1

Electionfrom page 1

Orchardsfrom page 1 Here’s how to help the Orchards

Among the efforts to aid Alan and Yvonne Orchard is a donation fund in their name, available at any Norway Savings Bank. A campaign at indi-

egogo.com/help-the-orchards, which aimed to raise $1,500 for the couple by Dec. 31, 2012, received $450.


vices, report writing and database manage-ment from the planning office.

The town’s tree warden, Kyle Rosen-berg, with the help of the planning office, plans to coordinate volunteers and students to work with the Tree Committee on the project, which will create a new tree inven-tory database for the town.

“The database will help us ... in our mapping,” Melanson said. “We’re going to have a ... geographic information database (and will) have a report that will get into

tree distribution,” with elements like condi-tion, size, value, species and location.

The next piece of the project will be development of a management strategy, according to Melanson, who said it will ask “are we meeting the goals of having trees along our streets, and how do we take care of those better than we currently do? Basically, the inventory will help us plan better for trees that we have, and trees that we’ll be planting in the future.”

The town plans to conclude its reporting by early autumn.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@


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from the private school later this month, younger generations in Brunswick and sur-rounding areas will have their own chance to transform the digital into physical.

“I think the fab lab is a place where (stu-dents) can hold an idea in their hand, take their ideas and turn them into opportuni-ties,” Boisvert said.

Boisvert said non-student individuals will be able to pay a membership fee, while companies can pay on a sliding scale depending on their size.

Boisvert said anyone will be able to use the fab lab for commercial purposes, but it will not be designed for mass manufactur-ing. The fab lab also will be open source, which means people will be able to use existing templates created by others, and create their own.

Boisvert said the equipment for the school is already funded, and she’s now raising funds for staff. With that and hopes to start a commercial facility in Brunswick, Boisvert said she is planning a crowdfund-ing campaign within the coming months.


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