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July 7, 2011 News of Falmouth, Cumberland, North Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport and Chebeague Vol. 25, No. 27

Yarmouth WinsGirls lacrosse beats longtime rival NYA5

Neighbors sensitive to bike path along Yarmouth corridorPage 5

Unsung HeroBailey Island legend Ruth PerryPage 7

Index Meetings ........................22Obituaries ......................12Opinion ............................8Out & About ...................21People & Business ........13

Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................32Sports ............................15

Arts Calendar ................19Classifieds .....................27Community Calendar .....23Great Outdoors ..............14

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Yarmouth Clam Festival: Buy a ticket, win a car, support a nonprofitBy Amy Anderson

YARMOUTH — Each year, the Yarmouth Clam Festival attracts thousands of people who enjoy carnival rides, races, food, music, arts and crafts, a parade and fireworks.

This year, one lucky person may win a new car while supporting local nonprofit organizations.

In an effort to boost support for nonprofits, the Chamber of Commerce has partnered with New England Ford Dealers to give away a 2012 Ford Focus during the 46th annual Clam Festival, which runs Friday, July 15, through Sunday, July 17.

New England Ford will

also sponsor this year’s Main Street parade at 6 p.m. on July 15. The theme is Great American Inventions.

Festival Director Mark Primeau said the partnership with the car dealership is an exciting bonus this year. Tickets for the raffle can be purchased – $10 for one and $20 for three – through a se-cure online payment system. A portion of proceeds from online sales will support the 24 local organizations par-ticipating in the drawing, or a portion of the ticket sales can be donated to the Yarmouth Clam Festival general fund.

“I’m having a ton of fun

AMY ANdERSON / ThE FORECASTERAbove: Director Mark

Primeau holds the 2012 Clam Festival artwork

designed by Betsy McLellan, outside his office in Yarmouth.The

46th annual festival opens July 15 and will include

entertainment, crafts, food and other events.

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SAD 51, Yarmouth schools seek collaborationBy Alex Lear

CUMBERLAND — School Administrative District 51 and the Yarmouth School Depart-ment are expected to form a joint committee to explore op-portunities for collaboration and cost savings.

The Cumber land-Nor th Yarmouth School Board on June 27 unanimously approved a joint resolution to form the task force. The Yarmouth School Commit-tee will vote later this month.

The proposed committee will

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By Emily Guerin and Emily Parkhurst

PORTLAND — Federal stimu-lus funds funneled into Maine may have resulted in a reported 1,600 jobs and improvements to infrastructure all over the state.

Since 2009, the federal govern-ment has awarded $1.4 billion in American Recovery and Rein-vestment Act funds to public, pri-vate and nonprofit organizations throughout Maine. The largest awards went to projects for roads and water main replacements.

The money was awarded to state agencies, which then hired contractors to carry out the proj-ects. Some of the largest awards were to the Maine Department of Transportation and the Portland Water District.

Both PWD and DOT pick con-tractors based on the lowest bids. This process saves money, but can

EMIlY GuERIN / ThE FORECASTERWorkers replace a sewer line on

Washington Avenue in Portland last year. The metal structure protects

them in the event of a trench collapse. Failures to comply with excavation and protective system requirements are among the violations committed

by companies that have received federal stimulus funds for

infrastructure work in Maine.

High cost of low bids: Environmental, safety violators get stimulus contracts

also result in companies cutting corners to achieve the lowest bids.

Many contractors have few or no violations of federal Occupa-tional Safety and Health Admin-istration or state Department of Environmental Protection laws. But in some cases, the agencies awarded contracts to construction companies with histories of violat-ing state and federal laws.

PWD projectsThe Portland Water District

utilized the Maine Drinking Water Project’s State Revolving Loan Fund for 14 projects totaling $4.5 million in southern Maine.

All but $1.3 million of the award was an interest-free loan and will be paid back to the state.

Dearborn Construction of Bux-ton had the lowest bid on two PWD projects: water main re-placements on Elizabeth Street in Portland and Wards Hill Road in

Gorham, totaling $825,000.“We go with the lowest bidder,”

Chris Crovo, a PWD engineer, said of the district’s selection process.

In this case, that meant award-ing bids to a company with several recent OSHA violations, as well as a recent violation of Maine’s environmental laws.

On Sept. 29, 2009, an OSHA inspector fined Dearborn $28,500 for three serious violations, two of which were repeats, meaning the company was cited for the same offense, or one very similar, in the previous three years.

The largest of the fines, $21,000, was a repeat violation for failing to protect employees during excavations. Another re-peat violation, for failing to have daily inspections to avoid trench

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Falmouth board: Super Walmart falls shortBy Emily Parkhurst

FALMOUTH — The Plan-ning Board on Tuesday told Walmart the retailer’s plans for a Super Walmart store have to be revised.

The board tabled a site plan for the store at 206 Route 1, cit-ing several conflicts with town ordinances.

Under the site plan, an existing 92,000-square-foot store would grow to 118,000 square feet, with a 6,000-square-foot garden cen-ter. In addition to razing a Regal Cinemas building and expand-ing into that footprint, the plans include an extension on the back of the existing store.

The plans trigger the town’s Route 1 and Village Center de-sign guidelines, including limits on sign size and requirements for landscape design. Board mem-bers and town staff indicated that plans presented Tuesday did not meet all those standards.

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FALMOUTH — Beginning Friday, July 15, Holy Martyrs Church, 266 Foreside Road, will host a free community supper on the third Friday of every month.

The meal is open to the public and will serve soup, bread, salad and dessert.

The project is meant to compliment a service offered by the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin on Foreside Road. The community meal at St. Mary’s is twice a month, on the second and fourth Fridays of the month.

Holy Martyrs Church officials said the goal is for the project to expand to alternate weeks with St. Mary’s, so every Friday in Falmouth there would be a free

Governor’s son escapes injury in Freeport crashFREEPORT — Gov. Paul LePage’s son,

Paul LePage II, was unharmed last week in a crash that demolished his car on Interstate 295.

Trooper Matt Williams of the Maine State Police said the 22-year-old, oldest son of the governor, was driving northbound Thursday, June 30, at about 6:33 p.m. when he lost control of his 2009 Toyota just south of the Brunswick town line.

Williams said the driver was traveling in a construction zone that was down to a single lane and had been paved earlier in the day. He said LePage’s front driver’s side tire left the uneven roadway and went onto the soft shoulder next to the guardrail, causing him to lose control of the car.

Williams said LePage hit the guardrail head-on, went back onto the roadway, spun around and hit the guardrail again from the rear.

LePage was not injured in the crash, Wil-liams said, adding that alcohol, drugs or distractions were not considered to be fac-

Paul Cunningham / For The ForeCasTer Paul LePage II talks to Freeport Deputy Chief

Eric Sylvain, white helmet, and Capt. Tony Pasquale, red helmet, after LePage lost control

of his car June 30 on Interstate 295 in Freeport.

tors in the accident. No charges were filed.LePage, a resident of Ormond, Fla.,

graduated from college this spring and is visiting his family in Maine. Adrienne Ben-

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nett, press secretary for the governor, said that Paul LePage II is currently determining whether to make his home here in Maine or elsewhere.

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Meeting set on Martin’s Point Bridge project

PORTLAND — The Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting next week about the planned replacement of the Martin’s Point bridge, which car-ries Route 1 over the Presumpscot River between Falmouth and Portland.

The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 13, at 6 p.m. in the green room at Mer-rill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St.

MDOT will take questions and comments from attendees about the project. Additional questions can be directed to MDOT Project Manager Leanne Timberlake, at 624-3422 or [email protected].

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The change was narrowly approved by the state Senate late in the afternoon of its last session before summer recess.

The Senate voted 17-15 June 29 to move funds from suburban and urban areas to the rural areas of the state.

Because the funding estimates are based on the fiscal 2012 budget, the amounts districts receive the following year may be greater, because more funds for schools may be made available in next year’s bud-get.

But urban schools will see smaller in-creases based on the new law.

“The (Essential Programs and Services) formula was implemented six years ago under the Baldacci administration and it has

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been absolutely devastating for rural school districts,” said the bill’s sponsor, Senate President Kevin Raye, R-Perry.

Raye said he sponsored the bill to reverse changes made six years ago that negatively impacted many of the schools in his district.

“We have towns in Washington County ... that are land-rich and income-poor,” he said, adding that because the formula was based on property value, communities that had large amounts of waterfront property, but more than 50 percent of students on the federal free or reduced-cost lunch pro-gram, were expected to pay more for their children’s education than they could afford.

However, some senators said the bill was pushed through at the last minute and was intentionally delayed so those opposed would not have the votes to kill it.

Sen. Justin Alfond, D-Portland, said the bill stands to benefit its sponsor the most.

“Twenty-eight out of the 35 senators are

losing money or have some split districts, where some are losing and some are gain-ing money,” Alfond said. “For those 28 senators who woke up (June 30) with split districts, you’re going to have to answer to those districts. You can’t hide from this vote.”

Raye’s district is estimated to see an increase of nearly $870,000, distributed between a long list of rural Washington County schools, the most of any senate district in the state.

“That’s a silly argument,” Raye said. “This was done very thoughtfully. Some communities will gain, but not as much as

Area schools stand to lose millions in state fundingthey did under the old formula. It’s difficult to argue the inequities should remain.”

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Cumberland seeks proposals for school conversionBy Alex Lear

CUMBERLAND — The town is look-ing for proposals for conversion of the Drowne Road School to senior housing.

Proposals for the project – which is expected to create about $4 million to $5 million in equivalent taxable real estate – are due by 5 p.m. Thursday, July 27.

The school reuse is the last of three phases in the Village Green Revitaliza-tion Master Plan. In April the Town

Council approved a contract zone agree-ment with Village Green Cumberland, a corporation created by project developer Bateman Partners, for the first phase of that plan. In that phase, the 40.7-acre Doane property will be developed as a 59-lot residential subdivision with a mix of single-family and duplex homes.

Bateman, after receiving permits from the Maine Department of Environmen-tal Protection, is expected to seek final subdivision approval from the town this

month or in August.The School Administrative District

51 Board of Directors voted last year to close the Drowne Road School and use it for other purposes, and to move third grade to the Mabel I. Wilson School. Vot-ers in the Cumberland-North Yarmouth school district supported the decision last month.

As a result, the 17,600-square-foot building has reverted back to the town.

Cumberland’s request for proposals

calls for several development specifics, such as at least 35 units for rental senior housing or independent living, which would each be between 800 and 1,000 square feet, a nurse on site all the time, a community room or library, and on-site parking.

The developer will pay the town $480,000 – the remainder of a bond that funded improvements to the building in the late 1990s – over three years. It will also pay the town $80,000 each year as payment in lieu of taxes, with a negoti-ated escalation clause included to cover annual local tax increases (as long as the town owns the property it cannot receive taxes from it, hence the payment in lieu of taxes).

The developer would lease the building from the town on a long-term basis and reap the revenue generated from running the facility.

Town Manager Bill Shane noted last week that the Town Council supports the conversion of the school. He said the first and third phases of the revitalization proj-ect are expected first, while the proposed second phase could come later.

In that phase, the Public Works and school bus facilities would be moved; six single-family and 12 duplex homes would be built in their place, along with a nearly 43,000-square-foot mixed-use building that would house 20 residential rental units and 14,300 square feet of of-fice or retail space.

The Drowne Road School started as a school, then served as Town Hall be-fore reverting again to a school after the current Town Hall was built in the late 1990s. The town took out two bonds at the same time; one to build the Town Hall and the other to renovate and expand the Drowne Road School.

While it used the school, SAD 51 made annual payments to the town for the work to that building, and $480,000 remains on that $1.7 million renovation bond.

Shane said he hopes the town will have an option agreement on the building by mid-August. The project will then need site plan approval by the town.

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


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Neighbors sensitive to bike trail along transmission corridor in YarmouthBy Amy Anderson

YARMOUTH — As momentum builds to construct a six-mile mountain bike trail network along the Central Maine Power Co. transmission lines, neighbors are expressing concerns about the West Side Trail Alliance project.

About a dozen people attended the first neighborhood meeting on June 29 at a barn across from the Fels-Grove Farm Preserve parking lot. The information session, led by Dan Ostrye of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, was an op-portunity for neighbors living between Drinkwater Point Road and Prince’s Point Road to learn more, see maps, ask questions and address their concerns about the project.

The West Side Trail Alliance includes organizations dedicated to building trails from Wyman Station to the railroad tracks near the Applewood subdivision. The group is comprised of volunteers from the Bicycle and Pedestrian, Parks and Land, Sports and Recreation com-mittees, as well as Yarmouth Community Services and the Engineering Depart-ment.

Other contributing organizations in-clude the Portland Chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association,

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Ostrye said the process of notifying abutters and discussing the project with them was not only a directive from the Town Council when it approved the project, but vital for the trail organizers.

While only about 2 feet wide, some of the trails along the first section from Drinkwater Point and Princes Point roads pass close to residential property. The trail incorporates turns and grade changes to control speed and is often determined by the terrain, he said.

“I’m aware that we are doing some-thing in someone’s back yard. It’s impor-tant to get it right,” Ostrye said. “We want to hear what they have to say. For them, it is dealing with the unknown – it’s the ultimate unknown – and that’s what gen-erates a lot of angst and concern.”

One abutter, Jeffrey Verrill of Morton Road, said his concerns relate to several unknowns: hours of operation, parking issues, use at night, dogs, effect on prop-erty values and noise.

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Drinkwater Road.“I’m not opposed to (the project), I just

don’t want people to have access from there,” she said.

Other residents, like Bill Davis of Princes Point Road, voiced concern about the trail weaving in and out of the buffer between their homes and the CMP lines. Davis said he did not want a line of vi-sion from his home to the trail and asked if the trail could be moved in one area near his property line.

While Ostrye said the trail plan was constructed to offer riders and hikers va-riety and shade from the sun, he said he is willing to work with the landowners to modify the plan and accommodate their needs an concerns.

Princes Point Road resident Holly

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Ostrye said appropriate signs would be posted on the trails, but also encour-aged people who use the trails to dress appropriately.

Jim Tasse, educational director of the Maine Bicycle Association, said hunt-ers and bikers co-exist on many trails throughout Maine.

“Bikers run across hunters on rides, but appropriate signage is important to notify all users of the property,” he said.

Bruce Soule of Princes Point Road was concerned about dogs on the trail and


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OSHA Area Director William Coffin said that based on the company’s violation history, either Dearborn has “complete dis-regard for employee safety or they just feel they can get away with it.”

He said if the side of a trench caves in the outcome would be very serious and poten-tially life-threatening for workers.

Dearborn’s pattern of repeat violations for excavation safety continues back to 2002. In the past nine years, OSHA inspected Dearborn nine times and levied more than $60,000 in fines, six for repeat violations.


Dearborn also violated Department of Environmental Protection regulations in 2004 for improperly building parking lots and storage buildings on its Buxton property. The company was fined nearly $4,000 for not first obtaining DEP per-mits for the new construction, but was not formally cited for the violation until three years later.

“Dearborn is a fairly sophisticated com-pany. They constructed on 6.73 acres, more than double over the three-acre threshold without a permit. That’s something we’d expect them to know,” DEP manager Peter Carney said.

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Despite the company’s history of viola-

tions, PWD gave Dearborn two federally funded contracts.

PWD’s Crovo said he was not previ-ously aware of the company’s record, but expressed concern when it was presented to him.

“We don’t think that’s very good,” he said. “But on the other hand, without get-ting into details about what has happened, I don’t know how bad they are. My under-standing is that Dearborn does pretty good work and they are a pretty clean contractor. But let the record speak for itself, too.”

He explained that PWD has an internal inspection process, and has the ability to approach contractors about safety or envi-ronmental concerns. However, he said this rarely happens, and never occurred with Dearborn.

Ronald Dearborn, the company’s presi-dent, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Dearborn is not the only company with a history of violations that received federal stimulus money.

Shaw Bros. Construction of Gorham was awarded an $800,000 contract for MDOT’s Bayside Trail project in Portland, plus a paving overlay project in Saco, and two PWD projects in Portland. The work totaled

$1.5 million, even though the company had violated DEP regulations while working on a PWD project in Gorham in 2007.

According to PWD officials and the DEP notice of violation, the company planted the wrong wetland species while working on the $7.5 million Little Falls Wastewater Conveyance project, and had to remove the plants and reseed the area with native plants to comply with state regulations.

“The clean-up work was less than desir-able,” Crovo said of the contractor’s work replanting the construction area. However, he said that PWD may have given Shaw Bros. the wrong seed mix, so the two enti-ties ended up splitting the cost of replant-ing.

The year before it violated environmental regulations working for PWD, Shaw Bros. violated erosion control laws while working on the new Mercy Hospital building on the Fore River Parkway. Shaw Bros. received a notice of violation, but was not fined.

“We didn’t agree with that fine. We fought that,” Shaw Bros. Vice President and Controller Tom Biegel said.


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Unsung Hero: Ruth Perry, making (and serving) life’s lemonadeBy David Treadwell

HARPSWELL — “Everyone has prob-lems,” 75-year-old Ruth Perry says, “but most problems have the life span of a leaf. You just have to face up to them.”

This Bailey Island legend knows of what she speaks. Perry raised eight children al-most alone because her husband, now de-ceased, favored his booze over his brood. She has seldom had more than two nickels to rub together, according to a friend, and today she gets by on Social Security.

But you’ll never hear Perry complain. What you will hear, from her friends and neighbors, is a constant refrain of praise: “Ruth is amazing. She’s always doing something for others.”

That “something” takes many forms. Space precludes a full listing, but here’s a start:

While she was bringing up her kids, she’d spend time with her ailing parents (father with Parkinson’s, mother with

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After her parents died, she spent a few years preparing the evening meal at the house of her brother, who had Alzheimer’s (and a stroke).

In 2000, she spearheaded the first annual reunion for anyone who ever attended the Orr’s Island School, now closed, and she’s been the prime mover ever since.

Perry spends three days a week at the day-care center her daughter runs so that the kids will be comfortable with her if her daughter needs to run an errand.

For 10 years, she prepared complete Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for islanders in need at the Orr’s Island Meth-odist Church and, later, at the non-denom-inational Island Church on Bailey Island.

If you’re a member of the Island Church you know Perry because it could be argued she is the Church. She is the first to get there and the last to leave. She turns on the heat and the lights. She’ll shovel the walk if it needs shoveling. She sets up the com-munion table and sends out the newsletter.


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What I did on our family vacationEveryone knows that the last day of school signals the

official commencement of summer, as well as the moment when anxious cries begin to rise from parents everywhere who cannot afford at least a couple of weeks of summer camp for their children, or have merely forgotten to send in the registration forms.

For me, it is also a time when thoughts regarding our lack of definitive upcoming summer family vacation plans arise in my noggin, and when I sit back in my wicker chair and ruminate on vacations past.

There predictably comes a moment during every family vacation when I say to myself, or perhaps out loud (with a psychotic gleam in my eye): “Next time, I’m going on vaca-tion alone!” Translated, this means that my children Ophelia, Harold, and Charles have irritated me to the point of my wishing I had used more stringent methods of birth control.

They have individually, or collectively done something that has caused me to mentally calculate how many spa treatments and massages I could have had for the price of taking them on a family vacation. To shelter, clothe, feed and entertain them.

Now, this sentiment isn’t something uttered only by single mothers of three, nor is it limited to the mouths of single par-ents. Or widowed single parents. Anyone who has children has uttered this at some point. And if they haven’t uttered it, they have thought it. And if they say they haven’t thought it, they are lying.

I know this to be true, because I vividly remember feeling this way even when I was married to a living, breathing man. And I have married friends, and I know they often wonder why they, too, have brought their kids along with them on vacation.

Vacation: n. a respite or a time of respite from something.So if we are in search of a respite, why do we usually

bring along the very things we need a respite from? You may as well bring along your taxes, your oral surgeon and your gynecologist, too.

I love my children. They are the bright stars in my uni-verse. I have never honestly wished I hadn’t given birth to them. There have been times, however, when I have honestly wished I hadn’t allowed them to climb into the car with me as I embarked upon my “respite.”

Now, in addition to moment No. 1, there comes a second

moment during every family vacation when I have what I like to call my “little nervous widowhood breakdown.” Translated, this means we have done or seen something that has made me think of Drew, miss him immensely, and has made my heart break for my kids.

Perhaps we are having breakfast in some quaint little town, far from home, and it’s the moment when I see a family. Or, more specifically, a couple. Their teenaged children are walking ahead of them, or their young chil-dren have run off to play. The man puts his arm around the woman’s shoulders, pulling her gently toward him. The woman puts her arm around his waist, and leans her head against his shoulder.

If you’ve been married, you know what they are thinking. They are thinking, “Ahhh, yes. This is how it all started. Just the two of us. Just the comfort of one another. No matter how crazy life gets, no matter how imperfect things some-times see, we still have this. And this is what it’s all about.”

I witness this, and my eyes flood with tears. Always.Obviously, this moment hits many single parents on a

gut level. Whether you’re widowed, divorced or otherwise.I love vacationing with my kids. We have experienced

magical moments and we have treasured memories that we will never forget. But, many times, as a family of four, rather than five, vacations can be bittersweet. So if you are fortunate enough to have an “intact” family, put your head on your spouse’s shoulder – no matter how imperfect life may be – and treasure that comfort.

And if you’re brave enough to venture off on vacation, alone with your kids, “may the Force be with you.”

A response from Yarmouth school chief

Your editorial (“Hear no Evil”) reminds me that when we oversimplify an issue, we overlook common sense.

A complaint about how cafeteria employees handled lunch is not a direct concern of a school committee, whose role is clearly defined by law. A Yarmouth policy addressing complaints outlines an appropriate process.

Whether or not I agree with Cape Elizabeth’s policy, I understand the logic. Without prior notice, there is no way to adequately prepare to address the issue. Therefore, the public comment may bring about more misunderstandings than understandings.

You mention that SAD 75 has a policy that prohib-its non-agenda comments and that the super-intendent in-formed you that the policy is not enforced. De-

spite my offer to answer questions about Yarmouth’s policy, you did not ask this question about Yarmouth. As at our June 9 meeting, the Yarmouth School Committee grants requests to speak on issues not on the agenda.

The town of Yarmouth is blessed with respectful citizens who voice their concerns to appropriate individuals for a quick resolution. In some towns, bad-mannered individuals waste town resources and valuable meeting time to satisfy their own egos rather than for improved public discourse. School boards have the right and responsibility to enact rules to ensure that business can be carried out in an efficient and effective manner.

I invite any citizen of Yarmouth who would like the School Committee to revise any of our policies to let us know. We continually revise policies to meet the needs of our school community.

Judy Paolucci, superintendent of schoolsYarmouth


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A year without summerUnless I’m mistaken, 2011 is shaping up to be an-

other year without a summer, at least not much of one.Here we are sailing into July and I haven’t been to

the beach yet, we don’t have the raft out at the lake, and next week is Clam Festival. Having lived in Yarmouth 30 years now, I have come to regard Clam Festival, always the second week-end in July, as summer’s halfway point.

I know, I know, sum-mer only officially started June 21, but as my late, great friend Carlo Pittore used to sing, “There’s only two seasons in Maine – winter and the Fourth of July.”

Actually, because the season is so short, rarely more than 10 weeks, Main-ers tend to measure sum-mer from Memorial Day to Labor Day, even though mud season often doesn’t end until well into June and fall often comes crashing down on us in mid-August.

Yesterday I picked a flat of strawberries at Max-well’s in Cape Elizabeth and Carolyn made jam after supper, so we will have a taste of summer all year. But the cool, dry nights and the absence of heat wave tell my body that it’s not really summer yet.

The historical “Year Without a Summer” was 1816, when ash thrown into the atmosphere by the eruption of Mt. Tambora the year before lowered the average global temperature by a single degree. You wouldn’t think 1 degree would make any noticeable difference, but it snowed in Maine in June, and frost kills and crop failures triggered a worldwide subsistence crisis.

You may have noticed that last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released data that showed that the 30-year normal temperature in the

United States is now 1.5 degrees warmer than it was in the 1970s. Oh yuh, baby, you climate change deniers can cruise around in your big-mother trucks bragging about your huge carbon footprints, but you’re gonna burn right along with the rest of us. Being stupid doesn’t exempt you from the laws of nature.

Screw with the environment and it’ll screw you right back, Bubba. It’s not just that it’s getting warm-er, it’s that temperature changes in the air, the earth, and the water set off systemic changes. An increase in violent weather events is one price we are paying already. Floods of historic proportions inundate the Midwest and we’ve now got tornadoes touching down in New England. In fact, the U.S. has seen an almost three-fold increase in tornadoes (1,411 versus 507) in the first five months of 2011, compared to the same period last year.

OK, so it’s going to be a while before melting ice caps cause enough sea level rise to drown coastal Maine, but small temperature changes can have subtle and unforeseen consequences. Last year’s long, hot summer, for example, prompted bees to stay active well beyond the pollen season, resulting in a 40 percent honeybee die-off. Big deal, right? Unless of course, you’re trying to pollinate plants to feed a hungry planet.

But not to worry, Mr. & Mrs. V8-Powered SUV, the thermometer seems to be swinging back this summer. Even on sunny days, the heat of the sun is subverted by a coolness left over from winter and implicit of the fall. Stick your hand out the window at 80 mph and feel the winds of change.

It’s kind of like having fever and chills at the same time.

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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As New Jersey goes, so goes Maine

“Kiss my toxic landfill” asks Edgar Allen Beem? No, kiss my toxic governor.

Paul LePage is following the script from Tea Party Cen-tral. It is written, it is being implemented, and no public opposition will influence the plan. I come from New Jersey, where toxic wastes have forced the closing of beaches, turned rivers orange, saturated aquifers, and since the 1980s have been left to the state DEP to solve – at horrendous tax-

payer expense. Today, New Jer-sey’s principal toxic waste sits in the governor’s office: Chris Christie, maybe

not a “model for the nation” as the Tea Party claims, but a model for Paul LePage.

Of course, the Tea Party-GOP wants to eradicate all public ownership for transfer to profiteers. Of course, it wants to subjugate workers to lower wages, remove their health care, nullify the rights to organize and petition, and purge their retirement funds. Of course, the Cantor-Ryan Tea-Party deficit plan targets all money spent on people. Of course, the FOX News demagogues blame the poor, the disabled and the elderly for the trillions that went to specu-lators, Wall Street derivative schemes, hedge funds, bond vigilantes and two wars. And of course, the Democrats and President Obama rubber-stamp all of it.

“As goes Maine, so goes the nation” is a myth today, for it is the other way around. If you want to know where Paul LePage will take Maine, just follow New Jersey.

Michael T. BucciDamariscotta

The lesson of Falmouth’s election

The June 14 Falmouth municipal election results showed us what happens when motivated voters truly get into the political process.

There are some who feel the use of political signs has gone way too far however, this year’s old-style political activities were in part a direct result of this increase in sign usage. I pray that our elected representatives will recognize this fact and not attempt to restrict sign use during these important activities.

The referendum vote on the Lunt and Plummer-Motz school reuse failed. The term mandate is being kicked around by both sides of the issue. The fact is the electorate said no to the proposal and that means it is time to move on.

Several candidates who supported Question 1 were elected. This fact should be recognized as meaning those who cast votes for these candidates may not have been in favor of the reuse referendum.

Perhaps the most important conclusion of the election results is that we need to pay attention to each other. The most important lesson for our representatives is to never forget that you were elected to represent the best interests of all of Falmouth. Those elected to represent us must put aside personal wishes and decide if a project is fully in the

best interest of the residents and taxpayers of Falmouth.Falmouth politics is finally moving back to the people.

Bill LuntFalmouth

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Analysts, a company that was contracted to negotiate or renegotiate contracts that we are already overpaying on for goods the department uses every day, such as paper.

The cost to do this to every taxpayer in Falmouth is 50 percent of any savings that ERA can achieve. Aren’t we finally at the point where we have to demand that School Board members stop attacking their critics and become at-tentive to what is going on in the district office and start to do the job they were elected to do: manage our tax dollars instead of wasting them?

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6/28 at 12:34 p.m. Patina M. Jolly, 36, of Portland, was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Jeff Pardue on a charge of failure to obtain a driver's license within 30 days of changing residence and on a warrant.

Summonses6/19 at 2:39 a.m. Michael D. LeBlanc, 21, of Hillside Avenue, Cumberland, was issued a summons on Foreside Road by Officer Stephen Hamilton on a charge of operating under the influence.6/22 at 10:23 a.m. Gregory Mikkelsen, 45, of Caleb Street, Portland, was issued a sum-mons on Route 1 by Officer Steven Townsend on a charge of operating after a license was suspended.6/24 at 8:47 p.m. Michelle V. Vazquez, 34, of Gray Road, was issued a summons on Gray Road by Officer Kerry Warner on a charge of violation of a protective order.6/26 at 10:23 p.m. Nathan J. Andrew, 34, of Kennebunk, was issued a summons on Allen Avenue Extension by Officer Jeff Pardue on a charge of operating an unregistered motor vehicle.6/27 at 2:33 p.m. Debra A. MacDonald, 50, of Skillin Road, Cumberland, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Officer Steven Townsend on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.6/28 at 10:01 a.m. Lindsay K. Sterling, 36, of Hunter Road, Freeport, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Officer Jeff Pardue on a charge of operating an unregistered motor vehicle.6/28 at 6:09 p.m. Lauren H. Leavitt, 22, of Reddic, Fla., was issued a summons on Foreside Road by Officer Kerry Warner on a charge of operating after a license was suspended.6/29 at 9:46 p.m. A 17-year-old boy, of Fal-mouth, was issued a summons on Foreside Road by Officer Dean Mazziotti on a charge of possession of marijuana and sale/use of drug paraphernalia.

No leads6/25 at 11:41 a.m. A resident on Blackstrap Road called police to report three men and a dog going door to door. Officers investigated and discovered the men had caught a loose dog and were trying to find its owner. The dog was reportedly returned to the dogsitter.

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Re-rooted7/1 at 6:12 a.m. A Walmart employee called police to report vandalism of a tree in front of the store. Police investigated and found, based on tire tracks in the mulch, that the tree had been struck by a tractor trailer truck. Another damaged tree was located near the back of the store. Police concluded that the damage was not done intentionally, and was likely caused by an inexperienced truck driver.

Fire calls6/26 at 5:15 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on I-295.6/27 at 12:36 a.m. Train/car crash on Leigh-ton Road.

6/27 at 9:18 a.m. Fire alarm on Blueberry Lane.6/28 at 10:25 a.m. Elevator alarm on Route 1.6/28 at 12:19 p.m. Lines down on Mountain Road.6/28 at 6:17 p.m. Gasoline spill on Depot Road.6/29 at 12:37 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Route 1.6/29 at 5:47 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on I-295.6/29 at 7:37 p.m. Fire alarm on Waters Edge Road.6/30 at 10:16 p.m. Life safety inspections on Foreside Road.6/30 at 11:01 p.m. Electrical fire in residence on Applegate Lane.6/30 at 2:17 p.m. Life safety inspections on Route 1.6/30 at 3:45 p.m. Life safety inspections on Woodville Road.6/30 at 3:46 p.m. Fire alarm on Northbrook Drive.6/30 at 6:57 p.m. Fire alarm on Hardy Road.7/1 at 1:24 p.m. Electrical fire in residence on Blackstrap Road.

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6/28 at 2:36 p.m. Gregory K. Scott, 56, of Merrill Road, was arrested by Officer Paul Chenevert on Hedgehog Mountain Road on charges of criminal trespass, theft of services, assault and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.7/2 at 10:49 p.m. Lawrence E. Gordon, 52, of Durham, was arrested by Officer Brandon Paxton on I-295 on a charge of operating under the influence.7/2 at 1:58 p.m. Qun Liu, 61, of Morganville, N.J. was arrested by Officer Paul Powers on Main Street on a charge of unlawful sexual contact.7/4 at 9:54 p.m. Roberto Julian Flores, 21, of Texas, was arrested by Officer Brandon Pax-ton on Middle Street on charges of disorderly conduct, offensive words and gestures, and refusing to sign a criminal summons.

Summonses6/28 at 6:14 p.m. Barbara Chamberlain, 46, of Auburn, was issued a summons by Sgt. Nathaniel T. Goodman on Main Street on a charge of unauthorized taking or transfer.7/1 at 10:21 p.m. A 17-year-old boy of Dur-ham was arrested by Officer Brandon Paxton on Durham Road and Gay Drive on a charge of possession of marijuana.

Doggone fireworks7/4 at 9:36 p.m. According to police, a black lab was startled by the fireworks and got loose from its owners. Someone found the dog and turned it over to police until the owners could be located.

Fire calls6/28 at 2:12 p.m. Fire alarm on Lower Main Street.6/28 at 8:15 p.m. Fire alarm on East Street.6/29 at 9:50 p.m. Vehicle accident on I-295 North.6/30 at 9:40 a.m. Fire alarm on Flying Point Road.6/30 at 6:30 p.m. Vehicle accident on I-295 North.6/30 at 9:11 p.m. Medical emergency on Durham Road.7/1 at 1:59 p.m. Fire alarm on Lower Main Street.7/2 at 9:52 a.m. Vehicle accident on I-295 South.7/4 at 10:54 p.m. Medical emergency on Acorn Ridge Road.

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There were no arrests or summons reported from June 26 to July 3.

Kitchen critter6/27 at 7:30 a.m. Police were contacted by a resident of Princes Point Road to report an animal in their kitchen. Police notified the animal control officer who removed the critter after an hour and a half. Police did not report what kind of animal was in the kitchen.

Fire calls6/27 at 1:51 a.m. Medical emergency on Portland Street.6/27 at 7:04 p.m. Fire alarm on East Elm Street.6/28 at 9:19 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on East Elm Street.6/28 at 11:39 a.m. Fire alarm on Portsmouth Court.6/30 at 8:05 a.m. Fire alarm on Forest Falls Drive.6/30 at 2:16 p.m. Medical emergency on East Elm Street.6/30 at 9:00 p.m. Structural fire on Odell Way.7/1 at 8:23 a.m. Vehicle accident on I-295 South.7/1 at 1:44 p.m. Fire alarm on Bayview Street.7/1 at 9:58 p.m. Fire alarm on Portland Street.7/2 at 9:01 a.m. Brush, woods fire on Lafay-ette Street and Fairwind Lane.7/2 at 9:49 a.m. Vehicle accident on I-295 South.

EmSYarmouth emergency medical services re-sponded to 14 calls from June 27 to July 3.

CumbErlandarrests

6/25 at 2:06 a.m. Jimmy Cofran, 50, of Sligo Road, North Yarmouth, was arrested by Of-ficer Ryan Martin on Greely Road on a charge of operating under the influence.6/27 at 11:58 p.m. Scott Harmon, 26, of Hazel Street, Auburn, was arrested by Officer

Antonio Ridge on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses6/26 at 4:30 p.m. A 16-year-old boy, of Cumberland, was issued a summons by Officer Kirk Mazuzan on Tuttle Road on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and burglary.6/26 at 8:47 p.m. Kyler David Morton, 18, of Cleaves Street, Yarmouth, was issued a summons by Officer Chris Woodcock on Tuttle Road on charges of possessing marijuana and illegal transportation of drugs by a minor.

Illegal Foodstop shop6/21 Police were informed of a burglary at the Foodstop on Main Street that had occurred the night before. The burglar reportedly entered the building through an unlocked window and stole lottery tickets, cigarettes, and other items. A backpack found on a Farwell Avenue resident's deck on June 25 was determined to belong to 16-year-old boy, who allegedly admitted to the crime. He was issued a sum-mons at the police station on June 26 on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and burglary.

Fire calls6/24 at 4:43 p.m. Oven fire on Clugston Drive, Chebeague Island.6/25 at 6:21 p.m. Unattended burn on Kathy Lane.6/26 at 5:45 p.m. Fire alarm sounding on Ledge Road.6/28 at 11:58 a.m. Medical call with fire response on Main Street.6/28 at 5 p.m. Motor vehicle accident at Main Street and Winn Road.6/29 at 10:58 a.m. Power lines down on Main Street.6/30 at 7:47 p.m. Fire alarm sounding on Tuttle Road.

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Born Mary Margaret Andrews in Burl-ington, Vt., on Dec. 22, 1926, she was a

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She travelled with her adoptive mother, and attended different schools in New England before graduating from Coney High School in Augusta in 1943.

In 1945 she graduated from Boston Uni-versity’s Sargent School in the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with a degree in physical education. She met her first husband, Leonard P. Couture, at the university, and they were married in 1949.

They moved to Waterville in 1953, where they raised their family.

In 1958 she began her 28-year teaching career at Waterville Junior High School as a physical education teacher and later as a health science teacher, where she also coached softball and field hockey. Known for her enthusiasm for physical fitness and good sense of humor, she was loved by both her colleagues and her students.

She eventually received her bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Maine in 1966.

After retiring from teaching in 1986, she

enjoyed traveling in the U.S. and abroad. For many years she wintered in Yuma, Ariz., and spent summers with her children in New Hampshire and Maine, with whom she enjoyed gardening, fishing and boating.

Aside from her teaching career, she enjoyed many hobbies, interests and tal-ents, including a deep love and respect for nature and wildlife. She often took in wild animals, such as squirrels, raccoons, skunks, turtles and ducks that had been orphaned or injured. After nursing the animals back to health, she would release them to their natural habitat. Neighbors eventually dubbed her household, “The Couture Zoo.”

A fierce competitor and believer in physical fitness, she kept active into her 80s, winning more than 100 medals in the Senior Olympics, earning a place in the Senior Olympics 100 Medal Club.

Her competitive spirit extended to card-playing with friends and family. She was also very artistic, and created her own greeting cards that she would send to fam-ily and friends.

With a zest for life, she was known for saying “every day is a good one, if you know what to do with it.”

She is predeceased by her late husbands, Leonard P. Couture of Waterville, Mau-rice Cyr of Belgrade, and Russell Sass of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Addi-tionally, she was predeceased by her son, Joseph Cyr of Plainville, Conn., and by her sister, Mary H. Carter of Pittsford, Vt.

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Putney Inc., a Portland-based pet pharmaceutical company focused on the development and sale of generic prescrip-tion medicines for pets, has promoted Dr. Anthony Lucas to vice president of product development. New hires include David Doll, senior vice president of busi-ness development and Patrick Powell, vice president of sales.

Doug Rowe has joined BerryDunn, CPAs and management consultants, as a senior consultant within the Government Consulting Group specializing in IT and management consulting. Additionally, Sno L. Barry has been elected as prin-cipal at the firm effective July 1.

TD Bank has promoted Jennifer E.H. Sirois of Saco from assistant vice presi-dent to vice president, portfolio manager, in commercial real estate in Portland. Catherine L. Buffum of Saco was pro-moted from commercial loan officer II to the position of commercial loan officer III in commercial lending in Portland.

Downeast Energy has hired Steve Garland of Cape Elizabeth as an energy advisor in the company’s Windham loca-tion. Garland spent the past four years working at the Downeast Energy office in Biddeford.

Norway Savings Bank has promoted Patricia Weigel of Falmouth from the position of executive vice president, com-mercial and retail banking, to president of Norway Savings Bank effective July 1. Robert Harmon, president and CEO, will assume the role of CEO and chair-man of the board at that time. Dan Walsh of Falmouth has been appointed to senior vice president and senior commercial

lender at the bank’s Congress Street office in Portland. Walsh joined the bank in 1997 as a vice president and commercial lender. Norway Savings Bank has also announced the recent promotions of several officers within the company: Anna Cece Colpitts, assistant vice president, commercial credit analyst at the Congress Street office; Kurt Garascia, vice president and investment officer with the Norway Savings Asset Management Group; Cindy Hakala, assis-tant vice president and South Paris branch manager; Anita Hamilton, assistant vice president, commercial credit analyst in the main office in Norway; Irene Millett, assistant vice president, senior commercial credit analyst; Tina Ruhland, assistant vice president, junior commercial lender in the Norway office; Chuck Williams, vice president, finance and accounting; and Pamela Veilleux, assistant vice president, executive administration.

Joe Cardella of Brunswick has joined iBec Creative as a web developer.

Portland realty office RE/MAX By The Bay has added John Chase and the John Chase Team to its growing roster of realtors. Chase Caprio of Falmouth has joined the Dana Trumann team at RE/MAX By The Bay.

City of Portland Fire Chief Frederick LaMontagne recently announced the promotions of three Portland firefighters. Captain David Pendleton, a career fire-fighter with the city since 1985, has been promoted to deputy fire chief. Pendleton has served as island liaison and was most recently the Marine Division captain. Lieutenant Christopher Goodall has been promoted to fire captain. Goodall, a 12-year veteran, is a member of the Fire Investigative Team, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Team, and served as lieuten-ant on Engine Company Six. Firefighter Christopher Alves, a 13-year veteran who serves on Engine Company Six, has been promoted to fire lieutenant.

DeLorme, a Yarmouth-based provider of mapping and GPS technologies, has

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Charles “Chuck” McAllister of Port-land has joined Martin’s Point as vice president of information services. Most recently, McAllister served as director of IT infrastructure at IDEXX Laboratories.

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Reck House Press of Bath recently published the first novel of Brunswick resident Deborah Gould, “Household.” The book is a story of a woman caught up in a pattern of domestic abuse who finds relief in researching the family who lived in her home one hundred years ago. Reck House Press is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book to the Family Violence Project of Au-gusta. For more information, please visit reckhousepress.com/bkhhd.php.

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I have lived in the Port-land area for 58 years and feel embarrassed that I have never taken the time to stop, park the car, and meander through the park to experience the wonder of our own version of New York’s Central Park.

Portland city arborist Jeff Tarling shared with me some wonderful tidbits and trivia about the park. While not technically an old-growth forest, this former woodlot of the Brackett and Deering fami-lies contains about a thousand trees, some 250 years old. There are 60 species of trees within the 54-acre park, and as the name suggests, many are red oak or white oak.

Gazing over the pond at the mallards swimming to and fro in search of the next generous soul with stale bread to share, it is hard to believe this serene pond was once tidal and a part of Back Cove. After the Great Fire of 1866, there was plenty of rubble and debris to dispose of. The mas-sive fill area at the southern arc of Back Cove became part of the earthen barrier that created the pond.

We enjoyed meandering through the magnificent rose garden near the For-

est Avenue main post office on the eastern side of the park, where 600 roses were ready to burst forth in a daz-zling salute to summer. Three of the trees near the garden are listed on Maine’s “Big Tree” list: a yellowwood, a Sibe-rian elm, and a pin oak.

We decided to add in some Portland neigh-borhood exploring and trekked up State Street to the Longfellow mon-ument, and down Con-

gress Street to Maine Medical Center. It is amazing how much one sees and absorbs when the windshield of the car is taken away, and the pace is slowed to a walk.

I remembered a wonderful lunch I enjoyed with my mom at the Roma Cafe years ago. Now the Roma is closed. A huge four-dial Seth Thomas clock, badly in need of restoration, stands at curbside stuck on 7:14. It was placed there in 1925 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hay & Peabody Funeral Home, now out of business. Handsome brick mansions, circa 1884, line this portion of Congress Street, including the Daniel E. Emery Jr. House and Clarence Hale mansion.

At 714 Congress St. stands the home of reformer Neal Dow, often called the “Fa-

ther of Prohibition.” The home is open for free tours Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dow was National Prohibition Party candidate for president in 1880, and received about 10,000 votes; Republican James Garfield defeated Democrat Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock with the narrow-est popular vote margin ever.

(Truly obscure Back Cove- and Gar-field-connected trivia: Garfield graduated from Williams College in 1856, and the president of Williams College from 1937 to 1961 was James Phinney Baxter III, grandson of popular Portland Mayor James Phinney Baxter, who championed the creation of Baxter Boulevard.)

We headed down past the Portland Expo and Ice Arena and back into the refresh-ing shade of the Deering Oaks ravine. A shallow wading pool with timed fountain displays has been created for children and parents to splash about. We walked up onto the arched bridge above the pool and delighted in the shouts of joy from youngsters cooling off on a warm day. At the far end of the ravine sits a tiny pool surrounded by a stone patio and small boulders etched with artwork of oak leaves and limbs. This is a magical spot to reflect on the bounty of the park.

The recently renovated Castle in the Park was built in 1894 as a shelter to escape sudden downpours and a warming hut for winter skaters. Today it houses a

staffed information kiosk. The beloved red-with-white-trim duck house on the tiny island in the pond dates back to 1887. Maybe you will sense the spirit of Longfellow wandering amid the woods, too. His 1855 poem “My Lost Youth” contains a stanza that touches a cord in all of us who sense the years going by all too fast:

“And Deering’s Woods are fresh and fair,

“And with joy that is almost pain“My heart goes back to wander there,“And among the dreams of the days

that were,“I find my lost youth again.”Be sure to check out the informative

Friends of Deering Oaks website (deerin-goaks.org) for a wealth of fascinating historical information and pictures of how the park used to look in the early days of its creation. The Maine Memory Network (mainemem ory.net) also has many classic pictures of the park, including a Passama-quoddy encampment in 1920 in celebra-tion of the state’s centennial.

We can’t wait until the next dental ap-pointment. Maybe next time we will enjoy the park in its foliage colors and meander down to check out Oakhurst Dairy and the USM campus on Forest Avenue.

Michael Perry is the former director of the L.L. Bean Outdoor Discovery Schools and founder of Dreams Unlimited, special-izing in inspiring outdoor slide programs for civic groups, businesses and schools. Con-tact him at [email protected].

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A spring season to savor

FIle PhotoThe Yarmouth girls’ lacrosse team had plenty of hugs to go around after

beating nemesis NYA in the regional final. The Clippers then went on and won the Class B title for the first time in four years.

Why baseball is the best sportBy Bryan O’Connor

July is a beautiful month to be a baseball fan.

The season reaches its half-way point, the All-Star game selection process is always entertaining (even if the game isn’t) and the rest of the month brings endless trade rumors and the occasional actual trade.

Meanwhile, the NHL and NBA playoffs have finally ended after something like nine rounds of best-of-13 series (I think the playoffs started right around Thanksgiving this year).

The NFL is still dormant (maybe for longer than usual this year) and college football players haven’t reported for practice yet.

Wimbledon is wrapping up, leaving the British Open as baseball’s only real competitor for the sports spotlight. And I couldn’t tell you who won last year’s British Open. Could you?

A 2010 Harris Poll named pro football the favorite sport of American fans. While 43

percent of those surveyed prefer pro or college football, just 17 percent considered baseball their favorite sport.

Internationally, soccer has been king for decades, and “for-eign football” is gaining traction in the states, as media access has allowed more Americans to fol-low European soccer. I’m a fan of any competition, especially one involving athletes, but for my money, no sport can com-pete with America’s pastime: baseball.

The most significant factor separating baseball from all other major sports is the lack of a clock. While a lot of casual fans would prefer a faster base-ball game, the lack of a clock can make baseball much more exciting.

Football and basketball teams are praised for their abilities to “eat the clock” late in games. A lead of a certain size becomes insurmountable if the leading team can keep the ball out of the trailing team’s hands. In

baseball, a 6-1 lead in the ninth inning is only safe if the lead-ing team has a great bullpen, and even then, anything can happen. Jonathan Papelbon has been lights out for most of this season, but how many Red Sox fans feel truly confident when he walks the leadoff man in the ninth inning of a three-run game?

Another of baseball’s many selling points is its unique status as an individual game within a team sport. Every interaction involves one pitcher against one hitter, with eight fielders waiting to factor in the result. Because even the best hitters can only bat once every nine plate appearances and teams don’t move defensive players to different positions depending on the current batter’s tendencies, no one superstar can make his team great by himself.

A starting pitcher may have a profound impact on one game (though he can’t win it himself, whatever the errantly-named

pitcher “win” stat wants us to believe), but starting pitchers only play in every fifth game. The best pitcher in baseball last year, Felix Hernandez, played for a last place team, and his team won just 17 of the 34 games in which he pitched. Over a 162-game season, the best hit-ters in the game only add seven to 10 wins over a replacement level player’s production. In bas-ketball, the team with the best player on the field wins most series, as every offensive play can be run through him.

In football, it takes a team to be great, but without a great quarterback, very few teams can post winning seasons. Be-cause baseball’s primary com-petitor for the affections of the American fan is football, I feel compelled to note that, while they may not come easily to newcomers, baseball’s rules make sense. In baseball, a team can only score when one of its

By Michael HofferThe weather was far from ide-

al, but the high school sports ac-tion was memorable this spring.

Lacrosse produced a pair of state champions, one a first-timer, and plenty of drama from start to finish. Falmouth’s boys finally reached the pinnacle, beating NYA in the state game. The Yarmouth girls vanquished recent nemesis NYA in the regional final, then held off Waynflete in a state game thriller.

Baseball sent Greely to the Class B Final and three others to the playoffs, including Yarmouth, which fell to the Rangers in the regional final.

Softball saw three local squads, Falmouth, Greely and Yarmouth, move on to the postseason.

Track had its share of triumph, with some strong individual showings, while two Falmouth tennis teams won it all.

Before we move on to an all-too-short summer, here’s one final look back at the best of the spring season:Northern edition spring

state championsFalmouth Yachtsmen boys’

lacrosse, Class BFalmouth Yachtsmen boys’

tennis, Class BFalmouth Yachtsmen girls’

tennis, Class BYarmouth Clippers girls’ la-

crosse, Class BNorthern edition spring

regional championGreely Rangers baseball,

Western Class BNorthern edition spring individual champions

Outdoor trackMichael Burgess, Greely,

Class B boys’ discusMichael Burgess, Greely,

Class B boys’ shot putMohamed Dahia, NYA, Class

C boys’ 110 hurdlesKatherine Harrington, Greely,

Class B girls’ discusAndrew Kowalsky, Falmouth,

Class B boys’ javelinTanner Storey, Greely, Class B

boys’ high jumpWill Wegener, Falmouth,

Class B boys’ 400

Michael’s Top Five Stories5) Falmouth tennis teams

do it againThe town of Falmouth has pro-

duced first-rate tennis for many years and this spring, for the first time since 2006, both Yachtsmen teams won Class B and did so in emphatic fashion. The boys and

the girls went 12-0 in the regular season, as the girls’ squad didn’t drop a point. That trend contin-ued in the playoffs, as Falmouth blanked Mountain Valley, Cape Elizabeth, Oak Hill and Water-ville to win a fourth consecutive championship. The boys then completed their first title run since 2007 by defeating Morse, York, rival Cape Elizabeth (in a thriller), then Ellsworth.

4) Yarmouth softball posts 14 wins

The Yarmouth softball team missed the playoffs in 2009 and 2010, but the Clippers were

one of the finest teams around this spring. Yarmouth had win streaks of three, five and six games en route to a 14-2 mark thanks to stellar effort from experienced players and some key contributions from valuable youngsters. The Clippers were upset in extra innings by Wells in the quarterfinals, but have returned to top contender status. The program’s future is bright.

3) Greely baseball gets to state final

The year 2011 is odd-num-bered and no one does triumph in odd numbered years like the

Greely baseball team. After winning Class B titles in 2007 and 2009, the Rangers almost did it again this spring. Despite struggling late in the regular season in losses to Yarmouth and Cape Elizabeth, Greely wound up 13-3 and tied the Clippers for the top spot in Western B. After losing a coin toss to drop to second, the Rangers easily dismantled Maranacook, ral-lied past Falmouth, then raced to a big lead before holding off Yarmouth in the regional final. As expected, Greely got a superb pitching effort from

junior ace Mike Leeman in the state final versus Waterville, but couldn’t score, getting shut out for the first time since April, 2005, and falling, 1-0. With most of the team returning, the Rangers will have a great shot at winning it all in an even num-bered year next spring.

2) Falmouth boys’lacrosse has no peer

After falling agonizingly shy of the state final in 2010 (an overtime loss to eventual champion Cape Elizabeth in

FIle PhotosJunior Mike Leeman helped carry Greely’s baseball team to the state

final this season.

FIle PhotosFreeport’s Taylor Saucier was one of many standout runners, jumpers and

throwers in our midst this season.

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File photoThe stellar right arm and potent bat of senior Kelsey Freedman helped the Falmouth softball

team make the playoffs.

File photosSenior Finn Hadlock helped NYA’s boys’

lacrosse team make it to the Class B Final for the first time since 2007. The Panthers lost to

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the regional title game), Falmouth announced from the get-go that 2011 would be its year. The Yachtsmen dominated the Capers, 12-4, in the opener and only stumbled once (an overtime loss at Cape Elizabeth) during a dominant 11-1 regular season. Falmouth had homefield for the playoffs and it paid off as the Yachtsmen edged the Capers in the Western B Final,

11-9. Then, in a perfect display of the balanced, potent offense and smothering defense and goaltending which carried it all season, Falmouth brought down the curtain with a 15-4 win over NYA in the state final, giving the program its first championship. It won’t be the last.

1) Yarmouth girls’ lacrosse wins state final classic

For three successive springs, the Yarmouth girls’ lacrosse team had its season ruined by crosstown rival NYA in the regional final. This year, a core of 12

determined seniors made sure the Panthers nor anyone else would keep them from the pinnacle. The Clippers got off to a domi-nant start in 2011, scoring 16 goals in wins at NYA, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth, but a loss at Waynflete and injuries to se-niors Kate Dilworth and Danielle Torres proved challenging. Showing the heart and intestinal fortitude of a champion, Yarmouth persevered and didn’t lose again, capping an 11-1 regular season with a decisive home victory over Waynflete. The Clippers trailed NYA at halftime of the regional final before coming to life in the second half and hold-ing on for a palpitating 6-5 victory. That was a mere appetizer for the state final

against Waynflete. After waiting nearly two hours after a weather delay, Yarmouth found itself in a knock down, drag out fight to the finish with the experienced Flyers and when senior star Becca Bell was controversially sidelined by a second yellow card early in the second half, the Clippers appeared doomed. But they rose off the deck and wouldn’t be denied. Senior Natalie Salmon had two clutch goals to turn the tide and with 6:40 to play, Torres scored on a free position. Yarmouth held on from there and won Class B for the first time since 2007, 9-8.sports editor Michael hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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offensive players reaches home plate, and every run scores one point. In football, a touchdown is worth an arbitrary six points, seven if a kicker subsequently kicks a ball through goalposts (an activ-ity completely unrelated to the original objective), or eight if the team would rather play more football and score an-other touchdown (though it’s not called a touchdown the second time). For an equally arbitrary three points, a team can choose to forego the end zone and perform that same one-point action for a three-point reward. And let’s not even get started on safeties.

Perhaps the most absurd element of football is “moving the chains”. A team must move 10 yards from the spot of each first down to earn another first down. Except after a touchback, the ball is placed on the field based on a subjec-tive ruling by a referee. The offensive team then gets four downs to move the ball 10 yards. If they get close, that same referee (or sometimes a different one) watches the play, takes his best guess as to where the football was when the player’s knee or body hit the ground and again subjectively places the football where he thinks it should be.

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yards from the original spot, and deter-mines, with ersatz precision, whether the two subjective endpoints are within 10 yards of each other, inevitably resulting in a roar or a groan from the hometown fans. If we have the technology to put a yellow line on the television showing us where the first down line is, couldn’t we be a whole lot more precise in de-termining whether a team earned a first down without a surveying team and its nineteenth-century apparatus?

Baseball would never let this happen. While the sport has been slow to em-brace technology (we’re ready for instant replay, Bud), its rules have remained largely unchanged for over a century be-cause, as obtuse as they may seem, they make so much sense. A ball is fair if it lands (or crosses a base) between the foul lines. A runner is out if he’s tagged (or a forced base is touched) before he gets there. Balls and strikes are subjective, but at least baseball will admit that they are, rather than having an umpire call a pitch a strike and then bringing in six goofballs with rulers and protractors to see if the

batter gets to go to first base anyway.I’ll play or watch just about any sport

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Yarmouth coaching openingsYarmouth High School has coaching open-ings for varsity girls’ basketball and outdoor track. Harrison Middle School is seeking a football coach. FMI, susan_robbins@

Falmouth girl wins tennis tourney

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McAuley’s Topscore basketball camp still has openings. Come and learn from the state champion Lions July 11-15 and 18-22 from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm (12 pm on Fridays). The camp is open for girls ages 9-15. FMI, 797-3802 or mcauleyhs.org.

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NYA coaching openingsNorth Yarmouth Academy is seeking

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Greater PortlandAuditions, Calls for ArtMonday 7/11Auditions for “Sigourney Square Park,” written by Jeffrey Kagan-Mc-Cann of The Blue Moon Chronicles, multiple roles available, prepare to do cold reading from play, 6-8 p.m., Lucid Stage, Baxter Blvd., Portland, performance dates Sept. 7-25, FMI, 899-4440, [email protected] or on Facebook, Pearwater Productions.

Books, AuthorsWednesday 7/13 Katy Rydell, author of a bedtime story, “Wind Says Good Night,” 6:30 p.m., with folk musician Ross Altman, Summer Reading Program event, Freeport Community Library, Library Dr., Freeport, freeportlibrary.com.

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ContributedAn opening reception for a new exhibit of watercolor paintings

by Betsy Wales “Hither and Yon: Landscapes, Seascapes, Escapes,” will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 8, at 317 Main Street Community Music Center in Yarmouth. “Summer Song, 16 x 20,” pictured here, is included in the

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Thursday 7/14George Dalphin, author of “Bob Wacszowski, Necroman-cer,” 5-8 p.m. book signing, Bull Moose Store, 456 Payne Road, Scarborough, bullmoose.com.

ComedyFriday 7/8Tom Clark, ”Downeast Humor for the 21st Century,” 8 p.m. Friday, 7/8 and Saturday, 7/9, $15 adult/ $12 seniors and students, Freeport Fac-tory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport, tickets at Brown Paper Tickets, freeportfactory.com, 865-5505.

Saturday 7/9Tom Clark, ”Downeast Humor for the 21st Century,” 8 p.m. Friday, 7/8 and Saturday, 7/9, $15 adult/ $12 seniors and students, Freeport Fac-tory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport, tickets at Brown Paper Tickets, freeportfactory.com, 865-5505.

Sunday 7/10Defenders of the Funny, improv group, with guest comic Stephanie Doyle, 7:30 p.m., $7, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993.

FilmsFriday 7/8”Diabolique,” Classic cinema night at St. Mary’s, 7 p.m., free admis-sion, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth, 781-3366.

Tuesday 7/12“Mugabe and the White African,” Summer Documentary Film Series and discussion, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesdays through Aug. 23, free, Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

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Galleries Thursday 7/7Paintings and New Yorker cov-ers by cartoonist and illustrator Charles Martin, 5-7 p.m. opening, exhibit until July 30, Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Port-land, greenhutgalleries.com, 772-2693

”Scenes I’ve Seen,” paintings by Thomas Connolly, 5-7 p.m. artist’s reception, exhibit until July 30, Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Portland, greenhutgalleries.com, 772-2693.

Friday 7/8Hither and Yon: Landscapes, Seascapes, Escapes, watercolor paintings by Betsy Wales, 6:30-8:30 p.m. opening, exhibit 12-6 p.m. through Sept. 9, Community Music Center, 317 Main St., Yarmouth, FMI, Lisa Williams, Yarmouth Arts, 846-6264.

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Saturday 7/9”Nursing in the Past!” display of nursing memorabilia, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, July 9-30, Falmouth Heritage Museum, 60 Woods Road, Falmouth, [email protected].

Wednesday 7/13“Victorian Secrets” program on Victorian lady’s wardrobe with Carolyn Lawson, 7 p.m., $5, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Sea-shore Ave., Peaks Island, 766-3330, fifthmainemuseum.org.

MusicThursday 7/7Alive at Five Free Concert Series, The Mallett Brothers, country, and Paranoid Social Club, Rock, 5-7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 4, Monument Square, Portland.

Friends of Eastern Promenade Concert Series, 7 p.m. Delta Knights, rock, Thursdays through Aug. 18, Bandstand, Fort Allen Park, Portland, canceled if rain, FMI, portlandmaine.gov/rec/sum-mer.htm or 756-8275.

Summer Concerts in the Park, Don Campbell Band, 6:30 p.m., free, all ages, Memorial Park, Sawyer Road, Scarborough, rain lo-cation: Scarborough High School, Thursdays through Aug. 4, host-ed by Scarborough Community Chamber, scarboroughcommuni-tychamber.com.

Friday 7/8Erica Brown CD Release, fiddle/bluegrass, 8 p.m. $12 adv/$15 door, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, deadly-

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Meghan Yates & The Reverie Machine, 7 p.m., $2-5 suggest-ed donation, Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St., Portland, 210-6566, dobrateame.com.

The Pousette-Dart Band, 8 p.m., The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough, 774-4527, thelandingatpinepoint.com.

Saturday 7/9Cinder Conk, 8 p.m., $5, Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, 615-3609, mayostreetarts.org.

Classical Chamber Music per-formed by the students and faculty of Bowdoin International Music Festival, 4 p.m., reception to follow, by donation, First Parish Congre-gational Church of Yarmouth, 116 Main St., Yarmouth, firstparishyar-mouth.org.

The Steve Grover Quintet, a jazz interpretation of The Beatles, 8 p.m., $10 adv/$12 door, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, deadlygentle-men.com.

Sunday 7/10Village Harmony, world music teen ensemble, 7:30 p.m., First Universalist Church, 97 Main St., Yarmouth, 807-4707, FMI, village-harmony.org.

Tuesday 7/12Felix Hell, Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Summer Con-certs, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Aug. 30, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, FMI, listings, tickets at foko.org.

Tricky Britches, bluegrass, 6:30 p.m., free to public, Thomas Memo-rial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, 799-1720.

Wednesday 7/13Joy Harjo and Patricia Smith, spoken word, live music and performance, with local poets, performers, 8 p.m., $10 all ages/ $8 Space members, Space Gal-lery, 538 Congress St., Portland, FMI, Port Veritas/Gil Helmick, 400-7543.

Thursday 7/14Jazz from The Great American Songbook, 7:30-11:30 p.m., no cover, Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, WRSedutainment.ME.

Songwriter’s By The Sea, acoustic folk with Karen & Don McNatt, 7:30 p.m., $10, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, Phil Daligan, 766-4421.

Friday 7/15Olas, flamenco, folk, and world music, 6 p.m., Local Sprouts Cafe, 649 Congress St., Portland, 899-3529, localsprouts.coop.

Theater & Dance”The Pirates of Penzance, or the Slave of Duty,” presented by Freeport Players, July 15-31, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays, $10 advance, $15 door; pay-what-you-want pre-view 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 14, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport, tickets at fcponline.org, 865-2220.

”Sleeping Beauty,” presented by Vivid Motion Inc., July 15-17, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, $12 adults, $10 students/seniors, $5 ages under 12, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, tickets at lucidstage.com.

Thursday 7/7Hypnotist Paul Ramsay, 7:30 p.m., $12/$10 seniors and students, Lu-cid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993, lucidstage.com.

Friday 7/8Choreographer’s Showcase, original works by regional cho-reographers, 7 p.m., $12, Maine State Ballet, 348 U.S. Route One, Falmouth, www.mainestateballet.org, 781-3587

Saturday 7/9Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the La-bor Movement, 8 p.m., $15, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993, lucidstage.com.

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Midsummer heat means music, theaterBy Scott Andrews

Maine is an incredible place to be in July, with an abundance of music and theater hap-pening all over the Pine Tree State.

Let’s start with Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick. First item, of course, is “An-nie,” the wonderful Broadway musical that represents the quintessential American spirit of optimism.

MSMT’s musicals run six days a week. On the next “dark” day – Monday, July 11 – MSMT presents a special concert by Schooner Fare, featuring all three Romanoff brothers: Steve, Chuck and Ed.

The Portland String Quartet, which has been Maine’s top chamber music ensemble since 1969, runs its “Festival of American Music” through Saturday in New Gloucester.

The Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival is entering its 39th season and launches its 2011 five-concert program at bucolic Deertrees Theatre in Harrison on July 12.

‛‘Annie’Of all the Broadway musicals written, few

have enjoyed such widespread and long-lasting popularity as “Annie,” the 1977 hit penned by Thomas Meehan (book), Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics), based on the comic strip character created by Harold Gray.

The reason is simple. The title character, an 11-year-old orphan with boundless op-timism in the face of adversity, represents a quintessentially American quality, and she’s supported by a fine script, gorgeous melodies and memorable lyrics.

Maine State Music Theatre is running a wonderful, fully professional (Equity con-tract) production of “Annie” through July 16.

The story begins in the wretched New York City orphanage at the depth of the Great Depression, and wraps up a few weeks later on Christmas Day in the Fifth Avenue mansion of billionaire Oliver “Daddy” War-bucks. Tops among the large cast are Lauren Weintraub as the red-headed orphan in the titular role and Charis Leos as the comic Miss Hannigan, the boozy manager of the orphanage. I also liked David Girolmo, who is the best Daddy Warbucks I’ve ever seen, and Laura Seibert, playing private secretary to the kind-hearted billionaire.

Director Marc Robin and music director Ed Reichert ably oversee a large cast and nine-piece band and keep this big show moving at a breezy pace. Kudos also to set designer Charles Kading. Despite its size and complexity, Kading’s set has a fluidity that keeps pace with the rest of the production.

If you’re looking for an outstandingly re-freshing midsummer pick-me-up you can’t

It’s Christmas in July as Maine State Music

Theatre presents “Annie,” a Broadway tuner that expresses the quintessential spirit of American optimism, through

July 16.

do better than MSMT’s current production of “Annie.” I’ve seen “Annie” many times over the years and I cannot recall a better version.

Maine State Music Theatre presents “An-nie” through July 16 at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick. Call 725-8769 or visit www.msmt.org.

Schooner FareMaine’s long maritime traditions are

recalled in music by the state’s No. 1 folk ensemble: Schooner Fare.

Long-time Mainers can recall the 1970s when Schooner Fare – then a trio compris-ing brothers Steve and Chuck Romanoff, from the Portland area, plus Tom Rowe, from South Paris – honed their performing and writing skills in Port City clubs and bars. They gained local fame and significant national attention with their blend of original songs that celebrate Maine’s maritime history plus traditional Irish tunes and a little bit of Downeast humor.

With the death of Rowe a few years ago, Schooner Fare became a duo. But in sum-mers Schooner Fare reverts to trio mode again for a few appearances with the tem-porary addition of brother Ed Romanoff, a Broadway actor who is a summertime regular at Maine State Music Theatre.

On July 11, while “Annie” takes a one-day break, MSMT presents the three-Romanoff-brothers version of Schooner Fare at 7:30 p.m. at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin Col-lege campus in Brunswick. Call 725-8769 or visit www.msmt.org.

Portland String QuartetMaine’s No. 1 chamber music ensemble

is the Portland String Quartet, which as been playing together with original personnel – vi-olinists Stephen Kecskemethy and Ron Lantz plus violist Julia Adams and cellist Paul Ross – since 1969 and still going strong. In 1986 they were proclaimed “Maine treasures” and awarded honorary doctor of music degrees at

Colby College, where they served as artists in residence for 20 years.

Although best known for a four-concert fall-winter-spring season in their namesake city, the PSQ has been venturing afield since the inception.

The PSQ’s Festival of American Music runs through Saturday evening at a quintes-sentially American location: Maine’s historic and famous Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester. Concerts are held in the 2-century-old Shaker meetinghouse, and the four musicians plus invited guests play an admixture of new and old.

Among the annual regulars are Brother Arnold Hadd speaking about Shaker hymns, which will be played in string quartet ar-rangements. Modern additions for 2011 in-clude a steel drum band, an electric violinist and excerpts from a newly commissioned work for the PSQ by composer Gil Shohat.

Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. culminating concert is titled “Sabbathday Riffs: The Fusion of Classical, Jazz and World Music” with com-positions by John Knowles Paine, Bert Ligon

and Johannes Brahms.For detailed information on other festival

events, visit www.portlandstringquartet.org/mainefestival2011.htm. The concert venue is at 707 Shaker Road (Old Route 26) in New Gloucester.Sebago-Long Lake Music FestivalNo concert hall in Maine boasts the rustic

period charm of bosky, bucolic Deertrees Theatre, set on a hillside in Harrison. Built 75 years ago of native hemlock trees harvested on the site of a deer run, Deertrees today is a vibrant arts center presenting a full program of music and theater each July and August.

The anchor each summer is the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, which begins its 39th season on July 12 and offers a weekly series of concerts every Tuesday through Aug. 9. For the past 26 years, Laurie Kennedy, principal violist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, has served as artistic director.

Each summer she invites about two dozen fellow musicians, many of them principals in symphony orchestras from across the U.S., to join her in a five-concert series that tends to focus on the established standard repertoire.

The series launches next Tuesday with five pieces united by the flash and fire that char-acterize Hungarian music. Composers from Hungary include Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly and Franz Liszt. Johannes Brahms, a Ger-man, first gained fame with his “Hungarian Dances,” written when he was 17 years old.

Deertrees Theatre is located on Deertrees Road, about a mile out of Harrison Village. Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival concerts are at 7:30 on Tuesdays, July 12-Aug. 9. Call Deertrees at 583-6747 or visit www.sebago-musicfestival.org.

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include Robert Hasson and Judith Paolucci, the superintendents, respec-tively, of SAD 51 and Yarmouth; the Yarmouth school business manager and SAD 51 director of finance, human resources and operations; two members

of each board, and one additional staff member or resident from each district.

The committee will meet at least four times a year to explore opportunities to work together and make recommenda-tions to the boards, which could vote on those suggestions prior to July 2012.

Hasson said last week that col-laboration opportunities could include

transportation, business functions, high school courses and professional devel-opment. Saving money is one of the objectives.

“(We’re) looking forward to it,” he said. “We think there’s potential there. ... This (resolution) is a demonstration of the commitment to forming the task force.”

“I meet with Bob Hasson on a regular basis, anyway,” Paolucci said last week. “We sit and brainstorm about things that are going on ... but we haven’t delved into anything more than kind of using each other as almost like consultants.”

In getting a larger group together, she said she hopes the two districts will review different aspects of their opera-tions, such as payroll, transportation and contracting for different services.

“Sometimes it might not be a case that we’ll find an opportunity for col-laboration, but we might learn some-thing (from each other),” she said. “... We’re just learning to be as efficient as possible, to have the best quality programs in each place for the best pos-sible price.”Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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with (the Clam Festival,)” Primeau said. “This is a great opportunity to bring people of Yarmouth together and a huge financial bonus for the nonprofits in the community.”

Primeau said people who participate in the drawing have to be from New England, 18 years old or older and have a valid driver’s license.

The drawing will be held on Sunday, July 17, at 4 p.m., he said.

New attractions include a Kid’s Zone, sponsored by L.L. Bean outside the Mer-rill Memorial Library, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all weekend. The free bike valet program will continue for a second year and for the first time, festival-goers will be able to pay with credit cards at food booths.

“We are trying to find ways to become more effective, while raising revenues and helping the nonprofits raise money,” Primeau said.

Other highlights of the weekend will include the appearance of Donna (Owen)

YARMOUTH — Main, East Elm, School and Bridge streets will be closed from 6:30-9 a.m. Saturday, July 16, during the 30th annual Pat’s Pizza Clam Festival Classic 5-mile Road Race and Kid’s Fun Run.

During the Firefighters’ Muster, Main Street between York and School streets will be closed from 12:30-3:30 p.m.

The 31st annual Men’s and Woman’s Professional Bike Race will take place Sunday, July 17, at 9 a.m. starting at the Memorial Green on Main Street. The 3.6-mile loop has one short climb and will be 10 laps for men and six laps for women.

Main Street between East Main

Street and West Elm Street will be closed Sunday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and vehicle traffic will be restricted the day of the race. Motorists should expect delays on East Elm Street, be-tween Main Street and Leighton Road; Leighton Road; North Road between Leighton Road and East Main Street; and East Main Street, between North Road and Main Street.

During the Diaper Derby, School Street will be closed from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

For more information visit the Clam Festival website, www.clamfestival.com or contact the Police Department at 846-3333.

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Races will close streets, slow trafficStokes, the original Clam Queen. Stokes, who was crowned in 1965, will lead the parade as the grand marshal.

On July 16, the canoe and kayak race starts at 9 a.m. at the Town Landing. The six-mile course finishes at the Muddy Rudder restaurant.

The Kids’ Fun Run starts at 7:15 a.m. at Memorial Green, and the 30th annual Pat’s Pizza 5-mile Road Race starts at 8 a.m. at Town Hall on Main Street.

Other annual events on July 16 include the Maine State Clam Shucking contest at 11 a.m. at the Merill Memorial Library Lawn tent, and the Maine Firefighters Muster at 1 p.m. at the Memorial Green.

Events on July 17 include the 31st an-nual Men’s and Women’s Professional Bike Race at 9 a.m., beginning at Memo-rial Green.

Children through age 3 can participate in the 39th annual Diaper Derby at the Merrill Memorial Library Lawn tent at noon. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and there are three divisions for children from 1 month to 3 years old.

There will be more than 100 artists and craftspeople displaying and selling their pottery, clothing, artwork, carvings and jewelry.

Carnival rides and amusements pro-vided by Smokey’s Greater Shows will operate starting Wednesday, July 14, at 5

p.m. and continue throughout the festival.For more information and a schedule

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“I don’t feel the issues we brought up at the sketch plan review were addressed in the new submissions,” Planning Board Chairman Bill Lunt said during Tuesday’s meeting. “I think the board made it pretty clear how it felt on the issue.”

Members of the board expressed con-cerns about the landscaping, building architecture and lighting.

Two members of the public spoke dur-ing Tuesday’s meeting.

Bob Taylor, representing the Tidewater Farms Association board of directors, raised several issues, including traffic flow

and landscaping.“What’s actually happening is that

Clearwater (Drive) is evolving as a major thoroughfare and will continue to do so,” Taylor said. “It’s very unusual we would see so many egresses and access points. We would like you to take a hard look at that.”

The existing store has at least seven park-ing lot driveways, including some through neighboring business parking lots, which ex-ceeds what is allowed under the ordinance.

Town Councilor Bonny Rodden also spoke, addressing the store’s plans to move a METRO bus stop to Clearwater Drive, and potential traffic issues along Route 1.

“The bus stop is a full football field away from the entrance to Walmart. There are a number of people riding the bus who cannot walk well,” Rodden said. “As far as METRO is concerned, it’s just not safe for

our riders and it’s not appropriate.”Rodden suggested moving the bus stop

closer to the entrance to the store, because many bus riders are Walmart employees or customers.

Aaron Shaw, of Sewell Co., which is working for Walmart, said the company has liability concerns about the bus stop on its property, and that it is working with METRO to satisfy everyone.

Walmart has also applied for a waiver to build only 569 parking spaces, instead of the 621 that would be required, citing “his-toric under-utilization of the parking lot,” according to Planning Board documents.

The company included plans for a 30-foot pylon sign in front of the new build-ing. The town’s design guidelines would allow a 16-foot sign.

The plans also request a 298-foot wall

sign. The store’s current sign is already in violation of town ordinances, according to Senior Town Planner Ethan Croce. The town’s ordinances allow a maximum of 100 feet for a wall sign.

Croce’s agenda notes indicated that Walmart will have to apply for Board of Zoning Appeals approval for the existing non-conforming sign.

“The size of the current sign will, in any event, not be allowed to be exceeded,” Croce said in the agenda documents.

Walmart representatives indicated Tuesday night they would be working with town staff to address the sign issues, landscaping, lighting and curb-cuts, for a future site plan review.Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or

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Local impactHere is the estimated impact on

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• Brunswick: $152,000 reduction.• Cape Elizabeth: $198,000 reduction.• Chebeague Island: no change.• Falmouth: $242,000 reduction.• Portland: $929,000 reduction.• RSU 1: $92,000 reduction.• RSU 5: $76,000 reduction.• SAD 51: $222,000 reduction.• SAD 75: $104,000 reduction.• Scarborough: $388,000 reduction.• South Portland: $395,000 reduction.• Yarmouth: $169,000 reduction.

would have voted for it. It wouldn’t have changed the outcome,” Raye said.

Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, was absent from the voting.

“I told the senate president the day before the vote that I had to leave early to pick up my mother in Kittery,” Dill said.

Dill said she made it clear she opposed the bill, and accused Raye of intentionally delaying the vote until she was gone.

She said several going-away parties for secretaries were held the day before and the day of the vote, which delayed the bill until the afternoon when she was scheduled to be gone.

“I like cupcakes as much as the next person, but we should have been doing the people’s business,” she said. “I think it was intentional (to delay the vote) to embarrass some people.”

Regardless of the way the vote took

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place, the governor signed the bill into law at Shead High School in Eastport on Monday. The change will go into effect next year.

“This law will begin to correct an error in our educational funding formula, and will benefit our rural areas,” Gov. Paul LePage said in a prepared statement. “This is a vic-tory for parents, students, and teachers in parts of our state like Washington County that have felt a negative impact for several years because of their smaller school dis-tricts. The system is not fair and we are attempting to make it more equitable for everyone.”

Falmouth’s superintendent of schools, Barbara Powers, said her concern is that the legislation ignores the “greater context of the Essential Programs and Services fund-ing formula, which many of us in the field and in the legislature believe is due for full and considerate review.”

Powers said she is not yet sure what the impact of the change would be, but Senate Democrats estimate Falmouth will see a

funding reduction of $242,000.Alfond has estimated the Portland Public

Schools stand to lose nearly $1 million.“Obviously, it’s a huge concern as we

move into fiscal year 2013,” Portland School Board Chairwoman Kate Snyder said. “It’s a disappointment for Portland.”

Snyder said she is concerned about how the district will cope with losing both fed-eral funding in the form of the Jobs Bill, which was a one-year allocation to help schools keep teachers, and the new state funding formula.

Yarmouth stands to lose nearly $170,000.“We already have to account for losing

$500,000 from the federal Jobs Bill funds next year,” the town’s director of business services, Herbert Hopkins, said. “This is certainly going to make it that much more difficult. ... Eventually, this is going to fall back on local taxpayers.”

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Trailfrom page 5

wanted to make sure there would be signs alerting trail users of their proximity to private residences. Other residents were concerned about people using the trail as a place to gather at night and the potential for noise disturbance.

Ostrye reassured residents that the trails would be maintained and appropriate signs would be erected at no cost to the taxpayers. He said fundraising has already started and he has been overwhelmed with community support.

“Our committee is all about collabora-tion,” he said. “This group of people will not build trails and then run away. We are in it for the long haul. We have a lot riding on getting this right.”

He said safety vehicles could access the trail in case of emergency and said he

would encourage various groups to adopt segments of the trail for clean-up, signs and maintenance.

Meetings similar to the one held last week will take place for every segment of the trail, Ostrye said.

“Talking with the abutters in every sec-tion is the right thing to do,” he said. “While these meetings don’t convince or win over people very often, it is important to have an open discussion. We just ask to be judged on what happens and the outcome of the trail. These meetings will allow us to ad-dress their concerns as they come up.”

Ostrye said trails will be cleared later this month along the section between Drinkwa-ter and Princes Point roads. Another abutter meeting will be scheduled for the next sec-tion of the trail in the fall.

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Unsung Heroesfrom page 7

She sings in the choir and makes sure the hymnals are where they’re supposed to be. And she assists the Sunday school teachers by supplying background material.

Perry is also a member of Knit Wit, the Island Church knitting group.

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She is currently crocheting a nativity scene.

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It’s safe to assume that Ruth Perry will complete that nativity scene, even though she’s doing it without any pattern to fol-low.

Others look at her busily at work and ask, “How do you do that?” Ruth just smiles, and says, “I just do it.”

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Stimulusfrom page 6

The company won its fight, and Mercy paid the fines: $12,000 for discharging silt-laden, untreated storm water into wetlands and failing to install adequate erosion control measures.

Biegel said he was not sure about the violation with the PWD in Gorham, but that the company was very careful about environmental regulations.

“We have 40 employees that are erosion-control trained,” he said.

PWD awarded the company two more projects in 2009 because the district was ultimately satisfied with Shaw Bros.’ work and level of cooperation.

“They actually worked very well with us on (the 2007) project,” Crovo said.

OSHA issued Shaw Bros. five viola-tions over the past five years. None were repeat violations, and the largest fine the company paid was $6,300 for a March 2011 citation involving protection of employees in excavations.

Maine DOT projectsThe PWD projects pale in scope

compared with the nearly $33 million in area stimulus projects MDOT hired Pike Industries to complete.

Pike was the lowest bidder for several MDOT road, interstate and bridge con-struction projects, and was awarded the jobs despite a history of DEP and Envi-ronmental Protection Agency violations.

The Belmont, N.H., company violated the federal Clean Air Act by using more fuel than its 12-month allowance at several asphalt plants in 2006, 2007 and

2008. DEP sent the company a formal letter of warning in September 2009.

As punishment, the company was as-sessed a $7,500 fine, although it paid less than $2,600 because it agreed to teach a class on erosion control and air emissions at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

“We knew we’d get the exact ques-tion: ‘Hey, why are the violators going to go out and train people?’ We thought the benefit outweighed the negative,” the DEP’s Carney said.

One Pike employee and two Pike-hired consultants taught the class May 10, 2010, writing off $381 in hotel rooms, $80 for printing and other costs against the balance of the DEP fine.

On Aug. 17, 2010, the company violated the very laws it’s representa-tives supposedly taught attendees at the UMPI class to obey.

“I wasn’t aware of that violation,” said Jonathan Olson, regional manager and vice president of sales and paving at Pike.

During construction on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, according to the DEP’s no-tice of violation, Pike replaced a culvert under the highway and failed to prevent significant erosion.

The result was the loss of an entire bank of the Royal River, removal of nearby vegetation, the rerouting of por-tions of the river, and sedimentation downstream, including eventual dis-charge of sediment to a coastal wetland adjacent to the Yarmouth Boat Yard.

Neither Pike nor MDOT had a permit for the work.

Olson said the company typically relies on its project managers to make sure projects comply with safety and environmental regulations. He said the company did not have a formal process for dealing with reported environmental issues, but that project managers are supposed to report issues to the com-pany’s environmental manager, who is responsible for all Maine projects.

“If we’re working with DOT, we fig-ure the state has an eye on the job. If they see a problem, they can call their sister agency,” Olson said.

Pike was ordered to submit a restora-tion plan to the DEP detailing how the Yarmouth site would be restored. No fees have been assessed for the damage.

OSHA cited Pike for two violations in the past five years. None were repeat violations, and the largest fine was for $4,000 in April 2009 for failure to ascer-tain that employees and their equipment were safe from an electric power circuit.

Like PWD, MDOT also awards con-tracts to the lowest bidder. In order to bid on a MDOT project, a contractor must first submit a prequalification ap-plication.

The application includes sections on its safety record and history of envi-ronmental violations, both of which are self-reported. A standard prequalifica-tion period lasts one year, but can be increased to three if the company is in good standing.

Once companies are prequalified, MDOT can award projects without re-examining credentials.

In December 2009, Pike indicated that

it had not violated any federal, state or local environmental laws when it filled out a MDOT prequalification application – even though the company received the notice of violation from DEP in Septem-ber 2009 for its three years of Clean Air Act violations.

“Based on my experience, contractors are only required to disclose environ-mental violations which are related to construction projects on their prequali-fication statements,” Olson said. “The (September 2009 notice of violation) was related to the operation of a plant at a fixed facility, so Pike Industries does not believe that it was required to disclose it in the MDOT Contractor Prequalification Questionnaire.”

MDOT has its own safety and envi-ronmental inspectors who are empow-ered to work directly with contractors to remedy any problems they find. While the agency has the power to boot com-panies off the prequalified list for bad behavior or violations, Scott Bickford, contracts and specifications engineer, said it rarely does.

“Our goal is to have as many prequali-fied contractors bidding on our work as we can,” he said, because it results in lower prices.

Because DOT’s prequalified list is used by organizations and municipali-ties around the state, Bickford said most contractors choose to work with MDOT to correct their problems.

Emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or e

[email protected]. Follow them on Twitter: @guerinemily and @emilyparkhurst.

The Forecaster, Northern edition, July 7, 2011

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