The Forecaster, Northern edition, January 3, 2013

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January 3, 2013 News of Falmouth, Cumberland, North Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport and Chebeague Vol. 27, No. 1

Another terrific sports year has come and gone0

Local protagonists:No simple cure for gun violencePage 2

IndexObituaries ........................9Opinion ............................6People & Business ........12

Police Beat ......................8Real Estate ....................20Sports ............................10

Arts Calendar ................13Classifieds .....................16Community Calendar .....13Meetings ........................13

Lifelong Chebeague Island resident turns 102Page 4

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Iconic career comes to a close for SnoweBy Scott ThistleSun Journal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn’t trying to make a political fash-ion statement. It just worked out that way, she said.

“No, you’re talking about being a purple state or some-thing,” U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her farewell speech to her colleagues and the Ameri-can people.

Snowe announced in Febru-ary that she would retire after nearly 40 years as a state and federal lawmaker.

With 34 of those years in the U.S. Congress, Snowe is in the process of saying goodbye – or mostly “see you later” – to friends and colleagues in the nation’s capital.

“We are not a collection of red states and blue states; we are the United States of America,” Snowe said with a laugh as she paraphrased a refrain uttered by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in 2008 on the night he won the Iowa caucus.

“Well, that’s right,” Snowe

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After her farewell address in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, talks with her husband and former Maine Gov. John McKernan as the two walk to a reception. Snowe said farewell to her colleagues in Congress after 34 years of

service on Dec. 13, 2012.

Left, Snowe looks over one of the many bills she worked on that was signed into law. Senators who co-sponsor bills are photographed with the president and receive a pen used by him to sign the bill into law. This framed copy of the bill,

photograph and the pen is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed in 2009. The law allows workers to sue in cases of

pay discrimination based on gender.

By William HallPORTLAND — Elected of-

ficials and public employees in greater Portland didn’t get rich on their wages during 2012, but some individuals came closer than others.

The information was compiled by The Forecaster, which obtained the names and annual compensa-tion of the highest-paid officials or employees in 14 cities and towns.

The newspaper asked each community for its top 10 earn-ers; some provided more, some provided fewer. The request was for compensation based on a year

of salary, overtime and any sig-nificant stipends. In some cases, the data was from calendar years; in others, fiscal years or school years.

Based on the data, Portland’s top earners also topped the region, bringing in an average of $99,329.

The average would have been even higher, had it included the full-year salary of City Manager Mark Rees, who started work in July 2011. Rees’ salary in the current fiscal year is budgeted at $143,000.

Portland Mayor Michael Bren-nan, who began his first term

in December 2011, also has not served long enough to make the list. But at $65,400, his current fiscal year salary wouldn’t have placed him in the top 10 anyway.

The higher compensation of Portland officials and employees isn’t surprising, according to Eric Conrad, director of communica-tion and educational services at

the Maine Municipal Association.“The size of the municipality

is the single largest determinant of (compensation),” Conrad said. The manager of a city like Port-land, he explained, leads an orga-nization that is comparable in size and complexity to a medium-size corporation.

Serving a population of 64,000, Portland city government employs more than 1,400 workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $200 million.

At the other end of the scale, some municipalities get by on a handful of employees and equally

bare-bones salaries.For example, the top 10 made

an average of just under $48,000 each in Harpswell, which has a population of 4,700 and a mu-nicipal budget of about $4 million.

But Harpswell – like several other towns in The Forecaster’s readership area – shares the cost of educating its students through a regional school district. That’s why compensation for educators was compared separately.

Harpswell is a member of School Administrative District 75,

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School districts gird for subsidy lossBy David Harry

PORTLAND — The freeze is here, and not just because of the weather.

With more than 200 school districts in Maine facing the loss of a cumulative $12.58 million in general purpose aid from the state Department of Education, school officials are reviewing purchase orders and combing budgets for possible savings.

Portland schools stand to lose the most, with $870,000 cut from a $14 million subsidy. Chief Aca-demic Officer David Galin said the amount is exactly what was expected.

“We knew going in to this year the budget would be tight, and put a number of budget control steps in early,” Galin said.

While capping spending on supplies, Galin said the depart-ment will now review every va-cancy more closely to see replace-ments are absolutely necessary. He said keeping current staffing is a priority.

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‘We finally feel equal’Maine’s first married gay couple ties the knot

By Abigail Curtis and Seth KoenigBangor Daily News

PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday.

“We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who mar-ried Michael Snell less than a half-hour after same sex marriages became legal in the state on Dec. 29.

By 2 a.m., the line had emptied out after 15 gay and lesbian couples had acquired marriage licenses, with six of those couples exchanging vows on the spot. Another couple was married on City Hall’s front steps and then went back inside to return their license.

The hand-holding grooms sported purple carnation corsages, matching T-shirts printed with the phrase “love is love,” and grins so big they hardly seemed to fit on their faces.

Snell and Bridges, both of Portland, have been together for nine years and had a commitment ceremony six years ago, but late Friday night they were more than ready to make their love legal. The couple was the first in line to be married beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday in one of the state’s

Steven Bridges and Michael Snell exchange rings after getting married at Portland City Hall early Saturday morning, Dec. 29.

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Election Day seemed to rule the night at City Hall, where the air was filled with the sounds of a live jazz trio and a buzz of excitement.

Portland Mayor Michael Brennan arrived at City Hall just before the doors opened to the public at 10 p.m. He said he hoped he could sign on as a witness for one of the first same-sex couples to marry.

“It’s a historic event,” he said. “It’s something people have waited for for years. People have been discriminated against for years, so we wanted to make sure that we’d

be able to accommodate people as soon as possible” by opening the city clerk’s office at midnight.

“Portland has always been a leader in opposing discrimination,” Brennan said.

Portland was one of the state’s municipal-ities that opened offices early so that eager couples could go ahead and tie the knot. In addition to having a clerk at hand to provide marriage licenses, the city made a notary public available to make wedding vows of-ficial. Maine no longer has a waiting period before couples can get married.

first legal same-sex marriage ceremonies.Maine voters approved a referendum on

Election Day legalizing same-sex marriages in the state for the first time.

“My heart’s pumping. Total butterflies in my stomach,” Bridges said. “We couldn’t stop smiling the whole day.”

Katie Snell, 27, of Lexington, Mass., Snell’s daughter, said that the couple weren’t the only delighted members of the family.

“It’s been a long time coming,” she said of the imminent nuptials. “I’m absolutely ecstatic. I’m so happy for this. I couldn’t be happier.”

Chris Horne, vital records clerk for the city of Portland, officiated the brief cer-emony, in which each man told her, “I do” in the traditional wedding format – even if the setting lacked tradition. A multitude of news cameras surrounded the couple as they entered the clerk’s office at 12:01 a.m., filled out paperwork and waited for that paperwork to be entered into the city computer system.

Bridges said being the first same sex couple to marry in Maine was unexpected, but “made it special.”

Smiles, flowers and appreciation for the 53 percent of Maine voters who decided in favor of the same-sex marriage law on

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Yarmouth woman’s body recovered from Rangeley LakeBy Will Graff

YARMOUTH — Game wardens on Monday recovered the body of a 45-year-old Yarmouth woman who drove a snow-mobile into open water on partially ice-covered Rangeley Lake Sunday evening.

Dawn Newell was riding a snowmobile on the lake at about 7 p.m. Sunday, when the ice gave way and she went under, according to the Maine Warden Service. Her 16-year-old son, who was following behind her, was able to jump to solid ice and called 911.

Wardens recovered Newell’s body at

about 11:30 a.m. Monday, according to the warden service.

In a separate incident, wardens were continuing their search for three men lost in a snowmobile incident near where Newell was found.

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Local protagonists: No simple cure for gun violenceBy Will Graff

YARMOUTH — A man carrying a loaded assault rifle through downtown Port-land on Christmas Eve prompted dozens of calls to police and was quickly condemned by virtually every group involved in gun and public safety issues, including gun advocates.

Jeff Weinstein, a Yarmouth resident and president of the Maine Gun Owners As-sociation, said the man’s midday stroll was not only insensitive, considering the recent mass-murder of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but was also an abuse of the law that allows people to carry guns in public.

“Virtually every gun owner finds carrying a loaded rifle around town offensive and un-necessary,” Weinstein said last Friday. “The intent of the open-carry provision applies to someone carrying a handgun in a holster, not displayed in your hand or handled in a way where immediate use seems im-minent. Carrying a rifle, purportedly for

self-defense, is not a wise idea. It will only offend people unnecessarily.”

This behavior does not represent the typi-cal behavior of the majority of gun owners, he said.

Still, Weinstein said people should be allowed to own an assault rifle like the one used in the Connecticut mass-killings, known as an AR-15, noting it’s commonly used by hunters to kill small game like rodents, squirrels and coyotes.

“It’s a very accurate firearm and the bullet is small,” he said. “It’s very fast and it has an excellent reputation among gun owners as accurate and reliable.”

But, he said, more consideration should be given before people can buy similar or more powerful weapons, through the use of extensive background checks that would help prevent people with mental illnesses from owning weapons.

Although mental health has come to the forefront in the discussion about gun violence in America, it’s important to not

focus too heavily on mental health as the main culprit behind gun violence, said Dr. Marc Kaplan, an osteopathic physician and medical director at Sweetser, the mental health services provider.

“People with mental illness are statisti-cally much more likely to be the victim of violence then the perpetrators,” Kaplan said, noting that only a small percentage of vio-lence in America, particularly gun-related murders, can be linked to mental illness.

The reality of the situation with concern to gun violence, Kaplan said, is that the overwhelming majority of people using guns to murder others aren’t mentally ill, and do so for a variety of reasons, from socioeconomics to crimes of passion.

The danger, Kaplan contends, stems from access.

“From a public health standpoint,” he said, “most ethical physicians are in awe of the fact that an average citizen can go out and buy a highly automated killing machine.”

Despite the focused attention on the men-tally ill, Kaplan said limiting access to the mentally ill could help people from getting hurt, but it’s not going to solve the problem mass murderers using guns to kill people.

Limiting access to the mentally ill also proves difficult to enforce.

And although a program to join mental health records with background checks already exists in Maine, federal funding to implement the program has never come through, said Karen D’Andrea, executive director of Maine Citizen’s Against Hand-gun Violence.

Background checks also don’t account

for the people who obtain the guns illegally, she said.

In fact, about 1.4 million guns, or an an-nual average of 232,400, were stolen during burglaries and other property crimes in the six-year period from 2005 through 2010, reviewed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

D’Andrea’s organization is supporting ef-forts, as it has in the past, to reinstate a ban on the sale of guns like the AR-15.

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Lifelong Chebeague Island resident turns 102By Alex Lear

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — The numbers 1 and 2 have had some significance lately for Raymond Hamilton: he turned 102 on the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year of the 21st century.

Hamilton, who was 6 when the U.S. entered World War I, has lived in the same South Road home for more than 70 years; he bought it for $2,500.

“Now as far as I’m concerned, today that’s all it’s worth,” he said a few days after turning 102. “The only reason that prices are up so high, is because people say so. That doesn’t make ‘em expensive. ... My father’s house ... cost $1,000 to build.”

That was in 1905. Hamilton was born in that house, across the street from his current home, five years later.

His father, Alfred, was born in the house next door in the 1880s, in what was Che-beague’s first boarding house. That house was run by his grandmother Amanda, ac-cording to Donna Damon, a town historian and selectman, whose father, Ellsworth Miller, was one of Raymond Hamilton’s closest friends.

Hamilton’s grandfather, also named Alfred, was born a little further down the road, and the family has been on that part

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of the island since the 1820s, Damon said.Ambrose Hamilton, Raymond Hamil-

ton’s great-great-great-grandfather, was the first of the family on Chebeague; he arrived in 1756, Damon said. He bought 100 acres and had 14 children.

“We say there’s a little bit of Hamilton in all of us,” Damon, also a lifelong resident of the island, said.

Like his father, Hamilton spent his life as a fisherman. He started with his father at the age of 5, getting up at midnight to get onto the boat. Hamilton continued to make a living on the sea until he turned 92. Even bypass surgery a decade before didn’t slow him down.

Asked why he retired so “young,” he laughed and answered, “I guess I thought I’d had it. ... If I could have died the last day I went fishing, it’d have been wonderful.”

Hard work, Hamilton said, was his foun-tain of youth: “It keeps your blood boiling,” he said, noting that those who spend too much time on their posterior are “no good at all.”

Refraining from drinking and smoking helped keep him young, too.

“Foolish things to do,” he said. “I lived down in Portland quite a lot; there was nothing around the waterfront in those days

except for bums and drunks.”Damon said the community has helped

Hamilton be able to stay in his house, checking in on him regularly and bringing him plenty of groceries.

“The outpouring of support that Ray has had ... is really important,” she said.

Hamilton has also had support on a broader scale; in honor of his 101st birth-day, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, had a flag that flew over the U.S. Capital in Washington, D.C., presented to him.

He said he remembers the Chebeague of his youth as “a little fishing village. ... Every man on the island (did) some kind of fishing. Today that’s gone completely.”

Hamilton also said the government has placed too many restrictions on fishing.

He doesn’t have much family left on the island. Mabel, who came from Vermont and was his wife of about 40 years, died in 1978, and his daughter Gail lives in

Pennsylvania.Island resident Beverly Johnson has been

posting videos of her recent interviews with Hamilton to Youtube. The links can be found on her island news website, che-beague.org.

“He’s actually enjoying the attention that Beverly’s giving him right now,” Damon said. “She’s made him a media star on the Internet. ... He has an unbelievable memory, too.”

Johnson also praised Hamilton’s memory. “I enjoy the way he tells the stories, in his own way,” she said.

With the wealth of memories he retains, has Hamilton ever thought of writing his memoirs?

“God, no,” he said, adding with a laugh, “Nobody would believe it.”Alex lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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said. “We want it to be.”The slight laugh wasn’t cynicism to-

ward the president, who often repeats variations on that theme, as it was an expression of a pent-up anxiety over the us-versus-them state of American politics.

As for the purple blazer. “It was just sort of, what can I wear today that would sort of be bright?” Snowe said. “You know what I mean? Uplifting a little bit. But, you know, it could have been sub-conscious.”

Lincoln would be sadSnowe noted the entire U.S. Senate had

been invited to watch the recently released film, produced by Steven Spielberg, about President Abraham Lincoln. She saw the movie and has long admired the iconic Republican president, his vision of pre-serving the nation and creating equality for all.

Asked what she thought Lincoln would make of these days in Washington, she paused.

“I think he would be sad,” Snowe said. Talk of secession in some parts of the country may be fringe politics, but it’s still worrisome.

“It says you can’t appreciate the bless-ings of this great country,” Snowe said. “It is important to feel as one. Even though we have regional differences and philo-sophical differences, you’ve got to think of the whole at times, the whole country. To start thinking in terms of separateness, it creates barriers. It’s unfortunate.”

Snowe said she has part of a letter that was written in the early 1860s as Southern senators were storming out of the chamber on the cusp of the Civil War. The author’s father was the Senate’s sergeant at arms. “Imagine how different our country would be today,” Snowe said. “How crucial it was to keep the Union intact.”

She said Lincoln would probably be disappointed in that the challenges faced today by Congress really pale in compari-son. “Hundreds of thousands died in the Civil War – staggering,” she said.

The ideals of consensus and compro-mise are not novel to Snowe. She has long urged bipartisanship and collaboration between the two major parties, regardless of which party happens to hold a majority in Washington at the time.

In her farewell address, she worried that Congress had forgotten the art of legislat-ing by way of compromise.

“And when the history of this chapter in the Senate is written, we don’t want it to conclude it was here that it became an an-tiquated practice,” she told her colleagues as she stood on the floor of the Senate.

She also said it wasn’t always easy. In fact, compromise, real compromise, is often more difficult than just picking a side and voting in a political bloc.

Throughout the day she reminded re-porters, colleagues and staff that it was stunning to her that while the buildings they all worked in were steeped in history and the artistic portrayals of great acts of American conflict and compromise, Congress was failing to follow in the footprints of the nation’s founders.

She said politicking had become a sub-stitute for governing. “It’s habitual now,” she said. “The exception is now the norm, and people mistake it for somehow we are legislating, when in fact it’s just about sending out a message to reinforce the base and go after the other guy.”

Snowe said you see this extreme politics taking shape in the form of the “trackers” that Maine Gov. Paul LePage complained about. A desire to find or capture”gotcha” moments that can be taken out of context or used in the next campaign has taken over the actual process of governing, she said. In the Senate, the “gotchas” come in the form of bill amendments often de-signed to force a lawmaker into a devil’s bargain.

They have to vote for measures that will hurt them politically to move forward parts of a bill they actually know are for the betterment of the country.

“You can understand some of it,” Snowe said. “But now it’s almost to the exclusion of anything else we do.”

And dominating the day, the week and the month have been conversations over the ever-looming so-called “fiscal cliff,” a deadline in federal tax code that is coupled with federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, that could set an already fragile American economy tumbling into recession again.

Much of her farewell address was aimed at urging compromise and a deal between President Obama and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Praise from colleaguesEarlier in the week, Senate colleagues

of Snowe, both Republican and Democrat, praised her long service and her principles during tribute speeches.

“Sen. Snowe has served her state of Maine and our nation so well,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. “She’s one of our most respected members of Congress. She is known for her civility, her sensibil-ity and her mastery of the substance of the issues. And, I might add, she brings that New England sense of a more frugal government but at the same time shows that it can be done in a compassionate, smart way.”

Mikulski went on to laud Snowe’s advocacy for small business, women’s rights, national security, and the men and women of the armed services. Mikulski later said Snowe was a truly inspiring figure for girls and women, not just in the U.S. but around the globe.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCo-nnell, R-Kentucky, also spoke in tribute to Snowe. McConnell related parts of Snowe’s life story, including the loss of her first husband, Peter Snowe, and how at a very young age Olympia Snowe de-cided to run for and was elected to her late husband’s seat in the Maine Legislature.

“The young couple seemed well on their way to building a life together,” Mc-Connell said. “But in 1973, in the midst of a winter snowstorm, tragedy struck. Peter was killed in a car crash and, at a still-young age, Olympia was left to build a life for herself.”

He said the tragedy could have marked the end of any political aspirations she may have had, but Snowe had resolved to “make a positive out of a terrible nega-tive.”

It wasn’t the first tragedy in Snowe’s life, nor the last.

She lost her parents as a child and was raised by an aunt and uncle in Auburn. Her uncle died when she was a teenager.

After marrying fellow lawmaker and fu-ture Maine Gov. John “Jock” McKernan, the couple suffered the lost of his son.

She still winces when asked about it all. She said she drew strength from her Greek heritage and remaining family, friends and Greek Orthodox faith. But she’s also man-

aged to keep hope and notes her sense of humor has helped, too.

“I always kid my colleagues in the Sen-ate, when they ask, that it’s the Spartan side,” she said.

Snowe said the ultimate lesson is one she shares with anybody who is facing tragedy or tough times.

“A lot of young people have their own challenges, hardships and difficulties,” Snowe said. “And it doesn’t matter what the challenge is or what the problems are. They are all one and the same. You are on the ground, and you have got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off. I just decided it was already bad, and I didn’t want to make it worse, so it was the fight-ing instinct to survive and to overcome it and know that there is a better day ahead.”

LePage, who shares with young people his story of overcoming the obstacles of his difficult childhood at the hands of an abusive father, joined in the many people praising Snowe.

“Sen. Snowe has served the people of Maine tirelessly throughout her career in public service for more than three decades,” LePage said in a prepared state-ment. “She has been an outstanding advo-cate for the people of Maine and a fearless leader in Washington, D.C.”

Snowe’s advocacy has included help-ing small businesses settle disputes with the federal government, such as working with Saddleback Mountain ski area own-ers in the 1990s to settle a long-standing dispute over the Appalachian Trail and land development, advocating for large employers such as Bath Iron Works and working with individual constituents on issues big and small.

She has most recently worked, among other things, on seeking answers for the family of Pvt. Buddy McLain, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 by an Af-ghan police officer that McLain and other

soldiers were training.Her inquiries have led to some changes

and the discovery that McLain’s death was part of a larger pattern of so-called “friendly” Afghan troops turning their weapons on Americans and allied troops.

She said she’s still pushing and still not satisfied with the answers the Army and others in the military have provided.

Snowe credits her staff in Washington and Maine for their efforts and outreach. Without them, she said, her work wouldn’t have been possible.

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ing on a book about her time in politics. She’s also launched a new PAC-like or-ganization dubbed “Olympia’s List” that she intends to use to support candidates running for office who share her moderate and consensus-building views.

She joined the Speakers Bureau and intends to speak to various organizations around the country on her career, her views on American politics and how to fix the problems facing the country.

In her farewell address she said she intended to work from the outside to fix what she couldn’t manage from inside the government.

“I’ve spoken to many of you who came here to get things done, to solve problems and achieve great things for our nation,” she told her colleagues in her closing re-marks. She said people ask if Washington has always been this polarized. She tells them it hasn’t, and she intends to work to remove the polarizing dysfunction of the deep partisanship in the institution.

“I am so passionate about changing the tenor in Congress because I’ve seen that it can be different,” Snowe said. “It hasn’t always been this way. And it absolutely does not have to be this way.”

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It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holi-days are dominated with news of what we have lost.

On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence.

After Thanksgiving, when my in-laws lost a baby born too soon, I mourned a life that was only barely lived.

Just before Christmas, when Newtown, Conn., was attacked, I mourned the in-nocence that Adam Lanza stole: physical, in the form of 20 first-graders and their teachers, and intellectual, in the form of our country’s glib position on gun use.

As a mother of young children, there was never time to settle into the sadness or frustration or confusion those events sparked. She was still excited about her wish-list for Santa, and he still needed his diaper changed and his bottle prepared. The routine rolled us forward, from piano recital to pageant to party. I tried to maintain the split personal-ity that parenting sometimes requires, layering whatever negatives were churning on the inside with an upbeat con-

sistency on the outside.Loss stings regardless of how directly it hits. These

events happened around me, not to me; nevertheless, I became swept up in the emotion and the stories and the pictures and the anecdotes. I shared in the grief because it was all I could do.

And then I laid out cereal for breakfast and I packed lunches. I bought Christmas presents and I enforced time-outs. I read bedtime stories and I held tissues to runny noses. I played my normal role in the normal life of my normal family because it was all I could do.

Lurking in the background of our daily noise were the news broadcasts and the email chains, the Facebook posts and the on-line memorials. The sadness those missives contained could sucker-punch me during the most mundane of chores, the most rote of seat-buckling.

I had the nerve to consider myself challenged by the bal-ancing act I felt I was performing. I had the gall to become fatigued by the self-regulation. I had the ego to dwell on how other people’s suffering was affecting me.

Fortunately, I only let my narcissism run rampant for so long. I finally began catching myself – a couple times a minute, several times a day – recognizing that whatever it was, it was not my tragedy. My sadness was only vicarious; for someone else, grief had become their all-consuming present and their constant future companion. They owned it; I only borrowed it.

Knock on forests full of wood, my family is healthy. My

husband is home when he should be. I pick my children up from school and day care every day at the appointed time, and not because I’ve been summoned to rescue them from some emergency on the premises.

I do not know if I can accept that there is a silver lining to tragedy, but I believe we must look for the good in order to survive the bad.

This much I know is true: Kevin Grover’s family carries on with the arms of a community encircling it. My sister-in-law holds the memory of her baby boy in hands her fam-ily and friends help to cup. The families of the Newtown victims move forward on the shoulders of us all.

And that is precious.Also this: I was able to watch my daughter participate in

a holiday ceremony at her school. I felt frustrated by my son for biting me and then melted by his outstretched arms. I did not sleep enough one night because I was stuffing stockings. Each of those moments was special and wonder-ful and valuable simply because it happened. Same goes for the countless ones in between.

My New Year’s resolution crystallized before Jan. 1, and its subject is not healthier eating or improved fitness or less procrastination. It is to savor even what seems unsavory and

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Halsey Frank

A stitch in time costs about a grandEarly in life, my greatest talent appeared to be breaking

glass.I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass

doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room.

Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of doctors with four children. This was conve-nient for many reasons. To-gether with my two brothers, it provided critical mass of a variety of sporting activities, most of which involved a certain amount of physical contact.

When the inevitable injury occurred, it could often be treated on-site. On at least one occasion, one of the doctors sewed me up on the kitchen table. Free of charge.

Things have changed.Sunday night after Thanksgiving, I was making turkey

sandwiches from leftovers. I was slicing a roll with a sharp knife. I remember thinking, stupidly, that I would feel the edge of the knife as it approached the crust of the roll so that I could leave a hinge.

Instead, I felt just how sharp the knife was. I cut deep into the tip of my middle finger.

My standard response to such situations is to clean the wound and apply superglue. I cleaned the wound with per-oxide but superglue was not up to the task. I spent about an hour trying to stop the bleeding by applying pressure before conceding that a stitch was required.

Thinking that any wait was likely to be shorter at Brigh-ton First Care, I drove there, but arrived after it closed. The security guard checked his monitor and reported that the waiting room at Maine Medical Center was not crowded, so I drove to the hospital.

I walked past the security guard in his booth. It was relatively quiet inside. There were only a few people in the waiting area. It helped that the Giants-Packers game was on TV. Everyone was very pleasant. There were two people behind the reception desk, one of whom took my insurance information and had me sign some informed-consent forms. I did my paperwork and a triage nurse took my vital signs and assessed me. Everyone wanted to know how I cut myself.

It wasn’t long before they called my name and I was ushered to a treatment room in the back. Another nurse as-sessed me. A young doctor appeared and attended to me. His supervisor looked in and asked how I cut myself. On the theory that one needle stick was like another, I agreed that the attending doctor would not administer Novocaine because it was only going to take one stitch to close the wound.

He sewed me up. The nurse dressed the wound and gave me a tetanus booster shot that included a whooping cough vaccine as a bonus. I drove myself home.

On Dec. 2, I took the stitch out myself.On Dec. 4, I got the bill: $943.86.That includes $233.34 for the vaccine, $276 for the

simple repair, $212.50 for the attending physician, and $188 for the nursing. The bill informed me that I did not owe anything at the moment, that once all insurance com-panies had paid their portion of the claim, I would receive a bill for any unpaid balance.

I can’t wait.I am grateful that I have insurance through my work and

am hopeful that it will cover most, if not all, of the bill. But I am struck by the current cost of a single stitch. How did it get that high? Maine Med is well-staffed, well-equipped, clean and orderly. Everyone I dealt with was pleasant and competent. I have no complaints about the care that I re-ceived (although I have been plagued by a persistent cough for weeks). My wound healed.

But if I had known in advance how much it was going to cost, and if I had alternatives, I would have at least considered them.

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

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Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lan-caster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice.

The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elementary School mas-sacre was the insane act of one deranged young man. As much as we want to think we can control our world with laws, no single change in America’s scandal-ously lax gun laws would have prevented what happened in New-town.

Are the National Rifle Association and its members to blame? Of course not. But the NRA is complicit in every incident of gun violence in the U.S. because it effectively op-poses any measures that might make guns harder to acquire.

Complicity in the Newtown killings extends to Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the weapon of choice for mass murderers, to the merchants who sell such instruments of violence, to the elected offi-cials who lack the courage to enact meaningful gun control laws, but also to all the rest of us who enable this insanity by not insisting on sane weapons poli-cies and better care for the mentally ill.

No doubt we would all be better off in a country without guns, but it’s too late for that. The evil genie of firearms is out of the bottle. But the ironic truth

of the matter is that people who live in homes with guns are far more likely to become the victims of gun violence than those who live in gun-free homes. Newtown is further evidence of that.

If America now takes a few tentative steps toward reigning in the gun violence, Second Amendment advocates will predictably go ballistic. The Found-ing Fathers, however, wrote the Second Amendment during an era of single-shot rifles. They did not intend to open the door to mass murder. No one’s Second Amendment right to bear arms would be infringed upon by a sensible ban on semiautomatic assault rifles such as the one used to kill kindergar-ten children in Newtown. The Bushmaster AR-15, manufactured right here in Maine until last year, has no place in private hands. Nor do 30-round ammo clips.

The NRA and the Maine Gun Owners Associa-tion both came out with bonehead proposals to arm teachers in response to Newtown. These folks may mean well with their vigilante mindsets, but there were armed security personnel at Columbine and an armed teacher at Newtown. If some NRA or MGOA zealot had been on the scene at Newtown, I have a feeling they would have been the first ones killed. No one expects a gunman to shoot his way into an elementary school anymore than they expected ter-rorists to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center.

While tighter gun control laws would not have prevented the Newtown slaughter, we can no longer allow a mere 4 million NRA members to hold more than 300 million Americans hostage to their own fears. Countering the pro-violence rhetoric of the NRA might begin the process of transforming the United States into the more compassionate society it needs to become if we are ever to stem the tide of mass killings.

We are a sick society and the NRA is a symptom of that sickness. Gun ownership is almost as preva-lent in Canada and Iceland as it is in the U.S., but they don’t slaughter one another with the regularity of Americans. South Africa, Columbia and Thailand are the only countries in the world with more gun deaths than the United States. Sick.

So what is the proper response to Newtown? Start with a meaningful discussion of how to control gun violence, examine the efficacy of our mental health system, stop glorifying violence in movies, television and video games, and start on a spiritual path toward compassion and forgiveness rather than violence and retribution.

On Oct. 2, 2006, a madman entered an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and methodically shot 10 little girls ages 7 to 13, killing 5. The response to this heinous act was a bit more muted than the anguished response to the Newtown killings, perhaps because the Amish are “different.” We can all identify with suburban families in Con-necticut, but not so readily with Amish farm families in rural Pennsylvania.

The response of the Amish community to the kill-ing of their children? “We must not think evil of this man.” “He had a mother and a wife and soul and now he is standing before a just God.”

I’m not there and neither are you. But imagine be-ing so deeply compassionate, forgiving and at peace. Now start imagining how to achieve such enlighten-ment.

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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Yarmouth rep seeks constituents’ comments

As the newly elected state representative from House District 107, I am eager to hear from residents about what they believe the state Legislature should take up this year. I invite all interested persons to email me at [email protected], call me at 847-3193, or join me for a cup of cof-fee at the Royal Bean by appointment or at times I set aside for that purpose. My first scheduled meeting at

the Bean will be Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, from 8 a.m. to about 10 a.m. Whether you have a problem with a state agency that you need assistance with, or

an idea for new legislation or policy changes, please feel free to get in touch with me in whatever way is most convenient for you.

Rep. Janice CooperYarmouth

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12/21 at 4:43 a.m. Ashley Smith, 23, of Revere Street, Portland was arrested on Surrey Lane by Officer Jeff Pardue on charges of burglary, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, burglary of a motor vehicle and possession and transfer of burglar's tools.12/22 at 2:30 a.m. Rudolph DiMillo, 20, of Deering Run Drive, Portland, was arrested on Blackstrap Road by Officer Dan Austin on charges of operating without a license and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.12/22 at 6:25 p.m. Ryan Nadeau, 25, of Allen Avenue, Portland was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Dennis Ryder on an outstanding war-rant from another agency.

Summonses12/12 at 10:24 p.m. Garrett Chapman, 22, of Pleasant Hill Road, was issued a summons on Mill Road by Officer Matthew Fulmer on a charge of possession of marijuana.12/22 at 2:16 a.m. Leonard Cummings, 20, of Hersey Street, Portland, was issued a summons on Blackstrap Road by Officer Dennis Ryder on a charge of illegal possession of alcohol by a minor.12/22 at 2:16 a.m. Bronson Guimond, 20, of Shepherd Lane, Portland, was issued a sum-mons on Blackstrap Road by Officer Dennis Ryder on a charge of illegal possession of alcohol by a minor.12/22 at 2:16 a.m. William Walsh Jr., 20, of Palmer Avenue, was issued a summons on Blackstrap Road by Officer Dennis Ryder on a charge of illegal possession of alcohol by a minor.12/23 at 2:40 a.m. A 17-year-old male, of Portland, was issued a summons on Allen Avenue by Officer Dennis Ryder on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.

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EmSFalmouth emergency medical services re-sponded to 26 calls from Dec. 21-28.

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12/23 at 7:12 p.m. Peggi J. Conners, 38, of Foye Road, Wiscasset, was arrested on Main Street by Officer Matthew Moorehouse on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

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Arcadia Street, Portland, was issued a summons at Mallett Drive and Main Street on a charge of operating with a suspended license.

Fire calls12/25 at 2:15 p.m. Alarm call on Talbot Way.12/25 at 6:29 p.m. Oil spill on Juniper Drive.12/26 at 10:42 a.m. Alarm call on East Street.

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No arrests or summonses were reported from Dec. 24-30.

Fire calls12/26 at 6:12 p.m. Fire alarm on Spruce Point.12/27 at 9:55 a.m. Chimney fire on North Road.12/27 at 5:53 p.m. Fire alarm on North Road.12/27 at 6:40 p.m. Fire alarm on Seaborne Drive.12/28 at 9:01 p.m. Fire alarm on Center Street.

EmSYarmouth emergency services reported re-sponding to 23 calls from Dec. 24-30.

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12/24 at 5:51 p.m. David Stowell, 47, of Clifton Road, Falmouth, was arrested by Sgt. Angelo Mazzone on Blanchard Road on a charge of violation of a protection from abuse order.

Summonses12/26 at 9:25 a.m. Kevin Inman, 45, of Gray, was issued a summons by Officer Chris Wood-cock on a charge of driving to endanger.12/27 at 12:26 a.m. Brian Gouin, 18, of Wich-ers Mill Road, Sanford, was issued a summons by Officer Antonio Ridge on a charge of illegal transportation of drugs by a minor.

Fire calls12/21 at 10:04 a.m. Power lines issue on Pinewood Drive.12/21 at 3:34 p.m. House damaged by tree on Highland Avenue.12/21 at 4:24 p.m. Building damage on Blanchard Road.12/21 at 4:57 p.m. Power lines issue on Pleas-ant Valley Road.12/21 at 5:11 p.m. Power lines issue at Foreside and Tuttle roads.12/21 at 5:29 p.m. Power lines issue on Pleas-ant Valley Road.12/23 at 4:23 p.m. Fire alarm sounding on Linda Street.12/23 at 6:20 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Maine Turnpike.12/25 at 11:08 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Liberty Lane.12/26 at 12:32 p.m. Fire alarm sounding on Main Street.12/26 at 6:54 p.m. Structure fire on Main Street.12/27 at 12:34 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on I-295 in Yarmouth.

EmSCumberland emergency medical services responded to seven calls from Dec. 21-27.

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In 1969, she married Thomas Kosciw, who was serving in the Marine Corps. Together they started a family, raising two boys, David and Steven. During Thomas’ long career, the family lived and travelled in many places around the world including Virginia, South Carolina, Maryland and Okinawa, Japan. The couple made many friends and great memories wherever they lived.

Kosciw returned to Maine with her fam-ily, fulfilling their plans to retire and live in Maine near her mother and family. The family settled in Yarmouth and she lived there for the rest of her life. As her sons grew up, she restarted her career working at Anthem. She went to Husson College and earned her bachelor’s in accounting. She graduated with high honors and used her degree to advance her position at work.

She worked at Anthem for 24 years.She belonged to the Sacred Heart Parish

in Yarmouth. Her faith and service were always an important part of her life. She joined church outings to Ireland, Vienna, and Greece. She enjoyed travelling and learning about the world. Other than her family, her great love was gardening. She planted beautiful shrubs and flowers all around her house. Her great joy was creat-ing and maintaining a rock garden behind the house.

Kosciw reached out to the world and embraced life in a positive way. She shared words of wisdom with her family and friends. Her strength of character and her kind nature will never be forgotten.

She is survived by her sons, David, of Yarmouth, and Steven, of Japan; her broth-ers Richard Rioux, of Portland and Donald Rioux and his wife, Marie, of Dorchester, Mass.; and her sisters, Shirley and her husband, Maurice Michaud, of Missouri, Florence and her husband, Erhard Griffin, of Long Island, her twin, Joan Cook, of Portland, and Audrey and her husband, Peter Bryant, of Portland. She also leaves behind numerous nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents, Alfred and Alma; her husband, Tom; her brother, James; and sisters Alma, Barbara, and Maria.

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North Yarmouth Academy has openings for upper school varsity softball, upper school ju-nior varsity lacrosse and middle school baseball coaches. FMI, 847-5456 [email protected].

Another terrific sports year has come and goneBy Michael Hoffer

Another year of high school sports action is in the rearview mirror, but the memories will linger for a long time.

Local athletes turned heads last winter, dazzled in the spring and enthralled in the autumn.

With another winter season underway and the calendar now reading 2013, here’s one final look back to the thrills that made up 2012.

JanuaryWhen 2011 gave way to 2012,

Falmouth’s boys’ basketball team was undefeated with Greely and Yarmouth staying hot on the Yachtsmen’s heels.

On the girls’ side, all five teams were in contention for a playoff spot.

On the ice, Greely’s boys had a championship look, while Yarmouth and Falmouth were also turning heads. On the girls’ side, Falmouth’s Megan Fortier was skating circles around the opposition and the Yachtsmen were enjoying their best season to date. Greely was hanging tough and Yarmouth was closing in on a postseason trip.

Skiing, swimming and track

teams and individuals made a mark as they geared up for the postseason.

FebruaryFebruary brought the first hard-

ware of the new year when Greely shocked Falmouth in the girls’ hockey state final, by the stun-ning score of 7-1. Yarmouth had reached the East Region semifi-nals before losing to Brunswick, which became a victim of the Rangers before they beat the Yachtsmen to win it all.

Indoor track saw four indi-viduals win state championships: Falmouth’s Reid Pryzant in the Class B boys’ 55 hurdles and Greely’s Catherine Fellows (Class B girls’ shot put), Mike Leeman (Class B boys’ long jump) and Nestor Taylor (Class B boys’ 800).

In the pool, there were no shortage of stellar performances. Greely swept the Class B boys’ and girls’ team championships. Rangers standout Sarah Easter-ling was named Performer of the Girls’ Meet by setting new marks in winning the backstroke and individual medley. Teammate Sara Schad was first in the 50 and the 100 freestyle. Falmouth’s Nicola Mancini was the top diver in Class

FIle photosLeft to right: The Falmouth boys’ lacrosse team celebrates its second successive Class B state championship in June.

Greely’s Delaney Nolin, Katie Ventre and Haleigh Roach kiss the latest hardware for the volleyball program after beating Biddeford in the state final in late October.

Yarmouth boys’ basketball coach Adam Smith and standout player Josh Britten celebrate after winning the Western B title in late February. On the first Friday of March, the Clippers won their first state championship since 1968.

B. In the boys’ meet, wins from Dan Spencer in the 50 and 100 free helped Greely win the title, while Falmouth got wins from Ryan Conley in diving and Jake Perron in the 500 free.

Triumph was even greater on the slopes and trails. Every team except Greely won at least one championship. Falmouth’s boys won the Class A Nordic and com-bined championships, Yarmouth was first in Nordic and combined on both the boys’ and girls’ sides in Class B, while in Class C, Freeport’s girls won Alpine and combined, Merriconeag took the girls’ Nordic crown and NYA’s boys repeated as Nordic champs as well. If that wasn’t enough, Falmouth’s Leika Scott (Class A girls’ Alpine slalom), Freeport’s Elly Bengtsson (Class C girls’ Alpine slalom and giant slalom), Greely’s Elyse Dinan (Class A girls’ skimeister), Merriconeag’s Zoe Chace-Donahue (Class C girls’ Nordic classic and skate), NYA’s Ian Moore (Class C boys’ Nordic classic) and Cam Regan (Class C boys’ Nordic skate) and Yarmouth’s Jack Elder (Class B boys’ Nordic skate) all took home individual crowns.

Attention then turned to the basketball championships.

On the boys’ side, in Western B, Greely was stunned by a buzzer beater in a preliminary round loss to Lincoln Academy, which also brought the curtain down on the long reign of coach Ken Marks. Top-ranked Falmouth managed to survive upset bids from Poland and York to reach the regional final. Awaiting the Yachtsmen was Yarmouth, which became a different, almost unstoppable team in the postseason, dominat-

ing Lincoln and Spruce Mountain in its first two tests. On the 25th, the Clippers continued their tour-nament trend of taking a quick lead, but Falmouth, following its script, rallied. The Yachtsmen had their chances down the stretch, but shot themselves in the foot and Yarmouth drained three late free throws to ice a 56-50 victory and a first trip to a state final in nearly four decades.

On the girls’ side, Freeport and North Yarmouth Academy were ousted in the preliminary round, as was Falmouth, by Yarmouth, which made it to the quarterfinals for the first time in six seasons. The Clippers were ousted by eventual regional champion Lake Region in the quarterfinals. That left Greely, which got to the re-gional final, but had no answer for Lake Region.

Boys’ hockey saw Falmouth, Greely and Yarmouth all reach the playoffs. The Clippers edged Camden Hills in a wild Western B quarterfinal to set up a showdown with the Rangers in the semifinals. In Western A, the Yachtsmen toyed with Kennebunk in the quarterfinals to stay alive heading into a new month.

MarchThe first Friday of March

saw history made in Bangor as Yarmouth defeated Gardiner, 67-53, to win the Class B boys’ basketball title, the school’s first since 1968.

The following day on the ice, Falmouth beat Scarborough in a Western A semifinals, while Greely eliminated Yarmouth in a Western B semi.

On the 6th, Falmouth met de-fending champion Thornton Acad-emy in the Western A final and

once again fell agonizingly shy of the brass ring with a 6-3 loss.

The next night, Greely punched its ticket to the Class B state final with a 5-1 win over York.

The Rangers then won their second championship on the 10th, downing Messalonskee, 6-2.

April and MayThe short spring regular season

featured much excitement and triumph.

On the diamond, Falmouth, Freeport, Greely and Yarmouth were all turning heads with solid pitching and timely hitting.

Softball saw one-time standout player Sarah Bennis return to Greely as coach and led the Rang-ers to a solid season.

Boys’ lacrosse featured strong play from defending Class B champion Falmouth, while NYA and Yarmouth were also in the mix.

On the girls’ side, Falmouth was enjoying a terrific year, one high-lighted by a first-ever win over perennial powerhouse Waynflete. Freeport was quietly positioning itself to do great things.

Area track stars geared up for the postseason.

The tennis story featured excel-lence from several teams, most notably the Falmouth juggernaut.

JuneOn the 2nd, Falmouth tied York

for the Class B title in boys’ out-door track. The Yachtsmen got in-dividual titles from Jacob Buhelt, Falmouth in the 200. Greely’s Nestor Taylor won the 800, while in Class C, Cam Rayder, was tops in the shot put. On the girls’ side, Falmouth’s Jenna Serunian bowed out with Class B titles in the dis-cus and shot put, while Greely’s

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Abby Bonnevie was tops in the pole vault.A week later, both Falmouth tennis teams

won more hardware.On the diamond, Greely was stunned in

the quarterfinals by Cape Elizabeth, which went on to outlast Yarmouth in extra innings of the semifinals. Freeport’s best season in almost a decade was also denied by the Capers, in the preliminary round. That left Falmouth, which wasn’t bested by Cape Elizabeth or anyone else. The Yachtsmen were no-hit by the Capers in the regional fi-nal, but scored the winning run on a passed ball, then won their first ever Class B title.

Greely’s softball team got to the regional final, but had no answer for Fryeburg.

The top local boys’ lacrosse story was Falmouth, which managed to repeat as Class B champion. NYA didn’t make it easy on the Yachtsmen, however. After beating rival Yarmouth in the regional final, the Panthers hung tough most of the way in the state game, before Falmouth finally pulled away to prevail.

On the girls’ side, Greely lost in the semi-finals to Cape Elizabeth. Falmouth’s title dreams were dashed by a Waynflete come-back in the semis. Yarmouth and Freeport reached the Eastern B Final, which the Fal-cons won in overtime, earning a first ever trip to the state final in the MPA-sanctioned era. While Freeport lost to Waynflete, it was a memorable run indeed.

July and AugustHigh school action took a short break,

while familiar names competed in road races and American Legion ball. By mid-August, fall practice was underway.

SeptemberAutumn brought football, soccer, field

hockey, cross country, golf and volleyball excitement.

On the gridiron, two-time defending Class C champion Yarmouth saw its two-year, 24-game win streak snapped in the opener. Freeport started fast, as did Greely, which quickly emerged as a team to beat in Western B.

On the pitch, defending Class B boys’ champion Falmouth produced its share of drama, but was not alone in Forecaster Country, as Freeport, Greely, NYA and Yarmouth were all competitive.

On the girls’ side, two-time defending Class B champion Falmouth led the way, while Freeport, Greely and Yarmouth were jockeying for playoff spots.

NYA’s field hockey team once again led the way, with Falmouth also turning heads. Freeport and Yarmouth were also in posi-tion to make the playoffs.

Greely’s volleyball team dropped a couple early matches to Biddeford, but handled everyone else, while Falmouth and Yarmouth were among the best teams in the state.

Cross country and golf teams hinted at success to come.


from previous pageYarmouth AD earns national award

ContributedYarmouth athletic administrator Susan Robbins (front) received a Distinguished Service Award from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators’ Association last month in San Antonio, Texas. The award was given in recognition of Robbins’ length of service,

special accomplishments and contributions to interscholastic athletics at the local, state and national levels. Robbins, who has been at Yarmouth since 2005, is a 15-year veteran of high

school administration in Maine. Robbins has held several leadership roles for the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators’ Association and the Maine Principals’ Association. She is the chair of the MPA field hockey committee and serves on the MPA volleyball and

technology committees. Joining Robbins were Marty Ryan, Joe Kilmartin, Jack Hardy, Todd Sampson, Gary Stevens, Craig Sickels, Gene Keene, Mike Burnham, Jeff Benson, Dennis

Kiah and Gerry Durgin.

OctoberGolf held its state championship on

Oct. 6. Falmouth wasn’t able to win a third straight title, but was fourth in Class A. Greely came in second. Freeport came from nowhere to qualify for the first time this century. NYA, after not fielding a varsity program in 2011, re-emerged as a Class C power. Yarmouth was as good as anyone in the regular season and after winding up third at states, saw standouts Red DeSmith (Class B) and Monica Austin (girls) both place runner-up at the indi-vidual state match.

In cross country, Falmouth’s girls’ were regional champions before coming in fifth at states. The Yachtsmen boys were runners-up. Merriconeag’s Jack Pierce was the boys’ individual Class C champion.

NYA’s two-year run as Class C field hockey champion ended with a loss to

Lisbon in the regional final. Falmouth, Freeport and Yarmouth also made the playoffs.

Greely’s volleyball team embarked on another stirring title run, holding off Falmouth in a close quarterfinal, outlasting Scarborough in a five-set semifinal, then avenging its lone regular season setbacks with a win over Biddeford in the state match.

The soccer playoffs began with NYA losing to rival Waynflete in the Western C quarterfinals. In Western A, Greely’s late season surge finally ended with a difficult loss to eventual champion Scarborough in

the semifinals. In Western B, Freeport was ousted in the quarterfinals by Maranacook. Falmouth and Yarmouth advanced to the re-gional final, but there, it was all Yachtsmen, who scored a pair of early goals to advance to the state final.

On the girls’ side, Freeport lost to Morse in the quarterfinals. Greely lost in its quar-terfinal, to Cape Elizabeth. In Western B, Falmouth downed Yarmouth in the quar-terfinals, then won twice more to reach the state game once again.

On the gridiron, Yarmouth’s two-year championship reign ended with a loss to Winslow in the Western C quarterfinals. Greely enjoyed its best regular season to date, but fell, 9-7, to Wells on an improb-able late field goal in the quarterfinals.

NovemberOn the 3rd, both Falmouth soccer teams

won Class B titles again, the girls’ team’s third in a row and the boys’ squad’s second.

DecemberWinter has returned and the fun begins

again.In boys’ basketball, Falmouth is off to an-

other sizzling start, while Freeport, Greely, NYA and Yarmouth are hitting their stride.

On the girls’ side, Greely looks very good, Freeport is on the verge of becoming a top power, Falmouth is much improved and NYA and Yarmouth hope to be playoff teams by February.

On the ice, Greely’s boys’ hockey team is poised for another title run. Yarmouth hopes to be in the mix as well. In Western A, this could be the season that Falmouth finally takes the next step.

Greely’s girls have the pieces in place to repeat. Falmouth and Yarmouth will be in contention for the playoffs.

Swimming has provided positive glimps-es and skiing and track are about to get underway.

Say goodbye to the wonderful year that was. We welcome 2013 and look forward to a new batch of highlights.

Happy New Year everyone!Sports editor Michael Hoffer can be reached atmhoffer@

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Good Deeds

The race planning committee for the Falmouth Foreside 5K Classic recently pre-sented a $1,000 check to the Falmouth Food Pantry. Major local sponsors for the race included Falmouth Orthopaedic Center, Bath Savings Institution, Bangor Savings Bank and several other local businesses.

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throughout state agencies may have help blunt the blow, Welsh said. But she still expects RSU 5 to refrain from purchasing new curriculum materials to enhance sci-ence offerings, and to consider reducing field trips and practice scrimmages for spring athletic teams.

In a district where 80 percent of the budget is comprised of salaries and ben-efits, selective trimming to offset reduced subsidies can be difficult, Welsh said.

Welsh and Kelly Wentworth, RSU 5 fi-nance director, are reviewing areas where some savings can be achieved and will present a list to School Board members at a Jan. 9 meeting.

Millett said the supplemental budget needed to balance DHHS accounts would look to avoid diverting any more educa-tion subsidies.

“It is not part of current game plan. My hope is that this would be the extent (of reductions),” he said last week.

Godin said a spending freeze in areas including supplies, field trips, profes-sional development for staff and other travel was put in place in December. She will assemble a group of district depart-ment heads, a School Board member and the leaders of unions for district staff to consider other cost cutting measures.

Godin and Millett noted the curtail-ments are not not a new phenomenon for school districts.

“In five of the last six years there has been a curtailment of some magnitude,” Millett said.

The curtailment of school district subsidies would come in the form of a

cessation of payments from the DOE to districts, although Millett said all have received six months of the subsidies de-termined by the Essential Programs and Services formula.

Dan O’Shea, finance director in the Falmouth School Department, said the possible curtailment of $234,000 of a $7.5 million subsidy was less than ex-pected. But he could see how Falmouth schools could be hit with an 11 percent subsidy reduction.

“Upon seeing the figures it’s clear to see that towns with higher property tax bases were impacted the most relative to their total education spending,” O’Shea said.

Fixed personnel costs, debt service and the fact that most teachers have bought supplies for the year leave few areas to cut, O’Shea said.

“The (mid-year) timing of the curtail-ment does not leave us many options for reductions, but we will examine every purchase being made to insure it is abso-lutely necessary,” he said.

In Brunswick, where the School Department receives a state subsidy of $10.45 million, the proposed curtailment would reduce subsidies by $235,500. Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said the department has been bracing itself for a curtailment since October.

The amount deducted from state subsi-dies may be covered by shifting surpluses at the end of the school year, and Perza-noski said he does not expect the subsidy reduction will require reductions of staff positions or services.

“We have basically been in a freeze since October 2008,” he said, noting that he reviews all purchase orders to ensure they are for essential needs.

Perzanoski said his department endured reduced revenues because of the closing of Brunswick Naval Air Station and the loss of Durham students as part of the consolidation that formed RSU 5.

He said his message to leg-is la tors won’t be much differ-ent from what he has said before.

“We’ve continued to talk about the fact we get less from federal and state govern-ment and the majority of responsibility falls on taxpayers,” he said.

Scarborough School Department Business Manager Kate Bolton said her department was also prepared for a loss of subsidies. Scarborough is slated to lose $392,000 of its $4.8 million subsidy, and a discretionary spending freeze has been in place since November.

Bolton said it will be up to administra-tors and the School Board to determine the final details for coping with the rev-enue loss.

Some costs, including staff pay and contracts for energy, must remain fixed, and Bolton said staff are identifying areas of possible savings and considering a shift of undesignated fund balances as a “last-ditch resort.”

Bleak outlookEven if education funding is spared

further reductions in the short-term, the long-term prospects are not promising in terms of the biennial budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.

Jennifer M. Smith, the state’s director of Legislative Affairs & Communica-tions, on Dec. 28 said the latest estimates of a structural budget gap between rev-enue and spending tops $880 million for the next budget cycle.

By law, the gap assumes full funding of an average of 55 percent for general purpose aid, full funding for municipal revenue sharing, and merit pay increases for state employees.

Those full funding goals are unlikely, so legislators and state officials are still left with hard budgeting decisions for the next two years.

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said she knew the curtailment was com-ing. South Portland schools stand to lose $411,000 of their $3.1 million in state subsidies.

“It was actually a little less than what we were anticipating,” Godin said Mon-day.

The reduction in education subsidies was part of a general order signed by Gov. Paul LePage on Dec. 27. The order reduces state spending by $35.5 million to offset revenue shortfalls in the cur-rent biennial budget. It will be followed Jan. 11, 2013, by a supplemental budget drafted to close a $100 million shortfall at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

About $26 million of the reductions come in DHHS and DOE spending, although Sawin Millett Jr. , commis-sioner of the Department of Admin-istrative & Financial Services, held out hope some DHHS cuts could be restored in the supplemental budget.

The Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee will meet Jan. 4 to review the spending cuts in the curtailment order. The curtailment order can be amended or accepted by legisla-tors when the full body reconvenes on Jan 8.

Regional School Unit 5 Superintendent Shannon Welsh said she would like to see a quick consensus on what needs to be done.

“I would ask them to work quickly and take decisive action. Give us the informa-tion sooner than later, (so) we have to have time to respond,” Welsh said.

RSU 5, comprised of Freeport, Dur-ham and Pownal schools, stands to lose $138,000 of its $5.2 million state aid for the current fiscal year.

Distributing the spending reductions

Once the doors opened at 10 p.m., the dozen or so couples who waited outside filed up the curved marble staircase to wait some more. Roberta Batt, 71, and Mary Donaldson, 63, pinned corsages on each other before heading down the hall to wait for their marriage license. The antique dealers have been together for more than 30 years.

“It feels really great,” Donaldson said. “I’d like to thank all the people in Maine who voted to make this happen. It’s been a long struggle.”

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Possible curtailments in general purpose aid to schools, according to the Maine Department of Education:

Brunswick — $235,000 of $10.45 million.Cape Elizabeth — $197,000 of $2.02 million.Falmouth — $234,000 of $7.5 million.Portland — $870,000 of $14.06 million.RSU 1 (Bath) — $165,000 of $8 million.RSU 5 (Freeport, Durham, Pownal) — $138,000 of $5.2 million.SAD 51 (Cumberland, North Yarmouth) — $169,000 of $10.9 million.SAD 75 (Harpswell, Topsham) — $147,000 of $13.3 million.Scarborough — $398,000 of $4.2 million.South Portland — $411,000 of $3.1 million.Yarmouth — $172,000 of $1.49 million.

on hand at a table handing out carnation boutonnieres on the second floor of City Hall. Skillin said they started making the boutonnieres on Wednesday and finished with between 400 and 450.

“I really wanted to do something,” Skillin, who bought the flowers from her father’s business, Skillins Greenhouses, told the BDN on Friday night. “I really wanted to hug everyone.”

Sawyer, a notary public, was offering his services performing marriage ceremo-nies to any couple who was interested Saturday morning.

“It would be such an honor to be able to do that for a couple,” he said.

Not everyone was as enthusiastic.As a line formed outside the building

between 9:30 and 10 p.m., one man stood across the plaza singing gospel songs and calling out religious scriptures in protest of the occasion. The man, who refused to give his name, called same-sex marriages “abominations” and “wickedness,” and said that by allowing them, Mainers are “turning our backs on God’s command-

ments.”Inside city hall, the Bangor Daily

News staff took photos of couples who wished to share them on the newspaper’s website.

Steven Jones and Jamous Lizotte, both of Portland, wore tuxedos and arranged laurel wreaths on their heads while wait-ing for midnight, when they could get married.

“After nine years of being together, we decided to go all the way,” Lizotte, formerly of St. Agatha, said.

When he learned that the first day that same-sex marriage would be legal fell on his 35th birthday, it seemed like a sign.

“It’s a finale,” he said. “It’s been a long time.”

In Falmouth, the town clerk’s office opened at midnight for couples who had made an appointment ahead of time. Two wedding parties apparently entered town hall for marriage licenses, but the press and public were not allowed in the build-ing to talk to the couples.

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Across the area, the average income of school staff con-sistently exceeds that of other municipal employees in the same communities.

And the top school officials were some of the highest-paid public employees anywhere in the area. All of the nine school districts that responded to the survey reported their superintendents made annual salaries of more than six figures. Three superintendents – in Falmouth, Portland and Scarborough – earned more than $130,000.

Police officers and firefighters also are well-compen-sated.

While it wasn’t unusual for chiefs to receive high sala-ries, other police and fire personnel also ranked in their communities’ top 10, thanks to overtime pay. Those com-munities included Bath, Freeport, Portland and Topsham.

While some compensation amounts may seem lucra-tive, public employees are seeing their paychecks grow slowly. Over the past five years, wages for Maine municipal workers have increased between 1 and 2.5 percent a year, according to Conrad.

That’s in line with the municipal raises approved recently by the Portland City Council. It’s also about the same as the federal cost-of-living adjustments over the same time.

But making head-to-head comparisons among different communities can be misleading, Conrad said.

His organization, whose membership includes nearly 500 municipalities in Maine, conducts a salary survey of its own. Aside from the size of the city or town, and fac-tors such as length of employment, there are few variables that can be used to determine an appropriate compensation level.

“There’s just no rule of thumb,” he said.Still, one pattern is clear, he said: Maine municipalities

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effective than other government,” he said. “We’re used to

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Ultimately, Conrad said, decisions about employee com-pensation are driven by the unique needs and expectations of each community.

“The dynamics are always going to be very different,” he said. “Every community should look at what’s best for itself. These are tough jobs, and each of them has multiple masters.”William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected].

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ians to have assault weapons,” she said.In addition to the ban, D’Andrea said

they would like to see universal back-ground checks when guns are being sold and restrictions on the use of high-capacity magazines.

Weinstein and D’Andrea agree gun control is not the only way to limit gun vio-lence, both noting that other factors within American society play crucial roles.

“Gun violence is multifaceted. It’s com-plex, and not just one or even two things, but a combination of things,” D’Andrea said. “We live in a culture where guns are readily available, easy to obtain and in great numbers. Will all guns laws stop the killers and bad guys? No. But it’s better to stop some than none at all.”

Owning an assault rifle, or any other type of firearm, is important for personal safety and hunting, Weinstein said, although restrictions on more powerful weapons

should be considered.“I don’t think anyone should own an

operational bazooka or a tank,” he said. “When you get into the bigger stuff, that’s a different story and not addressed at all under the Second Amendment.”

Although Weinstein said larger, more powerful weapons should be considered for some regulation, part of the solution to keeping people safe is more guns, not less.

“I think it’s a terrific idea to have a lim-ited number of teacher or administrators with significant training to carry a weapon,” he said, echoing similar calls from the Na-tional Rifle Association. “If someone comes crashing in with an automatic weapon or doing some other violent activity, they would be the first line of defense.”

The best thing that can be done from a mental-health standpoint is to improve the early identification programs, Kaplan said, noting that trustworthy information is sometimes hard to come by.

“Our information is only as good as the honesty of the answers people give us,” he said, noting that it’s unlikely the recent kill-

ers would have disclosed information about gun ownership due to the thoughtful plan-ning ahead of their attacks. “A standard part of our examination for any patient is asking if they ever have thoughts of killing others or harming other or themselves, but we can only go on what other people are telling us.”

Profiles of people who commit high-pro-file mass-killings are often the same: young, white, male loners from suburban neigh-borhoods. But, Kaplan said, focusing too closely on that group would also be wrong.

“Suburbia isn’t rosy for everybody,” he said, referring to bullying at schools as another common element in the environ-ment of these recent shooters. “If you lined (the recent shooters) all up, they tended to be loners, had access to weapons and were socially kind of inept. But again, we could fill up Madison Square Garden hundreds of times with people who have the same problems, but they’re not killers.”

“Again, it speaks to a different kind of violence,” Kaplan continued, noting that the mass shooters almost universally com-mit suicide after going on a spree. “Gang-

bangers don’t kill themselves, but these guys kill themselves, it’s a really different profile. It represents a very, very small portion of gun violence in America. Drive-by shoot-ings kill more school-aged kids, or they’re killed in context of domestic violence at home, I think there’s a lot more of them.”

The culture of violence in America, from violent video games and movies to state-sanctioned violence, like war, is vital, albeit complex, in producing the people that de-cide to commit massacres, D’Andrea said.

“Does our militarization play a role in it? Probably. Just as I can say violent games play a role in it. ... But do they play a role in all shootings? No,” she said. “So, yes, if you start piling up all these various aspects about how violence enters our culture we have to take a look at all of these. We teach our kids from the minute they step into their first pre-K class to use their words to sort out their arguments. But, in our society, how we solve the problem is whipping out the gun.”

Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow Will on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.

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