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companys proposal for kelp farms near Che-beague and Jewel islands is being opposed by lobstermen, who say the farms will interfere with their businesses.
Paul Dobbins and Tollef Olson, of Ocean Approved LLC, have applied for three-year experimental leases for two three-acre areas in Casco Bay to grow kelp. Ocean Approved
already has an experimental lease for an area near Little Chebeague Island.
The company won a $300,000 grant last month from the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administrations Small Business Innovative Research program to continue their research to develop, seed and cultivate kelp. Theirs was the first kelp farm to open in the United States.
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IndexObituaries ......................18Opinion ..........................12Out & About ...................31People & Business ........26
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Yarmouth town councilors move deliberately on art center proposalBy Amy Anderson
YARMOUTH While cre-ators of Firehouse Arts would like the Town Council to make a quick decision on whether the nonprofit group can use Win-slow Station on Center Street as a community art center, they
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Gun club reopens 1 shooting range, 3 remain closedBy Emily Parkhurst
FALMOUTH After being closed for almost a year because of safety issues, the Falmouth Rod & Gun Club has reopened one of its shooting ranges.
Three other ranges will re-main closed indefinitely until the club makes significant safety and environmental improve-ments.
Police Sgt. Frank Soule said Friday that the range received a one-year permit on Oct. 12 to use a trap range after some changes were made to increase safety.
All four of the clubs ranges were closed after police and code enforcement inspectors in November 2010 found serious issues, including stray bullets on neighboring property.
Soule said those who use the range now can only shoot from platforms and that they must use an automated throwing arm, rather than throwing the clay pigeons themselves, to keep the shooting location consistent.
That way its all falling on the range property, Soule said.
will have to wait until Novem-ber for a final vote.
At an Operations Committee meeting a committee of the whole council on Monday, most councilors said they prefer to hold two public votes on the matter, one on Thursday and one
in November.According to Town Manager
Nat Tupper, the proposal has been in the works since March, but it will be detailed on Oct. 20 to allow public comment. The
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Lobstermen oppose kelp farms in Casco Bay
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Paul Dobbins of Portland-based Ocean Approved LLC hauls a rope of kelp from his farm in
Casco Bay near Little Chebeague Island. Dobbins and his business
partner, Tollef Olson, have applied for two more leases for kelp farms, one near Chebeague
Island, the other near Jewel Island, but lobstermen say the
proposed locations interfere with their fall fishing areas.
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School Board enacts new rules on public comment, computersBy Emily Parkhurst
FALMOUTH Speakers at School Board meetings are now prohibited from discussing school employees and must limit their comments to three minutes.
The School Board unani-mously approved a new public comment policy Tuesday night, and amended a policy governing use of employee computers.
Besides the ban on comments about School Department em-ployees, the revised public com-ment policy prohibits vulgar, profane, obscene, threatening, or disruptive statements; provides speakers no more than three
minutes to speak unless an ex-tension is granted, and prohibits spontaneous comments from the audience.
The change is an attempt to corral speakers who engage in what board members believe is disruptive and abusive speech. The new policy requires speak-ers to comply or risk being told to leave the meeting.
It also prohibits employees from discussing matters for which other, more appropriate forums are provided, such as the grievance procedures in the teachers union contract.
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Mackworth Island causeway closed to pedestriansReconstruction to slow vehicle trafficBy Emily Parkhurst
FALMOUTH The causeway be-tween the mainland and Mackworth Island will be closed to pedestrians, and drivers should expect significant delays,
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for the next few months while the cause-way is rebuilt.
Andrews Avenue, the only road to the island, the Baxter School for the Deaf and the Real School, will be under con-struction beginning Monday, Oct. 17, to repair damage from several storms.
The repairs are being funded by the U.S. and Maine emergency management agencies.
The entire causeway will be off limits to foot traffic, said John Woodcock, who oversees facilities on the state-owned
A sign on Andrews Avenue in Falmouth warns pedestrians that the Mackworth Island
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Andrews Road will be reduced to one lane across the causeway and temporary signal lights will be set up to regulate traffic. Vehicles traveling to and from the schools will have priority, Woodcock said, but drivers can expect delays of up to 20 minutes.
He estimated the construction would be completed in mid-December.
The causeway damage dates to April 16, 2007, when a Patriots Day storm pulled rocks encased in chain-link fence away from the road on the north side.
Every time you get high wave action,
it gets worse, Woodcock said. Another big storm and the whole roadway could wash away.
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FREEPORT The Planning Board will consider amending the zoning or-dinance or using site- or project-specific alternatives, like contract zoning or an overlay district, for a proposed indoor soccer arena.
The Town Council approved a deal last December with Seacoast United Maine, a nonprofit soccer club based in Topsham, but indoor recreational facilities are not an approved use according to the towns zoning ordinance.
At a Planning Board meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 5, Michael Healy, past president of the soccer club, said the proposed plan is to build two outdoor turf fields and an indoor arena near the recycling center on Hedgehog Mountain Road. Healy said the indoor arena would house three turf fields, concessions, bath-rooms, offices and a mezzanine floor for additional recreational uses.
According to Town Planner Donna Larson, the indoor arena is proposed in the Rural Residential 1 zone, an area that includes nearly 70 percent of the land in Freeport.
The Planning Board wanted to address the situation by applying a contract zone, but after town councilors, residents and neighbors spoke against the suggestion, they are less likely to pursue that path, Larson said.
The board must decide if the project warrants a change, she said, and if so, what type.
It can recommend an amendment to the zoning ordinance to allow indoor recreation facilities in the district; it
can allow contract zoning in the rural residential district, or develop a contract that is tailored to the land and the needs of abutting properties, or develop a new use for the district.
Or the board can decide the use is not acceptable for the area and leave the or-dinance unchanged.
The concept of the outdoor turf fields are fine, but the indoor arena needs to be reviewed, Larson said. The Planning Board is only advisory here, and the final decision will be made by the (Town Council).
Contract zoning is project- and land-specific, Lawson said, and focuses narrowly on the specific site and the neighbors. If the board recommends mak-ing changes to the ordinance, the entire RR-1 zone would be altered. An overlay district, as proposed by Councilor Eric Pandora, would limit the geographic area of a project, allowing a use that wouldnt otherwise be permitted on a specific parcel.
If the project were a municipal facility, had an outdoor commercial recreation use, was a public or private school, or a campground, it would be subject to a site review, but permissible. Other site review projects include cemeteries, bed and breakfast inns, day care facilities or
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Board member Greg Savona said he is wary of creating blanket language in the zoning ordinance that would allow for many uses in the residential area. Mem-ber Theresa Olkewsiw said her biggest concern if the ordinance is changed is the potential impact on the quality of life in the rural zone.
Pat Palmer, a resident of the RR-1 district, said she is not in favor of the
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Cumberland bulky waste week: So far, so goodBy Alex Lear
CUMBERLAND One day into its bulky item pickup week, it looked as though the towns attempt to educate resi-dents about which items are appropriate to leave by the curb may have paid off.
Chris Bolduc, director of operations and public services, said Tuesday morning that Pine Tree Waste which is picking up the bulky waste along with the usual trash and recyclables reported only two issues during its run through part of west-ern Cumberland on Monday: construction debris and a pile of clothes, two items not accepted at the curb, were left on the street by pickup crews.
Bolduc said he saw TVs and computers, other items not accepted, on other streets. Those items will be tagged with informa-tion for residents about how to dispose of
them, he said.But overall, things have been so far, so
good, Bolduc said. Of course, it was only the first day.
In the past, we would get a huge list (of items not picked up), he said. To have the first day go by and only have two things is pretty good.
However, he said the town did receive a few phone calls from residents complain-ing that during the night, someone had dropped construction debris at the ends of their driveways.
Asked whether he thought the educa-tional program had worked, Bolduc noted that although it was hard to tell early on, if I was going to take a guess, just from what Ive seen, compared to what Ive seen in the past, I would say yes. Were not really see-ing the huge piles of debris. ... Well know
better when the weeks over, when we can get a report on the tonnage and compare it to the past couple years.
Bolduc said that in many cases, people will forage through items left at the end of residents driveways, obtaining items like metal before Pine Tree Waste comes along.
Bulky waste pickup week continues through Friday, Oct. 21.
In May, after the spring pickup, the Town Council discussed improving its educational campaign in time for this falls collection. Mill Road resident Dudley Greeley guided councilors through a presentation that included a photo of a 5-foot-tall mass of boxes and trash bags covered by a blue tarp, an example of how the collection program
was being misused.Although garbage is meant to be placed
in prepaid town bags for weekly pickup, Town Manager Bill Shane noted in May that about 12 percent of the towns annual trash was being picked up in the two bulky waste collection weeks.
Items accepted at the curb are bathroom fixtures, mattresses and box springs, couch-es, carpets and chairs, stoves, washers and dryers, hot-water tanks, oversized toys, tires with no rims, and large metal items.
Items not accepted are wood products, appliances containing freon, propane tanks, yard or tree waste, liquid waste, clothing or textiles, computers or monitors, TVs, plastic bags of assorted trash, tires still on rims, demolition and building debris, and florescent light bulbs.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@
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Broken sprinkler closes libraryBy Emily Parkhurst
FALMOUTH Falmouth Memorial Library will be closed at least until Satur-day, Oct. 22, to repair water damage from a broken sprinkler system.
The Fire Department confirmed there was damage Tuesday to books and other materials at the Lunt Road building, and that the library was closed.
Library Director Lyn Sudlow said Tues-day night that the library had hired High Tech Fire to flush out some build-up in the pipes of the dry sprinkler system as part of the buildings routine maintenance schedule.
One of the cast iron pipes in the attic gave way under the additional pressure of the water that was part of the process of flushing out the pipes, she said. The flooding in the attic cascaded down into the circulation desk area and childrens picture book area for the most part.
Sudlow said a group had been meet-ing in the nearby meeting space, and had quickly helped the library staff move books and equipment away from the leak. The water was shut off and the library called a company to come dry out the wet carpet, sheetrock and furniture.
High Tech Fire techs came back to de-termine the cause and replaced three pipes that were rusted enough to develop pinholes under the additional water pressure, Sud-low said.
She added that it would likely take until Saturday to dry everything out, move fur-niture back and reshelve books. She hoped the library would reopen after that.
It is still a little early to assess what the permanent damage might be, Sudlow said.
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Cumberland Planning Board OKs senior housing projectBy Alex Lear
CUMBERLAND The Planning Board unanimously granted major sub-division and site plan approvals Tuesday for the renovation of a school as a senior housing center.
The now-closed Drowne Road School a 17,600-square-foot building that School Administrative District 75 turned over to the town this year will be con-verted by Bateman Partners of Portland into a 38-unit apartment complex.
The project is the third phase of the Village Green Revitalization Master Plan. Nathan Bateman said Tuesday that Bate-man Parters will apply for funding from the Maine State Housing Authority next month. If successful, construction could begin next June and finish 10 months later.
Last month the Planning Board con-ducted a sketch plan review of the proj-ect. Earlier this month the Town Council approved a change in zoning for the property from Rural Residential 1 to the adjacent Village Mixed Use Zone, which allows work on the building to proceed without a contract zone.
The Planning Board also granted major subdivision approval to the first phase, a 58-lot housing project on the Doane property in the center of town. Bateman will develop the nearly 41-acre property into a mix of single-family and duplex homes.
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BRUNSWICK Two candidates are competing to be the county commissioner in Cumberland Countys new District 3, a seat created when the County Charter was approved last year and expanded the districts from three to five.
Mark Grover of Gray and Stephen Gorden of North Yarmouth discussed is-sues facing the county during an Oct. 13 candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Maine.
One key issue, going to referendum Tuesday, Nov. 8, is whether the county should borrow up to $33 million to renovate the Cumberland County Civic
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District 3 includes Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell, North Yarmouth, Gray, New Gloucester and Pownal.
Stephen GordenGorden, 69, is married and has five
sons and two grandchildren. He has served as national vice president of corporate development for the American Water Works Service Co. and president of American Water Resource, both in New Jersey; director and chief executive officer of the Detroit Water & Sewerage
Department in Michigan, director of op-erations for the Portland Water District. He was also chairman of the National Water Utility Association.
His volunteer experience includes being a trustee of the Yarmouth Water District and serving on the Cumberland County Charter Com-mission.
Gorden said he wants to prioritize county issues to serve citizens in a better way, as well as ex-pand multi-commu-nity links among public safety services. He also wants to boost coordination at quasi-municipal, state and community levels, and to encourage diminishing of what he called duplicate structural costs.
He said he envisions the county level of government as an entity upon which a community may call to accomplish what it considers the common, repetitive, heavy-lifting functions, freeing itself and you to maintain your distinct community culture and quality of life by perform-ing those tasks and services which are uniquely yours.
Gorden said the Cumberland County Recreational Center District, which he described as a quasi-municipal govern-ment run by appointed trustees, owns and operates the Civic Center. He said the district has the authority to request bonding.
In recent years, he said, the Civic Center government and Cumberland County government have become too entangled in one anothers affairs, and it needs to cease. They are not dealing with one another at arms length, nor are they operating independently; thats just plain wrong. Its unfair to the citizens, as all transparency is lost.
Gorden said voters outside the imme-diate Portland area do not stand to gain from the renovation plan.
Mark GroverGrover, 56, is a software engineer
for the DeLorme mapping company in Yarmouth.
He served on the Gray Town Council from 2008-2011 and was a representative from Gray to both the Greater Portland Council of Govern-ments and the Central Corridors Coalition of area municipali-ties. He also served on the Cumberland County Budget Advi-sory Committee, the Gray Public Library Board of Trustees and the Gray Comprehensive Plan Com-mittee, and has volunteered with Gray Fire-Rescue.
Grover says this experience, plus his work as an engineer, gives me experi-ence as a member of teams that get things done.
He said he believes in thoughtful and moderate governance.
Regarding the Civic Center bond, Gro-ver said the plan is responsibly written, but he does not think now is the time for the project. He noted that there would be up to $22 million in interest on top of the bond amount.
I dont think most people in District 3 are prepared for the burden (of the proj-ect) for something thats non-essential, he said.
Grover said the economy could im-prove to the point where such a project were more viable, that there could be a more modest proposal, or that Portland could contribute a larger share of the cost.
He also noted that the fiscal 2012 county budget includes $300,000 to fund the red ink of the Civic Centers oper-ating budget. Grover pointed out that the centers trustees should plan to balance their budget this year, no matter how the bond vote goes, and that subsidies each year should be phased out.
Even the proposed plan says that they dont expect big profits until 2016, even with the improvements, Grover said.
Election Day is Nov. 8.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@
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A preliminary sketch design of the proposed
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it would be a boon to the economy and the tradition of harness racing in Maine. Opponents say it would make its owners a fortune, but have a negative effect on local economies.
Either way, officials in Scarborough say Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot could create a great opportunity to redevelop prime property along Interstate 95 and Route 1.
The referendum will ask voters throughout the state to allow two pro-posed harness racing tracks one in Biddeford and one in Washington County to also offer slot-machine gambling. If the referendum is approved, Scarborough Downs, a 60-year-old harness racing track off Route 1, will close and move to Biddeford.
In Scarborough, that could mean the redevelopment of the 485 acres now owned by Scarborough Downs.
The Downs is part of Scarboroughs heritage, said Harvey Rosenfeld, presi-dent of the Scarborough Economic De-velopment Corp. As you lose something like that, you take something away from
restaurants, hotels and shops.Proponents also argue that their racino
proposals would support Maines harness racing industry with purse supplements and by protecting the need for 1,500 jobs in harness racing and accompanying industries people like stable employees, hay farmers and veterinarians.
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the community historically, which I hate to see. But as Scarborough continues to attract residential growth, we have to find a way to pay for the services people want. The development possibilities there are beneficial to that end.
An investment in MaineLast November, Biddeford residents
approved the construction of a racino in their city.
If voters statewide approve the racino question this year, proponents promise 800 temporary construction jobs to build the facility and another 500 full-time po-sitions to staff the Biddeford racino and accompanying resort hotel and entertain-ment facility.
Crystal Canney, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 2 campaign, said the full-time jobs will offer an average salary of about $35,000 per year and health benefits.
Scarborough Downs and its racino partner, Ocean Properties LLC, say their racino will attract customers from throughout northern New England and Canada, and will boost business for local
income is earmarked for various state funds. According to a May report from the Legislatures Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs, the two racinos are expected to contribute more than $10 million to supplement harness purses and more than $3 million to support agricul-tural fairs in the state.
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FREEPORT History buffs and ghost hunters alike are invited to participate in the final Ghost of Freeports Past haunted tours hosted by the Freeport
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This tour has everything, White said. Our resident specter, a psychic medium, a tour along the darkened streets of the village and stories about the unknown and unexplained.
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White encourages people to dress up and expect an easy walk through the village.
Tours are available on Friday, Oct. 21, Saturday, Oct. 22, and Thursday-Satur-day, Oct. 27-29, at 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person and reserva-tions are required. Call 865-3170 or visit freeporthistoricalsociety.org.
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ent ingredients until she found the flavor she remembered: the special mustard her mother made, salt-free for her grandmother, and sweetened with local honey.Then she bottled it and took a case to the
local Shaws supermarket. Almost immedi-ately, the store manager called her up and asked for two more cases. Then Hannaford Bros. called. They wanted some, too.That was in 1982. Since then, Mothers
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garage in Falmouth that smells sharply of mustard and vinegar. Metal shelves holds boxes of jams and mustards ready to ship out, some with labels for Renys, some heading to Whole Foods, others to specialty food purveyors throughout the area.Tanner, 80, still creates all the recipes
with her husband, Dennis Proctor. The
Falmouth resident Carol Tanner, who created Mothers Mountain Mustard
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kitchen on Tuesday. Mothers Mountain will
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Mothers Mountain creators Carol Tanner, right, and her husband, Dennis Proctor, in the companys small kitchen in Falmouth. The company will celebrate 30 years of
making mustard and other specialty foods on Saturday, Oct. 22, from 1-6 p.m. at the company homestead, 2 Mustard Hollow (off Woodville
Road) in Falmouth.
couple has been together for 30 years, a little bit longer than theyve been mak-ing mustard. Tanners four sons and their families occasionally help out in the family business, but for the most part, the couple makes the products themselves.Weve grown by listening to people,
Tanner said.Every year she takes the mustard to the
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hot mustard, Tanner said.Proctor said the company has considered
going organic, but that the paperwork and requirements for a certified organic product is more work that its worth.As long as we bring on a clean product,
people are happy, he said.Mothers Mountain does not use any
preservatives and the products are free of gluten. Many of the ingredients, like honey, are purchased from local farmers.Everything on our labels is what people
would find in their pantries at home, Proc-tor said.Tanner said things have changed a lot in
30 years.
She recalled the president of Hannaford Bros. calling her up personally to ask to distribute her mustard in his stores, and remembers asking the bank for a $1,000 loan to buy some extra glass bottles to do a larger shipment, and getting a check the same day.Now, the company goes through a dis-
tributor and same-day micro-loans are unheard of.I think its become hard for a little per-
son to start in on a new business, she said.Tanner said shed like to retire soon and
dedicate herself full-time to painting, some-
thing shes always loved to do. Her husband would likely continue running the business, and theyve considered bringing someone on to help him out.In the meantime, theyre throwing the
company a birthday party on Oct. 22 from 1-6 p.m. The public is welcome at Tanner and Proctors home, 2 Mustard Hollow, off Woodville Road. The Rangers and the Pete Kilpatrick Band will be performing, there will be free t-shirts and, of course, lots of mustard.Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or
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The letter from a Scarborough citizen deeming Edgar Allen Beems column about the effects of smart meters as wrong is just plain misinformed. His example of putting a person in a room, while in another room transmitting at random times and challenging that sensitive person to feel the transmission, is ludicrous. Thats like smoking one cigarette and dying on the spot from lung cancer. RF exposure does not work that way.
Dr. David Carpenter, a Harvard Medical School-trained physician who headed up the New York State Department of Public Health for 18 years, administering a program for
Vote yes on Question 2 for Maines horsemen
Ive been training and driving standardbred horses on racetracks for 25 years. Its what I love best, and its pretty much all I know. If I have a choice, Ill continue working with horses for as long as I can. There are plenty of others within the harness racing industry who feel the same way.
Thats why Im asking you to vote yes on Question 2 on Nov. 8. If we approve this ref-erendum, it will allow a brand new racino, with an all-weather racetrack, in Biddeford.
We need a racino in southern Maine to compete with other states. We can do that with the Biddeford Downs project. Besides the racetrack, the project will have a resort hotel, restaurants and other entertainment. It will create jobs and will be a big draw in this region.
Please help Maines horsemen and women compete. Vote yes on 2.
Drew CampbellScarborough
Yes on 2 to protect jobs, heritage
I urge the citizens of Maine to vote yes on Question 2. This referendum question allows Mainers to support eco-nomic development without having to approve additional borrowing through the issuance of bonds.
Job opportunities will be created for the men and women in York and in Washington counties who are desperate for work. A yes vote will support a weakened construction industry during the building phases and then bolster the creation of new jobs.
A yes vote will support a segment of Maines agricul-tural community that has a strong heritage and will protect thousands of acres of open lands. As a professional farrier
electromagnetic fields, states that although there havent been studies of living with smart meters for long periods of time and what illnesses they may cause, there is a sub-stantial amount of evidence showing that radio frequency radiation causes many illnesses such as cancer, nervous system disorders, reproductive disorders, etc.
Another expert in the EMF department, Dr. Magda Ha-vas, claims the radiation from cordless phones causes heart arrhythmia and tachycardia and alters the sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous systems. She is concerned with the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution including radio frequency, radiation, and EMFs.
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(horseshoer) for 30 years, my entire working life has been spent in the equine industry. My wife and I own and oper-ate an equestrian center. Question 2 is about job creation and helping to maintain a way of life which is rooted in Maines history.
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Big on Joe Mig in South Freeport
It seems like a constant war in Freeport between those who always want more from local government and those who want to maintain a balance between services and property tax affordability.
Many residents of South Freeport appreciate Joe Mi-gliaccios ongoing effort to counter costly and indulgent Town Council spending initiatives with common sense. And unlike some, Joe Mig listens to his constituents. He knows we are over-taxed and actually feels our pain.
The last thing we need in Freeport is to replace him with a big spender. Do your own research and form your own judgment about what his opponent represents. If you think bigger is better, youll love his opponent.
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of candidates or issues in the Nov. 8 election is noon, Monday, Oct. 24, for publication in our print editions of Oct. 26-28. The Forecaster does not publish election letters in the week preceding Election Day.
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Please vote to re-elect Joe Migliaccio to the Freeport District 3 Town Council seat.
Migliaccio brings a unique perspective to the council by balancing commercial economic interests with the preservation and protection of residential neighbor-hoods. He grew up in Freeport, is now raising his own young family here, and brings to the council a seasoned home grown familiarity with the background, culture and concerns of the community.
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Dont take Maines beauty for granted
Theres an ocean in our back yard. At any time during the day, we can see boats sailing past our windows as nonchalantly as other people observe cars passing by on the street. Weve lived here three years now and were still enthralled by what we see every day. Large ships, small ships, kayaks, power boats regardless of the type of vessel, its floating out there in our backyard as mat-ter of fact as other people have lawn chairs and sports equipment scattered across their backyards. I still pinch myself every day to see if Im dreaming.
With the arrival of autumn, theres not as much boat traffic out there as in the dummer months.
Egan for Town CouncilWe urge our friends and neighbors in Freeport to get
to know Kristina Egan and to support her for Town Council in District 3. Kristinas skills and experience
But there are still sea birds and ocean currents that hold our endless fascination. Islands and coastline round out the view, but heres the secret. Everyone in Maine who drives the coast from Kittery to Machias has the same privilege. Were all surrounded by abundant natu-ral beauty.
Question is, do you see it or take it for granted?Marcy Tierney
Yarmouth
will benefit the town. Her resume and background are impressive, but it is her attitude and her willingness to do the hard work that impress us the most. She respects all points of view and has a demonstrated ability to bring people together and to get things done. She has run organizations and multi-million-dollar projects and has worked on local economic and environmental issues around the country and in Asia. Kristina understands the importance of carefully managing public dollars, pre-serving the character of Freeport and doing everything possible to improve our schools.
District 3 is ready for a change and Kristina is a ter-rific candidate who we believe will be an outstanding councilor. We are proud to support her and hope you will, too.
Stephanie Paine and John PierFreeport
Question 2 is all about jobsWe have two companies in Ocean Properties and
Scarborough Downs that are ready to invest $120 million into a state-of-the-art entertainment complex in Biddeford. These companies already employ more than 1,000 Main-ers, and they would employ hundreds more if we approve the Biddeford Downs racino by voting yes on Question 2 on Nov. 8.
I understand that some people are opposed to slot ma-chines. Let me ask you this: What is the difference between
spending a dollar on the lottery and spending a dollar on the slots, or placing a bet on a horse? There is no difference.
Others say a racino will lead to more crime, drugs and vices of all kinds. Those are scare tactics. Biddeford Downs is a solid project backed by de-
pendable, family-owned companies.We should vote yes on 2 and let them get to work.
Matthew McNallyScarborough
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Theres no place like a home next to Tony and BeckyWhen we decided to put our house on the market, we
thought the hard part would be figuring out what to do next. Its a great house at a great price, the market has more or less hit bottom, it shouldnt take long and then well figure out what were going to do.
Ha.The market had hit bot-
tom more or less. More for some houses, less for others, like houses at our price point, as our agent put it, I suspect in an at-tempt to depersonalize a deeply personal transac-tion. It becomes more personal as time goes by without much market activity, speaking of dep-ersonalizing.
You cant help but take it personally, though. No mat-ter how well your brain understands the vagaries of a difficult economy, your heart just cant understand why nobody seems to want something you liked so much you were willing to make it your biggest single purchase.
The longer the process goes on, the harder it is to take. And our process went on, and on. You know your house has been on the market a long time when the For Sale sign starts to tilt. Its not surprising. It wasnt meant to be a permanent fixture. Nevertheless, its depressing to see the smiling faces of your Realtors slowly start to lean until they resemble an election poster glued to the Tower of Pisa. By the way, if this ever happens to you, God forbid, dont try to fix it; youll just make it worse. Not that my wife warned me and turned out to be right.
What really gets to you when it takes a long time to sell is how much time you have to realize what youre giving up. We really do have a great house in a great neighborhood, and its going to be hard to leave. We moved to the East Coast to be near our son while he was in prep school, but we fell in love with Portland, and our street, and our neighbors. We live near the airport. In return for hearing maybe two planes a week, we have a two-minute drive whenever we have to fly, plus we get to be on the part of the power grid that gets restored first after an outage.
And its a cul de sac, so traffic is something that happens to other people. We have a block party ev-ery summer, where we get to experience how warm and funny our neighbors are. Maine has a reputation for a reserve that borders on standoffishness, but you couldnt prove it by the people on our block. Theyve been great. They all deserve special mention. I hope theyll understand that when I talk about our next-door neighbors, Im talking about them as well.
Tony and Becky are people who see what needs to be done and do it. They mow the grass and landscape the middle of the cul de sac. After the first big snow in our first winter, while I was laying in bed paralyzed by flashbacks of shoveling miles of driveway in Michigan, I heard a rumbling outside my window. Tony and his snow blower were digging us out. He seemed embar-rassed when I went out to thank him.
Well, I had to do my driveway anyway, so ... . Yeah, Tony. You had to get up, put on a ton of uncomfortable clothes, go out into the freezing cold to do a lot of work anyway, so why not do twice as much? He may believe I would do the same for him. Id like to think so, but I wouldnt want to test the hypothesis. Of course, this was not an isolated incident.
Even more heroically, they are unfailingly gracious
The ViewFrom Away
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about our two miniature dachshunds, Ruby and Blackie, 20 pounds (combined) of atavistic canine fury who seem to live for the sole purpose of terrorizing Tonys beauti-ful, friendly golden retriever. According to our dogs, Brady is not only not allowed in our yard, hes not al-lowed in his yard when Blackie or Ruby are in our yard. They are not above taking a nip to enforce their will.
Despite this shabby treatment, Becky and Tony have said things like, Brady knows hes not sup-posed to be over here, or Youd think he would have figured out by now that Blackie and Ruby dont want to play with him. Or that theyre borderline psychotics about their territory. OK, dogs probably dont psychoanalyze other dogs. My point is that Tony and Becky handle an awkward situation gracefully.
You dont want to give up being surrounded by people like that, and when the house doesnt sell, you kind of fool yourself into thinking maybe you wont have to. Then a few weeks ago the house went under contract. Moving became real again.
Last weekend a nonprofit that owns and oper-ates group homes for special needs adults, Port Resources, came to collect some furniture we were donating. Three of the movers: Tony and his sons. They happened to be home, they wanted to help out, and, oh yeah, Tony is on their board.
Were excited about our move, but were also sad. Well find other neighbors, just not better ones.
Portland resident Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic and longtime television writer, is fascinated by all things Maine. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Edgar Allen Beem
Back to the moviesLately, Carolyn and I have taken to going to the
movies at the Nickelodeon in Portland on Tuesday nights when admission is only $5. We go with our good friends and fellow empty-nesters Don and Colleen. Even watching the latest hit films, theres something very old-fashioned about actually going to the movies.
Going to the movies with friends is itself kind of an odd thing to do, since you cant really social-ize during a movie. You can go out for a drink afterward, but were old farts now and head home to bed at 9 or 10. We just sit there in the dark together, shar-ing a bag of popcorn and a vicarious screen experience.
Fifty years ago, I was watching movies in Portland alone.
Back in the late 1950s, my Nana Gib-son, who lived on High Street, would some-times give me a quarter and send me two blocks up to Congress Street, where I could take my pick of the State, the Strand, the Empire or the Civic. You just kind of wandered in to continuously playing double features, watched matinee show-ings of kiddie flix like Darby OGill and the Little People and The Shaggy Dog, and wandered out again when they got to where you came in. Cant imagine sending an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old kid to the movies alone today.
In the 1960s, going to the movies became a so-cial occasion. Every kid I knew in junior high went to the Star Theater in downtown Westbrook. It hardly mattered what the movie was. We were 12, 13, 14 and getting to sit in the dark next to a girl, strategically slip an arm around the back of her seat, and maybe even get to kiss her was the main attraction. Come Monday, who sat with whom, who made out and who broke up was big news.
The only time the wild boys of Westbrook stopped our cinematic seduction of the opposite
sex was when there was a movie in town that fu-eled our shared male fantasies. After seeing The Hustler, every kid in town fancied himself a pool shark and wanted a pool table for Christmas. When The Cincinnati Kid came to the Star, every kid in town became a poker player with an ace up his sleeve. (Why arent there any Steve McQueen movies on TV anymore?)
Movies mostly make sense for dating these days unless youre a film buff who cant wait for the DVD. Until our daughters grew up and fled the nest, I much preferred watching movies at home, where I could stop and start them at will. Funny now to think how VCR technology baffled me when I first experienced it in the early 1980s. How was it possible to watch a movie that wasnt in a theater, to watch it anytime you wanted, and on your own television set? Incredible!
In those early days, we actually rented the vid-eocassette recorder at the supermarket along with the videocassettes. I guess Im a late adopter, but the technology of film is constantly changing. VHS begat DVD, Netflix by mail turned into streaming Netflix and Hulu. Im sure Ive never even heard of whatever (or however) hip techies are watching these days. Thats another reason Ive gone back to the movies.
The Bowling Alone phenomenon was well documented a decade ago. We are losing real civic associations and social life to the anti-social virtual reality of email, text messaging, chat rooms and online communities of friends we dont know and never see.
So as I sit in the dark with my lovely wife, a couple of my best friends and a bunch of strangers, watching famous people on the big screen pretend-ing to be people they are not, I take some small satisfaction in thinking that I am doing my part to preserve a great American pastime, not to mention my own past time.
Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.
Migliaccio deserves re-election in Freeport
As a volunteer member of one of Freeports advisory boards, I have had many opportunities to work with Town Councilor Joe Migliaccio. Joe is a hard working family man and has Freeports best interest at heart. He puts in the time to research any matter that is presented to the council. He looks for the unintended conse-quences and is not afraid to ask the hard questions. Joe has served Freeports residents well and deserves to be re-elected as councilor in District 3.
Gary ProfennoFreeport
Egan is the candidate Freeport needs
We are writing to urge our friends and neighbors to vote for Kristina Egan to be our new town councilor representing Freeport District 3, which includes South Freeport.
We met Kristina for the first time at the post office. She impressed us as thoughtful, smart and perhaps, most importantly, a listener with a good heart. As weve gotten to know her better, Kristina has told us of listen-
ing to residents concerns that often include property taxes impacting the ability of se-niors to main-
tain their homes. We believe she will work hard to keep Freeport affordable. She understands the people are as much a part of Freeports character as the harbor, farms and villages.
Kristinas qualities, coupled with her previous budget management and consensus-building experience, make her the councilor we need to represent us and help Freeport.
Sally W. Rand, Linda SaylesFreeport
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