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February 6, 2015 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 11, No. 6

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IndexObituaries ................... 11Opinion ........................ 7Out and About ........... 20People & Business ..... 14

Police Beat ................. 10Real Estate ................. 27Sports ........................ 13

Arts Calendar ............. 18Classifieds .................. 24Community Calendar . 21Meetings .................... 21 Pages 15-17 Page 6

Heroin in greater PortlandGrowing trend worries police, health officials

By David HarryFALMOUTH — Police

Lt. John Kilbride has seen a change in his town’s crime and public health landscape.

“If you asked me a year ago ... I would have said we are not dealing a lot with her-oin,” Kilbride said Jan. 30.

But after three overdose calls last year, including one death, and a Jan. 12 home in-vasion and robbery linked to heroin use, Kilbride said his department is now confront-ing increased use of heroin – just like his counterparts in Portland, South Portland and Bath.

There may not be one spe-cific measurement that proves heroin use is increasing, but data from law enforcement and public health agencies around Portland and the state show a trend that backs up the anecdotal claims.

“It is all very frustrating because people have a small piece of the data. Correlating and coordinating all of that is frustrating. You couldn’t plot it on a graph,” said Caroline Te-schke, clinical programs direc-tor of the India Street Public Health Center in Portland.

The health center is home to the city’s needle exchange, which uses grants and private support to provide anonymous and confidential services and counseling. It has seen enrollment almost double in two years.

Teschke said 451 people exchanged 140,000 needles in 2012. In 2014, 179,000 needles were exchanged by COURTESY CITY OF PORTLAND

Supplies at the Portland Needle Exchange that help prevent the spread of blood-borne pathogens from intravenous drug use. Enrollment in the

needle exchange increased from 451 people in 2012 to 801 last year.See page 25

Inside:Brunswick man charged with

heroin trafficking. Page 5.

Maine legislators wade into vaccination debateBy Peter L. McGuire

PORTLAND — With a mea-sles outbreak creating alarm around the country, Maine law-makers are proposing legislation that would either eliminate philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations, or re-

quire parents to consult doctors before receiving non-medical exemptions for their children.

Vaccination opponents, mean-while, claim the medicines can harm children. They are pressing for additional protections for parents who decide not to vac-

cinate or believe their children have been “vaccine-injured.”

Under state law, parents are required to provide proof of immunization for preventable diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis and polio, be-fore enrolling children in public

school – unless they receive an exemption for medical reasons, or for sincere religious or philo-sophical opposition.

Advocates for tighter regula-tion of non-medical exemptions note that Maine now has one of the highest percentages of

non-vaccinated children entering kindergarten in the country.

According to the U.S. Cen-ters for Disease Control, 5.5 percent of incoming Maine kindergartners, or 852 students

See page 28

Top of the classMorse High student records world’s only perfect score on AP test

By Alex LearBATH — Getting the top score

on an Advanced Placement exam is cool enough.

But even better? Being told

you’re the only high school student in the world to have done so on that particular test.

Balt von Huene of Arrowsic, a senior at Morse High School, did

just that last spring.Of about 4 million AP exams

that 1.5 million public high school

Morse High School student Balt von

Huene, right, with teacher Eric Varney,

achieved the only perfect score in the world last spring on the Advanced

Placement Environmental Science exam.

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Developer offers $150K for Bath’s Huse SchoolBy Alex Lear

BATH — A Portland-based developer on Wednesday for-mally proposed purchasing the John E.L. Huse Memorial School for $150,000, or $25,000 less than the city has been ask-ing.

The Szanton Co., which pre-sented its plan to the community at a Jan. 15 meeting, wants to convert the 39 Andrews Road building to mixed-income rental housing.

The City Council voted last April to sell the nearly 73-year-old building – last used by the Regional School Unit 1 central office until 2010 – for senior assisted living. But that deal fell through, leaving the property on the market for $175,000.

The council discussed the proposal in executive session Wednesday and made no deci-sion, City Manager Bill Giroux said.

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Molnlycke gets King’s ear on jobs, taxes, regulationBy Peter L. McGuire

BRUNSWICK — U.S. Sen. Angus King discussed concerns about education, taxes and energy with representatives of

Molnlycke Health Care during a tour of the company’s Brunswick Landing facil-ity last week.

The Swedish company, which special-izes in making high-tech bandages and surgical equipment, has more than 7,000 employees across the globe.

It opened its 79,000 square-foot Bruns-wick Landing plant, billed as the “most automated advanced manufacturing facil-ity in the world,” in 2013, after investing close to $50 million, mostly in high-tech machinery. The facility employs 48 people.

The company’s development in Bruns-wick is part of a plan to expand its op-erations, site director Mark Dignum told King.

“The ambition of the business is to double in size by 2020,” Dignum said.

While there is only one weekday shift, Molnlycke’s growth could bring the facil-ity up to capacity, Dignum added.

“There’s nothing stopping us from going 24/7,” he said.

The bandages made in Brunswick include foam produced at Molnlycke’s companion facility in Wiscasset, which has doubled in size and now employs 86 workers.

One of the selling points of Molnly-cke’s bandage products is the specialized

U.S. Sen. Angus King,

I-Maine, left, tries out

one of the high-tech

wound-care bandages

manufactured by Molnlycke Health Care,

during a tour of its Brunswick facility Jan.

30. With King is Todd Buchheit, the company’s

quality director.

PETER L. MCGUIRE / THE FORECASTER

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Liability concerns freeze shellfish fee changesBy Peter L. McGuire

BRUNSWICK — Concern about tax implications and liability may sink the town’s proposed shellfish fee changes.

The fee increase was proposed to shield the town from possible legal action by the U.S. Department of Labor, which has found that some of the uncompen-sated conservation work towns and cities require from shellfish harvesters violates federal labor laws.

The proposed changes would have in-creased the cost of an annual license from $300 to $500. Harvesters could reduce the cost by accruing 20 credit hours of conservation work, for which they would be paid $10 per hour.

But compensating harvesters for their time raised unintended issues, Marine Resources Officer Dan Devereaux said.

“There’s concerns about the tax impli-

cations and the process, and what it might cost to administer a program like that,” Devereaux said.

Even though the harvesters’ hourly pay would be applied directly to their conser-vation requirement, the program would still technically make them town employ-ees, opening a host of other problems, town attorney Stephen Langsdorf said.

“If you establish an employment re-lationship with someone, you get into all sorts of issues,” including minimum wage, workers compensation insurance and tax withholding, Langsdorf said.

A buy-out clause in the proposed ordi-nance that would have allowed a harvest-er to simply pay the extra fee and avoid conservation work altogether was also questioned by town officials, according to Devereaux.

“The town didn’t think that it was fair

to have that as an option,” he said, noting that it created a division between people who have the financial means to opt out of the program and those who did not.

Instead, Langsdorf tried to broaden the scope of propagation work, which is exempt from the labor regulations.

“The town absolutely doesn’t see these harvesters as being employees, so we wanted to make sure that none of the activities they were required to do could be somehow construed as being done by a town employee,” Langsdorf said.

While the Labor Department only considers propagation to be directly planting shellfish seed, there are actually a lot more factors to consider, Devereaux noted.

Propagation activities start at the com-mittee level, in discussions about where, when and what to plant, and continue all

the way through to actually putting the seed on the flats, he said.

It could also include activities like shoreline clean-ups, which are necessary to remove large obstacles like barrels and even wharves from growing areas, but aren’t considered exempt by the DOL.

“We feel that if we can operate under that broadened definition of propagation, than we might not have to change any-thing,” Devereaux said.

Neighboring Harpswell is also consid-ering changes to its fee structure to avoid DOL enforcement and encourage conser-vation work, but its proposed ordinance changes are simpler than Brunswick’s and don’t include an hourly wage, Marine Resource Coordinator Darcie Couture said.

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Nonprofit’s website aims to boost Maine seafoodBy Peter L. McGuire

BRUNSWICK — Regional devel-opment nonprofit CEI has released an online tool aimed at helping retailers, wholesalers and consumers source Maine seafood.

The aim is to integrate the state’s re-sources with the growing locavore and buy-local movements that have fortified Maine’s agriculture industry.

“Maine just has so much seafood to offer,” said Hugh Cowperthwaite, the director of CEI’s fisheries and waterfront programs. “We have the third highest landings in the U.S. for seafood, and at the same time, 90 percent of the seafood that’s consumed in the U.S. is coming from overseas.”

Over the course of two years, CEI re-searchers conducted a survey of the har-vesters, processors, shippers and farmers who make up Maine’s seafood industry.

Those hundreds of connections are logged in CEI’s online database, offering

a one-stop resource for identifying the state’s seafood industry.

Users can filter results within the dif-ferent categories by county and product, making it easy for someone looking for the closest oyster farmer or cold-storage facility.

The website even features a tool noting which species are in and out of season every month, giving consumers an idea of what they should be looking for at the local fish market.

In recent years, significant attention has focused on improving access to local-ly sourced food, especially in institutional settings, like public schools. While local meat and vegetables have been high-lighted, Maine seafood has been largely overlooked, Cowperthwaite said.

“Seafood just has not been in the fore-front of those conversations around food aggregation,” he said. “Our intent was to try and move seafood a little more into the spotlight, where produce and agricul-

ture products are pretty well understood.”There are some signs that is starting to

change. For example, in January, Port-land Mayor Michael Brennan announced an initiative to get local fish onto the menus in the city’s public schools and hospitals.

Cowperthwaite and his team hope that their online tool can make it easier to make connections between producers, wholesalers and institutions that can help put local fish on Mainers’ plates.

“There’s a lot of efforts to get people

to buy local and think about the carbon footprint of their food,” Cowperthwaite said. “Our hope is that consumers, but also businesses that are sourcing seafood and making those larger purchases can just keep that in mind and think about ‘well maybe there’s something closer to home I can source.”

CEI’s seafood study can be found on-line at goo.gl/SpT2yO.

Peter L. McGuire can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him on

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FALMOUTH — Human trafficking is a problem most would think has very little if anything to do with Maine. But a panel discussion held by the National Council of Jewish Women Southern Maine Section set its sights on changing that perception.

Hosted on Jan. 29 at the Portland Country Club on 11 Foreside Road, a panel including some high profile names told a crowded house what their experi-ences with the topic were and what they saw day to day in Maine. The panelists included the state Attorney General Janet Mills, state Sen. Amy Volk (R-Buxton, Gorham, Scarborough), Detective Sgt. Steve Webster of the South Portland Police Department and Julia Davidson, co-chair of the Greater Portland Coalition Against Sex Trafficking and Exploitation and who works as the Sexual Assault Re-sponse Team program manager at Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine.

The moderator for the event was Shel-ley Grant, a volunteer at SARSSM and a new recruit at NCJW. Grant said there are 18,500 cases of human trafficking annu-ally in the United States — the practice proliferated “because it’s low risk and highly profitable.” She said human traf-ficking has been defined as “modern day slavery” which controls the victim for commercial sexual acts or labor services.

Mills said it has taken awhile for peo-ple to get their heads around the topic,

and explained a number of stereotypes around prostitution, including that it is a voluntary act and victimless crime. She said these “traditional views” were wrong and are gradually “being righted.”

Mills said in 2005 a task force focused on human trafficking legislation for the first time in Maine. She continued saying by 2010, many in law enforcement were unaware of human trafficking. She said they are “reinventing what we did on domestic violence” in terms of educating those who might not see the signs.

“We’ve made progress, but there’s a still a long way to go,” Mills said. She continued saying the medical community needs to be involved more, and said there needs to be more “safe homes” where those running away from trafficking can escape to.

“Prostitution is not a victimless crime,”

Mills said. She said it robs a human of will and dignity. “Not here, not now, not ever again.”

Sen .Volk sponsored L.D. 1730, “An Act To Assist Victims of Human Traf-ficking,” which Gov. LePage signed into law last year. This legislation allows the courts to vacate prostitution convictions against those who were forced or coerced into it. The law also established a com-pensation fund for victims made up of fines from those convicted of promoting prostitution.

Volk said she came up with the idea af-ter reading an article in the Bangor Daily News, and thought as an elected official she could do something. She said when she first put the bill forward, she “didn’t think much of it,” and it was rejected. But then it sparked a statewide discussion, and the bill as then later accepted with an emergency clause attached, meaning it went into law as soon as the governor signed it.

“This is a nonpartisan issue,” Volk said.Webster, has been working on human

trafficking cases for over a year and a half, and said he was there to give a non-political perspective on the issue.

“We have great social workers, but find one who answers their phone,” Webster said, continuing that those forced into prostitution or affected by it “don’t have problems at three in the afternoon,” but usually after midnight.

He said to combat this, the police department has developed a good report with hotels to let those in need stay there and stay safe. He said the biggest thing is “people need to give a crap” and then

help educate others that the problem ex-ists and it’s a serious problem.

“We’re never going to eliminate it, but at least we can fix it,” Webster said. He added as long as the supply is up, the risk will be down for the johns in charge of the prostitution, and that the victims are scared to death.

“If we can’t protect our most vulnera-ble, nothing else matters,” he said.

Webster was asked whether he thought the problem was homegrown or coming from out of state, he said he saw a mix-ture of both. He said there was a direct correlation between human trafficking and drug trafficking, and that pimps and victims don’t necessarily stay in one area.

Davidson said there is a clear path between childhood sexual assault and human trafficking, because the victims are conditioned to learn to have their boundaries violated or that they don’t deserve boundaries.

“People who go through this are easy recruits for sexual exploitation,” David-son said. Davidson also echoed Mills’s stance on misconceptions people have about prostitution being voluntary and victimless.

She said the media often shows serious physical abuse, like being shipped in con-tainers or held in chains, but Davidson said the mental abuse is just as strong, likening it to the mental manipulation seen in domestic violence.

“We need to apply the same set of understandings to domestic violence,” she said.Colin Ellis can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @colinoellis.

COLIN ELLIS / THE FORECASTER

Panelists at a human trafficking discussion hosted by the National Council of Jewish Women Southern Maine Section at the Portland Country Club in Falmouth on Jan. 29: Attorney General Janet Mills, left, Julia Davidson of Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, moderator Shelley

Grant, state Sen. Amy Volk of Scarborough, and Detective Sgt. Steve Webster of the South Portland Police Department.

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Bath events set for ‘Great Maine Outdoor Weekend’By Alex Lear

BATH — Bath Trails and other local organizations aim to make the most of this snowy winter during two Great Maine Outdoor Weekend events.

Bath Trails – a collaboration between city government, area schools, nonprofit organizations, businesses, bicycle riders and hikers – invites people to join them on Nordic skis and snowshoes at the McMann athletic complex on Congress Avenue Saturday, Feb. 14.

The all-ages, 1 p.m. event includes hot cocoa and instruction.

Chuck Mainville of Maine Youth Sports Opportunities, a Nordic skiing program, will lead cross-country skiers. The easier slopes on the complex’s fields and paths offer an opportunity for learn-ing and improving skills, according to a Jan. 28 Kennebec Estuary Land Trust press release.

Snowshoers, led by Maine master naturalist volunteers, will learn about spotting and tracking animal prints in snow, and how those creatures survive winter conditions.

Novice and experienced snowshoers and skiers are welcome, and there will

be a limited supply of Nordic equipment and snowshoes for children and adults to borrow.

Registration is required, and can be done by contacting Becky Kolak at the land trust at 442-8400, or [email protected], by Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Log onto cityofbath.com/Bath-Trails for more information.

An annual hike of the Peterson Canal on Sunday, Feb. 15, wraps up Great Maine Outdoor Weekend. Built circa 1790 to connect the Kennebec and New Meadows rivers, the canal was trans-ported logs downstream, but now “is little more than a wet scar on the earth,” Ed Benedikt of the New Meadows Lake Association wrote in a Jan. 29 land trust press release.

Participants in the 11 a.m. hike can meet across from the New Meadows Lake boat launch on Old Brunswick Road. They are asked to bring snow shoes, and rides are available for re-turning to the starting point, for those

not wishing to walk back on the road or canal.

The 2.5-mile guided hike will take about two hours and can also take place when the water is frozen.

Check kennebecestuary.org to confirm conditions are appropriate.

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

learics.

Brunswick man charged with heroin traffickingBy Stephen BettsBangor Daily News

BRUNSWICK — A 42-year-old Brunswick man was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly bringing heroin into the state.

Justin Ryan was charged with Class A aggravated trafficking in heroin, accord-ing to a news release from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

For the past month, agents from the MDEA Mid-Coast District Task Force and investigators from the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation into the illegal distribution of heroin by Ryan throughout the Bath/Brunswick area, according to the MDEA.

At about 2:30 p.m. Monday, agents requested a vehicle driven by Ryan be stopped by Brunswick police on Pleasant Street. Agents had developed information that Ryan was returning from Massachu-setts with a large amount of heroin. Forty grams of heroin were found in the center console of Ryan’s vehicle, according to the MDEA.

Ryan was arrested and taken to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland, where bail was set at $25,000 cash. At the time of his arrest, Ryan was out on bail on charges of heroin possession and trafficking in Massachusetts in 2014.

After Ryan’s arrest, agents served a search warrant at his Dunning Street apartment, where they seized items such as scales and packaging materials believed to be used in drug trafficking, as well as $1,300 in suspected drug pro-ceeds, according to the MDEA.

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Architect selection begins for new Topsham high school By Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — School Administrative District 75 could choose an architect next month for the rebuilding or renovation of Mt. Ararat High School.

The district’s Designer Selection Committee was scheduled to interview four architecture firms Tuesday, Super-intendent Brad Smith said in an email Jan. 31. The committee will rank the firms, then conduct reference checks, and eventually visit projects completed by the

top candidate.That firm will return for a second inter-

view, and if negotiations are successful, it will be presented to the School Board next month for consideration.

Selection of the architect completes the design committee’s work; a newly formed Building Committee will take over during the course of the four-to-five-year project.

The architect will study the current high school and consider the needs of

the school and its various constituencies, including students, faculty, staff, admin-istration, parents, community members and local officials, Smith said.

SAD 75 has applied for state school construction funding since 1999, and the high school ranked seventh last year on a state construction funding list. The exist-ing two-story, building was built in 1973 with an “open” concept, and has been called a “school with no walls.”

As the project progresses, chances for

community involvement and input will be available, Smith said.

“These will likely include visioning meetings, forums, and meetings held on specific topics,” he said. “Subcommit-tees will provide more opportunity for involvement and will formed as needs arise.”


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Education policy that’s rotten to the core That’s it. I’m done. I am refusing to allow my children

to participate in any Common Core-related assessments, surveys, tests – anything, now that testing has begun in earnest in our schools.

Here’s why.The United Nations Or-

ganization for Education, Science and Culture (UN-ESCO) was founded in 1945. Its educational ob-jectives are to “support the achievement of Education for All; to provide global and regional leadership in education; to strengthen education systems world-wide from early childhood to the adult years; and to respond to contemporary global challenges through education.”

As the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education, UNESCO’s work encompasses educational development from pre-school through higher education, including technical and vo-cational education and training, non-formal education, and literacy.

The organization says it focuses on “increasing equity and access, improving quality, and ensuring that edu-cation develops knowledge and skills in areas such as sustainable development, HIV and AIDS, human rights and gender equality. UNESCO works with governments and a wide range of partners to make education systems more effective through policy change.” It coordinates the “Education for All movement, tracks education trends and raises the profile of educational needs on global development agendas.”

So our children are being herded into “global develop-ment agendas” that our and other governments deem fit.

Alex Newman, a correspondent for The New Ameri-can, noted that in 1949, UNESCO printed a pamphlet on using the classroom to promote “world understanding,”

stating, “As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can only produce precarious results.” So, to deal with that, schools should use various means to “combat family attitudes.”

By 1984, J.C. Pauvert had penned a document for UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education and Training of Educational Personnel entitled “A Methodological Guide to the Application of the Notion of Common Core in the Training of Various Categories of Educa-tional Personnel.” It discusses the origins of “the no-tion of the common core as a process of transmission of knowledge, skills, or behavior that always involves comparable psychological mechanisms, set in motion by identical intentions, guided by learning objectives, put into practice in accordance with strategies and subjected to procedures of evaluation which are also comparable.”

In 2005, Phyllis Schlafly wrote the following in Issues and Action in Education: “President Reagan withdrew the United States from UNESCO in December of 1984 because it was corrupt, anti-Western, and a vehicle for far-left propaganda. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush rejoined UNESCO in 2003, and it’s now found a long sought after means to influence U.S. school cur-riculum.

“On November 17, 2004 at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris, UNESCO signed a 26-page, five year Cooper-ation Agreement with Microsoft Corporation to develop a ‘master curriculum (Syllabus)’ for teacher training in information technologies based on standards, guidelines, benchmarks, and assessment techniques. It states that the Syllabus will ‘form the basis for deriving training content to be delivered to teachers,’ and ‘UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development.’ UNES-CO Director General Matsuura confirmed that one of the Agreement’s goals is to foster content development, and create a worldwide curricula reflecting UNESCO values. No doubt that is agreeable to Bill Gates because the Agreement states that Microsoft supports the objectives of UNESCO.”

The Gates Foundation then went on to underwrite the organizations that were writing the Common Core

standards: the National Governors Association, David Coleman’s Student Achievement Partners, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve Inc. Those four organizations, primarily responsible for develop-ment of the Common Core State Standards, have thus far taken $147.9 million in funding from Bill Gates. And I haven’t even touched on the data collection.

In 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, gave a speech at UNESCO in Paris entitled “The Vision of Education Reform in the United States,” where he discussed “new partnerships,” which, he stated, “must inspire students to take a bigger and deeper view of their civic obligations – not only to their countries of origin, but to the betterment of the global community. A just and socially responsible society must also be anchored in civic engagement for the public good.”

Duncan went on to call the governance of education in the United States “unusual,” in that the federal gov-ernment has had (past tense) a limited role in education policy, and that he and the president have a “cra-dle-to-career education agenda.” He stated outright that the Obama administration has sought to fundamentally shift the federal role.

So I’m calling on Gov. Paul LePage to end Maine’s participation in the Common Core State Standards, and to bring back local control.

In the meantime, state Rep. Sara Gideon, a Freeport Democrat who is the assistant House majority leader, recently told MPBN’s Jay Field that “right now, parents do have an option.” She said a U.S. Supreme Court decision gives parents the right to opt kids out of stan-dardized tests.

“The issue is that, in Maine, we don’t have anything in state law that makes this clear,” Gideon said. So she is sponsoring a bill that makes it clear, under state law, that parents have this option, and requires teachers and school administrators to let them know about it.

Rep. Gideon, you are officially my favorite Democrat.Julie McDonald-Smith lives in North Yarmouth. She

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A tale of 2 speeches Gov. Paul LePage delivered his second inaugural ad-

dress with a firm and confident voice. Gone was the ner-vous, “Chief Inspector Dreyfus” laugh that sometimes punctuated his remarks during the campaign.

He took credit for his accomplishments; in partic-ular, for paying off the hos-pital debt that had been ac-crued by his predecessors, for beginning to reform welfare, and to transition people to productive jobs.

The governor outlined some bold plans, includ-ing plans to restructure Maine’s tax system and right-size its government. He proposed eliminating the income and estate taxes and replacing them with an expanded sales tax suited to a service-oriented economy. He proposed correctly consolidating excessive layers of government . In the case of schools, that is by centraliz-ing the personnel function and teacher’s contracts, and reducing the number of high-paid school administrators.

President Barack Obama is always confident and speaks well. In his State of the Union address, he gave

no hint of the setback his party suffered in the midterm election. He took credit for ending the recession, im-proving the economy, creating jobs, raising wages, in-suring more people, freeing the country from the grip of foreign oil and for numerous foreign policy successes.

He argued that those achievements freed him to bud-get initiatives to help the middle class. He proposed to reform taxes, to impose new fees on business, increase the capital gains tax and the tax on inheritances, and to expand the child tax credit. He proposed free commu-nity college tuition, a higher minimum wage, requiring paid sick leave and affordable child-care.

Both the governor and the president said they want to work together with their colleagues in the legislative branches. The president called for better politics, where we debate the issues without demonizing each other. At the same time, he threatened to veto any bill that doesn’t align with his priorities, like the Keystone Pipeline bill, notwithstanding its bipartisan support.

In contrast, the governor’s tax-reform proposal is a variation on plans put forward by Democrats in 2007 and 2009. Those plans reduced the income tax and shifted the burden to the sales tax in an effort to stabilize revenue and export the burden to tourists. I didn’t like the plans. But Democrats seemed to. Then. They enacted the 2009 plan (which the people vetoed in 2010). Now that a Republican governor has taken it up, they seem to have abandoned it.

Neither party is willing to allow the other the oppor-tunity to govern, to implement their policies and let the people judge them in the next election.

But elections don’t resolve anything either. Winners aren’t particularly magnanimous. Losers don’t concede ground. They just rationalize the loss and resume their campaigns. The president loses control of the U.S. Senate and circumvents it by resorting to executive au-thority. Democrats lose a gubernatorial election and start a campaign to adopt ranked-choice voting for governor. Republicans are just as obstinate.

About the only way anyone gets anything done is in response to a crisis, such as the attacks of 9/11, or the financial crisis of 2008. Even then, change is hard to achieve and the effects of change are hard to evaluate.

Does that mean we have to be resigned to bitter stalemate?

I say start on what we can agree about. Everyone says they want to simplify the tax codes. Do so. Make them more transparent and easier to comply with. Then, hopefully, further points of agreement will emerge. Both the president and the governor see a need to improve our infrastructure. Do it. And create jobs in the process. Maine has too many layers of government. Agree on a way to consolidate some of them. And share the credit.

That’s a speech I’d like to hear.Halsey Frank is a Portland resident, attorney and

former chairman of the Republican City Committee.


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Anyone can write, only a few are Columnists First my confession: I’m not a real newspaper col-

umnist.Not even close. I’m a hack who can’t even spell the

word punctuation without spell check, I determine colon and semicolon placement by coin flip, and it’s an utter mystery to me if my words here will have any “affect” or “effect.”

And, if not for overtime help from my ever frustrat-ed, aspirin-popping editor, this column would be the world’s longest (and inco-herent) run-on sentence.

Now my truth: my dream from an early age was to be a newspaper columnist. Not necessarily a journalist or a writer, but specifically a truth-telling, thought-pro-voking columnist with a platform to educate, entertain and influence readers.

But, I failed. Not from a lack of passion or effort, but from the same Darwinistic filter that blocks all of us from the fulfillment of various dreams and ambitions: lack of ample talent.

While the friends of my youth wanted to skate like Bobby Orr or hit a baseball like Carl Yastrzemski, I wanted to join this club of columnists, then and now:

• Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe (pre-plagiarism ver-sion): Loud voice. Biting insight. Emotional connection. Compelling ratio of ego and arrogance often needed for

transformational “truth-to-power” commentary.• Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe: One of the first and

clearest voices for social and gender injustice when needed most. Fearless and funny in a way that sneaks up on the reader like Taylor Swift music; first you dis-miss it as fluff, before recognizing the underlying skill and artistry.

• Dan Jenkins, Sports Illustrated: Old-school humor and brilliance. More of a novelist and essayist, but still, Dead Solid Perfect.

• Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press: My literary life-raft during the two years I lived in Detroit. Lots of heart, soul, and bitter truth hardened in the motor city.

• Lewis Grizzard, Atlanta Journal Constitution: More fun than a Waffle House restaurant at 3 a.m. He was my friend and favorite columnist when I lived in Atlanta.

• Stanley Bing (a.k.a. Gil Schwartz), Forbes/Esquire: Smart. Funny. Smart.

• Maureen Dowd, The New York Times: She throws like a girl, runs like a girl and writes like a girl – while throwing, running and writing better than anyone else over the last 30 years. Maybe the best of the best.

(Honorable Mentions: William F. Buckley Jr., David Brooks, Malcolm Gladwell, Mike Royko, Dave Barry, Art Buchwald, Dan Savage, Peter King, Peggy Noonan, and Herb Caen.)

I tried.First in the 1970s, as one of the youngest columnists

ever for my hometown newspaper, The Needham Times, in the suburb of Needham, Massachusetts. And then being terminated, earning me the bonus distinction of being the youngest columnist ever fired by The Need-ham Times.

In 1997 I was hired by The State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, to write a thrice-a-week column called Hey Stevoe that was later distributed nationally by Knight-Ridder Tribune for just a few years.

In all past and current cases, the saving grace to both my ego and bank account is that I was never (and not now) a “real” columnist wholly dependent on writing this gibberish, just a poser chasing a dream and a love for words, meaning and hope.

Now it’s 2015 and every two weeks I launch a few hundred digitized words in the direction of Mo Me-hlsak, who knows things like syntax, grammar and punctuation. But again, I’m not a columnist, just some-one interested in sharing my evolving set of opinions, perspectives and experiences. (Unfortunately, I’m not alone, and that’s a serious problem for all of us.)

You see, in today’s digital error (typo intentional), everyone with an opinion and a keyboard is credited with an equal voice and platform to share it. The role and skill of a “columnist” is being lost amidst the noise and clutter of blogs, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor, and a World Wide Web of guys like me.

Here in Maine, one man and one man alone deserves the title of “Daily Newspaper Columnist”: Bill Nemitz. While ironic that he and I are from the same small town outside of Boston, I share none of his writing talent. Since moving to Maine in 2001 I have read virtually every one of his columns and stories in the Portland Press Herald and while I frequently disagree with his perspective, I’ve always admired and respected his pas-sion and skill in presenting it.

Last weekend Nemitz wrote a personal column detail-


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Edgar Allen Beem

Dictates of the deadHigh on the list of subjects about which I am

greatly ambivalent, conflicted and inconsistent is the time-honored tradition of allowing the dead to dictate to us what we, the living, can and cannot do.

Not to do so, I suppose, would be to abrogate a system of laws, yet I very often find myself think-ing, “Who cares what some dead person wanted?”

This subjugating of the present to the past is particularly obvious in the area of conserva-tion easements. While I am certainly all in favor of protecting the environment and preserving natural re-sources, I have trouble with the idea that an individual should be allowed to tell poster-ity in perpetuity what it can and cannot do on a piece of land they once owned.

So I have been following the kerfuffle over Cumberland’s first public beach with interest.

Cumberland voters approved a $3 million bond to purchase 25 acres of woodland and waterfront from a developer in November. The developer had purchased the property from the heirs of Marion Brown Payson. The Payson heirs object to the pro-posed public beach and have brought suit, charging that a conservation easement Payson granted to the Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust in 1997 prohibits anything other than walking trails.

Apparently, it should also have prohibited the Payson heirs from cashing in Ms. Payson’s chips.

I have no idea what a court might find, but philosophically I believe there is a big difference between the wishes of a private citizen and those of a public body. The idea that a piece of land can never be developed because someone who used to own it said so is simply preposterous.

Land trusts are a good thing, but times change and with them the interests, needs and desires of a community. If the town of Cumberland feels public access is what the town needs, why should the late Marion Brown Payson get to tell the town what to do?

Of course, that view puts me in an uncomfort-able position vis-a-vis such a wonderful natural as-set as Baxter State Park. Percival Baxter assembled the land for the park and stated in a 1931 trust that it “shall forever be used for public park and recre-

ational purposes, shall forever be left in the natural wild state, shall forever be kept as a sanctuary for wild beasts and birds ...”

I love Baxter State Park, but I have trouble with the idea that we should all be slaves to Baxter’s intent, which has already been challenged and stretched by snowmobiling, hunting, logging and chemical spraying. Who knows what else future generations might want or need to do there?

I guess the major difference between the Bax-ter and Payson situations is that Baxter Park is controlled by a public entity, the Baxter State Park Authority. Their charge is essentially to do Percival Baxter’s bidding. But, honestly, why should Baxter get to call the shots from the grave?

I am all for the rule of law, as long as those laws derive from the consent of the governed, not the dictates of the dead. Constitutional originalists believe that the intent of the Founding Fathers was fixed at the time of enactment. But the U.S. Constitution, like the Holy Bible, is a living doc-ument. The situations and circumstances to which its strictures must be applied were unknown to the founders. As such, the Constitution must constantly be interpreted and amended.

It is all quite charming and naive for originalists, strict constructionists and constitutionalists to insist that we must adhere to the meaning of the Consti-tution as it was understood by its powdered-wigged framers in the 18th century, but those men them-selves often had different interpretations of the Constitution. And which of James Madison’s own views on the Constitution – the strong central gov-ernment he advocated when he wrote it, the strong state’s rights position he subsequently embraced, or the compromise he reached in old age – is the original intent?

Personally, I don’t care what the Founding Fa-thers intended. There is no way to know centuries later and why would we want to honor the wish-es of wealthy white landowners who really only extended the blessings of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to themselves? Not to women? Not to minorities? Not to immigrants? Not to children?

As my favorite poet Dylan Thomas once ob-served (though he was talking about the interpreta-tion of poems not laws), “the function of posterity is to look after itself.” We, the living, should not be shackled by the demands of the dead. When you’re dead, you’re history. Have the common courtesy to get out of the way and let us get on with the business of living.

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ing his battle with cancer, and like all Nemitz columns, he was as brutally honest in describing his own personal pain and fear with the same raw truth he applies to oth-ers. I’ve reread that column a half a dozen times with moist eyes each time.

While I’ve only met Bill Nemitz on a few occasions, I feel as though I know him as a close friend from his columns and the power of his written voice. Bill is in

my thoughts and prayers as he faces his self-described battle with cancer. He’s a good man, a great writer and commentator, and the best daily newspaper columnist in Maine’s history.

Beating the odds. Pondering destiny. Godspeed, Bill Nemitz.

Steve Woods is from away, but fully here now, living in Yarmouth, working in Falmouth, traveling the world, and trying his best. His column appears every other week. He can also be heard each Saturday at 11 a.m. on WLOB-AM 1310.


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BATHArrests

No arrests were reported from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1.

Summonses1/28 Michael Spencer, 18, of High Street, was issued a summons by Detective Andrew Booth on Water Street on a charge of aggravated furnishing of a scheduled drug.

Fire calls 1/26 at 2:54 p.m. Motor vehicle accident at Congress Avenue and Aegis Drive.1/27 at 9 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Centre Street.1/28 at 1 p.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Washington Street. 1/28 at 5:31 p.m. Gas heater malfunction on Middle Street.1/29 at 2:30 a.m. Odor investigation on Washington Street.1/30 at 9:46 a.m. Stove fire on Middle Street.1/30 at 1:48 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on southbound U.S. Route 1.2/1 at 8:56 a.m. Fire alarm on Washington Street.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 47 calls from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1.

BRUNSWICKArrests

1/29 at 7:04 p.m. Shaun J. Arndt, 28, of Meadow Road, Bowdoin, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Patrick Scott on an outstanding warrant and a charge of violating conditions of release.1/30 at 8:04 p.m. Jonathan J. Brennan, 24, of Bluff Road, Bath, was arrested on Lincoln Street by Officer Justin Dolci on an outstand-ing warrant from another agency.1/30 at 8:04 p.m. Brittany Langlois, 20, transient, was arrested on Lincoln Street by Officer Justin Dolci on outstanding arrest warrants from other agencies.1/30 at 8:27 p.m. Mark A. Washburn, of Ad-ams Road, Bath, was arrested on Adams Road by Officer William Moir on a probation hold.2/1 at 11:04 a.m. Arleen M. Siegert-Young, 42, of Turkey Ridge Lane, Freeport, was arrested on Elm Street by Officer Charles Tompson on a charge of theft by unautho-rized taking.2/3 at 7:34 a.m. Debra Nester, 55, of Harvard Street, Kingman, Arizona, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Terry Goan on charges of failure to submit to arrest and detention, violating conditions of release and attempted use of disabling chemical.2/3 at 12 p.m. Isaac V. Seigfried, 34, of An-tietam Street, was arrested on Antietam Street by Officer Daniel Sylvain on outstanding warrants.

Summonses1/28 at 7:43 p.m. Brandon J.s Byrnes, 21, of Forest Drive, Topsham, was issued a summons

on Bath Road by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license. 1/31 at 9:14 p.m. Nathanial J. Wagg, 23, of Pleasant Street, was issued a summons on Pleasant Street by Officer Garrett Brosnan on a charge of criminal mischief.2/1 at 4:51 p.m. Kristin M. Vanreenen, 61, of Ward Circle, was issued a summons on Gurnet Road by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license. 2/1 at 6:22 p.m. Danielle Sylvain, 19, of Syl-vain Drive, West Bath, was issued a summons on Tibbetts Drive by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.

Fire calls1/29 at 9:21 a.m. Assist citizen on Medical Center Drive.1/29 at 11:08 a.m. Assist citizen on Thomas Point Road.2/1 at 5:05 p.m. Vehicle crash on Pine Street.2/3 at 4:15 p.m. Assist citizen on Harpswell Road.

EMSBrunswick emergency services responded to 31 calls for service from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4.

TOPSHAMArrests

No arrests were reported from Jan. 26 to Feb. 2.

Summonses1/28 at 1:05 p.m. A 16-year-old male, of Bowdoin, was issued a summons by Officer Mark McDonald on Anthony Avenue on a charge of driving to endanger.

Hit and run1/30 at 11:40 a.m. Sgt. Robert Ramsay is investigating an alleged hit and run where a male victim, directing vehicles around a delivery truck at 45 Main St., was struck two hours before by a newer-model Volkswagen. Police said the driver was a woman with longer hair. He was taken to the hospital with a back injury.

Fire calls1/27 at 5:04 p.m. Carbon monoxide detector activation on Middlesex Road.1/29 at 5:58 a.m. Gas odor on Topsham Fair Mall Road.1/29 at 2:34 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Governors Way.1/29 at 8:03 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Middlesex Road.1/31 at 2:06 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Augusta Road.2/1 at 2:45 a.m. Strong propane odor on Abenaki Drive.2/1 at 10:04 a.m. Natural gas odor on Ham-ilton Court.2/2 at 5:40 p.m. Medical call on Raymond Road.2/2 at 2:57 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Interstate 295.2/2 at 7:02 p.m. General smoke alarm on Curtis Lane.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to 15 calls from Jan. 26 to Feb. 3.

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BATH — Norman J. Furrow, 68, of Denny Road, died Jan. 23 at his resi-dence, with his children by his side.

He was born in Bath on Oct. 12, 1946, a son of Chris-tina B. M. (Thomson) Furrow and Russell W. Furrow. He at-tended Bath schools and graduated from Morse High School in the class of 1964.

Furrow served nine years of active duty with the U.S. Air Force, including ser-vice during the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal. After returning home, he served with the U.S. Army National Guard for 12 years. He was employed at the Saga-dahoc County Sheriff’s Department, and then worked as an insulator at Bath Iron Works until his retirement after 29 years.

For many years, Furrow coached Little League and Babe Ruth baseball teams in Bath. He was a board-certified baseball umpire and soccer official. He was also active in the Cub Scouts, holding many positions including district commissioner. In his free time, he enjoyed music, and played the mandolin, the ukulele and the mountain dulcimer.

Furrow was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, the Bos-ton Braves Historical Association and the Blue Grass Music Association of Maine.

He was predeceased by a half-brother, Norman Small.

He is survived by his daughter, Lynn

M. Lawrence-Brown and husband, James, of Bath and Hong Kong, and their two children, William and Harrison Law-rence-Brown; his son, Danny M. Furrow, of Taipei, Taiwan; a half-sister, Donna James, of Topsham; two stepsisters, Marilyn Dube, of Arizona, and Virginia Oppedisano, of Brunswick; a half-broth-er, James Adams, of Florida; and a step-brother, David Furrow, of Topsham.

A committal service with military hon-ors will be held Friday, July 10, at 1 p.m. at Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Mount Vernon Road, Augusta.

A celebration of Furrow’s life will be held Saturday, July 11, 2015, at 10 a.m. at 1016 High St., Bath.

Arrangements are by Daigle Funeral Home, Bath.

Jon W. Lallier, 57PITTSFIELD — Jon W. Lallier, 57,

formerly of Topsham, died Jan. 20 at his home in Pittsfield.

He was born on March 14, 1957, in Brunswick, the son of Gerald Sr. and Joan (Brann) Lallier, of Topsham. He

graduated from Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham with the class of 1975.

Lallier worked for many years as a me-chanic for the family automotive business, Main Street Garage. He enjoyed tinkering with vehicles and building things.

Lallier was predeceased by his parents.He is survived by his son, Julian Lal-

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granddaughters, Janessa and Makayla; a soon-to-be-born grandson; two brothers, Gerald Lallier Jr. and wife, Christine, of Pittsfield, and Jeffrey Lallier and wife, Carrie McBride, of Topsham; and two sisters, Judy Labbe, of Topsham, and Jean Lallier and husband, Rick Pola, of Topsham.

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of Georgetown, he and his wife, Sue, had been living at Thornton Hall, in Brunswick.

Ludgin was born Sept. 16, 1929, in Chicago, one of five children of Mary King (MacDonald) and Earle Ludgin. Living in suburban Winnetka, Illinois, the family was known for its support of local arts and loyalty to the University of Chicago. But Donald chose to attend

Oberlin College in Ohio, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1951.

After service with the U.S. Army, including a year in Germany, Ludgin returned to Chicago and joined the edi-torial staff of World Book Encyclopedia. Articles about the arts were his specialty for more than 25 years. For five years, in London and in Sydney, he worked to es-tablish an international edition of World Book and trained its editors.

Ludgin and his family eventually

settled in Evanston, Illinois, where they lived for 20 years. After retirement, he and his wife decided to make their home on land they had purchased in Maine. It became the home where they lived longer than any other place.

Ludgin was predeceased by his parents and two brothers, Earle and Roger.

Surviving are his wife; daughter, Sarah Davis, husband Scott and their six chil-dren; daughter, Katherine Feit, husband Pete and their four children; son, Peter Ludgin, and his three children; 13 grand-children; his sister, Mary Barbara; and his youngest brother, Quentin.

Visitation was held Jan. 24 at the Da-vid E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home, in Bath.

At a date to be chosen, the family will invite friends to a celebration of Ludgin’s life, in Georgetown.

Priscille F. Bernier, 83BRUNSWICK — Priscille F. Bernier,

83, of Parkview Circle, died Jan. 22 at Cadigan Lodge, in Topsham.

She was born in Brunswick on Jan. 20, 1932, the daughter of Philip and Lucienne Livernois Ouellette. She at-tended Brunswick schools and St. John’s Parochial.

On Aug 9, 1950, she married Raymond J. “Sam” Bernier. Priscille was a devoted mother and wife, and enjoyed making the most of time with her family and friends.

For 10 years, she worked as a certified nursing assistant at the former Amenity Manor, in Topsham. She also worked until her retirement in the deli department at what is now Hannaford Supermarket.

In her free time, Bernier enjoyed din-

ing out, solving all types of puzzles, read-ing and knitting. She also loved to travel, and wintered with her husband in Florida.

Bernier was a member of People Plus and St. John the Baptist Church, and served as a volunteer at Mid Coast Hospital.

In addition to her husband, Bernier was predeceased by a son, Steven, and a sister, Doloris McKay.

Surviving are three sons, Stanley Ber-nier and wife, Lynda, of Warren, Scott Bernier, of Bath, and Stacey Bernier and wife, Heidi, of Auburn. She is also survived by six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian burial was cel-ebrated Jan. 29 at St. John the Baptist Church, in Brunswick. Interment with her husband at Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Augusta, will be at a later date.

Memorial donations may be made to St. John’s School, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, ME 04011.

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adhesive that bonds to flesh, but can be pulled off cleanly, without pain or trauma.

To prove its unique properties, Quality Director Todd Buchheit tore open a sam-ple and pasted it on King’s hand. Then he removed it without producing the expected gasp that usually accompanies tearing off a bandage.

“That’s the most high-tech Band-Aid out there,” King said. “That’s miracu-lous.”

While the company now produces for institutions like hospitals, it’s intent is to release a consumer version of the bandage, and has already “signed on the dotted line” with the CVS pharmacy chain, Dignum said.

Molnlycke officials also warned that finding qualified employees in Maine could be difficult, a message King said he has had heard from businesses across the state.

Human resources director Lise Lutter-man said it takes six months to a year to hire qualified manufacturing employees.

“That’s ridiculous,” King said. “That’s a huge barrier.”

The concern, Dignum noted, is that if a qualified workforce is unavailable, the company may look outside the state to establish future manufacturing facilities.

Although his influence on the issue is limited, King suggested partnering with schools like Southern Maine Community College to develop a “seamless” connec-tion between what students are learning and the skills industries need. King also suggested Molnlycke look at prospective employees in Bucksport, where a central paper mill was recently shut down.

“Everyone is for economic develop-ment and expansion, but if you can’t find the people, you can’t grow,” King said.

He also spelled out his plan to amend the medical device tax in the Affordable Care Act, which has an impact on com-panies like Molnlycke.

Instead of attempting to repeal the provision entirely, which would leave a $30 billion revenue hole, King said he is floating a proposal to exempt the first $2.5 million in sales, limiting the tax impact on smaller manufacturers.

Further, finding ways to lower costs of energy, particularly natural gas, for busi-nesses in Maine is a top priority, King said. The state’s pipeline infrastructure needs improving to bring cheaper energy to the state, he noted.

King also had a private discussion with Molnlycke officials on their concerns about federal regulatory agencies.



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Local synchronized skaters medal at championships

The Nor’Easters Open Juvenile synchronized skating team, comprised of 10 skaters ranging in age from 13 to 17 and representing the North Atlantic Figure Skating Club

from Falmouth, made history by winning their first ever medal at the U.S. Eastern Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships last month in Lake Placid, New York. After finishing third in their qualifying round, the Open Juvenile team stormed to a

Pewter medal with a fourth-place finish in the championship round. Left to right: Violet Singer (Falmouth), Ava Demer (Falmouth), Nathalie Grobe (Falmouth), Katie Kusturin

(Gorham), Sophie Lawsure (Scarborough), Erin Holmes (Cumberland), Jazmine Margel (Scarborough), Maxine Ewing (Falmouth), Cecilia Kusturin (Gorham) and

Eden Larsen (Scarborough).

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The Nor’Easters Open Adult team also competed, earning sixth place in its division. Coached by Lori Johnson of Portland, the Open Adult team is comprised of 13 skaters ranging in age from 25 to 62, with an average age of 47. Front row (left to right): Caroline Paras (Portland), Diane Nugent (Wells), Stacey

Blanchard (Sanford) and Nina Sylvia (West Bath). Middle row: Mary Markowski (Scarborough), Sue Gagne-Rousseau (Lewiston), Lori Johnson (Portland) and Clelia Siguad (Brunswick). Back row: Heidi

Coffin (Brunswick), Chelsea Ferk (Saco), Sarah Lawsure (Scarborough) and Kathy Cain (Oxford).

Winter postseason is hereThe winter sports season is

coming to a close and if the recent amount of snow has got you down, there’s some good news, as it has become apparent that the upcoming postseason is going to be more unpredictable than ever.

The girls’ hockey regular sea-son has come to an end and the playoffs are set to begin. Boys’ and girls’ basketball wrap up by week’s end and the tournament starts next week. It won’t be long until the conference, re-gional and state championships are held for indoor track, swim-ming, skiing and wrestling.

Here’s a look at where things stand now that we’ve flipped the calendar to February.

Boys’ basketballMorse’s boys’ basketball team

was hot on Yarmouth’s heels and trying to hold off Cape Elizabeth in the hunt for the top seed in the Western Class B Heal Points standings at press time. Last week, the Shipbuilders lost a close one at Medomak Valley (54-51), then beat host Belfast (79-68) and visiting Mt. View (66-36) to improve to 12-4 and second in the standings. Morse was home against Camden Hills Tuesday and hosted Oceanside in the regular season finale Thursday.

In Eastern A, Brunswick was 7-8 and seventh after a 59-40 win at Skowhegan. The Dragons

were at Oxford Hills Tuesday, hosted Mt. Ararat Thursday and close at home versus Lawrence Friday.

Mt. Ararat was 10th (but only nine teams make the playoffs) at 5-10 after a 64-57 home loss to Cony Saturday. The Eagles were at Lewiston Tuesday and Brunswick Thursday and close at home versus Bangor Friday.

In Western D, Hyde was 13-2 and second to Forest Hills fol-lowing a 71-51 win at Pine Tree Academy and a 52-38 loss at Old Orchard Beach. The Phoe-nix hosted A.R. Gould Wednes-day and welcomed defending Western C champion Waynflete Thursday and go to Valley in the finale Friday.

The tournament begins Wednesday with the preliminary round on the courts of the highest remaining seeds. The Eastern A quarterfinals and Western D quarterfinals are Saturday, Feb. 14 in Augusta. The Western B quarterfinals are the same day, at the Portland Exposition Building.

Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, Brunswick

was 10-5 and sixth in the East-ern A Heals at press time after a 59-25 home win over Skow-hegan Saturday. The Dragons hosted Oxford Hills Tuesday and Mt. Ararat Thursday and go to Lawrence for the finale Friday.

Mt. Ararat was clinging to the

ninth and final spot in Eastern A with a 5-11 record at press time following a 53-27 win at Cony and a 60-37 loss at Bangor. The Eagles were home against Lewiston Tuesday and went to Brunswick Thursday.

In Western B, Morse was 14th at 7-9, but only 10 teams make the playoffs. The Shipbuilders lost at home to Medomak Valley (51-34) and beat visiting Mt. View, 42-27. Morse was at Cam-den Hills Tuesday and hosted Oceanside Thursday.

In Western D, Hyde was 13-3 and fifth following home wins over North Yarmouth Academy (42-39) and Hebron Academy (42-11) and a 43-16 loss at Pine Tree Academy. The Phoe-nix went to Temple Academy Wednesday and go to Val

The tournament begins Tues-day with the preliminary round on the courts of the highest remaining seeds. The Eastern A quarterfinals are Friday, Feb. 13 in Augusta. The Western D quarterfinals are Monday, Feb. 16 in Augusta. The Western B quarterfinals are Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the Expo in Portland.

HockeyBrunswick’s boys’ hockey

team was sixth in Eastern A (seven teams make the playoffs) at 8-4 heading into Wednesday’s game at Gray-New Gloucester/Poland. The Dragons host Law-rence/Skowhegan Saturday.

Mt. Ararat was 10th at 2-10 after a 10-3 win over Leavitt. The Eagles went to Cony/Monmouth Thursday and host Gray-New Gloucester/Poland Tuesday.

On the girls’ side, Brunswick earned the sixth and final play-off spot in the East Region. The Dragons finished the regular season 3-15 after a 9-0 loss at Edward Little/Leavitt. Bruns-wick went to No. 3 Greely (14-3-1) for a quarterfinal round game Wednesday. if the Dragons

sprung the upset, they’d to go No. 2 EL/Leavitt (15-2-1) for the semifinals this weekend.

Mt. Ararat fell just short of the playoffs, coming in seventh at 2-15-1 after losses at St. Dom’s (5-3) and Yarmouth/Freeport/GNG (4-0).

Indoor trackThe indoor track postseason

begins Saturday with the KVAC championship meet in Bruns-wick.

The Class A state meet is

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The John T. Gorman Foundation recently named Anne Dinsmore and Maggie Keohan to its board of directors. Dinsmore has served as the head of the Great Bay Foundation, a nonprofit, Maine-based grants organization that supports children and families.Previ-ously, she held management positions at UNUM for 20 years. Keohan, a native of Freeport, is a financial services advisor in

the Boston office of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She has managed multimillion-dol-lar projects for international nonprofit groups, and serves on the investment committee of the Maine Community Foundation. The Gorman Foundation, based in Portland, works to help disad-vantaged children, teens and families throughout Maine.

Maine Medical Partners, a 300-physi-cian medical group affiliated with Maine Medical Center, has added Dr. Krystian

Bigosinski to its Orthopedics & Sports Medicine practice. Dr. Bigosinski pre-viously served as head team physician at the University of Vermont. He also has worked as an assistant team physi-cian for the Chicago White Sox, and as a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. He received his medical degree from the University of Illinois, and completed a fellowship in sports medicine at Rush University.

Ken Tapscott has joined Winxnet, a

Portland-based information technology solutions provider, as a field technician. Tapscott brings to the role more than 20 years of technology experience, including 14 years working in law enforcement as part of the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Inn by the Sea, a boutique luxury hotel in Cape Elizabeth, has hired Jim Glan-ville as its new general manager. Glan-ville has more than 2o years experience in hospitality management, including 12 years as vice president and general man-ager of The Essex Resort and Spa in Ver-mont. In 2010, he received the Vermont Department of Tourism’s Borden Avery Innkeeper of the Year Award.

Sarah J. Halpin, a certified financial planner, was recently appointed to serve as a representative of the CFP Board Am-bassador Program in Maine. Halpin is a member of The Danforth Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, of Portland. She will work with other CFP ambassadors to help edu-cate consumers about financial planning.

Grants

Crossroads, a Scarborough-based resi-dential and outpatient addiction treatment program, has a received a $200,000 grant from the Next Generation Foundation of Maine. The grant will support repairs and capital improvements to Crossroads’ long-term treatment centers, including the Back Cove Residential Facility in Portland.

The Maine Appalachian Trail Club recently received two grants totaling more than $14,000 from Freeport-based L.L. Bean Inc. The funds have helped the MATC provide outdoor ethics education, distribute informational packets to youth hiking groups and construct new facilities at remote campsites.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation recently contributed $23,000 in grants to five local Boys & Girls Clubs, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and clubhouses in Portland and South Portland. The funding will support out-of-school programming that encourages a healthy, active lifestyle among Maine children. The grant is part of a five-year commitment from the foundation to provide $315,200 to Boys & Girls Clubs in Maine.

Recognition

Arnie Macdonald, an attorney and shareholder with Portland-based law firm Bernstein Shur, recently received the Maine Bar Foundation’s 2015 Howard H. Dana Jr. Award. The annual award recognizes an attorney who best exempli-fies dedication to public and community service and commitment to the mission of the foundation, including access to civil legal assistance for poor or vulnerable Mainers. Macdonald, of South Freeport, also was elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Hilton Garden Inn, of Freeport, recent-ly received the 2014 General Manager of the Year Merit Award and Hotel Success Award from parent company Hilton Worldwide. The General Manager Merit Award recognized Joshua Cushing as one of the top four individuals across the Garden Inn chain for strong leadership. The Hotel Success Award honored the Freeport inn for ranking among the top 5 percent of 600 properties worldwide on the basis of service and quality.

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Mid-CoastCalls for ArtBrunswick Outdoor Arts Festival, accepting applications for fine art and crafts to exhibit at juried show, 729-4439, brunswickdowntown.org.

Student Art Show, accepting orig-inal submissions by March 27 from artists in grades six to 12, Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141 ext. 25.

Books/AuthorsSaturday 2/7“Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves,” reading with au-

thor Carolyn Chute, 3 p.m., free, Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine St., Brunswick, 729-5083.

Wednesday 2/11“Ten Mysteries of Talking Walls,” discussion with author Margy Burns, presented by Midcoast Se-nior College, 12:15 p.m., free, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-4900.

Film2015 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action, Feb. 10-15, various times, $6, Frontier Cafe, Fort An-dross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-8820, explorefrontier.com.

GalleriesSpindleworks, drawings and painting by various members, on view to Feb. 11, Unitarian-Uni-versalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St, Brunswick, 729-8515, spindleworks.org.

Saturday 2/14“Joy of Art,” discussion with com-petition winners, free, 11 a.m., Topsham Public Library, 25 Fore-side Road, Topsham, 725-1727, topshamlibrary.org.

OngoingBarn Door Cafe and Bakery, 4 Bowdoin Mill Island, Suite 102, Brunswick, 721-3099, thebarn-doorcafe.com.

Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St., Brunswick, 729-5500, bayvieww-gallery.com.

Beth Carlson Animal Portraits Gallery, 613 Foster Point Road, Bath, 751-5288.

Cabot Mill Gallery, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 837-9108.

Centre Street Arts Gallery, 11 Cen-tre St., Bath, 442-0300.

Chocolate Church Art Gallery, 804 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455, chocolatechurcharts.org.

Coleman Burke Gallery, Fort An-dross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, [email protected].

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242, curtislibrary.com.

Eleven Pleasant Street, 11 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, 607-4016, [email protected].

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Gallery at Schoolhouse Cross-ing, 48 West Schoolhouse Crossing Road, Topsham, 603-674-6098, [email protected].

Gallery at Widgeon Cove, Route 123, Harpswell, 833-6081, wid-geoncove.com.

Gallery Framing, 12 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-9108.

Gelato Fiasco, 74 Maine St., Bruns-wick, 607-4002, gelatofiasco.com.

Gun Point Cove Gallery, 1241 Harpswell Islands Road, Orr’s Island, 833-7303, gunpointcove-gallery.com.

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ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Ma-son St., Brunswick, 725-8157.

Just Framing, 149 Front St., Bath.

LaMarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 725-3902.

Little Dog Coffee, 87 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-8820.

Mae’s Cafe, 160 Centre St., Bath, maescafeandbakery.com/events, 442-8577.

Maine Fiberarts Gallery, 13 Main St., Topsham, 721-0678, mainefib-erarts.org.

Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, 443-1499.

Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Main St., Bowdoinham, 841-5914, merrymeetingartscenter.org.

Points of View Art Gallery, Bruns-wick Business Center, 18 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 373-9300.

Sarah Greenier Gallery, 428 Mid-dle St., Bath, 443-3936.

Sebascodegan Artists Cooper-ative Gallery, 4 Old Orr’s Island Road, Harpswell, 833-5717, sebas-codeganartists.com.

Summer Island Studio, 149 Maine St., Brunswick, 373-1810.

Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, 729-8033, thorn-tonoaks.com.

Topsham Public Library, Crooker Gallery, 25 Foreside Road, Topsh-am, topshamlibrary.org, 725-1727.

Whatnot Gallery at Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St., Brunswick, 725-8820, spindleworks.org.

Museums“Collaborations and Collusions: Artists Networks,” on view to Feb. 8, 2015, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-3275, artmuseum.bowdoin.edu.

“Ocean Bound: Three Centuries of Library Treasures,” on view to May, Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath, 443-1316, mainemaritimemuseum.org.

MusicSaturday 2/7Rebel, string ensemble concert of Baroque music, 3 p.m., free, Studz-inski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 798-4141, bowdoin.edu/music.

Sunday 2/8Cul de Sax Saxaphone Quartet, 3 p.m., $10, Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St., Brunswick, 729-8515, uucbSax.brownpapertickets.com.

OngoingMusic at Noontime, Wednesdays 12:15-12:45 p.m., free, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick, 729-8515.

Theater/Dance“Telemachus Clay,” to Feb. 8, various times, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455, chocolatechurcharts.org.

Friday 2/6Folk Dance Brunswick, folk danc-

ing to world music, no partner needed, 6:30-9 p.m., donation $8, People Plus, 35 Union St., Brunswick, 200-7577, folkdance-brunswick.com.

Greater PortlandBooks/AuthorsFriday 2/6“Joseph K. Manchester: North-ern Son in the South,” Falmouth Historical Society discussion with author Carol H. Manchester, 2 p.m., free, OceanView at Falmouth, 3 Marion Way, Falmouth, [email protected].

Wednesday 2/11“A Year After Henry,” Brown Bag discussion with author Cathie Pel-letier, noon, free, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Friday 2/13“Entangled Realms,” discussion with local author Rick Hobbs, noon, free, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Film“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” Friday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 7-8, 2 p.m., $8, students $6, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, 775-6148.

Tuesday 2/10“Actress,” 7:30 p.m., $8, students $6, SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, space538.org.

GalleriesClyde McCulley, photos after Ed-ward Hopper, on view to Feb. 27, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-0906.

“The Invisible Man,” N. Sean Glover, on view to Feb. 28, SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, space538.org.

“The Year in Photos” and “Our Places, Our Times,” photo exhibits, Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-

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“Clean Fridge – Moving Day,” by Sarah Szwajkos, is one of the images PhoPa Gallery is displaying as part of its “Inside/Out” exhibition, which opened last week. The show,

featuring photography of Jeffery Becton, Thomas Birtwistle and Szwajkos, depicts interior spaces and objects that reference and meld with the exterior world. Subjects include rooms, windows, nautical charts and even prison passageways. “Inside/Out” is curated by Susan

Danly, who recently retired as senior curator with the Portland Museum of Art. PhoPa is at 132 Washington Ave., Portland. The show runs through March 7, and includes a reception

from 5-7 p.m. during the city’s First Friday Art Walk, Feb. 6.

Inside insightment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

“Undercurrents,” mixed media work by Diane Bowie Zaitlin, on view to March 8, Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland, 773-2339, mainejewishmuseum.org.

Friday 2/6“Dancing with Birds and Lily Pads,” encaustic paintings by Lori Austill, reception 5-7 p.m., on view to Feb. 22, Coffee By Design, 620 Congress St., Portland, 871-9474, loriaustill.com.

“Portland’s Preservation Move-ment Since 1961,” images and text, opening reception 5-8 p.m., on view Fridays to March 20, Great-er Portland Landmarks, Safford House, 93 High St., Portland, 774-5561, portlandlandmarks.org.

Susan Smolensky and Svetlana Beattie, solo exhibits, opening re-ception 5-8 p.m., on view to March 4, Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery, 48 Free St., Portland, 576-7787, rouxandcyrgallery.com.

Saturday 2/7CSArt Maine, pop-up party cele-brating first art shares, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free, Portland Flea-for-All, 125 Kennebec St., Portland, csar-tmaine.org.

Museums“Lawyers Without Rights,” on view to Feb. 13, Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland, 773-2339, mainejewishmuseum.org.

“Love in the Longfellow House,” historical tour for couples, Feb. 5-14, 6 p.m., $50 per couple with RSVP, Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822, [email protected].

“The Coast & the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America,” on view to April 26, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, 775-6148, portlandmuseum.org.

Saturday 2/7Sleigh Day, featuring “Maine Street” exhibit of vintage sleighs, noon to 3 p.m., $9, families $25, Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yar-mouth, 829-5708. skylinefarm.org.

MusicPortland Symphony Orchestra, “‘Eroica’ ... Plus ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’” Sunday, Feb. 15, 2:30 p.m., and Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., $25-$75, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, 842-0800, porttix.com.

Friday 2/6Freeport First Friday, “Just Des-serts” concert with Tom Acousti, 6:45 p.m., $5, Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport, 865-3985, fcsmaine.org.

Saturday 2/7Piping Hot Flutes, 7 p.m., free, South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, 767-7660.

Quill, 17th-century French music, 7 p.m., $15; students and seniors $10, Cathedral Church of St. Luke, 143 State St., Portland, 829-9959, baroquelute.com.

Wednesday 2/11Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 7:30 p.m., $36-$44, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, 842-0800, portlandovations.org.

Thursday 2/12Jose Duddy, 2 p.m., free with RSVP, Scarborough Terrace, 600 Commerce Drive, Scarborough, 885-5568, terracecommunities.com.

Sunday 2/15“The Secret Loves of the Great Romantics,” The LARK Society for Chamber Music, 2 p.m., $22, seniors $20, Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Port-land, 761-1522, larksociety.org.

Theater/Dance“Boy Meets Girl,” Fridays and Sat-urdays, Feb. 6-7 and Feb. 13-14, 8 p.m., $25-$40, Portland Ballet, 517 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9671, portlandballet.org.

“Calendar Girls,” to Feb. 15, various times, $20, seniors $18, students $15, Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road, South Portland, 799-7337, portlandplayers.org.

“Charlie and the Chocolate Facto-ry,” Feb. 13-22, various times, $10, Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland, 828-1234, kitetails.org.

“Disney on Ice: Princesses & He-roes,” Feb. 11-16, various times, $30 and up, Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Square, Portland, 775-3458, ticketmaster.com.

“Kimberly Akimbo,” to Feb. 8, vari-ous times, $20, seniors and students $15, Mad Horse Theatre Co., 24 Mosher St., South Portland, 747-4148, madhorse.com.

“Mary Poppins,” Feb. 6-15, various times, $15, students/seniors $10, South Portland High School, 637 Highland Ave., South Portland, 767-7700, myticketportal.com.

“Our Man in Havana,” to Feb. 15, various times, $37-$47, Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, 774-0465, portlandstage.org.

“Regrets Only,” Good Theater, to Feb. 22, various times, $20-$28, St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland, 885-5883, goodthe-ater.com.

Saturday 2/14Collective Motion, modern dance with music by The Dapper Gents, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., $20, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, onelongfellowsquare.com.

Holly Danger’s Valentine’s Day Bur-lesque, 8:30 p.m., $12/adults only, Geno’s, 625 Congress St., Portland, 415-0207.

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Out & About

Preservation Hall Jazz Band in PortlandBy Scott Andrews

Excellent choices for comfy indoor entertainment abound as we enter the second half of winter this week.

Tops is a visiting ensemble from the southern city of jambalaya, crawfish pie and file gumbo. The Preserva-tion Hall Jazz Band, which has been a fixture of New Orleans culture since 1961, will play in snowy Portland on Feb. 11.

Romance is in the air as Valentine’s Day approaches, and Portland Ballet will celebrate with two weekends of performances of “Boy Meets Girl,” a pastiche of terpsi-chorean styles united by inspiration from the American Songbook.

American popular music from another era is also honored this weekend, when the Portland Symphony Or-chestra morphs into Pops! mode with two performances of “Big Band Blast.”

Need a good laugh to keep your mind off this all this winter’s snow shoveling? Laughs abound in “Regrets Only,” a fine new comedy at Portland’s Good Theater.

Preservation Hall Jazz BandWhat could be more New Orleans than jambalaya,

crawfish pie and file gumbo? Or Bourbon Street? Or Mardi Gras? Or Dixieland jazz?

When I visited New Orleans about 30 years ago, one of my most memorable experiences was an evening spent in the French Quarter, listening to the Preserva-tion Hall Jazz Band. The “hall” itself is little more than a storefront just off Bourbon Street. But that modest performing venue has become a major Crescent City destination for both tourists and residents.

About a week before Mardi Gras (Feb. 17 this year), this iconic jazz ensemble will be visiting the Port City, performing under the aegis of Portland Ovations.

Since 1961 the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been actively and purposefully keeping traditional New Or-leans music alive. Think “performing museum.” This celebrated ensemble also tours extensively, performing about 150 dates annually around the world.

Having succeeded in its original mission – to preserve vintage Dixieland jazz – in recent years the band has collaborated with numerous other Americana groups. Between 1964 and 2013 the band has released more than 30 records and CDs.

Among the most recent of the band’s many honors are the 2006 National Medal of Arts and the 2013 NAACP Image Award.

Portland Ovations presents the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Merrill Auditorium at Port-land City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

‘Boy Meets Girl’Valentine’s Day is approaching and romance is in the

air at Portland Ballet. The company will present four performances of a revival of “Boy Meets Girl” over the next two weekends.

The format is a light-hearted terpsichorean romance, based on a variety of music drawn from the American Songbook, with recorded performances by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. The nearly two dozen songs will include such enduring favorites as “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “The Lady is a Tramp, “Mambo Italiano,” “Beyond the Sea” and “That’s Amore.” The multiple choreographers are all associated with Portland Ballet.

Set in a neighborhood Italian restaurant, “Boy Meets Girl” dishes up hearty servings of love and loss with dollops of fun. Dancers represent many of the characters

typically found on a Friday night in a restaurant – the happy couple, a flirty waiter and an all-girls table. Indi-vidual stories intertwine throughout a romantic evening where drinks are in hand and love is in the air. Each of these leaves with a song in his or her heart.

Portland Ballet presents four performances of “Boy Meets Girl” at the company’s in-house studio theater at 517 Forest Ave. at 8 p.m. Feb. 6-7 and Feb. 13-14. Call 772-9671.

Portland Symphony OrchestraAnother show that highlights American music from

the middle of the 20th century is “Big Band Blast,” a production of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, which will be performed twice this weekend under the baton of assistant conductor Norman Huynh.

The program spotlights melodies by composers and bandleaders of the “big band era” of American music, generally the 1930s and 1940s. These include Count Basie, Hoagie Carmichael, Tommy Dorsey, Duke El-lington, Spike Jones and Glenn Miller.

Songs include “Tuxedo Junction,” “Take the A Train,” “In the Mood,” “Opus One,” “Skylark” and “One O’clock Jump.” Many of these songs were arranged for symphony orchestra by pianist Rich Ridenour, who will also perform on the program with singer Kathy Gibson.

Ridenour specializes in this style of music, having performed pops programs with dozens of symphony orchestras all over the U.S. Gibson is a mezzo-soprano who has been heard on dozens of U.S. stages and con-cert halls, often in collaboration with Ridenour.

The evening concludes with an American classical showcase for piano and orchestra: George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” with orchestral arrangement by Ferde Grofe.

Two performances are slated at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall: Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

‘Regrets Only’Confusion, calamity, chaos and comedy are some-

times simply different ways of looking at the same thing. That’s the central premise of many stage com-edies. Among them is “Regrets Only,” a wonderfully funny new play by Paul Rudnick that’s currently running at Portland’s Good Theater.

Set in an elegant New York penthouse apartment in 2006, “Regrets Only” revolves around a gay couturier (Paul Haley) who caters to mostly to very rich women of questionable taste. Central to the play is his relation-ship with two of his customers, the wife (Laura Houck) of a lawyer (Paul Drinan), and their self-absorbed

Preservation Hall Jazz

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Mid-CoastBenefitsFriday 2/13“Sweets for the Sweet” Valentine Bake Sale, to benefit Mid Coast Hospital, presented by the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Bulletin BoardOngoingMerriconeag Grange meet-ings first and third Thursdays, 7 p.m., Merriconeag Grange, 529 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell, [email protected].

Sip & Stitch group knitting and crocheting, 10 a.m. to noon Sat-urdays, Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road, Topsham, 725-1727.

Call for VolunteersFriday 2/13American Red Cross Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, 807 Middle St., Bath, 800-RED-CROSS.

OngoingAmerican Cancer Society needs volunteers to transport cancer patients to treatment, ACS, New England Division, Topsham, 462-6307, [email protected].

Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice has a growing need for hospice volunteers in the Bruns-wick area; training provided. 777-7740, AHCH.org.

ArtVan Program seeks volunteers to help with art therapy program-ming with children and teens, promotional support and fund-raising efforts. Contact 371-4125 or visit artvanprogram.org.

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteer mentors (must be 18+) willing to commit one year and spend eight hours a month with a child 6-14 who lives in a single parent home. Contact Brunswick office at 729-7736 or [email protected].

Chocolate Church Arts Center seeks volunteers for the art gallery and more, 798 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455.

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay seeks volunteers interested in preserving the bay to assist with speaker series, assemble mailings, and more, 666-1118, fomb.org.

Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine needs volunteers at Re-Store in Topsham, especially help with receiving, cleaning, displays, and customer service; typically four-hour shifts Tuesday through Saturday; 504-9335, [email protected].

Home to Home, an organization providing a safe place for parents to exchange children for visitations, needs volunteers, commitment of one to two hours per exchange period; police check and train-ing required. Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Rich Siegel, 837-4894, mainehometohome.org.

Meals on Wheels drivers urgently needed, Wednesdays and Fridays. FMI 729-0475, Spectrum Genera-tions, 12 Main St., Topsham.

Mid Coast Hospital, dozens of positions at the cafe, gift shop, or greeting patients, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Mid Coast Senior Health Cen-ter needs volunteers for various

activities with seniors Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, welcome desk openings, 373-3646.

Oasis Free Clinic seeks volunteer clerical and administrative help, one or two half-days per week. 721-9277, or oasishealthnetwork.org/volunteer.

Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter needs gift shop volunteers, four-hour shifts mornings, after-noons and early evenings, Monday through Friday, every other Sunday 1-4 p.m. 373-4518 or visit the gift shop at 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Pejepscot Historical Society needs volunteer tour guides for Skolfield-Whittier House and Josh-ua L. Chamberlain Museum and volunteer staff for Chamberlain Museum gift shop, 729-6606.

People Plus Center, ongoing opportunities, 35 Union St., Bruns-wick, 729-0757.

Refugee and Immigration Services, a program of Catholic Charities Maine, has ongoing needs for committed volunteers who will assist New Mainers in their search for employment, FMI, Paul Mullaney, [email protected].

Sexual Assault Support Services of Mid Coast Maine needs vol-unteers to provide support and information to callers on 24-hour hotline, 725-2181, 594-8580 or 338-4622, [email protected].

SEARCH Program of Greater Bath is looking for volunteers a few hours a week to assist seniors by providing companionship, trans-portation, assistance with errands, 837-8810, [email protected].

Tri-County Literacy seeks volun-teer tutors to work with adults in the community, 443-6384, [email protected].

Dining OutFriday 2/6Roast Pork Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., adults $8, children $4, St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, 725-2624.

Saturday 2/14Public Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., adults $8, children $4, Brunswick Unit-ed Methodist Church, 320 Church Road, Brunswick, 725-2185.

Sunday 2/15Public Breakfast Buffet, 7:30-9:30 a.m., adults $7, children $3, Knights of Columbus Hall, 807 Middle St., Bath, 443-6015.

SupportOngoingAdoption support group for adult adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents and those whose lives are touched by adoption. Monthly meetings, Mae’s Cafe, 160 Centre St., Bath, 443-9876.

Care support group, Sexual As-sault Support Services of Midcoast Maine and Mid Coast Hospital provide an education-based sup-port group for survivors of sexual violence who are pregnant; partici-pants may bring a support person. 373-6500 or 725-2181.

Caregiver support group, third Thursday of each month. 4:30 p.m, Mid Coast Senior Health Center, 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, 373-4656.

Celebrate Recovery Bath, Tues-day nights, 6:30 p.m. group meeting, 6 p.m. free refreshments,

12-step Christ-centered program to help deal with hurts, habits and hang-ups. 442-9966, celebratere-covery.com.

Communicate after stroke support group, first and third Tuesdays, September to May, 1-2 p.m., free, friends/family welcome, Mid Coast Hospital, 1st floor con-ference room, 81 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick. For information or sign-up, call Dimitra Toothaker, 373-6175; Robert Lundstrom, 371-2936; or Doris Armstrong, 725-2618.

Grief Support Group, for survi-vors of those who have died from substance abuse, first and third Thursdays, 3:30-5 p.m., CHANS Home Health Care and Hospice, 45 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, 721-1357.

Mid-Coast Chronic Pain Support Group, open to people with chron-ic pain, their families and friends, first and third Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m. Mid Coast Hospital, Bruns-wick, 725-7854.

Mid-Coast Maine Center for Grief and Loss, hospice volunteers offer grief support programs for children, families and individuals, 45 Bari-beau Drive, Brunswick, 729-3602.

Overeaters Anonymous, Mon-days 5:30 p.m., Big Book Step Study, Seventh Day Adventist Church, 333 Maine St., Brunswick 837-5642; Tuesdays, noon, Step Study, Fellowship Room, Unit-ed Congregational Church, 150 Congress Ave., Bath, 729-3057; Thursdays, 7 p.m. open meeting, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church library, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 443-4630; Sundays, 9 a.m. open meeting, medical office building conference room, 123 Medical Drive, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick, 729-3149.

Self-healing empowerment group, Wednesdays, 9-10:30 a.m., $15, come once or weekly, Spectrum Generations, Southern Midcoast Community Center, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, support groups for survivors of sexual violence, in-cludes sexual assault, sexual abuse as a child and sexual harassment, open to non-offending parents and partners. Call 725-2181 to schedule a pre-group meeting.

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group, first Thursdays, 5:30 p.m., Elijah Kellogg Congregational Church, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell, 833-6386.

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“Money Smart,” Lunch ‘n Learn talk with Crystal Card of People’s United Bank, noon, free, People Plus, 35 Union St., Brunswick, 729-0757, peopleplusmaine.org.

OngoingMidcoast Senior College, current events forum, noon, Thursdays, free, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-4900.

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Monday, Feb. 16 at USM. The Class B state meet is the same day at Bates Col-lege in Lewiston.

SwimmingThe swimming postseason will get

underway with the KVAC championship

meet Saturday in Bath.The Class B boys’ state final is Satur-

day, Feb. 14 at the University of Maine in Orono. The Class B girls compete for state glory Monday, Feb. 16 in Orono, while the Class A boys’ state meet will be held at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. The Class A girls’ state meet is Tuesday, Feb. 17, also in Brunswick.

SkiingThe skiing state meets are Feb. 16-18.

WrestlingMt. Ararat’s wrestling team finished

the season 16-8 after defeating Oxford Hills (54-18) and Oceanside (48-15).

Morse wound up 8-14 after losing to Belfast (48-36), tying Mt. View (36-36) and beating Gardiner (30-16) and MCI

(36-21).The Eastern A regional championship

is Saturday at Oxford Hills. The Western B regional championship is the same day at Wells.

The Class A state meet is Saturday, Feb. 14 at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham. The Class B meet is the same day at Fryeburg Academy.

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twenty-something daughter (Meredith Lamothe).

Most of the action bounces around the myriad complications of this four-cor-nered relationship, driven by the daugh-ter’s impending marriage. There are

two other wonderful character parts, a meddling housekeeper (Amy Roche) and grandmother (Suzanne Rankin).

Rudnick’s scintillating dialogue abounds in clever witticisms and deft wordplay. Targets for the playwright’s jokes range all over the cultural map, with little left sacred. At several key points of this show the pace is drastically

slowed, while several characters pontifi-cate on political and legal issues.

The set, designed by Stephen Under-wood with interior design by Jeanne Handy, is one the most elegant ever seen at Good Theater’s dozen-plus-year his-tory. According to director Brian Allen, $25,000 worth of furnishings and orig-inal artwork has been borrowed for this

production – enough to require a special insurance policy.

Good Theater presents “Regrets Only” through Feb. 22 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. (top of Munjoy Hill) with Wednesday and Thursday per-formances at 7 p.m., Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Call 885-5883.

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approved the plan to raise the license fee from $200 to $600, which can be offset with credits worth $400 from completing four conservation days, Couture said.

“We’re not going to run into any of those tax issues,” Couture added.

“Because of the way that we’re phras-ing it and because we’re keeping it pretty straightforward in general, we’re circum-vented any problems like that, at least from the attorney’s opinion,” she said.

Harpswell voters are expected to de-

cide on the fee changes at the March 14 Town Meeting.

Brunswick’s Marine Resource Com-mittee intends to go back to the drawing board with the proposed fee changes. While he feels that putting a value on the harvester’s work is the right way to pro-ceed, Devereaux suggested the proposal

might not be feasible.“I still think it’s a great idea, but

sometimes great ideas don’t work in a government structure,” he said.



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juniors and seniors took last year, just 285 scored every possible point on an exam, according to a Morse press release last week.

Huene was the world’s only student to earn every possible point on the AP Envi-ronmental Science Exam, the school said. He earned the top score of 5, equivalent to an A on a corresponding college class, according to Morse.

“This is an absolutely extraordinary ac-complishment,” Eric Varney, Morse’s AP Environmental Science teacher, said in the press release. “As Balt’s teacher, I probably find this accomplishment less surprising than most; Balt is smart, hard-working, and intuitive. However, Balt’s attention to detail and his focus on the truth and accuracy in his work are the characteristics that make

him a superior student.”Varney added that in the nine years he’s

taught the course, never has one of his stu-dents earned a perfect score.

Huene said in an email Jan. 31 that he learned of his accomplishment in a letter from Trevor Packer, the College Board’s senior vice president in charge of the AP program.

“It’s awesome, I still haven’t gotten over my initial surprise,” he said. “What gets me is how many students out of the 130K that took the exam must have been one or two points away from a perfect score, but just guessed wrong on one multiple choice question. Even in my class at Morse, a num-ber of my classmates got the top score of 5 on the AP 1-5 scale and probably weren’t far off from getting everything right.”

Huene credited his success on the test to his knack for drawing facts from memory and taking standardized exams. He also

credited Varney, who he called “one of the best teachers in the building,” noting that Varney was Sagadahoc County’s 2014 teacher of the year.

Varney “set our class up very well, not only with a good working knowledge of the concepts of environmental science, but also with very specific advice on how to attack each section of the AP test itself,” Huene said.

Huene said he was home-schooled when he was younger, which gave him the oppor-tunity to get to know nature, catch frogs, search for snakes and go on forest hikes around Arrowsic.

Asked what advice he’d give to other students aiming for that perfect AP score, Huene recommended they “look over the sections of past tests that have been released, along with their scoring guides. That will give you some idea of the level of detail the scorers are looking for. On the

test itself, aggressively eliminate multiple choice options and provide plenty of detail on the free response section. Also, don’t be afraid to answer questions with knowledge from other classes.”

Huene said he has been admitted to the University of Maine at Orono, but is post-poning a college decision until he hears from other schools.

Although he’s not currently planning a career in environmental science – Huene is leaning toward English – his interest in the subject continues.

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building is expected to come before the council at a later meeting. It would require contract rezoning to allow the density the developer desires, City Planner Andrew Deci said Wednesday.

“We’re interested in doing an historic, tax credit-financed adaptive reuse of the .... school into mixed-income apartments,” Nathan Szanton, managing principal of the company, said.

He noted that due to the use of the cred-its, the project would be governed by “a very good, comprehensive set of standards ... that would ensure that we bring the building back to its original look in a very

high-quality fashion.”The building would have new windows

and energy-efficient construction, the com-pany has previously said.

The structure has more than 33,000 square feet of space. It has always been owned by the city.

Szanton’s project, which does not include acquisition of the school playground, would create 54 mostly one-bedroom apartments, with 32 in the existing structure and 22 in a new northeast wing.

About 25 percent of the units would be rented at market rate, while the rest would be income-restricted. A household of two earning up to $28,550 annually would be able to rent a one-bedroom unit for $669 a month, including heat and hot water, ac-

cording to the company, which has said the housing would not be a Section 8 project.

The company screens its tenants care-fully, conducting personal interviews and credit and criminal background checks, and also consults the applicant’s previous landlords, Szanton said.

“We reject a lot of people who apply to us,” he said, noting also that troublesome tenants are moved out quickly.

The developer also noted that Bath’s Comprehensive Plan encourages mixed-in-come housing development, and housing for seniors and young professionals.

Szanton’s company would provide 65-70 parking spaces, or one per apartment, and about 10-15 other spaces for guests, and tenants who own more than one car. Almost

all the apartments would have one bedroom.“We understand that parking supplies

a concern for the neighborhood and ad-jacent users,” Szanton said. “... We’re committed to providing parking spaces for our residents and their guests, while mini-mizing the impact on the neighborhood.”

The company will know by December whether its MaineHousing affordable housing tax credit funding application is successful. If so, it could close on the prop-erty in late spring 2016.

If Szanton does not receive the credits, an agreement with the city would be extended a year to allow a second application in Oc-tober 2016, with a closing in spring 2017.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

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Economics plays a key role, McKinney and Bath Police Detective Andrew Booth said.

Heroin can sell for $40 to $45 a bag in Maine, as opposed to the $1 or more per milligram price for a synthetic opioid like oxycodone. The same amount of heroin sells for less than $10 a bag closer to New York.

“We are having drug organizations, gangs if you will, coming into Maine and seeing it as a lucrative market, McKinney said. “They can make a lot more money with a lot less territorial pressure.”

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In 2011, the MDEA investigated 69 hero-in-related complaints, McKinney said. Last year, it was 307. Complaints led to the sei-zure of 1.9 kilograms in 2011. In 2014, the amount increased to 2.5 kg on the strength of 390 arrests. He said 75 percent of the MDEA arrests are related to trafficking.

Booth said he works with MDEA agents when overdoses occur for criminal investi-gations and to gather data on a problem he believes is spreading.

“Heroin is cheaper and easier to get,” he said.

In the two years he has been a detective, Booth said heroin has increased to 45 per-cent of the drug calls and investigations he handles. In 2012, police data put heroin at 7 percent of what detectives handled for drug calls and investigations, with oxycodone at 38 percent. In 2014, oxycodone represented 15 percent of the total.

The Maine attorney general’s office and Office of the State Medical Examiner are still compiling 2014 statistics, but data on overdose deaths in Maine since 2011 shows fatal heroin overdoses are increasing.

Of the 156 deaths attributed to drugs in 2011, five were heroin-related, while 42 were linked to methadone and 36 to oxyco-done. Of 163 fatal drug overdoses in 2012, 28 were linked to heroin, 32 to methadone and 42 to oxycodone. In 2013, 34 of 176 fatal overdoses were caused by heroin, while 37 were linked to methadone and 32 to oxycodone.

The shift to heroin use is also a result of the reduction of supply in prescription pills caused by crackdowns on “pill mills” in Florida and other states, officials said. Prescribed and sold in storefront clinics, the pills were then often shipped north for illicit resale.

According to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, increased regulation on pain clinics in the state has reduced their num-bers from 900 in 2010 to 367.

Bondi said federal Drug Enforcement Agency records indicated 98 of the 100 physicians dispensing painkillers nation-wide in 2010 worked in Florida. None of the top 100 now work in the Sunshine State.

Locally, overdose calls handled by po-lice and emergency medical technicians in greater Portland area have risen.

In Portland, calls for service for over-doses increased from 273 in 2013 to 332 in 2014, according to data supplied by Police Chief Michael Sauschuck. Not all overdose calls are actual opioid overdoses; some oc-cur when people mix their own prescription drugs, Sauschuck said.

Within those overdose calls are an in-crease in the use of naloxone hydrochlo-ride, or Narcan, an “opioid antagonist” that almost immediately reverses the respiratory and nervous system shutdowns that occur in an opioid overdose.

Nangle said city emergency responders administered Narcan 107 times in 2014, up from 74 times the year before and 56 times in 2012. Last June alone, he said, Narcan was used 22 times because of a heroin batch cut with fentanyl, another opioid.

In South Portland, Narcan was adminis-tered 39 times on 52 documented overdose calls in 2014, Guimond said. In 2013, it was used 15 times, and 20 times in 2012.

Dr. Matthew Sholl, who directs emer-gency medical services at Maine Medical Center in Portland and the city MEDCU response units, on Jan. 30 said he also be-lieves heroin use has increased, although his impressions are anecdotal.

Sholl established the protocols respond-ers use in administering Narcan, and said basic lifesaving skills can be as critical because the respiratory system shuts down and brain damage may occur within five

minutes of an overdose.The effects of Narcan are almost imme-

diate, and can lead to a complete reversal of an overdose, but with frightening results.

“Even when administered properly, it can cause an acute withdrawal reaction,” Nangle said.

Citing rxlist.com, Nangle said the side effects include body aches, nervousness, diarrhea, stomach pain, fever or chills.

“I don’t believe irritable really describes it adequately,” Nangle said. “Violent, as-saultive and irrational may be better terms. The vomiting can cause serious problems in an individual with an altered level of consciousness.”

The effects can be so dramatic that Narcan is titrated to the individual condition of an overdose victim to restore respiratory func-tions during the ride to an emergency room.

Sholl said emergency-room physicians also titrate Narcan doses to prevent the most sudden reversals and after effects.

Last year, the state Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Free-port, allowing private Narcan prescriptions and wider use by emergency personnel.

Sholl said he has seen no conclusive evidence on whether wider availability is effective, but reiterated the importance of knowing other emergency procedures.

“I think the story remains to be told. We honestly don’t know,” he said.

Narcan is not a cure, Guimond added.“You are not fixed. We are giving them

an opportunity and trying to give them a couple of doors to go through,” he said.

Booth said addicts need help as much as dealers need to be imprisoned.

“From my point of view, we would like to see criminal aspect stay the same,” he said, “but increase the availability and ef-fectiveness of treatment programs.”David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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in the 2013-2014 school year, were not immunized, an increase from 4.3 percent the previous year.

Of non-immunized students, 766, or 90 percent, had philosophical exemptions, according to the CDC.

The concern is that if the if the number of non-immunized students continues to grow, it could compromise the so-called “herd immunity” created by the over-whelming number of immunized people, state Rep. Ralph Tucker, D-Brunswick, said.

Tucker has proposed a bill that would eliminate the philosophical exemption.

“My goal is to get the percentage of unvaccinated kids in schools down,” Tucker said. “I’m looking for perfor-mance.”

He said he is trying to protect school-age children who may not be able to receive vaccinations because of weak immune systems from serious health problems, or younger kids who aren’t old enough to get vaccinated.

Tucker proposed his bill before a recent measles outbreak in California refocused the nation’s attention on the vaccine is-sue, he said.

The California Department of Public Health has confirmed 92 cases of the disease since December. Fifty-nine of the cases have been linked to an outbreak at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

While the last confirmed case of measles in Maine was in 1997 and the state has not seen cases of mumps or

rubella, there is a continuing outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, in the state, Maine Center for Disease Control Director Sheila Pinette said.

According to the Maine CDC, there have been nearly 1,700 cases of the highly infectious respiratory disease since 2012, including 53 this year.

Eliminating the vaccination exemption is the clearest and most effective way to resolve the problem without adding fur-ther requirements for doctors and parents, Tucker said.

“I’m prepared to make the political calculation that this is a legislative matter and the exemption should be eliminated,” Tucker said. “I’m not prepared to kick the can down the road and leave it for the doctors to figure out.”

Two other Democratic legislators, Rep. Richard Farnsworth, who represents part of Portland, and Rep. Linda Sanborn, of Gorham, have proposed a bill that would require parents to provide written confir-mation that they have consulted with a primary-care provider before receiving a non-medical exemption.

“I still believe people do have legit-imate, philosophical reasons why they don’t do it,” Farnsworth said. Consulting with a physician could also help educate people who might be on the fence about vaccinating their children, he noted.

“My thinking is that if we give them the appropriate information, they might say ‘well, maybe it wouldn’t be such a good idea not to vaccinate,’” Farnsworth said.

Sanborn said the aim is to keep open lines of communication and encourage

trust and respect between skeptical par-ents and their physicians.

“I think we need to respect the parents and where they are at, and hopefully they will have trust in their primary-care physician,” she said.

While their proposed bill has not yet been printed, Sanborn said she intends to add language that would eliminate the “philosophical” and “religious” descrip-tions, replacing them with “medical” or “non-medical” exemptions. The consul-tation requirement would apply to all non-medical exemptions.

Discussions about immunization are expected during routine visits to a prima-ry-care physician and should not include extra medical expenses for parents, San-born said.

But the prospect of either eliminat-ing exemptions or requiring informed consent angers vaccination critics like Ginger Taylor, a Brunswick mother and director of the Maine Coalition for Vac-cine Choice.

Instead of penalizing and attacking parents for questioning the efficacy and safety of vaccines, the state should be supporting those who believe their chil-dren have been “vaccine-injured,” like her own son, who has autism, Taylor said.

Republican state Sen. Garrett Mason of Lisbon Falls is sponsoring the Vac-cine Choice Consumer Protection Act, drawn up by Taylor, which would create a vaccine injury office in the Maine De-partment of Health and Human Services, advertise vaccine injury in the state, and establish a complaint and review process for families asking specific questions,

among other measures.Mason did not respond to an email and

phone call requesting comment.The proposals drawn up by Tucker,

Farnsworth and Sanborn are discrimina-tory and inappropriate, Taylor said.

Requiring consultation with a physi-cian would amount to a “forced sales pitch,” she said.

“We shouldn’t be legally compelled to be in a sales pitch for a corrupt, bro-ken program,” Taylor said. “And I am certainly not going to be judged and get paperwork filed that I am a bad parent for making this choice, because I know it is the right choice for my child.”

The fact that more Maine parents are deciding not to vaccinate their children only shows that people in the state are thinking more independently, Taylor said.

She said so far no one has died from the measles, so people are getting worked up about an “imaginary problem that might occur down the road.”

But Farnsworth noted that some par-ents may be misinformed by things they read on the Internet relating to vaccina-tions, without being fully informed.

“There’s so much garbage out there right now,” he said. Constituents have contacted him about the dangers of vac-cinations and have suggested alternative treatments for disease, including using natural honey to build a natural immu-nity.

“From my estimation, I think it’s a lot of baloney,” Farnsworth said.

Peter L. McGuire can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 1oo or [email protected]. Follow him on


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