the forecaster, mid-coast edition, may 4, 2012

May 4, 2012 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 8, No. 18

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By Matt Hongoltz-HetlingBRUNSWICK — Every

Wednesday at 7 p.m., two different groups gather on the second floor of a com-mercial building at 119 Bath Road.

Everyone who enters the building walks up a flight of stairs. At the top, those who turn right attend a service in a space leased by the local Pentecostal church, where the faithful gather to offer

MAtt HOngOltz-HEtling / tHE FORECAStERInstructor Brent Dillingham squares off with student Nina McLaughlin for a sparring session at MMA Athletix, a Brunswick training center that is taking the lead in making mixed martial arts a sport with mainstream appeal.

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Brunswick School Board urges voters to back ‘realistic’ school budgetBy Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

BRUNSWICK — Voters will be asked to pay more for less under a $33.5 million budget passed by the School Board.

The amount represents an in-crease of almost 0.6 percent over the current budget, but a loss of federal funding means that the town appropriation will increase by 14.1 percent.

There will be a net loss of be-tween seven and 10 employees, as well as the elimination of six coaching stipends.

Board member Corinne Per-rault said supporters of educa-tion shouldn’t be disappointed.

“We’re still asking the town for almost $2.4 million over

SAD 75 budget raises taxes, eliminates school jobsBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — Approximately two dozen jobs are at risk in a $33.4 million budget approved by the School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors.

The board voted 11-1 on April 26 for the proposed fiscal 2013 budget.

A public hearing will be held at Mt. Ararat High School at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 10, followed by two public votes: at a district budget meeting May 24 and the budget validation referendum June 12.

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what they spent last year,” she said. “That is a very difficult thing for us to do, because now we’re going to get bashed by the 80 percent of the community that doesn’t have children in schools.”

Perrault added that a signifi-cant portion of residents without children in school have been very supportive of the School Department.

Board member Michelle Small said that the department has to be practical about what would be approved by voters.

“This year, with the (U.S.) Senate primary, we’re going to

The spending plan is down $817,000, or 2.4 percent, from this year and could cost about 24 jobs.

The amount to be assessed through taxes would be $18.8 mil-lion, an increase of about $98,000, or 0.5 percent. It is SAD 75’s first tax hike in four years, Business Manager Steve Dyer said last week.

He attributed the decline in next year’s budget to:

• A loss of nearly $357,000 in

Bath council gets how-to on withdrawal from RSU 1By Alex Lear

BATH — The City Council on Wednesday discussed options for dealing with a potentially significant increase in the city's cost of education, including pos-sible withdrawal from Regional School Unit 1.

The discussion came after the Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors voted unanimously

April 23 to change its cost-sharing formula so that a law that created the school district would apply to its entire local tax calculation.

With the change, residents of Bath, Arrowsic and Phippsburg could shoulder a greater share of school costs than in a previous version of next year's proposed budget. Meanwhile, Woolwich

and West Bath taxpayers could see substantial decreases in their share of the fiscal 2013 costs.

By the cost-sharing method RSU 1 has been using, Bath would be assessed $8.3 million next year, a 1.5 percent increase over the current year. Under the revised formula, that assessment would climb to $8.6 million, a nearly 5.7 percent increase.

After an executive session that followed the public portion of Wednesday's meeting, the coun-cil voted unanimously to have city's attorney send a letter to the School Board expressing the council's "reaction to, and dis-pleasure with, the recent board action to change the funding methodology," Chairman David Sinclair said.

City Manager Bill Giroux told the council Wednesday that the RSU 1 budget would have to be reduced by about $682,000 for Bath's assessment to remain at the original, 1.5 percent in-crease.

He said the budget could be reduced when the School Board

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Brunswick town manager proposes budget with 6.2% tax hikeBy Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council has received a budget proposal from Town Manager Gary Brown that would increase the tax rate by 6.21 percent, and take a million dollars from the town’s general fund.

“That is the largest increase in a budget that has been presented to the council in quite some time,” Brown told the council during a short overview of the $54.8 mil-lion budget on Monday.

Brown said the increase is largely driven by a loss of state revenues.

“I think it’s been well documented that the School Department budget has suf-fered a significant loss of state revenues,” he said. “On a smaller scale, we’re also anticipating a reduction in state revenues through the state revenue sharing pro-gram.”

Brown said that the municipal loss of state revenues would amount to roughly $100,000.

The property tax rate under the new budget would be $25.15 per $1,000 of assessed value; a homeowner with a property valued at $150,000 would pay an additional $222 a year under the pro-posed fiscal 2013 budget.

Under the proposal, $1 million would be drawn from the town’s fund balance. Without that money, the tax increase would have been 9.4 percent.

John Eldridge, Brunswick’s finance director, said on Tuesday that the total fund balance was approximately $8.5 million one year ago, and that it would increase by an amount that could not yet be accurately determined.

He said that a very rough estimation of the increase would put it in the same ballpark as the $1 million withdrawal. The balance was boosted in part by a $350,000 savings created when the state agreed to take over the funding of repav-ing at Cooks Corner.

The town’s fund balance policy targets two months of revenues for the fund, which would be approximately $8.9 mil-lion, Eldridge said.

The only new municipal program under the budget is a $50,000 allocation to operate a visitor’s center and perform maintenance of the train platform for the Amtrak Downeaster, per an agreement with the Maine Department of Trans-portation.

Brown said the $50,000 represents a “best educated guess” for the new ex-pense.

Retirement costs have also increased in the new budget, he said.

“Like many organizations, the down-turn in the market has had an effect on the state retirement system, and that has been manifested in increases in the em-ployer rates,” he said.

Health-insurance costs are also ex-pected to go up, Brown said, because of a high number of claims from municipal employees.

“We received a recent report from our health trust today,” he said. “... They’ve paid out 117 percent of what we’ve paid in. ... We’ve been a loss leader.”

During the upcoming fiscal year, a turning lane will be added on Stanwood Street in anticipation of the new police station, and raised crosswalks will be added to Maine Street. Brown said that these projects could not have been sacri-ficed to offset the tax increase, because they were paid for by highway block grants and downtown improvement bonds.

Brown asked councilors for feedback on the size of the budget increase.

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Company proposes 120-foot cell tower in BathBy Alex Lear

BATH — A company that tried un-successfully to install a 75-foot cellular communications tower in Topsham is now interested in erecting a taller one in Bath.

The Bath Planning Board held a pre-application workshop Tuesday with Mariner Tower. The process is voluntary, and the company requested the work-shop to hear concerns from the com-munity and board, Planning Director Andrew Deci said in a meeting agenda memo.

Kennebunk-based Mariner wants to build a 120-foot tower at 200 Congress Ave., on property it would lease adjacent to the American Legion.

Two members of the public expressed concerns at the meeting about the tower’s impact on the view from their homes, as well as the safety of the tower in relation to a nearby athletic facility, trail and school, Deci said Wednesday.

He said the Planning Board was gen-erally “pretty receptive” to the tower, but

noted that as Mariner goes through the application process and develops its site plan, the board wants the company to focus on the issue of “viewshed” – what can be seen from a particular location.

Shortening the proposed tower so that it is less visible from certain locations is one way of addressing that issue, Deci said.

Bath’s code requires Mariner to ac-quire federal and state permits before beginning a formal review by the Plan-ning Board, so Mariner may not be back with a full application until this fall, he said.

The Topsham Planning Board denied Mariner’s application to build a 75-foot monopole tower at 14 Oak St. in June 2010. The company needed conditional approval for the tower before going through site plan and transmission tower reviews.

Mariner and T-Mobile, which would

have been a carrier on the tower, sued the town in July 2010 to obtain the permits the Planning Board denied. The lawsuit sought an injunction and a conditional use permit, as well as every other permit required for the tower to be built and operated.

T-Mobile withdrew from the case in September 2010. A federal judge dis-missed the case last October.

“One had nothing to do with the oth-er,” Mariner President Louis Vitali said on Wednesday, regarding the Topsham bid and the Bath proposal.

He said his company has “successfully developed a tower ... in another area of Topsham, as well as in Brunswick, as well as in Freeport. We own towers in Newcastle and Bristol. ... We don’t go around randomly, picking out of a hat where to put these sites. Our customers tell us where they need coverage.”

AT&T would be a carrier on the Bath tower, Vitali said, noting that “we build sites to house multiple carriers.”

Deci said Bath mandates that slots be created on a tower for at least carriers.

“In addition to the carrier slots, they need to show us that there isn’t available space on other devices or structures as a method of approval for this,” he said.

The proposal is the first to come before Bath since the City Council ap-proved an ordinance regulating wireless communication facilities in February.

The language, approved by the Plan-ning Board last November, generally prohibits cell towers from open spaces and coastal areas. The ban also applies to downtown areas, unless the towers are completely hidden within structures.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

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HARPSWELL — The total cost to make Mitchell Field safe and ready for business would be more than $2.8 million, a team of engineers reported last week.

Rob Roark, chairman of the Mitchell Field Committee, said he was happy with the work by the engineers, and believes the estimate is reasonable.

“I think that to establish an infrastructure, the price tag was surprisingly low,” Roark said.

A crumbling pier, an illegal access road and an impractical water tower are some of the issues the town will have to contend with as it tries to transform the former U.S. Navy fuel depot into a place that can sup-port marine businesses.

The engineering report, which was pre-sented to the town by Joe Laverrierre of DeLuca-Hoffman Associates on April 24, had several recommended actions that to-taled $2.8 million, but it also provided cost estimates for alternatives.

“I liked the way they kind of gave us a shopping list of, ‘you can do this for this price, you can do that for that price,” Roark said. “It gave the town some flexibility of how it can proceed.”

Most of the cost, $1.7 million, would be spent to stabilize a pier that is standing on pilings that are so eroded that it could col-lapse at any time.

Roark said the pier has been a disap-pointment.

“I was very disappointed in the condition

of the pier, because a lot of us worked pret-ty hard to put a railing on there,” he said.

While Roark had mixed feelings about whether the pier should be repaired or de-molished, he said the town should make up its mind relatively quickly.

“Let’s say it’s dangerous to go out there and do remediation. As time goes on, it’s going to get more dangerous,” he said. “As the number of people who can do it dimin-ishes, the price tag might go up.”

Laverrierre also said an access road to the field off of Route 123 lacks legally required sight-line distances. The road is posted at 45 mph, which carries with it a requirement to have clear sight lines of 445 feet.

“To the right, you’ve got plenty of sight-line distance, but to the left, it’s about 225 feet, so you’re much less than what’s re-quired,” he said.

Ordinarily, clearing the trees and other obstructive vegetation to meet the law would be relatively simple, but in this case, the property involved does not belong to the town.

“There would need to be some rights acquired from a couple of property owners in order to be able to clear that far,” Laver-rierre said.

One solution would be to reposition the road at a cost of $223,000, but Laverrierre instead recommended petitioning the state Department of Transportation to simply reduce the speed limit.

With a speed limit of 30 mph, the sight-line requirements would be reduced to 345 feet, which could be managed by clearing only town-owned land.

The more expensive problem, Laverrierre said, is that the road, at more than 50 years old, is approaching the end of its life.

“It’s got quite a bit of cracking,” he said. Rather than recommending a low-cost solu-tion of filling the cracks, he advocated for a $302,000 road reconstruction effort, which would ensure the road’s service life for the next 15 to 20 years.

“That is the most expensive fix, but I think in terms of long term, I think that is a better approach,” Laverrierre said.

Another Navy relic, an old water storage tank, was found to be in relatively good shape in an inspection by N.H.-based Util-ity Service Corp.

“(They) said it was a good asset for the town, but you get back to what purpose it would serve for the marine business dis-trict,” Laverriere said.

In an attempt to make use of the tank, Town Administrator Kristi Eaine said the town had changed an ordinance to allow the structure’s use as a cellular communica-tions tower.

“We have not been contacted with any type of follow-up from any of those com-panies to do that,” she said.

The cost of bringing it back to “like-new” condition would be $350,000, while the cost of scrapping it would be $40,000, Laverriere said.

The 100,000-gallon tank’s capacity far exceeds the storage needs of the marine business district, which he estimated at be-ing closer to 3,000 gallons.

Laverrierre said that he could only guess the Navy’s use for the tank.

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Paramedic now stationed at Harpswell Town OfficeBy Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

HARPSWELL — The town became a little safer on Monday, thanks to the new presence of an emergency vehicle and a card-carrying paramedic at the Town Office.

The long-awaited switch to contracted emergency services with Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick came after about a year of planning that culminated with a Town Meeting vote for $123,000 in fund-ing for the plan.

David Hudson, director of paramedic services at Mid Coast, said on Wednes-day that the first few days went well.

"The town staff has been absolutely wonderful," he said. "I was there for the first shift, and someone from each ambu-lance service came over to welcome me there. We've been setting up the office and setting up some protocols."

Hudson said there were no medical emergency calls yet, although the para-medic did respond with other emergency personnel to calls about a downed wire

and a carbon monoxide alarm.With fewer volunteers available, it

has been increasingly difficult for the town's three volunteer fire departments to provide around-the-clock emergency medical coverage.

Under the five-year contract, which was unanimously approved by the Board of Selectmen on April 26, Mid Coast will provide the services from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, a time pe-riod when many volunteers are at work.

The cost for the first year of the contract is $123,000; the majority of that amount, about $96,000, will go to personnel costs associated with the paramedic. Another $17,000 will cover the capital costs of the vehicle and emer-gency medical equipment. The remainder will be spent on operating expenses, such as uniforms, supplies, and vehicle costs.

"They're not in this to make money," Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said. "This is basically to cover their costs in providing the service."

Many of the details of the coverage have the potential to change as the new arrangement progresses.

The funding levels for years two through five of the contract will be set annually; Eiane said that she doesn't think there would be a significant shift, unless the town decides to change the level of coverage.

The ambulance is now parked outside the town office, a location that Eiane said is centrally located. But it can't remain outside forever.

"When we get to the cold weather time frame, we're going to need a garage," she said. "If we haven't completed our garage at that time, they're going to move it to the vehicle bay at the Orr's and Bailey Islands Fire Department."

The location of a specially constructed garage has yet to be decided, Eiane said, but $74,000 in funding has been appro-priated.

Eiane said that the land around the town office would be one good option for the garage, but other locations should also be considered.

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votes on the budget Monday, May 7, or at the district budget meeting on June 5, at which the public will vote. From there the spending plan goes to a second public vote, at a June 12 budget validation referendum.

One thing the council should strongly consider doing, Giroux said, is to work with a committee – that would be formed by the RSU 1 board and would be composed of representatives from the school district communities – on a cost-sharing formula that would "be more fair, at least certainly more fair in Bath's mind."

The cost-sharing formula used by RSU 1 since 2008 "is something very similar to what the rest of the state of Maine uses," Giroux said. Under the new interpretation, he said, Bath's share of school costs would "put us in the top five of the (approxi-mately) 480 ... communities in the state of Maine. ... Certainly a very high burden."

"If Bath were not in the RSU, we would get $5.3 million in subsidy from the state because of our financial situation," he con-tinued. "That subsidy, while we're in the RSU, ends up coming into the RSU, not into the city of Bath, and gets spread among all of the RSU communities."

The city could litigate the School Board's decision, which would likely be expensive and time-consuming, Giroux said. And some have suggested Bath consider with-drawing from the RSU because of the new cost-sharing method, he added.

The city's attorney, Patrick Scully, said the withdrawal process would start with a petition, which must be signed by 10 percent of the number of Bath voters in the last gubernatorial election – about 385 sig-natures. The petition would go to the City Council, which would prepare a warrant for a special election to decide whether to begin the withdrawal process. The language would include a dollar amount the city


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If voters initiate the process, a withdrawal committee would be formed to negotiate a withdrawal agreement with the RSU, Scully said. That agreement must address several issues, such as how all students of the city would receive appropriate educational services. Maine's education commissioner would have to approve the agreement, which would then go to a second city vote requiring a two-thirds majority for passage.

"This is an item that is incredibly im-portant to our community," Sinclair said. "We're talking about the education of our children. And I think everyone recognizes (that there are) certain economies of scale that we benefit from by joining together with the surrounding communities.

"But when those benefits are swallowed by a cost allocation methodology that erodes that benefit to the point where we might end up paying for more than we're actually benefiting (from), that's when we have to look more closely at what we're do-ing, and whether we're responsibly manag-ing both education and public funds."

Councilor Andrew Winglass criticized the timing of the School Board's vote to change the formula.

"I think everyone was used to and had accepted a certain formula that from the very beginning we have all been using," Winglass said. "... To go ahead and accept a change of this magnitude in the last month of budget season, it just seems odd. It just seems not the best way to do business."

The RSU 1 board sought a new legal opinion last month on whether the law that formed the unit should apply to all or part of the local tax calculation. Bryan Dench, an attorney with Skelton Taintor & Abbott in Auburn, recommended all the calcula-tions be determined by that law.

Several residents questioned the use of

two formulas at a RSU 1 Board of Direc-tors meeting earlier last month. Some, like Woolwich Selectman David King, argued that the law should have always applied to all of the local calculation.

The local contribution from RSU 1's five communities – the funds raised through taxes – has been split into two pieces: a minimum amount that the state requires, and a portion over and above that amount. State subsidy to the district has been pre-sented on a form based on the essential programs and services model.

The other local contribution piece is the additional amount each community must raise, beyond the EPS model. That contribu-tion stipulates a cost-sharing formula based on equal thirds: student population, state valuation of a community and the commu-nity's population in the most recent census.

RSU 1 Board Chairman Tim Harkins said last month that in 2008, when it was time to approve the district's first budget, there was ambiguity about how the EPS formula should be applied to the local share. If RSU 1 applied that formula to the entire local share, he said, "we felt there was a possibil-ity that one community might not reach the state-required minimum, therefore putting us in potential jeopardy of not complying with the state requirement, and not receiv-ing state funds."

William Shuttleworth, superintendent of schools at the time, received conflict-ing opinions when he sought legal advice, Harkins noted. William Stockmeyer, who wrote the state legislation, said it should be applied to the entire local share; Roger Therriault, Bath's city solicitor, said it should only have been applied to the ad-ditional amount, Harkins explained.

The School Board voted unanimously in 2008 to apply the formula to just the additional funds, and to allocate the other required costs according to state policy. The district had used that breakdown ever since.

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


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Your health should be your business, not the government’sBy Halsey Frank

Last month, I drove down to New York to have dinner with my mother for her birthday. We went to her friend Laura Maioglio’s family restaurant, Bar-betta. It’s in the theater district. The place is elegantly decorated with antiques from Piemonte, staffed with friendly and attentive waiters, and serves classic Italian food. At the time of my visit, its website featured a picture of Laura and her husband with Bill and Hillary Clinton, so you can imagine that I felt right at home.

As is often the case when my family gets to-gether, the conversation turned to politics in gen-eral and my opinion of the Affordable Care Act, which was being argued in the Supreme Court that week, in particular. The liberal supra-majority at the table supported the act and hoped it would be up-held. It fell to me as the lone conservative to explain my reservations.

Over the gnocchi, my family wanted to know my opinion of the individual mandate. How could I not be for it? After all, it was originally a Republican idea. Health insurance is a market solution to the problem that health-care costs are incurred randomly, are hard to predict and plan for, and, when they do incur, tend to be large. Why not just improve the performance of health insurance by forcing everyone into the pool so that the risk and cost are spread over a larger popula-tion that can better afford it? Doing so would also keep

much of the cost off the government’s books.Well, I am wary of central government creating

vast, complicated new programs. I prefer a federalist approach that develops government solutions from the bottom up, not the top down, and that uses the states as the testing grounds for new programs.

The Affordable Care Act fills thousands of pages. It’s so lengthy that members of Congress didn’t read it before they passed it and Supreme Court justices didn’t read it before they heard it argued.

In the act and its individual mandate, the federal government exerts control over a lot of very personal decisions. It assumes responsibility for the health-care sector, which by some estimates represents a sixth of our national economy.

I doubt that such a big, new government program will do a better, more efficient job of providing health care than the private sector. In general, I believe that free markets are a better, more efficient way to allocate resources and provide goods and services. The market for health insurance is not free if the government forces consumers to buy insurance, and insurers to cover people they otherwise wouldn’t.

The risk is that we wind up saddled with an expen-sive program that doesn’t solve the problem. Remem-ber Dirigo Health, Maine’s solution to the health-care problem? It wound up costing more, insuring fewer people, and having a highly problematic funding mech-anism. I would like to see more conclusive proof of the ACA program’s superiority before we roll it out on a national scale. I don’t think Massachusetts has provided it.

Some at the table were disappointed in President Obama for not fighting harder for a more ambitious program like those in Europe. The Italian constitution makes the state responsible for citizens’ individual health and guarantees care for the indigent. Italy’s

national health service provides universal care for citizens as a single payer. My relatives argued that compared to the U.S., it costs less and produces better outcomes in terms such as infant mortality and life ex-pectancy. Isn’t health care a basic human right and how could I not be for such an obviously superior system?

I am skeptical of such claims of vast superiority, and mindful of anecdotes about problems with European national health services: rationing, long waits, and mediocre services. I am also aware that European economies are somewhat stagnant and weighed down with debt incurred to pay for their generous social welfare programs.

More fundamentally, I am not sure that health care is different from other needs and wants, goods and services. I suspect that people are healthier when they provide for themselves as much as they are able. Good health is a function of genetics, the environment we live in, our behavior and habits, and care when we need it.

Of these factors, our behavior and habits have the greatest impact on our health, cost the least, and are largely within our own control. For most people, eat-ing a healthy diet, exercising moderately, and avoiding risky behaviors like smoking, drinking to excess, and driving without a seatbelt will do more to improve health than a lot of expensive doctors and therapies.

On the other hand, there are imperfections in the market for care when we need it. Bodies can be com-plicated when things go wrong and health care is a technical business that most of us are not qualified to negotiate on our own. Moreover, we are not always

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It’s all about getting theah from heahBy Mike Langworthy

Being from away is unsettling sometimes, as if real Mainers are sharing a wonderful inside joke that I can never be in on. However, I recently saw a ray of hope for assimilation in my lifetime.

It was during a recent talk to a group at Highland Green in Topsham, a com-munity for active seniors (a lot more “active” than “senior,” by the way). The attendees were mostly from away. Seeing how much they felt at home here, it dawned on me I may have to adjust my attitude.

My first trip to Maine was 1980-ish, managing a skating safety show spon-sored by a soft drink company. Physically, Maine was and is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. Before we left, Corporate warned me that the people could be standoffish, but I took that with a grain of salt. I was a nice guy. I was giving away free soda, the brand of choice for 70 percent of Mainers, according to Corpo-rate. What’s not to like?

So I was a little taken aback the first time we stopped for gas, and I gushed to the gas station attendant something like, “You know, ... (reading his name tag) Enoch. Really? Enoch? Anyway, you must love living in a beautiful place like Maine.”

Without looking up, Enoch said, “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with Maine that dynamitin’ the bridge tah Pahtsmith wouldn’t cuah.”

I didn’t decipher “Pahtsmith” right away, but I was

pretty sure it was on the state line. He may have been put off by our station wagon with New York plates jammed with gear and hauling a 25-foot-wide Plexiglas half pipe. Clearly, we weren’t from around those parts. Or it may have been our uniforms. We were required to wear red skater shoes, white knee socks, blue corduroy shorts (mid-thigh length), and red, white and blue polo shirts plastered with soft drink logos. Because, as the founder of McDonald’s might have said, when you’re representing a large multinational, it’s critically impor-tant to look like a circus clown at all times.

None of this occurred to me at the time. Neither did how many times he had been patronized by summer people with New York plates. I might have cut him some slack instead of what I did, i.e., call him an in-credible moron. Silently, because he was bigger than me, and I’m a coward. But I think he knew he was being chastised.

One of my skaters made fun of a bank teller while she was cashing his check, like nobody in Bangor had ever been told he had an accent before. It must have seemed surreal to hear, being told by a redneck from Mispronounce, Texas, that it was “rilly funneh haw y’all cain’t say yer ‘r’s!” Yeah, you keep telling the Mainers how to speak, Professor Higgins.

The interesting thing is how I started realizing all this during the Highland Green talk. What were sup-posed to be cute stories turned out to be revelations. Behaviors I always thought were quirks and idio-syncrasies seemed more and more like the ways that people who had chosen a life they liked dealt with people who didn’t get it.

A case in point is my favorite memory of that first Maine trip. We discovered a slow leak in one of our tires before a show. We had just enough time to get it fixed, so we drove into a service station, four lads dressed like packs of Fruit Stripe gum, with New York

plates and an extremely unusual trailer, all in a big hurry. I approached a guy in the coveralls who was sitting on an old car back seat.

“Hi, how you doin'? We have slow leak, right rear tire, and we have to do a show in about 45 minutes.”

No response.“So ... you think you can put a plug in it, or sell us

a tire, or – ?”“New York plates, huh?”“Yep. Company car. It’s the right rear tire.”“You live in New York?”My mental clock was pounding like "The Telltale

Heart," but I managed, “Yes. Manhattan. And now we’re on our way – "

“I had a friend run off to New York once. Got tired of Bangoah. Too small, he said it was. Went to Rochestah. You know him?”

No name. I am not making this up.“Uh, no. I don’t think so.”He got up and did a slow walk around starting with

the left rear tire. Finally, he bent down by the right rear and said, “Well, theah’s ya problem, right theah. You got a flat tiah.”

To him, I was just one more outsider trying to im-pose my way of doing things and my schedule on him with no understanding or consideration for how things were done in his world, and he was right.

The Highland Green people have looked beyond the postcard and lobster roll vision of Maine that I had on that first visit, and they have been drawn to the people and the sense of community I didn’t even suspect.

I think I’m getting closer to that now, so maybe, just maybe, I may not always be from away.

Portland resident Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic and longtime television writer, is fascinated by all things Maine. You can reach him at [email protected].

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from the outset in the market for health care. Beyond that, health-care costs tend to be lumpy and it makes sense to spread and share them over time and amongst people, all of which augers in favor of the ultimate cost spreader and sharer: government.

The problem becomes how to hold down costs and allocate care. What incentive is there to keep costs down when you know that the ultimate deep pocket is footing the bill? Do you want bureaucrats making

decisions about who gets what treatment, or would you rather that people make them through the operation of the market for care?

I prefer markets, with government limited to set-ting and enforcing the ground rules and to providing a safety net.

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

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We expect differences of opinion from presiden-tial opponents, but the 2012 election is shaping up to be the clearest delineation of the political divide in America since the Civil War. It’s not so much Republican versus Democrat as it is corpora-tions versus citizens. And Willard Mitt Romney is clearly running to be the president of Corporate America.

Romney is the ideal corporate candidate: the spoiled rich son of a former president of American Motors Corp. and former governor of Michi-gan, himself a former governor of Massa-chusetts, handsome, Harvard-educated, privileged, a man who makes a fortune on unearned income. The suits look at Romney and see PLU, People Like Us. He’s George W. all over again.

Romney is man who believes he is entitled to be president of the United States simply because he is rich and successful.

In his book "Death of the Liberal Class," Pulit-zer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges quotes Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein distilling the very essence of the culture wars in America:

“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice, it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege it will always be at the expense of truth and justice.”

Mitt Romney is the apotheosis of everything that is wrong with America. To begin with he is a liar. He will say anything to get elected. He will look into the TV cameras and say the economy is getting worse when every indication is that it is getting better. President Obama has his faults, but he has done a masterful job of cleaning up the eco-


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Mitt Romney, president of Corporate Americanomic mess left by eight years of Bush asleep at the wheel. Romney just doesn’t want the economy to get better, because then President Obama will whip his permanent-press butt.

Romney believes in power and privilege. He expects to be congratulated for being rich and suc-cessful. But wealth is often moral failure beyond bucks. Romney made his money buying and selling businesses and putting people out of work. Now he wants to buy the presidency of the United States so he can hire and fire people on the biggest stage. He is the Donald Trump of presidential candidates (now that Trump himself has decided not to be).

Personally, I don’t see how Romney wins in November. Everything his GOP primary oppo-nents said about him is true. He is a liar. He is a flip-flopper. He is not a conservative. He has an Etch-a-Sketch value system. Obamacare, the big-gest knock against Obama, is essentially Romney-care gone national. He is out of touch with average Americans. He’s boring. He can’t win.

Amazingly, however, the political pundits and election odds makers seem to think it’s shaping up to be a close race in November, 49 percent-43 percent Obama in the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Frankly, I find that hard to believe. Who other than corporate CEOs, the country club elite, and trust fund kids could possibly take Mitt Romney seriously? I mean certainly the tea party conservatives who now form the base of the Re-publican Party have to realize that he is not one of them, that what he stands for is antithetical to what they say they believe. He’s about money buying elections, corporations having more rights than citizens, redistribution of wealth upwards.

If this country is about power and privilege then it will be a close election. If it’s about truth and justice, Romney will go down in flames, no doubt trailing a golden parachute as he crashes and burns.

Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

There is a debt farce, but not Newman’s

Perry B. Newman’s column “The farcical debt debate” was most enlightening. The government spends money by actually spending money, and “by foregoing revenue the government would otherwise collect through taxes, absent a policy decision such as a tax break, not to do so”? That is Orwellian language at it finest.

According to Newman, it is only the government’s largess that keeps it from taking more or most of our in-come through taxes or deduction eliminations. This gen-erosity causes them to “spend” huge amounts of money that they would otherwise deserve. Newman seems

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If the current income tax rates are raised, if more deductions are eliminated, and if the estate tax in-creases, these will be huge “spending cuts” for the federal government. These cuts will enable the politi-cians to spend real money on even more programs. Debt reduction will be the least of anyone’s worries, because there will always be even more “spending cuts” the government can make by increasing taxes.

As of March 2012, the national debt was $15.6 tril-lion, or roughly 100 percent of gross domestic product (Wikipedia). According to CNN Money, interest on the national debt in the next decade will be $5.5 trillion if interest rates rise gradually and $6.8 trillion if they rise l percent more than expected each year.

Not addressing the national debt of this size is the real farce.

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Summonses4/27 Cherielynn Gagnon, 46, of Drew Street, Lewiston, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on King Street on a charge of theft.

Burglary × 24/26 Police received a call from Bath Iron Works security, early in the morning, about a male seen going into a vehicle parked on Spring Street. He reportedly fled on a bicycle when witnesses approached. Police located the man – Paul A. Freeman Jr., 22, of Bath – nearby on Washington Street, he matched witnesses' descriptions. Freeman, intoxicated, was arrested and taken to the police station. Meanwhile, the department was informed of an object being thrown through a vehicle window on Shaw Street, causing $300 in damage. Evidence at that scene linked to Freeman, who was ultimately charged with two counts of burglary of a motor vehicle.

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Lane, was arrested on Karen Lane by Officer Edward Yurek on a warrant.4/24 at 6:10 a.m. Carey L. Newman, 41, of Middle Street, Bath, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Daniel M. Hebert on charges of operating under the influence and violating conditions of release. 4/24 at 2:03 p.m. Paul LaGasse, 20, of Casco, was arrested at Hancock Lumber by Officer Patrick Mahar on a warrant.4/25 at 2:02 a.m. Marie L. Vella, 24, of High Street, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Of-ficer Patrick Scott on a charge of operating under the influence.4/25 at 1:08 p.m. Richard A. Beecher, 55, of River Road, was arrested on River Road by Officer Thomas Stanton on charges of refus-ing to submit to arrest, violating conditions of release and sale or use of drug paraphernalia.4/26 at 10:35 p.m. Carl Oldham, 45, of McLellan Street, was arrested on Polar Loop by Officer John P. Roma on a charge of criminal trespassing.4/27 at 3:00 p.m. Scotti Ann Welch, 33, of Park Street, Freeport, was arrested on Crooker Road by Officer Justin Dolci on a warrant.4/30 at 2:51 a.m. Elizabeth Rose, 34, of Farley Road was arrested on Maine Street by Officer Robert Lane on a warrant.

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caffeine rush?4/23 at 5:54 p.m. Officers responded to a call from the manager of the Little Dog Coffee Shop, who reported that an unruly 59-year-old man was harassing customers. When the manager told the man to be quiet, he reportedly screamed at the manager. Police officials said that the same man has been removed from several locations in the last few weeks.

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able to pick them up on the street shortly thereafter. He took the boys to their respec-tive homes, and made their families aware of their behavior.

Delivering the mailbox4/26 at 6:43 p.m. Police responded to a call from a concerned citizen who found a mailbox on the side of the road near the intersection of Columbia Avenue and Douglas Street. According to the citizen, the mailbox did not belong anywhere in the neighborhood. One minute after Officer Daniel Sylvain arrived, the citizen agreed to take the mailbox home, and Sylvain left the scene.

He's playing the blues now4/29 at 2:13 a.m. Officers responded to a call on Maine Street about Abraham Chip-man, 34, who was playing music too loudly in his apartment. They asked him to turn it down, and he did. At 2:51 a.m., the officers were called back, and the music had been turned back up. They then discovered that a woman in his apartment, Elizabeth Rose, 34, was wanted on a warrant for failing to pay four fines. Chipman received a sum-mons for disorderly conduct, and Rose was arrested.

EMSBrunswick emergency medical services responded to 38 calls April 23-30.

HarpSwEllThere were no arrests or summonses reported April 23-30.

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4/20 at 8:32 p.m. Corydan Hawkes, 36, of Harbor Heights, Cundy's Harbor, was arrested in West Bath by Officer Robert Ramsay on charges of violation of conditions of release

and criminal speed, and issued a summons on charges of possession of a schedule W drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and having a loaded firearm in the vehicle.4/24 at 11:53 a.m. Amanda Westman, 21, of Brunswick, was arrested on Bradstreet Drive by Officer Troy Garrison on a charge of violation of bail conditions.4/24 at 5:05 p.m. Ryan Kellett, 27, of Bradstreet Drive, was arrested on Bradstreet Drive by Officer Robert Ramsay on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and assault.4/27 at 7:41 a.m. Alan Porter, 46, of Pem-broke Street, Portland, was arrested on Middlesex Road by Officer Alfred Giusto on a charge of unlawful possession of schedule Y drugs.

SummonsesNo summonses were reported April 23-30.

Stolen antiques4/27 at 5:13 p.m.Sgt. Mark Gilliam responded to a residential burglary on Middlesex Road. The suspect appeared to have broken in through the back door, and about $1,700 worth of antiques were stolen. The burglary occurred between the previous day and the time of the call. Police have no leads so far.

Fire calls4/23 at 8:46 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Augusta Road.4/23 at 11:35 a.m. Fire alarm on Kent Circle.4/26 at 2:01 p.m. Fire alarm on Hamilton Court.4/27 at 7:01 a.m. Report of smoke on Middlesex Road.4/28 at 3:54 p.m. Medical call on Main Street.4/28 at 3:54 p.m. Smoke in building on Topsham Fair Mall Road.4/29 at 9:15 a.m. Mutual aid to West Bath.4/29 at 5:29 p.m. Mulch fire on Topsham Fair Mall Road.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to 16 calls April 23-30.

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Lee K. Elliot, 86: Sharp-witted model, TV directorHARPSWELL — Lee K. Elliot, 86,

died on April 26 at her home with her husband and children by her side.

She was born in Parkersburg, W.Va., on Feb., 1, 1926, to Gail G. Peppers and Virginia Peppers. She attended school in Parkersburg and Charleston, where she graduated from high school.

She was awarded a writing scholarship at Northwestern University, where she graduated before moving to New York to pursue a modeling career.

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As a model, she worked at the Grace Downs Agency and for the Richard Hudnut and Elizabeth Arden Salons. As Lee Peppers, she was runner-up to Bess Meyerson in the "Miss New York City" contest in 1945.

Her first marriage was to the writer and comedian Raymond Knight. They had two daughters, Colony and Shannon, before his death in 1953.

Elliot went on to join NBC as an assis-tant TV director, working with Jim Elson and Dwight Hemion.

In 1954 she married radio and TV personality Bob Elliot. Together they had three children, Amy, Bob Jr. and Chris.

Her family and friends will miss her

warm smile and razor-sharp sense of humor.

Elliot is survived by her husband of 59 years, Bob; children Colony, Shannon, Amy, Bob Jr. and Chris; 10 grandchil-dren; and two great-grandchildren.

A family memorial will take place later this summer.

The family would like to thank CHANS. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to CHANS, 60 Baribeau Dr., Brunswick, ME 04011.

Christhild Carolyn Seigh, 83BATH — Christhild Carolyn “Chris”

Seigh, 83, died April 24.She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on

Nov. 5, 1928 to Hans Peter and Ethel Marie Carlsen.

She married Jo-seph Charles Seigh on Aug. 21, 1948 in Englewood, N.J.

Her family and friends will remem-

ber her as a woman with unequaled gardens. She had a vast knowledge of horticulture and was devoted to the care of her gardens. The only thing she placed above them was her husband and family.

Seigh is survived by her husband, Joseph, of Bath; children Joseph W. of Nashua, N.H., Gordon of Pleasant Val-ley, N.Y., Virginia of Fort Gratiot, Mich., Gunnar of Nassau, N.Y. and Peter of Chicago, Ill.; grandchildren Aaron, Carter and Katrina Seigh and Katherine and Jack Coury; great-grandson, Noah; and cousin, Douglas.

The family wishes to thank CHANS for their tender care in Seigh’s final ill-ness.

Services will be private.In lieu of flowers, memorial contribu-

tions may be made to Coastal Humane Society, 30 Range Road, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Kris A. Schultz, 46WOOLWICH — Kris A. Schultz, 46,

died unexpectedly on April 24.Schultz was born in Rumford on Jan.

6, 1966.He was proud to be the den leader of

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Schultz was an avid UConn basket-ball, New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox fan. He loved striper fishing, boating and spending time with his family.

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Pleasant St., Brunswick, ME 04011.There were no visiting hours. Family

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Kenneth M. Smith, 89BRUNSWICK — Kenneth M. Smith,

89, died April 26 after an extended ill-ness.

He was born in Wheeling, W.Va., on March 24, 1923, to Paul and Anna Mc-Gregor Smith and attended Wheeling public schools. As a boy, he was active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.

During WWII, he served in the Army Air Corps as an instructor in the radio mechanics school. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1947 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and went on to earn his masters and doctorate in physical chemistry from Ohio State University.

In 1955, Smith joined the DuPont Co. as a research chemist and transferred to the technical service division where his group provided technical assistance to the marketing division of the photo products and electronics products departments.

Smith retired as a senior technical associate after more than 40 years. He spent many years as the chairman of the industry-wide American National and International Standards Committee for Photographic Chemicals, Photographic Processing and Imaging Systems. He also served on the standards commit-tees studying the archival properties of photographic records and continued the standards work for a number of years fol-lowing his retirement. Smith was a U.S. delegate to the International Standards Organization.

In 1976, he married Marjorie Eisen-berger. Although their main home was in Newark, Del., they enjoyed many sum-mers at their cottage in Pemaquid Harbor. In 2001 they moved to Brunswick and lived at the Thornton Oaks Retirement Community.

He was a member of the Central Presbyterian Church in Norristown, Pa.,

sang in the Barber Shop Quartet and the Deltones Barber Shop Chorus in Wilmington, Del., and was chairman of the Writers Group at Thornton Oaks. In retirement, he enjoyed traveling, writing, collecting stamps and spending time with his family.

He was predeceased by a brother, Har-lan J. Smith, and his grandson, Whitney Smith.

Smith is survived by his wife of 36 years, Marjorie; sons Emory Smith and Jeffrey Smith and his wife, Diane De-Bevec; daughter Carolyn S. Toth; step-daughter, Mary-Catharine Hartman and her husband, Matthew J. LaMourie; six grandchildren; and three great-grand-children.

Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Natural Resources Council of Maine, 3 Wade Street, Augusta, ME 04330.

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Book it...Coach P’s still beloved in MaineBy Michael Hoffer

“I think about the kids com-ing out of Maine. Their dreams and aspirations and me wanting them to believe they can do anything. I think this book is a way of giving them a story that’s touchable. There’s noth-ing special about me, a kid from Brunswick High School.”

Coach Joanne Palombo Mc-Callie.

All modesty aside, Joanne Palombo McCallie is extremely special, one of the greatest and most influential female athletes this state has produced, one who went on to steal coaching head-lines at a national level first at the University of Maine, then at Michigan State University and now at Duke University.

While McCallie has been gone from the Pine Tree State

for over a decade, she had an opportunity to return home last week and it was abundantly clear that as much as she still loves Maine, the feeling is in-deed mutual.

McCallie, or Coach P, as she’s affectionately known, was in the state promoting her book, “Choice not Chance: Rules for Building a Fierce Competitor,” a unique look at her life and journey to becoming a premier coach while raising two chil-dren.

McCallie, thanks to the hard work of her agent and younger sister, Carolyn Clement, spent last week in Maine not just doing book signings, but also newspaper and radio interviews, as well as television appear-ances.

“There’s a love and a passion for the state of Maine, my expe-riences in Maine and the people in Maine,” said McCallie, who coached the University of Maine to national prominence from 1992 to 2000. “That’ll never leave me. I’m glad that came out in the book.”

The book stems from a prom-ise McCallie made to her daugh-ter, Maddie, when Maddie was four-years old. McCallie promised to write a book about her life experiences and explain decisions she made along the way. With Maddie set to gradu-ate high school in June (she’ll attend and play basketball at Mi-ami University), McCallie knew

courtesy carolyn clementThe cover of coach McCallie’s book,

“Choice not Chance.”

time was of the essence and she spent last summer putting the book together.

“I think you have to wait awhile to get perspective,” said McCallie, who also has a son, Jack. “I got so busy with the transition from Michigan State (she left the Spartans two years after coaching them to the na-tional championship game in 2005). I had taken notes on my computer in diary form since leaving East Lansing. The time seemed right. The caveat I had with my daughter in my brain was doing this before she gradu-ated high school. She graduates

in June. I knew I had to get going.”

This is no detailed autobi-ography or “how to succeed in business” tome, although there are elements of both within. McCallie describes the birth of the “Choice not Chance” pro-gram when she was at Maine, which includes five components: making choices with care, little choices do matter, practicing thinking and feeling deeply and clearly, keeping your power and “if it’s meant to be, it’s up to me,” which emphasizes focus and embracing reason over emo-tion at all costs.

McCallie’s story is one of discovering she was pretty good with a basketball in the sixth grade, striving to make the Brunswick High varsity as a freshman and later starring for the Dragons, playing at Northwestern University, find-ing a real world job in telecom-munications sales unsatisfying, learning the coaching game as an assistant under Joe Ciampi at Auburn University, then becom-ing the youngest head coach (at age 26) in the nation when she came to Orono and her triumphs there and beyond.

Off the court, McCallie frankly courtesy carolyn clement

Former University of Maine and current Duke University women’s basketball coach Joanne Palombo McCallie returned to Maine last week to promote her

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April triumph brings May optimism

Jason VeIlleux / For the ForecasterBrunswick goalie Andrew Gaumont prepares for a shot during Friday night’s

clutch 8-7 home win over reigning Eastern Class A champion Lewiston.

The very short spring sports season is now underway for ev-erybody. Some teams have played several games, others just one or two, but it’s becoming clear that preseason projections of excel-lence were right on the mark.

Here’s a glimpse at what’s occurred in the past week and what’s to come.

BaseballMorse’s baseball team im-

proved to 4-0 with recent vic-tories over Gardiner (4-3) and Lincoln Academy (7-1). The Shipbuilders are home with Belfast Friday and Nokomis Monday.

Mt. Ararat was 2-3 at press time. The Eagles beat Cony 7-3 last Wednesday, then were pounded, 27-4, by Lewiston Friday before being blanked by Erskine (4-0) Monday. Mt. Ara-rat was at Edward Little Thurs-day, visits Brunswick Friday and hosts Oxford Hills Monday.

Brunswick is still seeking its first win. Recent losses to Erskine (7-2), Edward Little (8-7) and Cony (5-1) dropped

the Dragons to 0-6 on the year. Brunswick hosts Mt. Ararat Friday and visits Lewiston Wednesday.

SoftballMt. Ararat is off to the best

start on the softball side at 2-3. The Eagles lost 8-0 at Cony last Wednesday, bounced back to down Lewiston 14-2 Friday only to fall, 14-2, to Erskine Monday. Mt. Ararat was at Edward Little Thursday, goes to Brunswick Friday and welcomes Oxford Hills Monday.

Brunswick edged Lewiston last Tuesday, 10-9, for its first win. Since, the Dragons have fallen to Erskine (9-1), Edward Little (7-2) and Cony (22-0) to fall to 1-5. Brunswick welcomes Mt. Ararat Friday and goes to Lewiston Wednesday.

In Western B, Morse fell to 0-4 with recent losses to Gardiner (10-4) and Lincoln (12-3). The Shipbuilders host Belfast Friday and Nokomis Monday.

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talks about the difficulties of juggling a family with a career and her relationships with Michigan State men’s coach Tom Izzo and legendary Duke men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski, as well as such per-sonal topics as a miscarriage, driving off the road while being distracted by read-ing a magazine, having Maddie wander off while she was talking with a booster (she wound up unharmed) and her failure to fully read and understand her Michi-gan State contract (which included an onerous buyout clause).

McCallie found the writing process to be time consuming and rewarding.

“It was a lot of fun, but it was defi-nitely grueling and it was humbling,” McCallie said. “It’s harder to write than to coach. Writing’s a tricky business. Getting down what you want to express. I learned a lot about deadlines and getting a publisher. I got a lot of nos from a lot of people, then finally got a yes. I enjoyed putting the thoughts together. I was do-ing it for love. Certainly not for money.

Boys' lacrosseBrunswick's boys' lacrosse team has

impressed so far. The Dragons improved to 4-0 with a hard-fought 7-6 win over Lewiston Friday. Brunswick is at Ed-ward Little Friday and hosts Oxford Hills Wednesday.

Mt. Ararat improved to 3-1 with re-cent wins over Lewiston (6-4) and Cony (7-0). Josh Richards had three goals and Nick Down scored twice against the Rams. The Eagles go to Oxford Hills Friday and play host to Edward Little Tuesday.

Morse is 1-2 following a 10-3 loss to St. Dom's last week. The Shipbuilders go to Gardiner Friday and host Lincoln Wednesday.

Girls' lacrosseOn the girls' side, Brunswick remained

undefeated by virtue of recent wins over Gardiner (14-6) and Mt. Ararat (10-9). The Dragons were home with Lewiston Thursday and go to Morse Friday. Tues-

I recognized the humble nature of writ-ing. I was very pleased with the finished product. I love the way it came together. I’m proud of it. It was fun. I was slow in some areas. The (first chapter) letter to Maddie took me a week to write.

“The whole book is sort of a letter to my children. To my former players. That’s who I was thinking about. I want-ed to share what it’s like to be a parent and a coach and I wanted that message to get out because it’s such an interesting one. (For me, coaching and parenting are) inextricably linked.”

The book was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. McCallie’s editor asked her to add questions at the end of each chapter, giving the reader an opportunity to consider their life choices.

“I wasn’t totally comfortable with (the questions), but I’m grateful for that be-cause it turned out to be quite a bonus,” said McCallie. “People have commented that they liked the questions and they like to think about it.”

The book has been very well received.“I only get the best feedback,” McCal-

lie said. “I suppose if people don’t like it,

they don’t comment. I’ve gotten a lot of comments about (my) kids. I have people say it appeals to anybody. It doesn’t have a shelf life. It’s not just about one season. People have said that it’s a great gradu-ation gift.”

McCallie, 46, won’t set a timetable on how long she wants to coach. She’s come oh so close to winning a championship and after falling in the Elite Eight back in March (for the third year in a row), proj-ects to have a very talented team again next season. While she’d love to win it all, it’s not her biggest focus.

“I want it very much for my team and my school, but I recognize the difficulty,” said McCallie, who has 457 career wins. “It’s not something that’s going to anoint me as a coach.”

While the book appeals to the masses, it does feature many Maine connections and highlights, including the year McCal-lie coached the Black Bears to a tourna-ment upset of Stanford, a game in which her point guard, Amy Vachon, played a huge role in the victory.

“(Amy) was terrific,” McCallie said. “Her basketball IQ was through the roof.

She made every key decision when we beat Stanford in the NCAA tournament. She played 38 or 40 minutes in the game. She always had a demeanor of solving programs. She’s one of the best point guards I’ve ever coached. Low mainte-nance.”

Vachon, of course, is well known in Forecaster Country. She coached McAu-ley to the 2011 Class A state champion-ship. Her point guard was a freshman named Allie Clement, who happens to be Carolyn’s daughter and McCallie’s niece. By the way, there are two more Clem-ent nieces on their way to the hardwood limelight.

It just goes to show that McCallie’s Maine connection runs deep and isn’t about to end anytime soon.

“It’s been fun reconnecting and letting people know they’re appreciated,” Mc-Callie said. “I’ve been able to personally sign a lot of books and thank people. There was storytelling. (Last week) was an impromptu reunion. Maine has a huge place in my heart.”

Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @foresports.

day brings a trip to Camden Hills.Mt. Ararat fell to 0-2 after the loss to

Brunswick. The Eagles were at Oxford Hills Thursday, go to Gardiner Saturday and host Mountain Valley Tuesday.

Morse lost its opener to Messalons-kee, 13-9. The Shipbuilders were back in action Thursday at Lincoln. After host-ing Brunswick Friday, Morse is home with Edward Little Tuesday.

TrackBrunswick hosted a track meet last

week against Bangor, Erskine, Lewiston and Oceanside. The Dragons came in third in the boys' competition and fourth on the girls' side.

Mt. Ararat competed at Belfast, along with Foxcroft, Lincoln and Maine Cen-tral Institute. The Eagles came in second in both the boys' and girls' competitions.

Morse went to Maranacook and was joined by Messalonskee, Oak Hill and Winslow. The boys came in third, the girls fourth.

TennisBrunswick's girls' tennis team was

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On the boys' side, Brunswick is 2-1 after a 3-2 win at Erskine Monday. Mt. Ararat is 2-2 following Monday's 5-0 loss to Lewiston. Morse lost, 3-2, to Maranacook Monday is now 0-3.

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Hypertherm, a cutting systems manu-facturer, recently tapped Portland-based Winxnet to perform AD and Exchange discoveries and upgrades. Winxnet's plan for Hypertherm is to administer and maintain a virtualized environment across the company's multiple locations with an improved messaging system that central-izes communication and eliminates con-nectivity issues.

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Andrew Bossie was recently appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Frannie Peabody Center. Bossie currently serves as Maine Citizens for Clean Elec-tion's (MCCE) first full-time executive director. Prior to joining MCCE he was the executive director of the Maine AIDS Alliance, a statewide organization com-mitted to HIV advocacy, technical as-sistance and grant making for the Maine HIV/AIDS community.

Oakhurst Dairy recently announced that John H. Bennett and Thomas A. Brigham were named co-presidents of the company. The pair will take over for

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The First Radio Parish Church of America "Daily Devotions" recently ap-pointed the following people to its board of trustees: Pauline Dion will serve on the fundraising committee and Nancy Du-mais will serve on the publicity commit-tee and will assist in fundraising efforts.

The Avesta Housing Board of Direc-tors recently appointed the following people to their board: Neal Allen, Drew Sigfridson, Gren Blackall, and Rebecca Greenfield.

Good Deeds

Martin's Point Health Care recently presented $500 to the Brunswick Teen Center at People Plus. In addition to the $500, which was comprised of donations from Martin's Point staff and patients, the donation included a file cabinet for the Teen Center office, juice, snacks and a box of fun items from the teen center wish list including "cool colored" duct tape, beads and new ping pong paddles and balls.

New Hires

Drummond Woodsum recently wel-comed Tom Watson to the firm in the business services and trial services groups. He will concentrate his practice on business law, civil litigation and real estate. Watson comes to Drummond Woodsum from the New Hampshire firm of Wiggin & Nourie.

Casco Systems recently hired Donald Vogel to its staff as a senior automation

engineer. Vogel brings with him over 20 years of experience in the field of indus-trial automation and control.

Melissa Babineau recently joined Norway Savings Bank as the new vice president, cash management manager. She will be based in the Congress Street office, but will work with clients through-out the market area.

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The U.S. Small Business Administra-tion recently announced its annual award winners for 2012. Sherry Brown, Susan Pope, Jane Harmon and Bonnie Pothier of Key Bank's Key4Women Champions were selected to receive the Women in Busi-ness Champion of the Year award. They were recognized for their contributions to women and minority business owners through advocacy and partnerships with Women, Work & Community, the Maine Women's Policy Center and the Maine Small Business Development Centers.

The Maine Autism Alliance recently received a $16,729 grant from the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. The Alliance was one of 30 nonprofit orga-nizations in eight states and Canada that, in total, received $380,060 from the foun-dation. The Maine Autism Alliance is an emerging non-profit, created to answer the unmet needs of Maine’s autism com-munity, dedicated to support, education and raising awareness.

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Dan Mitchell, attorney and share holder at Bernstein Shur, recently received the Martindale-Hubble AV Preeminent Rating, the highest level of Martindale-Hubble's peer review rating system. The rating sys-tem is an objective indicator of a lawyer's high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the U.S. and Canada. The evaluations are based on legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, judgment, communication ability and legal experience.

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The Maine Army National Guard re-cently promoted the following individu-als: George Churchhill, Staff Sergeant, Portland; Joshua Shannon, Specialist, Portland; Brandon White, Private First Class, Scarborough; and Brian Griffin, Private Second Class, Scarborough.

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Purr and Caw: Talking About Spe-cies, community members are welcome to read or sing entries during the May 22 performance, Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St., Bruns-wick, no walk-in entries will be allowed, contact Liz McGhee 725-8820.

Books & AuthorsWednesday 5/9“Unbroken” Book Discussion, 6:30 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Sum-mer St., Bath, 443-5141.

Galleries“Back to the Garden,” runs through June 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, 443-1499.

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Firday 5/4First Light Camera Club Annual Exhibit, 5-6:30 p.m., runs through May 24, Mid Coast Senior Health Center, 58 Baribeau Dr., Brunswick, firstlightcc.com.

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Karl Saila and Peter Asselyn Ex-hibit, 4:30-6 p.m., Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, 729-8033.

Monday 5/7John Bisbee Exhibit, 5-7 p.m., Henry & Mary Restaurant, 61 Maine St., Brunswick, 721-9141.

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Saturday 5/12Joy of the Lens Artist Talk, 11 a.m., Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road, Topsham, 725-1727.

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Portland Symphony celebrates Kotzschmar centennialBy Scott Andrews

As April morphs into May, an abundance of excellent concert choices beckons music aficionados. The biggest of these is the final program of the Portland Symphony Orches-tra’s 2011-2012 season, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the mighty Kotzschmar organ. Maestro Robert Moody has picked a pair of major works that feature the King of Instruments. The concert will be presented twice, on May 6 and May 8.

The Greater Freeport Community Cho-rus presents a twin bill of concerts with a program that draws inspiration from two centuries of innovative American compos-ers. Catch these in Freeport on May 5 and Yarmouth on May 6.

Two topnotch singer-songwriters are holding CD release parties on back-to-back dates at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. Kentucky-born Darrell Scott appears on May 4, while Maine native Rachel Efron holds forth on May 5.

Portland Symphony OrchestraMaine’s cultural history is dotted with

milestones, but none is greater than the epic event of 1912: A mammoth pipe or-gan was constructed in the newly finished Portland City Hall, the gift of publishing magnate Cyrus Curtis, who dedicated the mighty instrument to the memory of Her-mann Kotzschmar, his childhood music teacher.

Kotzschmar, a native of Germany, im-migrated to this country and settled in Port-land in the mid-1800s, becoming Maine’s leading musical figure – teacher, church organist, choral director, impresario and performer – for more than half a century. When Portland City Hall burned in 1908, Curtis decided to help the reconstruction effort by donating a massive organ for the concert hall that was incorporated into the new building.

When installation was completed in 1912, the Kotzschmar was the world’s second largest organ, and size-wise it remains among the leaders. For the past three de-cades, the organ has been maintained by an independent nonprofit support group, Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. The most recent enhancements and improvements, spearheaded by FOKO, were a new con-sole in 2000 and additional pipes in 2003.

Scott Simontacchi Darrell Scott is a Kentucky-born country singer-songwriter who will be holding a CD release party

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FOKO also produces a year-round series of concerts.

The organ contains 6,857 pipes in 101 ranks in eight divisions. The longest pipe is 32 feet, while the smallest is under an inch. If laid end to end, the pipes would stretch 3.6 miles, the same distance as Portland’s Back Cove Trail. Total weight is about 50 tons, with about 100 miles of electrical wiring.

The Kotzschmar forms the visual back-drop to all Portland Symphony Orchestra concerts, but its isn’t played very often in the orchestral setting. But the organ will pipe up dramatically May 6 and 8, when the PSO will wrap up its season with a concert dedicated to the Kotzschmar centennial. Ray Cornils, who holds the title of Portland municipal organist – one of only two such positions in the U.S. – will preside at the keyboard.

The two biggest works are by European composers who were noted organists who understood the sonic horsepower of the in-strument and its relationship with competing and complementary musical forces. Joseph Jongen was the leading Belgian composer of the early 20th century. His Symphonie Con-certante for Organ and Orchestra was writ-ten in the 1920s and premiered in Brussels.

Jongen’s four-movement masterpiece cul-minates in a memorable finale, according to PSO program annotator Mark Rohr: “Here the superhuman perpetual-motion organ part

is matched by the power of the orchestra and the Symphonie Concertante goes out in a blaze of glory.”

After intermission, the PSO will play the coda for 2011-2012 with Charles Camille Saint-Saens’ Third Symphony, subtitled “Organ.” Saint-Saens, who worked in Paris most of his life, was recognized as Europe’s foremost organist and one of its top com-posers. His Third Symphony was written in 1886.

Rohr characterizes the four movements as “fury,” “serenity,” “propulsion” and “tri-umph.” He adds the following commentary to the whole work: “Saint-Saens’ Third is known as a sonic spectacular. A symphony orchestra and a pipe organ are each capable of shaking a room. Together they can make a glorious racket.”

Catch the Portland Symphony Orchestra at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall at 2:30 p.m. May 6 and 7:30 p.m. May 8. Call PortTix at 842-0800.Greater Freeport Community ChorusAmerican musical traditions, with an

emphasis on ingenuity and innovation, will be the over-arching theme when the Greater Freeport Community Chorus presents its spring concert on two dates this weekend.

The GFCC numbers approximately 40 voices hailing from 22 towns under musi-

cal director Virgil Bozeman. All the pieces on the program were written by Americans, who date from the mid-1800s to the present. Stephen Foster is emblematic of old-time America, while Charles Ives and Aaron Copland represent of this country’s 20th-century classical tradition. Broadway and Hollywood are heard in the songs of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen. Nick Page, a contemporary composer, represents a modern minimalist school.

Two performances are slated: May 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church in Freeport and May 6 at 2 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth. Call 865-3730.

Darrell ScottSinger-songwriter Darrell Scott was born

in Kentucky and lives in Nashville, where he writes for prominent artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Martina McBride. He’s also copped a couple of major awards in the past few years, including the Ameri-cana Music Award for Best Album of the Year and the Independent Music Award for Best Country Album.

As a performer, his newest CD, titled “Long Ride Home,” features an older style of country music, characterized by hard-working, imperfect heroes and flawed heroines. Expect to hear much of that album when One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) presents a Darrell Scott CD release party at 8 p.m. May 4. Call 761-1757.

Rachel EfronSinger-songwriter Rachel Efron is a

Maine native who lives and performs mostly on the West Coast. She’s returning to her home town this Saturday for a CD release party.

Efron describes her work as “piano-centric arty pop.” Her third and latest CD is titled “Put Out the Stars,” and it represents an intensely personal approach to often-overlooked aspects of human psyche and experience in a compelling melodic and lyrical style.

San Francisco Examiner music critic Chris Morgan described her work: “Rachel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and voice of a poet to make the loveliest music one has heard – soft, intimate, ethereal and strikingly genuine.”

Catch Rachel Efron’s hometown CD release party at One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) at 8 p.m. May 5. Call 761-1757.

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Mid Coast BenefitsFields of the Future bottle re-demption, Bootleggers of Topsham, Maine, donate your returnables to “Turf McMann,” Bootleggers will donate an extra 10 percent of all donations, Field-s4ourfuture.org.

Bulletin BoardFriday 5/4Teddy Bear Clinic, 9 a.m-12 p.m., Mid Coast Hospital, 123 Medical Center Dr., Brunswick, reservation required, 373-6858.

Saturday 5/5Connect the Dots: How De-pendence on Fossil Fuel Leads to Extreme Weather and Climate Change, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Bruns-wick Mall, Brunswick.

Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Bath Knights of Columbus, 807 Middle St., Bath, 443-5389.

Sunday 5/6Pejepscot Genealogy Society meeting, 2 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 833-7371.

Wednesday 5/9Harpswell Business Association meeting, 6:30 p.m., Harpswell Inn, Lookout Point Road, Harpswell, HarpswellMaine.org.

Saturday 5/12Brunswick Barter Market, 3-5

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Hyde School Open House, 1-3 p.m., Hyde School, 616 High St., Bath, visit hyde.edu for more details.

Plant Sale, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Unitar-ian Universalist Church, corner of Pleasant and Middle St., Brunswick.

Call for VolunteersSaturday 5/5Polar Bear Triathlon and Duath-lon needs volunteers from 6 a.m.-2 p.m. at Bowdoin College. Call 751-6003 or e-mail [email protected] for more information.

Wednesday 5/9Volunteer Training, 4-6 p.m., Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, [email protected].

Dining OutSaturday 5/5Spaghetti Dinner, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Mid Coast Presbyterian Church, 84 Main St., Topsham, $6 adults/$3 children.

Garden & OutdoorsCathance River Educational Alliance, series for adults, “CREA Adult Class” 2nd Saturday of each month, 9 a.m. - noon, the Ecology Center, Cathance River Nature Preserve, Topsham; “Ecology Lecture Series,” last Tuesday each month, 6:30-8 p.m., Topsham Public Library; 12 participants, cost per class, $15 members/ $20 non-members, register, creamaine.org, click on “Programs,” 798-1913 or e-mail [email protected].

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Getting SmarterMonday 5/7Tech Meetup: Online Sharing with Flickr and Picasa, 12 p.m, Curtis Memorial Lirbary, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242.

Tuesday 5/8“Direct Action on the High Seas” lecture by Captain Paul Watson, 7 p.m., Maine Maritime Museum, 234 Washington Ave., Bath, $5, 666-3372.

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Navy relicsfrom page 4

“Our thought is that it was reprovisioning ships after they came.” he said. “After they offloaded the fuel, and before they headed back out, they were using it to reprovision with fresh water.”

Eventually, the tank will become a haz-ard, Laverrierre said. He recommended that it be scrapped.

Other big-ticket items include $345,000 to grade the land and create 5.6 acres of developable space; a waste-water disposal system would cost $206,000; rehabilitating an existing water well would run another $159,000, and storm-water management would cost another $84,000.

While many of the features of Mitchell Field have costs associated with making them useful, Roark said the Navy did a good job of handing the property off to

the town, even going so far as to reinstall a dismantled electrical system at the town’s request.

“They cleansed the buildings of asbestos and things like that. They cleansed the soil. They ripped out all of the electrical power, and then they reinstalled it, all at the Navy’s expense,” he said. “I would say that they handed it over in the condition that the regulatory bodies required, and that the town asked for.”

Many of the decisions about how to proceed on the engineers’ recommenda-tions will depend on ongoing negotiations between the town and Harpswell Oceanic Center, an aquaculture company that has indicated an interest in the property.

Eaine said that the Board of Selectmen will likely address many of the issues raised in the report over the coming months.


Twitter: @hh_matt.

Tax hikefrom page 2

to see the budget land,” he said. “What is the acceptable percentage increase for this year’s tax rate?”

Chairwoman Joanne King and other councilors said that they would like to digest the information before answering.

“I probably wouldn’t be prepared to do

that tonight,” she said. “I would like to review these documents first.”

The council agreed to give Brown feedback and direction at the next regular meeting on Monday, May 7.

On May 17, there will be a public hear-ing to discuss the budget.


Twitter: @hh_matt.

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Martial artsfrom page 1


before then-Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill that legalized mixed martial arts competitions in Maine.

The training center’s owner, Ryan Cowette, said the sport is virtually ex-ploding.

“It’s blowing up,” he said. “When we opened, we had 15 or 20 students. Now we have 75 or 80.”

The facility, one of only a few of its kind in the state, is aggressively trying to spread a mixed martial arts culture to a wide range of customers that includes children, women, and those seeking to lose weight.

Attendance at Maine-based MMA events has been steadily increasing, from a starting point of about 2,500 to an expected 5,000 sell-out crowd at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston on June 16.

But defenders of the controversial sport are trying to get beyond attract-ing a demographically homogeneous crowd made up of young men wearing tattoos on their arms and chips on their shoulders.

Cowette’s level of success in broaden-ing the appeal might be a good indicator of whether MMA will be a fad, or an enduring American tradition.

Sport or savagery?The actions that take place in an MMA

cage would draw felony charges if they happened anywhere else.

Two combatants wearing shorts and small gloves enter a cage to fight by punching, kicking, grappling or chok-ing their opponent into submission. The rules are few, and are designed to mini-mize the risk of serious injury. The goal is to achieve victory by either knocking the opponent out, forcing him to submit, or winning by judge’s decision.

Fans say that the wide-open nature of

the contests allow a variety of strategies that add to the excitement; detractors describe it as brutality, and call for out-lawing the fledgling industry.

Cowette is one of many in the sport who are caught in a delicate position; they have to simultaneously reassure the wary that MMA doesn’t promote violence or aggression, while maintain-ing an edgy, tough-guy appeal for the young people who are drawn to those very aspects.

Students are asked to spend years training to become a fighting machine, and then to consistently resist the tempta-tion to engage in non-sanctioned fights.

Cowette admits he sometimes has a difficult time straddling that line. He doesn’t advocate violence, but he said there have been times when it has seemed appropriate.

“A person was going to meet an un-derage girl I know,” he said. “He had no business meeting up with an underage girl. I went there to set him straight, and I did slap him. I ‘big brothered,’ him, you could say. I mean, I had to make sure that he knew not to do that, but I did it with love. I love the kid.”

Ultimately, however, Cowette makes the case that MMA training stops far more fights than it starts.

“It doesn’t promote violence,” he said. “If I hadn’t had any training, I would have gone there and just battered him. It gave me control.”

“Knowing how to defend yourself al-lows you to defuse a situation,” agreed Brent Dillingham, a 23-year-old instruc-tor at MMA Athletix.

“It’s very violent. But nightclubs are violent, too,” he said. “Here, it’s con-trolled.”

Dillingham said he’s seen the training have a positive impact on local youths.

“The younger kids come in cocky,

thinking they’re the toughest guy in the world,” he said. “You start out, you don’t know anything, and they beat you up. It takes a lot of will to stick with it. After a few months, they learn.”

After going through this process, Dillingham said, students learn how to restrain themselves and to achieve a level of humility about their own abilities.

“We have lots of teens here, and they never get in fights outside of the gym,” Cowette said.

Breaking out of the cageIn order for MMA to be embraced as

a national pastime, training facilities like MMA Athletix need to attract a customer base that goes beyond the young men to whom it has an obvious appeal.

By this measure, Cowette and his team of instructors are succeeding.

Nina McLauglin is not your typical MMA student. A slight 22-year-old intern in the state Senate Republican office, McLaughlin said she is less inter-ested in competing in a cage, and more interested in the quality of the workout that an MMA class provides.

“I like the intensity of it,” she said. “After this, a treadmill, or any other ex-ercise, is just boring.”

McLaughlin estimated that an hour of practicing grappling with opponents is worth three hours of time on a treadmill. She has picked up bruises along the way, but they don’t stop her.

“I enjoy the intense aspect of being able to get out aggression in a healthy way,” she said.

Many of the people involved at MMA Athletix, like Dillingham, aspire to suc-ceed as professional fighters.

But Cowette’s students come in all ages and aspirations.

“We train doctors, sons of doctors, people trying not to do pills or smoke weed, upper class business owners,” he said. “... There is no common denomina-tor.”

MMA Athletix offers a series of

courses targeted toward those who are not prepping for an imminent cage match, including MMA4Kids, a course for children that teaches basic skills.

Reid Majewski, 21, is one of seven stu-dents, including five women, in an eight-week weight-loss challenge program.

Majewski’s weight has been up and down over the past few years, he said, from a high of 275 to a low of 190 during a stint in the U.S. Army. He has had only middling success at traditional gyms.

For $150, Majewski gets access to the small MMA Athletix gym, any combat sports class he feels like attending, and personal direction from Cowette on nu-trition and exercise drills.

Majewski is a big fan of MMA events, but his primary motivation is weight loss and health. To him, the group set-ting and tough love from instructors are important.

“I need someone pushing me,” he said.There’s also something about the

dog-fights-dog nature of MMA culture that helps him to keep on task, and lose weight.

“There’s definitely a lot more motiva-tion,” Majewski said.

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

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state aid, a 2.62 percent decrease.• About $30,000 in lost federal impact aid

the district received for military families, caused by the closure last year of Bruns-wick Naval Air Station.

• Nearly $403,000 from the federal Edu-cation Jobs Fund program that is no longer available.

• And $200,000 less to be used from the district’s fund balance to offset losses.

“This is the fourth year in a row that MSAD 75 is challenged by both a reduction in revenues and declining enrollment,” Su-perintendent Brad Smith said in an e-mail Tuesday. “At the same time, our district, just like our families, face rising costs. Consequently, reductions in staff are neces-sary. Nearly 80 percent of a school district budget is in personnel, and that is where reductions are felt the most.”

them open would allow for increases or decreases.

Chairwoman Kimberly Totten, Vice Chairwoman Joanne Rogers, Linda Hall, James Conners, Holly Kopp, Scott McK-ernan and Jeffrey Wolkens voted in favor, while Jane Meisenbach, Kay Ogrodnik, Dorothy Gardner and Jane Scease voted in opposition.

Laurel Lopez abstained, and Gwendo-lyn Thomas and Rebekah Stimpson were absent.

Scease, the only School Board member present to vote against the budget, said last week that “I felt that we had made so many cuts in the past couple of years, that these were just too many, that it was just too much to cut. And I thought, especially with-out having ... the warrant articles open ... that if people in the community would have wanted to increase the budget, they would not now have an opportunity to do that.”

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

He noted that the district will see fewer teachers in kindergarten to 12th-grade class-rooms, and that there will be reductions in physical education and art.

“Those children who receive special education will have fewer teachers and ed techs available to support them,” he explained. “There are reductions in other support areas as well, including nursing ser-vices, transportation, custodial, athletics and administration. All of this requires those of us who remain to do extend ourselves even more, doing a better job with fewer resources. MSAD 75 staff have always responded to challenges, and we will do so again.”

SAD 75’s four communities would see varying tax impacts. Topsham’s assessment would decrease 3.6 percent to $7.5 million, due to a drop in its state valuation.

The other three towns would see in-creased assessments: Harpswell, 2.31 percent to $6.6 million; Bowdoin, nearly 6 percent to $2.2 million, and Bowdoinham,

4.45 percent to $2.4 million.Among increased expenses are $400,000

more for negotiated salaries, about $240,000 for health insurance, and about $80,000 more for fuel and heating costs.

Twelve teaching positions could be cut at the elementary level, Mt. Ararat Middle School and Mt. Ararat High School, along with a high school administrator.

Eleven support staff positions could also be eliminated, while the hours of 22 could be reduced. Those positions include educa-tional technicians, secretaries, bus drivers, a custodian and an assistant football coach.

The School Board took two votes on the budget.

The first, which resulted in a 7-4 deci-sion, was to close warrant articles at the May 24 district budget meeting. Closing them allows recommended budget num-bers to only be decreased, while having


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School budgetfrom page 1 Brunswick school spending by the numbers

• Current school budget: $33.3 million.• Budget approved by School Board for fiscal 2013: $33.5 million• Net increase: $189,000, or 0.6 percent.• Current town appropriation: $16.8 million.• Town appropriation in proposed budget: $19.1 million.• Net increase: $2.4 million, or 14.1 percent.

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see some really conservative people com-ing out to vote,” she said, “so I also think we have to be realistic about what we can actually pass, and I don’t want our budget to be rejected. I don’t think we’re going to get away with a 10 percent tax increase.”

The actual tax increase that was pro-posed by Town Manager Gary Brown on Monday was 6.2 percent. It included a recommendation to take $1 million from the town’s general fund to offset state revenue losses. (Story, Page 2.)

The school budget preserves honors and AP courses, which drew significant

public support after Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski said they might be threatened by budget cuts.

The board decided by a 5-4 vote on April 26 to base the budget on “Option 4,” one of five alternatives that Perzanos-ki presented. The options covered a range from $32.9 million to $34.1 million.

Board member Rich Ellis, who voted against Option 4, consistently advocated for more funding for the schools.

“I think this begins to cut too deep in,” he said. “... It’s a 3 percent increase over current budget, and I can tell you that, from an inflationary perspective, it’s not even keeping up.”

Ellis, Perrault and board members Brenda Clough and Janet Connors op-

posed Option 4.Board member Bill Thompson, who

voted in favor of Option 4, pointed to Perzanoski’s projections of large bud-get shortfalls over the next two budget cycles.

“We’ve seen reductions in our student population ...” Thompson said. “I think this puts us in the best position moving forward to deal with the $1.8 million cut we’re going to have to address next year, and the $1.4 million cut the year after that.”

In passing Option 4, he was joined by board members James Corey, Michelle Joyce, James Grant and Small.

The board unanimously tabled a mo-tion to add two psychologist positions to the payroll. Perzanoski said he would attempt to find funding for the positions from other areas in the budget, and would report back to the board.

The board also voted 5-4 to trade off an interactive whiteboard system in favor of hiring a full-time technology assistant at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School.

Once it had agreed on Option 4 as the basis for the budget, the board considered restoring several expenses.

There were failed efforts to add two special education positions at the elemen-tary school level, at a cost of approxi-mately $148,000; a full-time guidance counselor, and a full-time science teacher.

A half-time world language instructor position was successfully restored by a 6-3 vote, with Thompson, Joyce, Perrault, Small, Ellis, and Corey in favor; Clough, Grant, and Connors were opposed.

A half-time guidance counselor at the high school was also restored by a 7-2

vote, with Thompson and Grant opposed.Grant spoke against various budget

additions.“Make sure you’re not doing this just

because it feels good,” he said. “The su-perintendent a number of times has said we’ve got these programs pretty well covered.”

The budget will add three elementary-level educators; it will also lose two education technicians, a bus driver, a custodian, a resource assistant, an ad-ministrative secretary, an elementary art teacher, a high school PE teacher, and eight half-positions in math, English, history, science and guidance.

The Town Council will consider the School Board’s funding request as part of its municipal budget process; there will be a series of meetings and budget workshops held by the council through-out May.

On Monday, Sarah Singer spoke in favor of the school budget at a Town Council meeting.

“I want to ensure that the budget that’s been proposed by the School Board is supported by the Town Council,” Singer said. “I don’t think this is a great budget, but I think that further cuts to it would be terrible.”

On May 31, the Town Council will vote to adopt a school budget, which will be presented to voters for ratification on June 12.

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

@hh_matt.


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