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Gay-marriage advocates hail court ruling — Barkley: ‘I New campaign launched to cut down on cigarette litter

no longer have to choose between the person I love and the country I love.’ Celebration held at Portland City Hall. Story, photos, pages 8-9

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Celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage Wednesday are (from left) Michael Snell, Chris O’Connor and Steven Bridges. On midnight Friday, Dec. 28, as same-sex marriage took effect in Maine following a referendum vote, Snell and Bridges married at City Hall. They relished the court’s expansion of that right in its landmark decision this week. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Chimps to be pulled from research

(NY Times) — In another step toward ending biomedical research on chimpanzees, the National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday that it would begin the process of retiring most of its chimps to sanctuaries, though it will leave some for possible future research.

The decision, which follows the recommendations of an agency advisory group, does not end biomedical research on N.I.H. chimpanzees. But it calls for retiring about 310 animals that the agency owns over the next few years, to sanctuaries from which they cannot be recalled for research. A colony of up to 50 will be kept at a site yet to be decided in case there is a compelling need to use them in research for human health.

And new guidelines will be in place for any future research and for chimpanzee housing.

The N.I.H. decision was long anticipated, and follows a series of efforts to protect chimpanzees, both in the wild and in captivity. Two weeks ago the United States Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring captive chimpanzees endangered, requiring permits for their use that would hamper efforts by public or private labs to use the animals to test drugs and in other research.

“Chimpanzees are very special animals,” the N.I.H. director, Dr. Francis S. Collins, said. “They are our closest relatives.” As such, he said, “we believe they deserve special consideration.”

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Far-reaching immigration legislation cruised toward passage in the Senate on Wednesday as House Republicans pushed ahead on a different approach that cracks down on millions living in the United States illegally rather than offering them a chance at citizenship.

Presidential politics took a more prominent role in a long-running national debate as Sen.

Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tried to reassure conservatives that many of the criticisms of the bill, which he helped write, are “just not true.”

The political impact of the issue aside, there was no doubt that the Senate bill was on track for passage by Thursday or Friday.

Supporters posted 67 votes or more on each of three procedural tests Wednesday, far more than the 60 needed to prevail.

More than a dozen Republicans sided with Democrats on each, assuring bipartisan support that the bill’s backers hope will change minds in the House.

At its core, the legislation includes numerous steps to prevent future illegal immigration, while at the same time it offers a chance at citizenship for millions living in the country illegally.

Supreme Court bolsters gay International effort seeks to marriage with 2 major rulings counter Jihadists in Africa WASHINGTON (NY Times) — In a pair of major victories for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and, by declining to decide a case from California, effectively allowed same-sex marriages there.

The rulings leave in place laws banning same-sex marriage around the nation, and the court declined to say whether there was a constitutional right to such unions. But in clearing the way for same-sex marriage in California, the nation’s most populous state, the court effectively increased to 13 the number of states that allow it.

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The decisions will only intensify the fast-moving debate over same-sex marriage, and the clash in the Supreme Court reflected one around the nation.

The ruling striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act will immediately extend many benefits to couples in the states where same-sex marriage is legal, and it will give the Obama administration the ability to broaden other benefits through executive actions.

The case concerning California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, was decided on technical grounds, with the majority saying that it was not properly before the court.

ORAN, Algeria (NY Times) — This fall, the United States and Niger will bring together in that West African nation police officers, customs inspectors and other authorities from a half-dozen countries in the region to hone their skills in securing lightly guarded borders against heavily armed traffickers and terrorists.

Denmark has already forged a partnership with Burkina Faso to combat violent extremism, and backed it up with a war chest of $22 million over five years aimed at stifling the root causes of terrorism before they can bloom.

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ABOVE: Doug Fuss, president of the board for the Portland Downtown District, joined City Manager Mark Rees and Director of Public Services Mike Bobinsky to introduce a new educational campaign to reduce the amount of cigarette butt litter in the city that can accumulate along sidewalks, roadways and in Casco Bay. LEFT: The kickoff was held next to a storm water outfall on Commercial Street that’s one of the many places where the trash makes its way into Casco Bay from the streets. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTOS)

New campaign launched to cut down on cigarette litter

By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A newly created educational campaign aims to make the issue of cigarette waste go up in smoke.

The city and Healthy Portland launched “The Butt Stops Here” on Wednesday to help educate the public and get smokers to properly dispose of cigarette waste to keep it from accumulating on sidewalks, roadways and the storm water system.

“By focusing on education, we believe we can eliminate this problem,” said City Manager Mark Rees.

The campaign asks residents to help keep the city clean to to put out their cigarettes and throw them away, and reminds people that littering is a violation of Portland ordinance. The city has partnered with the Portland Downtown District to bring businesses on board with the campaign and the police cadets and park rangers to hand out cards.

“Cigarette butts are the most frequently littered item,” Rees said.

Director of Public Services Mike Bobinsky said the city has more than 4,000 catch basins, and cigarette and tobacco waste are the most common items removed during cleaning. He said those materials sometimes slip through the system and wind up in rivers, lakes and Casco Bay.

The city has invested $40,000 in a vacuum street sweeper, said Bobinsky, and more than $20,000 on routine cleanup within the Old Port.

“It is a significant issue for us,” he said.

Rees said the city plans to buy 38 more Big Belly trash cans in the upcoming year and distribute them throughout Portland to make it easier for people to dispose of their litter and keep the streets clean.

During the 1950s and ‘60s, people were used to throwing their trash out of car windows, said the Baykeeper for the Friends of Casco Bay (http:// cascobay.org), Joe Payne. Then, Payne said, the “Keep America Clean” ad campaign was launched. He said in the aftermath of the educational campaign, littering went down 88 percent in some places.

“We need to make it not OK to throw [cigarette butts] on the ground,” he said.

When the Friends of Casco Bay conduct cleaning operations at the area’s beaches, Payne said, cigarette butts are found everywhere.

Payne said when cigarette butts get into the water, the chemicals can be toxic to wildlife and affect the bay’s cleanliness.

“We need to educate, we need to stop doing it,” he said.

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C. S. Lewis, evangelical rock star In 2005, Time magazine called C. S. Lewis the “hottest theologian” of the year — 42 years after his death. That same year, a cover story in Christianity Today hailed him as a “superstar.” To this day Lewis, who published the first of his children’s books about “Narnia” in 1950, remains deeply compelling for many evangelicals, more so than for Catholics and mainline Protestants. Why? Lewis’s remarkable combination of theological simplicity and tweedy British scholarship is no doubt one reason for his appeal.

––––– In his famous book “Mere ChrisNew York tianity,” adapted from a series of BBC radio talks during World Times Guest War II, Lewis laid out a clear Columnist assertion of what it meant to be Christian. Molly Worthen, a historian of religion, points out that nearly a century after the Scopes trial, many evangelicals still worry that secular intellectuals regard them as country bumpkins. Christians like Lewis have helped to keep that sense of cultural inferiority at bay.

But the text for which Lewis is best known is his “Chronicles of Narnia.” And what “Narnia” offers is not theological simplicity, but complexity. The God represented in these books is not quite real (it’s fiction) and yet more real than the books pretend (that’s not a lion, it’s God). That complexity may help people to hang on to faith in a secular society, when they need a God who is in some ways insulated from human doubt about religion.

The story of Bob, a man I got to know while writing a book on evangelical belief, offers some insight here. He grew up in a strict evangelical church in Southern California, but he thought it dishonest and manipulative. He remembers seeing, as a child, videos of violent and vengeful Old Testament stories, images of people sent to hell for seemingly arbitrary reasons. He concluded that this was meant to scare people into choosing Jesus.

Bob married young — too young — and soon divorced. After that, he was no longer welcome in his church. He left for graduate school still a Christian, but with his faith in turmoil. He asked God to help him deal with his distress. Three nights later, he saw on his pillow a vision of Aslan, the lion Lewis created

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Tina Carlson: resilient and inspirational In the dark of a rainy May evening, I found the long driveway, illuminated by the number reflector on the mailbox; I pulled in. Avoiding (as best I could) the potholes and puddles, I zigzagged my way down the muddy driveway. The garage was open; the lights shone bright. Two young men were working over the opened hood of a car. Carting my leather briefcase over my shoulder; the health insurance agent had arrived.

Better with “I’m looking for Tina,” I said.

One of the men gestured to the Age open door to the house suggesting I just walk in.

“She’s in the kitchen,” he said, giving a shout out: “T-I-N-A!” Tina hollered back: “Karen?” walking around a corner, she greeted me.

We had spoken a couple times on the phone. Figuring out a good time to meet was challenging. She works 18 hours a day, seven days a week, from York up the mid-coast to Bangor; she’s a property manager that offers housekeeping, home improvement, cake decorating and event planning.

Conscientious, responsible and hard working was the first impression I had of her on the phone.

Standing in front of me was a woman who was that, and more: spunky, well coiffed, manicured and organized. A Smartphone in hand, she tapped through the menu with her long painted nails, apologizing as she multi-tasked, I got a snapshot of how this

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women manages to keep all the balls up in the air.

“I love it” she said, speaking quickly, she added: “I have nine kids!”

The story unfolded. Physically abused as a child, she married into wealth, and had nine kids. Living in Massachusetts, she was the wealthy at-home mom; attentive to her children; housekeepers and hired help formed her world — the thought of household chores, swinging a hammer, hanging sheetrock, painting, much less ironing or laundry, where furthest from her mind. She was fortunate — or so you may think.

When she learned that her husband had affairs with her friends, she took a two-week vacation.

Returning home, her husband charged her with child abandonment; paid off her siblings and mother to testify before the judge that she was suicidal and unfit to parent, he suggested she be committed to a mental institution.

“When you have the financial means to do so, why not conjure up a good story and try to destroy someone’s life,” said Tina.

Separated and living alone, she had no one to turn to. She was forbidden from seeing her kids for two years. Betrayed by friends and family, she knew two things: She wasn’t crazy; and wasn’t suicidal. The burden of proof was on her. She sought the help of therapists and psychiatrists, who assured her head was on straight; she was more put together than most. The divorce was finalized. She settled for a very large settlement — placed in an irrevocable trust. End of story — take your settlement, and begin a new life? see VACHON page 5

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Think again. Witnessing and experiencing the power and devastation money played in her situation, she vowed that she would not touch the settlement. To work she went — on herself. She moved to Maine to start a new life. She shifted from the receiving end to the serving end. Today her business, Seaside Property Management & Mainely Cleaning caters to upper-class and middle-class. She cleans, remodels, party plans and decorates cakes. Business is booming!

Amazed by this woman’s resolve, she’s come to discover what she can do. Here are just a few examples: What started as a bathroom cleaning project, when she Tina Carlson, owner of Seaside Property Management & Mainely couldn’t get the grout Cleaning, stands with paintbrush in hand and tool bag nearby at a clean, she re-grouted. job site. (KAREN VACHON PHOTO) Today, she loves to tile!

When another client expressed a desire to have a kitchen wall removed, “When you have the financial means she found a contractor, observed his to do so, why not conjure up a good every move; bought books at Home story and try to destroy someone’s Depot, and called on store personnel for help. Today, she removes walls herlife.” — Tina Carlson self! She’s proud of her mudding and tapping capabilities!

So intrigued by her stories, I quesanother for mudding a wall. “When do tioned: Is this gal for real? I had to you sleep?” I asked. She told me she’d see her in action. On two separate catch five hours. “Do you worry about occasions over the last month, I visfalling asleep at the wheel,” I wonited her at work sites. Each day, she dered. “I don’t drive” she said: “I use sported a different manicure. I took a that time to invoice clients!” peek inside her tool bag — a girly girl The cell phone rang: it was her hammer, and hand lotion mixed with daughter, wondering if her mom was the more serious stuff. on the edge her seat of the 3-3 Bruins “I want my clients to have a 5-star game. There was the mother-daughter resort cleaning job,” she explained. “I banter, of what seemed to be a fun, put colored wash cloths out for weekly healthy relationship. renters to wash dirty feet, or wash up “How is your relationship with your makeup — this way my client’s white kids?” I asked. towels are preserved.” She re-folds “They’re coming around,” she says, linen closets to neat color coded and noting that her kids have been swayed organized piles. “My ovens look brand and manipulated by money; she can’t new when I’m done cleaning.” She is fix that. Time heals all wounds — she for real! She’s resilient and inspiradoes all that she can do. She shows tional. me a picture of them: Indeed, a proud It was 11:30 p.m., my health insurmother. ance appointment ended. We had Back down the winding muddy covered a lot of ground! Throughout driveway, dodging potholes and pudthe evening, various household memdles I realize this is a metaphor of the bers had checked in with Tina — all journey of life. It gets messy. At times work for her. Some had fallen on hard you need to duck and dodge. Tina’s times; and were living with her. They story reminds us to keep your head were running laundry for one client; and wits about you, and believe in fixing the car for their drive to Bangor yourself. You may be surprised by the at 6 a.m. to serve another client; Tina things you can do. checked in with her business partner/ boy friend on the progress of a project (Karen Vachon is a Scarborough in York. resident. She is a licensed health and Another reminded Tina she would life insurance agent and active comneed three outfits tomorrow: One to go munity volunteer. To follow her on out and meet a prospective new client; Facebook, go to: http://www.facebook. another for cleaning a home, and com/karenvachonhealth.)

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to represent God/Jesus in “Narnia.” Bob described Aslan as glittering gold, with a mane that moved as if it were blowing in the wind. A few months later, he had an image of Aslan tattooed on his chest — to remind him, he said, of whom God had called him to be.

What Aslan gave Bob was a sense that God was real and loved him, even though he did not trust the humans who told him all he had been taught about God. This sense that the human church isn’t always to be trusted crops up in many of the newer evangelical churches. People talk about being “church wounded” and say things like “this isn’t about church, it’s about a real God.” In “Mere Christianity,” Lewis wrote that to pretend helps one to experience God as real. In “Narnia” he offered a way to pretend — by depicting a God who is so explicitly not a God from an ordinary human church. Aslan keeps God safe from human clumsiness and error.

What does it mean that our society places such a premium on fantasy and imagination? “No culture,” observes the child psychologist Suzanne Gaskins, “comes close to the level of resources for play provided by middle-class Euro-American parents.” In many traditional societies, children play by imitating adults. They pretend to cook, marry, plant, fish, hunt.

“Inventive pretend,” in which children pretend the fantastic or impossible (enchanted princesses, dragon hunters) “is rarely — if ever — observed in non-industrialized or traditional cultures,” Gaskins says. That may be because inventive play often requires adult involvement. Observing the lack of fantasy play among the Manus children in New Guinea, Margaret Mead noted that “the great majority of children will not even imagine bears under the bed unless the adult provides the bear.”

Westerners, by contrast, not only tolerate fantasy play but actively encourage it, for adults as well as for children. We are novel readers, movie watchers and game players. We have made J. K. Rowling very wealthy.

This suggests that we imagine a complex reality in which things might be true — materially, spiritually, psychologically. Science leads us to draw a sharp line between what is real and what is unreal.

At the same time, we live in an age in which we are exquisitely aware that there are many theories, both religious and scientific, to explain the world, and many ways to be human.

Probably fiction does for us what the vision of Aslan did for Bob: it helps us to learn what we find emotionally true in the face of irreconcilable contradictions. That is what Joshua Landy, a professor of French literature, argues in “How to Do Things with Fictions”: fiction teaches us how to think about what we take to be true. In the cacophony of an information-soaked age, we need it.

(T. M. Luhrmann, a professor of anthropology at Stanford, is a Times guest columnist.)

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‘Deathtrap’ boasts solid performances, tense pacing Once upon a time a nonmusical or play could be mounted on Broadway as an open-ended run and not have to tap a big name from Hollywood to draw a crowd. Plays were just as prevalent and could run for years. Broadway could make you a star and offered up juicy roles for the non-singer.

DEATHTRAP had an out-oftown tryout in Boston before moving to New York, becoming ––––– the longest running comedyTheater thriller of all time after a fourCritic year run of 1,793 performances.

DEATHTRAP opened in early 1978, and John U. Robinson’s direction of this production at Lyric Music Theater has embraced the era. He explores social conditions and interactions along with the physical attributes of that time, such as rotary phones and typewriters. Most people want a scare in their entertainment from time to time and DEATHTRAP does not disappoint, still possessing the ability to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

I must admit this show grew on me over the course of the evening, from acting to set the first 15 min. I was confused on where this evening would journey.

The show quickly settled into its world and drew me in as well. Community theaters often have a handful of people doing many tasks to mount a production, and Robinson has also designed the set. The playing space is an old stable converted into a cottage. Mr. Robinson creates a wonderful writing study with working fireplace, giving the space a claustrophobic feel so that by the end of the play the walls seem to close in. Technically this production is impressive, completely creating the storm and providing the overlay to really move the action as a thriller. Sound design by Scott Whiting and light design by Kate Herrold was highly effective, creating the moments, when all works together, the audience jumps in their seats.

Jaimie Schwartz leads the cast as Sidney Bruhl.

The opening, I feel, could have a lighter touch with intensity. Mr. Schwartz found his footing within the first few moments and quickly became the driving force. He grew stronger and more confident as an actor as the evening progressed and through his time on stage, the play worked. Mr. Schwartz filled every second of his performance with nuance and

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Jaimie Schwartz and Lisa Smith appear in “Deathtrap” at Lyric Music Theater. (Photo courtesy of Mary Meserve)

thought, never letting the facade of character drop for a second. Often throughout his performance I was reminded of a younger Johnny Carson.

Lisa Smith inhabits Helga Ten Dorp, the nosy neighbor, famous for her psychic abilities. Ms. Smith has created a wonderful, eccentric woman, injecting hilarity into the situation. I wanted more, though, from this character. Helga Ten Dorp is a force of nature, a whirlwind into every situation she enters.

I saw “Deathtrap” on opening night, at that time the show still needed some air taken out to bring the show under 2 1/2 hrs. and felt Ms. Smith could have helped tremendously. Her character is perfect, just needs the umph.

Clifford is portrayed by Kirk Boettcher, the handsome young student hoping to make a name for himself. Mr. Boettcher goes toe to toe with Mr. Schwartz, together creating an evening of intrigue, pushing each other physically as well. Boettcher brings an

innocence to Clifford, wide-eyed and ready to learn.

He has an ability to quickly go dark, creating a Jekyll/Hyde persona with a baby face.

The program does not list a fight director. This is a physical show though, and the blocking was very realistic, further enhancing the thrill of the evening.

Mr. Robinson has succeeded in creating an evening of thrills and chills. The pace needs to quicken, but this is a fun night of theater and not one character burst into song. DEATHTRAP was written by Ira Levin, who also wrote “Rosemary’s Baby.”

DEATHTRAP runs through June 30 at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland. Box Office 7991421; ticketslyric@gmail.com Remember this week is PORTFRINGE 13, in venues throughout downtown Portland.

(Harold Withee is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.)

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Reel Experience Video Challenge winners noted Daily Sun Staff Reports

The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority — which manages rail including the Amtrak Downeaster — noted the winners of The Reel Experience Video Challenge. Earlier this year, NNEPRA asked Amtrak Downeaster riders to videotape and/ or photograph their Downeaster travel experience onboard and in the station communities to create a 2- to 2.5minute video for a chance to win prizes.

A total of four prizes were awarded in four categories.

Northbound Travel: “Reel Experience at Freeport”submitted by Brandon Aull of Saco.

Southbound Travel: “The Amtrak Rap” submitted by Matthew Peaco of Old Orchard Beach.

Student Category: “Business Boys on the Train” submitted by Timothy Hofmann of Portland.

People’s Choice Award: “Katie’s Reel Amtrak Downeaster Experience” submitted by Bradley Dubois of Portland.

“Selecting the winners was a very difficult decision, having received so many creative and exciting submissions from our riders. They were all great and we enjoyed each and every one,” said Natalie Allen, marketing director of NNEPRA. “We have spent years relaying the amenities of the Amtrak Downeaster and it has been very interesting to see what it important to our riders and how they travel on the Downeaster.”

The four winning videos can be views at AmtrakDowneaster.com/ reel-experience.

Constellation solicits for ‘Art Without Borders’ Constellation Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery at 511 Congress St. in Portland, is inviting artists from all over the world to submit art to the

gallery’s “Art Without Borders” show which runs from July 26 to Aug. 26.

This will be the first show in which non-members of the Maine Artists Collective will be allowed to enter work to be adjudicated into a show, Constellation reported. Gallery hours are Monday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.

Any kind of art (except for sculptures needing pedestals) is being accepted for this show including painting, photography, digital art, printmaking, collage or assemblage. There is no theme for this show and there is no fee. Artists may submit up to 10 images as jpgs (1,280 pixels on the longest side at 72 dpi, jpg compression level 8).

The deadline for images emailed to gallery@constellationart.com is July 1. Work must be delivered to the gallery no later than July 22. Constellation Gallery will take a 50 percent commission on any work that is sold.

Artists will receive their checks by the end of September.

Visit http://www.constellationart. com for more information.

Gettysburg highlighted by library, historical society On Wednesday, July 3 at noon in the Rines Auditorium, the Portland Public Library will offer a free screening of the 1993 feature film “Gettysburg.”

The screening aims to commemorate the 150th anniversary this year of the battle of Gettysburg. The movie depicts the 1863 battle between the Northern and Southern forces at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Guests can bring a brown bag lunch and the library will provide a few refreshments. There will be a 15 minute intermission halfway through the film due to its length.

As part of July 4 celebrations in Portland, the Maine Historical Society will present a reading of the Gettysburg Address by Portland Mayor Michael Brennan. The reading will take place at noon in front of the Longfellow House at 489 Congress St., Portland.

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LEFT: Portland Mayor Michael Brennan voices his support of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, during an event at City Hall Wednesday. “Today, the Supreme Court struck a law from the books that denied gay couples basic rights and I applaud their decision,” Brennan said. “I also want to recognize local hero Mary Bonauto for her role in today’s decision,” he added. “Her years of work and advocacy for equality have changed the course of history and her commitment and passion for civil rights played a key role in both the City of Portland and State of Maine advancing anti-discrimination policies, enacting laws and, most recently, establishing marriage equality. Today’s announcement bears Mary’s fingerprints.” ABOVE: Betsy Parsons with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, lauds the ruling. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Gay-marriage advocates relish court ruling

Bellows of the ACLU of Maine notes limits of U.S. Supreme Court ruling: ‘We need to renew our commitment, we need to give of our time and our money and ourselves’

By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional Wednesday, supporters of same-sex marriage in Portland said good riddance to the law and vowed to press their battle for equality across the country.

“We’re happy to say goodbye to DOMA,” said Maggie Poisson, spurring cheers from a crowd in the State of Maine room at Portland City Hall. Maggie and Alissa Poisson brought their one-month-old son, A.J., up to the podium during the celebration event. “Our family will receive benefits and protections that were not available to us before now, benefits such as being able to file federal taxes jointly, be eligible for health insurance benefits and social security benefits,” Maggie Poisson said.

Others told similar stories.

On midnight Friday, Dec. 28, as same-sex marriage took effect in Maine following a referendum vote, supporters and couples converged on Portland City Hall. Among them, as the first couple to be married at City Hall, were Michael Snell and Steven Bridges.

On Wednesday, they were again among the first to show up, this time for the afternoon celebration.

In an interview, Snell said, “I’m delighted with the ruling today, it means that our marriage here in the state of Maine is recognized throughout the United States anywhere else marriage is recognized.”

Snell described the heartache of seeing a legislative gay-marriage law get overturned by state voters.

Asked about his mindset approaching this week’s landmark court ruling, Snell said, “I don’t like to be overly optimistic, I was three years ago and was heartbroken when the law was overturned here, but I’m very, very pleasantly surprised.”

“In November the voters of Maine took a stand for fairness when they said that all loving, committed couples should be able to get married in this state. Now, those couples will finally be able to enjoy the full benefits of marriage, ” said Shenna Bellows, executive director of the ACLU of Maine. Here, supporters of same-sex marriage gather in City Hall to celebrate United States v. Windsor. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Shenna Bellows, executive director of the ACLU of Maine, noted that the ACLU represented Edie Windsor in United States v. Windsor, the challenge to Section 3 of DOMA heard by the Supreme Court.

Windsor was forced to pay more than $363,000 in federal estate taxes after her same-sex spouse, Thea Spyer, died in 2009, Bellows recalled.

Windsor took on the federal government, Bellows told the crowd, decades after meeting the love of her life.

The couple met in 1965 in the North Village in New York, attending a party together and “dancing their stockings off,” Bellows recalled.

“They fell madly in love, and two years later, in 1967, they decided to get engaged. At that time it was not safe to be open, to be out, so instead of exchanging rings, they decided to exchange pins,” she said.

They would embark on what Bellows described as a “40-year engagement.”

The story took a tragic turn, Bellows recalled, in an emotional retelling: “Ten years into that engage-

ment, Thea was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which advanced and deteriorated, and in 2007, she was very sick, and she said to Edie, ‘Do you still want to marry me?’ And Edie said, ‘Of course.’ So they went to Canada where it was legal in 2007, and they were married. And they had two years together of married life, until Thea passed in 2009, and in that moment, the saddest moment of Edie’s life, she was hit with a tax bill, $363,000, an astonishing tax bill.”

This bill for federal estate taxes represented one example of “official discrimination against same-sex couples,” Bellows noted.

There are more than 1,100 places in federal laws and programs where being married makes a difference — from eligibility for family medical leave, to social security survivor’s benefits, to access to health care for a spouse, she explained in a press release.

Bellows said work remains to be done, because of the limited aspects of Wednesday’s ruling.

“Today’s decision applies to couples in those states see RULING page 9

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ABOVE LEFT: Alissa and Maggie Poisson bring their one-month-old son, A.J., up to the podium at City Hall during a celebration event marking the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday on same-sex marriage.

ABOVE RIGHT: Jill Barkley, the ACLU of Maine’s Marriage Project Coordinator, recalls last fall’s referendum in Maine that legalized same-sex marriage in the state. “I like that we were more progressive than California,” she said. Barkley said that in July, she and her partner plan to get married in the State of Maine room at City Hall. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Barkley: ‘I no longer have to choose between the person I love and the country I love’ RULING from page 8

who have already recognized same-sex marriage, states like Maine and 12 others. But it does not apply to states that continue to discriminate in their own state laws against same-sex couples,” Bellows said.

“We need to renew our commitment, we need to give of our time and our money and ourselves to the other states, states like New Jersey, Michigan and New Mexico where these campaigns have already begun and states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia where the campaigns feel a little bit far away. But 10 years ago people would have said that this was impossible, that today’s moment would have never happened, and they were wrong,” she said.

Jill Barkley, the ACLU of Maine’s Marriage Project Coordinator, recalled last fall’s referendum in Maine that legalized same-sex marriage as a step on a road to equality.

“That was an incredible victory that we shared in November, but we knew in November that we weren’t done because couples that could marry here in Maine were not going to have their marriages federally recognized because of the Defense of Marriage Act,” she said.

Barkley said that in July, she and her partner plan to get married in the State of Maine room. She joked that her talk about marriage equality Wednesday was really just a big marriage announcement.

“My partner, Trish, is a Canadian citizen, and we are one of 30,000 same-sex binational couples where

one partner is a United States citizen and the other is not,” Barkley said. “And even though Trish and I could have gotten married here in Maine, our marriage would not have been recognized federally and I was not going to be able to sponsor her for immigration. As of today, that has changed. I no longer have to choose between the person I love and the country I love.”

Mayor Michael Brennan said he received news of the ruling from Barkley. Brennan had spent the morning in Augusta and had been following the passage of a state budget, not knowing what had happened at the Supreme Court.

“Once again the state of Maine is leading the country, and the rest of the country is following the state of Maine,” Brennan said.

Reaction to United States v. Windsor Reaction to Wednesday’s ruling included the following: • Portland Mayor Michael Brennan: “At 12:01 AM December 29, 2012, I had the tremendous honor of witnessing the marriage of Steven Bridges and Michael Snell, the first marriage under Maine’s marriage equality law. I was proud to play a part in the night’s celebration and cheered along with hundreds of others who braved the cold outside on that historic night, when loving committed gay couples were granted the same rights under the law to marry. “Today, the Supreme Court stuck a law from the books that denied gay couples basic rights and I applaud their decision. As voters in Maine and in states across the country have demonstrated, the time has come for our country to end this discrimination and establish marriage equality.”

• President Obama: “I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal — and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

• Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine: “DOMA was a bad law to begin with and the Supreme Court did the right thing in striking it down. As voters and legislatures in Maine and states throughout the country have shown, the government has no business telling two people in a loving, committed relationship that they can’t get married.

Although there is still a long way to go for true marriage equality in all fifty states, as of today the federal government won’t be standing in the way of that goal.”

• Christian Coalition of America: “By one vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the 1996 federal ‘Defense of Marriage Act,’ in which Congress defined marriage as the

union of one man and one woman. As a result, the Court has put state marriage laws at risk as well as the religious liberties of tens of millions of America’s Christians. Despite the fact that millions of Americans have voted in over thirty states to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, the attacks on marriage have continued.”

• Congressman Mike Michaud:, D-Maine: “I applaud the justices for striking down the discriminatory ban that prohibits legally-married same-sex couples and their children in states like Maine from receiving all of the rights, protections and responsibilities marriage affords. I was proud to speak out publicly for the freedom to marry when Question 1 was on the ballot last year, and I was personally proud to vote ‘Yes’ to allow all loving, committed couples in our state to obtain a marriage license.”

• Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel: “Today, the United States Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy as an arbiter of the Constitution and the rule of law. Today is the death of the Court’s legacy, because the decision in the Federal Defense of Marriage Act case defies logic and is a pure invention of a handful of Justices.”

• U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine: “Today the U.S. Supreme Court delivered justice to thousands of gay Americans who, although legally married, have for far too long been wrongly denied the equality they deserve under the law. The landmark ruling represents a significant step forward in ensuring that all married couples — all married couples — enjoy equal treatment under federal law and have access to all relevant benefits and protections. An important and good decision today from the U.S. Supreme Court.”

• John Stemberger, president and General Counsel of the Florida Family Policy Council: “The court’s decision was wrong because Congress should have the power to

simply define the meaning of words like marriage in the other statutes that Congress itself has enacted. The DOMA decision was a narrow one and only effected federal benefits for same sex couples who are married in states which have adopted homosexual marriages. Fortunately, in the California Proposition 8 case, the U.S. Supreme Court did not overturn Florida’s Marriage Protection Act enacted by 62 percent of Floridians in 2008. Nor did it overturn the 32 other states that have defined marriage through an act of direct democracy by amending their state constitutions.

The court also did not force one standard upon all the states and instead respected states’ rights to define marriage. The court did not create a new sweeping right of same sex marriage and force that upon the rest of the country as many thought they might.”

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Mainers applaud President Obama’s climate change policies

By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The day after President Obama rolled out his policy plans to address climate change, Maine activists lauded his efforts.

“This is an important step,” said Lisa Pohlmann, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine.

Pohlmann was joined by Portland City Councilor David Marshall, Waterville Mayor Karen Heck, Dr. Paul Perkins, of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Alysha McClain, of Environment Maine, to show support for Obama’s plan to address climate change.

On Tuesday, the president’s plan includes policy priorities that would limit carbon emissions, invest in energy efficiency measures and support renewable energy development.

Pohlmann said the NRCM is pleased with the priorities the president outlined in his plan, including limiting carbon emissions for power plants, investing in renewable energy and mentioning that he would not support the Keystone XL pipeline if it will increase carbon output.

It’s time to act on climate change, said Pohlmann, and if people do nothing, storms will become more severe, the sea level will continue to rise and air conditions will deteriorate.

The fight against climate change has become a movement, Marshall said, and Maine has already taken steps to combat the issue. He said the state passed in 2009 an act regarding Maine’s energy future, joined the regional greenhouse gas initiative and taken other actions.

“Maine is really a leader when it comes to climate change efforts,” he said.

In Portland, Marshall said the city has worked to

Portland City Councilor David Marshall joined LIsa Pohlmann, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Waterville Mayor Karen Heck, Dr. Paul Perkins of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Alysha McClain of Environment Maine and supporters to laud President Obama’s new policies to address climate change. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)

reduce its carbon footprint and enact other policies related to climate change.

Marshall said he sees the most important parts of the president’s policy as the limits of power plants’ carbon emission, the standpoint he’s taken on the Keystone XL pipeline, especially how that might

relate to the Portland pipeline and the willingness to support investment and use of renewable energy.

While there are no steps that can be taken to reverse climate change, Pohlmann said, people have an obligation to mitigate its effects.

“We can and will meet the challenge,” she said.

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District announces new general manager of Metro Daily Sun Staff Report

Gregory M. Jordan of Tempe, Ariz., has been selected by the board of directors of Greater Portland Transit District as Metro’s new general manager.

The general manager selection announcement was made at the June 26 Greater Portland Transit District board meeting, Metro reported.

“Greg has an extensive background dealing with issues facing METRO today — improving rider services, dealing with financial constraints and working with other agencies to regionalize transit operations. He will be a strong leader for Metro and an excellent addition to the transit community regionally,” said board president Bonny Rodden of Falmouth.

Jordan has more than 20 years of experience in the transportation industry, Metro reported. Currently, he works as the deputy public works director for the city of Tempe, Ariz., where he provides leadership and strategic direction for Tempe’s multi-modal transit program, Metro reported in

a press release.

Jordan began his transportation career more than 20 years ago as a University of Connecticut student bus operator and dispatcher where he also received an undergraduate degree in political science. He has completed doctoral coursework and has a Master of Public Administration from Arizona State University.

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Today’s Birthdays: Business executive Ross Perot is 83. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is 75. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 71. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 64. Actress Julia Duffy is 62. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 58. Country singer Lorrie Morgan is 54. Actor Brian Drillinger is 53. Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 47. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is 45. Olympic gold and bronze medal figure skater Viktor Petrenko is 44. TV personality Jo Frost (TV: “Supernanny”) is 43. Actor Yancey Arias is 42. Actor Christian Kane is 39. Actor Tobey Maguire is 38. Gospel singer Leigh Nash is 37. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian (kar-DASH’-ee-uhn) is 29. Actor Drake Bell is 27. Actor Ed Westwick is 26. Actress Madylin Sweeten is 22. Actor Chandler Riggs is 14.

DAILY CROSSWORD TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

by Lynn Johnston

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The chasm between saying and doing can be deep and wide. You’ll consider this when a person’s talk doesn’t ring quite true. Stay alert to the discrepancies.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). In your book, people prove themselves over time.

Your “wait and see” approach will usually save you from future headache and heartache. This time, though, it won’t hurt to give someone the benefit of the doubt.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There are ideas inside you waiting to be released. You can’t teach yourself to be creative, but you can learn to get out of your own way and let your natural creativity flow.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 27). Your birthday present from the stars is the gift of accurate estimations. Sound too practical to be fun? This super power is just what you need to succeed again and again. You’ll correctly assess what’s necessary to reach a goal, how much it will cost and whether it’s the right aim for you. You’ll have winning down to a science. July brings your first prize.

Pisces and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 13, 22, 24 and 7.

by Paul Gilligan

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can’t rely on your drive to get a job done. Create a system that will carry you through whether or not the drive is there. A Virgo will be helpful in the situation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll have the chance to include new people in a venture, but be careful. Like the colored gels that change the look of stage lights, what you add to your life right now will change the way you see everything else.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s something automatic in a loved one’s response to you. Think of this as a challenge.

Interrupt the pattern just for fun. This is how you keep from falling into a rut.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). There are times when being careless with personal information or money is of little consequence, but this is not one of them. You’ll benefit from being a bit guarded with both.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Are you getting better? That’s the only question you care about today. You fear sliding backward, but sometimes in order to take a big leap forward, you have to back up a bit to get momentum.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may procrastinate most of the day, but finally, you won’t be able to put it off any longer. Then you’ll celebrate a personal victory when you finally do the thing you’ve been putting off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Learning to talk and walk are momentous times in a personal history, and after the driver’s license, first kiss, etc., we tend to lose track. But momentous moments occur at every age.

You could have one such moment today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Sometimes you worry about whether other people are having much more fun than you. They’re not.

They’re having just as much, maybe less.

Does knowing this make you feel any better?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Automate more of your life. A learning curve will be involved, but once the arc is bridged, you’ll free up so much time that you’ll wonder why you didn’t do this ages ago.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, June 27, the 178th day of 2013. There are 187 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 27, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent the first full day of a visit to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, stopping by the County Wexford home of his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, who’d emigrated to America in 1848.

On this date: In 1787, English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill. In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

In 1893, the New York stock market crashed.

In 1922, the first Newberry Medal, recognizing excellence in children’s literature, was awarded in Detroit to “The Story of Mankind” by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

In 1942, the FBI announced the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island, N.Y. (All were tried and sentenced to death; six were executed while two were spared for turning themselves in and cooperating with U.S. authorities.)

In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.

In 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

In 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws and bar association rules that prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.

In 1988, at least 56 people were killed when a commuter train ran into a stationary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in Paris.

In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)

Ten years ago: More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.

Five years ago: North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor at Yongbyon. (However, North Korea announced in September 2008 that it was restoring its nuclear facilities.) In Zimbabwe, roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election in which President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate.

One year ago: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness offered each other the hand of peace during a private meeting inside Belfast’s riverside Lyric Theatre. A 22-year-old former Texas Tech University student from Saudi Arabia, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, was convicted in Amarillo of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. (He later received life in prison.)

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To some extent, you have already lost the battle, because these photos and history are out there, and more importantly, you don’t know what else this woman might do with the information. We hope your letter serves as a warning to anyone who sends such personal data to people they barely know (and even those they do). Everything can be posted online and made accessible to anyone who looks.

Dear Annie: My husband has a habit of interrupting me while I’m still talking. He anticipates what I’m going to say and will answer before I’m finished speaking. If I ask what he wants from the grocery store, he will start telling me while I’m still asking, which means I can’t hear what he says. This is both annoying and rude, but he doesn’t get it. Any ideas?

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You can then respond to or ignore what he says, depending on your mood, but try not to get angry.

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I grew up in a rural area, but have lived in a large city for the past 35 years. My cousin recently called to ask whether we could get together for dinner. When I said I’d love to, he replied, “Great! I get in town at 11 a.m.” It took me a few minutes to realize he meant the noon meal, which on the farm is called “dinner.” -- Jean

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Fire marshal says propane likely source of explosion in Yarmouth Daily Sun Staff Reports

The State Fire Marshal’s Office said Wednesday that propane is the likely source of Tuesday’s explosion in Yarmouth. Investigators have gathered appliances and piping from the building that blew up and will examine them to determine where a leak may have occurred, the state reported. Fire investigators concluded their work at the site Wednesday afternoon.

The body of a man recovered from the rubble was identified as the occupant, 66-year-old Peter Corey, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.

Three other nearby residents sustained minor injuries and were treated and released, McCausland said. Robert and Rosemary MacKay, who occupied the other half of the building, and Mary Hallsey, who occupied an adjacent building, survived the blast, which stunned residents and damaged nearby buildings.

The explosion occurred around 6:17 a.m. Tuesday, at the very end duplex at 50 Gable Drive.

Fire investigators say some of the other buildings are uninhabitable and an engineering firm has been hired to conduct an assessment of them.

LePage signs highway fund budget

highway fund budget funds the Maine Department of Transportation, the Motor Vehicle Division of the Secretary of State, and a portion of the State Police, a press release explained.

“The Highway Fund budget is fiscally responsible,” LePage sdaid. “It does not raise taxes or fees, and it puts people to work. I am pleased to put my name to a budget that makes good sense for Maine people.”

This budget, LD 1480, the FY14-FY15 biennial Highway Fund Budget, received unanimous support from the Transportation Committee on June 11. Subsequently, the Maine House and Senate followed suit with near unanimous support with only one negative vote being cast, allowing it to go to the governor’s desk for his signature.

“We worked hard to make sure all the pieces of this budget were geared to benefit our customers; the citizens of Maine,” said Maine DOT Commissioner David Bernhardt. “In order for us to responsibly provide the safest and most reliable transportation system possible, we allocate the funding where it matters most. This ensures that today’s infrastructure needs are met, while maintaining the ability to plan for future needs.”

PTSD added to list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana

Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday signed a $613.6 million highway fund budget into law, the governor’s office reported.

Separate from the state’s general fund budget, the

Maine residents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will soon be allowed to treat their symptoms with medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it, an advocacy group reported Wednesday. A bill adding PTSD to the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana, LD 1062, became law

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Tuesday without the governor’s signature, according to the Marijuana Policy Project.

A similar measure was signed into law earlier this month in Oregon, and medical marijuana is currently allowed in the treatment of PTSD in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts and New Mexico, the group reported.

“There is mounting evidence demonstrating the benefits of medical marijuana for individuals suffering from PTSD,” said David Boyer, Maine political director for the Marijuana Policy Project. “Maine lawmakers should be commended for taking action to ensure veterans and others living with PTSD are able to use medical marijuana to alleviate their symptoms and live healthy and productive lives.

They deserve nothing less.”

Eighteen states and Washington, D.C. allow patients with qualifying conditions to use medical marijuana with recommendations from their physicians. The Illinois Legislature approved similar legislation in May, which is now awaiting the governor’s signature. The New Hampshire Legislature adopted similar legislation Wednesday and the governor has announced she will sign it, Boyer said.

State agency reports changes to unemployment benefits program Federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program unemployment benefits that have already been reduced under the federal government’s budget sequester will undergo an additional sequester-related reduction as a result of Maine’s improving economy, the state reported.

In May, Tier 3 beneficiaries — those in the last weeks of EUC eligibility — had their benefits end eight weeks early because of savings requirements imposed by the federal sequester. Now that the rolling three-month average of Maine’s unemployment rate has dropped below the 7 percent threshold, Tier 3 benefits will be eliminated entirely, forcing the sequestration-mandated savings to come out of Tier 2 benefit payments, a state press release explained.

Beginning the week of July 14, Tier 2 beneficiaries will only be eligible for six weeks of benefits instead of 14.

The federal sequester mandated that benefit cuts be implemented to achieve an overall savings of 10.7 percent of benefits for federal fiscal year 2013, which ends Sept. 30, 2013. The U.S. Department of Labor gave states a handful of specific options to achieve the savings.

Under the option Maine could implement, benefit duration is reduced by eight weeks in the last tier the state is eligible to offer. The elimination of a tier of benefit eligibility because of an improving employment situation does not qualify as sequester savings.

In total, about 15,000 individuals are currently claiming unemployment benefits. The new reduction will affect about 1,100 of the 2,445 individuals currently collecting EUC Tiers 2 and 3 benefits. The last week in which a person currently collecting benefits under Tier 2 can establish a claim under Tier 3 is the week ending July 13, 2013. Starting with the week beginning July 14, 2013, a person entering into or collecting benefits under Tier 2 will be limited to a maximum of six weeks of benefit collection.

Although EUC beneficiaries are required to attend job-search workshops and to be continuously looking for, able and available to work, Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette has again made available intensive services to support people who will be losing benefits earlier than they might have anticipated.

“Although we welcome Maine’s improving employment situation, we do understand that this will bring challenges to people in the affected tiers. To help them find jobs, the Maine Department of Labor, through its CareerCenter network and other service providers, has implemented an increased and focused array of CareerCenter job-search services and training to help these job seekers,” Paquette said.

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Thursday, June 27 Greek Festival

11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Grounds, Portland (located on the corner of Pleasant and Park Street). “This spectacular three-day Greek Festival is a wonderful family event that each year draws more than 10,000 visitors from around the greater Portland area. Along with the exquisite Greek cuisine, there will be live music and traditional dancing.

Guests will dine on exceptional Greek food, cooked the oldfashioned way by hard-working members of the Holy Trinity parish, using authentic Greek recipes, all-natural ingredients and lots of tender, loving care. For more information, call 774-0281.

MHS walking tours of historic Portland

1:30 p.m. “Maine Historical Society is pleased to announce daily walking tours of historic Portland. Explore various sections of downtown Portland including Post Office Park, Boothby Square, Exchange Street and more. Walk down cobblestoned streets and discover how social movements, the economy and adversity over the last four centuries made Portland what it is today. Weather permitting, tours depart daily from Maine Historical Society at 1:30 and last approximately one hour.; $10/per person; or $15 for both walking tour and Longfellow House tour. Tours run through September 30, 2013. Call MHS for group bookings. Appropriate footwear is recommended. For more information about the Historical Walking Tours: Brent Daly, Education Department, Maine Historical Society ,489 Congress St., Portland.

774-1822, ext 214. www.mainehistory.org.”

Portland Community Health Center at Riverton

3 p.m. Mondays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. “The Portland Community Health Center at Riverton held an opening celebration on June 20 with blood pressure checks, cancer screenings, nutrition education and healthy snacks. The center officially opens to the public on Thursday, June 27. The center’s opening makes health care more accessible for residents of Riverton Park — a neighborhood of 141 apartments — and will better prepare future health professionals who deliver care to the City of Portland’s underserved populations, including immigrants and refugees. The new Portland Community Health Center at Riverton is part of the ‘CHANNELS’ program, led and facilitated

by University of New England, and made possible through a collaborative relationship with the Portland Community Health Center, City of Portland, Portland Housing Authority, and the Maine Center for Disease Control-Cumberland Public Health District. Portland Community Health Center is designated as a federally qualified health center. Its mission is to provide high quality patient centered health care that is accessible, affordable, and culturally sensitive.”

Women’s Mountain Bike Night

6 p.m. Allspeed & Singletrack Sisters Present: A Women’s Mountain Bike Night at Allspeed Cyclery & Snow. Ride — “All abilities group ride from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (leaves from the shop). Learn — Basic mountain bike maintenance clinic with a Q&A session. Deals — 25 percent off parts, cothing and accessories and 15 percent off bikes (pricing valid for this event on June 27, must attend in person to receive discounts). Juliana Bicycles Mountain bikes made for women.

Available exclusively at Allspeed Cyclery & Snow. 878.8741, allspeed.com, 72 Auburn St., Portland.”

Cultivating Community Twilight Dinner

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Turkey Hill Farm, 120 Old Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth. “Cultivating Community is holding a series of Twilight Dinners at their farm in Cape Elizabeth. The three-course meals will be cooked by local chefs to highlight the local and seasonal. The cost is $40 per person (BYOB).

You can buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets. June 27 — Chef David Levi, Vinland. July 3 — TBD. July 11 — Chef Jonah Fertig, Local Sprouts. July 18 – Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender.

July 25 — Chefs Brad Messier and Erin Lynch, Rosemont Market & Bakery. Aug. 1 — Chef Josh Potocki, Bread and Butter Catering Co. Aug. 8 — Cultivating Community Youth Growers supported by John Peelen of Dutch Door Kitchen.

Aug. 15 — Chef Leslie Oster, Aurora Provisions. Aug. 22 — TBD. Aug. 29 — Chef Chris McClay, Modern Vegan Cooking School. Sept. 5 — Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender.”

ChIME Open House

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, “Creating Sacred Objects” with the Rev. Guan Dojo. “Sacred Objects are used in all faith traditions as a means to make spiritual connections. In this workshop we will create our own sacred objects for private use. The act of creating is in itself an expression or manifestation of the divine. No special talent or skills necessary as we are all artists. You are enough just as you are. Materials will be provided. The Open House is free and open to the public. No registration necessary. 555 Forest Ave., Portland (Center For Grieving Children building). Please park on Belmont or Forest as the Center for Grieving Children’s lot is reserved for families attending the Center.”

An Eastern Chipmunk pokes its head out of a burrow at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park. The state park in Freeport offers nature programs on weekends and holidays at 2 p.m. through July 31. Most programs start at the circle of benches at the end of the second parking lot, unless otherwise noted, and may include walks, talks, and activities in a beautiful natural setting. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

‘Shaker History and Shaker Song’

7 p.m. “Shaker History and Shaker Song.” “Join Brother Arnold Hadd, the Sabbathday Lake Shakers and violist Julia Adams in an evening of Shaker history and Shaker song. Bring your voices, weak or strong, to this unique singalong!” Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions. Three consecutive evening concerts plus workshop day/master class. Artistic directors are the Portland String Quartet. Guest artists are Native American storyteller David Lonebear Sanipass, Shaker Society’s Br. Arnold Hadd, and artist and composer Patrick Doane. Held in the 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd. Route 26 New Gloucester, June 26 to 29. 7 p.m. $25 per evening concert; seniors $20; under 21-free. Reservations suggested, 926-4597. www.shaker. lib.me.us

Maine Crime Writers Panel

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Walker Memorial Library is pleased to welcome Maine Crime Writers Kate Flora, Gerry Boyle and Lea Wait for an evening of mystery talk and fun. Join us! For more information on some of our state’s great mystery writers, check out:http://mainecrimewriters.com. And we have several books by these authors available, come check out one or all of their books.” Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St., Westbrook. http://www.walker.lib.me.us/wordpress

‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’”

Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick.

Tuesday-Sunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Only the Young’ at the library

7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “The Portland Public Library POV Summer Documentary Film Series presents ‘Only the Young’ on Thursday, June 27 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium. Chris Gorman, Associate Director at the Maine Youth Action Network — an organization that seeks to engage and empower youth in Maine — will introduce the film and lead a facilitated discussion with the audience after the film.The film, by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims, chronicles skateboarders Garrison and Kevin, and Garrison’s on-and-off girlfriend, Skye who are in many ways living the archetypical American teen life. Growing up in the small southern California town of Santa Clarita, they hang out, listen to punk music, change their hairstyles (and hair colors) and complain about living in a place with nothing to do. They explore friendship, discover first love (and heartbreak) and dream about the future.” For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov.

Toy Theater Traveling Show

8 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, Great Small Works’ International Toy Theater Traveling Show. Following the 10th International Toy Theater Festival, Great Small Works will embark on a short New England tour featuring work of Great Small Works and two international companies-Facto Teatro from Mexico City; and Barbara Steinitz and Bjoern Kollin from Berlin. Each show on the tour will feature programs by two or three of the companies, each doing a 20-30 minute Toy Theater performance. Doors at 7:30/Show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 adults/$10 students/artists. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358480

Portland Public Arts Committee website

8 p.m. East End Beach website unveiling. “The Portland Public Arts Committee will unveil a new website, www. publicartportland.org featuring information about the city’s public art collection at a launch party at the East End Beach. Attendees can view slides of the new website from the beach on a screen along the retaining wall. The new website includes descriptions of the city’s twenty-eight pieces as well as an interactive map feature that allows visitors to create their own walking tours. Currently, the public art collection contains twenty-eight works of art that are permanently installed throughout the city, including works of historical significance dating from the nineteenth century, as well as contemporary pieces that reflect the diversity and the spirit of the city.” (Postponed from Wednesday by rain.)

Friday, June 28 Maine Military & Community Network conference

8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Maine Military & Community Network will hold the third annual Statewide Conference from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “The conference will take place at the Central Maine Community College, 1250 Turner St., Auburn.

The theme for the event is ‘Military Children & Families.’ The Keynote Speaker will be Allyson Handley, Ed. D., president of University of Maine Augusta. Specific focus will be placed upon the education experience faced by children and families of Military Members as well as the impact of deployment upon the military family unit. Navy Spouse and author of the newly released book, ‘Dinner with the Smiley’s,’ Sara Smiley will be present with her children to give insight to the perspective of facing deployment from the home front in a veteran family panel. Awards for excellence in support of Maine’s military population will also be presented. The afternoon will start with focus on the movie ‘A Matter of Duty’ which details Kennebec Sheriff Randy Liberty’s personal battle with PTSD and several veterans in his charge at the Kennebec County Jail. ... Producer Charlie Smith and Jennifer Rooks of Maine Watch will be present to talk about the importance of shining the light of public awareness. This event is open to the public for the cost of $40.” Register at http:// mainemcn.eventbrite.com. see next page

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‘Teaching and Performance’ at Shaker Village

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Teaching and Performance” workshop day Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions. “String students and adult players come to the SDL Shaker Village to be coached by the PSQ with a culminating Master Class (3:30 p.m.). Licensed counselor Caroline Loupe will help players explore methods which enhance the joy of playing music.” Master Class only — free of charge and open to the public. Held in the 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd. Route 26 New Gloucester, June 26 to 29. 7 p.m. $25 per evening concert; seniors $20; under 21-free. Reservations suggested, 926-4597. www.shaker.lib.me.us

‘This Rebellion’ at Maine Historical Society

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maine Historical Society exhibit opening. “‘This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War.’ ‘This Rebellion’ showcases a rich array of MHS’s Civil War collections — photographs, letters, artifacts, maps and memorabilia -related to the Maine soldier’s experience during and after the war. For the first time ever, a database has been created of all Maine soldiers who died in the War (in battle or of war wounds or illness); the names will appear in a remembrance wall as part of the exhibit. The exhibit is a stop on the new 23-site Maine Civil War Trail.” The exhibit opens to the public on June 28 and will be up through May 26, 2014. Museum hours: Monday–Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday (May-Oct.): noon to 5 p.m. http://www.mainehistory.org

‘Breckinridge Long’ author at the library

noon. “Neil Rolde will be talking about his new book ‘Breckinridge Long: An American Eichmann??? An Enquiry into the Character of the Man Who Denied Visas to the Jews’ at the Friday Local Author Series on Friday, June 28 at noon in Meeting Room No. 5 at the Portland Public Library. During the Holocaust, while the Nazis were exterminating thousands of Jews daily, the U.S. State Department official in charge of matters concerning all European refugees was Breckinridge Long. ‘He’s an example of the banality of evil,’ said Neil Rolde author of the first full-length biography of Long. ‘I wanted to highlight his own accounts of his life written in all his diaries, and the times in which he lived, to give people a comprehensive look into his character.’” http:// www.portlandlibrary.com

Maine Artist Collective exhibit

noon to 4 p.m. “Every city seems to have its own unique sense of place marked by its history, commerce, people, art and architecture. See how the Maine Artists Collective sees our city of Portland where natural elements meet steel, brick, granite and concrete when the Urban Landscape exhibit opens June 28 and runs to July 22 at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St. in Portland. Gallery hours are Monday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. A reception is planned for First Friday, July 5 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The mission of the Maine Artist Collective is to connect the public with Maine artists and support development by providing exhibition and studio space, education, and professional workshops.”

MHS walking tours of historic Portland

1:30 p.m. “Maine Historical Society is pleased to announce daily walking tours of historic Portland. Explore various sections of downtown Portland including Post Office Park, Boothby Square, Exchange Street and more. Walk down cobblestoned streets and discover how social movements, the economy and adversity over the last four centuries made Portland what it is today. Weather permitting, tours depart daily from Maine Historical Society at 1:30 and last approximately one hour.; $10/per person; or $15 for both walking tour and Longfellow House tour. Tours run through September 30, 2013. Call MHS for group bookings. Appropriate footwear is recommended. For more information about the Historical Walking Tours: Brent Daly, Education Department, Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. 774-1822, ext 214. www.mainehistory.org.”

Pin Maine-ia pinball championship

2 p.m. The New England Pinball Championship sponsored

by New England Pinball. June 28-30. The Main Event, an 18-Round Match Play Championship with a Final Round Shoot Out for the top four finishers to crown the New England Champion. All Day Saturday. Trophies, Plaques and Cash will be awarded to the top 4 finishers in A and B groups. A division records will be carried forward after the cut. The B Division. After the first nine rounds of the Main Event, the bottom half of the bracket will be cut and the “B” division will be formed. All records will be wiped clean and a B Division Champ will be Crowned from this group. The four Top finishers will also play in a final round shoot out. The Team Championship. Everyone will be invited to compete in a four-person team event using a Pin-Golf scoring format.

Players will be seeded according to their skill level and Cash and Plaques will be awarded to the Top Teams. The Lobster Pot Classic — A Coin Drop tournament. This event helps

The Portland Community Health Center at Riverton held an opening celebration on June 20. The center opens today. Riverton Park resident Fadumo Aseyr gets her blood pressure checked by University of New England student nurse Abby Pierce. (COURTESY PHOTO) support Pin Maine-ia. Half of the cash box receipts to the High Score on each machine. Friday 2 p.m. to midnight.

Saturday 10 a.m. to miidnight. Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 25 Hickory Lane Gorham, Maine. $60 for the weekend. This includes Free Play on all machines, Entry into three tournaments and a commemorative T-shirt. drjr@maine.rr.com.

Spectator Fee, $10 per day or $15 for the weekend. This includes Free Play on all non-tournament machines. Kids 6-12, $5/$10. Under 6 free. http://nepinball.com/index. php?title=Main_Page

‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’”

Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick.

Tuesday-Sunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

Saccarappa Art Collective reception

5 p.m. until 8 p.m. “Painter Barbara Brady will exhibit a collection of her work titled ‘Marking Time’ at Saccarappa Art Collective’s Main Gallery from June 28 through Aug. 7.

Brady draws on experience as a plein-aire landscape artist to produce her colorful abstract compositions through a process she describes as ‘much like the process of life — the intention is direct but the experience is very emotional and intuitive.’ Anne Bernard’s hauntingly sensitive encaustics and drawings will be showcased on the gallery’s Riverside Wall. Bob Thomas will join as a special guest with member artists Andy Curran, Sherry Ballou, Mary Brooking, Jim Flahaven, Jeremy Greene, Caren-Marie Michel, Frank Valliere and Julie Vohs, who will also present new work. An opening reception will run from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. on the evening of June 28.

Saccarappa Art Collective is committed to presenting the authentic vision of local and regional professional artists to the greater community. Gallery hours are WednesdaySaturday: noon-7 p.m.” 861 Main St., Westbrook. https:// www.facebook.com/SaccarappaArtCollective

Cape Farm Alliance Strawberry Festival

6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cape Farm Alliance Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth. Shady Oak Farm, 30 Fowler Road. Saturday at Maxwell’s Strawberry Field, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Two Lights Road. “Our Annual Strawberry Fest will be held this year on the last weekend in June – the 28th and 29th – so mark your calendar now so you don’t miss out!

Tickets for the very popular Lobster Bake/Pork Roast at Shady Oak Farm the evening of June 28 will go on sale in late May/early June – you can purchase at Alewives Brook Farm or Jordan’s Farm Market on Wells Rd.” www. capefarmalliance.org

‘Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down’

7 p.m. Friday, June 28 to Sunday, June 30, two shows on Saturday. St. Lawrence Arts Center. “A young black mother

struggles to keep her faith after a series of heartbreaking setbacks. When her daughter is hospitalized, and her husband becomes more and more abusive, she is on the verge of giving up. It is only though her faith in God that she is able to carry on.” http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/380753

‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’

7:30 p.m. “Schoolhouse Arts Center at Sebago Lake will present ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ by Rebecca Feldman and William Finn from June 21 to July 7. “‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ is a musical comedy which centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School.

Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, which is run by three equally-quirky grown-ups. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Schoolhouse Arts Center is directed

by Michael Hjort. Cast members include Sean Colby and Ben Plummer from Limington, Kim Drisko from Gorham, Dillon Bates from Portland, Andrew Goodwin from South Portland, Molly Olsen from Windham, Adam Gary Normand from Old Orchard Beach and Angelica and Elizabeth Phipps from Standish. Performances of ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ will be held at Schoolhouse Arts Center on June 28 and 29 and July 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and June 30 and July 7 at 5 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students and seniors. Schoolhouse is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35. For reservations, call 642-3743 or buy tickets on-line at www. schoolhousearts.org.”

‘Deathtrap’ at Lyric Music Theater

8 p.m. “Deathtrap” at Lyric Music Theater, South Portland. “‘Deathtrap’ — This Ira Levin play has many twists and turns! Accomplished writer Sidney Bruhl finds himself struggling to write the next big play. After several flops, he becomes desperate. Sidney reads a play by a young writer, Clifford Anderson, which he finds to be a perfect thriller. He plots to kill Clifford and pass the play off as his own, but soon realizes that this will not be as easy as he planned!”

Call the Box Office at 799-1421.

Saturday, June 29 Urban Raid in Portland

10 a.m. Urban Raid starting at Ocean Gateway terminal.

5K obstacle course race. “Introducing a new, cutting-edge race series designed for a new breed of cross training athlete — The RAID. Come experience the next generation of obstacle racing; one that features varied terrain, largescale customized infrastructure, and extraordinary venues that range from picturesque beaches, to energized downtown metros, to breath-taking mountain sides. The RAID offers you the chance to choose one or conquer all three races in distinct environments — a unique challenge that no other series can provide. For just under five miles in distance at each race course, you’ll be challenged to run, crawl, jump, climb, and scramble on sand, city streets and steep slopes.” http:// raidevents.com/urban-raid-portland/# see next page

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English Garden Party and Home Tour

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Event at 402 Pulpit Rock Road, Cape Elizabeth. Maine Home and Design English Garden Party and Home Tour in Cape Elizabeth. “Enjoy an English garden party, tea and home tour at one of the most beautiful private properties in Cape Elizabeth — Garrison Field. This property was modeled after a spectacular English Tudorstyle estate. Garrison Field Cape Elizabeth, MaineStroll the grounds and shore, take a guided home tour, and relax with a ‘spot of tea’ and variety of performers. Parking is available at Cape Elizabeth High School with vans running regularly.

Tickets are $25 for Garden Party and Home Tour and are available at Whole Foods Market, Nonesuch Books Mill Creek, IGA Pond Cove, Jordan’s Farm Market, Broadway Gardens, O’Donals, Estabrooks, Skillins, Highland Avenue Nursery, and www.fortwilliams.org. Or extend your day with a VIP package for $50, which includes workshops, reserved parking, English Fare Lunch & Tea, and garden party and home tour tickets. Available only at Whole Foods and at www.fortwilliams.org. This tour benefits The Arboretum at Fort Williams Park, a project of the non-profit Fort Williams Foundation. The funds generated will be used to create a series of garden landscapes within Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, for the public to enjoy.”

Smokey the Bear in Gray

11 a.m. “Join a local District Forest Ranger from the Maine Forest Service on Saturday, June 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to see a demonstration and display of the tools of their trade. Inspect a Ranger truck loaded with 1,500 lbs of fire equipment and initial response gear. Forest Rangers protect our forests, properties and homes from fires, insects, disease and misuse. A special photo opportunity for the kids is scheduled from noon to 12:30 p.m., when Smokey the Bear will arrive to meet and greet his fans. Bring your cameras for photos of Smokey with your children! There will also be a team of volunteers from the the Forest Pest Outreach and Survey Project with an information table focused on invasive forest pests such as the Asian longhorned beetle, emerald ash borer and the hemlock wooly adelgid.” Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray (off Route 26). See www.mainewildlifepark.com for details about these and all our other scheduled 2013 events.

Maine Festival of American Music

7 p.m. “Synergy” eighth season, Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions. Three consecutive evening concerts plus workshop day/master class. “The Synergy of Performance and Composition.” Violinist and composer Patrick Doane, Maine native, former PSQ student and now Juilliard graduate, joins the Portland String Quartet in an evening of Chamber Music. Shaker hymns will be woven skillfully into a Festival commissioned work

by Doane.” Held in the 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd. Route 26 New Gloucester, June 26 to 29. 7 p.m. $25 per evening concert; seniors $20; under 21-free. Reservations suggested, 9264597. www.shaker.lib.me.us

‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’

7:30 p.m. “Schoolhouse Arts Center at Sebago Lake will present ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ by Rebecca Feldman and William Finn from June 21 to July 7. “‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ is a musical comedy which centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School.

Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, which is run by three equally-quirky grown-ups. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Schoolhouse Arts Center is directed

by Michael Hjort. Cast members include Sean Colby and Ben Plummer from Limington, Kim Drisko from Gorham, Dillon Bates from Portland, Andrew Goodwin from South Portland, Molly Olsen from Windham, Adam Gary Normand from Old Orchard Beach and Angelica and Elizabeth Phipps from Standish. Performances of ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ will be held at Schoolhouse Arts Center on June 28 and 29 and July 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and June 30 and July 7 at 5 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students and seniors. Schoolhouse is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35. For reservations, call 642-3743 or buy tickets on-line at www. schoolhousearts.org.”

‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable

A groundhog enjoys feasting on a peach on Munjoy Hill. Fans of nature can join Maine Audubon for a variety of outdoor activities. These include Nature Art via the Marsh Tuesday, July 9, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Scarborough Marsh. Children will explore the marsh and then participate on a craft activity. All sessions are different. Visit http://maineaudubon.org. (MARGE NIBLOCK PHOTO) musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’”

Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick.

Tuesday-Sunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Deathtrap’ at Lyric Music Theater

8 p.m. “Deathtrap” at Lyric Music Theater, South Portland. “‘Deathtrap’ — This Ira Levin play has many twists and turns! Accomplished writer Sidney Bruhl finds himself struggling to write the next big play. After several flops, he becomes desperate. Sidney reads a play by a young writer, Clifford Anderson, which he finds to be a perfect thriller. He plots to kill Clifford and pass the play off as his own, but soon realizes that this will not be as easy as he planned!”

Call the Box Office at 799-1421.

Improvised Puppet Project, Port Fringe 2013

10 p.m. A Post-Apocalyptic Improvised Zombie Puppet Musical, Saturday, June 29, at 10 p.m. at SPACE Gallery.

“Join the Improvised Puppet Project for a completely improvised musical — with puppets! — set in a world devastated by the Great Zombie Attack of 2013. A tenuous peace has been reached between the two factions, and now humans and zombies must learn to live side-by-side. Only the power of musical theater can help them set aside their differences — or can it?” For additional PortFringe events, see http:// www.portfringe.com/shows.htm

Sunday, June 30 ‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’”

Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick.

Tuesday-Sunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Deathtrap’ at Lyric Music Theater

2:30 p.m. “Deathtrap” at Lyric Music Theater, South Portland. “‘Deathtrap’ — This Ira Levin play has many twists and turns! Accomplished writer Sidney Bruhl finds himself struggling to write the next big play. After several flops, he becomes desperate. Sidney reads a play by a young writer, Clifford Anderson, which he finds to be a perfect thriller. He plots to kill Clifford and pass the play off as his own, but soon realizes that this will not be as easy as he planned!”

Call the Box Office at 799-1421.

Screening of ‘Caddyshack’

8:26 p.m. Screening of “Caddyshack,” 1980 Bill Murray comedy, part of the 2013 Rooftop Film Series by Mensk at the Spring Street parking garage roof (enter at 45 Spring St.). Each show starts at sunset, BYO chairs/blankets; no alcohol; donations requested. “The mission of Mensk is to inspire and support personal, local, and regional action for the development of creative and sustainable communities.” http://www.menskmaine.org

Monday, July 1 Jim Drain in 2013 MFA Artist Lecture Series

6:30 p.m. The MFA program at Maine College of Art announced the roster of visiting artists for the summer of 2013 MFA Artist Lecture Series, including Jim Drain. “Jim Drain is a Miami-based artist who creates hyperactive, chaotic art, fashion and furniture, using an abundance of materials from chains to yarn to costumes. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and was involved in the highly influential Fort Thunder community in Rhode Island, and was also a former member of Forcefield, a performance art collective who collaborated on videos, comics, totems, experimental music, kinetic sculptures covered in textiles, and more. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art.” All lectures are held in Osher Hall on the second floor of MECA’s Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street, and begin at 6:30 p.m. http://www.meca.edu

Tuesday, July 2 ‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by ClaudeMichel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book

by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’” Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick. msmt.org. 725-8769.

Farm Stand in West End

3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Farm Stand in West End by Cultivating Community will run July 1 to Oct. 18. The West End day is Tuesday from 3-6 p.m. at Reiche School playground. St. Luke’s, State St., will host the Farmers Market Sundays from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. http://cultivatingcommunity.org/nasap/ farmers-markets.html

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Inmate serving life sentence killed in exercise area at prison Daily Sun Staff Reports

The death of a Maine State Prison inmate is being investigated as a homicide, Maine State Police reported. Alan Powell, 57, died Tuesday night after being attacked by a second inmate in an exercise area at the Warren prison, officials said.

Both inmates are convicted murderers. Powell was serving a life sentence for stabbing and strangling a Waterville woman in 1989. An autopsy on his body will take place at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta. Detectives say he was attacked by 42-year-old Guy Hunnewell, who is serving a 40-year sentence for stabbing to death his girlfriend in Fairfield in 1997. Hunnewell remains at the prison.

Detectives went to the prison Tuesday night and conducted interviews with guards and inmates. The case will likely be presented to the next session of the Knox County grand jury in July, police said.

Legislators override governor, approve budget for two years In a vote of 26-9 Wednesday, the Maine Senate voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the state’s two-year budget, following the House’s override vote of 114-34, staving off a possible state government shutdown.

This marked the first time the Senate has overridden one of LePage’s vetoes, officials noted.

The budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 will take effect in five days, on July 1, although party leaders continue to disagree over its contents. Democrats emphasized that Republicans joined them to pass the two-year budget out of committee.

“We did what the people of Maine expect us to do — we LePage passed a responsible budget that will keep the state working,” said Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland in a press release. “This is what we came here to do: work together to find common ground and help our state thrive.”

The bipartisan budget, unanimously recommended by the 13-member budget writing panel, restores nearly two-thirds of the cuts to municipal revenue sharing and the Homestead exemption, increases funding for public Alfond education, and provides funding for the early childhood program, Head Start, Maine Democratic leadership said. The budget also restores cuts to programs that help seniors pay for their medicine and reduces waitlists for enhanced specialized MaineCare services for people with severe disabilities, the leadership said.

The restorations are paid for, in part, by closing corporate tax loopholes, and increasing the sales tax by half a penny and the meals and lodging taxes by one percent until June 30, 2015, Maine Democratic leadership said. Additionally, the Legislature’s budget restores funding for merit and longevity pay for state workers.

“While no one got everything they wanted in this budget, everyone got something they needed. That is compromise, and that is what is needed in divided government in order to move Maine forward,” said Senate Majority Leader Seth Goodall of Richmond.

“Today’s vote is a vote for a higher responsibility to put our state on solid footing. It’s also a vote for an opportunity to avoid property tax increases on every Maine homeowner. It’s a vote for an investment in our schools and our children--and it’s a vote to keep the lights on.”

The governor vetoed the budget on Monday, June 24. Senate Republican leaders at the time said the veto was the right decision in lieu of raising taxes.

“I think we all anticipated that this budget would be vetoed by the Governor,” Senator Michael Thibodeau, R-Waldo, the Maine Senate Republican leader, said on June 24. “The budget that was on his desk calls for a 10 percent increase in the Maine sales tax and a 14 percent increase in the meals and lodging tax. Instead of asking our elected representatives to cut spending, we are asking the people of Maine for more of their paychecks to pay for oversized government programs. I believe this veto gives us a chance to make the budget of Maine families a priority over the budget of state government.”

Richard M. Cebra, Maine GOP Chairman, urged a no vote on the override.

“As Republicans, it is our job to hold the line on taxes,” he wrote in a plea to Republican legislators.

“We are not the party of ‘smaller tax hikes than

Democrats,’ we are the party of fiscal responsibility. And when our government is already collecting more revenue than it did last year, we should pause and ask ourselves — why isn’t this enough?

It’s because spending is out of control and decades of Democrat control over our state has burdened us, our small businesses and our children and grandchildren with a state government too big to succeed and too expensive to afford. This issue is not about the next election, it is about the next generation.”

Lois Kilby-Chesley, teacher and president of the Maine Education Association, praised the override vote, stating, “This budget will help keep class sizes small, keep programs in-tact for our students and help ease the tax burden of middle class homeowners.” The budget gives public schools nearly $30 million more dollars than what the governor proposed and restores funding to public schools to the pre-curtailment funding levels, she said.

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