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The Portland Fire Department hoists a giant American flag on ladder trucks over Franklin Street Sunday as part of the procession to the “Blue Mass” at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland. The mass salutes local, state and federal law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency personnel. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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DNA double take

(NY Times) — From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information.

But scientists are discovering that — to a surprising degree — we contain genetic multitudes. Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. But scientists are finding that it’s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people.

“There have been whispers in the matrix about this for years, even decades, but only in a very hypothetical sense,” said Alexander Urban, a geneticist at Stanford University.

Even three years ago, suggesting that there was widespread genetic variation in a single body would have been met with skepticism, he said.

“You would have just run against the wall.”

But a series of recent papers by Dr. Urban and others has demonstrated that those whispers were not just hypothetical. The variation in the genomes found in a single person is too large to be ignored.

“We now know it’s there,” Dr. Urban said. “Now we’re mapping this new continent.”

Dr. James R. Lupski, a leading expert on the human genome at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote in a recent review in the journal Science that the existence of multiple genomes in an individual could have a tremendous impact on the practice of medicine.

“It’s changed the way I think,” he said in an interview.

Scientists are finding links from multiple genomes to certain rare diseases, and now they’re beginning to investigate genetic variations to shed light on more common disorders.

Science’s changing view is also raising questions about how forensic scientists should use DNA evidence to identify people. It’s also posing challenges for genetic counselors, who can’t assume that the genetic information from one cell can tell them about the DNA throughout a person’s body.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Obama on Monday seized on the fifth anniversary of the 2008 financial collapse to warn that House Republicans would reverse the gains made and willfully cause “economic chaos” by the uncompromising stands they have staked out on looming budget deadlines.

“Budget battles and debates, those are as old as the Republic,” Obama said before a friendly audience assembled in a White

House annex. But, he added, “I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can’t get 100 percent of what it wants.”

A bloc of conservative House Republicans have said that unless Obama’s signature health-insurance law is delayed or repealed, they will not support financing for government operations in the new fiscal year starting Oct. 1 or an essential increase in the nation’s borrowing limit

in mid-October. Failure to act on federal funding would provoke a government shutdown; even worse, failing to increase the debt limit would leave the government unable to pay bills and creditors and ultimately threaten the nation’s default.

“The last time the same crew threatened this course of action back in 2011, even the mere suggestion of default slowed our economic growth,” Obama said, recalling that summer’s market-rattling showdown.

Chemical Arms used in rocket Gunman, 12 victims killed in attack in Syria, U.N. confirms shooting at D.C. navy yard (NY Times) — Rockets armed with the banned chemical nerve agent sarin were used in a mass killing near Damascus on Aug. 21, United Nations chemical weapons inspectors reported Monday in the first official confirmation by nonpartisan experts, saying such munitions had been deployed “on a relatively large scale” in the Syria conflict.

Although the widely awaited report did not ascribe blame for the attack, it provided in graphic and clinical detail the evidence of sarin residue in three neighborhoods in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, the precise types of projectiles and trajectories to deliver it and the symptoms of the victims. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon called the attack the most horrific use of chemical weapons since Saddam Hussein of Iraq gassed the Kurdish village of Halabja a quarter century ago.

“The report makes for chilling reading,” Ban told a news conference after he delivered the report to

the Security Council. “The findings are beyond doubt and beyond the pale. This is a war crime.”

The United States and its allies quickly seized on the volume of evidence in the 38-page report to draw the conclusion that only Syrian government forces of President Bashar al-Assad had the capability to carry out such a strike, calling it validation of their own long-held assertions. But Russia’s ambassador said there too many unanswered questions to draw such a conclusion.

The report’s release punctuated a tumultuous week spawned by the global outrage over the Aug. 21 attack, in which an American threat of punitive force on the Syrian government was delayed as Russia proposed a diplomatic alternative, Syria agreed to ban chemical weapons and intense diplomacy between the United States and Russia led to a sweeping agreement in which Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal could be destroyed by the middle of 2014.

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — At least 13 people, including one gunman, were killed, and the police were looking for other potential suspects, in a shooting Monday morning at a naval office building not far from Capitol Hill and the White House, police officials said.

One police officer was in surgery after being shot in an exchange of fire with a gunman, said Chief Cathy L. Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department. The shootings took place at the Washington Navy Yard, in the southeast part of the city.

Senior law enforcement officials identified the gunman as Aaron Alexis, 34. He was identified through his fingerprints.

According to the Navy, Alexis enlisted as a full-time reservist in May 2007 and left the service in January 2011.

He served as an aviation electrician, and the highest rank he achieved was mate third class. From February 2008 to January 2011, he was assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46, in Fort Worth.

The Navy said that Alexis had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

Shortly after 4 p.m., the F.B.I. released a “Seeking Information” bulletin asking for the public’s help in learning more about Alexis. The bulletin, which had two photographs of Alexis, said that he was born in Queens and was 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighed 190 pounds.

Afghan policewomen report high levels of sexual harassment KABUL, Afghanistan (NY Times) — An unpublished United Nations report on female police officers in Afghanistan found accounts of pervasive sexual violence and harassment by their male colleagues, according to Afghan and Western officials familiar with the report.

A United Nations report painted a picture of an Afghan police force in which women were constantly at risk.

The report, which the United Nations has circulated only among senior Afghan officials at the Interior Ministry, found that about 90 percent of

the policewomen interviewed described sexual harassment and sexual violence as a serious problem, and that about 70 percent of the policewomen said that they had personally experienced sexual harassment or sexual violence themselves, according to people who saw the report or had it described to them.

While a much smaller fraction reported either being raped or otherwise sexually assaulted, the overall picture was of a police force in which women were constantly at risk.

Although the report has not been made public and was not

made available to The New York Times, two other recent reports touched on similar problems, though they did not focus as closely on the issue of sexual assault and harassment.

Ghulam Mujtaba Patang, who stepped down as interior minister in August, described the United Nations report’s broad outlines, but questioned its findings. He said that after reading the report he sent a team to investigate the situation of female police officers and that none of the women his team spoke to complained of such mistreatment.

“If an Afghan policewoman

is being raped or sexually harassed, they would report that — they wouldn’t keep it secret,” he said.

The chief spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Seddiq Seddiqi, said he thought the report had “some exaggeration of the issues and the problems.”

Both men insisted, however, that the ministry was committed to improving the situation of policewomen.

The report, according to two people familiar with it, surveyed nearly 10 percent of the female police force. United Nations officials would not discuss its details.

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Sunday, Sept. 8 2 a.m., Timothy Turner, 32, of Portland, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident and receiving stolen property on Federal Street by Officer Matthew Rider.

12 p.m., Jon Hammond, 30, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Munjoy South by Officer Stacey Brooker.

1 p.m., Gabriel Logugune, 47, of address unknown, was arrested for public drinking and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Park Avenue by Officer Kyle Brake.

3 p.m., Keri Lynn Robbins, 28, of address unknown, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Cumberland Avenue by Officer Andjelko Napijalo.

6 p.m., Ronald Yates, 42, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Brighton Avenue by Officer Charles Frazier.

10 p.m., Charles Marsters, 56, of Portland, was arrested for violation of conditional release and violation of bail conditions on Holm Avenue by Officer Erik Richard.

11 p.m., Anthony Renna, 23, of address unknown, was arrested for terrorizing on Front Street by Officer Vincent Rozzi.

11 p.m., Robert Smith, 52, of address unknown, was arrested for violation of conditional release on India Street by Officer Kali Hagerty.

Monday, Sept. 9 12 a.m., Donald Spear, 48, of address unknown, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on State Street by Officer Eric Johnson.

6 p.m., Keesie Theriault, 33, of Portland, was arrested for violation of bail conditions on Mellen Street by Officer Joshua McDonald.

6 p.m., Mary Nyembo, 21, of address unknown, was arrested for burglary to a motor vehicle on Somerset Street by Officer Brent Abbott.

10 p.m., Anthony Derrig, 22, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on Marginal Way by Officer Brent Abbott.

Tuesday, Sept. 10 4 p.m., Marta Robby, 34, of Portland, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Kennedy Park by Officer Joshua McDonald.

6 p.m., Wyatt Bowman, 56, of address unknown,

was arrested for public drinking on Congress Street

by Sgt. Robert Martin.

8 p.m., Matthew Erickson, 29, of Portland, was arrested for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Deering Avenue by Officer Erik Richard.

Wednesday, Sept. 11 12 a.m., Deng Maual, 26, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Cumberland Avenue by Officer David Cote.

12 a.m., Angela Snow, 43, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Oxford Street by Officer Jeffrey Ruth.

1 a.m., Daniel Howe, 22, of Portland, was arrested for aggravated assault on Fore Street by Officer Christopher Shinay.

4 a.m., Andrew Roberts, 42, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for operating after suspension on Lawn Avenue by Officer Samuel Turner.

5 a.m., Ryan Thomas McDevitt, 31, of address unknown, was arrested for burglary of a motor vehicle on Park Street by Officer John Morin.

7 a.m., Benjamin Cote, 33, of Portland, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and burglary of a motor vehicle by Officer Daniel Knight.

9 a.m., Benjamin Cote, 33, of Portland, was arrested for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Congress Street by Officer Daniel Knight.

4 p.m., Leroy Gove, 53, of address unknown, was arrested for criminal trespass on Congress Street by Officer Laurence Smith, Jr. 4 p.m., Kerry Murphy, 43, of Portland, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Forest Avenue by Officer Eric McCusker.

5 p.m., Gregory Allen Hahlbeck, 29, of Portland, was arrested for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Forest Avenue by Sgt. Jeffrey Calloway.

7 p.m., Christopher Grover, 23, of Portland, was arrested for obstructing government administration on Portland Street by Sgt. Robert Martin.

Thursday, Sept. 12 1 a.m., Samuel Ryan Scott, 33, of Carlsbad, Calif., was arrested for assault on Congress Street by Officer Zachary Finley.

5 a.m., Donald Spear, 48, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Tukey’s Bridge by Officer Christopher Coyne.

8 a.m., Wendell Lamar Hicks, 40, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for negotiating a worthless instrument on Castine Avenue by Officer Roland Lachance.

10 a.m., John Aboda, 31, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on Portland Street by Officer Daniel Rose.

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arrested for violation of a protection order and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon on Cumberland Avenue by Officer Martin Ney. 6 p.m., Jeffrey Bartlett, 46, of Portland, was arrested for criminal threatening on Congress Street by Officer Laurence Smith, Jr. 8 p.m., Ronald Spiller, 65, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on St. John Street by Officer Henry Johnson.

Friday, Sept. 13 11 a.m., Gedeon Semuhoza, 23, of Portland, was arrested for public drinking on Congress Street by Officer Daniel Rose.

4 p.m., Alec Niemy, 21, of Bridgton, was arrested for criminal mischief on Congress Street by Officer Martin Ney. 11 p.m., Pierre Gagnon, 47, of Portland, was arrested for criminal mischief on Glenwood Avenue

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Saturday, Sept. 14 12 a.m., Kirby Pinkham, 56, of Augusta, was arrested for operating under the influence on Allen Avenue by Sgt. Eric Nevins.

12 a.m., Oquely Oswaldo Cerna Ortiz, 40, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on Park Avenue by Officer Heather Brown.

8 a.m., Leon Keith Warren, 35, of Westbrook, was arrested on a warrant for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Portland Street by Officer Andjelko Napijalo.

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Commotion

Now that Lawrence Summers has removed himself from consideration as Federal Reserve chairman, President Obama is free to launch him into Syria as the first human rehypothecation weapon of mass destruction, where he can sow enough confusion between Assad’s Alawites and the Qaeda opposition to collateralize both factions into contingent convertible capital instruments buried in the back pages of Goldman Sachs’s balance sheet so that the world will never hear of them again — and then the Toll Brothers can be brought in to develop Syria into a casino/assisted living complex that will bring hundreds of good jobs to U.S. contractors in the region.

No doubt the stock markets will fly like eagles today.

Nobody knew what monkeyshines Mr. Summers might have pulled over at the Fed ––––– and it was making invesKunstler.com tors nervous, as well as the big banks who employed Mr. Summers occasionally as some kind of policy bagman. So a big sigh of relief blew over the Northeast Region of the nation like the gusts of autumn air that swept away a fetid hump of stale, wet tropical weather that ruined all the ladies’ party hair in the Hamptons this month.

Now that Syria has been disposed of — that is, indefinitely consigned to failed state purgatory — the world can focus its remaining attention on the almighty taper. I’m with those who think we’ll get a taper test. That is, the Fed will cut back ten or fifteen percent on its treasury bond purchases to see what happens. What happens is perfectly predictable: interest rates shoot above 3 percent on the tenyear and holders of U.S. paper all the world round fling them away like bales of smallpox blankets and ... Houston, we’ve got a problem.

After a month (or less) of havoc in the bond market, and the housing market, Mr. Bernanke will issue an advisory saying (in more words than these) “just kidding.” Then it will be back to business as usual, which is to say QE Forever, which might as well be saying “game over.”

James Howard Kunstler

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The Miracle at Philadelphia Let’s celebrate the Miracle at Philadelphia, the wrangled set of compromises worked out over a sweltering summer in a meeting room without air conditioning that was closed up tight so no news of the deliberations inside could leak out to the press. Let’s be accurate in our praise of the document; let’s realize that it was a do over promoted because the Articles of Confederation, the first framework for governance, had serious flaws that threatened the workability of the union. Every citizen should have a general understanding of this moment in history.

When studying the creation of the Constitution, remember that it is a draft of general powers of governance that each state approved stating the rights and responsibilities of a national government; it describes a system for decision making that foresees a great nation and reacts in many ways to the abuses of government that eighteenth century citizens had seen first hand.

Compromises addressed the interests of rich states and poor states, large populations and sparse, states that disagreed about issues like slavery, religion, and education. When celebrating the Constitution, remember that

Robert Libby –––––

One Man’s Island democracy was not mentioned a single time in the document.

Remember that the document in many ways attempted to truncate the power of the masses.

Only white males with property had a say in choosing representatives. Only the House of Representatives was elected directly. State legislatures chose the senators. The Electoral College chose the President. The Constitution drafted on Sept.

17, 1787 did not state an independent role for the judicial branch to interpret the constitutional appropriateness of laws passed by Congress.

Is the original Constitution gospel to be held unchanged and unchangeable? Clearly not.

In the effort to get it ratified by voters and state governments, James Madison crafted more that one hundred amendments responding to issues brought up by opponent anti-federalists. The

resultant Bill of Rights contains most of the language that citizens to this day point to when speaking against the dangers of authoritarianism. Separation of church and state, freedom of speech, the right to assemble, privacy, the right to arm a militia, the limitation of powers to those expressly granted to the national government: all provided after the Constitutional convention members had signed the draft and returned to their home states.

As the nation changed and the understanding of individual rights changed, the Constitution changed. After 1803 and the Marbury v. Madison decision of the Supreme Court, the precedent of Judicial Review was established.

As new states entered the union, issues of popular sovereignty, nullification, and even secession from the union led to another event of armed rebellion and the victorious side profoundly changed the Constitution again: the fourteenth amendment makes clear that the laws of the nation have supremacy over the laws of member states and each citizen in every jurisdiction is entitled to the equal protection and due process of those rights. see LIBBY page 5

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Rich man’s recovery A few days ago, The Times published a report on a society that is being undermined by extreme inequality. This society claims to reward the best and brightest regardless of family background. In practice, however, the children of the wealthy benefit from opportunities and connections unavailable to children of the middle and working classes. And it was clear from ––––– the article that the gap between The New York the society’s meritocratic ideolTimes ogy and its increasingly oligarchic reality is having a deeply demoralizing effect.

The report illustrated in a nutshell why extreme inequality is destructive, why claims ring hollow that inequality of outcomes doesn’t matter as long as there is equality of opportunity. If the rich are so much richer than the rest that they live in a different social and material universe, that fact in itself makes nonsense of any notion of equal opportunity.

By the way, which society are we talking about?

The answer is: the Harvard Business School — an elite institution, but one that is now characterized by a sharp internal division between ordinary students and a sub-elite of students from wealthy families.

The point, of course, is that as the business school goes, so goes America, only even more so — a point driven home by the latest data on taxpayer incomes.

The data in question have been compiled for the past decade by the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, who use I.R.S. numbers to estimate the concentration of income in America’s upper strata.

According to their estimates, top income shares took a hit during the Great Recession, as things like capital gains and Wall Street bonuses temporarily dried up. But the rich have come roaring back, to such an extent that 95 percent of the gains from economic recovery since 2009 have gone to the famous 1 percent. In fact, more than 60 percent of the gains went to the top 0.1 percent, people with annual incomes of more than $1.9 million.

Basically, while the great majority of Americans are still living in a depressed economy, the rich have recovered just about all their losses and are powering ahead.

An aside: These numbers should (but probably won’t) finally kill claims that rising inequality is all about the highly educated doing better than those with less training. Only a small fraction of college graduates make it into the charmed circle of the 1 percent. Meanwhile, many, even most, highly educated young people are having a very rough time. They have their degrees, often acquired at the cost of heavy debts, but many remain unemployed or underemployed, while many more find that they are employed in jobs that make no use of their expensive educations. The college graduate serving lattes at Starbucks is a cliché, but he reflects a very real situation.

What’s driving these huge income gains at the top?

There’s intense debate on that point, with some economists still claiming that incredibly high incomes reflect comparably incredible contributions to the economy. I guess I’d note that a large proportion of those superhigh incomes come from the financial industry, which is, as you may remember, the industry that taxpayers had to bail out after its looming collapse threatened to take down the whole economy.

In any case, however, whatever is causing the growing concentration of income at the top, the effect of that concentration is to undermine all the values that define America. Year by year, we’re diverging from our ideals. Inherited privilege is crowding out equality of opportunity; the power of money is crowding out effective democracy.

So what can be done? For the moment, the kind of transformation that took place under the New Deal — a transformation that created a middle-class society, not just through government programs, but

KUNSTLER from page 4

self-created hell-hole. The stock market is a proxy for the economy and a handful of giant banks are proxies for the American public, and all they’ve really got going is a hideous high-frequency churn of trades in conjectural debentures that pretend to represent something hidden in the caboose of a choo-choo train of wished-for value — and hardly anyone in the nation, including those with multiple graduate degrees in abstruse crypto-sciences, can even pretend to understand it all.

When reality crosses the finish line ahead of poor, exhausted Mr. Bernanke, havoc must ensue.

All the artificial props fall away and the so-called American economy is revealed for what it is: a surreal landscape of ruin with nothing left but salvage value. Very few people will get a living off of the salvage operations, and there will be fights and

skirmishes everywhere by one gang or another for control of the pickings. The utility of money itself may be bygone, along with the legitimacy of anyone or anything claiming institutional authority. This is what comes of all attempts to get something for nothing.

By the way, for those of you still watching the charts, notice that gold and silver may bob up and down week-by-week, but the price of oil remains stubbornly above $105-a-barrel no matter what happens. That is the only number you need to know to predict the fate of industrial economies.

each year to influence the direction of the government. The parties have invented ways to assure success in elections by campaign contributions.

Our elections have become based on the question “Can I raise the money to run?” instead of “How can I serve my country?”

We have come a long way from the founding fathers, and we need a change in the Constitution

now. Corporations are not citizens, commercial entities are not entitled to the protections of the fourteenth amendment. Amend the Constitution now.

Paul Krugman

by greatly increasing workers’ bargaining power — seems politically out of reach. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on smaller steps, initiatives that do at least a bit to level the playing field.

Take, for example, the proposal by Bill de Blasio, who finished in first place in Tuesday’s Democratic primary and is the probable next mayor of New York, to provide universal prekindergarten education, paid for with a small tax surcharge on those with incomes over $500,000. The usual suspects are, of course, screaming and talking about their hurt feelings; they’ve been doing a lot of that these past few years, even while making out like bandits. But surely this is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing: Taxing the ever-richer rich, at least a bit, to expand opportunity for the children of the less fortunate.

Some pundits are already suggesting that Mr. de Blasio’s unexpected rise is the leading edge of a new economic populism that will shake up our whole political system. That seems premature, but I hope they’re right. For extreme inequality is still on the rise — and it’s poisoning our society.

Fed can only pretend to try to get out of this self-created hell-hole One must feel for poor Mr. Bernanke. He’s tried to run a long-distance foot-race against reality and now it’s breathing down his neck near finish line.

The idea was to pump enough artificial “money” into the economy to give it the appearance of motion, but all he accomplished in the words of my recent podcast guest, Eric Zencey, was a commotion of money, and the commotion was pretty much limited to a few blocks of lower Manhattan, two ribbons of real estate running up the East Side and Central Park West, and a subsidiary disturbance out on the South Fork of Long Island. Everybody else in the country was left to stew in a tattoo-and-malt-liquor torpor at the SNAP Card application office.

The Fed can only pretend to try to get out of this

(James Howard Kunstler is the author of several books, including “The Long Emergency,” “The Geography of Nowhere” and “The Witch of Hebron.” Contact him by emailing jhkunstler@mac.com.)

Is the original Constitution gospel to be held unchanged and unchangeable?

LIBBY from page 4

As there is no mention of democracy in the Constitution, there is no mention of political parties. We have gradually evolved to a governmental system that is dominated by concepts of divisive political parties. These parties have become huge commercial entities collecting billions of dollars

(One Man’s Island columnist Robert Libby of Chebeague Island is a teacher, writer, organic gardener, executive director of the Maine Center for Civic Education.)

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Gary John D’Alfonso, 58 Gary John D’Alfonso, at 58 years of age, passed away on Aug. 27, 2013, in Bangor, Maine, where he resided for the past few years.

Gary was born in Berlin, N.H., to John and Cecile (Marchand) Dalphonse on May, 1955, where he resided with his parents until moving to Maine.

He graduated from Gorham High School in 1973, and was an outstanding soccer player. In Maine, he earned his place as a successful sulky race horse driver and worked in the construction field for Cianbro Corp. He loved the woods of New Hampshire and Maine, where he could be found hunting and fishing with his good friends. His most enjoyable moments were spending time at his camp at Lake Umbagog, Upton, Maine, with his dog, Herman.

He was predeceased by his father John Dalphonse. He is survived by his three daughters, Danielle, Cara and Francesca of Falmouth, Maine, his mother Cecile Dalphonse, his sister Sylvana D’Alfonso of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and his sister Roseanna Walsh, brother-in-law Andrew and nephews Mason and Evan of Londonderry, New Hampshire, along with several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and many great friends.

A Memorial Funeral Service will be held at St. Margaret’s Church at 6 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at 11 a.m. Please bring your memories and stories to share.

Council votes 6-3 to sell Congress Square parcel

By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The City Council voted 6-3 to sell two-thirds of Congress Square Park to the owners of the former Eastland Park Hotel to site an events center on the neglected public space.

“I think it will result in a usable and inviting space for the people who live in the neighborhood,” said Councilor Jill Duson. She said she’s spoken with business owners and residents who are excited about the expanded commercial opportunities along that portion of Congress Street.

“It’s unusual to think about letting go of public land,” Duson said. “... This is a balanced approach.”

Councilor Cheryl Leeman said she’s normally of a preservationist midst, but after doing some research, she felt returning the parcel to its underlying business zoning is the best course of action.

“It becomes very clear that what we’re talking about is an urban plaza. it’s not a park,” she said, the original grant used to build the park was designed to connect the Eastland with Congress Street and make the street more vibrant but that ultimate result wasn’t achieved in Congress Square.

Under the terms of the purchase and sales agreement, the city would sell two-thirds of Congress Square Park to the hoteliers for $523,000, and be used as the site for an events center.

The city has proposed to sell 9,500 square feet, the majority of Congress Square Park, to RockBridge Capital and retain 4,800 square feet of the park as a part of the effort to redesign the space. RockBridge — the owners of the Westin Harborview Hotel — proposes to use the park to build a 9,400-squaresee next page

Civic Center Board of Trustees to hold special meeting today A special meeting of the Cumberland County Civic Center Board of Trustees has been scheduled for today at 8 a.m. in the Peter Feeney Conference room at the Cumberland County Courthouse, according to Event Services Director Roberta Wright at the Civic Center. The majority of the meeting is expected to take place in closed executive session, Wright reported. The regular monthly meeting of the Civic Center Building Committee will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 8 a.m. in the Feeney Conference Room. The Civic Center board and the building’s main tenant, the Portland Pirates hockey team, are at an impasse over the sharing of revenues as part of a new lease.

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Opponents of a proposal to sell part of Congress Square Park to hotel developers march down Congress Street in the travel lane Monday prior to the city council’s meeting taking up the controversial proposal. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Council votes to sell part of public square from preceding page

foot events center off the hotel. The 4,800 square feet remaining of the plaza, which does not include the sidewalks, will be the subject of a redesign and visioning process, based on the proposal.

The council did make some amendments to the purchase and sales agreement, including provisions that require plan approval for the events center before the property is conveyed to RockBridge; that RockBridge shoulder the cost for the crating and removal of the Union Station clock; and that the city fast tracks the design process for the redesign of the overall square to comply with the terms of the agreement.

While the proponents of the sale won out after two hours of discussion, the detractors — councilors David Marshall, Kevin Donoghue and John Anton — remained steadfast that the RockBridge proposal wasn’t the best use of the space.

Marshall said he doesn’t think it good precedent for the city to make by selling public land as a way of dealing with space that was ignored. Efforts to revitalize the park started in 2005 and spent much of the next several years dormant, he said, and it became failed space because the resources weren’t invested to make it work.

“This particular space could have had a much different future if we had moved on it sooner,” he said.

Last week, the council heard more than three hours of public comment. Opponents of the sale urged the council to protect and revitalize the park, while proponents of the sale touted the eco-

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Opponents of the sale sought to pass amendments to the city’s land bank regulations that would add parks and properties like Congress Square. The initiative aimed to create an “urban open public space” category in the governing ordinance for the land bank, and require approval from the Land Bank Commission and a super majority of the City Council to lease or sell the properties.

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Portland City Code specifically states that citizen initiatives can only apply to legislative matters and cannot affect administrative matters including city appropriations, which has been defined in some contexts to include the sale of city-owned property,” the city announced Friday. “The citizen initiative process cannot be used with respect to the proposed sale of Congress Square.”

The Friends of Congress Square, who were one of the major forces behind the initiative, announced after the meeting that they would appeal the city’s rejection of the initiative in court. “... the city should be working with us to protect our parks, not against us. The attempt to block our right to petition is in lock-step with the vote tonight to sell a vital downtown public open space,” said Frank Turek, president of the Friends of Congress Square, in a statement. “The city is forcing our hand.

If we want to continue our work to protect Portland parks, our only choice is to take this to court.”

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With a police car in the foreground, the Maine Public Safety Pipe and Drum Corps leads a procession down Congress Street Sunday as part of the Blue Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.

Local, state and federal law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency personnel were recognized for their dedication and selfsacrifice at the annual Blue Mass, an event that the Diocese of Portland reported gained local impetus from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Unfurling a banner reading “Boston Strong” and performing a tribute to a police officer killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, members of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard marched in a Boston-area parade Saturday and received an expected honor.

The seven-person contingent from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard won first place for Precision Drill in the Billerica, Mass.

“Yankee Doodle Homecoming” Parade.

“I was surprised to find out when they texted” the news of the first-place honor, Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce said Monday.

This was the unit’s first year participating in the parade, Joyce noted.

The sheriff’s office honor guard gave its modern-day salute to the people of Boston and to Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, the fallen officer who was killed on April 18 during a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a standoff with police, while the other, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured. Collier, age 26, of Somerville, Mass., was shot in his patrol car by the bombing suspects.

Joyce said the sheriff’s office has used the Boston Strong banner in the past in tribute to Collier. In June, the sheriff’s office participated in opening honors for the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, and included a salute to

A clip from Billerica Access Television, http://www.batvinc.org/vod, shows the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard marching in the Boston-area parade Saturday. (COURTESY IMAGE)

the police officer from MIT with the Boston Strong flag.

“We thought it would be a great tribute,” Joyce said.

The sheriff’s office honor guard is at least a dozen years old, and “they always seem to be refining their presentations,” Joyce said.

Reminiscent of the U.S. Marine silent drill platoon, the honor guard will pause for rifle inspection, an officer will march out front and stop, a member will stand at attention for firearm inspection, and the member receiving inspection will flip their weapon to the lead officer. With precision timing, the officer will catch the weapon, survey the weapon and flip it

back to the member in formation.

The honor guard practices about eight hours a month, Joyce estimated.

“When we sent them down there, we didn’t think they’d be competing against anyone necessarily,” Joyce said, noting an email invitation for color guards prompted the honor guard to join the Billerica parade.

Members of the sheriff’s office joined hundreds of law enforcement and public safety personnel on Sunday for another tradition — the Blue Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.

The Blue Mass — which honors law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency personnel, both those

living and those who have given their lives in the line of duty — involved dozens of public safety personnel, many of whom marched in procession down Federal, Pearl and Congress streets to Franklin Street, where they passed under a large American flag, held up by two Portland Fire Department ladder trucks, before entering the Cathedral.

Color guards were on hand, as well as the Maine Public Safety Pipe and Drum Corps, which performed outside the Cathedral before and after the mass.

Joyce said three people from the sheriff’s office participated in the Blue Mass, one as part of a multi-jurisdictional honor guard. One of the three people was Deputy Pat Ferriter, who read a passage of scripture during the mass, he said.

The events of 9/11 served as an impetus for the Diocese of Portland to institute the Blue Mass locally, according to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

According to a “Yankee Doodle Homecoming” website, Billerica, one of the largest suburban Boston towns, started the “Yankee Doodle Homecoming” Parade in 1991 to honor a Bostonarea colonial hero, Thomas Ditson, who was tarred and feathered at Boston Common in March 1775 by British soldiers but later joined the Minutemen and became an “instant patriotic hero in his hometown of Billerica.”

Video of the sheriff’s office honor guard participating in the parade can be found at http://www.batvinc.org/vod.

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Blue Mass honors public safety personnel ABOVE: South Portland Police Lt. Frank Clark and his wife, Erin, prepare to cross Cumberland Avenue to attend the Blue Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland Sunday. The annual mass recognizes local, state and federal law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency personnel for their dedication and self-sacrifice. BELOW LEFT: Honor guards gather outside the Catholic church following a procession down Congress Street. BELOW RIGHT: Portland Fire Department used ladder trucks to elevate a large American flag over Franklin Street. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor David Huddleston is 83. Singer LaMonte McLemore is 78. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 68.

Singer Fee Waybill is 63. Actress Cassandra Peterson is 62. Comedian Rita Rudner is 60. Muppeteer Kevin Clash (former voice of Elmo on “Sesame Street”) is 53. Directoractor Paul Feig is 51. Movie director Baz Luhrmann is 51. Singer BeBe Winans is 51.

Actor Kyle Chandler is 48. Director-producer Bryan Singer is 48. Actor Malik Yoba is 46.

Rock musician Keith Flint is 44. Actor Matthew Settle is 44. Actor Felix Solis is 42.

Rock singer Anastacia is 40. Rhythm-andblues singer Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) is 40.

Actress-singer Nona Gaye is 39. Singer-actor Constantine Maroulis is 38. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 38. Country singer-songwriter Stephen Cochran is 34. Rock musician Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan) is 34. Actor Billy Miller is 34. Country singer Desi Wasdin (3 of Hearts) is 30. Rock musician Jon Walker is 28.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You want to be independent, but someone will offer to help you, and you will seem like an ingrate if you don’t take that help. This is a legitimate assist. And don’t worry -- if it works out, it will still be you doing the work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). If you can be still inside yourself, you will be protected from the chaos of the world. It will swirl around you, but you won’t be swept up in the momentum. You’ll be the eye of the storm.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Those who have not been well taken care of by their families value loyalty just as much as others do.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 17). A special someone will help you understand and use your talents. October brings a career breakthrough. Spend many hours fully fleshing out your ideas before you share them with a potential team in November. You’ll find a benefactor in December. Family events forward joint interests in 2014. Gemini and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 22, 13, 29 and 48.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll deal in this conundrum today: Struggling to prove your deservedness really only proves that you believe you don’t deserve it. Believe in your worth, and the struggle ends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The phone will keep buzzing, and the emails will keep rolling in -- that’s just modern life. Don’t be bullied by your devices. You’re still in charge.

Just because it rings or dings doesn’t mean you have to respond.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Some people can sit and do nothing at all. You rarely see the value in this, and you see laziness as a fault, not a skill. However, there is great benefit to doing nothing at all for a stretch of today.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You will notice the energy that’s directed at you, as you are very attractive to people who are outside of your circle. You may talk and open up a bit, but remain protective of your time. It’s a most valuable resource.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). People seem to expect something from you that is different from what you’d like to give -- a clue that you may be mismatched to your environment.

The way to find out is to explore a bit and see whether things aren’t better “over there.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may do nontraditional things with your loved one from time to time, but your relationship itself is quite traditional in terms of the role you expect each other to play. This works extremely well for you now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There is always a simple solution and the hard way.

Being relaxed helps you see and apply the simple solution. If you are not relaxed, you’ll notice only the hard way and mistakenly assume it’s the only route.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s one thing to be surprised by a sudden bout of good fortune and quite another to expect it.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re a fast learner. You may get it wrong once, but you won’t get it wrong the same way twice.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Sept. 17, the 260th day of 2013. There are 105 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 17, 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed, many more wounded, captured or left missing, in the Civil War Battle of Antietam (an-TEE’tum) in Maryland; although the battle itself proved inconclusive, it effectively halted the Confederates’ advance into Maryland.

On this date: In 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. In 1911, Calbraith P. Rodgers set off from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., aboard a Wright biplane in an attempt to become the first flier to travel the width of the United States. (The 49-day journey required 69 stops before ending in Pasadena, Calif.)

In 1937, the likeness of President Abraham Lincoln’s head was dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault.

In 1947, James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.

In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev traveled by train from Washington, D.C., to New York City, where he received a low-key welcome from New Yorkers. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

In 1962, U.S. space officials announced the selection of nine new astronauts, including Neil A. Armstrong, who became the first man to step onto the moon.

In 1971, citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, who was succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr., died eight days after making his announcement.)

In 1972, the Korean War comedy-drama “M-AS-H” premiered on CBS. In 1978, after meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty.

In 1986, the Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist to become the 16th chief justice of the United States.

In 1987, the city of Philadelphia, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, threw a big party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the historic document.

Five years ago: Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and offered the people of Afghanistan his “personal regrets” for U.S. airstrikes that had killed civilians and said he would try to improve the accuracy of air warfare.

One year ago: NATO said it was scaling back operations with Afghan soldiers and policemen to lower the risk of insider attacks and reduce local tensions after an anti-Islam film was blamed for setting off protests in Afghanistan.

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This man is not her biological father. But he was a Korean War veteran and deserves to be interred with full military honors at the Great Lakes National Cemetery along with his wife’s remains. It was his wife’s wish to be buried with her husband. Even the husband’s surviving brother and sister have expressed shock and disbelief that his cremains are still in a closet. They want him to be given a proper burial. The military cemetery will provide a niche, a plaque and a service, all of which would cost my niece nothing. Yet, she won’t do it.

Is this the behavior of a normal human being? Or is she being selfish and controlling? -- Speaking for Another Lost Veteran Dear Speaking: Well, if she is bipolar and on painkillers, she may not be entirely rational about this. We assume your niece inherited whatever belonged to her mother, including her stepfather’s ashes. And although he was not her biological father, she still may have been very attached to him.

Instead of being angry and demanding, consider being kind and understanding. Sympathize with her desire to keep the ashes. Explain how she would be honoring her stepfather by giving him a military burial, and that her mother would wish to be with her husband. You may not think she deserves such consideration, but you are more likely to get the result you want if she doesn’t feel obligated to defend herself.

Dear Annie: I laughed at the letter from “Wondering in Clinton Township,” whose sister gets all bent out of shape when she receives a letter addressed to “Aunt Frances” instead of “Mrs. Frances Smith.” Right now, I am holding a letter addressed to “Grandma Bobbie” and another addressed to “Aunt Grandma.” I really don’t care how it’s addressed, just as long as they write to me. -- Fort Myers, Fla.

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Dear Annie: Last year, my husband and I attended my cousin’s annual summer barbeque. After we arrived, I looked for a place to tie up our dog in the backyard and noticed a few dead rats. They appeared to have been there for some time. I made mention of this to my cousin’s husband, but he made no attempt to remove them even though they were only a few steps away from the barbeque pit.

I tied my dog several feet away from the dead rats. Later, when we returned home, our dog started scratching. This continued for several days until we noticed his fur was falling out. I believe he contracted mange from the dead rats.

We’ve been invited to their “last nice weather barbecue,” but I am reluctant to go. My husband says we should go regardless, but I feel that if they don’t care to get rid of the dead rats in their backyard, they shouldn’t expect to entertain guests there. And also, the guest bathroom is never clean when we visit. What do you think? -- Disgusted in the Midwest Dear Disgusted: We think your cousin and her husband are not particularly meticulous about their cleaning and don’t care if you notice. And while your dog may have contracted mange from something in their yard, there’s no way to be certain now. You can contact the health department in your city and report the conditions (most municipalities like to know if there is an increased rat population). But that may not solve your problem, which is whether or not to attend another barbecue there. We say give them one last chance -- but don’t bring your dog.

Dear Annie: My 55-year-old niece hasn’t held a job in more than five years. She is bipolar and on medication and is also dependent on painkillers. Her mother kept her husband’s ashes in a box for years, and after her mother died 13 years ago, my niece told me she “just couldn’t let him go.”

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Petition urges Maine AG to bring charges against DiPietro, others Daily Sun Staff Reports A petition is circulating online seeking to pressure Maine Attorney General Janet Mills to pursue charges in the highly publicized case of missing Waterville toddler Ayla Reynolds.

The petition, found at http://www.change.org/ petitions/maine-attorney-general-janet-millscharge-justin-dipietro-and-conspirators-with-murder, alleges that father Justin DiPietro and “co-conspirators” should be charged with homicide and “hindering a homicide investigation.”

Supporters of the petition numbered 1,413 based on signatures, according to a post Monday afternoon.

Ayla’s mother, Trista Reynolds of Portland, announced that she would speak out on Tuesday, DiPietro Sept. 24, in conjunction with a court appearance by DiPietro, on an unrelated charge at the Cumberland County Courthouse.

Trista Reynolds said information in her possession, gleaned from a meeting with the Maine State Police, would be issued as “The Case for Ayla” and published at http://united4ayla.com and at http:// justiceforayla.blogspot.com.

Reynolds, wearing a soft cast from a broken arm, was last seen sleeping in her bed at about 8 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, according to police reports.

Her father reported her missing Saturday when he said he found an empty bed.

Waterville Police have announced their belief “that foul play has occurred in connection with Ayla’s disappearance.” Maine State Police took over the case and conducted multiple searches and inquiries around 29 Violette Ave. in Waterville.

DiPietro, 26, was arrested by the South Portland Police Department earlier this month for violation of bail, due to possession of alcohol, police said.

He was being held on $350 cash bail, staff at the Cumberland County Jail reported.

DiPietro’s violation consisted in the fact he was in possession of alcohol, according to the South Portland Police Department.

In July, Portland police officers arrested DiPietro in the area of 88 Spring St. after a police lieutenant passing by observed him assault a woman, according to Portland police. The victim, a 25-year-old Portland woman, was identified by police at the time as an ex-girlfriend of Dipietro. She was not injured in the assault.

Dipietro was charged with domestic violence assault and released on bail from that incident. DiPietro pleaded not guilty in court at the time.

Bath Iron Works employees safe; Navy Yard shooting spurs reaction No Bath Iron Works employees were harmed in a mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., officials announced Monday.

On Monday around 10 a.m., General Dynamics Marine Systems, Bath Iron Works, on Facebook wrote, “Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone at NAVSEA; we have preliminarily ascertained that BIW employees in DC are safe and are continuing to gather information.”

In an update around noon, Bath Iron Works reported, “We’ve confirmed all BIW employees in DC are safe.”

The man suspected of killing 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard was identified as Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, according to the Fort Worth (Texas) StarTelegram.

U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud each issued statements in reaction to the tragedy.

“It is sad and tragic that we once again find ourselves trying to grapple with another mass shooting.

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the survivors,” Pingree said.

Michaud said, “While details unfold about this horrible incident, my thoughts and prayers are with all those impacted as well as the entire Navy and law enforcement communities.”

Protect South Portland plans press event to raise business concerns Activists in South Portland will release a “lengthy list” of South Portland businesses that support keeping tar sands crude oil from Canada out of South Portland, opponents of this petroleum product announced Monday.

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The South Portland business leaders will describe how tar sands importation “is at odds with their vision for the city’s future and could impact their businesses,” according to a press release.

A news conference to highlight these arguments is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Patio of JP Thornton’s (740 Broadway), South Portland.

“I’m proud to join with so many South Portland businesses and community members to protect our city from dirty tar sands,” said Barry Zuckerman, with Protect South Portland, the group fighting any proposal to pump tar sands oil into South Portland. “Business owners know that our city’s future depends on a healthy community, not dirty tar sands.”

Formerly known as Concerned Citizens of South Portland, Protect South Portland (http://www.protectsouthportland.org) is spearheading an ordinance initiative called a Waterfront Protection Ordinance. Protect South Portland hopes to change the city’s zoning ordinance to block ExxonMobil, the majority owner of the Portland-Montreal pipeline, from building two 70-foot smokestacks next to Bug Light and other oil infrastructure needed to export tar sands out of Casco Bay. The debate over possible transport of “tar sands” oil from Montreal, Canada to South Portland has stirred up a variety of environmental concerns, although others have warned that the proposed ordinance initiative could hamstring economic activity on the waterfront.

The petroleum industry has issued information in defense of “tar sands,” or oil sands in industry terminology (http://oilsandsfactcheck.org).

Westbrook Public Safety, businesses team up on Sept. 21 Kids Safety Day Westbrook Public Safety, Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings plan to host a free Kids Safety Day for the community from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept 21, the Westbrook Police Department has reported.

Westbrook Public Safety, in partnership with the Westbrook Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings will be hosting the day with a variety of fun and educational family activities, police announced in a press releaes. This event will include vehicle extrication demonstrations; K-9 demonstrations; the processing of a mock crime scene from 11 a.m. to noon in the Saco & Biddeford Savings branch; and car fires with live firefighting demonstrations.

A smokehouse, fire trucks, ambulances and police cruisers will be on site for viewing and exploration for the duration of the event.

Kids Safety Day will be held rain or shine in the parking lot between Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings, at 2 Hannaford Drive in Westbrook.

Visitors also can expect free hotdogs, popcorn, water and soda. Nickles, the Saco & Biddeford Savings mascot, will meet and greet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to the announcement.

This event is being provided free of charge for all that attend, according to the announcement. For information, visit http://www.westbrookmaine.com.

UMA hosting Fourth Amendment forum Commemorating Constitution Week this year, University of Maine at Augusta’s Office of Civic Engagement will hold a public forum, “The 4th Amendment & Your Right to Privacy: Endangered Species?” today in the Richard Randall Student Center Fireside Lounge from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., UMA reported.

Among the topics covered will be the status of the Fourth Amendment in this country and in Maine.

The forum features three guest speakers: Shenna Bellows, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine; Robert Bernheim, a human rights scholar and UMA Professor of History; and Joseph Szakas, UMA Provost and Professor of Computer Information Systems.

The forum is free and open to the public.

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Tuesday, Sept. 17 Naturalization ceremony in Portland

4:30 p.m. “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Deputy District Director John Furlong will administer the Oath of Allegiance to America’s newest citizens during a special naturalization ceremony Tuesday at Portland’s Ocean Gateway. This event is part of USCIS’ annual celebration of Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. More than 18,000 people will become U.S. citizens during approximately 180 naturalization ceremonies across the country from Sept. 16 to Sept. 23. Honored guests and speakers include: Michael Brennan, Mayor, Portland, Maine, and John Furlong, USCIS Deputy District Director. ... New to its Constitution Day and Citizenship Day celebration this year, USCIS is asking new citizens and their families and friends to share the experience via Twitter using the hashtag #newUScitizen. Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is commemorated every Sept. 17 in honor of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. In 1952, President Harry Truman signed a bill formalizing the celebration of Citizenship Day. In 2004, Congress established Sept. 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.” Ocean Gateway, 14 Ocean Gateway Pier, Portland.

Quitting tobacco informational session

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Maine Medical Center is offering a free informational session for people thinking of quitting smoking or tobacco use. The class will cover tobacco treatment options, ways to be more successful in quitting, and offer tips to stay on track to a tobacco-free life. Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. or Tuesday evening, Oct. 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Maine Medical Center — Charles A. Dana Health Education Center, 22 Bramhall St., Portland. To register or for more information, contact Barbara Perry at Maine Medical Center’s Tobacco Treatment Program: 662-7144 or perryb@mainehealth.org.”

Good Night, Nature

6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Good Night, Nature. “For kids and parents!

Join us for this gentle moonlit hour based around a bedtime story animals of the night. Come in your pajamas, but be prepared to venture outdoors. We will play, sing, create art and have a snack before you head home to sleep.” Gilsland Farm, Falmouth. Maine Audubon, www.maineaudubon.org

India Street neighborhood workshop

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Public workshop on India Street neighborhood planning at the Maine Jewish Museum at 267 Congress St. The workshop “will give the public a chance to view and comment on an emerging vision for the future of the India Street neighborhood. The workshop will present multiple maps and conceptual plans produced through the Sustain Southern Maine (www.sustainsouthernmaine.org) regional planning process, along with initial results from a city-initiated historic preservation survey. ... The meeting will invite attendees to ask questions and provide comments on the planning process and results to date. The Portland Planning Division will conclude the meeting with a discussion of next steps and integration of India Street Neighborhood Planning with related planning for Franklin Street.”

Wednesday, Sept. 18 The Wings Of Freedom Tour in Portland

2 p.m. “The Wings Of Freedom Tour will arrive at Portland International Jetport at 2 p.m. on Sept. 18 and will be on display at North Ramp at Portland International Jetport until the aircraft departs Sept. 20 at noon. Hours of ground tours and display are: 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18; 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept.

19; 9 a.m. through noon on Friday, Sept. 20. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times. The Collings Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing “living history” events that allows people to learn more about their heritage and history through direct participation. The Nationwide Wings Of Freedom Tour is in its 24th year and visits an average of 110 cities in over 35 states annually. ... The Wings Of Freedom Tour travels the nation a flying tribute to the flight crews who flew them, the ground crews who maintained them, the workers who built them, the soldiers, sailors and airmen they helped protect; and the citizens and families that share the freedom that they helped preserve. ... Visitors can find out more by visiting our website at www.collingsfoundation.org.”

Cumberland County Extension Association

6 p.m. “The public is invited the 2013 annual meeting of the Cumberland County Extension Association to be held on Wednesday, Sept. 18 starting at 6 p.m. at the UMaine Regional Learning Center in Falmouth. The theme for this year’s meeting is ‘100 Years of 4H.’ The theme for this year’s meeting is ‘100 years of 4-H.’ John Rebar, executive

Members of the Maine Warden Service walk through Lincoln Park on Sunday as part of a special law enforcement procession and Blue Mass. On Saturday, Sept. 28, the Maine Warden Service will be highlighted at the Maine Wildlife Park. Starting at 9:30 a.m. that day, the public can meet the Maine Game Wardens of the popular Animal Planet TV show “North Woods Law.” Visit http://www.maine.gov/ifw/ education/wildlifepark/events.htm for details. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) director of the University of Maine Cooperative, Extension will give the keynote address. He will speak to the history of 4-H in Maine and its relevance today. Cumberland County Commissioner James Cloutier will speak to the longevity of the partnership that UMaine Extension has with Cumberland County and the importance of UMaine Extension as the educational arm of Cumberland County Government.

4-H’ers of several generations will share their personal 4-H experiences. Please join us for a light meal of vegetable soup prior to the meeting starting at 5:30 p.m., there is no cost. For dessert we will enjoy the delicious results of the annual Pie Bake-Off! We will recognize specific UMaine Extension Master Gardener, Master Food Preserver, Homemaker, 4-H and Eat Well volunteers at this event. This year’s Friend of Extension will be presented to Marge Steele, in honor of her late husband Norm Steele. ... To RSVP, register your pie bake-off entry by September 17 or for more information contact us at 781-6099 or 1-800-287-1471 or email extension.cumberland@maine.edu.”

Professional Development Series for Creatives

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. “The Professional Development Series for Creatives will hold a special session focused on Health Insurance, the Affordable Care Act and Wellness in the Arts on Wednesday, Sept. 18 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This series is presented by Creative Portland, Maine College of Art (MECA), and Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts with funding from the Quimby Family Foundation. This session is dedicated to the cost and benefit analysis of sustaining a healthy studio practice from preventative care to health and safety best practices. Attendees will also learn more about what health insurance options are available and how the Affordable Care Act will affect them and their practices.”

Osher Hall at MECA. Admission is free for current students, alumni, faculty and staff. The fee for all others is $10. Registration is available through Brown Paper tickets, http:// www.brownpapertickets.com/event/441588). For more information, contact Creative Portland at Edwige@CreativePortland.com.

Thursday, Sept. 19 The Wings Of Freedom Tour in Portland

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “The Wings Of Freedom Tour will arrive at Portland International Jetport at 2 p.m. on Sept. 18 and will be on display at North Ramp at Portland International Jetport until the aircraft departs Sept. 20 at noon. Hours of ground tours and display are: 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. on

Wednesday, Sept. 18; 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19; 9 a.m. through noon on Friday, Sept. 20. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times. The Collings Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing “living history” events that allows people to learn more about their heritage and history through direct participation. The Nationwide Wings Of Freedom Tour is in its 24th year and visits an average of 110 cities in over 35 states annually. ... The Wings Of Freedom Tour travels the nation a flying tribute to the flight crews who flew them, the ground crews who maintained them, the workers who built them, the soldiers, sailors and airmen they helped protect; and the citizens and families that share the freedom that they helped preserve. ... Visitors can find out more by visiting our website at www.collingsfoundation.org.”

Hugh G.E. MacMahon lecture

noon. MCMA noon lecture in the library, at the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, Portland. Hugh G.E. MacMahon. MCMA library Thursday noon lecture by Hugh MacMahon, lawyer, teacher, author will discuss his book, ‘Progress, Stability, and the Struggle for Equality — A Ramble Through the Early Years of Maine Law 1820-1920.’

A review of Mr MacMahon book by Elly Burnett can be found at http://www.dwmlaw.com/pdfs/progress_Maine_ Bar_Journal_review.pdf. More info on Hugh MacMahon can be found at http://mainelaw.maine.edu/faculty/profiles/ adjunct/macmahon.html. Bring your lunch, refreshments and dessert provided. 519 Congress St., Portland, second floor library,elevator accessible. http://www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

‘The Last of the Doughboys’ author at MHS

noon to 1 p.m. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. “Next year marks the beginning of the World War I Centennial. Join us for a special talk about this sometimes overlooked war and the men who served in it by Maine author Richard Rubin, author of the acclaimed ‘The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World.’ In addition to ‘The Last of the Doughboys,’ Rubin is the author of ‘Confederacy of Silence, a True Tale of the Old New South’ and ‘Everyday American History of the Twentieth Century.’ He has published numerous articles in national publications including Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, as well as short stories in several literary journals. Suggested donation at the door. www. mainehistory.org see next page

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Chartre-style labyrinth

4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Trinity Episcopal at 580 Forest Ave. (entrance in rear) is offering its indoor Chartre-style labyrinth for meditative walks on Thursday, Sept. 19 between 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Allow about 30 minutes. FMI 772-7421.”

‘Politics Then and Now’ at Muskie School

4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “This fall, the Muskie School of Public Service and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine will host the series ‘Politics Then and Now, In Maine and the Nation’ to examine this evolution and the future of politics in the state and country. The eight-week series brings the state’s top political minds together to address the following questions: How was politics ‘played’ in earlier times, in Maine and the nation?

How has that changed, and why? What will it take to get back on course? And what does Maine have to teach the nation in this regard? All events will be held on Thursday afternoons, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., in Lee Community Hall or Hannaford Lecture Hall on the USM Portland campus. The series is free and open to the public. Seating cannot be reserved. Speakers will include: Sept. 19: Former U.S. Congressman Tom Allen; Sept. 26: Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell; Oct. 3: Former Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis; Oct. 10: Former Maine Senate President and House Speaker Elizabeth Mitchell; Oct. 17: U.S. Senator Angus King; Oct. 24: Speaker to be announced; Oct. 31: Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank; Nov. 7: Future Prospects: Panel discussion with former Maine State Senator Cynthia Dill; Maine House Republican Leader Ken Fredette; and University of Maine Professor of Political Science Amy Fried.” For series details and speaker locations, visit http://usm.maine.edu/muskie/ politics-then-and-now.

LGBT people in sports forum

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “The University of Southern Maine Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine is hosting ‘Changing the Game: A Panel Discussion on LGBT People in High School and College Athletics’ from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, September 19, in the University Events Room, seventh floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland. The event is free and open to the public. Panelists include: Moderator Pat Griffin, director of Changing the Game: The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) Sports Project; Al Bean, director of USM Athletics; Gia Drew, Maine Transgender Network and GLSEN Southern Maine; and James Nutter and Madeline Hunsicker of GO! Athletes, the first national network dedicated to empowering LGBT athletes and allies. Audience questions and participation will be welcomed. This panel is sponsored by USM’s LGBT Collection of the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, USM’s Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity, GLSEN Southern Maine and GO! Athletes.” For more information, contact Sampson Center Director Susie Bock at 780-4269 or bocks@usm.maine.edu.”

‘Jesus Chris Superstar’ in South Portland

5:45 p.m. “The Rotary Club of South Portland is hosting a special evening at the theater — Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Chris Superstar’ will be performed by the Portland Players on Wednesday, Sept. 12. There will be live musical entertainment in the lobby provided by Tom Snow and Tim Hill beginning at 5:45 p.m. (the curtain rises at 7:30). Appetizers, beer and wine will be available.

Unique raffle items will be available as well. Tickets are $30 (please call Bill York at 415-8091 for tickets). Proceeds from this fun filled evening will benefit local scholarships and Community Theater support.”

George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture

6:30 p.m. “Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of

Qatar will be presented the George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. The award will be presented at the fourth annual George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture at the University of New England (UNE). George Bush, 41st President of the United States, and Barbara Bush will present the award to Sheikha Moza at the event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Harold Alfond Forum on UNE’s Biddeford Campus. The lecture will be streamed live to audiences around the world at http://stream.une.edu/events. ... The George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture is free and open to the public, and seating is on a first come, first served basis. For more information and directions, visit une.edu/bushlecture.”

POV screening of ‘Best Kept Secret’

7:30 p.m. A documentary film by Samantha Buck, at Portland Public Library for Summer POV Documentary Films series. A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and “age out” of a unique and caring support system. For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, www.portlandlibrary.com

Friday, Sept. 20 Common Ground Fair

9 a.m. Common Ground Fair. September 20, 21 and 22, in Unity. Gates open at 9 a.m. each day. Vendors open until 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. on Sunday. Keynote speakers: Fermentation and Food Relocalization: Friday at 11 a.m., Sandor Katz, author of “The Art of Fermentation” and “Wild Fermentation.” Honoring Women Farmers and Gardeners, Locally and Globally: Saturday at 11 a.m., Deb Soule, Avena Botanicals, herbalist, gardener, teacher and author of “The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs.”

Cooperating with the Future: 11 a.m. on Sunday, George Siemon, CEIEIO and Co-Founder of CROPP Cooperative / Organic Valley, Organic Valley. Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, annual fair

The Wings Of Freedom Tour in Portland

9 a.m. to noon. “The Wings Of Freedom Tour will arrive at Portland International Jetport at 2 p.m. on Sept. 18 and will be on display at North Ramp at Portland International Jetport until the aircraft departs Sept. 20 at noon. Hours of ground tours and display are: 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18; 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19; 9 a.m. through noon on Friday, Sept. 20. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times. The Collings Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing “living history” events that allows people to learn more about their heritage and history through direct participation. The Nationwide Wings Of Freedom Tour is in its 24th year and visits an average of 110 cities in over 35 states annually. ... The Wings Of Freedom Tour travels the nation a flying tribute to the flight crews who flew them, the ground crews who maintained them, the workers who built them, the soldiers, sailors and airmen they helped protect; and the citizens and families that share the freedom that they helped preserve. ... Visitors can find out more by visiting our website at www.collingsfoundation.org.”

East-West Corridor discussion in Unity

1 p.m. “A statewide conversation/discussion hosted by the Concerned Citizens of Garland. What is the impact of the proposed E/W Corridor? At the Common Ground Fair, www.mofga.org/TheFair in Unity. Friday the 20th from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Saturday the 21st from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sunday the 22nd from 3 pm.. to 4:30 p.m. All are welcome to participate!” http://www.mofga.org/TheFair/

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Dominican Cultural Festival and Benefit Concert

2 p.m. to 8 p.m. “The Rotary Clubs of Portland and South Portland Sunrise are partnering with Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) to host a special community event: ¡Hola República Dominicana!, a Dominican Cultural Festival and Benefit Concert. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at SMCC on the South Portland Campus. The event program includes: 2 p.m. Showing of the documentary “The Price of Sugar” at Jewett Hall; 4 p.m. Dominican Healthcare Initiatives talk by Moises Sifren Juan, Administrative Director, Hospital El Buen Samaritano at Jewett Hall; 6 p.m. Merengue concert by 24-piece Revelación Maranatha band in the HUB Gymnasium. The funds raised through the festival will provide scholarships for healthcare providers in the Dominican Republic and for international and multi-cultural students who attend SMCC. Tickets are $20 for the general public, $10 for students and free for children 12 and under. To purchase tickets and more information please visit www.breakwater-rotary.org.”

BBQ & Blues Portland

4 p.m. BBQ & Blues Portland, Sept. 20-22, at The Maine State Pier, Portland, BBQ & Blues Launching Sept. 20-22 at the Maine State Pier on Portland’s Waterfront. Proceeds to benefit Good Shepherd Food~Bank. “The first annual BBQ & Blues Festival Portland has arrived, modeled after its successful forerunner The Jensen Beach BBQ & Blues, March of 2013. The festival will come alive with incredible energy when the smooth sounds of blues and the sweet smell of barbecue, fill the air. BBQ & Blues Portland will feature two and a half days of mouth-watering barbecue, (traditional BBQ and BBQ ‘Maine-ed up!’), live entertainment and fun on Portland’s Waterfront. Attendees will eat, drink and shop in a festive atmosphere while enjoying the sounds of local and regional talent.” http://bbqbluesfestivals.com/newsroom

Blues Dance Workshops

6 p.m. Blues Dance Workshops & Dance Weekend. Friday, Sept. 20: Workshops 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Blues Dance 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21: Workshops 2 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Blues Dance 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Location: The Woodfords Club, 179 Woodfords St., Portland. “Blues Dance Workshops & Dance Weekend with award-winning, international dance instructor Jenny Sowden. Six hours of great classes and nine hours of fabulous social dancing Friday to Saturday night.” Sponsored by the Mainiac Swing Dance Society. FMI portcityswing.com

Benefit spaghetti supper in Saco

6 p.m. “Spaghetti Supper on Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Saco. Tickets are $9.95/person and kids 12 and under are free. The funds are to benefit Team Ashley “AJ” Johnston for the 5k Walk/Run on Oct. 5 at Gowen Park in Sanford for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP.org). Tickets can be purchased ahead of time online at RememberAJ.com and can be picked up at the door the day of the supper.”

‘Arsenic & Old Lace’ in Standish

7 p.m. “Arsenic & Old Lace” at the Schoolhouse Arts Center.

“Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by the American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.” Running through Oct. 6. “A community arts organization located in the Old Standish High School in Sebago Lake Village, Schoolhouse Arts Center is a nonprofit, community driven organization dedicated to arts education and the presentation of the arts.” http://www.schoolhousearts.org/jnk/onstage.html

Port City Swing Dance

8 p.m. “Music by Maine Swingin’ DJ’s! Lessons 8 p.m.; dance 9 p.m. Woodford’s Club, No partner needed, beginners encouraged! 179 Woodford Street, Portland. $10. FMI — FB: Mainiac Swing Dance Society, portcityswing.com, 563-8632.”

SPAGHETTI SUPPER September 20 at 6 PM at the Elks Lodge in Saco, Maine Tickets are $9.95/person, kids 12 and under are free.

The funds are to benefit Team Ashley “AJ” Johnston for the 5k Walk/Run on October 5, 2013 at Gowen Park in Sanford, Maine for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP.org) Tickets can be purchased ahead of time online at RememberAJ.com and can be picked up at the door the day of the supper.

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Apple Festival draws hundreds to Alfred “This year’s Shaker Hill Apple Festival was a huge success! The pleasant weather brought out visitors by the thousands,” reported the Friends of the Alfred Shaker Museum about last weekend’s two-day Apple Festival in Alfred, located west of Biddeford. TOP: Sue Hatch makes a “cat’s head” Shaker-style basket during the festival. TOP RIGHT: A jam and jelly crate features mouth-watering items. TOP CENTER RIGHT: Exhibits in the Alfred Shaker Museum include homemade furniture. The museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. until October. “In 1931, the remaining Alfred Shakers merged their community with the sister group to the north, Sabbathday Lake,” a history on the Friend’s website explained. “Sabbathday Lake is the last Shaker community in Maine and the last home anywhere of living Shakers. Local residents decided that southern Maine and the town should not lose its Shaker history. They formed the Friends of the Alfred Shaker Museum, and renovated a Shaker carriage house as a museum and educational center. ABOVE CENTER: Art at the Apple Festival included this depiction of a lighthouse. ABOVE LEFT: Embroidery and quilt works abounded at booths Saturday. Proceeds from the activities sponsored by York County Shelter Programs will benefit homeless and hungry people, organizers noted. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Twelve killed at Navy Yard were civilians; suspect had been arrested in past on gun charge, police say

Catapalooza a success for Coastal Humane Society At Catapalooza, Karen Stimpson, executive director of the Coastal Humane Society of Brunswick, stands where successful adopters of cats went to have their pictures taken. Sunday was the finale of the two-day adoption effort. The Coastal Humane Society staged a large rescue operation to extract more than 60 cats from a singlewide trailer in what was called a hoarding situation in the group’s service area. Following Catapalooza, all of the cats recovered from the hoarding situation found homes, the group reported. The Coastal Humane Society serves the communities of Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Cumberland, Durham, Falmouth, Freeport, Georgetown, Harpswell, North Yarmouth, Phippsburg, Pownal, Woolwich and Yarmouth. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

(NY Times) The New York Times offered updates on the Washington Navy Yard shooting on Monday morning (see main story, page 2). FBI officials have identified the gunman as Aaron Alexis, 34, a former full-time Navy reservist working as a defense contractor on information technology projects. Vice Admiral William D. French said at a briefing that 2,000 people remained at the Washington Navy Yard, and that officials were in the process of trying to get them home.

He also said that all of the 12 victims who were killed were civilians, and that 14 others were injured.

Aaron Alexis, identified as the gunman in the Washington Navy Yard shootings on Monday, was arrested in Seattle in 2004 for shooting out the tires of a car belonging to a man who, he told police later, he believed had “mocked” him, the Seattle Police Department said in a statement on Monday. Mr. Alexis later blamed the episode on emotional trauma suffered as a participant in rescue efforts after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

It was not clear from the police statement or from the original criminal report how Mr. Alexis was involved in the rescue efforts.

The shooting occurred on May 6, 2004, close to Mr. Alexis’s Seattle home, when two construction workers parked a 1986 Honda Accord in the driveway of their work site, the police department said in its statement.

“The victims reported seeing a man, later identified by police as Alexis, walk out of the home next to their work site, pull a gun from his waistband and fire three shots into the two rear tires of their Honda before he walked slowly back to his home north of the construction site,” the statement said.