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LePage’s next agenda Don’t look for Maine’s Republican governor to ease up on his priorities —or his outspokenness BY DAVID CARKHUFF

Gov. Paul LePage has infuriated his critics. He’s perplexed his supportTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

ers. He even famously sparked consternation and snickers on late-night talk shows with his now infamous rash of controversial comments early in his term. Don’t look for hesitation or second guessing from this governor. Just consider an appraisal he gave this week of the nearly completed session of the 124th Maine Legislature. “I fully intend to have another taxreform package in January,” LePage pledged. “I think it’s an election year, it’s going to be difficult, but we’ll see when the rubber meets the road in January, we’ll see what people are made of, because I think it’s going to be the most far-reaching reform that we’ve done in the state of Maine for 50 or 60 years.” Well, then. Love him or loath him, you have to admit this governor doesn’t approach politics with half measures. see LEPAGE page 6

Gov. Paul LePage enjoys a light moment with a breakfast audience in Brunswick Thursday during the Brunswick Downtown Association’s “Moving Forward” event. LePage previewed his legislative agenda for January. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Councilors wrestle with tax incentives for developers BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Around this time last year, the city council had a decision to make. Either approve nearly $3 million in tax breaks so Pierce Atwood could move into a waterfront building, or run the risk that the law firm might move its 175 employees to South Portland. This year, the council faced a similar predicament. It had until June 30 to approve $31 million in tax breaks for Thompson’s Point Development Co. or risk that a $100

“As long as we fail to have a development strategy and adhere to it, we will be vulnerable to this approach.” — Councilor John Anton million hotel and convention center project would fall apart or be shopped elsewhere. In both cases, developers dangled implicit or explicit threats about leaving town or scuttling the project altogether if certain terms weren’t met. And in both cases, the city council approved tax breaks worth a

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will meet separately on Monday with the Democratic and Republican Senate leaders in an opening bid to restart budget talks on addressing long-term debt reduction and clear the way for a necessary vote on raising the nation’s debt limit. The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, announced that Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden would meet first with the Demo-

cratic majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, in the morning and then with the Republican minority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, in the early evening “to discuss the status of the negotiations to find common ground on a balanced approach to deficit reduction.” By the administration’s definition, a “balanced approach” means one that reduces the next 10 years’ projected debt by at least $2 trillion through a combination of

spending cuts and tax increases on the highest-income Americans. Republicans’ refusal to consider tax increases led their chief negotiator, Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, to abandon the bipartisan budget talks that Mr. Biden had been leading for weeks. In a statement, Mr. McConnell said, “The president needs to decide between his goal of massive tax hikes and a bipartisan plan to address our deficit. But he can’t have both.”

Seized phone offers clues to House spurns Obama on bin Laden’s Pakistani links Libya, but doesn’t cut funds

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (NY Times) — The cellphone of Osama bin Laden’s trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, senior American officials who have been briefed on the findings say. The discovery indicates that Bin Laden used the group, Harakatul-Mujahedeen, as part of his support network inside the country, the officials and others said. But

it also raised tantalizing questions about whether the group and others like it helped shelter and support Bin Laden on behalf of Pakistan’s spy agency, given that it had mentored Harakat and allowed it to operate in Pakistan for at least 20 years, the officials and analysts said. In tracing the calls on the cellphone, American analysts have determined that Harakat commanders had called Pakistani intelligence officials, the senior American officials said.

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The House dealt a symbolic blow to President Obama on Friday by resoundingly rejecting a bill that would authorize the contentious operations in Libya. But it muddled the message somewhat by also turning back a measure that would have limited funds for the effort there. The resolution to support the mission failed 295 to 123, with 70 Democrats joining Republicans in a pointed show of defiance to Mr. Obama, who has said he does not need Congressional authorization for the Libyan operations. Only eight Republicans supported the measure, which was based on a Senate measure introduced Tuesday by Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona. The Senate has yet to take up the McCain-Kerry measure.

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Loughlin, former acting police chief, relishing slower pace BY MARGE NIBLOCK

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Joe Loughlin is a happy man these days, although he admits that he wasn’t as happy immediately after retiring from the Portland Police Department as assistant chief nearly a year and a half ago. He spent 28 years with the department, and a high-speed life had come to a dead stop, making for a tough transitional stage. He went down to Florida for a few months, and said at first he just rested and became antisocial. “I worked out and ran with the dog on the beach,” he said, and he wanted to be alone. But by the end of his trip he was participating in a parade downtown and his former conviviality returned. The hiatus on Amelia Island was restorative for Loughlin, who enjoyed the wildlife there, the ocean, the fishing, and the peaceful atmosphere. He says he often thinks of Sgt. Rob Johnsey, who died in a tragic accident three years ago, and really came to understand the thoughts expressed in the young sergeant’s poem in the 2009 police calendar about fulfilling your soul in nature. Loughlin has begun several different ventures since retiring. He’s a part-time consultant with 3 SI Security Systems International, a company that’s headquartered in Philadelphia and Brussels. In this capacity, he travels to different police departments and gives classes on the company’s new technologies and how they can be used to fight crime. Loughlin serves as Northeast coordinator for the firm, and just recently returned from Pawtucket, R.I. During these classes Loughlin discusses a police seminar he gives on stress. It’s called “Inside Your Shield,” and it runs up to four hours. He says it gives officers positive coping skills for dealing with the uniqueness of police stress. He helps police departments set up peer-support networks as part of the seminar and Loughlin says he’s “very passionate about this.” Loughlin gives four or five tips to help with emotional and psychological components of the job. He says all police departments have commonalities. “You don’t realize until you’re out of it how crazy it is. Everyone is hyper-vigilant in the chaotic police environment,” he said. “They’re all frazzled doing multiple jobs. Impossible demands that can’t be done are placed on them.” The professionalism of Portland’s department is something that Loughlin takes pride in, feeling a kinship

whenever he sees police cars here. But the numbers of officers in the city are troublesome to him. He says the department is understaffed and he thinks that will hurt Portland. “Right now, the numbers are not good,” referring to the department’s authorized force of about 165 police officers. Loughlin admits that having so much freedom has become a joy. “You don’t realize how chaotic it is until you’re out of it. It pulls at your soul.” He now takes pleasure in just looking at simple things, such as the architecture of downtown Portland and the harbor. He feels he sees everything differently because of the lack of pressure that he’d always felt in the past. “I can play golf at 2 p.m. I had no time to play golf while I was working. I’m still amazed. It’s wonderful.” Loughlin coauthored Finding Amy with Kate Flora in 2006, a book that was nominated for an Edgar award. The book details the 2001 high-profile case of Amy St. Laurent, a woman who disappeared after spending an evening in Portland’s Old Port. The Discovery Channel has contacted Loughlin about doing another television documentary on the case, which would be the fifth such program to air on that incident. Loughlin said “My new book is called ‘No Reason’ for a reason,” although he didn’t state the reason. The book was started last year, while he was on Amelia Island. “I still have notes from 1981, from the Academy.” Loughlin says that this year he began to focus on writing the book and he has about 40 pages. Loughlin doesn’t have an agent for his new book right now and he may not look for one. He’s going to put in a proposal to the Berkeley Penguin Group. “It’s kind of a cop journal,” Loughlin explains, saying that it goes into different venues of an officer’s job. “I’m passionate about educating people about the realities of police work.” He feels that the human misery confronted by officers takes its toll. Loughlin then discusses officers involved in shootings. He says that every officer has had difficulty in one form or another after being involved in a shooting. Indeed, two officers left the department after a shooting while he served as acting chief. The tremendous societal pressures that police are under is something that Loughlin wants to do something about. He wants officers to be “whole,” and he says he knows most cops would roll their eyes if they heard him say that.

Loughlin said that having a tragedy while in his thirties helped him to develop empathy for others. Police see things from a very different perspective, according to Loughlin. He says they’re always looking at body language, even when just at the supermarket. And he feels that sometimes they can tell beforehand when a crime is going to happen. And then to vary things, there’s Loughlin’s Irish Steak Sauce & Marinade, which he launched shortly after retirement. The bottle has an Joe Loughlin retired last year after 28 years with Portland Police eye-catching label Department, where he was the only person to hold every rank from with a shamrock on patrol officer to acting police chief. Since then, he has begun a new it. Loughlin said “Dad book project, is working as a part-time security consultant and making died in 1990 and this an Irsh-style steak sauce, which has been a hot seller at local stores was on my list, to (MARGE NIBLOCK PHOTO). make the sauce my They’d put the sauce right near their father had.” The history of the sauce steaks and it sold out very quickly. is described on the label, which tells Loughlin is working with David of Loughlin’s father during the fightFillinger of Pemberton’s Gourmet ing of World War II, dreaming of this Foods in Gray and they’re talking “special marinade passed down from about moving to a larger venue, my Grandma Frances.” making bigger batches, and trying to (This reporter can attest to the fact get into larger stores such as Whole that it’s quite a tasty blend. And it’s Foods. an all-purpose steak sauce because Loughlin says “It’s really cool to the label also says “cures hangovers.”) see it on the shelf. Now all I have to At this time, the sauce is being sold do is be like Paul Newman. I’m not in small batches to Rosemont Market, as handsome as him, though.” Borealis Bakery, Maine Pantry, and As far as life after a long police Moran’s. career, Loughlin says, “Now I’ve accliRosemOnt is currently out of the mated and feel very comfortable about item. The manager of the store said what’s next. It’s a whole new world.” they’re waiting for replacements.

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The saga of Sister Kiki In 1900, Theodore Dreiser wrote “Sister Carrie,” about a young woman who left the farm and got mauled by the crushing forces of industrial America: the loneliness of urban life, the squalid conditions of the factory, the easy allure of the theater, the materialism of the new consumer culture. If Dreiser were around today, he might write about Kiki Ostrenga. Kiki, who was the subject of a haunting profile by Sabrina Rubin Erdely in the April issue of Rolling Stone, was a young teenager who got mauled by the some of the worst forces of the information age. Lonely at school, she took refuge by creating an online persona, Kiki Kannibal, posting photos of herself with various hairstyles and looks — goth one day; sexually charged, Lady Gaga-style temptress the next. Though 13, Ostrenga was a phenomenally good shapeshifter. The photos often show ––––– her in her underwear or short The New York skirts, with lurid make-up, edgy poses and pouty come-hither Times expressions. In them, you see the child’s ability to mimic the looks and attitudes of what she admires — in this case the cult of highfashion celebrity as glamorized in Vogue or Cosmopolitan, on E!, TMZ, “Real World” and a thousand other outlets. In sports, speed and strength are king. In music, talent and application are king. But online, eyeballs and page-views are king. Achievement is redefined as the ability to attract attention. And, with today’s technology, this sort of celebrity is not just a dream. Young people can create it for themselves. Kiki must have sensed the tremendous erotic capital that a pretty, vulnerable, barely pubescent girl possesses on the Internet — even if she didn’t understand the consequences of her appeal. Sure enough, she became a MySpace sensation. Two million people are recorded to have logged on to her live stream video. Before long, there were 530 Facebook profiles from people claiming to be her (none of them were). She became an object of celebration, ridicule and hatred. People talk about the online “community,” but it’s more accurate to see the response as a guerrilla war. Ostrenga made an aggressive bid for attention. Other people made a bid for attention by savaging her. Most of the viciousness hurled her way can’t be quoted here, but the article in Rolling Stone accurately described the mob-like behavior: death

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Another walkabout The founding editor of this publication saw me hit the slump one day. I could find nothing to write about, and was casting about for something interesting. “Go take a walk around for an hour or so, something is bound to irritate you.” Not bad. In Portland, just walking around in the last three days, I’ve stumbled across a few good ideas. The topper of all of them happened last weekend. You see, I spent a good portion of last Friday night trying desperately to deplete the stock levels of beer in the Old Port. A good walkabout was in order for Saturday, to clear my mind and regain my ability to walk a straight line. And there is was. The fountainhead, the Holy Grail, the base of a good story. I was walking by it like everyone else, and suddenly the pure unadulterated glee of the situation came to mind. It was as if I had some episode where I sneezed and broke wind at the same time, thereby causing that brain-lock that feels as if an invisible fur-covered hand snuck into my brain and hit the reset button. I saw a sundial. Not just any sundial. There was a stone half-circle of benches, flower beds, and trees surround-

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Daily Sun Columnist ing a sundial placed on the Boulevard back in 1925. It seemed to be showing its age well, except for one important detail. It was located in the shade. A broken watch might be right twice a day, but a sundial in the shade never is. Over the years, the trees on the Boulevard have grown. At first, that brain reset thing had forced me into the land of laughter, where I came to the conclusion that Portland is the only city in the world that would put a sundial in the shade. There is was. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Cutbacks across the board in city services, under-utilization of parks, and the fact that folks running by on a jogger’s high tend not to notice things. I do realize that in this new era of environmentalism, the very concept of trimming trees ranks up there with tossing live baby kittens into an industrial

blender. Even still, sundials tend to have some difficulty working in the shade. The city arborist might want to pop in and cut the growth back a bit. Now that it has been pointed out, hardly a reader of this paper will be able to wander by without a knowing chuckle. Going back and doing some research on it, I found a blog named “Portland Maine Daily Photo” which shows the same condition of shade, but the picture was taken over two years ago. It makes the mind wander back to that famed law of unintended circumstances. What decisions are we making now under the “it seemed like a good idea at the time” logic that will cause someone years down the road to be forced to steady themselves before the laughter knocks them to the ground? There is the Longfellow Statue, that annually gets a Santa hat and boxes of presents stacked under his chair in the Christmas season. One year, an unnamed group of miscreants (that I swear I have no knowledge of their identity) did a small “adjustment” to the statue on New Years Day, putting an ice bag on his head, scattering beer cans under the chair, and even going so far as to put a see HIGGINS page 5

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Binder may signal bright future for Internet users Even if you still think “broadband” is hipster slang for the Lilith Fair opening act, you have to realize that faster Internet has moved from a convenience to a necessity. In business recruitment circles, broadband is assumed to be part of the conversation in a way usually reserved for cable TV access in college dorm rooms. Indeed, along with cultural tolerance and talent pool, it can be considered the modern equivalent of old-school infrastructure like railroads, good highways and neighborhood bars. So we should welcome news this week that Maine’s most ambitious effort to jump-start its lagging broadband access has been recognized as among the nation’s best. If you don’t know about the Three Ring Binder, you probably should, especially if you’re a federal taxpayer because you’re footing most of the bill, The Binder is a 1,000-mile series of fiber that will provide modern broadband access to much of rural Maine. The name comes from the series of “loops” that will do the connecting, and along with commercial access it will link many of our hospitals and colleges. Really, it should be no less than a revolution for Internet users in much of the state. The system is reportedly on target

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for use next year and is being built by a private company and will be privately owned. But the $32 million system is mostly paid for with $25.4 million in stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its apparent owner, the Maine Fiber Company, Inc., didn’t even exist until after the money was awarded. But the approval was backed with a unanimous vote from Maine lawmakers, the governor’s office and virtually anyone else who knew about the plan — well, not FairPoint, but that’s another story. The new recognition comes from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study on “... business friendly economic development opportunities across the country.” It ranks Maine number one in the nation when it comes to infrastructure, announced the Three Ring Binder developers, because of the broadband expansion. According to a press release, the Chamber study, “Enterprising States:

Recovery and Renewal for the 21st century,” was released June 20 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber Foundation. The study looked at infrastructure, as well as many other factors, in all 50 states with a strong focus on high-speed Internet or broadband infrastructure noting “broadband telecommunication infrastructure is at the forefront of many state public policy initiatives and is viewed as indispensable to economic and community development.” Of course, we’ve all come to realize that the Internet is not exactly the same everywhere and finding a decent connection away from the cities is only slight less difficult than finding a decent double-shot low-foam almondsoy latte. Many of my friends who know much more about technology than I ever will assure me that a New Future is right around the corner. They say that local projects like the Binder will be joined by national efforts like the LightSquared network, making its way through the FCC permit process. LightSquared aims to provide 4G broadband nationwide while also extending cell phone and text services to anyone who can access communications satellites — that promises a virtual end to those frustrating “dead zones” for cell phones.

But I suspect that the real impact of these networks may come from their shared business model. Both the Three Ring Binder and LightSquared illustrate a trend toward “wholesale” networks, meaning neither will be a retailer like we see with Verizon and AT&T. Instead, they will cater to companies that package communications products that use the networks. That means a lot of small business operators will step into that “last mile” retailing space. The innovation will be welcomed and comes at a time when some argue that the Internet should become pay-to-go, offering priority to those who can afford it. For the record, Maine’s congressional delegation gets high marks from the free-Internet camp, and Sen. Olympia Snowe in particular has been a strong vote of keeping the Internet a level playing field. But that debate is far from over, and we’re bound to see more mergers like the proposed anticompetitive coupling of AT&T and T-Mobile. That makes the The Three Ring Binder and other networks even more important, and maybe even worth that $25 million taxpayer investment. (Curtis Robinson is the founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun. His column appears every Saturday.)

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threats, savage sexual appraisals. “I know where you live, and I’m gonna kill” your cat, one person flamed. “Kiki go die you ugly [expletive],” another wrote. Ostrenga inspired a wave of ridicule and defense, which spilled over into real life, including a punch to the head at a concert and the word “slut” painted in giant letters across her garage. She was contacted by an 18-year-old man named Danny Cespedes, who charmed Kiki and her parents and became intertwined with their household. Unbeknownst to them, Danny had tried to seduce a string of young girls, some as young as 12. After her mother discovered that he had forced himself on Kiki one night, the Ostrengas pressed charges. As he was being arrested, he jumped off the second floor of a parking garage and ended up in a coma. He died two months later.

Next, she was victimized by the owner of a forprofit, teen-exploitation site called Stickydrama. The site’s owner both organized mass hate sessions against Kiki and invited her to live with him and become one of the site’s exhibitionist playthings. “If I can’t have you, I will destroy you,” he wrote in a Twitter message, according to Rolling Stone. Addicted to the attention and now running an online jewelry business, Kiki couldn’t get offline, even while being painfully aware of the distinction between celebrity performance and the two-way loving relationships that she longed for. Her parents couldn’t seem to take the reins, even after they saw her online presence was not just a way of being creative. In the end, they had to move to escape the threats. They were bankrupted in the process. Kiki lost any semblance of a normal adolescence. She is an extreme case of an enormous uncon-

trolled experiment that is playing out across the world. Young people’s brains are developing while they are immersed in fast, multitasking technology. No one quite knows what effect this is having. The culture of childhood is being compressed. Those things that young people once knew at 18, they now know at 10 or 12. No one quite knows the effect of that either. Most important, some young people seem to be growing up without learning the distinction between respectability and attention. I doubt adults can really shelter young people from the things they will find online, but adults can provide the norms and values that will help them put that world in perspective, so it seems like trashy or amusing makebelieve and not anything any decent person would want to be part of themselves. Kiki’s story is not only about what can happen online, but what doesn’t happen off of it.

What decisions are we making because ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’? tossing out a talking HIGGINS from page 4 point or two to some can of PBR in the statof the folks outside ue’s hand. afterwards. “Did anyThen again, most body ever think that of the public art I’ve growing your FOOD seen lately looks like where we put the it was ripped directly DEAD FOLKS might from the online verbe a BAD IDEA? Ever sion of the old comheard of a PRION?” puter game “Myst.” If you didn’t get This sundial isn’t quite dialed into the My little vacation sunshine. (BOB HIGGINS PHOTO) that, Google it. It’s has been one of those funny, I swear. of getting back in the habit of “noticI’ll continue on this little mini vacaing things.” While at a City Council tion, noticing things and attempting meeting this week, I listened to a long to get my groove back. What funny discussion about the community garhave you noticed lately about Portdens at the edge of Evergreen Cemland? etery. I found it almost impossible not to channel my inner Louis Black/ (Bob Higgins is a regular contribuSam Kinison, and finally ended up tor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

Gary Shane (left) and Jerry Goss with Portland Public Services load old mulch for removal from Barrows Park and the Baxter Sundial monument at the corner of Baxter Boulevard and Vannah Avenue in this scene from last April. The granite monument to James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland. No word on whether the city plans to trim nearby trees so the sundial is exposed to sunshine. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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Governor vows to tackle welfare reform in January LEPAGE from page one

“I think he has a very clear vision for what he wants to do for Maine,” said Ray Richardson, a political activist and the conservative host of “The Ray and Ted Show,” Fox Morning News weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on WLOB 95.5/1310; 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on WPME TV. Colleagues admit LePage has an admirable personal history (he rose from homelessness as a youth to manage the Marden’s retail chain) but some are worried he operates more from impressions than facts. “A lot of his public policies are built on anecdotes and stories he has heard,” said Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Justin Alfond of Portland, who also serves on the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee. “Continuing to give tax cuts and falling into this trickle-down economic philosophy is not something that this country has had much success with,” Alfond said, referring to a string of policy triumphs for the governor that have irked his opponents. The Republican-led legislature approved a $6.1 billion budget that includes $150 million in tax relief, much of it for higher earners and corporations. The governor points to a reduction in Maine’s top income tax rate from 8.5 percent to 7.95 percent that is expected to eliminate tax payments for 70,000 low-income Mainers. The package, he said, represents the

reforms and changed the tax code but with one of his comments (he he vowed to keep working on welfare said victims of violent crimes reform. might have fared better if “That’s the first department that is they had owned guns). going to get the overhaul. What we’re LePage’s trademark bluntdoing now is we’re rewriting rules, ness and, some might say, that’s the first thing we can do. The lack of polish can translate second thing is we can get the invesinto legislative victories, tigative team to get out and actually supporters would argue. investigate,” he said. Richardson said RepubCalling welfare dependancy “a genlicans knew that the govererational cancer,” LePage said he had nor would draw a line in the personal knowledge because he was sand, emboldening them to one of the few members of his family pass even contentious legisto escape welfare’s grasp. lation. Richardson said LePage’s rags-to“The legislature had a riches upbringing validates his ideals backbone this time, and that of personal responsibility and self relibackbone was Paul LePage,” Richardance. son said. “The difference between Paul “The beauty of Paul LePage and LePage and the rest of these guys is what a lot of people don’t know about he understands what it means to be him is he’s a very determined guy, and vulnerable, he grew up homeless,” he’s very funny. A lot of people don’t Richardson said. get his sense of humor, but he’s a very Alfond said that the governor and optimistic guy,” Richardson said. his party allowed social and political LePage delivered his legislative update Thursday with typical bluntness, taking a few swings “I asked the legislature to remove what is called not just at Democrats (he didn’t mention the ‘childless adults’ from MaineCare; now Democrats party by name) but are screaming you’re going to take 70-year-old also at the GOP. ladies off MaineCare that have breast cancer; On welfare reform, where LePage wants well, we did a little study, and looked at the 16,000 to create incentives to remove childless people who are on MaineCare, and it turns out that adults from the rolls, the average age is 34 years old, predominantly the governor said male. So there you go, folks. And a lot of these are he was disappointed problematic to the system.” — Gov. Paul LePage more reforms weren’t enacted. “I think it would be kind of me to say that agendas to push aside the first priorwe have a lot of work to do,” LePage ity of creating jobs. He argued that said. “I think either the legislature bills about guns, abortion and restrictgot a little too tired toward the end, ing voting rights dominated the last or they just don’t have the stomach to six months. do it.” “As the chief executive, I would LePage vowed to keep the pressure hope that he and the Republican on when legislators reconvene in Janmajority would get back to what uary. Mainers sent them up there to do,” “I asked the legislature to remove Alfond said. what is called ‘childless adults’ LePage admitted that the job of from MaineCare; now Democrats reforming state government still are screaming you’re going to take lacks a key component. 70-year-old ladies off MaineCare that “The issue is this: We gave the the have breast cancer; well, we did a little largest tax relief package in the hisstudy, and looked at the 16,000 people tory of the state, but we did not cut who are on MaineCare, and it turns spending, and unless we cut spendout that the average age is 34 years ing, we will not be able to remedy old, predominantly male. So there you our cash flow issues nor will we be go, folks. And a lot of these are probable to build a rainy-day fund,” he lematic to the system,” LePage said. said. For critics, the budget that bars “I am personally very committed, legal noncitizens from garnering the legislature I will say are lukeMaineCare benefits as of July 1 of this warm in my estimation,” LePage year is a source of harm. continued in a wide-ranging speech “These are people who most of them that included a question-and-answer have been displaced because of the session. “When I say that, we have wars that this government is pusha very slim majority of Republicans ing and funding,” said Peace Action who have the will to do it, but we Maine’s Deveneau. “And to deny them have an opposition party that clearly any kind of help is inhumane, and for does not want to do anything with him to back bills that would do such unions or do anything with welfare. a thing when these people are fleeing Folks, you need to tell them that for their lives tells you what kind of that is unacceptable.” human being this man is. ... It should Speaking before the Brunswick not be, that LePage makes his budget Downtown Association, LePage precuts on the backs of the poor.” viewed some policy moves that hint LePage, of course, sees things differat further shake-ups ahead. ently. He said “we got two out of three” “My staff and I are going to start when the legislature adopted pension see next page

“A lot of his public policies are built on anecdotes and stories he has heard.” — Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Justin Alfond of Portland, about the Republican governor largest tax cut in Maine history. “I would argue that history has shown that both of those public policies have done very little to create jobs,” Alfond said of LePage’s economic theories. Others are more brutal in their assessment. “We are in a crisis as a state and as a nation financially, and to have a governor who not only pushes these kinds of bills but makes these ignorant statements ... it’s not the Maine way,” said Jacqui Deveneau, outreach coordinator with Peace Action Maine, a peace activist group based in Portland. Even in a business-friendly venue like the Brunswick Downtown Association, where the Republican governor spoke Thursday about his legislative accomplishments and goals, LePage prompted audible gasps and groans

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working with each individual commissioner, we’re going to go into zero-based budgeting,” LePage said. “We’re going to say, ‘OK, build the organization from zero, and we want to look at every single program, and we want to see some performance measures before we agree to put them in.’ So next January we are going to have a multitude of changes that we’re going to propose to the legislature on how to streamline and shrink state government and make it more efficient.” Don’t look for this blunt governor to go easy on legislators, either, particularly in the arena of energy policy. “Because they rebuffed us quite strongly in the legislature, I think we might have to provoke them a little bit stronger come January,” LePage said. LePage said he’s all for renewable energy, but only if it is affordable. “We attempted to put a bill in for energy, and it’s funny how things happen here, you think you put a good bill in and it goes in and 181 hands massage it, and it comes back and it doesn’t look like what you sent up,” he mused. “As we speak, Maine people pay 42 percent ... I’ll repeat, 42 percent ... above the national average for electricity,” LePage said. “We can have the highest renewable portfolio mix in the country ... I’m not against renewables ... I’m not against any energy alterna-

tives that can help the state of Maine, but I am against any alternative that increases the cost of electricity to commercial and residential ratepayers, I am dead against that because that’s taking us into the dark ages, not into the 21st century.” Health-care reform, another policy triumph for LePage that outrages his critics, loosened the government’s control and allowed Maine residents to purchase health insurance across state lines. The budget phases out Maine’s Dirigo Health insurance program on Jan. 1, 2014. Richardson said the political class had its chance for 30 years, and LePage is trying to fix the damage they inflicted. Alfond said jobs should be the focus. “I’m tired of the governor and the Republican party telling Mainers what they’re going to do, we’re open for business, we’re supportive of workers, what they’ve shown is this has been one of the most anti-worker legislatures probably in recent history,” Alfond said. Symbolism is not enough, Alfond added. “I’m quite frankly tired of all the slogans, and I’m looking for results,” Alfond said. Richardson said he’s not surprised that LePage is already talking about his January agenda: “The fact of the matter is the governor knows this job is not done, we have a long ways to go.”

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we fail to have a development strategy and adhere to it, we will be vulnerable to this approach.” Tax-increment financing (TIF) deals were approved to subsidize these two projects. TIFs work like this: Developers identify a parcel for redevelopment. The taxable value of that parcel is frozen at pre-development levels. Then, once the new development is complete, the property is more valuable, which leads to new property tax revenue. This new tax revenue is then split between the developer and the city based on terms of their agreement. The tax breaks for Waterfront Maine (owner of the building at 254 Commercial St. to be leased by Pierce Atwood) are worth up to $2.7 million over 20 years. For Thompson’s Point, the tax breaks are worth an estimated $31.4 million over 30 years. Even so, the city will raise tens of millions of dollars in property tax revenue from the improved parcels that wouldn’t come otherwise. The city will receive up to $2.9 million from Waterfront Maine over the next 20 years in property taxes, and an estimated $26.4 million over the next 30 years from the Thomspon’s Point project. At Thompson’s Point, developers are proposing a 78,000-square-foot convention center, a concert hall, a 125-room hotel, two class A office buildings with a combined 180,000 square feet and a 700-space parking garage. The convention center could also be configured into a 3,500-seat arena for the Maine Red Claws, a minor league basketball team. A restaurant and sports medicine lab are also planned for the project’s first phase, which is expected to cost upwards of $100 million and generate 1,230 jobs during construction and sustain more than 450 jobs in perpetuity. That project is due to come before the planning board on Tuesday for a workshop, at 3:30 p.m. at City Hall. If all goes well, construction should being early next year on the project and wind down in late 2013. While Anton supported the deal for Thompson’s Point, he admits TIFs can be controversial. For one, they can give the impression that the playing field is

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Fighting Arizona wildfires with computers and intuition BY MARC LACEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

PHOENIX — As thousands of firefighters used hand tools and hoses to combat the wildfires torching vast stretches of the Southwest, Drew Smith stared into a computer screen at a command center near one of the fiercest blazes and tried to determine which way the flames would veer next. Some wildfires are mean. Some are wily. Some show exceptional endurance, or fierceness or moxie. The most difficult among them are assigned behavior analysts like Mr. Smith — fire whisperers, as it were — who act as psychologists delving into the blazes’ inner selves. “This fire is an exceptionally aggressive fire based on how large it has become and how fast it’s growing,” said Mr. Smith, now assigned to the Wallow Fire, which has become the biggest blaze in Arizona history after burning more than 527,000 acres in the eastern part of the state. Fire behaviorists work alongside meteorologists, given that the weather, especially wind patterns, plays a pivotal role in how a wildfire grows. The topography is also important because fires burn differently depending on whether they are going up a steep slope, across a valley or through a developed area. Then there are what firefighters call the fuels, which are the vegetation and other materials that give fires energy as they move along. With more than a dozen significant fires now burning through the Southwest, the fire whisperers are busy. At the sunrise briefings that wildland firefighters attend before they go off to the lines, a variety of status reports are offered on the day’s work ahead. None, though, is listened to as intently as that of the behaviorist, who uses computer modeling and intuition to try to predict how the fire will burn that day. “They seem to get inside the head of the fire, sort of like a Dr. Phil for a fire,” said Helen Snyder, who attended the daily strategy sessions that firefighters held in May as the Horseshoe 2 Fire threatened her home in Portal, Ariz. “Everyone hung on their words as they drew mental pictures of the fire.” The fires that Arizona has experienced, some surging forward faster than expected, are testing the mathematical models that behavior specialists use. Tom Zimmerman, a fire behavior expert at the National

Interagency Fire Center for the United Forest Service in Boise, Idaho, said that the Wallow Fire had on occasion advanced more quickly than the models predicted. “We use each fire to verify the models and make them more accurate,” he said. Even with all the data crunching, fires are still full of surprises. That means that firefighters must be constantly ready for the unexpected and that residents insistent on knowing whether a fire is moving their way or when an evacuation order will be lifted may not get the definitive answer that they seek from fire officials. Drew Smith, a fire behavior analyst, looking for clues. Mr. Smith is a kind of fire whisperer who Scrutinizing a fire means acts as a psychologist delving into blazes’ inner selves (PHOTO: Joshua Lott for The New York thinking about it constantly, Times) sometimes even in one’s sleep. that govern fires, behavior specialists say there is Fire specialists say they ask themselves what the fire still plenty of unpredictability to each blaze, which is trying to tell them on a given day, as if it is commurequires them to draw on their long experience. Fires nicating through its flames. And some of them speak can produce their own weather patterns, for instance, of fires as though they were living, breathing things. which can then end up altering the course of the fires. “One of my colleagues used to compare wildfires The analysts’ critical judgments have significant to coyotes because you can see them off in the disreal-world consequences. They acknowledge that not tance but as soon as you take your eye off them they every call they make is perfect. will come up and bite you,” said Ben Newburn, a fire Would the Wallow Fire surge toward the small behavior specialist in Reserve, N.M., who is analyzing resort town of Greer or sweep by it at a comfortable the east side of the Wallow Fire. distance? The fire made a sudden move around fireSo vast has that particular fire grown that it has fighters’ containment line and ended up damaging been divvied up into three parts and scrutinized from some homes and forcing firefighters to quickly retreat. different perspectives. “Early on, this fire was moving Would the Monument Fire, a growing blaze in 10 to 12 miles in a single day, and we consider that southern Arizona, be held back by containment lines extreme fire behavior,” said Mr. Newburn, who works or surge past them? The fire, at just over 28,000 acres for the Forest Service. on Thursday afternoon, has declined in ferocity but There is a warlike aspect to fighting wildfires, and only after destroying dozens of homes by jumping a the fire behavior specialists have all spent considerhighway and breaking containment lines. able time as grunts, digging trenches, chopping down Would the Horseshoe 2 Fire, fueled by a frost kill of trees and setting off controlled burns to keep runoak this past winter, slow down at the back burns that away flames in check. They have also managed fire firefighters were starting or spew burning embers crews and made the tough calls on when to advance right past them? The back burns did keep the fire in and when to retreat. Now, though, they are like intelcheck, and although it has burned more than 220,000 ligence analysts trying to outthink the enemy. acres since May 8, it was 95 percent contained on Despite learning the laws of thermodynamics Thursday.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Making yourself a priority feels strange at first, but you’ll soon get used to it. You’ll get along with yourself better inside your own head, and you’ll also relate to others in a way that’s more fulfilling. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Someone is dreaming of a future with you. This person is sensitive to your real feelings, qualities and desires. Do you also want something so permanent and serious? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). In the past, you’ve concocted fantasies in your head that rarely resemble what really happens. As you gain experience, the fantasy gets more and more realistic and becomes likely to happen as you dream it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Someone with a big bag of problems will enjoy telling you about them. You can listen without getting involved, as long as you are not drained by the process. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re impulsive, especially when you get around that certain inspiring someone. Your pulse quickens, and you feel ready to seize opportunities and dive deeper into life. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 25). Your competitive urges are a sign of health and vitality. It’s only natural to want the best for yourself and your people. Keep your spirit of competition in check and channel it well, and July brings victory. There will be a windfall in August. A chase begins in September and lasts indefinitely. There’s a heartfelt reunion in November. Taurus and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 14, 38, 50, 32 and 27.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, June 25, the 176th day of 2011. There are 189 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. On this date: In 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution. In 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. In 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted. In 1951, CBS transmitted the first commercial color telecast from New York to four other cities using its field sequential system that was incompatible with existing black and white TVs. In 1962, the Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled that recital of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional. In 1981, the Supreme Court ruled that male-only draft registration was constitutional. In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 62. One year ago: Group of Eight leaders, including President Barack Obama, began meeting in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. Today’s Birthdays: Actress June Lockhart is 86. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Floyd is 74. Actress Barbara Montgomery is 72. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Willis Reed is 69. Writer-producer-director Gary David Goldberg is 67. Singer Carly Simon is 66. Rock musician Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) is 65. Rock musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner; King Crimson) is 65. Actorcomedian Jimmie Walker is 64. Actor-director Michael Lembeck is 63. TV personality Phyllis George is 62. Rock singer Tim Finn is 59. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 57. Rock musician David Paich (Toto) is 57. Actor Michael Sabatino is 56. Actorwriter-director Ricky Gervais (jer-VAYZ’) is 50. Actor John Benjamin Hickey is 48. Rock singer George Michael is 48. Actress Erica Gimpel is 47. Former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo (dih-KEHM’-bay moo-TAHM’-boh) is 45. Rapper-producer Richie Rich is 44. Rapper Candyman is 43. Contemporary Christian musician Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) is 40. Actress Angela Kinsey (TV: “The Office”) is 40. Rock musician Mike Kroeger (Nickelback) is 39. Rock musician Mario Calire is 37.

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Dear Annie: I’m confused about what to do with a situation in my family. At the age of 21, I am the oldest of four children. My parents have been divorced for seven years and still remain good friends. Dad remarried six years ago and is miserable. I know because he told me. I have evidence that makes me believe my father is having an affair with my best friend’s mother. (She is divorced.) I am convinced he is in love with her. I am not condoning his affair, but I want him to be happy. I want him to get out of his current marriage with some integrity left. The only person this is going to hurt is my stepmom. I don’t wish her ill, but I have seen how unhappy my father is and have been hoping for a long time that he could see his way out of his misery. Should I encourage him to fight for his happiness? -- Distraught Son Dear Son: We know you love your father and want him to be happy, but you truly need to stay out of this. Too often, well-meaning family and friends get blamed for whatever happens. You can tell Dad that he deserves to be content and you want that for him. You can also tell him to seek counseling if he’s having trouble. But that’s it. He needs to handle his marriage in his own way. Dear Annie: Why is it that when you hit the magic age of 60, people automatically think of you as being old? I am 62 years old. I do not act old, and I do not dress old. But ever since I turned 60, people have been treating me like I should be sitting in a rocking chair waiting to die. I had a 22-year job with a large company that decided those of us with years of experience should no longer be

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Saturday, June 25 Limington Extension Yard Sales

8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11 and every dry Saturday in June, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. Used and new items. Bug sprays, yard foggers and ant products for $2. New gallons of paint, shoes and jeans $2. Napkins, paper plates & envelopes 25 cents. Hundreds of 25 cent items. Benefits BEHS scholarships. FMI — 6922989.

Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk

8:30 a.m. Youth and Family Outreach (YFO) is having its first Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk at Back Cove in Portland. “All proceeds will benefit YFO which has been providing quality early care and education for low-income families in the Portland area for 25 years.” 874-1073. Registrations and donations accepted at active.com.

Wayside food drive at Whole Foods Market

9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wayside Food Programs and Whole Foods Market of Portland are working together to collect food to feed children and families this summer. The three-day food drive at Whole Foods Market’s Portland store ends today. “Food collected at the drive will help Wayside provide critically needed summer nutrition at a time when children are most vulnerable. ... Wayside Food Programs in collaboration with Portland Public Schools is expanding on the summer meals model to ensure that children have access to summer food by inviting their parents and siblings to eat a meal together as a family. ... The food drive will also supply Wayside’s Kids’ Healthy Snacks program, which provides nutritious food to Portland’s Community Policing Centers.”

Cemetery walk at Calvary Cemetery

10 a.m. Cemetery walk at Calvary Cemetery. “The last one was cancelled, but we are going ahead with this one no matter the weather (well, if it is too bad...). Rain date will be in the fall. The tour is by Matthew Jude Barker and features a brief history of the cemetery and discussion of interesting gravesites.” www.maineirish.com

Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Portland Police Department and the Portland Motor Club will present Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show to benefit the Portland Police Youth Activities League (PAL), at Portland Motor Club. 275 Presumpscot St. The classic and newer vehicle show is a fun free event for all ages with fifteen prize categories for registrants. The show will feature a special Police Tactical Vehicles demonstration, police cars, new and classic muscle cars, green hybrid cars, indoor carting vehicles, and a vintage HO scale race track. Activities will include tire-changing races, detailing demonstrations and youth-oriented car safety and care lessons. Raffle prizes and refreshments from area restaurants including Bingas Wingas, Siano’s Brick Oven Pizza and Cap’n Eli’s Soda, will be available to attendees. Live music to be performed local teen musicians. For more information about the event or to register a vehicle (including trucks and motorcycles) for the car show, visit www.PortlandMotorClub.com. All categories of vehicles are welcome, especially teen vehicle owners and classic police cars (categories exempt from registration costs). Registration fee is $15, includes a car show t-shirt.

Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Third annual Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth continues at Maxwell’s Strawberry Fields on Two Lights Road. Come and enjoy luscious strawberry treats, great music, fun and crafts for kids including tractor rides, and a wide range of artisans and vendors. It’s a full day of fun from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. http://capefarmalliance.org/strawberry-fest/

Second annual Hot Air Balloon Fest in OOB

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Street Bazaar as part of the second annual Hot Air Balloon Fest now combined with a BBQ festival plus much more in Old Orchard Beach. The hot air balloon festival is mostly downtown in the square area. Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. is a BBQ event in The Ballpark on Emerson Cummings Blvd. behind the fire station. www.oob365.com

Vegetarian Food Festival

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine Animal Coalition’s seventh annual Vegetarian Food Festival at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland. Music provided by Thom and Stacie Hanes with Mike Brown and Anne McKee, violin with Christine deCosta, piano accompanist. Presenters in the large classroom: 11:15 a.m., Jasmin Singer of Our Hen House, “Let the Doughnut Do The Talking: Food as Activism”; 12:15 p.m., Mariann Sullivan,Our Hen House “Writing for Animal Rights”; 1:15 p.m., Meg Wolff, “Kicking The Sugar Habit”; 2 p.m. Elizabeth Fraser of Girl Gone Raw, “Unleash a Vibrant NEW You with Raw & Living Foods.” In the Band Room: noon, Dr. Reuben Bell of Healthy Doctors, LLC, will share his decades of medical experience in his talk “Living in the Food/Pharma Matrix”; 1:30 p.m., Susan

Now playing at Ogunquit Playhouse, the ’60s-inspired “Summer of Love” features Manley Pope as River. (COURTESY PHOTO) Rooker, Author/Illustrator, will read from her new children’s book, “Lucky Pigs.”

Portland Lobster Fest

11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The third annual Portland Lobster Fest takes place on the Maine State Pier. “With live music featuring The Stream, Maine premier reggae band, the smooth vocals of the David Good Trio and the unique sounds and songs of Typhoon Ferri, the Portland Lobster Fest offers the best of Maine’s iconic food, the Maine Lobster, a festive atmosphere and a unique, scenic setting on the Maine State Pier.” Presented by the Falmouth Rotary, Lobster Fest benefits the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. Lead sponsor is FairPoint Communications. The Great Maine Lobster Eating Contest begins at 1 p.m. and will feature contestants shucking and eating as many Maine lobsters as they can in 10 minutes. Maine Gov. Paul LePage; winner of the hit CBS show “Survivor” Bob Crowley; and Miss Maine USA Ashley Marble are the judges for the Great Maine Lobster Eating contest. Contestants will be announced the week before the competition. The Calendar Island Lobster Company is presenting a Gourmet Lobster Tasting Bar at this year’s Portland Lobster Festival. The tasting will consist of Lobster Pizza, Lobster Cakes, Lobster Bisque, Lobster Stew and a few other delicious lobster items. The Gourmet Lobster Tasting Bar is open to the public.

St. Augustine of Canterbury bottle drive

noon to 3 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church has announced that it will conduct a bottle drive on the church property. Proceeds from the drive will be used to benefit the homeless and others in need. At this time of year, specific items such as socks, flip-flops and sunscreen are in demand but often overlooked by donors. Funds will be used to purchase essential items for those in need. The bottle drive will become a seasonal event to be held several times a year. Diocese of the Northeast, Anglican Church in America,156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach. Father Jeffrey W. Monroe is Vicar and Father Joseph Bizimana is assistant Vicar. For additional information contact 799-5141.

‘Cymbeline Underground’ on Peaks Island

2 p.m. The Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the “Naked Shakespeare” series, concludes its 2010/2011 season with a unique perfomance installation on Peaks Island titled “Cymbeline Underground,” which is directed by Michael Levine and performed on Saturday and Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. “These shows are free with a $10 suggested donation. During this event, audience members will wander through the tunnel connecting the two former gun emplacements at the Battery Steele compound, experiencing short scenes from Cymbeline enacted in a non-linear fashion at various places throughout the structure.” Call Acorn Productions at 854-0065 or visit www.nakedshakespeare.org for more information about Naked Shakespeare

or any other programs offered by Acorn Productions.

‘Beautiful Darling’ at the PMA

2 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Beautiful Darling” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Saturday, June 25, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m. NR. “‘Beautiful Darling’ chronicles the short but influential life of Candy Darling who was a major part of Andy Warhol’s entourage and was one of the inspirations for the Lou Reed song ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’”

‘Ida’s Having a Yard Sale’

4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Ida Leclair, “the funniest woman in Maine,” is having a yard sale. From crocheted toilet paper covers to the complete Box Car Willy record collection and plenty of gossip going around Mahoosuc Mills. Performances are June 22 through July 2, Wednesday through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $22.50/ $17.50 for seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets, www.freeportfactory.com 865-5505. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

Public Supper at SoPo United Methodist Church

4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland, public supper. Casseroles, pies. Call 799-0407 FMI. Suggested donation: Adults $8, Under 12: $4, Family: $20.

‘The Real McGonagall’ by Brunswick theater

8 p.m. The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick, is proud to present “The Real McGonagall,” originally presented by the Portland Stage Company, at The Theater Project June 23-26. “The Real McGonagall” performances times are Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, June 26 at 5 p.m. All tickets are $18 and are available anytime on line, www.theaterproject.com or by calling the Theater Project box office at 729-8584.

‘Summer of Love’ at Ogunquit Playhouse

8:30 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Office 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” “When a runaway bride discovers the countercultural revolution of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hippies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the powerful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most influential artists of the love generation: The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.” Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23. see next page

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Sunday, June 26 Pancake breakfast at Fifth Maine

8 a.m. to 11 a.m. “Bring the whole family for a delicious breakfast of blueberry or buttermilk pancakes, ham, eggs, baked beans, watermelon, juice and coffee of tea in our seaside dining room and verandah. A great way to start the day! The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonprofit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities.” $7 per person; $4 per child under 10. Membership is open to the public. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. 766-3330 or email fifthmaine@maine.rr.com.

Wells Antiques Show

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Wells Antiques Show will be held this year in Wells on the seaside grounds of the historic Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farm. Sixty exhibitors from all over New England, and Tennessee will be selling quality antiques in every area of the antiques market under large and small tents, in the barn, and in the open. Adult Admission $6.00 With a printout of this listing, $5.00 each. Children Free when accompanied by an adult. Because of nesting grounds and wildlife, Laudholm Farm does not allow dogs to walk the grounds, leashed or not. www.goosefareantiques.com

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program garden tour

10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Brunswick Downtown Association announces a Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Annual Garden Tour. Self-guided tour. Tickets $10 in advance or $12 at the door and can be purchased at Hannaford, MCCHP office, Skillins, Imperial Hosta, Dyers, and Gulf of Maine Books. Tour begins at the Gazebo on the Downtown Mall and ends at the MCCHP office for strawberry shortcake and tours of the garden/facilities. Event hosted by Ron Carroll. Rain date is July 10. FMI www.mcchp.org.

Temple Beth El’s Open House & Family Fun Day

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Please join Temple Beth El for a funfilled Open House & Family Fun Day with kosher hot dogs on the BBQ, refreshments, music, kids activities including a bounce house and crafts, and more. Free, and all are welcome!” Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Avenue, Portland. 774-2649, office@tbemaine.org, www.tbemaine.org

Hands Across The Sand

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “Mainers will stand in solidarity with folks from around the globe as we call for an end to dangerous offshore oil drilling. Hands Across The Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses all borders and political affiliations. This movement is not about politics. It is about protecting coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife and fisheries from the threats of expanded offshore drilling.” East End Beach, Portland. Visit www.handsacrossthesands.com for information on other locations in Maine. Hands Across The Sand is endorsed by national and state organizations including Oceana, Alaska Wilderness League, NRCM, Maine Interfaith Power and Light, Maine Audubon, Conservation Law Foundation and Environment Maine.

Friends and family potluck picnic

noon to 4 p.m. Summer event at UU Church of Saco and Biddeford. Part of 25th Annual Southern Maine Pride. Bring food to share. Hot dogs and hamburgers provided. RSVP on www.gosaco.ning.com

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project 5K

12:15 p.m. Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project hosts a 5K on the Bayside Trail. Following the run, stick around to watch high quality soccer matches by the Portland United Soccer League. Black Bear Medical, 275 Marginal Way, Portland. “This is a day for the whole family! What better way to celebrate our multi-cultural community, with runners of all levels and highly skilled soccer players enjoying a beautiful Maine summer day for a great cause.” $20 registration fee; to register, go to www.ilapmaine.org/events.html.

Sixth annual Taste of the Nation

3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wine & Spirit Tasting Reception, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; General Admission, 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Southern Maine Community College, Leavitt and Parris Tent Pavilion, 2 Fort Road (Middle Campus), South Portland. “The sixth annual Taste of the Nation Portland will include over 20 chefs from Maine’s finest restaurants paired with an open bar serving premium wines and spirits, and local craft beers. Dance under the stars along Maine’s spectacular waterfront to Portland’s ‘DJ Jon’ and one of Maine’s hottest live bands ‘Now is Now’!” A 21-plus event, and valid ID will be required at check-in. This event is a benefit to raise money to feed the hungry. The menu is being prepared by many of the top restaurants in the state. VIP tickets are $200 and entitle the holder to arrive at 3 p.m. for a food preview and a chance

A food drive to benefit Wayside Food Programs will take place at Whole Foods Market’s Portland store on Franklin Street today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) to meet the chefs and ‘a gift bag packed with fantastic goodies from companies like Stonewall Kitchen.’ General admission starts at 4:30 p.m.; tickets are $125. For more information or to buy tickets visit the Share Our Strength website, http://strength.org.

Rooftop Film: ‘Wayne’s World’

9 p.m. At Free Street Parking Garage, Portland, movie starts at sunset. Free. “MENSK is pleased to announce the return of the summer Rooftop Film Series. Sunday, June 26, 2011 the public is invited to the top level of the Free Street parking garage in Portland for a screening of ‘Transmitter’ produced by the local Laughing Man Films, followed by ‘Wayne’s World’ (1992 American comedy, directed by Penelope Spheeris, PG-13). The films begin around sunset, (or by 9 p.m.) Bring your own lawn chair, blankets and snacks. Enter at 45 Spring Street. A free event, hosted by MENSK.”

Monday, June 27 A Day of Celebration for The Bank of Maine

8 a.m. The Bank of Maine Celebrates the Opening of its Portland Branch and Headquarters at 2 Canal Plaza. Complimentary coffee and pastries provided by Bard Coffee; 8:30 a.m. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and check presentation to the Portland Public Library; welcome Remarks from Mayor Nicholas Mavodones and Godfrey Wood, CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce; noon. Complimentary lunch provided by Famous Dave B.B.Q. Performance by the South Portland Boys and Girls Club Dynamite Dancers as well as local Portland musician, Eric Bettencourt.

MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures

6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and scholars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. June 27: Elllie Ga; Ga’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation and span a variety of media, often incorporating her exploratory writing and culminating in performative lectures, videos and installations. July 5: Juan Logan; Logan’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos address the interconnections of race, place and power. July 11: Sina Najafi; Najafi is the Editor of Cabinet Magazine. July 18: Anne West; West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She teaches in the graduate program at RISD. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist andland artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recreations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writing by Anne West. Her lecture on July 18 will be followed by a book signing. West is an educator, writer, and indepen-

dent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. http://www.meca.edu/mfa

Asylum Nightclub & Sports Bar 15th anniversary

8 p.m. “Asylum Nightclub & Sports Bar will open its doors to host a week full of special events beginning Monday, June 27, to celebrate its 15-year legacy as a notable hotspot on the Portland and Maine music scenes as well as to showcase the extensive cosmetic and technical renovations. Owners Krista Newman, Valerie Levy and Laurie Willey will thank the Portland community with a series of events, kicking off with an industry night on Monday, June 27, when restaurant, club, hospitality and service industry employees are invited to check out the new face of the nightlife fixture. Tuesday, June 28, guests will have the chance to sample the talent at Asylum’s regular weekly event nights. The talented DJs from Wednesday Karaoke, Thursday Retro, Friday Plague, and Saturday Nice Action nights will each perform for an hour and share their unique twists on the musical genres. Thursday, June 30, will focus on local musicians with a Taste of the Local in the upstairs room. And Friday, July 1, will feature the return of SixGig, kicking off their reunion tour and WCYY’s Summer Camp.” http://portlandasylum.com/15th-anniversary-week

Tuesday, June 28 Bartending class at SMCC

5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Southern Maine Community College is offering classes this summer in Continuing Studies for a variety of interests. Opportunities include courses for job skills and certification preparation as well as fun topics for personal enrichment. This course consists of instructions on how to set up a bar, purchase equipment, use of different types and sizes of glasses, how to order spirits, keep count of inventory and general costs, plus control of a bar/ lounge and the proper way of mixing drinks. TIPS Certification included in price of course. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June 28 to July 27, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. www.smccme. edu/continuingstudies

Bomb Diggity Arts Program ‘TV SHOW’

7 p.m. “Presenting episode two and three of TV SHOW followed by The Kidnap — a 1930s era spy movie. TV SHOW is a television variety show produced by Bomb Diggity Arts, a program of Momentum and Shoot Media Project, a program of Creative Trails. Using video cameras from the Community Television Network, artists in these two media programs create short documentaries, comedies, interviews, animations, music videos, etc. for the show. ... Anna Schechter, a staffer at Bomb Diggity Arts Program, and Natalie Conn, a staffer of Shoot Media are two SALT Alumni who started this innovative multi-media program with the adults with intellectual disabilities with whom they work. This project morphed into ‘TV SHOW.’” SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org see next page

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Wednesday, June 29 ‘Annie’ at MSMT

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Annie” springs to life on June 29, complete with The Orphans, Annie’s dog Sandy, Daddy Warbucks, and Miss Hannigan at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick. Through July 16. http://msmt.org/

Music rights workshop

6:30 p.m. A workshop, led by attorney Valerie Lovely of The Music Law Firm, “is designed to give performers, producers and dance instructors an overview of music rights as it pertains to performing and how to obtain permission to use a piece of music in a production or show.” Presented at SPACE Gallery by Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Dark Follies in collaboration with Portland Music Foundation and Lucid Stage. www.space538.org/events.php

Property Assessed Clean Energy loan program

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. How local homeowners can finance and move ahead on energy-saving projects for their homes, using Efficiency Maine’s new low-interest loan program, will be the focus of a community forum at Ocean Avenue Elementary School. The event is hosted by the Maine Chapter of Sierra Club, Efficiency Maine and Maine Partners for Cool Communities and its signature Green Sneakers Project. The program at Ocean Avenue Elementary School, 150 Ocean Ave., is open to the public. Homeowners and community leaders are encouraged to attend. Forum presenters include Efficiency Maine residential program specialist Dana Fischer, who will provide an overview of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan program, already adopted by more than 70 communities including Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, and other neighboring communities. Dave Marshall, City Councilor, and Chair of the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee will provide background on the city’s adoption of the PACE program and share success stories of various initiatives undertaken by the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee. For more information, please contact Green Sneakers-Portland Team at 774-7989 or Sierra Club at 7615616 or visit the MPCC website at www.coolmaine.org.

Thursday, June 30 ‘Effective Networking’ seminar

noon to 1 p.m. “What Everyone Does, But Few Do Well: Effective Networking,” part of the Wisdom at Work series at the Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Featuring Barbara Babkirk of Heart At Work Career Counseling.

Build Your Network with the Sea Dogs

5:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, are offering a summer networking series titled “Build Your Network.” The series, which gets underway on June 30th, is designed to give professionals in the business community an opportunity for professional development, creating contacts and to network in a casual social setting at the ballpark. The summer networking series will consist of three events over the course of the summer. The first event is on June 30 with the remaining events taking place on July 14, and Aug. 23. Each event will include a featured local business leader speaking, networking opportunities in the Coca-Cola Picnic Grove at Hadlock Field, and a Portland Sea Dogs baseball game. The speaking portion of the series will take place at 5:45 p.m. in the Portland Room and will conclude at approximately at 6:15 p.m. Following the speaking portions, all attendees are welcome to continue networking in the Coca Cola picnic area, where you will be able to enjoy a ballpark style dinner consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ chicken sandwiches, Sea Dog biscuits, and much more. After dinner enjoy watching the Sea Dogs in action, game time is set for 7 p.m. Tickets to each event cost $20, and include the speaking portion as well as your ticket to the game in the Coca Cola Picnic Area with food. Tickets are limited and can be purchased by contacting Liz Riley at the Sea Dogs office at 874-9300 or email at lriley@seadogs.com. The series will kick off on Thursday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature Eastern League President Joe McEacharn as the speaker prior to that evenings’ 7 p.m. game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays).

Portland Improv Experience at Lucid Stage

7:30 p.m. “Since 2010, Portland Improv Experience (PIE) has brought long form improvisational theater to audiences across southern Maine. Each show features PIE’s ensemble cast working together to create uncommon stories driven by audience inspiration. ... Portland Improv Experience brings a different kind of improv to Maine’s theater scene. In addition to live performances, PIE is committed to expanding theater and arts education across Maine through

classes and workshops. Most recently PIE worked with Yarmouth High School to produce student programming for the state’s One Act Festival and was a featured company in the first annual Portland Improv Festival.” $10. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. 899-3993. www. LucidStage.com

Friday, July 1 Peaks Island photographer Arthur Fink exhibit kicks off Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Bates Dance Festival based in Lewiston announces its 29th season of public events, taking place July 1 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus. The six-week festival showcases contemporary performance works by Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Nicholas Leichter Dance, Zoe | Juniper, The Equus Projects and Black Label Movement, and David Dorfman Dance. Performances, panel discussions and lectures by more than 40 internationally recognized dancers from across the United States and abroad. Performance times and locations appear on the festival website: www.batesdancefestival.org. Images from the Festival: Dance Photo Exhibit — “Peaks Island photographer, Arthur Fink, has a passion for dance. For the last four summers he has spent several weeks photographing dancers at the Festival. These stunning and provocative images capture the dancers at work — warming up, taking class and rehearsing. Included are images of the acclaimed artistsin-residence.” July 1 to Aug. 14, Chase Hall Gallery, Open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also featured: Monday, July 11, Schaeffer Theatre, 7:30 p.m., a sneak preview: Camille Brown and her dancers share snippets and talk about the stories behind the work. Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16, Schaeffer Theatre, 8 p.m., the vivid and versatile Camille A. Brown is a pixy-ish performer who packs a punch. Festival Finale, Saturday, Aug. 13, Alumni Gym, 7:30 p.m., discover and celebrate the next generation of dance luminaries.

Scenes of Life in Portland, 1940s at MHS

2 p.m. “Innocent Interlude: Scenes of Life in Portland, Maine, 1940-41 (2004),” Daily Screenings: Monday-Friday in July and August at the Maine Historical Society. “Take an amazing tour of Portland in the early 1940s. City officials made this remarkable series of color films that document life around Portland, capturing: longshoremen unloading ships on the waterfront; regattas; a soap box derby on Park Avenue; baseball, swan boats, and ice skating at Deering Oaks Park; aerial views of the city; snow plows; the removal of trolley tracks from Congress Street, and many other subjects. Film narrated by Historian Joel Eastman. (60 minutes).” www.mainehistory.org

Bath Heritage Days

5 p.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade. There will be a fireworks finale on the 4th on the Kennebec River.” Events start with Smokey’s Greatest Show and Carnival, 5-11 p.m. at Waterfront Park. Downtown Bath/Waterfront/Library Park. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com

Images of the Longfellow Garden

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Images of the Longfellow Garden, First Friday Art Walk. “Enjoy Portland’s vibrant First Friday Art Walk and come see the current show in the Shettleworth Gallery, Images of the Longfellow Garden (May 6-Aug. 30). The historical images in this exhibit trace the evolution of the garden — one of Maine Historical Society and Portland’s great treasures — through the years. The Longfellow Garden will be open late for art walk patrons.

First Friday Art Walk at Meg Perry

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Meg Perry Center at 644 Congress St. presents: The Refugee Women’s Craft Collective, featuring work from Columbia, Rwanda and Japan. “Imagine arriving in a country where everything, from language to social customs, is different from everything you have ever known. To a refugee, our country is another world. Many refugee women arrive uneducated and illiterate and have difficulty in adjusting to their new lives in America. It is difficult to find work because they are unable to afford childcare for their children. ... A group of refugee women have come together to form the Refugee Women’s Craft Collective as a way to support their families, eliminating the language barrier that they all face. The women in the group originate from areas such as, Burma, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. Please help us support the women as they work to rebuild their lives.” Call 523-2737 or email abullard@ccmaine.org.

Sonia Anne-Cook Broen at the St. Lawrence

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Open Artist Reception: “Transitions” New Works by Sonia Anne-Cook Broen. Free openhouse reception. “‘Transitions’ is Sonia’s first solo-show

here in Portland since moving to the city a year ago after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill forced her to consider a new place to live. Sonia moved to Portland to be closer to family and because the city embraces an environmental consciousness that she felt was lacking in her southerly home.” For more information on this artist please visit her site at: http://soniacookbroen.com. A portion of proceeds will benefit the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center. For more information: www.stlawrencearts.org.

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New York based artists Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball and Tatiana Simonova present drawings in various media. This is SPACE Gallery’s first show in a new annex space. www.space538.org

One Longfellow Square’s First Friday Free Concert

6 p.m. “Celebrate summer with some live outdoor music at One Longfellow Square. This Friday, July 1, between 6-7:30, the band Truth About Daisies, http://www.truthaboutdaisies. com, will be playing in Longfellow Square. Truth About Daisies is not some far flung zen meditation practice but rather is an original folk flower power trio of Portland musicians wielding acoustic guitars, harps, mando, banjo, and bass. They even fire up the electric guitar from time to time. The band is known for their vocal harmonies and quirky introspective songs that range from ballads to blues, folk to reggae.”

‘Octubre’ at the PMA

6:30 p.m. Friday, July 1, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 2, 2 p.m.; Sunday, July 3, 2 p.m. NR. Portland Museum of Art presents “Octubre” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. “October is the ‘purple month’ in Lima, when the grey city’s somber tones give way to processions celebrating the Lord of Miracles. Hope is reborn among the throngs of devotees who light candles and follow the processions, each in search of their own miracle. Tucked away in one of the Lima’s modest flats lives Clemente, a small time loan shark with a penchant for reckless hookers, grave solitude, money lending, and nothing else. Stuck in a shallow routine, Clemente lacks any real emotional connection to anyone. People, in turn, refer to him not by name, but as ‘the pawnbroker’s son.’ Whether it’s a slippery counterfeiter, an amiable thief or a desperate neighbor, Clemente is sensitive only to what their business might bring him.” http://www.portlandmuseum.org/ events/movies.php

Comedian Bob Marley at The Landing

6:30 p.m. Comedian Bob Marley at The Landing at Pine Point in Scarborough. “Bob Marley is back at it again at The Landing at Pine Point!!! We are really excited about the funny man’s return. In fact, due to popular demand and the fact that he has sold out 4 consecutive times here, we are excited to have him back in September also. Get your tickets now and don’t wait.” Doors at 6:30 p.m., dinner served until 9 p.m., curtain at 8 p.m. A 21-plus event. www.thelandingatpinepoint.com

Portland Playback Theater ‘Bloopers’

7:30 p.m. “Join us this month as we visit those moments that didn’t go exactly as planned. In life, control and predictability are illusions, and every once in a while we are reminded of that. Sometimes it’s for the better, and sometimes not, but as Lennon said, ‘Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.’ Also for this month’s performance, Playback is moving to a new location, Community Television at 516 Congress St. in Portland (the performance will not be recorded). Show starts at 7:30 p.m. sharp, $7 at the door. Every month, Portland Playback Theater Company puts five actors at your disposal to honor the stories of your life, unrehearsed and on the spot.” Learn more at www.portlandplayback.com.

Saturday, July 2 Open Gates Equine Rescue yard sale

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Gates Equine Rescue is sponsoring a multi-family yard sale at the First Congregational Church Parish House, 8 Brown Street, Gray (right behind McDonald’s). If raining, yard sale will be held inside the Parish House. Many household items, some estate items and some horse tack. FMI, please call 926-5570.

Bath Heritage Days continues

8:30 a.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade. There will be a fireworks finale on the Fourth on the Kennebec River.” Events continue with Farmer’s Market. Downtown Bath/Waterfront/Library Park. Bath Municipal Band Pre-fireworks Concert 8 p.m. Monday; fireworks over the Kennebec River 9 p.m. Monday. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com see next page

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display at 9:30 p.m. Ogunquit Beach. www. ogunquit.org

Herb Cooking Workshop

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A hands-on Herb Cooking Workshop will be held at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Harvesting and drying of herbs, herb blend recipes and prepared foods will be part of this workshop as well as attendees making their own herb blends. Fee: $40 (pre-registration required).

New Gloucester History Barn Open House

10 a.m. The Declaration of Independence will be read aloud at the monthly New Gloucester History Barn Open House, Route 231, behind the Town Hall. The complete History Barn open hours on that day are 9 a.m. to noon. The event is sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society.

Floorcloth Workshop

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A Floorcloth Workshop will be held on, 2011 at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Participants will make a 2-foot by 3-foot canvas floorcloth using traditional designs or designs of their own making. Betsy Grecoe who sells her floorcloths at the Shaker Store will be the instructor. Fee: $55 (includes all materials) (pre-registration required).

The Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats

2 p.m. The Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats, at Maine Historical Society. Weekly Screenings: Saturdays at 2 p.m. in July and August. “Join us for a screening of the only remaining episode of The Dave Astor Show, one of Maine’s best-loved homegrown television shows. The program, which aired on Saturday afternoons from 19561971, featured students from area high schools performing dance routines and other productions. The Dave Astor Show, Maine’s own American Bandstand, quickly became a teenage phenomenon, a fixture in numerous homes, and provided invaluable training and experiences for the students who participated. In this episode, recorded in 1962, Dave and his students help celebrate the opening of the new Jordan’s Meats plant in Portland with song, dance, and lots of fun. (60 minutes).” www.mainehistory.org

The Chebeague Chebang!

3 p.m. “A New Traditions Festival, it’s a summer jubilee, replete with Pig Roast, Live Music, Games and huge fireworks. Play some badminton, have a cocktail out on the porch or cut a rug out on the lawn. It’s going to be a splendid afternoon of activities for young and old.” Children’s Art Activities: Oak Street Studios, Yard Games: Port Sports. Musical performances throughout the day: Jose Ayerve, Emilia Dahlin, Turn Pollock, South Bound & Grand Hotel. Rain Date: Sunday, July 3. Departure: 3 pm Casco Bay Lines to Chebeague Island. www.chebeagueislandinn.com/

‘IndepenDance — Rage Against LePage’

9 p.m. Club Evolution (Racks), 272 St John St. (downstairs below Maine Hardware) formerly The Station. A Raging Benefit Dance Party for the Portland Democratic City Committee, created by Greg Silverchild Gould, Jill Barkley, Bryan Bonesaw Kessler, Joel Turgo. “IndepenDance — Rage Against LePage raises funds and heart rate for Portland Dems.”

Monday, July 4 Blueberry Pancake & Sausage Breakfast

7 a.m. Twentieth annual breakfast will be celebrated by serving free meals to “active-duty military personnel.” Local parade down Main Street follows at 10 a.m. St. Jude Church, 134 Main St., Freeport. 865-6624

Bath Heritage Days continues

7:45 a.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade. There will be a fireworks finale on the Fourth on the Kennebec River.” Events continue with One-Mile Fun Run. Downtown Bath/Waterfront/Library Park. Bath Municipal Band Pre-fireworks Concert 8 p.m. Monday; fireworks over the Kennebec River 9 p.m. Monday. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com

Celebrate the Fourth of July at MHS

noon. A Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence by former state representative Herb Adams. Join the Maine Historical Society to celebrate the Fourth of July with a public reading of the Declaration of Independence in front of the Longfellow House at 489 Congress St. MHS owns one of only 25 surviving copies of the rare 1776 Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration. http://www.mainehistory.org/ programs_events.shtml#event_206

Fourth of July celebration in Portland

noon. Portland’s annual Fourth of July celebration, The Stars and Stripes Spectacular, will be held at the Eastern Promenade Park. Vendors will be open at noon. The

Wednesday, July 6 Lobsterman’s Park kids’ activities

10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Free activities with the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine every week, Wednesdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Lobsterman’s Park (corner of Union and Middle Streets). July 6 — Whale Wonders. Lean the difference between toothed and baleen whales, touch real whale baleen and make a whale tail craft. July 13 — Beaver Business. Take a look at a beaver skull and fur, then take part in a craft to learn about beaver adaptations. July 20 — Dino Discovery. Investigate a life size T-Rex jawbone and make a dough dino fossil to take Herb Adams prepares to place new American flags next to headstones for African- home. July 27 — Understanding Owls. Lean about an owl’s silent flight and other hunting American veterans in Eastern Cemetery during a trip there earlier this year. Adams will participate in a Fourth of July ceremony at the Maine Historical Society. (DAVID techniques by exploring artifacts and making a craft. www.portlandmaine.com or www.chilCARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) drensmuseumofme.org celebration will feature a free Patriotic Pops concert by Free summer concerts in Portland the Portland Symphony Orchestra with performances of 8 p.m. Bring a chair or blanket, sit back and enjoy the music Sousa, Copland, and Tchaikovsky. The concert is schedthroughout the summer months. Portland Recreation, Famuled to begin at 7:40 p.m. and will run throughout the fireilies of the Western Prom Neighborhood, West End Neighworks display, which will begin at 9:20 p.m. Prior to the borhood Association, Maine Red Claws, Quirk Chevrolet, pops concert, spectators can enjoy a special performance Friends of Eastern Promenade, Kemp Goldberg Partners, by “Maine’s funniest comedian,” Bob Marley, presented Betty Winterhalder Fund, Trevor & Joe, Coyne Piergrossi by the Bangor Savings Bank and starting at 6 p.m. A rain Associates, Keller Williams Realty, SMRT, the Italian Heridate for the Fourth of July event is scheduled for Tuesday, tage Center Concert Band and the Willey Trust sponsor July 5. Call the city’s hotline at 756-8130 if a change seems these free outdoor concerts. FMI: 756-8275; Information likely. The Stars and Stripes Spectacular is entirely privately and cancellation hotline: 756-8130. funded including support from Founding Partners of the Sunset Folk Series At The Western Prom Park: Sponsored July 4th Portland Foundation, The Portland Press Herald/ by Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood and WENA. Maine Sunday Telegram, Quirk Chevrolet, Wright Express Concerts last approximately 40 minutes. (During inclement and the Maine Red Claws. Additional support for this year’s weather, concert canceled.) Held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. event was provided by Major Sponsor — Bath Savings (or as announced) at Western Prom Park. July 6, 8 p.m. Rob Bank; Gold Sponsors — Time Warner Cable, Unum and Simpson http://www.myspace.com/robysimpson; July 13, Cross Insurance; Silver Sponsors — PowerPay, Woodard 7:45 p.m., Darien Brahms http://www.myspace.com/darien& Curran, Famous Dave’s BBQ, and Citadel Broadcastbrahms; July 20, 7:45 p.m., Mark Farrington; Wednesday, ing; Contributing Sponsors — Proprietors of Union Wharf, July 27, 7:30 p.m., Sorcha http://www.myspace.com/sorMEMIC, Creative Office Pavilion, KeyBank and countless chasongs; Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Phantom Buffalo http://www. donations from area business and individuals. “It is estimyspace.com/phantombuffalo; Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m., Will mated that 50,000 people will watch the program throughGattis http://www.myspace.com/gattistheband. out the city and to accommodate spectators that want Crusher’s Kids Concerts in the Park: Concerts last approxto ride their bikes to Munjoy Hill, the city’s first ever Valet imately 40 minutes. Concerts held Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. Bicycle Parking area, located near the cannon at Fort Allen at the Bandstand, Deering Oaks Park. (During inclement Park, will be open allowing cyclists to park their bicycle for weather concert relocated to Reiche Community Center, 166 free. Sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Brackett Street). July 7, Jon Call (Camp Songs); July 14, DeliPortland Bicycle Community Meetup, people will be able to lah & Chandra (Singing Hands); July 21, Tangletoons (Maine leave their bike in a staffed parking area, no lock required. Songs); July 28, Sparks Ark (Wild Animals); Aug. 4, Sammie Bicycle lights will be available for sale from Gorham Bike & Haynes (Singer Songstress). Ski, to ensure that spectators can ride home legally after Friends Of Eastern Promenade Concert Series: Sponsored dark. Valet Bike Parking will be available from 6 p.m. until by the Friends of the Eastern Promenade. Concerts last 10:30 p.m. Attendees are reminded to throw their trash approximately one hour. Concerts held Thursdays at 7 p.m. away or take it with them when they leave the park. In an at Bandstand, Fort Allen Park. July 7, Delta Knights (Rock ‘n’ effort to make recycling easier for spectators, recycling bins Roll) sponsored by SMRT; July 14, Don Roy Band (Fiddlers); will be widely available throughout the area for bottles, cans sponsored by a Friend of the Eastern Prom; July 21, and other recyclables. Staff will be walking through the park Chandler’s Band (Marches & Big Band Era) sponsored by the to answer questions or direct the public to the nearest recyWilley Trust; July 28, Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings cling bin or trash container. Public restrooms will be open (Rockabilly) sponsorship in Memory of Betty Winterhalder; at the East End Beach, Turner Street and the top of Cutter Aug. 4, Big Chief (Rhythm & Roots Music) sponsored Street. Due to the crowds and loud noises, spectators are by Trevor & Joe Coyne Piergrossi Associates and Keller asked to leave their pets at home. A variety of vendors Williams Realty; Aug. 11, The McCarthys (Country Rock) offering 4th of July souvenirs, food and drink will be located sponsored by Kemp Goldberg Partners; Aug. 18, Banda di along the Eastern Promenade. Per the State Fire Marshal, Nepi (Community Band from Italy) sponsored by the Italian the tennis courts, playground and ball fields on the Eastern Heritage Center (rain date at center). www.portlandmaine. Promenade, are within the fireworks shoot zone and will be gov/rec/summer.htm closed as of 7 a.m. on July 4. The East End Boat launch

as well as Cutter Street and all the parking lots at Cutter Street will be closed from 10 p.m. July 3 to 6:30 a.m. July 5. Boaters can access alternate launches nearby including the Falmouth Town Landing on Route 88 ($10 for non-resident, 781-7371), Bug Light Boat Launch in South Portland ($5 for resident, $6 for non esident) and Portland Yacht Services ($50 includes parking, $35 no parking, 774-167). For information about the events scheduled for the day, visit www. july4thportland.org.

Simply Tsfat in Portland

4 p.m. On Independence Day, the Simply Tsfat are on tour in the U.S. and will be performing at Shaarey Tphiloh Synagogue, 76 Noyes St. in Portland. “This is a band of musicians from Tsfat, Israel, who perform Breslov Chassidic music, which is full of joy and mystical magic. This will be a great event, with music, singing, dancing, storytelling. Don’t miss it! Free event, sponsored by Beth Israel of Old Orchard Beach, and generous donations of a number of individuals.” Call 934-2928 or visit www.simplytsfat.com

Independence Day Fireworks Display in Ogunquit

7:30 p.m. Musical entertainment at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks

Maine Festival of American Music

7 p.m. The Sixth Annual Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions will be held from July 6-9 at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester. The festival’s free program flyer is now available by contacting 9264597 or usshakers@aol.com.

‘Trollhunter’ at SPACE Gallery

7:30 p.m. “The government says there’s nothing to worry about – it’s just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don’t believe it — and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. Armed with a video camera, they trail a mysterious ‘poacher,’ who wants nothing to do with them. But their persistence lands them straight in the path of the objects of his pursuits: Trolls. They soon find themselves documenting every move of this grizzled, unlikely hero — The Troll Hunter — risking their lives to uncover the secrets of creatures only thought to exist in fairy tales. Talk on trolls to follow with Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, author and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum.”

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Ahead of U.N. Vote, a possible Denouncing Assad, Syrian return to Mideast peace talks protesters return to streets BY ETHAN BRONNER THE NEW YORK TIMES

Israeli and Palestinian leaders have told American and European officials who have been here repeatedly in recent weeks that they want to return to talks. But with numerous moving parts, neither side desperate about the status quo and no agreement on the terms, success is far from assured. The Israeli government was livid about Mr. Obama’s reference to the 1967 lines and swaps in a speech in May. It considers those boundaries indefensible and does not want to commit in advance to giving up land within Israel in exchange for keeping settlement blocs in the West Bank. But Israeli officials acknowledge that they have little choice but to work within that formula as a negotiating basis if they want to stop the move in the United Nations. A successful General Assembly vote for the Palestinians could increase boycott and sanctions pressure on Israel as well as international legal proceedings in forums like the International Criminal Court. “The goal is to get something on the table that keeps September from happening and that is an initiative Israel can live with,” a top Israeli official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the secretive and sensitive nature of the diplomacy. “For us, that would be an acknowledgment of Jewish sovereignty.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel referred to this same issue in a speech here on Thursday night. Mr. Netanyahu said that the end of the conflict with the Palestinians would begin when their leaders uttered six words: “I will accept the Jewish state.” Two other issues that would mollify the Israelis are an assertion that Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of independence would be permitted to settle in a future state of Palestine but not in Israel itself, and a reference to an Israeli security presence along the Jordan River. For their part, the Palestinians have said they need two conditions to restart talks — a reference to the 1967 lines as the basis for their state and at least a short stoppage of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank. Having received the first from President Obama, some Palestinian officials are saying they might drop the second. But they say they will not accept Israeli soldiers on their future land, or call Israel a Jewish state, or give up in advance any Palestinian refugee right of return to their original homes inside Israel. To do so, they say, would be to prejudice the rights of Israel’s 1.4 million Arab citizens and walk away from the rights and interests of millions of Palestinians abroad. “No Palestinian leader can abandon the right of return,” Muhammad Shtayyeh, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, and an adviser to

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, said in a telephone interview. American officials are examining the possibility of inviting the two sides to talks in a document that lays out a number of these conditions as American goals while allowing each to accept the invitation without signing off on every condition, but they acknowledge that would be a weak basis for talks. Some Palestinian officials say that even if peace talks get going this summer, the move toward United Nations recognition will proceed. But American and European officials believe that Mr. Abbas is having second thoughts. This is because American officials have told him that Washington would veto any Palestinian membership bid in the Security Council and work to reduce the number of supporting votes there and in the General Assembly. Some European states — Germany, Italy and several from Central Europe — have expressed their opposition and hope to pressure the Palestinians back into negotiations. Canada, which is also strongly opposed, has been lobbying smaller countries to tell the Palestinians that they will not to vote with them in September. Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief for the European Union, told the newspaper Haaretz this week that the United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood was far from a done deal. As a result, what looked several months ago like near-certain Palestinian victory and Israeli defeat at the United Nations seems less clear today, officials from several countries say, and the Palestinians are reconsidering. Mr. Abbas and his aides also worry that their people could build up unreasonable expectations over a move at the United Nations and wake up frustrated and angry the day after a vote to discover that little had changed on the ground. They fear the possibility of violence erupting. But another issue threatening the current effort is the possibility of a Palestinian unity government being formed between Mr. Abbas’s Fatah and Hamas, which rules in Gaza. Even though such a government would be made up of technocrats without affiliation to either group, a Hamas sponsorship of a new Palestinian government could prompt the United States and possibly Europe to cut off aid because both consider Hamas a terrorist group. Israeli officials say that if the unity deal goes through, it would end any chance of talks and that they feel confident that Washington will back them on that decision. Since relations between Fatah and Hamas are strained and Mr. Abbas is worried about an aid being cut off, the unity talks have stalled and seem likely to stay that way until it is clear whether the effort to get the Palestinians and Israelis back into negotiations will succeed or fail.

BY ANTHONY SHADID THE NEW YORK TIMES

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of Syrians turned out Friday for weekly protests in the country’s most restive towns and cities, denouncing as insincere an overture by President Bashar al-Assad for dialogue and testing the ability of the military and the government’s already-stretched security forces to contain the unrest. The shows of dissent have become a ritual in Syria, where an uprising entering its fourth month has unfurled an array of challenges for one of the region’s most repressive governments. An economy viewed as crucial to Mr. Assad’s vision for a modernized Syria has ground to a halt, and international isolation built this week, as the European Union added yet more sanctions in pressure that has unsettled the Syrian leadership. Analysts have begun watching another key indicator, as well: whether security forces and the military, deployed for more than 100 days, will reach a breaking point. “The more this senseless violence goes on, without any clear objective and clear effect, the more the security services will come under stress, and ultimately they will break,” said a Syria-based analyst who, like many interviewed, spoke only on condition

of anonymity. He called the government’s approach “a slow-motion suicide dynamic.” Demonstrations on Friday gathered in Homs and Hama, cities in central Syria, as well as Deir al-Zour in the east. Dara’a, where the uprising erupted after 15 students were detained for scrawling antigovernment graffiti in mid-March, witnessed protests, as did the suburbs of Damascus, the capital, where Mr. Assad faces some of his most strongest opposition. “We can’t have dialogue with papers and pens written by the tanks of the regime,” a banner read in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. “It’s a dishonorable dialogue.” It was almost impossible to gauge whether the protests were bigger than past weeks, though activists, citing accounts on the ground, insisted that they were in some places. Security forces killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more, they said The worst violence occurred in the Damascus suburbs, where activists said security forces fired on protesters in Barze, killing four, and in Kiswa, killing two. In a conflicting account, almost impossible to reconcile, Syrian television quoted government officials as saying that armed men fired on security forces in those towns, wounding several of them.

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Fugitive crime lord returns to Boston to face raft of charges BY ABBY GOODNOUGH THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOSTON — James (Whitey) Bulger, the onetime Boston crime lord who terrorized the city for decades and then haunted it during 16 years on the run, returned on Friday afternoon like a long-lost ghost to face a raft of charges, including complicity in 19 murders. Mr. Bulger sat quietly in the South Boston courtroom, one hand resting on the other, and listened to the proceedings. His brother, William M. Bulger, a former president of the State Senate, was among those in the packed courtroom. Also in the courtroom was Margaret McCusker, the twin sister of Mr. Bulger’s longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, who was arrested with Mr. Bulger this week outside their apartment building in Santa Monica, Calif., where they had been living under assumed names since at least 1996. Mr. Bulger, in a white hooded sweatshirt and jeans, entered the courtroom

just before 4 p.m. in handcuffs. He nodded at his brother, seated in the second row; his brother smiled slightly. Mr. Bulger sat silently through most of the brief proceedings. He stood as the judge told him of his right to remain silent and to court-appointed counsel. A prosecutor told the judge that the government intended to seek forfeiture of the assets seized at Mr. Bulger’s apartment, including weapons and cash. The prosecutors also objected to the appointment of courtappointed counsel, pointing out that more than $800,000 was found in the Santa Monica apartment. The prosecutor also said that family assets could perhaps pay for Mr. Bulger’s lawyer. Magistrate Judge Leo T. Sorokin read the counts out loud, and then a prosecutor said that Mr. Bulger was a danger to the community and should be detained. “He’s also quite honestly a risk of flight,” the prosecutor said. Mr. Bulger voluntarily consented to detention. The judge said, “I’m not going to proceed with the arraign-

ment today because the question of counsel has not been resolved.” In Courtroom 10, relatives of the victims were seated on the right and relatives of Mr. Bulger, including his brother, were on the left. The plane carrying Mr. Bulger and Ms. Greig landed at Boston’s Logan International Airport early Friday afternoon, and they were transferred to a motorcade that arrived at the courthouse around 3 p.m. After Mr. Bulger, 81, appeared before Judge Sorokin, he appeared in a separate case before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler, who asked Mr. Bulger if he could afford a lawyer. “Well, I could if you gave me my money back,” Mr. Bulger shot back. It was still unclear where Mr. Bulger would be incarcerated. Ms. Greig, 60, was separated from her longtime companion and set to appear before Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal on charges of aiding a fugitive. The pair were arrested by federal agents after a recent campaign of

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public service announcements aimed at identifying Ms. Greig resulted in a tip to authorities earlier this week. The pair had been living in a thirdfloor apartment of a relatively drab building a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean, and were well known to their neighbors as an elderly, somewhat reclusive couple.

Conn. state workers reject deal

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and union leaders announced Friday that Connecticut’s state workers had rejected a deal meant to produce $1.6 billion in labor savings over two years, blowing a hole in the state’s budget and raising the likelihood of widespread layoffs. The rejection was a slap to both union leadership and Mr. Malloy, who was elected in November with enthusiastic labor support. The governor has called the General Assembly into a special session next week to balance the recently passed budget, which assumed union members would approve the deal. Members of Mr. Malloy’s staff have said that up to 7,500 workers could be laid off. The agreement, which called for wage freezes for two years and a guarantee of no layoffs for four years, had been hailed as a harmonious resolution, in contrast with the strife in states like Wisconsin, Ohio and, on Thursday, New Jersey, where legislatures have reduced benefits unilaterally in the face of vehement protests. — New York Times