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Ex-Maine Gov. John Baldacci was hired to evaluate military health care and wellness, the Defense Department says.

Baldacci hired for wasteful position?

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Chad Gurney enters court Wednesday.

The man who killed Zoe Sarnacki in 2009 said before sentencing that his actions were “despicable without reason.”

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A congressman suggests the new $165,300 job as ‘military health care czar’ is a duplication of work.

By JONATHAN RISKIND MaineToday Media Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON — A powerful Republican lawmaker is questioning the Defense Department’s hiring of former Maine Gov. John Baldacci to work on military health care reform.

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s military personnel subcommittee, raised concerns during a hearing Tuesday that Baldacci’s new position, which pays $165,300 for a year, is a wasteful “duplication” of work already done by Defense Department officials.

Wilson plans to deliver a speech today on “his thoughts on the new ‘military health care czar’ and other military health care issues,” according to a news release Wednesday from his office.

Baldacci’s job calls for one year of work, with an option for the contract to be extended. As Maine governor, Baldacci was paid $70,000 a year.

Baldacci, a Democrat who served four terms in Congress before his two terms as governor, referred questions about his hiring last week to Defense Department officials. He did not respond Wednesday to a phone message left at his office.

At Tuesday’s hearing, Wilson noted that the military has

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n AN UPDATE ON THE CRISIS ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, the spent fuel-rod pool at reactor No. 4 at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex has reportedly gone dry, and radiation being vented there has hindered efforts to control the escalating crisis. Officials have also acknowledged that the cores of units 1, 2 and 3 have begun to melt down, though the walls of the reactor vessels have not been breached. In addition, fuel-rod pool temperatures are rising in two additional reactors at the site.

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Helicopters dump water to cool one of Japan’s stricken nuclear reactors as crews advance on power line repairs

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Tears, anger and regret permeate the sentencing of Chad Gurney for the 2009 murder of Zoe Sarnacki.

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By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI The Associated Press

ZAO, Japan — Japanese military helicopters dumped loads of seawater onto a stricken nuclear reactor today, trying to avoid full meltdowns as plant operators said they were close to finishing a new power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the crisis.

U.S. officials in Washington, meanwhile, warned that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in northeastern Japan may be on the verge of spewing more radioactive material because water was gone from a storage pool that keeps spent nuclear fuel rods from overheating.

The trouble at several of the plant’s reactors began when last week’s earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and ruined backup generators needed for their cooling systems, adding a nuclear crisis for Japan as it dealt with twin natural disasters that killed more than 10,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

A Japanese military helicopter began dumping seawater on the

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n TOKYO THREAT: Many foreign

governments urge citizens to leave the capital amid fears about the nuclear crisis. BACK PAGE n NUCLEAR ANXIETY: Japan’s reactor crisis could derail efforts to revive the U.S. industry as a clean alternative-energy source.

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Yoshie Murakami weeps Wednesday as she holds her deceased mother’s hand in the rubble near where her home used to stand in Rikuzentakata, Japan.

damaged Unit 3 reactor at the Fukushima complex at 9:48 a.m., said Defense Ministry spokeswoman Kazumi Toyama. The aircraft dumped at least four loads on the reactor, though much of the water appeared to be dispersed in

the wind.

At least a dozen more loads were planned in the 40 minutes that each crew can operate before switching to limit radiation exposure, the ministry said.

The dumping was intended both to help cool the reactor and to replenish water in a pool holding spent fuel rods, Toyama said.

The plant’s owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said earlier that the pool was nearly empty, which might cause the rods to overheat.

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PORTLAND — When Linda Sarnacki finally got a chance to address the man who murdered her daughter – her precious, irrepressibly upbeat daughter – she spoke not of hatred or vengeance.

She offered forgiveness.

“I know there are other people with anger.

I just want you to know I don’t feel that,” she said Wednesday at a hearing before Chad Gurney was sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing 18year-old Zoe Sarnacki.

“I hope we can all heal after pressherald.com this, and I believe the only way to heal is with forgiveness,” CLICK ON THIS STORY ONLINE TO she said, her voice almost inREAD GURNEY’S audible as she wept. “I forgive STATEMENT him.”

TO THE COURT After strangling Sarnacki in his apartment in Portland on May 25, 2009, Gurney defiled and decapitated her body, then set the apartment on fire.

Those acts – recounted over Gurney’s twoweek trial in January – contributed to the long sentence that Justice Roland Cole handed down in Cumberland County Superior Court.

“That is a horrific and incredible series of events. I don’t recall ever hearing anything else in the state of Maine even close,” Cole said.

The judge said Gurney’s crime, while ap-

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Food for thought: Experts say era of low prices may be over The rising cost of crops and fuel leads to the biggest monthly increase in wholesale food prices in 37 years.

By P.J. HUFFSTUTTER Los Angeles Times

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Wholesale food prices in the United States climbed 3.9 percent in February.

Analysts expect a report today to show that retail prices rose accordingly.

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LOS ANGELES — American consumers have long enjoyed a luxury that few others around the world could boast: an abundance of affordable food.

But with prices of wheat, corn and other staples soaring, some economists and scientists are wondering how long that can last.

On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that wholesale food prices jumped 3.9 percent in February over January, the highest monthly increase in 37 years. Economists said they expect to see a similar uptick in what consumers are paying for food at retail when the Labor Department releases its consumer price index today.

“Food prices have been rising a lot faster,

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PROPERTY RIGHTS PREVAIL

City quickly sinks limits on boat storage Despite a few complaints, South Portland decides boats in yards are just part of coastal community life.

By ANN S. KIM Staff Writer

SOUTH PORTLAND — From her home, Kim Myers has a good view of two shrinkwrapped boats. There’s one across the street next to an apartment building, and another behind her house that belongs to a neighbor.

To Myers, boats parked in yards and driveways are just a normal part of the winter scene.

“It seems like South Portland has always been a working waterfront. That’s part of that,” Myers said.

But off-season boat storage in

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residential areas recently created a stir in the city. It raised questions about when the rights of owners to use their property might infringe on their neighbors’ ability to enjoy theirs.

A proposed ordinance would have created setback restrictions in residential areas – six feet from side and rear property

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IN FOCUS: THE LABOR MOVEMENT

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Many Irish have close historical ties to labor issues

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n a year when the questions of union power and the responsibility of governments to their employees have taken center stage, St. Patrick’s Day is taking on dual meaning for many Irish-Americans, with their rich ties to the labor movement.

The struggles their famine-worn ancestors faced as new arrivals – the slurs from their neighbors, the “Irish need not apply” signs – still echo through the generations, as does the avid union support that helped lift them to positions of power, influence and ultimately acceptance.

“Union jobs, civil service jobs have always been the ladder out of poverty for working people in this country,” said Patrick J. Lynch, leader of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the union that represents New York police. “The faces may have changed.

The countries they’re coming from may have changed. But the ladder is the same.”

In Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere, public workers face threats to collective bargaining rights, and Irish-American legislators backing the proposals are being accused of betraying their heritage. In the nation’s largest city, the fond subject of songs like “When New York was Irish,” a tight budget has led to a battle over municipal pensions.

Lynch this week recalled joining his father on the picket line in the New York transit strike of 1980 when he was a teenager. He had grown up listening to his dad, a longtime motorman, speak frequently of the legendary Mike Quill, founder of the Transport Workers Union of America and a native of Kilgarvan, Ireland.

Remembering Irish-American labor struggles is “especially important this year when unionism is under attack across the country,” Lynch said.

While many Chinese immigrants laid train tracks from the West Coast, it was largely Irish immigrants who laid them from the East. Many Irish immigrants went to work in the mines of the South.

And in New York, they joined the police force and firefighters in great numbers, said Peter Filardo, an archivist at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

So many Irish-Americans once worked in the city’s transit system, the

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who ever wore a green T-shirt will be getting their Irish on today – before, during and after work. Ri Ra, Brian Boru and Bull Feeney’s all have all-day parties planned with plenty of Guinness for everyone. Karen Beaudoin has details.

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Mike Michaud says an Obama administration-backed trade deal with South Korea would do more to harm U.S. workers than it would to increase exports and boost the American economy. Jonathan Riskind has the story.

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Joseph O’Keefe, left, plays a bagpipe as the Department of Sanitation of New York’s Emerald Society Pipes and Drums marches during the St. Patrick’s Day parade a year ago in New York. St. Patrick’s Day is taking on added meaning this year, as Irish-Americans have a long history of involvement in the labor movement. joke went, that the IRT subway line was known as “Irish Rapid Transit.”

Irish-American workers were key in the rise of powerful political machines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

AFL-CIO presidents have included names like George Meany, Thomas Donahue and John Sweeney.

“We have gained our place through labor activism and political activism all across the United States,” said John Kilbane, a native of Ireland and business manager of the Laborers’ Local 310 in Cleveland.

“The old adage goes, ‘A rising tide floats every boat,’” Kilbane said. “If collective bargaining is attacked and collective bargaining rights are weakened, or lessened or obliterated, it certainly is the beginning of a race to the bottom economically, not only for

union people, but for those who are not fortunate enough to be represented by a union.”

In Dublin, Ohio, state Rep. John Carney said people at a St. Patrick’s Day parade last weekend gave him an earful on legislation nearing approval that would limit collective bargaining by public workers.

“If I had taken a straw vote, I would have said that it was overwhelmingly ‘no’ based on the people along the parade route, that’s for sure,” said Carney, an Irish-American and a Democrat from Columbus, who said he understands how the immigrants’ union activism was borne out of discrimination. “I think it should be a point of pride,” he said.

Some Irish-American leaders, though, have come down on the other

side of the present-day labor debate.

In Wisconsin, where the governor last week signed a law that ends most collective bargaining rights for public workers, the effort to pass the bill was led by two brothers of Irish descent – Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald.

As thousands of protesters swarmed the Capitol, the brothers were accused of betraying their heritage. One protest sign read: “Fitzgerald isn’t Irish.”

Some Irish-Americans say their heritage is irrelevant when it comes to labor activism and politics, especially because they and their ancestors are now thoroughly integrated in American society.

Jim Cavanaugh, president of the South Central Federation of Labor,

which helped organize opposition to the Wisconsin bill, noted that Irish families have been in Wisconsin for generations. He said he would give his perspective only as an American, not an Irish-American.

“What’s going on in this state right now is not like anything any of us alive today have seen before,” he said. “It’s very different and more dynamic.”

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an Irish-American, hasn’t forgotten answering the phone as a girl and hearing a young voice hurriedly asking for her father, an electrical engineer and shop steward. Hours later, he reported saving the young man’s job from an attempt to fire him.

“I remember just thinking how remarkable that was: A, that somebody would try to wrongfully fire somebody.

And B, that there was a structure in place that my father was a part of, that could actually go and save somebody’s job,” Quinn said.

Now Quinn is among the politicians grappling with budget shortfalls, and she has called on labor leaders to negotiate changes to pension and benefits, even while she has protested the legislative action in Wisconsin.

“Do we need to make savings? Do we need to restructure pensions? Do we need to look at job rules? Those are all fair questions to ask. And I don’t think the labor movement is unwilling to participate in asking and answering those questions,” she said. “That’s quite different than trying to union-bust.”

Quinn’s grandfather was an original member of the Transit Workers Union after Quill founded it in 1934, and today’s transit workers haven’t forgotten Quill.

Union members, many of them IrishAmericans, were gathering Wednesday evening at a yearly event in his memory and that of Irish labor leader James Connolly.

For brothers Peter and John Vaughan, both members of the iron workers’ union, their Irish-American heritage is tied up with their pride in what they, their father and grandfather have all built.

Their older brother’s ashes are scattered at the Statue of Liberty, where he had proudly worked on the icon’s restoration.

“We built this city,” said Peter Vaughan, 52.

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Soldier: ‘Hurt Locker’ led to mockery, doubt

MINNEAPOLIS — Garrison Keillor plans to keep spinning tales of Lake Wobegon’s Norwegian bachelor farmers for at least a couple more years, but the host and creator of public radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion” is dropping more hints that his retirement may be on the horizon.

In an interview posted Wednesday on the AARP Bulletin’s website, the 68-year-old Keillor said he plans to retire in the spring of 2013. But Keillor said he first has to find his replacement.

“I’m pushing forward, and also I’m in denial.

It’s an interesting time of life,” Keillor told the publication.

Keillor told The Associated Press in a follow-up e-mail Wednesday that he’ll be 70 in the spring of 2013, “and that seems like a nice round number.”

“The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage,” Keillor said.

On Jan. 15, for the first time, “A Prairie Home Companion” had a guest host. Singer and fiddler Sara Watkins of the band Nickel Creek hosted the show from St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater, with Keillor appearing as a guest. Keillor said he had never gotten to see the show himself and wanted “to stand in the back of the hall and watch for a few minutes.”

LOS ANGELES — An Iraq war veteran who claims he is the basis for “The Hurt Locker” writes in a court filing that the film has subjected him to ridicule and doubts about his bomb disposal prowess.

Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver states that the Oscarwinning film relies heavily on his experiences and background.

He signed his filing on Tuesday while serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Days before the 2010 Academy Awards, Sarver sued the makers Jeffrey Sarver of “The Hurt Locker,” including director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal.

Boal profiled Sarver in a story for Playboy magazine.

Sarver’s filing states some of the film’s scenes contradict proper actions, and fellow service members have questioned his abilities since the movie’s release.

Bigelow, Boal and the producers of the film want the case dismissed.

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Jackson brother tells all

Rapper Tru Life gets prison for role in fatal stabbing NEW YORK — A rapper once signed to a Jay-Zrun label is headed to prison for a deadly attack on a New York City man he said he didn’t mean to harm.

Tru Life, born Robert Rosado, was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison. His lawyer said the 34-year-old rapper was “extraordinarily saddened” over the June 2009 death of Christo-

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2011. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 17, 1861, Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed the first king of a united Italy.

On this date: In A.D. 461 (or A.D. 493, depending on sources), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul.

In 1762, New York’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place.

In 1776, British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

In 1966, a U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off

pher Guerrero.

Tru Life pleaded guilty last month to gang assault. His 39-year-old brother, Marcus Rosado, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.

Both Rosados say Guerrero, 20, wasn’t their intended target in violence that followed a dispute at a nightclub. Guerrero was stabbed.

Spain.

In 1970, the United States cast its first veto in the U.N. Security Council. (The U.S. killed a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia.)

Ten years ago: OPEC decided to curtail its official output by four percent, or one million barrels of oil a day, in an effort to halt a recent slide in oil prices, a decision the Bush administration called “disappointing.”

Today’s Birthdays: Jazz/New Age musician Paul Horn is 81. The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams, is 78. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band) is 65. Actor Patrick Duffy is 62. Actor Kurt Russell is 60. Actor Christian Clemenson is 53. Former basketball and baseball player Danny Ainge is 52. Actress Vicki Lewis is 51. Actor Rob Lowe is 47. Actor Yanic Truesdale is 42. Rock musician Melissa Auf

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NEW YORK — A long-rumored memoir by Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine is finally coming out.

Touchstone announced Wednesday that Jermaine Jackson’s “You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother’s Eye” will be released this fall. Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, promises a “faithful and loving portrait,” but one with “no subject off limits.”

der Maur is 39. Soccer player Mia Hamm is 39.

Actress Brittany Daniel is 35. Actress Eliza Hope Bennett is 19.

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Rockefeller imposter charged in slaying claims innocence Christian Gerhartsreiter’s attorney says his client ‘doesn’t know what to make’ of the case.

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LOS ANGELES — A man who claimed to be a member of the storied Rockefeller family insists he had nothing to do with the killing of a California man more than 25 years ago, his lawyer said Wednesday – a day after Los Angeles prosecutors charged the man with murder in

the case.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 50, is a German national who came to the United Christian States in Gerhartsreiter the 1970s and assumed many identities, including Clark Rockefeller, a supposed heir to the Rockefeller oil fortune. He is currently serv-

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ing a four- to five-year sentence for a 2009 conviction in Boston in the kidnapping of his 7-year-old daughter.

Police in California had long considered him a person of interest in the killing of 27-year-old John Sohus, a former landlord who mysteriously disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 at the same time a German man using the name Christopher Chichester was staying in a guest house on their property in the wealthy Los Angeles-area enclave of San Marino, prosecutors said.

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Gerhartsreiter could face 26 years to life in prison if convicted of murder in the disappearance of Sohus.

“He maintains complete innocence as he always has,” Boston defense attorney Jeffrey Denner said after meeting Gerhartsreiter for two hours.

“He doesn’t know what to make of it,” Denner said of the charge.

“He thinks that obviously the notoriety of this (Boston kidnapping) case has generated interest in the Sohus case that didn’t exist before.”

Gerhartsreiter is eligible for parole next year in the kidnapping case.

Denner said his client is not afraid of any evidence in the California case because he believes “it will prove his innocence, not his guilt.”

Gerhartsreiter came to the United States as a teenager.

Through the years, he told friends and acquaintances that he was a physicist, an art collector, a ship captain and a financial adviser who renegotiated debt for small countries.

At his 2009 trial for kidnapping, prosecutors said Gerhartsreiter used aliases to move in wealthy circles in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. His story has become the subject of a TV movie.

During Gerhartsreiter’s kidnapping trial, his lawyers claimed he was suffering from a delusional disorder and was legally insane when he snatched his daughter during a supervised visit in Boston following a bitter divorce from his wife.

Prosecutors portrayed him as a master manipulator.

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Wall-E was among several dogs abandoned by the Sulphur Animal Shelter less than a month ago.

A local veterinarian tried to euthanize the puppy due to overcrowding, but he somehow survived.

Now, about 3,000 people have expressed interest in adopting him and $1,200 has been donated for his care. He was flown to New York City to appear on “Good Morning America.”

Concerns about his safety have arisen as some people have said they want to breed him to make money.

Veterinarian technician Amanda Kloski, who works at Arbuckle Veterinarian Clinic, has been surprised by some of the phone calls and e-mails the clinic has received.

She said one man traveled from Arkansas to the clinic in Sulphur, about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City, offering to take Wall-E off her hands and breed him.

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Kloski began caring for WallE when he was found alive in a trash bin a day after he was injected twice – once in the foreleg and once in the heart – with a supposedly lethal dose of a sedative.

She noted the dog’s survival on a pet adoption website, drawing the attention of Marcia Machtiger of Pittsburgh, who helps rescue dogs. After Machtiger shared Wall-E’s story on Facebook, the offers for a new home began pouring in.

The most promising people are being sent a formal application.

Sorting out who wants the dog named after the Disney movie character for the right reasons has been a time-consuming task, Kloski said.

“We’ve gotten some applications that are obviously a no,” she said. “But there’s been some that I say, ‘Wow, I wish they’d adopt me and my son.’”

All the attention has brought renewed interest to the overcrowding issue at the Sulphur Animal Shelter.

Donations from Texas and Washington have brought in about $220 for a new shelter in Murray County, said Audrey Ridlehoover, president of the Davis Oklahoma Animal Volunteers. Officials are hoping to raise $5,000 to $6,000.

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MIAMI — Countries that outpace the U.S. in education employ many different strategies to help their students excel. They do, however, share one trait: They set high requirements to become a teacher, hold those who become one in high esteem and offer the instructors plenty of support.

On Wednesday and today, education leaders, including U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the nation’s largest teacher unions, and officials from the highest scoring countries, are meeting in New York to identify the best teaching practices.

The meeting comes after the recently released results of the Programme for International Student Assessment exam of 15-year-olds alarmed U.S. educators. Out of 34 countries, it ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math.

“On the one hand, the United States has a very expensive education system by international standards,” said Andreas Schleicher, who directs the exam. “On the other hand, it’s one of the systems where teachers get the lowest salaries.

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Schleicher co-authored a report released Wednesday in conjunction with the conference which concluded that for the U.S. to remain competitive, it must raise the status of the teaching profession. An additional report released by the Organisation for Economic CoOperation and Development, as well as the PISA exam, identified several effective practices observed in the top performing regions and countries:

n They draw teachers from the same pool of applicants as those from other selective professional careers.

Aspiring teachers in Singapore, for example, are selected from the top one-third of secondary school graduating classes.

They are given a monthly stipend while in schools and starting salaries are competitive with other professional jobs.

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After nearly a month of protests, about 50 demonstrators have been killed by security forces or paid thugs, said Amal al-Bashi, of the Yemen Center for Human Rights.

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Thousands are sleeping in public squares in cities and towns scattered throughout Yemen, refusing to leave until Saleh resigns.

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The nation that once led the Middle East in entrepreneurial openness went into lockdown, its government propped up by troops from Sunni neighbors in the Persian Gulf fearful for their own rule and the spread of Shiite Iran’s inuence.

Wednesday’s assault began in Pearl Square, the center of the uprising inspired by Arab revolts in Egypt and Tunisia. But the violence that left at least ďŹ ve people dead on Wednesday did not stop in the capital.

At least ďŹ ve people die as the government, backed by Saudi troops, cracks down on what it calls ‘outlaws.’ The Associated Press

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Witnesses described helicopters ďŹ ring on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating the wounded, while the government called the demon-

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Rania Ali, another resident, said police were charging after Shiites as they sought shelter.

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King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s announcement of three months of emergency rule and the crackdown on Pearl Square sent a message that authorities will strike back in the strategic island nation, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

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Some of the biggest increases are expected in the meat section because livestock feed prices have doubled in the past year, Leibtag said. McDonald’s Corp. has warned that it might charge more for Big Macs and other items. Meat producer Smithfield Foods Inc. recently cautioned that consumers will be paying more for bacon, chops and ribs during this summer’s barbecue season.

“Retailers understand there will be more price pressure,” Smithfield Foods Chief Executive C. Larry Pope said during the company’s recent earnings call with analysts.

Before the tragedy in Japan, world food prices had reached a record high this year as stockpiles of key commodities dwindled, according to a price index of 55 food export commodities compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Increased demand from China, India and other developing nations is also driving up prices, as a growing middle class is consuming more protein. According

Continued from Page A1 because underlying costs have really shot up. You’re seeing some ingredients up 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent over last year,” said Ephraim Leibtag, a Department of Agriculture economist. “When you see wheat prices close to 80 percent up, that’s going to ripple out to the public.”

Economists warn that such prices will probably remain high this year and possibly much longer, driven by a confluence of factors: the fall of the U.S. dollar, slowing growth in crop yields, political unrest in the Middle East, high crude oil prices and a revived interest in crop-based biofuels.

Violent weather patterns, which some scientists blame on climate change, are compounding the problem. Recent floods in Australia devastated much of the wheat crop, and a drought threatened China’s crop.

“We’re not sure if these extremes in weather are the new normal,” said Clive James, founder of the not-for-profit International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. “But the patterns we’ve seen in the past few years show that this may become more the rule than the exception.”

Some commodity analysts said it is still too early to tell what the broader economic effect will be from the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and growing nuclear crisis in Japan. But they warn that the catastrophes, added to the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, could slow the economic recovery in the United States.

They worry that even a temporary boost in grocery bills could have shoppers once again slamming their pocketbooks shut.

U.S. consumers spend only about 10 percent of their annual income on food, yet Americans are already flinching at the gas pumps and at the market checkout stand. The USDA has projected that food prices will rise 3 percent to 4 percent this year.

Produce prices are rising sharply. So is the price of orange juice. This month, PepsiCo said it was raising prices for its Tropicana juices by as much as 8 percent after record cold temperatures chilled this season’s citrus

to China’s Ministry of Agriculture, urban Chinese increased their consumption of chicken 219 percent from 1983 to 2006.

Elsewhere in the world, where people spend 30 percent to 70 percent or more of their annual income on food, starvation is growing. The World Bank has reported that as many as 44 million more people had been forced into hunger and to miss meals because of the rising costs of food. That, in turn, has fueled the conflict in Libya and helped oust leaders in Tunisia and Egypt.

“The situation is volatile and we’re at a point of transition,” said Abdolreza Abbassian, a grain economist with the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Now, as fears mount of a repeat of food riots around the world in 2007 and 2008, developing new ways to feed people has become more pressing.

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submitted a proposal for 2012 to raise the cost for enrollees of Tricare, the military health care program for retirees. He said he was surprised to learn last week about Baldacci’s new position, and questioned whether it duplicates other ofďŹ cials’ duties. “I’m concerned,â€? Wilson told Clifford L. Stanley, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, who hired Baldacci.

Stanley said Baldacci was hired to do a “deep-dive review� of how the military runs its health care and wellness programs, even as the Defense Department makes short-term plans. “I needed an outside look and I had a (former) member of Congress, as well as a former governor ... to help with not only Guard and Reserve issues, but also looking at the holistic viewpoint of readiness, of wellness, of looking at how we are going to do patient satisfaction, and the cost was the last piece,� Stanley said. “So duplication is not what I actually see right now.�

In a statement later Wednesday, the Pentagon described Stanley’s discussions with Baldacci about the new job. He talked with Baldacci last fall and “learned more of Mr. Baldacci’s commitment to public service ... and (past) interactions with the military,� said spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith. “Mr. Baldacci’s experience aligned perfectly� with Stanley’s need for someone to review military health care.

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said Baldacci, who was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and then elected governor in 2002, was active on veterans and military health care issues during his tenure in Congress. She said he is an “ideal ďŹ tâ€? for studying military health care practices.

Maine’s Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud said Wednesday that he has spoken to Baldacci about his new position and urged him to examine the issue of extending better preventive dental care to soldiers. Dental problems often “get in the way of troop readiness,� Michaud said.

The other two members of Maine’s congressional delegation, Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree, also have voiced support for Baldacci’s hiring.

lines and 20 feet from the front – for boats at least 24 feet long.

But a City Council workshop on the proposal drew a crowd of boaters opposed to the idea, and the council declined to take it any further. “Basically, the council was not interested in pursuing that at all,� said Mayor Rosemarie De Angelis. “They listened to a roomful of people who said, ‘We’re a working-class coastal community.’ And we are.�

South Portland isn’t the ďŹ rst community to deal with the issue. Biddeford and Falmouth both have setback rules governing boat storage in residential areas. OfďŹ cials in Quincy, Mass., rejected setback restrictions last month.

Diana Fournier, owner of the 32-foot Sea Ray across the street from Myers, was upset when she learned about the proposal. For the past few years, she and her husband have stored their boat by the apartment building they own on Grand Street because that property is closer to the marina than their home is. “I can’t afford to keep my boat in a boat yard. It would cost me $1,300,� said Fournier, an insurance agent. “We used to, but times are tough.�

Theresa Roberts, who lives down the street, has no problems with Fournier’s boat. “I like the water and I appreciate that other people enjoy it,� she said.

Fern Boudreau, however, says stored boats are eyesores that undermine efforts to keep neighborhoods attractive. There are boats on both sides of the entrance to her condominium complex off Sawyer Road. “I mentioned it once to the neighbor,� said Boudreau, adding that residential boat storage wasn’t allowed where she lived in Florida. “I said he had such a nice property. Too bad to ruin it.�

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mon uses his 32-foot lobster boat for commercial tuna ďŹ shing and charters. He keeps it by his garage in the winter to save $2,300 and because it is a convenient place to do maintenance work. “I strictly made sure when I purchased in this neighborhood that there were no covenants against it,â€? he said.

Buzz Sanborn’s Sea Ray is on stanchions by the side of his house, where its visible to his neighbors. “I live in South Portland. They all can see it. I can see their recreational vehicles and the ďŹ rewood they have outside and the tarps they have outside on their personal items,â€? Sanborn said. “I think we all need to learn to live together and respect each other. And, generally, I think we do.â€?

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Winter storage costs at boat yards depend on a number of factors, including the type of boat, whether it is on a trailer and whether there’s a mast, said Daniel Lilley II of Sunset Marina. Prices for the season typically run from $20 to $60 per foot, he said.

Eric Small’s concerns about boats across the street from his Snowberry Drive home, and his subsequent investigation into whether the practice was regulated, were what led to the City Council workshop Monday.

Small – who described himself as “probably on the compulsive side of things� – said he got worried about his property value when he saw three boats at his neighbors’ home. One has since been relocated.

Small said some good things came out of the workshop. The City Council directed staff to track complaints about neighborhood boat storage – the city has received a small number in the past.

Small says this will provide an avenue for residents who have concerns.

He said he also had a good conversation with his neighbor after the workshop. He said their relationship had rough spots before, and that his sharp reaction to the arrival of two of the boats made communication more difďŹ cult. “At the end of the day, it was a learning experience for me,â€? he said.

Gary Crosby of Tanner Street said the city would have been overreaching had it imposed setback rules. Boat storage, he said, doesn’t constitute a nuisance or danger to the neighborhood. “Make the streets safe, run the schools and stay out of our lives,� said Crosby, who keeps his 21-foot power boat under a Quonset hut in his side yard.

John Harmon of Checkerberry Circle said the restrictions would have hurt his business at a time of rising fuel prices and other economic difďŹ culties. Har-

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Leave seat belt law alone, but ban texting by drivers Driving is a privilege, not a right, and reasonable rules don’t interfere with personal liberty.

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riting state law requires a a seat belt. Driving, after all, is not a delicate balance. Legislators right but a privilege, and it is not an have to know when they should intrusion into personal liberty to put do something and when they should restrictions on operating a vehicle on public roads. leave things alone.

Which is why the Legislature should This year, Maine’s lawmakers should be doing a little of each when act on the issue of texting while drivit comes to making our roads safer. ing.

Distracted driving is already against But so far they seem to be getting off the law, but unlike failure to wear a to a bad start.

The question of whether Maine seat belt, it can only be punished afshould change its seat belt law, mak- ter a driver is involved in a crash or ing failure to wear one a secondary of- a moving violation. When it comes to fense that cannot lead to a traffic stop, typing a text message, that’s too late.

Opponents of the bill argue that is up for debate. This is a case that texting is just another cries out for inaction, distraction and should although the state be treated no differSenate has given Distracted driving ently than putting on preliminary approval makeup or eating a to such a bill. is already against sandwich.

But when it comes the law, but unlike But texting is differto banning text mesent. As pointed out by saging by drivers, a failure to wear a Rep. Mary Nelson, bill that was the subD-Falmouth, at Tuesject of a public hearseat belt, it can day’s hearing, there ing Tuesday, it’s time only be punished are many ways that a for legislators to act. driver can be distractThey should make after a driver ed. He can take his texting a civil infraceyes off the road, he tion so police can is involved in a can take his hands off stop and summons the wheel and he can drivers who not only crash or a moving take his mind off what risk their own lives, violation. When it he’s doing. Texting but the lives of othdoes all three at once, ers on the road. comes to typing meaning it should get The state has had special treatment. a so-called primary a text message, And unlike eating seat belt law since that’s too late. or changing a radio 2009, and enforcing station, which are it brings in a signifitotally within the discant amount of revecretion of the driver, nue. With a budget as tight as Maine’s, no amount of income a cell phone can ring to announce should be discarded – but that is not an incoming text at any time, sent by someone who has no idea what road the reason to preserve the law.

The real reason is that it saves lives. conditions the driver faces. A driver Study after study shows that people can put down his sandwich during a are more likely to survive a crash if snow squall, but he can’t stop a text they are wearing a seat belt. They are from coming.

And studies show that electronic also more likely to stay in position to control a spinning vehicle, avoiding or communications can be impossible minimizing a crash. But because of a for some people to ignore.

“Make no mistake about it – texting quirk of human nature, some people are more likely to buckle up to avoid is an addiction,” said Sen. Bill Diaa ticket than because it is good for mond, D-Windham, the bill’s sponsor. “And like any addiction, people them.

What’s the reason to weaken the are going to do it wherever they can law? The bill’s sponsor puts it this or wherever they have to, whether you’re driving down a busy street in way: “Deep down in my core, I am a lib- a small town, or whether you’re going ertarian at heart,” said Sen. Ron Col- 75 miles an hour down the turnpike.”

The hallmark of behavior we considlins, R-Wells. “I like having a choice er addictive is that people lose control whether I want to buckle up or not.”

If Collins were only driving around over the habit. If they can’t control on his own property and not interact- themselves and then put the public at ing with the rest of society, he should risk, the law should step in.

The Legislature should do what have that choice. But the results of bad choices by drivers affect every- it takes to make the roads safer in one who pays insurance premiums Maine. This year, that will involve in our state, and not just the libertar- knowing when to do something and ians who choose to eschew wearing when to leave things alone.

This is for letter writers Dennis Caron, David Sawicki, Gayle Blydenstein, Anne Milton and John Field, who think public employees have it much better than private employees.

How do you justify your assertion that public employees are so well compensated? It seems like you are listening to sound bites from the tea party. Let’s compare me to my husband: I am a teacher; he works in the private sector. I have a master’s degree and advanced certificate; he has an associates degree. My salary is less than his. This year he pays 4.2 percent of his salary to Social Security and 1.42 percent to Medicare; I pay about 9 percent of my salary to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System and Medicare, with the governor suggesting that I now pay 11 percent.

By the way, I also pay taxes to the state of Maine. How many of you have to pay taxes to your own employer?

We both put about the same percentage of our salaries into 401(k)/ 403(b)-type retirement accounts. His company pays matching funds to his retirement account; my school pays no matching funds My cost for family health insurance is about $600 per month; his cost for family insurance is about $350 per month.

In summary, his private-sector pay is better, his insurance benefits are less expensive and his retirement benefits are better. On top of all that, my husband is not continually ridiculed and publicly attacked for being a hard-working and dedicated employee. Instead, he gets a bonus.

Helen Hurgin

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Mainers wait outside a committee room in the State House to testify on the budget earlier this month.

cuts in benefits called “cost of living freezes” began? Were those funds respected as already spoken for, or was that money “ put to work” as money problems begged solutions?

Today, the promise to middle-class workers is being betrayed. The decision to attack educators’ retirement benefits, education funding and state workers’ retirements will place many people’s future well-being at great risk.

The shortfalls and mismanagement that caused this mess are not the fault of these working people, the elderly or our children. The LePage plan to “fix” the budget on their backs is robbery and breaks promises made. How will he explain to “we the people” how Maine will hire highquality workers and teachers in the future when today’s graduates and qualified job seekers see what they will surely face?

What Gov. LePage will do to retired and retiring teachers and state workers with his proposed cuts is to stab them in the back, then twist the dagger, as he also dims their grandchildren’s futures. For most who dared to hope, “Et tu, Paule?”

Keith R. Heavrin Jr.

Windham

Like children having a hissy fit, they stamped their feet, screamed their lungs out, threatened all kinds of retribution, including murder, and created a reported $7 million cost to clean up their mess and repair the damage to the Capitol building in Madison, Wisc. They succeeded only in creating an indelible impression of who and what Democrats really are.

The 14 Democrat senators, with their tails between their legs, ran away, saying they don’t want to play if they can’t win. What a disgrace they all are. What has happened, you see, is that we caught them cheating and they have no defense but noise and more noise.

We all believed that elections were fair and that everyone was equal to everyone else and we all had one vote. But when the truth came home that the union dues of public workers heavily supported Democrat politicians who promised to increase union workers’ salaries and retirement benefits, we discovered an awful truth.

We learned that everyone was equal, but some people were more equal than others.

Democrats have been gaming the system and filling their pockets with our money. The truth is out. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Thank God for that.

Surry

The Wisconsin Democrats want to “demonize” what the recent election inspired – the firm desire for change, not business as usual.

Some opponents of change do not want anything different – and why?

Because the generous benefits afforded them might have to be adjusted to prevent a collapse of the financial system.

How selfish can they be? I feel that those who voted for changes must continue to persevere. They real-

ize that sacrifices are needed by all in order to secure the goal of fiscal responsibility in the country. The Wisconsin senators who left their state for more than a month, rather than do the job they were elected to do, should resign! These senators were elected to serve, and running away from responsibility demonstrates a total disregard for our political system.

Paul LeConte

Westbrook

I am not a state employee or teacher, yet I know and have worked with many teachers and state employees.

Gov. LePage’s proposed freeze on state employee/teacher cost of living allowances (COLAs) is bad enough.

What’s most alarming is the proposal to reduce the COLA cap from 4 percent to 2 percent – a significant loss of income over the years.

Already modest state/teacher pensions will become a pathway to the poorhouse in the face of expected inflationary pressures.

The proposal is mean-spirited and unethical, and it’s wrong to dump the mismanagement of the state’s pension system onto the backs of state employees and teachers. If reducing promised benefits to state employees and teachers is not illegal – and apparently it’s not – it should be.

We can all put a human face on these employees and retirees. They are teachers who taught you and your kids, and state employees who protect our land, build our infrastructure and establish a safety net for those who need a helping hand.

They are public servants who invested in their own education, and donated countless unpaid hours with dedication and without accolades.

They are teachers who spent their own paltry paychecks to equip classrooms when schools didn’t provide supplies. If you haven’t noticed, these people are the heroes who have kept Maine running.

We must find more creative alternatives to balancing the state budget than to do it on the backs of the modest benefits we offer to vulnerable retirees who have worked on behalf of Maine and all of us.

Lois Winter

Portland

SIGNE WILKINSON’S VIEW

David Huck

Swanville

We are backing up in time to when tyrants had absolute power, even as other societies are fighting for rights and benefits we fought for and won.

Decades ago, our best-educated citizens entered government service and education, which promised meaningful careers and a livable retirement.

They worked hard, doing what they loved, constructively serving “we the people.” They put a portion of pay they earned into retirement accounts as mandated.

The accounts grew toward the promise those funds were designated to fulfill. Did our past politicians respect that promise made as forced

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World was warmer in the past without terrible effects

It all happened when CO2 levels were lower than they are now. What’s up with that?

BANGOR — What would you think if someone told you that in Greenland, about 9,100 years of the last 10,500 years were warmer than now? Or that the coldest years during this time span were in the late 19th century, at the close of the “Little Ice Age”?

Further, what would you think of the fact that there is nothing unusual about the mild, cyclic warming of our planet over the past century, comparable to the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period? The latter enabled the Viking settlement of Greenland, which was later abandoned due to the return of severe cold during that same Little Ice Age. That’s what Don Easterbrook, professor emeritus of glacial geology at Western Washington

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University, has determined from analysis of ice cores drilled from the great ice cap – drilling that penetrated to depths corresponding to the onset of the present (Holocene) interglacial period.

Easterbrook also notes that warmer and cooler periods over the last century have shown no correlation with steadily rising CO2 levels, except for the period 1977-1998.

Satellite temperature measurements of our lower atmosphere have shown no significant warming in the past decade despite still-increasing CO2 (a very minor greenhouse gas compared to the most influential one, water vapor).

Robert Felix was an architect and builder when he abandoned his career and devoted the next eight years

to pursue his passion, which was to understand what causes ice ages. At the University of Washington, but also in wide correspondence, he mastered a vast scientific literature and concluded that ice ages march precisely in step with magnetic reversals (or excursions) and increased volcanism (about 80 percent of which may be under the surface of the oceans).

Lesser periods of relative cold – “little ice ages” – also recur in a cyclic pattern.

The last major Ice Age ended very close to 11,500 years ago.

The interglacial periods of the last 500,000 years have the same duration, 12,000-14,000 years. Earth’s magnetic field has declined steadily in the last few centuries, which is necessary to a reversal, and the magnetic north pole in northern Canada, in the words of one observer, “is now racing toward Siberia.” Now that would be real “climate change.”

The hyperbole from the

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worldwide left about doomsday-scenario global warming continues, despite mounting evidence that the “warmists” are wrong. On the surface it’s a classic case of fallacious post hoc reasoning – just because Earth’s temperature and CO2 levels rose together for 20 years doesn’t mean that one caused the other.

Many alarmists are probably subjects of group-think, a well-known phenomenon. For others it’s an opportunity for profiting from investments in “green technology,” or perhaps to make money in carbon trading, or increase their power as bureaucrats. For many in the academic world, it may be desire for government grants, or fear of losing their generous funding if they voice doubts.

Here’s James Hansen of NASA, an originator of “anthropogenic global warming” panic, writing recently for the South China Morning Post: “Americans are not competent to deal

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He called Americans “barbarians” and urged his muchadmired China to impose high tariffs on American goods until we enact high taxes on carbon emissions.

Another high priest of the AGW religion, David Shearman, a professor of environmental science, has written “Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy.” Can you guess what his prescription is?

And there are swarms of zealots just as scary as these two.

Look at attendees of the recent Copenhagen and Cancun conferences, pressing for massive transfers of money from the developed world (us) to the less-prosperous, who they say will suffer from our irresponsible use of fossil fuels. America has been living too well and the United Nations must set things right, they say.

Sounding far-fetched? John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, has recently

called AGW “the greatest scam in history” and has despaired that this juggernaut will have to run its course (to what, national suicide?).

Thirty-one thousand wellqualified scientists have now joined a petition, initiated several years ago, to dissuade the U.S. government from implementing the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol (to which now, even the Japanese decline to renew their adherence).

The list of superbly qualified dissidents is growing, and the public is becoming skeptical.

The panic-mongers are redoubling their efforts to enact all kinds of energy-restricting laws and regulations.

Advanced civilizations depend on abundant, affordable energy supplies. If these alarmists are wrong, which seems almost certain, they have damaged our country and the entire world – and plan to do worse.

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Family planning agency funding up for debate Taking steps to reduce the federal deficit sounds like a necessary and noble goal, but be careful whenever a good end masks a great injustice.

Recently, U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, RInd., and other congressional leaders have pushed to eliminate federal funding for family planning programs.

Their main target is Planned Parenthood, but the harm will be felt most acutely by the millions of women who would be denied basic health care, including contraceptive services, testing for STDs and HIV, and screenings for cervical and breast cancer.

Taking health care away from women and families who can’t afford to pay for it on their own is bad enough. Even worse is that these funding cuts won’t reduce the deficit, create any new jobs or improve the economy. Instead, ending the highly successful Title X programs will only result in creating more pain and suffering, more unplanned pregnancies, more lives lost to preventable diseases, and more suffering for those barely holding on.

The biblical measure of justice and compassion is twofold. Look to see how those on the margins are affected for good or for ill, and then ask whether you’re willing to trade places with them. My wager is that Pence and his crowd would be up in arms if they were “done to” in the way they are seeking to “do to” Planned Parenthood and other family planning programs.

Where is the justice, compassion or even common sense in this diabolical move to defund heath care programs that save women’s lives and protect their families?

Rev. Marvin M. Ellison

Portland

I fervently hope that Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins will look at the big picture when they have the opportunity to cast their votes in support of Planned Parenthood and the services it provides.

I don’t think anyone would dispute the fact that all of us benefit when our young women grow up knowing that they have the right to be healthy and to make informed and healthy decisions for themselves.

By providing access to these very basic rights, we are providing the foundation for all kinds of wonderful possibilities.

If we take this away, we will have women who haven’t had the benefit of understanding and controlling their reproductive systems, who haven’t had various cancers discovered in the early stages, and some who haven’t had access to basic medical care.

Planned Parenthood’s focus on prevention of disease, unintended pregnancy and unhealthy choices saves lives and money. Planned Parenthood has done an incredible job of educat-

ing and caring for so many women in Maine. As I said, we all benefit from this. Please let them keep up the good work!

MeFPA should continue to receive tax dollars in the Feb. 26 paper.

Hill didn’t mention that he makes $108,526; the senior vice president of finance makes $95,389 (from MeFPA’s 2008-2009 tax returns). Our tax dollars are paying huge salaries for a private business.

MeFPA has been in existence for 39 years. At this point it should be self-reliant. Successful businesses raise the money they need to pay their staff and to serve their customers.

Jennifer Goodspeed Falmouth

Defunding Planned Parenthood has been in the news a great deal lately, and with good reason. Its connection to the big pharmaceutical companies, like Merck, has been instrumental in promoting Gardasil as a vaccine for young people. Therefore, a further examination of this unholy alliance is most certainly warranted.

Gardasil’s manufacturer, Merck, has scared parents into using their product to immunize their daughters against the sexually transmitted disease HPV. Since one cannot catch this disease through the air or by casual touching, this means that girls must engage in sexual activity in order to be exposed to this virus.

In Merck’s ads promoting Gardasil, they do indicate in smaller print that many side effects may occur. Among the lesser effects are fever, nausea, vomiting and fainting. Words from the ad read: “Some people who faint might shake or become stiff.” (And yes, Merck does advocate these shots for girls as young as 9 years old!)

In 2009, an analysis of data from VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), a government watchdog organization, found 235 cases of permanent disability and 47 deaths from this chemical cocktail. Yet the push for this vaccine continues.

Why? Just follow the money, because Merck is making millions on the backs of our daughters – and now on our boys as well.

To bring this full circle, Planned Parenthood is aiding and abetting this push, and calling it “preventative health care.” I feel this is a false claim, and that their other health care offerings are mere “window dressing.”

It masks the ulterior motive of their existence, which is to defile our young people with their promiscuous sex-ed materials and to cover up for the blood money they have made from tens of millions of abortions.

State and federal funding to this organization must be stopped!

Pat Truman Hallowell

There have recently been a number of passionate letters about the abortion issue – how could they be otherwise? The principle of doing away with abortion has undeniable moral appeal.

We’ve never met anyone “pro” abortion. Our concern is that to be against abortion is only part of a larger moral dilemma, and this failure to deal with the issue’s larger implications is

Janet LeBlanc

Waterville

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where we see anti-abortion advocates (M.D. Harmon et al) fall far short of true humanity.

A recent letter to the editor about fetal surgery for spinal bifida was most touching and illustrates our concern: How many young families, let alone single mothers, are in a position to afford such a procedure? How many even have reasonably priced assured access to any health care in a country with a disgraceful infant mortality rate compared to other industrialized countries?

How many have proper nutrition to support a fetus during pregnancy and as a growing child? How many have safe and secure housing to properly raise and care for a growing child?

M.D. Harmon wrote of a more than hundredfold disparity between the number of abortions and adoptions at Planned Parenthood. Where are the resources to handle such an increase in adoption services?

The current congressional anti-abortion debate exemplifies the hypocrisy we see. At the same time, opponents profess religious abhorrence of abortion, they vote to reduce all the programs (family planning, job creation, housing support, food and medical care, etc.) that would insure successfully raising a child in this world.

There’s a special place for someone who forces life into this world and then abandons it to the world’s evils.

We don’t think it’s Heaven (Luke 16, 19-31, Matthew 25 31-46).

Laurent Hourclé and June Wortman (Hourclé) Saco

In difficult times, the government must make tough decisions. Tax dollars should not be funding private companies. A well-managed organization can raise the funds it needs.

Family Planning Association of Maine (MeFPA) is a private business that depends on the government for 63 percent of its funding. Its 2010 annual report provides a breakdown of its financial sources. George Hill, the CEO of MeFPA, gave his opinion as to why

Advice from a deficit panda

The ‘deficit hawk’ image is too harsh, but spending needs to be addressed from the progressive side.

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on’t call me a deficit hawk.

I’m a deficit panda.

If you care about preserving government programs, especially for the most vulnerable, you should be too.

The taxonomy of the budget debate is unintentionally but dangerously misleading. The term deficit hawk conjures images of a sharp-taloned raptor swooping down on government spending, preying on the defenseless elderly or seizing food from hungry children.

Hence my pitch for a cuddlier image. It is possible to be a deficit panda: to simultaneously worry about the debt and believe in an active and compassionate role for government. In fact, I would argue that worrying about the debt is required of those who believe in such a government role.

NEEDIEST WILL SUFFER MOST

Failing to deal with the debt will hurt everyone, but the neediest will suffer the most.

The economy-wide consequences of doing nothing – higher interest rates, slower economic growth, lower standards of living – will hit hardest those least well-off.

Meanwhile, the budgetary reality of mounting interest costs will eat away at the government’s ability to provide a reliable safety net.

This point would seem obvious, except that too often the fiscal policy debate seems to be divided between Grinch-like deficit hawks and caring big spenders. The progressive case for worrying about the debt too often goes unmade, and the players forget: Fiscal responsibility is, at bottom, moral responsibility. Fiscal crises are ultimately human crises.

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The human face of the fiscal crisis was the focus of a conference last week sponsored by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and a paper by committee economist Anne Vorce.

Imagining America in 2050, Vorce sketched out two scenarios – “fiscal gridlock,” in which government leaders do not change the current, reckless course, and “fiscal recovery,” in which policymakers agree on a course to stabilize and ultimately reduce the debt.

Then she examined how particular generations (baby boomers, Gen Xers, millennials) and particular economic groups (the poor and working poor on the one hand, business and innovators on the other) would fare.

Take John, a 56-year-old baby boomer. He should have saved more for his retirement.

So should his elderly parents, whom he is helping to support. So John is already going to be working longer than he expected.

“The effects of a fiscal crisis on John’s life will be harsh – and sudden,” Vorce writes.

“If he is still in the work force when the crisis occurs, John will see job opportunities and income prospects dry up quickly. … To stay in business, firms will sharply cut expenses, including laying off the most costly (usually the most senior) employees, which could include our baby boomer. At a time when John is racing to maximize his retirement savings, being laid off means that he will have a lower standard of living in his senior years.”

And he will be more depen-

dent on safety net programs.

But by 2030, when John is in his mid-70s, Medicare will have run out of money to pay health care plans and providers. By 2040, when John is elderly and on a fixed income, Social Security will not have enough funds to pay him full benefits.

Then there’s Nick, 24, a new college graduate. He’s already struggling to find a decent job, and has staggering student loan debt. A fiscal crisis would make matters much worse.

A fiscal recovery plan won’t necessarily be easy for Nick. In the short run, Vorce rights, “he can expect that fiscal tightening will lower growth and reduce his job opportunities.”

But things will get better as financial markets respond and growth improves. If Social Security and Medicare are put on a sustainable course, Nick won’t have to see his take-home pay dramatically reduced by the higher taxes needed to finance them.

Then there is the group about which we deficit pandas care most: the poor and working poor. They are at the greatest risk from a fiscal crisis, not merely because of the prospect of losing jobs.

WHAT COULD HAPPEN

Higher interest rates would drive up housing costs, while budget pressures would further squeeze funds for public housing. Spending on education, from preschool through college, will be threatened.

Income inequality will increase.

Educational failures will slow economic growth.

Deficit pandas, unite. If we keep borrowing from, well, you know who, to buy our bamboo instead of going on a diet now, we’ll all suffer down the road.

Ruth Marcus is a columnist for The Washington Post. She can be contacted at: ruthmarcus@washpost.com

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‘Get Fuzzy’ out of comics, rerun Calvin and Hobbes This is a suggestion for the comics page. Since the paper is recycling “Peanuts,” what about doing the same for old “Calvin and Hobbes” strips?

They could replace “Get Fuzzy,” which is, sadly, quite lame.

David Moltz

Portland

Conservatives do bidding of the rich and big business In the wake of the Tuscon shooting, some members of the media jumped to the false conclusion that prominent conservatives provoked the violence with their rhetoric. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of just what the conservative leadership is all about.

The last time this country faced challenges similar to today was the Great Depression. During that time, grifters and flim-flam men traveled the roads bilking the naive out of what little they had.

Three-card monte and shell games were played on street corners offering the hope of easy money. Quacks plied “miracle” patent medicines to those desperate for quick fixes. Fortune tellers and Tarot card readers claimed to be able to tell you the future – all for a price, of course.

Today, Glenn Beck spends several hours a day telling his listeners that their money is worthless and predicting inevitable hyperinflation and economic collapse.

How convenient for us that Mr. Beck is sponsored by no fewer than four different gold investment companies, all of which offer to soothe our fears of economic disaster – for a price, of course.

Rush Limbaugh still maintains his post as a champion of “traditional” values and seems to feel the pain of the struggling taxpayer. (I’d like to congratulate Mr. Limbaugh on his recent fourth marriage and his fine taste in paying Elton John a seven-figure

fee to play at his reception.)

Former Gov. Sarah Palin, for her part, has marketed the Palin brand masterfully in nearly every form of media, recently even feeling it necessary to apply for a patent on the family name, following in the footsteps of previous entertainment icons such as the Three Stooges and Elvis.

The characterization of these conservative icons as inciters of violence is incorrect. They are simply a continuation of a dishonorable American tradition of the charismatic and devious taking advantage of fear and uncertainty to make money.

Jeremy Smith

Old Orchard Beach

Without Clifford School, neighborhood is very quiet Oakdale is much quieter nowadays.

The sound of school children running around before and after school has vanished, leaving those who live nearby with the sad realization that it just won’t be the same.

As a former student, when I can’t recall the Portland High fight song, or the King Middle alma mater, I take pride in being able to belt out the Clifford School song, most likely at a pub surrounded by fellow Nathan Clifford Comets. It was a great school.

So what to do now? Although the change saddens Oakdale, I’m sure we’ll be listening closely to the proposals for the future of the school.

It is a great opportunity for the city and the small neighborhood to think “outside the box” for ways to keep this old school relevant to today and remain important to Oakdale.

I’ve heard a few recommendations for both private and public use of the school, mostly good ideas, but nothing that strikes me as innovative.

Conversion to an apartment building, sometimes a good idea, worked well with the former Roosevelt School on Stevens Avenue.

But I can’t say the same thing of the former St. Patrick’s School on Congress Street. For Clifford, I am unable to visualize how that great building can turn into a place for only a few. We can do better.

I can easily see this school continue to serve kids as a community center, teachers as a training facility or for USM students as a place to study.

It would be great to see young kids or college students roaming Falmouth, Deane and Payson streets to get to their next class or after-school activity. But is there something else?

I hope we can give the City Council some great ideas.

J.D. Walker

Portland

Panic over N-plants harmful in itself

Every day we accept risks that are potentially more serious than any nuclear accident on record.

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n the 1979 movie “The China Syndrome,” reporter Kimberly Wells (played by Jane Fonda) witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant and then uncovers a plot to keep it a secret in order to protect the power company’s billion-dollar investment.

The film was a gift to the political left, which at the time opposed the pursuit of nuclear energy to reduce our addiction to foreign oil. In some liberal circles, that opposition remains strong.

The film, along with real-life accidents such as Three Mile Island (also in 1979), in which no one was injured, and Chernobyl (1986), which, according to the World Nuclear Association, “killed two Chernobyl plant workers on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people within a few weeks, as a result of acute radiation poisoning,” account for much of our modern thinking about all things nuclear.

Other films, like “Dr. Strangelove,” “Fail-Safe” and “On the Beach” – along with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ended World War II and launched the Cold War with the Soviet Union in which “mutual assured destruction” (MAD) and civil defense drills became the norm – make us nervous about what the unrestrained power of the atom can do.

The nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were damaged by the tsunami, not the earthquake, and not by faulty construction or worker error, as was the case at Chernobyl and to a lesser extent Three Mile Island.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has significantly

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tightened standards since those incidents, but no regulation or safety precaution can offer a 100 percent guarantee against an accident or natural disaster.

Politicians tend to overreact to such things and stoke public fear. The otherwise cautious and principled German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly announced plans to shut down seven of her country’s nuclear power plants pending a safety review.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a proponent of nuclear energy, told members of a House

Politicians tend to overreact to such things and stoke public fear. subcommittee on Tuesday that, “The American people should have full confidence that the United States has rigorous safety regulations in place to ensure that our nuclear power is generated safely and responsibly.”

He faces off against nuclear energy opponents, including Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who was recently quoted as saying, “We have to listen to what is happening in Japan and protect ourselves and our people.” Run for the hills! Chicken Little lives!

The Houston Chronicle quoted Peter Cardillo, chief market economist for Avalon Partners, a brokerage house in New York: “It’s a situation where you sell (your stocks now), and you ask questions later,” thus indulging in self-fulfilling prophecy

as Japanese and American markets dipped.

The Obama administration continues to stonewall when it comes to exploring for new sources of oil in or near American territory. (It has approved just two deepwater drilling sites since the BP oil spill in the Gulf, which, contrary to doomsday predictions, did not foul beaches for a decade or cripple the seafood industry, which seems to have recovered well in plenty of time for the summer vacation rush.)

Too many politicians continue to oppose coal exploration, an American natural resource.

Without advances in nuclear energy, the United States will continue to face not only the petroleum price equivalent of mood swings, but also deepen our dependency on foreign oil, a dependence that will ultimately lead to a host of domestic and international problems.

Cooler heads must prevail and conclusions avoided until a full assessment of the Japan disaster is known. Science cannot prevent earthquakes or tsunamis, but that does not keep people from wanting to live near the shore.

Scientists and engineers have made great progress in addressing safety issues raised

by Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, but again, nothing is foolproof, or there would be no traffic accidents or airplane crashes. And we still drive and fly, don’t we?

We need clean energy that can be developed on our own territory. More nuclear power plants, in conjunction with the production of more oil and the use of coal, natural gas, biofuels, wind and solar power, offer the best option for the foreseeable future.

Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist for the Tribune Media Syndicate. He can be contacted at: tmseditors@tribune.com

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Australia, Britain, Germany join nations advising citizens to consider leaving Tokyo

Continued from Page A1 The comments from U.S. officials indicated there were similar problems at another unit of the Dai-ichi complex.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said at a congressional hearing in Washington that all the water was gone from a separate spent fuel pool at the plant’s Unit 4. Japanese officials expressed similar worries about that unit, but said it was impossible to be sure of its status.

Emergency workers were forced to retreat from the plant Wednesday when radiation levels soared. They resumed work after radiation levels dropped, but much of the monitoring equipment in the plant is inoperable, complicating efforts to assess the situation.

“We are afraid that the water level at Unit 4 is the lowest,” said Hikaru Kuroda, facilities management official at Tokyo Electric Power. “Because we cannot get near it, the only way to monitor the situation is visually from far away.”

The storage pools need a constant source of cooling water. Even when removed from reactors, the rods retain radioactivity and must be cooled for months, possibly longer, to prevent them from posing a threat of meltdown.

Japanese officials raised hopes of easing the crisis earlier today, saying that they may be close to bringing power back to the plant and restoring the reactors’ cooling systems.

The new power line would revive electric-powered pumps, allowing the company to control the rising temperatures and pressure that have

TOKYO — Australia, Britain and Germany advised their citizens in Japan to consider leaving Tokyo and earthquake-affected areas, joining a growing number of governments and businesses telling their people it may be safer elsewhere.

The advisories came as the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the northeast deepened in the wake of last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, however, said its advice to Australians had nothing to do with the threat of nuclear contamination from the damaged plant.

“We are providing this advice because of the continuing disruption to major infrastructure, its impact on the welfare of people on the ground and continuing aftershocks,” its notice said. led to at least partial meltdowns in three reactors. The company is also trying to repair its existing disabled power line.

Tokyo Electric Power spokesman Naoki Tsunoda said the new power line to the plant is almost finished and that officials plan to try it “as soon as possible,” but he could not say exactly when.

Reflecting the state of alarm over the issue, Japan’s 77-year-old emperor expressed deep concern in a rare television broadcast Wednesday, saying “I hope things will not get worse.”

He urged the Japanese to care for each other and not to give up hope.

Millions of lives were disrupted by the magnitude-9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Nearly a week after the disaster, police said more than 452,000 survivors

Tokyo, which is about 140 miles south of the stricken nuclear complex, reported slightly elevated radiation levels Tuesday.

Officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital, but some countries have relocated their embassy staffs or suggested their citizens leave the area.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry advised its citizens living near the nuclear plant or in the capital region to either leave the country or move to the Osaka area west of Tokyo.

Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said an estimated 5,000 Germans were in Japan before the earthquake, but now only about 1,000 are believed to remain in and around the capital. Germany’s embassy in Tokyo also has been “partly relocated” to the consulate general in were staying in schools and other shelters, as supplies of fuel, medicine and other necessities ran short. Both victims and aid workers appealed for more help.

More than 4,300 people are officially listed as dead, but officials believe the toll will climb to well over 10,000.

“There is enough food, but no fuel or gasoline,” said Yuko Niuma, 46, as she stood looking out over Ofunato harbor, where trawlers were flipped on their sides.

The threat of nuclear disaster only added to Japanese misery and frustration.

“The anxiety and anger being felt by people in Fukushima have reached a boiling point,” the governor of Fukushima prefecture, Yuhei Sato, fumed in an interview with the Japanese television network NHK. He said

Osaka, Peschke said.

Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office advised against all nonessential travel to Tokyo and northeastern Japan, and urged British citizens within that zone to consider leaving.

France has urged its citizens with no reason to stay in Tokyo to return to France or head to southern Japan. The government has asked Air France to mobilize aircraft in Asia to assist with departures.

Other governments, including the United States, are taking a more measured approach.

The White House recommended Wednesday that U.S. citizens stay 50 miles away from the stricken nuclear plant, not the 20mile radius recommended by the Japanese.

– The Associated Press

evacuation preparations were inadequate, and that centers lacked enough hot meals and basic necessities.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from a 13-mile radius around Fukushima Dai-ichi.

A Cabinet spokesman, Noriyuki Shikata, said the government had no plans to expand the evacuation. But the U.S. Embassy issued an advisory urging all Americans living within 50 miles of the plant to leave the area or at least remain indoors.

The chief of the United Nations nuclear agency, Yukiya Amano, said he would go to Japan to assess what he called a “very serious” situation.

He urged Tokyo to provide better information to his organization.

Other countries have complained that Japan has been too slow and vague in releasing details about its

rapidly evolving crisis at the complex of six reactors along its northeastern coast.

The 180 emergency workers who were working in shifts to manually pump seawater into the overheating reactors to cool them and stave off complete meltdowns were emerging as heroes as they persevered in circumstances in which no radiation suit could completely protect them.

Japan’s Health Ministry made what it called an “unavoidable” change Wednesday, more than doubling the amount of radiation to which the workers can be legally exposed.

“I don’t know any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war,” said Keiichi Nakagawa, associate professor of the Department of Radiology at University of Tokyo Hospital.

The government asked special police units to bring in water cannons – usually used to quell rioters – to spray the spent fuel storage pool at Unit 4.

“By deploying defense personnel and riot police, we’re doing our best to tackle the situation by spraying water to cool down the reactors. We sincerely hope that this mission will go well,” Shikata said.

Elevated levels of radiation were detected well outside the 20-mile emergency area around the plants.

In Ibaraki prefecture, just south of Fukushima, officials said radiation levels were about 300 times normal levels by late Wednesday morning. It would take three years of constant exposure to these higher levels to raise a person’s risk of cancer.

Slightly elevated radiation has also been detected in Tokyo, triggering panic buying of food and water.

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palling, did not meet any of the seven requirements for a life sentence under Maine law, such as torture, multiple killings or a planned murder.

The sentence includes 50 years for murder and 10 years for arson, to be served consecutively. With good behavior in prison, Gurney, 29, will be eligible for probation after about 50 years. He has served almost two years since his arrest on the day after the murder.

The minimum sentence for murder is 25 years.

Gurney’s lawyers, Sarah Churchill and Robert LeBrasseur, said they probably will appeal the verdict and the sentence. They contended during Gurney’s trial that he was not guilty by reason of insanity.

Such a verdict would have sent Gurney to the state psychiatric hospital rather than prison.

Before he was sentenced, Gurney spoke publicly for the first time since the murder, sobbing as he read from a handwritten statement in which he apologized to Sarnacki’s parents and characterized his actions as “despicable without reason.”

“The air of every moment now feels wrong, tainted with loss and prayers of regret,” he said.

“Please know that having a trial was not an attempt to escape punishment or responsibility, but to figure out where I will be spending the next part of my life.”

Gurney, whose head was shaved at the time of the murder, now has a short black beard and long, unkempt hair.

His broad shoulders recall the star athlete he once was, but he now walks with a limp that was accentuated Wednesday by the chains binding his ankles.

Gurney attributed his behavior to a traffic accident in 2005 that almost killed him and led to more than two dozen surgeries and undiagnosed psychological problems.

“Yet I can still live, hope and dream. Zoe can no longer do those things and that’s unfair,” he said. “I would give anything to trade places with her.”

Gurney wiped away tears as his mother, Vikki Kemp, spoke on his behalf.

“Chad Gurney has always been and will always be my baby boy,” Kemp said, but his life took a horrible turn when the van carrying his college lacrosse team was hit by a truck.

He survived but was a different person, she said. “I lost my son once and I could not bear to lose him again. ... I love him unconditionally,” she said.

Cole conceded that Gurney’s mental illness and the persistent effects of the crash may have contributed to his behavior. He noted that Gurney was a good student with no criminal record before the murder, and showed his remorse after it, trying to plead guilty early in the criminal proceedings and quickly settling financial claims

by Sarnacki’s family.

But that did not outweigh the aggravating factors, the judge said.

Gurney and Sarnacki dated for

about six weeks. He was upset by her admission that she had been intimate with another man while he was out of town. On May 25, 2009, as she slept in his apartment on Cumberland Avenue, he began to strangle her.

She screamed and struggled and he head-butted her, then put her in a choke hold until she died. Gurney then had sex with her corpse and beheaded it. He showered, changed his clothes and left to get a can of gasoline.

He returned and arranged religious artifacts around her body, soaked the bed and body with gasoline and lit them.

Gurney left with his passport and a bag of belongings, scheduled to leave for Thailand in two days. Police found him at a motel in Old Orchard Beach.

Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese sought 75 years in prison for Gurney – 50 for murder and 25 for arson. She said Sarnacki’s friends and family will have to live with the images of what Gurney did.

“It is so difficult for anybody even associated with this case to understand how anyone could do that to another person,” Marchese said. “These are things that someone just doesn’t get over.”

William Bolduc was among Sarnacki’s friends and family members who urged the judge to impose the maximum sentence.

He said any hope that Gurney has of being released someday comes at the expense of the people who loved Sarnacki.

Others spoke about the former Deering High School student as an upbeat young woman, as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside, who was thrilled to be discovering a world full of interesting people.

She was not judgmental, and may have dated Gurney, who was nine years older, over the objections of others because she thought she could help him cope with his issues, friends said.

“She was beautiful. She was bright. She was creative. We don’t know what she would have done in this life,” said her uncle, Tom Fasulo.

Sarnacki followed a vegan diet because she objected to harming other creatures, said her aunt, Laurie Morris, who pledged to keep her niece’s memory alive.

“I will become a better person.

I will perform random acts of kindness in her name,” she said.

Morris had no room for forgiveness. Gurney, she said, showed no mercy to her niece, and so he deserves none.

“I think he should have a life sentence and never be allowed to walk the streets again,” Morris said. “There will be no healing for me and there will be no closure for the rest of my life.”

Sarnacki’s parents, however, were beyond bitterness.

As people from both sides of the proceeding filed out of the courtroom, Sarnacki’s father, John Sarnacki, leaned over and hugged Gurney’s mother.

Moments later, he whispered sympathetically, “It’s not her fault.”

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CHIPPING AWAY AT WINTER

This year’s cruise ship season will be marked by the maiden visit of Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth.

The public art panel votes to rip up ‘Tracing the Fore.’

If anyone wants to claim the piece, it may be costly.

By EDWARD D. MURPHY

By EDWARD D. MURPHY

PORTLAND — Fewer ships, but a record number of passengers, are expected to come to Portland during the 2011 cruise ship season.

City officials expect 59 cruise ship visits and nearly 90,000 passengers, with many of the bigger ships taking advantage of Portland’s new, larger berth and the Ocean Gateway cruise ship terminal.

Portland expects 31 ships that carry more than 2,000 passengers. Six of those carry more than 3,000 passengers. The largest is Princess Cruise Lines’ Caribbean Princess, which has a capacity of 3,622 passengers.

That ship will come in September, which will be the busiest month for cruise ships in Portland, with 24 visits.

September’s schedule also includes a stop by Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, making its maiden visit to Portland after joining the line’s fleet last fall.

The ship’s predecessor, the Queen Elizabeth 2, last visited Portland in 2001.

Last year, 71 cruise ships came to Portland, carrying a total of more than 75,000 passengers.

The city’s cruise ship business has been growing steadily for the past decade, but officials think there’s still an opportunity for more.

Nicole Clegg, the city’s spokeswoman, said a couple of city transportation officials were at a recent cruise industry convention, promoting the city’s “mega-berth” that can handle the larger ships.

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Roy Brooks chops ice from the curb in front of his home Wednesday on Congress Street to clear the pavement for his car. Today’s forecast – sunny and in the 50s – will help similar efforts across southern Maine.

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Cruise ship trends

Although arriving on fewer ships than last year, cruise ship passengers are expected to visit Portland in record numbers in 2011.

Cruise ships

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PORTLAND — City officials still haven’t formally decided to get rid of the controversial landscape sculpture “Tracing the Fore,” but the focus is already shifting to how to dispose of it.

Portland’s Public Art Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to remove the steel-andgrass artwork from the city’s collection and its site in Boothby Square.

The matter now goes back to the City Council, which has offered a non-binding opinion that the committee should scrap the work rather than move it to another site, which would cost $30,000 to $40,000.

City Planner Alex Jaegerman said the city has heard expressions of interest from a couple of people, and officials have come up with a rough estimate of $8,000 to $9,000 to remove the piece, fill its concrete base with loam and seed it with grass.

The city commissioned the artist Shauna Gillies-Smith to create “Tracing the Fore” for $135,000. The sculpture, installed more than five years ago, has stainless steel waves and rolling mounds of grass that were intended to grow to a height that would, in a breeze, evoke waves on the Fore River.

But business people who work around the square say the grass hasn’t filled in well and the spot has been overtaken by weeds.

Gillies-Smith said landscaping companies told her that the grass was still getting estab-

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71

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Passengers 2007

48,768

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47,841 70,000

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Projected: 89,492

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In the past, some large ships had to anchor in Portland Harbor and use smaller boats to ferry passengers ashore. Now, even the largest ships can berth and their passengers can walk into the Old Port, or onto tour buses that take them to Freeport or Kennebunkport.

Clegg said many cruise lines plan their routes a year or two in advance, so it may take some time to see if the push to promote the new berth pays off.

Clegg said more ships berth in Bar Harbor than Portland, and the city will try to persuade them to add Portland as they cruise up the coast.

“We do see an opportunity to grow some more,” she said.

Staff Writer Edward D. Murphy can be contacted at 791-6465 or at: emurphy@pressherald.com

Latest ‘Survivor’ challenge: Pink underwear Maine’s Ashley Underwood in Underwood’s face.

“You’re seriadvances despite a teamously hurting mate’s unwanted attention. my eyes,”

By MEREDITH GOAD Staff Writer

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Ometepe tribe members Phillip Sheppard, Natalie Tenerelli, Andrea Boehlke, Ashley Underwood and Grant Mattos compete in the “Smoko” challenge during the fifth episode of “Survivor: Redemption Island,” which aired Wednesday night.

Wednesday night’s episode of “Survivor” opened with Maine’s Ashley Underwood getting an unwelcome eyeful.

A teammate in the Ometepe tribe, Phillip “I’m a former government agent” Sheppard, bent over in his infamous pink underwear, flaunting his goodies right

Under wood complained, turning away and covering her face.

Sheppard seemed oblivious to the effect that his “pink panties,” as Boston Rob Mariano calls them, had on his tribe mates.

Later in the episode, while Boston Rob and Grant Mattos watched their former teammate

Matt Elrod win the duel on Redemption Island, Sheppard tried to cozy up to the women left behind in camp.

They were having none of it.

Sheppard complained that he “can’t seem to make an impression on these girls.”

“These girls remind me of the

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At issue is a requirement that casinos and other slot-machine facilities in Maine be at least

Voters last November narrowly approved a ballot question allowing the casino to be built – the question included the 100mile requirement.

The casino’s investors said they meant “road miles” when they wrote the language for the question.

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Veteran Affairs Committee held a public hearing on the bill Wednesday.

After the meeting, Rep. Jarrod Crockett, R-Bethel, who had voted against the casino referendum in November, said he believes the committee will unanimously support the bill once some minor details are worked out.

“It will have to pass,” he said.

“It’s the citizens’ intent whether we like it or not.”

Plowman said she counted 11 of 13 committee members in support of the bill and also expected it to win unanimous endorsement.

Of the 18 people who testified at the hearing, only one, Mary Taylor of Oxford, spoke against the bill.

Taylor, who owns a fourthgeneration homestead near the

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Duffett also told the Appropriations Committee that the board is looking closely at joint purchases as a way to economize further.

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OSHA announced Wednesday that it has cited Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC for an accident in September that burned a worker when steam and condensate burst out of the end of a high-pressure steam line.

William Coffin, OSHA’s area director for Maine, said OSHA is proposing sizable fines because the hazards at the mill found after the incident were similar to hazards that were cited and corrected after a 2008 inspection of the plant.

Dennis McComb, the mill’s environmental and safety manager, said everything cited by OSHA has been corrected. He said the company has yet to decide whether to appeal.

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Four people, including a bedridden woman, were rescued from a burning home in the town of Liberty.

Liberty Fire Chief Bill Gillespie said heavy smoke was pouring from the home of Theresa and Benjamin Signor when firefighters arrived about 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Gillespie said an oil delivery man who was passing by, Andrew McLeod, helped him drag Theresa Signor out of the house on her mattress through a sliding glass door.

The chief then returned to help Benjamin Signor and two adult grandchildren.

He said all four were conscious, but coughing.

Theresa Signor activated a panic alarm on a medical alert necklace to call for help.

The Bangor Daily News said the cause of the fire is unknown, but it’s not considered suspicious.

The Bates College Orchestra will give a concert to benefit victims of the earthquake crisis in Japan at 7: 30 p.m. Saturday at the Olin Arts Center, at 75 Russell St. in Lewiston.

Orchestra conductor Hiroya Miura was born in Sendai, the earthquake’s epicenter. Members of his family, who live in Yamamoto-cho, just south of Sendai, are dealing with the aftermath.

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Members of the Energy, Utilities and E HO U U SE B Te c h n o l o g y Committee had been waiting for financial documents from Seth Murray, former executive director of the Maine Green Energy Alliance, detailing its expenses.

After about a month since a public hearing on the issue and two letters from the committee requesting information, Murray said Wednesday that he had sent the paperwork.

“That information just went off today,” he said. “Their requests required hundreds and hundreds of documents being pulled together, and I think it’s important that we get it right. ...

I thought we were being pretty responsive.”

The energy alliance was awarded a $1.1 million federal grant to promote weatherization to homeowners, but was criticized for failing to meet its goals. The group’s board voted in January to end operations.

The alliance’s remaining $500,000 in grant money was transferred to Efficiency Maine Trust, a quasi-state agency that oversees energy efficiency.

The situation has political implications because of media reports on how the alliance was formed, who was hired to work for it, and allegations by the Maine Republican Party that Democrats got preferential treatment.

State Rep. Stacey Fitts, RPittsfield, House chairman of the committee, said the request for information was not a “witch hunt” but an attempt to sort out fact from fiction.

“Some of the things that have come to light have raised questions, and I think it’s just important that we decide for ourselves and then create a package, or at least a legislative history, so that if it’s going to be passed on to anybody else to continue a review, that we’ve done our due diligence,” he said. “The obvious questions are the political ones.”

Sen. Phil Bartlett, D-Gorham, said the additional information will be helpful.

“A lot of questions were raised, and I think we need to see what the answers to those are and take it from there,” he said. “My sense has been that Efficiency Maine Trust did the right thing in terms of identifying the problem and putting a stop to the expenditure of resources.”

Fitts said he hopes the committee will complete its review in April and issue any recommendations it has.

“I don’t think the energy committee is that interested in trying to solve those (political) questions and become the agency to get into the ethical issues or anything like that, but we also have a responsibility,” he said.

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BANGOR — The former kindergarten teacher in Jackman arrested in January on charges of possessing child pornography now faces federal charges, which allege that children who were his students appear in the pornographic images.

Rob P. Mocarsky, 41, who was a teacher at Forest Hills Consolidated School in Jackman, has been charged in U.S. District Court with producing child pornography and possessing child pornography. He pleaded not guilty to both charges Wednesday during his initial appearance in federal court in Bangor.

He also faces two state charges: sexual exploitation of a minor under 12 years old and possession of sexually explicit materials of a minor under 12 years old.

Mocarsky was arrested Jan. 6 after state police searched his home and allegedly found a computer filled with downloaded child pornography and images of his students.

Evidence from the state investigation led to the federal charges.

The federal complaint, unsealed Tuesday, says a Maine Computer Crimes Unit investigator searched an external hard drive that was found at Mocarsky’s home and “located hundreds of images of school-aged girls, including some engaging in lascivious displays of their genitals. (Forest Hills) Principal Denise Plante has confirmed that many of these images were taken in Mocarsky’s classroom and depict his students.”

Because federal authorities believe that Mocarsky took the pictures found on the hard drive, he was charged with production of child pornography.

The federal criminal complaint has two attached images, which U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk permanently sealed.

The complaint says the images depict two of Mocarsky’s students wearing bikinis. One shows a girl posed in a sexual manner and the other shows a girl with her bikini bottom pulled down and her genitals exposed.

A parent of a 5-year-old girl approached school officials on Dec. 8, saying Mocarsky had separated the girl from her classmates the day before, made her change into a miniskirt in the classroom and taken pictures of her, the criminal complaint says.

Mocarsky, who is married and has two children, was put on administrative leave on Dec. 8 and resigned in late January. In 2004, he was one of 100 teachers in the U.S. to win Milken Family Foundation Educator Awards.

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tended will get a new headmaster.

John Ritzo will step down after 25 years at Carrabassett Valley Academy, near Sugarloaf Mountain.

He will be succeeded by Kate Webber Punderson, who has worked at the academy for the past 10 years as a coach, director of development and alumni relations, and director of finance.

Ritzo arrived at Carrabassett Valley Academy in 1986 and oversaw accreditation and construction of a dorm. During his tenure, the school’s athletes won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals in the Olympics.

On Sept. 1, Ritzo will begin a new job at Thornton Academy in Saco, but he said Carrabassett Valley Academy will be in good hands.

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Police have identified the victim of a fatal fire on Grant Street as 43year-old Ronald Sapaukas.

Lt. Gary Rogers said the state Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Sapaukas died from smoke inhalation during the fire, which was reported early Tuesday morning.

Rogers said Sapaukas’ clothing caught fire as he stood near his electric stove. Investigators said he suffered severe burns. Sapaukas was rushed to Maine Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Rogers said the fire has been determined to be accidental.

for proposals for vendors. The Town Council is expected to vote on the request next week.

The vendors would participate in a pilot program aimed at generating revenue for the town-owned park. Five permits would be issued, for three locations. Three of the permits would allow sales from May 1 to Aug. 31 and the other two would be for Sept. 1 to Oct. 31. The minimum cost of a permit would be $2,000. The proposal would allow sales of food and non-alcoholic beverages only.

I expected,” she said. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to see multiple topless women running around. Instead, it’s very warm and welcoming. The staff is really sweet. It’s surprisingly a lot like a home.”

In December, when she met Playboy founder Hugh Hefner for the first time, the first thing he did was comment on the nor’easter that Maine was having at the time.

“He was very sweet,” Lam said.

“He’s not what people would perceive him to be.”

A publicist for Playboy confirmed that Lam will be the June Playmate, but because Playboy has yet to announce her appearance in the magazine, no one was available to comment Wednesday.

The June issue will be available starting May 13. Around that time, Lam will go to Las Vegas to attend a release party for the issue. She said she also wants to host a party in Portland for her family and friends.

Lam doesn’t want to make any assumptions about her future.

“I’m praying for more opportunities to come,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons I did it. But I’m not going to anticipate or expect it.”

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He connected her with a StewartSmithPhotography.com modeling gig Mei-Ling Lam, 27, was for Maxim Miss Teen Maine USA magazine, in 2001. She’s attended and subHusson College and mitted her modeled for Hasbro photos to and New Balance.

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“She’s in great shape and she’s a beautiful girl,” Stewart said. “She has an exotic look, and Playboy is kind of stepping away from the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.”

So far, Lam has taken three trips to Los Angeles for the photo shoot. She must make at least one more trip, to film a video that will be featured on Playboy’s website.

Lam has spent a good chunk of time at the Playboy Mansion in recent months, attending the Oscars party and many weekly gatherings, such as movie nights and Fun in the Sun Sundays.

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Ling Lam of Clinton will join the “My concern was, ‘What are people likes of Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole going to think of me?’ ” Lam said.

Smith, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn “What are people in a small town and Monroe, as a Playmate of the Month.

The 27-year-old graduate of Nokomis a small state going to say? I’m fairly conservative. I’m a Christian, but I’m High School will be June’s featured open-minded.”

Playmate, with a centerfold pictorial Once she considered the boost that spread. She will be the first Playmate a Playboy centerfold could give to her from Maine.

“I love to cook and, of course, I love to modeling career, Lam decided to go shop,” Lam said. “I love fashion. I love ahead.

And her family is proud of her decibasketball too, and the Celtics. I can’t sion. tell you what the theme of my photo “My whole family is happy for her,” shoot was, but it incorporates things I said her mother, Paula Lam of Clinton. love.”

“I don’t feel uncomfortable at all with Lam was Miss Teen Maine USA in it. I look at it like a painter who would 2001 and placed 12th in the national paint a nude figure. I know she’s going pageant, which aired on CBS. Since then, she has attended Husson College to be nude, but she’s not the first, and she won’t be the last.” and modeled for companies such as Lam’s love of cooking comes from New Balance and Hasbro. her parents, who ran Hawaiian ParaLam said she was unfazed by baring dise in Newport and were partners in it all for Playboy.

Oriental Garden in Augusta. Her dad, While participating in pageants and Kam Houng Lam, died in 2002. Her modeling, she often has had to strip older siblings, Jason Lam and Andrea down and change clothes quickly in Lam, live in Clinton. rooms full of people. It prepared her Lam credits the fashion photografor the nude modeling session.

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SCARBOROUGH — Property taxes will go up slightly if proposed school and municipal budgets are left untouched by the Town Council.

Town Manager Thomas J. Hall presented the combined $62.8 million budget Wednesday night.

Councilors took no action. Beginning Tuesday, the council’s Finance Committee will hold a series of budget work sessions before bringing its recommendations back to the Town Council for ďŹ nal adoption May 4.

Hall said the $35.3 million school budget would eliminate 23 positions. The $27.6 million municipal budget affects only two jobs. “The persistent economic downturn and related reduction in non-property tax revenues (such as excise tax) continues to present challenges and constraints,� Hall told the council.

The council also held a public hearing on a proposed ordinance change that would ban the use of all tobacco products at three town-owned beaches – Higgins Beach, Pine Point Beach and Ferry Beach on Prouts Neck.

Only one person testiďŹ ed against the smoking ban while several implored the council to enact the ban to protect children and nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.

The measure banning tobacco products will come back to the Town Council next month for ďŹ nal action. “Yes, it’s going to take some time for this to be accepted by the public, but we need to start somewhere,â€? said Sharman Kivatsky, the resident who raised the issue last fall.

Several speakers noted that secondhand smoke has been documented as contributing to health problems such as heart attacks and asthma. “In my mind, the connection is pretty clear. There should be no smoking in public places, especially on Scarborough’s beaches,� said Randy Barr, a Scarborough physician.

But Tom Schneller, a smoker, said he was disappointed with the law. He has been surf ďŹ shing for 45 years and makes a point to stand away from others when he is smoking. He also picks up his cigarette butts. “In my 45 years of ďŹ shing I have never left a butt on the beach. I look at myself as a steward of the beach,â€? Schneller said.

Under the proposed 2011-2012 budget, Scarborough’s tax rate would have to be increased from $12.63 to $12.96. Hall said that means a home assessed at $300,000 would see a $99 tax bill increase if the budgets go through without changes.

On the municipal side, a recycling coordinator position, which is shared by Saco and Scarborough, would be eliminated. A code ofďŹ cer position would only be funded for half the ďŹ scal year.

Hall’s proposal also calls for a 2.5 percent cost of living increase – the ďŹ rst increase in two years – for all of the town’s nonunion employees.

School ofďŹ cials have said their proposed budget will cut about 12 full-time teachers, as well as several counselor and ed tech jobs.

A hearing on the school budget will be held tonight at 7 in Town Hall.

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State Trooper Aaron Turcotte, left, photographs the crash scene Wednesday on Route 133 in Livermore Falls. FireďŹ ghters used hydraulic tools to free Trooper Robert Cejka from his cruiser.

Crash traps trooper in cruiser But Robert Cejka and his police dog escape serious injury when a truck rams their car on a snowy road.

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LIVERMOREFALLS—Astate police trooper whose cruiser was hit by a log truck on snowcovered Route 133 escaped serious injury Wednesday.

Trooper Robert Cejka of Brunswick was trapped in his cruiser as he waited for police and ďŹ reďŹ ghters to free him.

Amber Richards, 17, of Lewiston, whom Cejka had stopped to help, stood by with a friend, said state police Sgt. Shawn Currie.

Richards was standing outside her car, which had slid off the

road, and saw the out-of-control truck approaching, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. She ran into nearby woods to get out of the way. Her car was damaged in the crash, but she was not hurt.

The empty log truck, owned and driven by Edwin Tillson of Sidney, was going southwest toward Wayne when Tillson lost control and hit the rear of the cruiser, Currie said.

Tillson was not injured, McCausland said.

Cejka was returning from a training session with his dog, Charlie, in the back of the cruiser when the accident occurred around 3:30 p.m.

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BOSTON — The U.S. commerce secretary has reversed course and will allow more ďŹ shermen who have been accused of violations to have their cases reviewed for fairness by a special investigator.

Gary Locke also has agreed to give the investigator discretion to freeze pending penalties against ďŹ shermen, according to U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s ofďŹ ce.

Locke had denied both requests in January, prompting protests from lawmakers who said it was another assault by the federal government on the Northeast’s ďŹ shing industry.

Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, met this month with Kerry.

Last week, Kerry wrote a letter requesting, among other things, the concessions that Locke is granting.

Kerry called it a “welcome ďŹ rst step to repair the relationshipâ€? between ďŹ shermen and government regulators.

Richard Burgess, a ďŹ shermen in Gloucester, Mass., who has fought $85,000 worth of ďŹ nes for what he describes as minor bureaucratic and paperwork violations, said Locke’s move is a start but more must be done to

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The nation’s ďŹ shery laws regulate, among other things, the types of gear that ďŹ shermen can use, when and where they can ďŹ sh, and how much of a given species they can catch.

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The report said the region’s ďŹ shermen were given double the ďŹ nes of ďŹ shermen in other regions, and the process for penalizing violators appeared arbitrary and unfair.

The former head of the law enforcement agency, Dale Jones, was removed after it was learned that he had ordered dozens of documents shredded during the investigation.

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The trooper was removed from the cruiser, put on a stretcher and rolled to an ambulance.

He was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with injuries described as minor, McCausland said.

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At least three people on East Street in Bennington say they’ve been attacked by a squirrel in the past few weeks.

Kevin McDonald said he was shoveling snow recently when a squirrel jumped onto him.

“All of a sudden I felt something on my back and shoulders, scratching,” McDonald said.

McDonald said his first concern was that the squirrel might have been rabid, but Vermont Public Health veterinarian Robert Johnson said there has never been a documented case of a squirrel passing rabies to a human.

McDonald said the day after he was attacked he saw a neighbor battling a gray squirrel.

He later learned that another person on the street had also

been attacked.

Game warden Travis Buttle told the Bennington Banner he’d spoken to two people on East Street, but not McDonald, about the squirrel.

One woman was bitten on the back of the neck and was undergoing preventive treatment for rabies.

But Johnson said he didn’t think the squirrel posed a rabies threat because the animal would already be dead from the disease.

One possibility is that the squirrel was raised by humans and then released into the wild.

“They’ve lost their fear of people and they go ballistic (when they encounter a person) because it’s not their human,” Johnson said.

Another possibility is that the squirrel suffered some sort of injury.

“The take-home message is don’t try to take care of wildlife because it’s very hard to return them to the wild,” Johnson said.

“A tame squirrel is a loose cannon sometimes.”

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tices.

Violette, who was executive director for 23 years, had been criticized for the authority’s “lavish” travel spending and for donating money and gift cards to groups that appeared to be outside the authority’s mission.

The board of directors has been compiling a list of candidates to serve as interim executive director.

Peter Mills, a former Republican legislator who ran for governor last year, said he has been mentioned as a candidate but has not had any discussions with the board.

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piece would have been fulfilled.

She said the lack of maintenance led to criticism and, “once it gets going, it snowballs and some of the other voices get drowned out.”

She said that supporters of the piece weren’t heard, and that one resident called recently “to apologize to me on behalf of the city of Portland.”

Tony Muench, a member of the Public Art Committee, said a subcommittee that he led looked in city ordinances for a reason to decommission the art.

It eventually settled on two: one that allows it when a site changes and requires the city to re-evaluate the relationship of the artwork to the location, and one that permits it if a piece requires excessive maintenance or was designed or built in a faulty manner.

He said all of those conditions apply to some extent.

Muench, who was not a member of the committee when “Tracing the Fore” was commissioned, said the city has learned a lesson from the saga.

“You learn about vision and expectation versus what it ends up being,” he said.

The Maine Turnpike Authority’s board of directors will hold an emergency meeting this morning in executive session to discuss a personnel matter.

Turnpike authority spokesman Scott Tompkins said there may or may not be an announcement after the meeting, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the authority’s office, near Exit 46 in Portland.

The authority has been working to hire an interim executive director to replace Paul Violette, who resigned last week after weeks of legislative scrutiny of the authority’s spending prac-

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lished. She offered to pay $1,000 – a third of the estimate from a local landscaper – to maintain it for a year.

The city, which would have had to pay the other $2,000, turned down the offer, and the Public Art Committee looked for other sites, eventually settling on one near the Mercy Hospital Campus on the Fore River.

But the council advised the committee to pull the plug instead.

Jaegerman said the city will now follow a procedure set out in its rules, which includes offering the piece first to GilliesSmith, who owns a landscape architecture firm in Somerville, Mass.

She expressed interest last month in buying “Tracing the Fore,” but said Wednesday that she would instead help the city find someone else to buy it.

“I would love to have it land somewhere in a nice home,” she said.

Gillies-Smith said that if Portland had had patience and put Staff Writer Edward D. Murphy can be a little more effort into maintenance, the grass would have contacted at 791-6465 or at: emurphy@pressherald.com filled in and her vision for the

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has partnered with Ocean Properties in hopes of building a $120 million racino and resort hotel complex in Biddeford, last month urged the state Gambling Control Board to measure the 100 miles as a straight line.

But Wednesday, the group reversed its position and urged lawmakers to measure the distance in road miles.

Edward MacColl, an attorney for Scarborough Downs, said the racetrack never opposed the Legislature helping the Oxford casino.

Rather, it had argued that the Legislature needed to amend the law as needed to help the Oxford project, and make further amendments that would allow the Biddeford Downs project to go forward as well.

Peter Connell of Ocean Properties said Plowman’s bill honors the will of voters.

“We all believe in economic development and job creation in Oxford, Biddeford, and in all of Maine,” he said.

Crockett said Biddeford Downs’ backers would have lost all credibility with the committee if they had opposed Plowman’s bill.

The committee is expected to vote on the bill March 25.

proposed site of the casino on Route 26, said it’s not the job of the Legislature to further the business interests of Black Bear Entertainment.

Other revisions to the law have been proposed, such as changes in how revenue would be distributed. But Oxford casino investors say the only part of the voter-approved law that should be changed is how the 100-mile separation is measured.

“Black Bear Entertainment cannot have it both ways,” she said.

The bill’s supporters said that voters who approved the referendum question assumed the casino would meet the distance criteria because there would be no other place to build it in Oxford County.

Several speakers said the bill should be approved because the region badly needs jobs.

Bob Bayer, one of the casino’s investors and former owner of Oxford Plains Speedway, listed recent plant closures in the county.

“They’re all gone – 1,000 jobs MaineToday Media State House Writer – right down the drain,” he told the committee. “We’ve got to do Tom Bell can be contacted at 699-6261 or at: something to help.” tbell@pressherald.com Scarborough Downs, which

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Rap legend Nate Dogg dies at 41 The influential singer collaborated with stars like Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Dr. Dre. The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Singer Nate Dogg, whose nearmonotone crooning anchored some of rap’s most seminal songs and helped define the sound of West Coast hip-hop, has died at age 41.

Nate Dogg, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, died Tuesday of complications from multiple strokes, said attorneyMark Geragos.

Nate Dogg wasn’t a rapper, but he Nate Dogg was an integral figure in the genre: His deep voice wasn’t particularly melodic, but its tone – at times menacing, at times playful, yet always charming – provided just the right touch on hits including Warren G’s “Regulate,” 50 Cent’s “21 Questions,” Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and countless others.

While Nate Dogg provided hooks for rappers from coast to coast, the Long Beach, Calif., native is best known for his contributions to the West Coast soundtrack provided by the likes of Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound and more.

Nate Dogg was even part of a “supergroup” featuring Snoop Dogg and Warren G called 213.

Nate Dogg, who had suffered at least two strokes since 2008, also put out his own solo projects but was best known for his collaborations with others.

Last year, Warren G said Nate Dogg was in therapy but needed help.

“Everybody just gotta keep him in their prayers, ‘cause he had two strokes and that’s real dangerous. And a lot of people don’t come back from that,” he said in an interview with HipHollywood.

After word of his death spread, tributes poured in on Twitter.

“We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met,” Snoop Dogg Tweeted.

Like Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg got his start on Death Row when he was signed to the groundbreaking label by Dr. Dre. Nate Dogg got his start singing in the local church choir. He dropped out of high school to join the Marines but after three years was dishonorably discharged.

He briefly got involved with the drug trade before forming a musical group with Snoop and Warren G. It was Warren G who was credited with giving their music to Dr. Dre.

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lands there.

“He was chomping at the bit,” she said. “He loved the challenge. It was like man against nature. He always wanted to be racing. When he saw another boat, he was racing – whether the other guy knew it or not.”

The last big trip the couple made was to China in 2006.

They visited the Wolong Panda Research Center in China, which is dedicated to research and preservation of the panda species.

The Dodds volunteered at the center and, on their last day there, got a chance to go inside the “panda kindergarten,” which housed 16 baby pandas.

One of the pandas that Mr. Dodd cared for was featured in a two-page photo spread in National Geographic.

“It was an amazing experience,” his wife said. “They were running around like little puppies, playing with toys.

You could get right up close to them. (Mr. Dodd) surprised me. He got right in there.”

Staff Writer Melanie Creamer can be contacted at 791-6361 or at: mcreamer@pressherald.com

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Richard E. “Dick” Larrivee, 70

Mary Elizabeth “Sally” Fitzpatrick, 96

John Babson Warner, 49

WINDHAM — Richard E. “Dick” Larrivee, 70, of River Road, died on Friday, March 11, 2011, at his home after a long illness.

He was born in Westbrook, the son of Robert E. and Simone M. Francouer Larrivee, attending St. Hyacinth’s parochial school and later Windham schools.

Dick was employed for 24 years at Northern Utilities Gas Company as a mechanic, retiring in 1984 due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He devoted himself full-time to a life long passion for repairing, selling and restoring antique tractors. This lead to joining the Maine Antique Tractor Club (MATC) where he went to many club sponsored tractor pulling events around the state. He also served on the club’s Board of Directors.

For many years, along with his wife, he and other volunteers organized the annual “SummerFest” held in June at the Farmington Fairgrounds where members would showcase their tractors and various other farming related exhibits. Tractor pulling would be the main attraction with several weight classes and good natured competition amongst the members.

In the fall, “Plow Days” was another event that was held at the Rust Farm in Gorham where fields were harrowed for the next season’s corn crop. This was the highlight for a monthly meeting complete with a pig roast.

He also worked for Warren S. Elder and Sons doing occasional excavating jobs.

Dick also volunteered as a member of the Windham Board of Zoning Appeals for several years.

During the 1970s, he was very active in Boy Scouts and coaching farm league baseball teams.

He married Martha A. White Larrivee on Nov. 26, 1960, in Westbrook.

Surviving, besides his wife of 50 years, are his daughter, Christine V. Larrivee of Gorham, his son, David L. Larrivee of Windham; two grandsons, Joseph Richard Harper of Gorham and Sean M. Larrivee of Windham; two sisters, Doris Tanguay of Westbrook and Pauline Fecteau and her husband George of Raymond, a brother, Onile Larrivee and his wife Dawna of Windham; and several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2011, from 2-6 p.m., at the Dolby Funeral Chapel, 434 River Rd., followed by a memorial service at 6 p.m. at the chapel. Online condolences may be made to www.dolbyfuneralchapels.com.

In lieu of flowers, kindly make donations in Dick’s memory to: The Maine Antique Tractor Club Scholarship Fund Care of Judith Fairbanks 1103 Industry Rd. Industry, Maine 04938

NEWCASTLE — Mary Elizabeth “Sally” Fitzpatrick, 96, died peacefully at h o m e i n Newcastle, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.

Sally was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 23, 1914, the oldest child of Mary Elizabeth “Sally” Fitzpatrick L e o n C . a n d Katherine (Carr) Harding. Sally was a member of the first four-year class to graduate from John Bapst High School in Bangor, in 1932. After high school, she attended Castine Normal School and later worked for the WPA in Augusta.

In 1936 she married Joseph Fitzpatrick, who predeceased her in 1978. They were married for 42 years, and together they raised a family of six daughters and two sons, and successfully ran a construction company in the Bangor area. They especially enjoyed many years at their Green Lake cottage, as well as their hobby of racing harness horses. In her later years, Sally lived in the Kennebunk area until her move to Newcastle in 2003. Sally’s family meant the world to her, and her to them.

She is survived by daughters, Elizabeth Gerding of Newcastle, Sylvia and husband Ed Libby of Camden, Catherine and husband Jim Pierce of Amelia Island, Fla., Mary and husband Jim McGrath of Newcastle, with whom she made her home, Dorothy and husband Donald Tarzia of Hingham, Mass., and Ruth and husband Laurent Rioux of Edgecomb, and by her sons, Joseph and wife Diane of Alfred, and Ed and wife June of Kennebunkport.

She is also survived by a sister, Marie Costello of West Hartford, Conn.; as well as 30 grandchildren; and 50 great-grandchildren.

Calling hours will be held on Friday, March 18, from 5:30-7 p.m., at the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main St., Damariscotta. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Newcastle on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. Condolences, and messages for the family, may be expressed by visiting: www.StrongHancock.com.

Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main St., Damariscotta.

The family wishes to thank Miles Home Health and Hospice and her caregivers for providing compassionate care and comfort to her in her last days.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to: Bolivian Missions Care of Peter Harding 3 Knoll Lane Rocky Hill, Connecticut 06067

WEST KENNEBUNK — John Babson Warner, 49, died unexpectedly on March 9, 2011, after a 4 0 y e a r struggle with juvenile diabetes and the complications that manifested themselves as a result of his John Babson Warner disease.

John was born on Sept. 7, 1961, in Biddeford, the youngest son of Joseph and Dorothy (nee Allen) Warner. He graduated from Kennebunk High School. He was known locally as a stone mason having worked for several masons and as an independent contractor. He could often be found at the Kennebunk dog park running his beagles.

John enjoyed playing cribbage with his family and friends. He was also an accomplished woodworker and craftsman.

John was predeceased by his parents, Joseph and Dorothy Warner. He is survived by his two brothers, Joseph R. Warner and James M. Warner, his three sisters, Judy M. Warner, Jennie C.A. Warner and her husband Lewis A. Dow, and Jane M. Sparkowich and her husband Frank; his niece, Jennifer Warner, nephews, Jonathan Warner, Jake Sparkowich, and Jeff Sparkowich; and a great-nephew, Tanner.

There will be a celebration of John's life on Saturday, March 19, from 3-6 p.m., at Duffy's Tavern and Grill, 4 Main St., Lafayette Center, Kennebunk. Please join the family and help them share memories of John.

Arrangements are in care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk. www.bibberfuneral.com.

Should friends desire, memorial donations may be made to: Animal Welfare Society P.O. Box 43 West Kennebunk, Maine 04094

SERVICES and VISITING HOURS A U G E R , R I C H A R D C . - 76, of Biddeford, March 14, 2011. No visiting hours. Mass of Christian Burial, 11 a.m., March 18, St. Martha's Church, Kennebunk. Burial, St. Joseph Cemetery, Biddeford, later in the spring. Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St., Biddeford.

BARBER, VERN A. - 86, of Saco, March 12, 2011, in Portland. Private memorial service in Saco, April 17. Cote Funeral Home, Saco.

BELL, MARY D. - 86, of Portland, formerly of Boston, N.Y., March 14, 2011. No services. Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Rd., South Portland.

CHALOULT, DONALD - 65, of Biddeford, in Portland, March 16, 2011. Visiting hours, 10-11 a.m., March 19, Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St., Biddeford & funeral service, 11 a.m. Burial, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Biddeford.

DAVIS, DIANNE MERRILL - March 12, 2011.

Visiting hours, March 19, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., David E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath & celebration of life, 1 p.m. Burial in the springtime, Grover Cemetery, Woolwich.

DESROCHERS, YVONNE M. - 95, of Biddeford, March 13, 2011, in Biddeford. Visiting hours, 4-7 p.m., March 16, Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St., Biddeford & funeral service, 12 p.m., March 17.

Burial, St. Joseph Cemetery, Biddeford.

DINSMORE, PAMELA ANN - 34, of Topsham, March 12, 2011. Memorial service, 1 p.m., March 22, Maine Street Baptist Church, 326 Maine St., Brunswick. Brackett Funeral Home, Brunswick.

FITZPATRICK, MARY ELIZABETH “SALLY” 96, March 15, 2011. Calling hours, March 18, 5:30-7 p.m., Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main St., Damariscotta.

Funeral Mass, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Newcastle, March 19, 11 a.m.

FRITZSON, MYRTIS (WEST) - March 13, 2011, in Brunswick. Private service of remembrance. Brackett Funeral Home, Brunswick.

GOLDEN, ROSE C. - of Augusta, March 14, 2011. Service, March 20, 2 p.m., Temple Beth El, 3 Woodlawn St., Augusta.

HALL, JANE J. GEELHOED - 79, March 12, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Memorial service at a later date in Freeport.

HANSON, PATRICIA M. - 67, March 14, 2011. Funeral service, 3 p.m., March 27, New Gloucester Bible Church, New Gloucester. Crabiel-Riposta Funeral Home, Belfast.

HERRICK, ETHAN - 37, of Harrison, March 13, 2011. Services, First Lutheran Church, Portland, March 18, 10 a.m.

HUGHSON, PAMELA J. - 60, March 7, 2011.

Arrangements private.

HUNT, MALCOLM P. - 86, of Camden, in Camden, March 11, 2011. Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 9 Mountain St., Camden.

LARRIVEE, RICHARD E. “DICK” - 70, March 11, 2011. Visiting hours, March 19, 2-6 p.m., Dolby Funeral Chapel, 434 River Rd. & memorial service, 6 p.m.

MOULTON, ELEANOR L. - 95, of Springvale, March 15, 2011, in Scarborough. Visitation, 5-8 p.m. & Order of the Eastern Star Service, 7 p.m., March 18, Carll-Heald & Black Funeral Home, 580 Main St., Springvale. Interment & graveside service in the spring, Riverside Cemetery, Springvale.

PORTERFIELD, JANE LOUISE (KEIRANS) 79, of Cape Elizabeth, March 14, 2011.

Ceremony celebrating her life, March 19, 2 p.m., Village Crossings, 78 Scott Dyer Rd., Cape Elizabeth. Independent Death Care, Portland.

QUINONES, GERALDINE SHIRLEY (BURNHAM) - formerly of Portland, March 2, 2011.

REED, FRANCES ELVIA - 80, of Portland, Jan. 5, 2011. Memorial services, 1 p.m., March 20, First Evangelical Free Church of Maine, 335 Bridgton Rd. (Route 302), Westbrook. Spring interment, Evergreen Cemetery, Auburn. Dillingham & Son, Inc., 62 Spring St., Auburn.

SAWYER, JOSEPHINE 'DOLLY' - 74, March 13, 2011. Visitation, March 18, 6-8 p.m., Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., Portland & prayers, March 19, 10:15 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial, 11 a.m., St. Peter's Catholic Church, 72 Federal St., Portland. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, South Portland.

SHOREY, PATRICIA L. - 75, of Meadville, Pa., March 12, 2011. No calling hours.

Services private. Roofner-Collins-Warren Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 544 Chestnut St., Meadville, Pa. SMITHWICK, FRANCES - 97, March 14, 2011. Memorial service, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 705 Hale St., Beverly, Mass., March 19, 11 a.m. Campbell – Lee, Moody, Russell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot St., Beverly, Mass.

TARDY, GLADYS GAUVIN - March 15, 2011.

Call, Duncan-Graves Funeral Home, 30 Church St., Presque Isle, 7-9 p.m., Friday.

Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m., Saturday, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Presque Isle. Spring interment, St. Mary's North Main St. Cemetery.

URQUHART, DOUGLAS M. - 79, of Camden, in Rockport, March 13, 2011. Memorial Service, 2 p.m., March 17, Rockland Lodge of Elks, 210 Rankin St., Rockland.

Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 9 Mountain St., Camden.

W A R N E R , J O H N B A B S O N - 49, March 9, 2011. Celebration of life, March 19, 3-6 p.m., Duffy's Tavern and Grill, 4 Main St., Lafayette Center, Kennebunk. Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk.

WEED, CYNTHIA D. - 56, of Camden,in Camden, March 12, 2011. Memorial service, 10 a.m., March 17, Chestnut Street Baptist Church, Camden. Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 9 Mountain St., Camden.

LEDOUX, THERESA L. - 83, of Saco, March 14, 2011, in Scarborough. Visiting hours, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Friday, Cote Funeral Home, corner of Beach & James St., Saco & funeral service, 12 p.m., Friday. Burial, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Biddeford.

WILDFOERSTER, DONALD ROBINSON - 91, March 13, 2011. Memorial service, St. David's Episcopal Church, Route 1, Kennebunk, March 26, 12 p.m.

LERMAN, GLORIA L. - 85, March 15, 2011.

Family services private. Interment, Brooklawn Memorial Park & Cemetery, Portland. Independent Death Care, 660 Brighton Ave., Portland.

WILMOT, GEORGE R. - 88, of South Portland, March 14, 2011. Private graveside service, Calvary Cemetery, South Portland. Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland.

MAINS, DAPHINE T. - 57, March 14, 2011.

Graveside service in the spring. Hall Funeral Home, Casco.

MORIN, LEO J. JR. - 78, of Sanford, March 5, 2011, in Sanford. No services.

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WYLLIE, HOWARD R. - 63, of St. Albans, Mformerly of Milford, Conn., March 11, 2011. Visitation, March 19, 2-3 p.m., Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk & funeral service, 3 p.m.

Jane J. Geelhoed Hall, 79 GULFPORT, Fla. — Jane J. Geelhoed Hall, 79, died unexpectedly on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Palms of Pasadena Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born on July 21, 1931, in Lewiston, she was the only Jane J. Geelhoed c h i l d o f t h e Hall late Philip and Dorothy Johnson. She attended Cushing Academy and graduated from Freeport High School, class of 1949. Jane was married in 1951 and eventually settled in Freeport to raise her family.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Daniel Geelhoed, in 1986; and by her second husband, Stacy Hall, in 2007.

Jane was employed by L.L. Bean in Freeport for 19 years, first in customer service, and retired in 1990 as advertising coordinator.

In earlier years, she was a familiar sight at Johnson’s Rexall Pharmacy in Freeport which was owned by her father.

She loved to entertain and enjoyed hosting both her friends and her children’s friends in her home. She was an avid golfer and won several club championships and couple’s league championships at Sunny Meadows Golf Course in Freeport. She loved to read, complete crossword puzzles and never missed an evening episode of Jeopardy. She was a wonderful cook and loved making big family meals. She was a great lover of animals.

She enjoyed spending winters in Florida and summers in Limerick and Frye Island and at the homes of her children in more recent years.

Survivors include her three children and 10 grandchildren: daughter Tracie Ezzio of Pepperell, Mass., her husband Louis, and children Kyle, Larissa, Ross, Deanna and Keegan; son Philip Geelhoed of Poland, his wife Christine, and children Andrew and Sophia; and daughter Tara Gendron of Greenland, N.H., her husband Barry, and children Blake, Pierce and Cole; as well as several cousins.

A memorial service will be held at a later date in the Freeport area.

If desired, donations may be made in her memory to: The ASPCA Tributes 520 8th Ave., 7th Floor New York, New York 10018 or by visiting www.aspca.org/donate or preferably to your local SPCA or animal shelter.

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James Dodd, 80, adventurous sailor, teacher, affable landlord Staff Writer

BRUNSWICK — James Dodd was the type of person who could do 50 things at once and not break a sweat.

Mr. Dodd was the well-known and respected owner of several rental properties in Maine’s midcoast.

For many years, he gave swimming lessons to students at Harpswell Elementary School.

He taught ballroom dancing and sailing courses through Merrymeeting Adult Education. He also guided visitors through the Joshua Chamberlain House in Brunswick a couple days a week every summer.

“He was incredibly active,”

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PASSAGES Each day the newsroom selects one obituary and seeks to learn more about the life of a person who has lived and worked in Maine. We look for a person who has made a mark on the community or the person’s family and friends in lasting ways. by himself. ... My motto was, ‘One day at a time.’ ” The Dodds were married for 46 years. They met on a blind date at a restaurant in California and tied the knot six weeks later. In this case, opposites attracted.

“He was a risk taker ... an adventuresome person. I am more conservative. Together, we complemented each other,”

Josephine 'Dolly' Sawyer, 74

Pamela Ann Dinsmore, 34

PORTLAND — Josephine 'Dolly' Sawyer, 74, died on Sunday, March 13, 2011, at home with her family following a brief illness.

Josephine was born in Portland on March 23, 1936, the daughter of Josephine 'Dolly' Leonardo and Sawyer Angelina (Calabrese) Colello. Josephine grew up in Portland and lived most of her life in the Munjoy Hill area where she met her sweetheart and love of her life Harold J. Sawyer.

Josephine worked several jobs throughout the years, most recently as a school crossing guard. She enjoyed working with the children, parents, and teachers. She worked at many different sites as schools closed and moved over the years.

Josephine loved to travel and enjoyed many trips with her husband and family, including a memorable trip with her brother Sam to their parents hometown of Vieste, Foggia, Italy.

After the death of her husband, Josephine motivated herself by being an integral part of her daughter and grandsons lives by attending every event, performance, and ceremony. Josephine loved caring for her family, cooking many delicious dishes and entertaining family and friends at her home and also at her summer camp on Bonny Eagle Lake.

Josephine was a determined woman who never questioned her decisions once made. Those who knew her will miss her unique blend of stubbornness and grace.

Josephine is survived by her daughter, Patty Jo Walton; grandsons, Justin S. Walton and his wife Daria, William L. Walton II, and Harold J. Walton; and great-grandson, Philip Levon Walton, born this past September. She is also survived by her brother, Salvatore Colella, her sister, Philomena and husband Frank Chiaravelotti, and her twin brother, Marco Colello. Also surviving her are her sister-in-law, Doris Colello, sister-in-law, Norma and husband James Larrivee; and many dear nieces and nephews. Josephine was predeceased by her husband, Harold J. Sawyer; her parents; and a very special aunt and uncle whom she was very close to, Mary and Guiseppi Mangoni. She was also predeceased by several sisters, Michaelina Boyle, Mary Sears, Emmanuela Osborne, and Christine Kosnow, brothers, Gaetano, Matthew, and John Colello; and most recently by son-in-law, William L. Walton.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation on Friday, March 18, 2011, from 6-8 p.m., at Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., Portland. Prayers will be recited on Saturday, March 19, 2011, at 10:15 a.m., at the funeral home, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. at St. Peter's Catholic Church, 72 Federal St., Portland, with the Rev. Greg Dube celebrating. Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery, South Portland. Please visit www.jonesrichandhutchins.com for additional information and to sign Josephine's guestbook.

For those wishing, in lieu of flowers, take a senior citizen to lunch, shopping, or a ride in Josephine's memory.

BRUNSWICK — Pamela Ann Dinsmore, 34, a resident of Topsham, died on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Mid Coast Hospital after a long battle with juvenile diabetes.

She was born on Dec. 12, 1976, in Fort Pamela Ann Dinsmore Hood, Texas, the loving daughter of Emerson S. and Suk Cha (Hwang) Dinsmore. Pamela attended schools in Killeen, Texas and Brunswick. She graduated from Brunswick High School with the Class of 1995.

Pamela has been a member of Maine Street Baptist Church of Brunswick since 1989. She loved being involved with Bible Study and Discipleship classes and also enjoyed helping out in the church nursery.

Pamela loved spending time with her parents and her sister, Marie, whenever possible. She always kept her faith in the Lord.

She was always a happy, caring and loving girl to be around.

Pamela was a blessing to all who knew her.

Pamela is survived by her parents; her sister, Marie; her grandmother, Chang Sop Yoon of Los Angeles, Calif., her grandfather, Emerson W. Dinsmore of Greene (formerly of Calais); and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

She was predeceased by her grandmother, Dorothy M. Dinsmore.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at the Maine Street Baptist Church, 326 Maine St., Brunswick, with the Rev. Dale Morrel officiating. You are invited to sign an online guestbook and view a video tribute of Pamela by visiting www.brackettfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are under the direction and care of Brackett Funeral Home, Brunswick.

Flowers are welcomed at the family home or memorial donations in Pamela A. Dinsmore's memory are encouraged to be made to: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International 26 Broadway, 14th Floor New York, New York 10004

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his wife said.

Mr. Dodd was an English teacher in his earlier years. He began his teaching career in California. He taught English at schools in Maine including Yarmouth and Wiscasset high schools and the University of Maine at Machias.

After 17 years in the profession, he left teaching to pursue a career in real estate.

In the mid-1970s, Mr. Dodd began investing in rental properties. He bought and renovated several buildings in the BathBrunswick area. He rented some homes, and renovated and sold other properties for a profit. His wife said he loved the business.

Gloria L. Lerman, 85

Frances Smithwick, 97

Ethan C. Herrick, 37

SOUTH PORTLAND — Gloria L. Lerman, 85, passed away on March 15, 2011.

She was born in Portland, the only child of Harold Tingley and Kathryn Dennison Cottle. She attended Portland schools.

Gloria was married to the late Eli Lerman, raising four children. In the early 60s, she was named City of Portland's Mother of the Year, where she received the key to the city. She was a sales clerk for many years at the former Porteous Mitchell & Braun department store in downtown Portland. She retired from Casco Bank as a head teller. She loved to travel and enjoyed trips to Israel and Ireland. Her other passion was playing bingo with her best friend, Lorraine Begin.

Gloria was very proud of the accomplishments her children and grandchildren. She is survived by her son, Robert Lerman of Westbrook, and her three daughters, Lorna Endreson of Portland, Mary Cole of Stuart, Fla., and Deborah Barter and her husband Donald of Lisbon Falls.

She is also survived by four grandchildren, Kristin Cole Ives and husband Michael of Avon, Mass., Suellyn Santiago and her husband Steven of Portland, Andrew Barter and his wife Kate of Dover, N.H., Steven Barter and his wife Mel of Winthrop; along with three great-grandchildren, Natalie and Danielle Santiago, and Zachary Barter. Gloria is also survived by a great-aunt, Velma Schurman of Gorham.

Our family would like to thank the staff at the South Portland Nursing Home for their dedication and loving care to our mother.

At the request of the family services will be private. Interment will be at Brooklawn Memorial Park & Cemetery in Portland.

Arrangements are by Independent Death Care, 660 Brighton Ave., Portland. To offer words of condolences and sign a guest book, go to the obituary page at www.independentdeathcare.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Maine Children's Cancer Program.

BEVERLY, Mass. — Frances Smithwick passed away peacef u l l y o n March 14, 2011, at the age of 97, at her home surrounded by her family and incredible caregivers. Her grace and amazing Frances Smithwick s e n s e o f humor stayed with her right to the end. She was always a joy to be around.

Born in Portland, the youngest daughter of Harrison and Helen (Brown) Holt, she attended the Waynflete School, and then went on to Vassar College where she graduated with a major in Italian. Before her marriage she worked for the Red Cross motor corps as well as the Portland Children's Theatre where she was one of their lead actresses. Her love of people kept her volunteering for many causes throughout her life. She will be remembered for her quick wit, playful spirit, positive attitude and ability to talk with anyone and make them laugh.

Preceded in death by her husband, Austin Kenney Smithwick, and her oldest sister, Helen Emerson, she is survived by her other sister, Julia (Holt) Bradford; her three children, Harrison and Frosty Perkins (Frank) all of Salt Lake City, Sally Smithwick of Gloucester; and her two wonderful grandchildren, Stephanie and Austin Perkins.

A memorial service will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 705 Hale St., Beverly, Mass., on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Arrangements are by Campbell – Lee, Moody, Russell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot St., Beverly, Mass. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

HARRISON — Ethan Herrick, of Harrison, passed away on Sunday, March 13, 2011.

E t h a n touched the lives of so many people and will be loved and remembered by all.

His family Ethan C. Herrick includes father Russell Herrick, mother Linda Herrick; sister Sarah, and brothers, Kyle and Neil. His grandparents are Charles and Ruth Herrick, and Myron and Eugenie Prescott.

Services will be held at the First Lutheran Church in Portland on Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m.

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“He loved running around, checking on this and doing that,” she said. “Everyone liked him as a landlord. He kept the properties up and was responsive to tenants’ calls.”

Mr. Dodd had a passion for traveling and sailing. He was a member of the Portland Yacht Club for 25 years and enjoyed sailing on Casco Bay. He often competed in races on JaZazzi, his J-24 sailboat.

In the 1980s, he and his wife chartered a boat for a week in Tonga, in the South Pacific.

His wife chuckled Wednesday, Family photo remembering how badly he James Dodd at the Wolong, wanted to sail beyond the is- China, panda research center, where he and his wife Please see PASSAGES, Page B4 volunteered in 2006.

Loved and sadly missed by, Granddaughter Donna and Family

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YARMOUTH — Gladys Gauvin Tardy passed away peacefully on March 15, 2011.

She was born Gladys Marie Gagnon on June 22, 1924, in Cyr Plantation. Her parents, Fred and Amedie Cote, had eight children. GlaGladys Gauvin Tardy dys was predeceased by one sister and six brothers.

In 1942, Gladys married Hector Gauvin. Together they owned and managed apartments for many years and raised their family in Presque Isle. Hector went back to school to earn a business degree and eventually opened his CPA business in his home. For one year, they operated “The Snack Shack” in Mapleton as well. Gladys's famous Italian sandwiches were a favorite among their customers. Hector passed away in 1961, when Gladys was only 37.

While raising a family of six children, Gladys continued to own and manage apartments and work for Mrs. Bruna Olore for 21 years at the Roma Café in Presque Isle, helping with cooking. Her specialty was her cream pies, which were the talk of the town. She also shared a special friendship with Mrs. Olore.

After 21 years, Gladys married Hanford Tardy, who passed away in 2008. She spent many happy years in Florida before returning to Maine in 2004.

A very devout and strong parishioner of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Gladys was a member of the Legion of Mary and was a lifetime member of the Daughters of Isabella, Mary Magdalene Circle. A very kind and loving lady, Gladys was constantly reaching out to help friends, as well as strangers, who were in need. Gladys's greatest love and joy was her family.

She is survived by Del and Tom Goode of Bangor, Ray and Sandy Gauvin of Mapleton, Diana and Tom Tilley of Ocala, Fla., Gilman and Connie Gauvin of Plantsville, Conn., Gary and Pam Gauvin of Bar Mills, Lisa Jack of Yarmouth; 10 grandchildren, Lynette, LeAnne, Mark, Michele, Christopher, Andy, Amy, Nicole, Erin, and Ryan; and 10 great-grandchildren, Christine, Melissa, Sydney, Jaslyn, Victoria, Antoni, Francis, Teodor, Imogen, and Carmen. Gladys is also survived by a special cousin and his wife, Adrien and Leola Gauvin of Madawaska; a dear friend, Eleanor Grow of Mars Hill, and dear friends, Joe and Gloria Olore of Presque Isle.

Relatives and friends may call at the Duncan-Graves Funeral Home, 30 Church St., Presque Isle, from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Presque Isle. A spring interment will be in St. Mary's North Main St. Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.duncan-graves.com.

Donations in her memory may be made to: The Gauvin Scholarship Fund 749 Pulcifer Rd. Mapleton, Maine 04757

said his wife, Anne Dodd of Brunswick. “He liked to be around people. He liked to be doing things. ... That’s why this is so sad.”

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Sea Watch

State Forecast 1/ North: Sunshine and some clouds today.

2/ Western mountains: Sunshine mixing with some clouds today; milder in southern parts. A little rain tonight.

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t is going to feel like spring for the next couple of days, thanks to mild air moving in. Today we’ll enjoy mostly sunny skies allowing our temperatures to warm into the lower 50s. An afternoon sea breeze will cool coastal towns.

A round of showers will move Charlie Lopresti through Friday morning, but the Stormteam 13 sun will peek through the overcast in the afternoon. That will send temperatures jumping into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. The weekend is looking fair but cooler with temperatures in the upper 30s both days.

3/ Central/East: Partly sunny today; milder toward Augusta.

Mostly cloudy tonight; a shower, except dry at the coast.

Portland Tides 12

4/ Down East: Partly sunny today; not as cool in the south. A passing shower tonight, except dry in the north.

Fort Kent/ 40°

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Clayton Lake/ 40°

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Houlton/ 45° Millinocket/ 44° Greenville/ 40° Eastport/ 45° Bangor/ 47°

Augusta/ 48° Bar Harbor/ 45°

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Portland/ 50°/ptly cldy Saco/ 52°/ptly cldy Sanford/ 51°/ptly cldy Kennebunk/ 51°/ptly cldy

A.M. shower then partly sunny; mild

Partly cloudy and cooler

55-60 35-40

38-43 25-30

Boothbay/ 46°/ptly cldy Harbor

Kittery/ 54°/ptly cldy

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Toronto 54°

Albany 50° Springfield 55°

Pittsburgh 62° Washington 66°

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Almanac Sunrise today 6:51 a.m.

Sunset today 6:49 p.m.

Daylight today 11 hr., 58 min.

Increase since 12/21 3 hr., 02 min.

Moonrise today 4:36 p.m.

Moonset today 5:17 a.m.

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Weather for March 17, 2011 High pressure will push warmer air from the South into much of the Midwest and Northeast today. Clouds and showers will affect areas from the central Plains to the western Great Lakes. Rain and snow will fall in the Rockies. Rain showers will affect the West Coast.

Iqaluit -16/-23

Yellowknife 13/-17

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Temperature bands are highs for the day.

Saskatoon 27/19 Winnipeg 36/14

Vancouver 47/41 Seattle 51/39

Calgary 42/19

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Defendant says he might kill again if eventually freed The N.H. man testifies Wednesday about his level of control during a deadly home invasion in N.H. The Associated Press

NASHUA, N.H. — A New Hampshire man who has admitted being part of the deadly knife and machete attack on a woman and her 11-year-old daughter told a jury Wednesday he might kill again if he’s ever released from prison.

Christopher Gribble, 21, said on the fifth day of his trial that he knows he’s going to prison whether he’s convicted or whether the jury sides with his defense – that he’s not guilty by reason of insanity. He admits he killed Kimberly Cates and maimed her daughter, Jaimie, at their Mont Vernon home in October 2009.

Gribble said if the jury finds him insane, there is a possibility he could go free one day.

“If I did get out, I think it is possible I could kill again,” he said.

On cross-examination, Gribble acknowledged he planned the home invasion, supplied the machete and knife used to attack the victims and buried the weapons and some of the items stolen from the Cates’ home. Prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin asked him if he acted “purposely” when he attacked Kimberly Cates.

“It’s hard not be purposeful doing something like that, when you stick a knife in someone,” Gribble replied.

Gribble testified for nearly 11 hours over the course of three days. Strelzin began his cross-

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Prosecutor Jeff Strelzin cross-examines Christopher Gribble on Wednesday. Gribble has admitted he killed Kimberly Cates and tried to kill her daughter, Jaimie, in their Mont Vernon home but claims he was insane at the time. examination Wednesday, clearly with the goal of establishing that Gribble was in control before, during and after the crimes.

“You chose to do this,” Strelzin asked, to which Gribble replied, “Yes.” Strelzin showed Gribble a receipt for the jewelry he stole from the Cates home and pawned the next day for $130.62.

“So that’s how much Kim’s life was worth to you?” Strelzin asked.

“That’s an interesting way to put it, but, yes,” Gribble said.

Strelzin noted that less than four hours before the home invasion, Gribble was sitting in a car with his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Martin, who had angered and

devastated him a week earlier when she broke up with him.

Gribble had the weapons they would use on the Cateses in the back of his car. Strelzin asked him why he didn’t kill Martin.

“I never considered killing Ashley,” Gribble said.

When asked if he could pick and choose who he killed and could control himself, Gribble replied, “Yes.” Quinn Glover, an Amherst man who participated in the home invasion and pleaded guilty to burglary, robbery and conspiracy, testified Wednesday that Gribble was “excited, happy, invigorated” after hacking at the two victims and stabbing Kimberly Cates.

Bay State to review corrosion in Big Dig lights The Associated Press

BOSTON — Massachusetts transportation officials say they have discovered some corrosion in the lighting for the Big Dig tunnels in Boston.

Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Mullan said Wednesday that a 110-pound fixture fell but

did not hit any cars.

Mullan said there are about 23,000 light fixtures in the tunnels, and corrosion has been found in fewer than 2 percent.

He says there’s no danger to the public, but the state is starting a full review.

The Big Dig was the most ex-

pensive highway project in U.S. history and was plagued by cost overruns and design problems.

In 2008, contractors who worked on the project agreed to pay more than $450 million to settle a lawsuit over a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse and to cover costs of leaks and design flaws.

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crabs, to be honest,” he said, referring to the creatures shown skittering sideways across the sand, “especially Natalie and Ashley.”

In one of her private interviews on camera, Underwood admitted that she and her BFF Natalie Tenerelli were just pretending to be nice to Sheppard and Andrea Boehlke.

“There’s a lot of faking going on,” Underwood said, “but that’s the name of the game.”

Boehlke complained privately that Underwood and Tenerelli aren’t doing enough work around camp. She called them superficial, and noted that all they do is talk about their hair and other girly, un-Survivorlike topics.

“What’s up, girls?” Boehlke, carrying a hefty load of firewood, called out to Underwood and Tenerelli as they sunbathed on the beach.

At the immunity challenge, host Jeff Probst revealed the week’s reward for the winning tribe: a stash of coffee, tea, cream, sugar and honey, and a basketful of pastries. To compete for the reward, each team had to pick a “caller” to guide his or her blindfolded teammates through a maze to pick up puzzle pieces. Once all the pieces were gathered, the caller was responsible for solving a word-phrase puzzle.

The Ometepe tribe chose Boston Rob to be the caller because he’s known to be good with puzzles. The Zapatera tribe chose a still-delusional Stephanie Valencia, who keeps saying things like her tribe “got rid of Russell for no reason.”

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Ashley Underwood, left, and Natalie Tenerelli turn away as Phillip Sheppard displays his pink underwear during Wednesday’s episode of “Survivor: Redemption Island.” in their tribe.

The Ometepe tribe won immunity, and the pastry reward, because Boston Rob made quick work of the puzzle (which spelled out the phrase “The sweet taste of victory”) and because Zapatera’s resident hillbilly, Ralph Kiser, couldn’t tell his left from his right.

Back at camp, Underwood and her teammates stuffed their faces with the sweets.

“I can’t even choose a favorite,” Underwood said. “My favorite are muffins. Those muffins are apple-cinnamon or something, and they’re soooo good!”

Mr. Pink Underwear offered to hand over some of his pastries if someone would give him a massage. Underwood was aghast: “I was, like, ‘I wouldn’t give you a massage for a dozen doughnuts, buddy.’ ” Boston Rob and Mattos found the next clue to the hidden immunity idol (which Boston Rob has already found but has neglected to tell his tribe) buried in the coffee. Boston Rob switched this clue with the first clue, which he buried with his idol, and gave the first clue to Mattos to make him think he’s

in on something. “You’ve got to hustle if you want to make a dollar,” Boston Rob said. “Everybody knows that.”

At tribal council, the Zapatera tribe’s choice came down to Russell’s old harem, Valencia or Klumpp. “They are two dead ducks on a lake, waiting for the gunshots,” Sarita White said.

In the end, Klumpp was voted off 5-2, with Steve Wright getting two votes. She didn’t go before calling out the various sub-alliances within the tribe to stir things up a little.

The previews for next Wednesday hinted that Underwood and Tenerelli will ruffle some tribal feathers with what Probst called “a girl’s spa day.”

“If you can make yourself feel more comfortable, why not?”

Underwood said in the preview.

The cameras showed the women lying on the beach, with Tenerelli seemingly scraping Underwood’s armpit. Or something like that.

Whatever it was, it looked just as bad as that pink underwear.

Staff Writer Meredith Goad can be contacted at 791-6332 or at: mgoad@pressherald.com

Up to 8 million plastic disks may have washed into river The Associated Press

HAMPTON, N.H. — The latest estimate of how many plastic disks were washed out of a New Hampshire wastewater treatment plant into the Merrimack River may reach eight million.

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disks out of approximately 39 million were released. The disks are used to promote growth of bacteria that feeds on waste.

Officials say the disks, which washed ashore in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, pose little health risk.

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It’s hard to overlook Gragnani

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hile rewriting portions of the Portland Pirates’ record book, defenseman Marc-Andre Gragnani is building a great resume for winning a job in the NHL. Gragnani, who turned 24 last Friday, last weekend established team records for most points (54) and most assists (43) in a season by a defenseman.

The Pirates have 15 games left in the regular season, so Gragnani, who is in the midst of a seven-game points streak, should add to both of those totals.

“We were talking at the beginning of the year, and one of his goals was to be one of the AHL’s top offensive guys and he’s doing that now,” said Marc-Andre Portland assistant coach Gragnani Eric Weinrich, a veteran of 17 NHL seasons as a defenseman.

Gragnani currently leads the AHL’s defensemen in assists and total points.

“Whatever he does, he’s got to stand out,” Weinrich said.

“He’s got to make an impression on whoever it is, whether he gets moved up to (the Buffalo Sabres) or another NHL team. There’s a lot of scouts watching games. He’s just got to be visible.”

Gragnani, who is from Montreal and is in his fourth AHL season, always has had a knack for offense. Two years ago, he recorded the team record for assists (42), which he eclipsed last weekend.

Up to now, it’s been Gragnani’s defensive play which has kept him from moving up to the NHL. “I think (defense) is one of the reasons I’ve been in the minors for four years,” he said. “I’ve had to work on that and I think I did.”

Gragnani is especially proud of his plus-minus rating of plus-21, which ties him for fourth place in that category among AHL defensemen.

“When (the team) has the puck, you don’t have to play defense, and I think he’s getting a lot better at making the outlet passes and limiting turnovers,” Weinrich said.

Between top players and intriguing matchups, it promises to be an entertaining tournament.

The Associated Press

Kemba Walker hopes to continue the magic that helped Connecticut win five games in five days in the Big East tourney.

already behind in the standings.

Based on UNC-Asheville’s 8177 overtime victory against Arkansas-Little Rock in Tuesday’s bracket breaker, it figures to be a wild ride either way.

The Associated Press Yes, the madness is here and The NCAA tournament has this March is filled with great a new look this year, with a 68- teams, great players and intriguteam bracket and a matchup of ing matchups.

First Four teams competing for To get you ready for the main spots in the main draw. event, here’s a rundown: If you’re in a bracket that igPLAYERS TO WATCH nores that first batch of games, n Jimmer Fredette, BYU. the tournament doesn’t really start until today. For those who When it comes to exciting playalso had to pick the First Four ers, this year’s tournament starts games, here’s hoping you’re not with The Jimmer. The nation’s

leading scorer had 37 points in a double-overtime win over Florida last year and 52 against New Mexico in the Mountain West tournament. Dude knows how to put on a show. n Kemba Walker, Connecticut.

The dynamic guard opened the season by carrying UConn to the Maui Invitational title and had a memorable five-games-infive-days performance in the Big East tournament. King Kemba is the East Coast version of Jimmer – or is it the other way around? n Nolan Smith, Duke. The first

INSIDE n TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO earns a First Four win – and a crack at top-ranked Ohio State in the next round of the NCAA tournament. n FOUL SHOOTING may become a worry for some big-name teams in the final minutes of close games.

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SAFETY IN ICE RINKS

Air-raising situation

Local rinks have made sure that ice-making machines have kept strong air quality.

By MIKE LOWE

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Staff Writer

he MHG Ice Centre opened in Saco three years ago with no problems. But looking back, Joakim Wahlstrom, the arena’s general manager, knew something wasn’t right.

“I remember some of the kids complaining about headaches and not feeling up to speed,’’ he said of members of the Junior Pirates and youth teams. “We didn’t really think much of it.

After the fact, we should have.

We wondered if some of the kids had asthma. Some seemed lethargic.’’

Those ailments have all but disappeared. The arena switched from a propane-fueled Zamboni ice resurfacer that was used the first two years to a battery-powered Zamboni ice resurfacer purchased last year.

The price was significant – about $170,000 – but, said Wahlstrom, with daily use of the ice from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.,

resulting in about 10 ice cleanings a day, “we did not want to take any shortcuts in regards to the safety of the kids and the parents.’’

The result, he said, was much fresher air. “It just feels cleaner,’’ he said.

Air quality in hockey rinks has been a major topic since The Today Show on NBC recently ran a story about the dangers of carbon monoxide

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Rob Carrier resurfaces the ice at the Portland Ice Arena using an electric Olympia machine. The electric resurfacer, as opposed to a propanepowered machine, guarantees the absence of fumes that have been harmful to players and customers in other rinks around the country.

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A night for the Green, just before St. Pat’s Day

Lester roughed up, but says he’ll be ready to start opener Manager Terry Francona says lefty Jon Lester deserves recognition as Boston’s No. 1 pitcher.

The Associated Press

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Jon Lester knows he has some work to do before he makes his first opening-day start for the Red Sox on April 1 at Texas.

“It’s a big honor but it’s still a work in progress down here,” said Lester after giving up eight hits and three runs in 42⁄3 innings Wednesday in Boston’s 4-3 loss to Atlanta.

Lester wasn’t nearly as good as he had been in his first two Grapefruit League starts, when he allowed no runs and struck

out six in six innings.

He tired in the fifth inning and gave up two runs after retiring 10 of 11 following three Jon straight hits to Lester start the game.

He struck out four and walked two.

“The first inning was a little rough. I left some balls up,” Lester said. “I made the adjustment the second through fourth innings. Then it got away from me a little in the fifth.”

“One more start and I’ll be ready to go.”

Boston Manager Terry Fran-

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Jeff Green leads the bench for the green-clad Celtics in a keep-pacewith-the-Bulls victory.

The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Danny Granger of the Indiana Pacers tries to find a way around Jeff Green, who scored 19 points off the bench Wednesday night for the Boston Celtics in a 92-80 victory.

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ROP-PPH-Sports-All Modified 3/08/11 InDesign*

BOSTON — The Boston Celtics finally are getting a bench together.

Reserve Jeff Green scored 13 of his 19 points in the second quarter as the Celtics took the lead for good Wednesday night, and Boston moved back into a first-place tie in the Eastern Conference by beating the Indiana Pacers, 92-80.

The victory left the Celtics and Chicago Bulls (48-18) with the same record in the race for

UP NEXT WHO: Boston Celtics at Houston Rockets WHEN: 8:30 p.m. Friday TELEVISION: CSN home-court advantage through the conference finals. Boston had lost 3 of 4 to fall out of the top spot, including a defeat Monday night to the non-contending New Jersey Nets.

“I think they’re motivated every night, particularly after a tough loss,” Pacers Coach Frank Vogel said. “Chicago taking over the top spot in the East,

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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK

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SCOREBOARD

The Portland Press Herald/ Thursday, March 17, 2011

To report results: 1-800-894-0024 or phsports@pressherald.com

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Bowdoin 9, UMass-Boston 5 Wheaton 6, St. Joseph’s 1

WHEATON 6, ST. JOSEPH’S 1

St. Joseph’s 100 000 000 – 1 5 2 Wheaton 000 050 01x – 6 9 2 Roberge, Devereaux (5), Drake (8) and Dahms, Lorenc; Holbrook, Calabro (7), Grant (9) and Gusovsky.

WP—Holbrook (1-0). LP—Roberge (0-1). 2B—W, Gusovsky, Skelley. Repeat hitters—W, Landersr 3, Ryan, Skelley.

Records—St. Joe’s, 2-4; Wheaton, 3-1.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

NCAA TOURNAMENT

FIRST ROUND at UD Arena, Dayton, Ohio Tuesday’s games No. 16 Seed Southeast: UNC Asheville 81, Arkansas-Little Rock 77, OT No. 12 Seed East: Clemson 70, UAB 52 Wednesday’s games No. 16 Seed East: Texas-SA 70, Alabama State 61 No. 11 Seed Southwest: Virginia Commonwealth 59, Southern Cal 46

EAST REGIONAL

SECOND ROUND Today’s games at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. West Virginia (20-11) vs. Clemson winner, 12:25 p.m.

Kentucky (25-8) vs. Princeton (25-6), 30 minutes following Friday’s games at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina (26-7) vs. Long Island University (27-5), 7:15 p.m.

Washington (23-10) vs. Georgia (2111), 30 minutes following at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland George Mason (26-6) vs. Villanova (21-11), 2:10 p.m.

Ohio State (32-2) vs. Texas-San Antonio, 30 minutes following Xavier (24-7) vs. Marquette (20-14), 7:27 p.m.

Syracuse (26-7) vs. Indiana State (2013), 30 minutes following THIRD ROUND Saturday’s games at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. West Virginia—UAB-Clemson winner vs. Kentucky-Princeton winner Sunday’s games at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina-Long Island University winner vs. Washington-Georgia winner at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio State—UTSA-Alabama State winner vs. George Mason-Villanova winner Syracuse-Indiana State winner vs.

Xavier-Marquette winner

SOUTHEAST REGIONAL

SECOND ROUND Today’s games at The Verizon Center, Washington Butler (23-9) vs. Old Dominion (27-6), 12:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (27-5) vs. UNC Asheville, 30 minutes following at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. Florida (26-7) vs. UC Santa Barbara (18-13), 6:50 p.m.

UCLA (22-10) vs. Michigan State (1914), 30 minutes following at The Pepsi Center, Denver BYU (30-4) vs. Wofford (21-12), 7: 15 p.m.

St. John’s (21-11) vs. Gonzaga (24-9), 30 minutes following at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

Wisconsin (23-8) vs. Belmont (30-4), 7:27 p.m.

Kansas State (22-10) vs. Utah State (30-3), 30 minutes following THIRD ROUND Saturday’s games at The Verizon Center, Washington Pittsburgh—UNC Asheville-Arkansas-Little Rock winner vs. Butler-Old Dominion winner at St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. Florida-UC Santa Barbara winner vs.

UCLA-Michigan State winner at The Pepsi Center, Denver BYU-Wofford winner vs. St. John’sGonzaga winner at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

Kansas State-Utah State winner vs.

Wisconsin-Belmont winner

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL

SECOND ROUND Today’s games at The Pepsi Center, Denver Louisville (25-9) vs. Morehead State (24-9), 1:40 p.m.

Vanderbilt (23-10) vs. Richmond (27-7), 30 minutes following Friday’s games at The United Center, Chicago Notre Dame (26-6) vs. Akron (23-12), 1:40, p.m.

Texas A&M (24-8) vs. Florida State (21-10), 30 minutes following Purdue (25-7) vs. St. Peter’s (20-13), 7:20 p.m.

Georgetown (21-10) vs. Virginia Commonwealth at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.

Kansas (32-2) vs. Boston University (21-13), 6:50 p.m.

UNLV (24-8) vs. Illinois (19-13), 30 minutes following THIRD ROUND Saturday’s games at The Pepsi Center, Denver Louisville-Morehead State winner vs.

Vanderbilt-Richmond winner Sunday’s games at The United Center, Chicago Notre Dame-Akron winner vs. Texas A&M-Florida State winner Purdue-St. Peter’s winner vs.

Georgetown—Southern Cal-Virginia Commonwealth winner at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.

Kansas-Boston University winner vs.

UNLV-Illinois winner

WEST REGIONAL

SECOND ROUND Today’s games at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

Temple (25-7) vs. Penn State (19-14), 2:10 p.m.

San Diego State (32-2) vs. Northern Colorado (21-10), 30 minutes following at The Verizon Center, Washington Connecticut (26-9) vs. Bucknell (25-8), 7:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (25-8) vs. Missouri (23-10), 30 minutes following Friday’s games at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.

Texas (27-7) vs. Oakland, Mich. (25-9), 12:15 p.m.

Arizona (27-7) vs. Memphis (25-9), 30 minutes following at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C. Michigan (20-13) vs. Tennessee (1914), 12:40 p.m.

Duke (30-4) vs. Hampton (24-8), 30 minutes following THIRD ROUND Saturday’s games at The Verizon Center, Washington Connecticut-Bucknell winner vs. Cincinnati-Missouri winner at The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.

San Diego State-Northern Colorado winner vs. Temple-Penn State winner Sunday’s games at Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, N.C. Duke-Hampton winner vs. MichiganTennessee winner at The BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla.

Texas-Oakland, Mich. winner vs.

Arizona-Memphis winner

NIT

FIRST ROUND Tuesday’s games Alabama 68, Coastal Carolina 44 College of Charleston 94, Dayton 84 Cleveland State 63, Vermont 60 Oklahoma State 71, Harvard 54 Missouri State 89, Murray State 76 New Mexico 69, UTEP 57 Boston College 82, McNeese State 64 Fairfield 62, Colorado State 60 Kent State 71, St. Mary’s, Calif. 70 Wednesday’s games Wichita State 76, Nebraska 49 Miami 85, Florida Atlantic 62 Northwestern 70, Wisconsin-Milw. 61 Virginia Tech 79, Bethune-Cookman 54 Colorado 88, Texas Southern 74 California 77, Mississippi 74 Long Beach State (22-12) at Washington State (19-12), 10 p.m.

SECOND ROUND March 18-21 New Mexico (22-12) at Alabama (22-11) Kent State (24-11) at Fairfield (25-7) College of Charleston (25-10) at Cleveland State (27-8), TBD Missouri State (26-8) vs. Miami (20-14), TBD Texas Southern-Colorado winner vs.

Mississippi-California winner, TBD Boston College (21-12) vs. Northwestern (19-13), , TBD Oklahoma State (20-13) vs. Long Beach State-Washington State winner, TBD Virginia Tech (22-11) vs. Wichita State (25-8), TBD

COLLEGE BASKETBALL INVITATIONAL

FIRST ROUND Tuesday’s games Davidson 85, James Madison 65 Creighton 85, San Jose State 74 Evansville 77, Hofstra 70 Boise State 81, Austin Peay 80 Wednesday’s games Rhode Island 76, Miami (Ohio) 59 UCF 69, St. Bonaventure 54 Duquesne 87, Montana 76 Weber State (18-13) at Oregon (1617), 10 p.m.

QUARTERFINALS Monday, March 21 Davidson (18-14) vs. Creighton (2014), TBA Boise State (21-12) vs. Evansville (16-15), TBA Duquesne vs. Weber State-Oregon winner Rhode Island (20-13) vs. UCF (20-11), TBA

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

COLLEGE INSIDER.COM TOURNAMENT

Second Team—Josh Jones (Jefferson, Maine), sr., F, Husson.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL

SPOKANE REGIONAL

FIRST ROUND Saturday’s games at Maples Pavilion, Stanford, Calif.

Texas Tech (22-10) vs. St. John’s (2110), 4:20 p.m.

Stanford (29-2) vs. UC Davis (24-8), 30 minutes following at The Pit/Bob King Court Albuquerque, N.M. North Carolina (25-8) vs. Fresno State (25-7), 4:15 p.m.

Kentucky (24-8) vs. Hampton (26-6), 30 minutes following at McCarthey Athletic Center Spokane, Wash.

Iowa (22-8) vs. Gonzaga (28-4), 4: 10 p.m.

UCLA (27-4) vs. Montana (18-14), 30 minutes following Sunday’s games at Cintas Center, Cincinnati Louisville (20-12) vs. Vanderbilt (2011), 12:10 p.m.

Xavier (28-2) vs. South Dakota State (19-13), 30 minutes following

DALLAS REGIONAL

FIRST ROUND Sunday’s games at Ferrell Center, Waco, Texas Houston (26-5) vs. West Virginia (239), 5:10 p.m.

Baylor (31-2) vs. Prairie View (21-11), 30 minutes following at Intrust Bank Arena, Wichita, Kan. Wisconsin-Green Bay (32-1) vs. Arkansas-Little Rock (23-7), 5:20 p.m.

Michigan State (26-5) vs. Northern Iowa (27-5), 30 minutes following at Auburn Arena, Auburn, Ala. Florida State (23-7) vs. Samford (257), 5:15 p.m.

Georgia (21-10) vs. Middle Tennessee (23-7), 30 minutes following at CenturyTel Center, Shreveport, La. Texas A&M (27-5) vs. McNeese State (26-6), 5:05 p.m.

Rutgers (19-12) vs. Louisiana Tech (24-7), 30 minutes following

D3HOOPS.COM ALL-NORTHEAST REGION TEAMS

Second Team—Katie Bergeron, sr., G, Bowdoin Jules Kowalski, sr., F, Colby.

Third Team—Rachael Mack, jr., C, Colby.

MEN’S HOCKEY

HOCKEY EAST CHAMPIONSHIP

SEMIFINALS Friday’s games at TD Garden, Boston, Mass. #6-Northeastern vs. #1-Boston College, 5 p.m. #4-Merrimack vs. #2-New Hampshire, 8 p.m.

HOCKEY EAST AWARD WINNERS

Old Time Hockey Best Defensive Defenseman: Brian Dumoulin, Boston College.

Gladiator Hockey Best Defensive Forward: Tanner House, Maine.

Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Award: Brian Flynn, Maine.

Turfer Athletic Award: Jeff Dimmen, Maine.

Army ROTC Three Stars Award: Paul Thompson, New Hampshire Bauer Goaltending Champion: John Muse, Boston College.

Humboldt Storage and Moving Scoring Champion: Paul Thompson, New Hampshire.

Charlie Holt Team Sportsmanship Award: New Hampshire.

All-Rookie Team — Goalie: Dan Sullivan, Maine. Defensemen: Anthony Bitetto, Northeastern; Adam Clendening, Boston University. Forwards: Bill Arnold, Boston College; Charlie Coyle, Boston University; Mike Collins, Merrimack ; Michael Pereira, Massachusetts; Brodie Reid, Northeastern.

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK USTFCCCA ALL-AMERICAN

Second Team: Riley Masters (Bangor, Maine, sr., Maine.

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK USTFCCCA ALL-AMERICAN

Second Team: Corey Conner, jr., Maine.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Bowdoin 21, Nazareth 5 Richard Stockton 10, UNE 9

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Mount Holyoke 11, UNE 10

SKIING

EASTERN COLLEGIATE SKI ASSOCIATION

All-Academic — Bates: Ross Brockman, John Canney, Micaela Holland, Anne Carroll, August Felix, Alex Jones, Kirsten Gill, Sean Woods, Natalie Ruppertsberger, Alex Hamilton, Lucas Milliken.

Bowdoin: Grace Hyndman, Kaitlynn Miller, James Crimp, Wilson Dippo, Scott Longwell. Colby: Katherine Houser, Lauren McGrath, Michelle Seares, Brittney Ziebell, William Randall, Elizabeth Anderson, Maeve McGovern, Wyatt Fereday, Olga Golovkina. UM-Presque Isle: Justin Fereshetian, Welly Ramsey, Richard Landry, Desiree Smith, Carly Langley, Kati Christoffel, Justine Cyr, LeAnn Abbott.

SOFTBALL

Bowdoin 2, Babson 0 Western New England 6, Bowdoin 2

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND 6, BOWDOIN 2

WNEC 001 001 4 – 6 9 0 Bowdoin 000 000 2 – 2 8 2 Obin and Gauvin; Thibodeau and Correa.

WP—Obin (1-1). LP—Thibodeau (0-1).

2B—WNE, Gauvin; B, Dewar, Nestor.

3B—WNE, Breault; B, Smyth. HR—WNE, Wyrwa. Repeat hitters—WNE, Wyrwa; B, Smyth. Records—Western New England, 2-5; Bowdoin 0-1.

MEN’S SWIMMING AMERICA EAST

All-Academic: Jeremy Bender, sr., Maine.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AMERICA EAST

All-Academic: Caitlin Shelley, sr., Maine.

AUTO RACING NASCAR SPRINT CUP UPCOMING RACES

March 20 — Jeff Byrd 500, Bristol, Tenn.

March 27 — Auto Club 500, Fontana, Calif.

April 3 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500, Fort Worth, Texas

Philadelphia Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers New Jersey N.Y. Islanders

69 71 71 69 71

Boston Montreal Buffalo Toronto Ottawa

69 70 70 71 70

Washington Tampa Bay Carolina Atlanta Florida

72 70 71 70 70

43 41 37 33 27

L OT Pts GF

19 7 22 8 30 4 32 4 33 11

93 90 78 70 65

222 206 204 150 197

GP W

39 38 34 31 25

L OT Pts GF

21 9 87 25 7 83 28 8 76 30 10 72 36 9 59

TV/RADIO COVERAGE

NBA

TELEVISION

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

9:30 a.m. — Golf: EPGA Sicilian Open, first round, TGC

W

Noon — Extreme sports: Winter X Games, snowboard slopestyle men’s elimination, at Tignes, France (tape delayed), ESPN2 Noon — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, doubleheader, West Virginia vs. Clemson and Kentucky vs.

Princeton, CBS 12:30 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, doubleheader, Butler vs. Old Dominion and Pittsburgh vs.

UNC Asheville, TRUTV 1:30 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, quadrupleheader, Louisville vs. Morehead State and Vanderbilt vs. Richmond at Denver; Florida vs. UC Santa Barbara and UCLA vs. Michigan State, TBS 2 p.m. — Extreme sports: Winter X Games, ski slopestyle men’s final, at Tignes, France (tape delayed), ESPN2 2 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, quadrupleheader, Temple vs. Penn State and San Diego State vs.

No. Colorado; Connecticut vs. Bucknell and Cincinnati vs. Missouri, TNT 3 p.m. — Extreme sports: Winter X Games, snowboard superpipe women’s final, at Tignes, France (tape delayed), ESPN2 3 p.m. — Golf: PGA Transitions Championship, first round, TGC 7 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, doubleheader, BYU vs. Wofford and St. John’s vs. Gonzaga, CBS 7 p.m. — Men’s college lacrosse: Duke at North Carolina, ESPNU 7:15 p.m. — Men’s college basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, second round, doubleheader, Wisconsin vs. Belmont and Kansas State vs.

Utah State, TRUTV 8 p.m. — Extreme sports: Winter X Games, snowboard superpipe men’s elimination, at Tignes, France (tape delayed), ESPN 8 p.m. — NHL: Bruins at Predators, NESN

RADIO 8 p.m. — NHL: Bruins at Predators, AM: WVAE-Biddeford (1400), WBAEPortland (1490), WZON-Bangor (620)

HIGH SCHOOLS

MAJOR LEAGUES

BOYS’ INDOOR TRACK WMC ALL-CONFERENCE

First Team — 55: Will Wegener, Falmouth. 200: Christian Bennett, York; Jacob Buhelt, Falmouth. 400: Will Wegener, Falmouth. 800: Mike Segalla, York. Mile: Liam Campbell, Greely. Two mile: Mitchell Finitz, York.

55 hurdles: Reid Pryzant, Falmouth.

Shot put: Michael Burgess, Greely. Long jump: Sam Mason, Greely. Triple jump: Austin Spencer, Greely. High jump: Tyler Martin, York. Pole vault: Matt Davis, Greely. 800 relay: Falmouth. 3,200 relay: Falmouth.

Second Team — 55: Wes Miller, York.

200: Jimmy Polewaczyk, Falmouth. 400: Brian Prescott, Falmouth; Josh Brooks, York. 800: Alex Coffin, North Yarmouth Academy. Mile: Thomas Edmonds, Falmouth. Two mile: Henry Briggs, Falmouth. 55 hurdles: Eli Murphy, Poland. Shot put: Jack Fellows, Greely.

Long jump: Asa Arden, Yarmouth. Triple jump: Sean McKenna, York. High jump: Lucas Davis, Yarmouth. Pole vault: Wes Insko, York.

Most Valuable Athlete — Track: William Wegener, Falmouth. Field: Michael Burgess, Greely.

Team Champion: York.

GIRLS’ INDOOR TRACK WMC ALL-CONFERENCE

First Team — 55: Amanda Peterson, Gray-New Gloucester. 200: Amanda Peterson, Gray-New Gloucester. 400: Corrin Beldell, Fryeburg Academy. 800: Kendra Lobley, Poland. Mile: Kendra Lobley, Poland. Two mile: Kirstin Sandreuter, Greely. 55 hurdles: Doe Leckie, Lake Region. Shot put: Kate Sparks, Falmouth. Long jump: Emily Mitchell, York. Triple jump: Meaghan Crowley, Greely. High jump: Breanna Harlow, Gray-New Gloucester. Pole vault: Jamie Gulikson, Fryeburg Academy. 800 relay: Greely. 3,200 relay: Greely.

Second Team — 55: Sage Hennessey, Fryeburg Academy. 200: Sage Hennessey, Fryeburg Academy. 400: Jessica Wilson, Greely; Emma Turton, Poland.

800: Jessica Wilson, Greely. Mile: Rachel Nichols, Cape Elizabeth. Two mile: Kelsey Barton, Cape Elizabeth.

55 hurdles: Carly O’Brien, Traip Academy. Shot put: Katherine Harrington, Greely. Long jump: Carly O’Brien, Traip Academy. Triple jump: Carly O’Brien, Traip Academy. High jump: Panida Theerathampitak, Wells. Pole vault: Amy Webster, Falmouth. 800 relay: Greely. 3,200 relay: Greely.

Most Valuable Athlete — Track: Amanda Peterson, Gray-New Gloucester.

Field: Carly O’Brien, Traip Academy.

Team Champion: Greely.

ROAD RACING SHAMROCK SPRINT 5K

at Bath 1. Chris Kibler, 16:13.81; 2. Andy Reifman-Packett, 16:37.47; 3. Jacob Brewer, 16:40.51; 4. Joe Viselli, 18:06.75; 5. Ward Boudreau, 18:34.57; 6. Wade Boudreau, 18:55.30; 7. Bruce Nicholson, 19:53.46; 8. Derek Avery, 20:21.00; 9. Mike McDermott, 20:56.85; 10. Chris Matava, 21:20.36; 11. Andrew Ray, 21:42.94; 12.

Amy Franklin, 22:33.06; 13. Courtney Linville, 22:37.61; 14. Sarah Lindeman, 22:49.19; 15. Jen Boudreau, 22:59.28; 16.

Jeff Deletesky, 23:19.10; 17. Charlotte Recknagel, 23:23.96; 18. Kelsey Ortiz, 23:33.97; 19. Stephen Leonard, 23:58.60; 20. Carlyle Boyle, 24:41.47; 21. John Stenquist, 24:55.58; 22. Richard Weafer, 25:03.88; 23. John Nicholson, 25:05.37; 24. Heather Liimakka, 25:08.66; 25. Lynn Rouillard, 25:13.99.

26. Shenel Eaves, 25:36.64; 27. Carrie Hart, 25:40.79; 28. Lily Harris, 25:47.38; 29. Jim Snipe, 25:49.05; 30. Zachary Boyle, 25:50.35; 31. Katie Boyce, 25: 51.59; 32. Jonathon Kelley, 25:53.67; 33. Jasmine Boyle, 25:58.72; 34. Danica Moore, 26:21.24; 35. Lucy Rawson, 26: 21.45; 36. Robert Krebs, 26:24.05; 37.

William Coffin, 26:28.64; 38. Tyler Peaslee, 26:35.04; 39. Alex Forest, 27:24.85; 40. Kyle Wood, 27:45.19; 41. Lori Huot, 28:11.93; 42. Samantha Moore, 28:35.04; 43. Bill Goodrich, 28:48.88; 44. Stacy Chubbuck, 29:18.97; 45. Regan Reed, 29: 22.31; 46. Krista Walker, 29:31.30; 47.

Steven Lunn, 29:31.47; 48. Lori Fournier, 29:42.13; 49. Davis Newell, 29:53.33; 50.

Stephanie Savary, 30:10.36.

51. Madison Savary, 30:10.54; 52. Todd Bayha, 30:25.51; 53. Sara Crosby, 30: 36.43; 54. Craig Murray, 30:48.68; 55.

Heather Peaslee, 31:00.36; 56. Sally Bartlett, 31:06.35; 57. Brian Gear, 31: 09.82; 58. Jeff Harris, 31:23.68; 59.

Laurel Harris, 31:23.88; 60. Amy Carmichael, 31:33.27; 61. Rachel Haddock, 31: 33.44; 62. Alice Stenquist, 31:49.63; 63.

Sott Hill, 31:56.29; 64. Becky Hill, 31: 56.52; 65. Jeff Love, 32:03.72; 66. Beth Johnson, 32:14.31; 67. Charlotte Smith, 32:16.24; 68. Jill Jacobs, 33:35.29; 69.

Lauri Karney, 33:37.67; 70. Jim Mayer, 33:50.89; 71. Kelley McKellar, 34:42.94; 72. Jason Downing, 35:02.75; 73. Sarah Rouillard, 36:02.50; 74. Lisa Crosby, 36: 14.81; 75. Hannah Leeman, 38:26.13.

76. Andrea Olsen, 38:32.03; 77. Molly Turner, 38:51.40; 78. Sherry Leonard, 39: 18.96; 79. Barbara Moore, 40:04.51; 80.

Haddock Jake, 40:57.24; 81. Unknown, 40:57.70; 82. Robbie Fitzmaurice, 41: 51.83; 83. Anne Dunham, 41:52.11; 84.

Emily Parker, 41:52.40.

LOCAL EVENTS BASEBALL

SPRING TRAINING

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W Seattle ..........................10 Kansas City...................11 Detroit...........................13 Minnesota.....................10 BOSTON........................11 Texas...............................9 Los Angeles ..................10 Toronto............................9 Baltimore ........................8 Tampa Bay ......................8 Cleveland ........................7 New York.........................7 Oakland ...........................7 Chicago............................6

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W L Pct. San Francisco................16 5 .762 Colorado ........................13 6 .684 Atlanta..........................12 6 .667 Philadelphia .................. 13 7 .650 Milwaukee .................... 11 7 .611 Cincinnati......................10 7 .588 St. Louis........................10 7 .588 Washington ..................10 8 .556 New York.........................9 10 .474 San Diego........................8 9 .471 Chicago............................9 12 .429 Pittsburgh.......................8 12 .400 Houston ..........................8 14 .364 Los Angeles ....................6 15 .286 Florida .............................5 13 .278 Arizona............................5 17 .227 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings. Games against non-major league teams do not.

Tuesday’s games BOSTON 2, Detroit 1, 10 innings Philadelphia 13, Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 11, Florida 2 Houston 14, Baltimore 8 St. Louis 4, Atlanta 0 Chicago Cubs (ss) 8, Oakland (ss) 1 L.A. Angels 9, San Diego 6 L.A. Dodgers 7, Texas 6 Kansas City 4, Oakland (ss) 3 Cleveland 9, Milwaukee 7 Colorado 4, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 2 San Francisco 5, Arizona 4 Wednesday’s games Atlanta 4, BOSTON 3 Toronto 5, Pittsburgh 3 Houston 8, Washington 7 Tampa Bay 6, Florida 3 Minnesota 4, N.Y. Mets 3 St. Louis 9, Detroit 4 San Francisco 5, Chicago White Sox 3 L.A. Angels 10, Arizona 8 N.Y. Yankees 10, Baltimore 0 Colorado vs. Texas, 9 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Seattle, 10 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Cincinnati, 10 p.m.

Today’s games N.Y. Mets vs. BOSTON, 1 p.m.

Toronto vs. Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Detroit, 1 p.m.

Florida vs. St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, 4 p.m.

Ch. White Sox (ss) vs. Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Oakland, 4 p.m.

Arizona vs. L.A. Dodgers, 4 p.m.

C. White Sox (ss) vs. Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Washington vs. Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Yankees, 7 p.m.

Seattle vs. Kansas City, 9 p.m.

Texas vs. San Diego, 10 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. San Fran., 10 p.m.

Friday’s games St. Louis vs. Washington, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Houston vs. Florida, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Toronto, 1 p.m.

Detroit vs. BOSTON (ss), 1 p.m.

Atlanta vs. N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cubs, 4 p.m.

San Diego vs. L.A. Angels, 4 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. San Francisco, 4 p.m.

Arizona vs. Seattle, 4 p.m.

Cleveland (ss) vs. Kansas City, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Boston (ss) vs. Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore, 7 p.m.

Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox, 7 p.m.

Texas vs. Cleveland (ss), 10 p.m.

BRAVES 4, RED SOX 3

BOSTON

ATLANTA ab r h bi ab r h bi Scutaro ss 3 1 1 1 Prado lf 4 1 2 0 Iglesias ss 1 0 0 0 Cnstanza lf 1 0 0 0 Pedroia 2b 3 0 1 0 Conrad 2b 4 1 2 0 Sutton 2b 1 0 0 0 Jones 3b 3 1 2 1 Gonzlz 1b 3 0 0 0 Lucas 1b 2 0 0 0 Andrsn 1b 1 0 0 0 McCann dh 3 1 1 0 Youkilis 3b 3 0 1 0 Hinske 1b 2 0 0 1 Navarro 3b 1 1 0 0 Hicks 3b 1 0 1 0 Ortiz dh 3 0 0 0 Mather cf 4 0 1 1 Bell ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Ross c 3 0 2 1 Saltlmch c 3 1 1 1 Ramirez rf 4 0 1 0 Wagner c 1 0 0 0 Hrnndez ss 4 0 0 0 Kalish cf 3 0 1 0 Nava lf 3 0 0 0 McDnld rf 2 0 0 0 Reddick rf 1 0 1 1 Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals 35 412 4 Boston 100 000 200 – 3 Atlanta 100 020 10x – 4 LOB—Boston 4, Atlanta 11. 2B—Saltalamacchia (3), Prado (5), McCann (1). HR—Scutaro (1). SB—Kalish (3).

SF—Hinske.

Boston IP H R ER BB SO Lester 4M 8 3 3 2 4 A.Miller 1L 1 0 0 1 0 D.Reyes L,1-1 1 3 1 1 0 2 Williams 1 0 0 0 0 0 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO Hanson 5 2 1 1 0 5 Linebrink 1 1 0 0 0 0 Sherrill W,1-0 1 3 2 2 1 1 Moylan 1 0 0 0 0 0 O’Flhrty S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 PB—D.Ross.

Umpires—Home, Toby Basner; First, Joe West; Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, Greg Gibson.

A—11,235 (9,500).

College

TENNIS

LACROSSE

BNP PARIBAS OPEN

St. Joseph’s vs. Fitchburg, St., at Winter Haven, Fla., 9 a.m.

College men

Plymouth State at Colby, 4 p.m.

College women

UM-Farmington at Southern Maine, at Deering H.S., 6 p.m.

SOFTBALL College

Bates vs. Macalester, at Minneola, Fla., 3 p.m.; Bates vs. Salve Regina, at Minneola, Fla., 5 p.m.; Bowdoin vs. Cortland St., at Clermont, Fla., 1 p.m.; Bowdoin vs. Westfield St., at Clermont, Fla., 7:30 p.m.; St. Joseph’s vs. Curry, at Fort Myers, Fla., 5 p.m.; St. Joseph’s vs. Franklin and Marshall, at Fort Myers, Fla., 7 p.m.; UNE vs. Albright, at Fort Myers, Fla., 9 a.m.; UNE vs. MCLA, at Fort Myers, Fla., 11 a.m.

TENNIS

College women

Bowdoin vs. Dartmouth, at Coto de Caza, Calif., 4 p.m.

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ATP-WTA TOURS

at Indian Wells, Calif.

MEN’S SINGLES Fourth Round Tommy Robredo (25), Spain, def. Sam Querrey (21), United States, 6-1, 6-3.

Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def.

Philipp Kohlschreiber (32), Germany, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7).

Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, def. Viktor Troicki (16), Serbia, 6-0, 6-1.

Stanislas Wawrinka (12), Switzerland, def. Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Albert Montanes (23), Spain, 7-6 (7), 6-2.

Richard Gasquet (18), France, def.

Andy Roddick (8), United States, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

WOMEN’S SINGLES Quarterfinals Marion Bartoli (15), France, def. Ana Ivanovic (19), Serbia, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

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L.A. Lakers 48 20 .706 – Phoenix 33 33 .500 14 Golden State 30 37 .448 17 K L.A. Clippers 26 42 .382 22 Sacramento 16 49 .246 30 K x-clinched playoff spot. y-clinched division.

Tuesday’s games Indiana 119, New York 117 Atlanta 110, Milwaukee 85 Chicago 98, Washington 79 Portland 104, Dallas 101 Wednesday’s games Denver 102, Atlanta 87 BOSTON 92, Indiana 80 Detroit 107, Toronto 93 Orlando 93, Milwaukee 89, OT New Orleans 100, Phoenix 95 Oklahoma City 96, Miami 85 Houston 94, Charlotte 78 Utah 119, Minnesota 104 Cleveland at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s games Chicago at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Memphis at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Portland, 10 p.m.

Friday’s games Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Denver at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

BOSTON at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

CELTICS SCHEDULE March

18 19 21 23 25 27 28 31

. . . . . . . . . at Houston . . . . 8:30 p.m . . . . . . . at New Orleans. . . . . 8 p.m . . . . . . . . . at New York . . . . 7:30 p.m . . . . . . . . . . Memphis . . . . . 7:30 p.m . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte . . . . . 7:30 p.m . . . . . . . . at Minnesota. . . . . . 7 p.m . . . . . . . . . . at Indiana . . . . . . . 7 p.m . . . . . . . . at San Antonio . . . . . 8 p.m

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. . . . . . . . . . at Atlanta . . . . . . . 8 p.m . . . . . . . . . . . Detroit . . . . . . . . 6 p.m . . . . . . . . . Philadelphia . . . . 7:30 p.m . . . . . . . . . . at Chicago . . . . . . . 8 p.m . . . . . . . . . Washington . . . . 7:30 p.m . . . . . . . . . . at Miami . . . . . 3:30 p.m . . . . . . . . at Washington . . . . . 7 p.m . . . . . . . . . . New York . . . . . . . 8 p.m End of Regular Season

April

CELTICS 92, PACERS 80

INDIANA (80) Granger 5-16 3-4 15, Hansbrough 4-14 2-4 10, Hibbert 3-7 0-0 6, Collison 4-11 2-2 10, George 6-13 0-0 15, Foster 1-2 0-0 2, Rush 1-6 0-0 2, McRoberts 6-10 2-3 14, Price 1-5 0-0 2, D.Jones 2-3 0-0 4, Stephenson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 33-88 9-13 80.

BOSTON (92) Pierce 6-12 6-7 20, Garnett 3-7 4-4 10, Krstic 4-6 3-4 11, Rondo 0-2 0-0 0, Allen 4-10 2-2 12, Davis 3-10 3-6 9, Green 6-9 6-8 19, Arroyo 1-3 0-0 3, Murphy 2-2 2-2 6, West 1-2 0-0 2, Bradley 0-1 0-0 0, Pavlovic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 30-64 26-33 92.

Pacers 20 20 20 20 — 80 Celtics 15 32 27 18 — 92 3-Point Goals—Indiana 5-14 (George 3-5, Granger 2-5, Collison 0-1, Price 0-1, Rush 0-2), Boston 6-10 (Allen 2-4, Pierce 2-4, Arroyo 1-1, Green 1-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 55 (McRoberts, Hansbrough 11), Boston 45 (Davis 9). Assists—Indiana 21 (Collison 9), Boston 17 (Rondo 8). Total Fouls—Indiana 24, Boston 17. Technicals—Granger. A—18,624 (18,624).

HORNETS 100, SUNS 95

PHOENIX (95) Hill 6-14 2-2 15, Warrick 0-4 0-0 0, Lopez 0-2 1-1 1, Nash 3-8 2-2 8, Carter 8-13 0-0 21, Gortat 4-8 2-2 10, Dudley 8-14 4-6 25, Brooks 2-7 0-0 6, Childress 2-3 0-0 4, Pietrus 2-8 0-0 5. Totals: 35-81 11-13 95.

NEW ORLEANS (100) Ariza 4-12 0-0 8, West 6-10 4-4 16, Okafor 6-8 4-6 16, Paul 9-16 6-7 26, Belinelli 1-2 0-0 3, Green 3-11 4-6 11, Gray 2-4 0-0 4, Landry 4-7 0-0 8, Pondexter 3-6 0-0 8, Jack 0-4 0-0 0. Totals: 38-80 18-23 100.

Suns 29 17 19 30 — 95 Hornets 31 25 21 23 —100 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 14-34 (Dudley 5-8, Carter 5-9, Brooks 2-6, Hill 1-2, Pietrus 1-6, Nash 0-3), New Orleans 6-17 (Pondexter 2-3, Paul 2-4, Belinelli 1-2, Green 1-6, Ariza 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 43 (Gortat, Dudley 8), New Orleans 52 (Okafor 11). Assists—Phoenix 24 (Nash 10), New Orleans 22 (Paul 9).

Total Fouls—Phoenix 20, New Orleans 16. Technicals—Carter, Phoenix Coach Gentry, Paul, New Orleans defensive three second. A—13,758 (17,188).

PISTONS 107, RAPTORS 93

TORONTO (93) J.Johnson 4-6 1-1 9, Davis 1-2 0-2 2, Bargnani 8-20 3-5 20, Calderon 5-10 0-0 10, DeRozan 8-11 0-0 16, Weems 2-3 0-0 4, Evans 1-3 4-4 6, Bayless 3-5 1-1 8, Barbosa 7-16 3-3 18, Ajinca 0-2 0-0 0.

Totals: 39-78 12-16 93.

DETROIT (107) Prince 10-17 2-2 22, Wallace 2-6 2-2 6, Monroe 9-14 3-5 21, McGrady 3-7 0-0 7, Hamilton 9-16 2-2 24, Wilcox 2-5 2-6 6, Stuckey 0-1 3-4 3, Daye 1-5 1-2 3, Villanueva 4-6 0-0 9, Gordon 2-4 0-0 6.

Totals: 42-81 15-23 107.

Raptors 24 28 24 17 — 93 Pistons 38 25 24 20 —107 3-Point Goals—Toronto 3-9 (Bargnani 1-1, Bayless 1-1, Barbosa 1-3, Weems 0-1, Calderon 0-1, Ajinca 0-2), Detroit 821 (Hamilton 4-9, Gordon 2-3, Villanueva 1-3, McGrady 1-3, Prince 0-1, Daye 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 42 (Evans 8), Detroit 48 (Monroe 10).

Assists—Toronto 21 (Calderon 6), Detroit 33 (Stuckey 14). Total Fouls—Toronto 19, Detroit 14. Technicals—Detroit defensive three second. A—15,166 (22,076).

HAWKS 87, NUGGETS 102

DENVER (102) Chandler 6-11 1-2 14, Martin 5-8 2-3 12, Nene 6-12 8-9 20, Lawson 2-6 5-6 9, Afflalo 6-9 1-2 15, Andersen 0-1 0-2 0, Felton 4-10 0-0 8, J. Smith 6-10 0-0 15, Forbes 0-0 0-0 0, Harrington 4-6 0-0 9, Mozgov 0-0 0-0 0, Koufos 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals: 39-73 17-24 102.

ATLANTA (87) Johnson 4-13 1-1 12, Jo.Smith 4-16 5-6 13, Horford 3-5 1-1 7, Teague 1-7 2-2 4, Hinrich 4-9 0-2 9, Pachulia 8-9 3-4 19, Crawford 6-13 0-0 13, Williams 4-10 2-2 10, Wilkins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 34-82 14-18 87.

Nuggets 17 29 26 30 —102 Hawks 20 22 21 24 — 87 3-Point Goals—Denver 7-14 (J. Smith 3-5, Afflalo 2-2, Chandler 1-2, Harrington 1-2, Felton 0-1, Lawson 0-2), Atlanta 5-19 (Johnson 3-8, Hinrich 1-4, Crawford 1-5, Teague 0-1, Jo.Smith 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Denver 50 (Chandler 10), Atlanta 43 (Pachulia 10). Assists—Denver 26 (Lawson 10), Atlanta 24 (Horford 6). Total Fouls—Denver 16, Atlanta 18. Technicals—Atlanta defensive three second 2. A—14,669 (18,729).

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NCAA TOURNAMENT

FIRST ROUND Saturday’s games at Thompson-Boling Arena Knoxville, Tenn.

Tennessee (31-2) vs. Stetson (20-12), 11:05 a.m.

Marquette (23-8) vs. Texas (19-13), 30 minutes following at Cintas Center, Columbus, Ohio Georgia Tech (23-10) vs. Bowling Green (28-4), 11:20 a.m.

Ohio State (22-9) vs. UCF (22-10), 30 minutes following at Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City Arizona State (20-10) vs. Temple (238), 4:05 p.m.

Notre Dame (26-7) vs. Utah (18-16), 30 minutes following Sunday’s games at John Paul Jones Arena Charlottesville, Va. Miami (27-4) vs. Gardner-Webb (2310), 12:15 p.m.

Oklahoma (21-11) vs. James Madison (26-7), 30 minutes following

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FIRST ROUND Wednesday’s games Western Michigan 74, Tennessee Tech 66 Iona 85, Valparaiso 77 SMU 64, Oral Roberts 57, OT Idaho (18-13) at San Francisco (17-14), 10 p.m.

FIRST ROUND Saturday’s games at Bryce Jordan Center University Park, Pa. Penn State (24-9) vs. Dayton (21-11), 11:10 a.m.

DePaul (27-6) vs. Navy (20-11), 30 minutes following at Cameron Indoor Stadium Durham, N.C. Iowa State (22-10) vs. Marist (30-2), 11:15 a.m.

Duke (29-3) vs. Tennessee-Martin (2110), 30 minutes following Sunday’s games at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion Storrs, Conn.

Connecticut (32-1) vs. Hartford (1715), 12:05 p.m.

Kansas State (21-10) vs. Purdue (2011), 30 minutes following at Comcast Center, College Park, Md. Maryland (23-7) vs. St. Francis, Pa. (22-11), 12:20 p.m.

Georgetown (22-10) vs. Princeton (244), 30 minutes following

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WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION

MAGIC 93, BUCKS 89, OT

ORLANDO (93) Turkoglu 6-15 5-6 19, Bass 3-6 0-1 6, Howard 9-12 13-24 31, Nelson 5-15 0-0 10, J.Richardson 5-13 0-0 13, Duhon 1-1 0-0 2, Anderson 2-8 2-4 7, Arenas 2-6 0-0 5, Q.Richardson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 33-76 20-35 93.

MILWAUKEE (89) Delfino 0-7 2-2 2, Mbah a Moute 5-9 0-1 10, Sanders 2-4 0-0 4, Jennings 8-20 5-5 23, Salmons 10-19 0-0 22, Brockman 2-4 2-4 6, Maggette 1-3 2-2 4, Dooling 3-9 2-3 10, Boykins 1-2 0-0 2, Barron 3-6 0-0 6. Totals: 35-83 13-17 89.

Magic 23 23 15 18 14 — 93 Bucks 14 23 27 15 10 — 89 3-Point Goals—Orlando 7-27 (J.Richardson 3-8, Turkoglu 2-5, Arenas 1-4, Anderson 1-7, Howard 0-1, Nelson 0-2), Milwaukee 6-23 (Salmons 2-4, Dooling 2-5, Jennings 2-10, Maggette 0-1, Delfino 0-3). Fouled Out—Sanders, Brockman. Rebounds—Orlando 68 (Howard 22), Milwaukee 42 (Brockman 8). Assists—Orlando 22 (Turkoglu 5), Milwaukee 25 (Jennings 8). Total Fouls—Orlando 17, Milwaukee 27. Technicals—Orlando defensive three second.

A—13,831 (18,717).

THUNDER 96, HEAT 85

OKLAHOMA CITY (96) Durant 12-21 3-4 29, Ibaka 3-9 0-1 6, Perkins 1-1 2-2 4, Westbrook 5-16 7-8 18, Sefolosha 2-6 3-4 8, Collison 2-5 0-0 4, Harden 4-12 2-3 12, Maynor 1-4 0-0 3, Mohammed 3-10 0-0 6, Cook 2-4 0-0 6.

Totals: 35-88 17-22 96.

MIAMI (85) James 8-21 3-3 19, Bosh 6-17 9-10 21, Dampier 0-1 1-2 1, Chalmers 0-1 0-0 0, Wade 7-21 6-9 21, Magloire 1-2 1-2 3, Howard 1-2 0-0 2, Miller 1-3 0-0 2, Bibby 4-8 0-0 10, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Anthony 2-2 2-2 6. Totals: 30-78 22-28 85.

Oklahoma City 24 22 21 29 — 96 Heat 18 27 17 23 — 85 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 9-20 (Durant 2-3, Cook 2-4, Harden 2-8, Westbrook 1-1, Maynor 1-2, Sefolosha 1-2), Miami 3-17 (Bibby 2-4, Wade 1-5, Chalmers 0-1, Bosh 0-2, Miller 0-2, James 0-3). Fouled Out—Perkins.

Rebounds—Oklahoma City 62 (Ibaka 12), Miami 50 (Bosh 11). Assists—Oklahoma City 21 (Durant 6), Miami 14 (James, Chalmers 3). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 25, Miami 19. Technicals—Miami Coach Spoelstra, Wade. A—20,083 (19,600).

ROCKETS 94, BOBCATS 78

CHARLOTTE (78) Jackson 2-14 2-3 6, Diaw 6-10 0-0 13, Brown 3-6 0-0 6, Augustin 7-16 7-7 22, Henderson 3-11 2-2 8, Thomas 2-6 2-2 6, Livingston 3-6 0-0 6, White 2-4 4-6 8, M.Carroll 1-2 1-1 3, Cunningham 0-1 0-0 0, McGuire 0-1 0-0 0, Temple 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals: 29-78 18-21 78.

HOUSTON (94) Budinger 6-13 5-5 19, Patterson 6-13 0-0 12, Hayes 3-11 3-4 9, Lowry 3-10 4-4 11, Martin 8-18 2-3 21, Lee 4-8 0-0 9, Dragic 1-4 0-0 3, Miller 0-3 0-0 0, Hill 5-7 0-0 10, D.Carroll 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 36-87 14-16 94.

Bobcats 22 17 18 21 — 78 Rockets 29 20 19 26 — 94 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 2-11 (Augustin 1-2, Diaw 1-2, Temple 0-1, Cunningham 0-1, Jackson 0-5), Houston 8-23 (Martin 3-8, Budinger 2-6, Dragic 1-1, Lee 1-3, Lowry 1-4, Hayes 0-1).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 51 (Brown, White 6), Houston 54 (Hayes 17). Assists—Charlotte 13 (Jackson, Augustin 4), Houston 23 (Hayes 7).

Total Fouls—Charlotte 13, Houston 19. Technicals—Livingston, Charlotte Coach Silas, Thomas, Martin, Houston defensive three second 2. A—14,822 (18,043).

JAZZ 119, TIMBERWOLVES 104

MINNESOTA (104) Beasley 7-16 2-4 16, Love 8-18 6-7 22, Milicic 3-7 4-4 10, Ridnour 6-9 2-2 16, Johnson 1-4 2-3 5, Webster 2-4 1-2 7, Pekovic 0-3 0-0 0, Flynn 2-7 1-1 6, Tolliver 1-5 1-2 3, Ellington 3-7 3-3 9, L.Hayward 0-2 0-0 0, Randolph 4-6 2-4 10. Totals: 37-88 24-32 104.

UTAH (119) Kirilenko 7-14 1-2 15, Favors 5-8 3-4 13, Jefferson 11-20 4-5 26, Harris 4-11 3-4 12, Miles 14-18 6-7 40, Fesenko 0-0 0-0 0, Bell 2-5 2-2 6, Evans 2-4 0-0 4, Watson 1-2 0-0 2, G.Hayward 0-2 1-4 1, Cousin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 46-84 20-28 119.

Timberwolves 32 18 30 24 —104 Jazz 35 36 21 27 —119 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 6-20 (Ridnour 2-2, Webster 2-3, Flynn 1-3, Johnson 1-3, L.Hayward 0-1, Beasley 0-1, Ellington 0-1, Love 0-2, Tolliver 0-4), Utah 7-19 (Miles 6-7, Harris 1-6, G.Hayward 0-1, Watson 0-1, Kirilenko 0-2, Bell 0-2). Fouled Out—Kirilenko. Rebounds—Minnesota 50 (Love 11), Utah 55 (Jefferson 11). Assists—Minnesota 13 (Love, Ridnour 3), Utah 28 (Watson 8). Total Fouls—Minnesota 25, Utah 25.

Technicals—Flynn, Utah Coach Corbin.

A—19,465 (19,911).

NBA D-LEAGUE EAST CONFERENCE x-Iowa Erie Fort Wayne Dakota Maine Springfield Sioux Falls

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x-Rio Grande Val. 29 13 .690 — x-Tulsa 29 14 .674 K Bakersfield 26 15 .634 2K Reno 26 16 .619 3 Utah 25 16 .610 3K Texas 19 24 .442 10 K Austin 18 23 .439 10 K Idaho 18 24 .429 11 New Mexico 16 26 .381 13 x-clinched playoff spot.

Tuesday’s game Rio Grande Valley 106, Sioux Falls 97 Wednesday’s games Idaho 94, Tulsa 85 Erie at Reno, 10 p.m.

Today’s game Springfield at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Texas at MAINE, 7 p.m.

Austin at Rio Grande Valley, 8 p.m.

Sioux Falls at Iowa, 8 p.m.

Dakota at Idaho, 9 p.m.

Reno at Utah, 9 p.m.

Tulsa at New Mexico, 9:30 p.m.

Erie at Bakersfield, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Springfield at Fort Wayne, 7:30 p.m.

Austin at Rio Grande Valley, 8 p.m.

Dakota at Idaho, 9 p.m.

Reno at Utah, 9 p.m.

Tulsa at New Mexico, 9:30 p.m.

Erie at Bakersfield, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s games Texas at MAINE, 1 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Iowa, 5 p.m.

Springfield at Sioux Falls, 8 p.m.

RED CLAWS SCHEDULE

MARCH 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . Texas. . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

20 . . . . . . . . . . . . Texas. . . . . . . . . 1 p.m.

22 . . . . . . . . . . . at Utah . . . . . . . . 9 p.m.

SPORTS HISTORY ON THIS DATE MARCH 17

1871 — The National Association of Professional Baseball Players is organized to replace the amateur National Association.

1897 — Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win the world heavyweight title in Carson City, Nev. It’s the first boxing match photographed by a motion picture camera.

1908 — Tommy Burns knocks out Jene Roche in 80 seconds at the Royal Theatre in Dublin to retain the world heavyweight title.

1961 — Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan arrests two professional gamblers, Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken, and implicates Hank Gunter and Art Hicks of Seton Hall in a collegiate point shaving scandal.

1974 — The Celtics beat the Capital Bullets 129-103 at Boston Garden, collecting an NBA record 61 defensive rebounds.

1988 — Michael Adams of Denver sets an NBA record of 24 consecutive games with at least one 3-point field goal, breaking the mark set earlier in the season by the Celtics’ Danny Ainge. Adams extends the streak to 79 consecutive games (over two seasons) with at least one 3-pointer.

GP W

Detroit Chicago Nashville Columbus St. Louis

70 70 70 69 69

Vancouver Calgary Minnesota Colorado Edmonton

71 72 70 68 70

42 38 35 32 31

L OT Pts GF

20 8 92 230 24 8 84 232 25 10 80 179 27 10 74 190 29 9 71 193

NORTHWEST DIVISION GP W

46 36 35 26 23

L OT Pts GF

16 27 28 34 38

9 101 9 81 7 77 8 60 9 55

PACIFIC DIVISION GP W

233 217 178 191 172

L OT Pts GF

San Jose 71 40 23 8 88 203 Los Angeles 70 40 25 5 85 196 Phoenix 71 37 23 11 85 206 Dallas 70 37 25 8 82 196 Anaheim 69 37 27 5 79 195 Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s games BOSTON 3, Columbus 2, SO New Jersey 4, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 Washington 4, Montreal 2 Carolina 1, BUFFALO 0 Pittsburgh 5, Ottawa 1 Philadelphia 3, Florida 2 Los Angeles 4, Nashville 2 San Jose 6, Dallas 3 Phoenix 4, Calgary 3 Wednesday’s games Toronto 3, Carolina 1 Detroit 3, Washington 2 Colorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

St. Louis at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Today’s games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

BOSTON at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

St. Louis at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Washington at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

GA

201 196 165 209 207

GA

167 207 188 239 231

GA

186 170 203 199 202

BRUINS SCHEDULE

MARCH Today. . . . . . . at Nashville . . . . . . 8 p.m.

19 . . . . . . . . . . at Toronto . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

22 . . . . . . . . . New Jersey . . . . . . 7 p.m.

MAPLE LEAFS 3, HURRICANES 1

Toronto 1 2 0— 3 Carolina 1 0 0— 1 First Period—1, Carolina, LaRose 13 (Bra.Sutter, Gleason), 12:24 (pp). 2, Toronto, Phaneuf 6 (Brent, MacArthur), 19:01 (pp).

Second Period—3, Toronto, Phaneuf 7 (Kessel), 10:51 (pp). 4, Toronto, Bozak 12 (Boyce, Phaneuf), 11:03.

Third Period—None.

Shots on Goal—Toronto 6-9-4—19.

Carolina 12-10-15—37.

Power-play opportunities—Toronto 2 of 3; Carolina 1 of 5.

Goalies—Toronto, Reimer 14-7-4 (37 shots-36 saves). Carolina, Ward 29-24-9 (19-16).

A—15,220 (18,680). T—2:22.

RED WINGS 3, CAPITALS 2

Washington 1 1 0— 2 Detroit 2 0 1— 3 First Period—1, Detroit, Zetterberg 19 (Rafalski, Bertuzzi), 12:23. 2, Washington, Carlson 6 (Chimera, King), 12:56. 3, Detroit, V.Filppula 14 (Rafalski, Modano), 14:45.

Second Period—4, Washington, Ovechkin 29 (Semin, Hannan), 5:53.

Third Period—5, Detroit, Zetterberg 20 (Datsyuk, Rafalski), 9:53 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Washington 9-910—28. Detroit 10-16-9—35.

Power-play opportunities—Washington 0 of 4; Detroit 1 of 2.

Goalies—Washington, Neuvirth 22-11-4 (35 shots-32 saves). Detroit, Howard 34-13-5 (28-26).

A—20,066 (20,066). T—2:21.

SKIING MEN’S WORLD CUP

at Lenzerheide, Switzerland

DOWNHILL

1. Adrien Theaux, France, 1 minute, 22.94 seconds; 2. Joachim Puchner, Austria, 1:22.95.; 3. Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway, 1:23.10.

FINAL WORLD CUP DOWNHILL STANDINGS 1. Didier Cuche, Switzerland, 510.

2. Michael Walchhofer, Austria, 498.

3. Klaus Kroell, Austria, 411.

Also 12. Bode Miller, United States, 190.

32. Steven Nyman, United States, 54.

44. Travis Ganong, United States, 17.

51. Erik Fisher, United States, 10.

58. Ted Ligety, United States, 5.

OVERALL WORLD CUP STANDINGS (After 35 of 38 events) 1. Ivica Kostelic, Croatia, 1,356 points.

2. Didier Cuche, Switzerland, 956.

3. Carlo Janka, Switzerland, 793.

Also 9. Ted Ligety, United States, 600.

14. Bode Miller, United States, 471.

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP at Lenzerheide, Switzerland

DOWNHILL

1. Julia Mancuso, United States, 1 minute, 27.50 seconds; 2. Lara Gut, Switzerland, 1:28.31.; 3. Elisabeth Goergl, Austria, 1:28.65.; 4. Lindsey Vonn, United States, 1:28.88.

FINAL WORLD CUP DOWNHILL STANDINGS 1. Lindsey Vonn, U.S., 650 points.

2. Maria Riesch, Germany, 457.

3. Julia Mancuso, United States, 367.

Also 19. Stacey Cook, United States, 107.

22. Leanne Smith, United States, 82.

30. Laurenne Ross, United States, 43.

32. Alice McKennis, United States, 41.

36. Chelsea Marshall, U.S., 22.

OVERALL WORLD CUP STANDINGS (After 32 of 35 races) 1. Lindsey Vonn, U.S., 1,705 points.

2. Maria Riesch, Germany, 1,678.

3. Tina Maze, Slovenia, 1,039.

4. Elisabeth Goergl, Austria, 992.

5. Julia Mancuso, United States, 976.

Also 29. Leanne Smith, United States, 213.

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Manchester PORTLAND Connecticut Worcester Providence Springfield Bridgeport

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

70 65 67 67 67 68 67

41 40 33 31 30 30 22

21 18 26 24 32 33 36

2 5 2 4 3 2 3

6 2 6 8 2 3 6

90 87 74 74 65 65 53

EAST DIVISION

231 235 186 182 171 200 177

187 189 184 203 218 220 233

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

W-B/Scrntn Hershey Charlotte Norfolk Binghamton Albany Adirondack Syracuse

66 69 68 66 67 67 66 66

47 41 37 34 34 29 23 24

18 22 23 19 26 34 33 35

0 1 2 8 3 1 4 3

1 5 6 5 4 3 6 4

95 88 82 81 75 62 56 55

215 219 221 221 214 180 156 159

151 179 205 177 192 224 213 209

WESTERN CONFERENCE NORTH DIVISION

Manitoba Hamilton Toronto Lake Erie Grand Rapids Abbotsford Rochester

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

68 67 70 67 68 67 68

37 36 34 34 33 32 30

25 24 26 25 25 26 32

1 1 1 3 2 4 3

5 6 9 5 8 5 3

WEST DIVISION

80 79 78 76 76 73 66

191 192 201 183 205 163 186

171 170 194 177 208 185 218

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Milwaukee 67 36 18 5 8 85 186 164 Houston 70 39 25 1 5 84 200 182 Peoria 69 37 25 2 5 81 192 187 Texas 68 35 23 4 6 80 183 184 Chicago 69 35 25 3 6 79 228 225 San Antonio 66 37 25 3 1 78 203 198 Okla. City 68 34 25 2 7 77 202 199 Rockford 66 27 30 4 5 63 168 204 Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss or shootout loss.

Wednesday’s games Grand Rapids 2, Oklahoma City 1, SO Charlotte 2, Bridgeport 1, SO Adirondack 5, Binghamton 2 Manchester 4, Springfield 2 Albany 6, Syracuse 1 Hamilton 2, Rochester 0 San Antonio 2, Milwaukee 1, SO W-B/Scranton at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s games No games scheduled Friday’s games Connecticut at Manchester, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Bridgeport, 7 p.m.

Lake Erie at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m.

Worcester at Providence, 7:05 p.m.

PORTLAND at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m.

Albany at Norfolk, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Syracuse, 7:30 p.m.

Hershey at Springfield, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Rockford, 8:05 p.m.

Texas at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m.

Hamilton at Abbotsford, 10 p.m.

PIRATES SCHEDULE

MARCH 18 . . . . . . . . at Binghamton . . 7:05 p.m.

19 . . . . . . . . . at Hershey. . . . . . . 7 p.m.

20 . . . . . . . . at Providence . . 4:05 p.m.

QMJHL STANDINGS

TELUS EAST DIVISION W

y-Quebec 46 x-LEWISTON 38 x-Victoriavlle 35 x-Chicoutimi 27 x-Rimouski 30 Baie-Comeau 12

L OTL SL Pts GF

16 24 27 27 31 45

1 1 1 5 1 5

3 3 3 7 3 4

96 80 74 66 64 33

269 255 251 192 217 149

TELUS WEST DIVISION W

x-Montreal 44 x-Drmmndvlle44 x-Gatineau 41 x-Shawinigan 40 x-Val-d’Or 25 R-Noranda 11

L OTL SL Pts GF

11 15 17 23 33 49

5 5 3 2 4 4

5 2 5 1 4 2

98 95 90 83 58 28

GA

254 245 235 236 202 143

176 176 190 194 252 330

L OTL SL Pts GF

GA

MARITIMES DIVISION W

GA

181 222 231 212 226 256

y-Saint John 56 7 1 2 115 309 160 x-Ac.-Bathrst 42 21 2 1 87 250 194 x-Moncton 33 23 3 7 76 229 245 x-P.E.I. 32 25 3 6 73 211 211 x-Halifax 20 41 2 3 45 182 254 Cape Breton 17 44 1 4 39 149 266 x-clinched playoffs. y-clinched division.

Wednesday’s game Moncton 4, Halifax 3, OT PEI 5, St. John 2 Today’s game Rimouski at Montreal, 7:05 p.m.

MAINEIACS SCHEDULE

MARCH 18 . . . . . . . at Baie-Comeau . 7:30 p.m.

20 . . . . . . . . at Chicoutimi . . . . . 4 p.m.

End of Regular Season

MLS SCHEDULE

Tuesday’s game Los Angeles 1, Seattle FC 0 Saturday’s games Toronto FC at Vancouver, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle FC at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Columbus at D.C. United, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Sporting K.C. at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game NEW ENGLAND at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL

American League DETROIT TIGERS—Reassigned RHP Brendan Wise to their minor league camp.

NEW YORK YANKEES—Optioned RHP Andrew Brackman, INF Brandon Laird, OF Melky Mesa and INF Kevin Russo to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) and LHP Steve Garrison and RHP Ryan Pope to Trenton (EL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association SAN ANTONIO SPURS—Signed G-F Danny Green.

FOOTBALL

Arena Football League ARIZONA RATTLERS—Re-signed WR Rod Windsor.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed WR David McKoy.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League NHL—Suspended F Dany Heatley two games for delivering an elbow to the head of Dallas C Steve Ott in a March 16 game.

ATLANTA THRASHERS—Reassigned D Noah Welch to Chicago (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled G Joey MacDonald from Grand Rapids (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS—Recalled F Nigel Dawes and F Aaron Palushaj from Hamilton (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Signed D Aaron Ness to a three-year contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS—Reassigned D Andre Benoit and F Jim O’Brien to Binghamton (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Assigned D Yann Sauve to Manitoba (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL—Suspended Hamilton C Gabriel Dumont 10 games as a result of his actions during Sunday’s game against Rochester.

CHICAGO WOLVES—Signed F Sergio Somma.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed G Riley Gill.

HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Recalled D Sebastien Bisaillon from Wheeling (ECHL).

SOCCER

Major League Soccer MLS—Suspended FC Dallas D Jair Benitez one game and fined him $500 for his actions during a preseason Feb. 12 game against Houston. Fined Real Salt Lake D Jamison Olave $250 for public criticism via social media of a League official following a preseason March 8 game against Sporting Kansas City.

COLORADO RAPIDS—Signed F Caleb Folan.

D.C. UNITED—Signed G Joe Willis.

PORTLAND TIMBERS—Acquired F Brian Umony on loan from University of Pretoria FC (South Africa).

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES—Acquired M Simon Dawkins on loan from Tottenham Hotspur (English Premier League).

COLLEGE

COLGATE—Released men’s basketball coach Emmett Davis from his contract.

Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Pamela Bass.

DAVIDSON—Named Robert Fickling offensive line coach.

HIGH POINT—Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Tooey Loy. HOLY CROSS—Announced the resignation of men’s lacrosse coach Adam Pascal.

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE—Named Timothy Edwards defensive line coach.

LSU—Announced women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor is stepping down and will serve as special assistant to the athletic director.

MONTANA—Named Legi Suiaunoa defensive line coach.

MONTANA STATE BILLINGS—Announced the contract of men’s basketball coach George Pfeifer will not be renewed.

MOUNT UNION—Announced resignation men’s basketball coach Lee Hood.

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE— Named Peter Viteritti women’s volleyball coach.

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SKIING Vonn overtakes Riesch for World Cup overall lead

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American Lindsey Vonn took the lead from Maria Riesch of Germany in their duel for the overall World Cup title, ďŹ nishing fourth behind winner Julia Mancuso of the U.S. in the ďŹ nal downhill of the season Wednesday at Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

Vonn earned 50 points for her lowest downhill ďŹ nish this season while Riesch failed to score after placing 17th. Riesch’s cautious run left her a surprising 3.19 seconds behind Mancuso.

Vonn took a 27-point lead over Riesch with three races left this week. Vonn is looking for her fourth straight overall title after already earning the downhill discipline title. “I’m really happy with fourth place,� said Vonn, who lost time early in her run, then fought back on the steep bottom section. “I think it was a solid performance and another exciting day in the hunt for the overall.�

Mancuso got her ďŹ rst World Cup win since March 2007, ďŹ nishing 0.81 seconds ahead of Lara Gut of Switzerland. World champion Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was third.

MEN’S WORLD CUP: Didier Cuche of Switzerland clinched his fourth downhill title by ďŹ nishing fourth in a race at Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

Cuche overtook Austria’s Michael Walchhofer, who placed 11th behind Adrien Theaux of France, who earned his ďŹ rst World Cup victory.

NORDIC WORLD CUP: Petra Majdic of Slovenia clinched the women’s cross country sprint title while Emil Joensson of Sweden won the men’s race at Stockholm.

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James Harden of the Oklahoma City Thunder, left, is congratulated by Kevin Durant after scoring against the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter of the Thunder’s 96-85 win Wednesday.

Oklahoma City defense frustrates Heat, 96-85 Chase Budinger scored 19, and rookie Patrick Patterson added 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Rockets.

D.J. Augustin scored 22 and Boris Diaw added 13 for the Bobcats, who have lost nine of the PISTONS 107, RAPTORS last 11 meetings with Houston.

93: Richard Hamilton scored MAGIC 93, BUCKS 89: 24 points, Greg Monroe added 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Dwight Howard had 31 points Detroit won at Auburn Hills, and 22 rebounds to lead OrMich., to end a three-game los- lando to an overtime victory at Milwaukee that wrapped up a ing streak.

Toronto scored the game’s ďŹ rst winning ďŹ ve-game trip.

Hedo Turkoglu scored eight basket but never led again.

Tayshaun Prince added 22 of his 19 points in overtime for points for the Pistons and Rod- Orlando.

The Magic went 20 of 35 from ney Stuckey, Detroit’s leading scorer, had a career-high 14 as- the foul line, with Howard tying a career high with 24 attempts. sists while taking just one shot.

He made only 13 of them.

HORNETS 100, SUNS 95: JAZZ 119, TIMBERWOLVES Chris Paul had 26 points and nine assists, and New Orleans 104: C.J. Miles scored a careerextended visiting Phoenix’s los- high 40 points as Utah cruised at Salt Lake City, giving Ty Corbin ing streak to four games.

Emeka Okafor had 16 points his ďŹ rst back-to-back wins as and 11 rebounds for New Or- coach.

Miles hit his ďŹ rst seven shots, leans. David West added 16 points, including an 18-foot including four from 3-point NUGGETS 102, HAWKS jumper to give the Hornets a 95- range, for 18 points in the open87: Nene scored 20 points, J.R. 88 lead with 29.5 seconds to go. ing quarter. His only miss came Smith added all of his 15 in The Hornets led by as much as at the buzzer with a defender in the fourth quarter, and Denver 19 in the third quarter but had to his face. pulled away at Atlanta.

Kevin Love led Minnesota with hold on against a Suns team that After Zaza Pachulia ipped in made 14 3-pointers.

22 points and 11 rebounds. a putback, pulling the Hawks to 72-69 with just over 10 minutes ROCKETS 94, BOBCATS 78: remaining, Denver outscored Kevin Martin scored 21 points, Atlanta, 30-18. The Nuggets Chuck Hayes matched his seamade 12 of 18 from the ďŹ eld in son high with 17 rebounds and the fourth quarter, including Houston never trailed at home.

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SOCCER

MIAMI — Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Russell Westbrook added 18 and the Oklahoma City Thunder frustrated Miami’s offense all night Wednesday on the way to a 96-85 victory against the Heat.

James Harden scored 12 points for the Thunder, who have won ďŹ ve straight.

Chris Bosh had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored 21 points and LeBron James ďŹ nished with 19 for the Heat, who had won three straight and were averaging 114 points in their last two games. The Thunder held them to 38.5 percent shooting from the oor.

It was the ďŹ rst time Durant beat a James-led team in seven career meetings. “You know they are going to ďŹ nd ways to win games,â€? Thunder center Kendrick Perkins said. “Come playoff time, they are still scary. Coming into this arena, knowing that you have to play those guys, is still scary.â€?

U.S. MEN’S TEAM: Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey head a 24-man roster as the U.S. brought in most of its top players for exhibitions against Argentina and Paraguay.

Players will start gathering Sunday in Cary, N.C., for training. The U.S. plays Argentina on March 26 in East Rutherford, N.J., and Paraguay three days later in Nashville, Tenn.

TENNIS

BNP PARIBAS OPEN: Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 15 matches with a 6-0, 6-1 win over fellow Serb Viktor Troicki in the fourth round at Indian Wells, Calif.

Eighth-seeded Andy Roddick lost against No. 18 Richard Gasquet 6-3, 7-6 (5); and Juan Martin del Potro defeated No. 32 Philipp Kohlschreiber, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7).

YACHTING

AMERICA’S CUP: Team New Zealand paid the entry fee for the 34th America’s Cup regatta off the coast of San Francisco in 2013, but team manager Grant Dalton said a decision is yet to be made over whether to compete.

Team New Zealand, which won the race in 1995 and 2000, has signed its long-term sponsors for the next regatta, but Dalton said there was still a funding shortfall and that Team New Zealand would only take part “if we can be absolutely at the top of our game.�

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Smith knocked down three of those, part of a 6-of-7 fourth quarter after he took only three shots – and missed them all – over the ďŹ rst three quarters.

THORPE’S NEW COACH: Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe said he will prepare for the 2012 London Olympics by training with Russian-born swim coach Gennadi Touretski in Switzerland.

The 28-year-old Thorpe said he will train with Touretski, who guided Russia’s four-time Olympic gold-medal winner, Alex Popov, in Tenero, Switzerland, for most of the year. Thorpe announced his return to competitive swimming last month, ending more than four years of retirement.

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The NHL suspended San Jose Sharks right wing Dany Heatley for two games without pay for elbowing Dallas’ Steve Ott in the head in a game Tuesday night. The suspension will cost Heatley $80,645.

Bulletin Board A Sanford Babe Ruth League board of directors meeting will be held at 6 p.m. March 24 at Sanford High. For more information, contact Amy Jack at jack4@metrocast.net.

South Portland Parks and Recreation is offering a bus trip for residents to see the Red Sox host Minnesota on May 8. Registration for the trip opens April 1. The cost is $75 per person. Registration is limited to adult residents of South Portland who may sign up for up to six tickets for their own family.For more information, contact Lisa Bingham at 767-7650 or lbin gham@southportland.org.

The University of Southern Maine Sport Management Program will hold its inaugural Into the Mud Challenge, a 2.5-mile race featuring obstacles and mud pits, at 9:30 a.m. May 7 at

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With the game tied at 2 and Detroit on a power play, Zetterberg ipped the puck on net from a severe angle to goalie Michal Neuvirth’s left. Neuvirth appeared to have his near post covered, but the puck went past his glove and into the net.

Valtteri Filppula added a goal for Detroit, and Brian Rafalski, who hadn’t played since Feb. 24 because of an injured back, had three assists.

Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson scored for Washington, which missed a chance to move past Philadelphia into ďŹ rst place in the Eastern Conference.

After Zetterberg’s second goal gave the Red Wings the lead, Alexander Semin took a pass from Ovechkin and skated in on goalie Jimmy Howard, but Howard was able to poke the puck away.

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NFL threatens suspensions for illegal hits

PROMISE IN PITTSBURGH?

Braves coach hit by foul ball loses eye

The league wants to be more aggressive in protecting vulnerable players from injuries.

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar has lost an eye after he was struck in the face by a line drive while watching a spring training game.

Braves General Manager Frank Wren said Wednesday that doctors were unable to save Salazar’s left eye after the accident March 9. The former major league player is otherwise recovering from his injuries and expects to manage Lynchburg of the Class A Carolina League this season.

The 54-year-old Salazar was standing against the railing on the top step of the dugout during a game between the Braves and Cardinals when Brian McCann fouled a ball in his direction.

Salazar was unable to get out of the way and fell headfirst back into the dugout.

The game was stopped for almost 20 minutes so Salazar could be airlifted to a hospital.

He regained consciousness on the way and was treated for multiple facial fractures, but doctors were unable save his left eye.

“In the big picture, and that’s what we have to keep in mind, this is a good outcome,” Wren said. “He’s alive.”

McCann was badly shaken and didn’t return when the game resumed. He visited Salazar in the hospital and has stayed in touch.

MARINERS: Ken Griffey Jr. is back with Seattle as a special consultant months after he abruptly retired last June.

The 13-time All-Star sought to make clear that his retirement was because he didn’t want to be a distraction to the team.

“I’m not upset. I think people thought I was upset at certain things,” Griffey said. “I just felt that it was more important for me to retire ... it no longer became the Seattle Mariners, it became, ‘When is Ken doing this? When is Ken doing that?’ and that’s something I didn’t want to have my teammates, who I truly cared about, having to answer these types of questions day in and day out.”

Griffey had a strained relationship with Manager Don Wakamatsu, who was fired two months after Griffey left, and he said they haven’t spoken.

Griffey ruled out any comeback and said he doesn’t regret returning to Seattle for what became a shortened 2010 season.

Now, he’s willing to do whatever the organization needs.

“This is the organization I grew up in, so if there was going to be an opportunity for me to be in baseball it was going to be here,” he said. “It’s a lot of learning. ... I’m still going to be the same person, I’m not going to change. You’re going to know exactly how I feel. It’s a chance to help kids get better.”

CARDINALS: Marty Marion, the brilliant shortstop and 1944 National League MVP has died.

He was 93.

Marion played on World Series title teams for St. Louis in 1942, ’44 and ’46. The 6-foot-2, 170pound Marion was nicknamed the “Octopus” and “Slats” for his long-armed, rangy fielding prowess.

Teammate Stan Musial, who won MVP awards in ’43, ’46 and ’48, hit .347 with 12 homers and 94 RBI in 1944, but Marion got the nod on the basis of his defense and team leadership after batting only .267 with six homers and 63 RBI. TWINS: Joe Mauer made his spring-training debut and went 1 for 3 in a 4-3 victory over the Mets.

The All-Star catcher, serving as the designated hitter while recovering from offseason surgery on his left knee, is expected to play in the field for the first time Thursday in a minor league game.

METS: Carlos Beltran played catch and took batting practice Wednesday, the first baseball activity for the outfielder in more than a week because of tendinitis in his left knee.

Beltran said he’s improving and still hopes to be in right field on opening day April 1. He’s appeared in just one game this spring, as the designated hitter.

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Clint Hurdle could have stayed in Texas this year, as hitting coach for the American League champion Rangers. Instead he’ll be trying to turn around baseball’s lowliest franchise. “I’m looking for challenges at 53,” he said. “I’m not looking for comfort.”

Young Bucs gain confidence with Hurdle at helm

factor in their own city.

So it made sense that when the entire Pirates roster assembled for the first full-squad workout of spring training, Hurdle didn’t start out by talking about bats, balls and gloves. He instead spoke about trust, accountability and the type

By FRED GOODALL of dedication it would take to change a The Associated Press culture of losing.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Clint Hurdle The players liked what they heard. shrugged his shoulders and kept talk“His attitude and the passion for the ing.

The Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t posted game that he’s brought to this clubhouse has definitely uplifted it. There’s a winning record since Barry Bonds no doubt about that,” said Walker, who carried them in 1992, and their enthuhit .296 in 110 games last season. siastic new manager doesn’t pretend “His ability to instill confidence in his to have all the answers for ending players, especially as a younger team, the longest stretch of futility in North it’s something that’s very important for American sports. this organization.”

Eighteen consecutive losing seasons, Labeled a phenom when he was only 299 losses over the past three years, a 20, Hurdle played parts of 10 seasons major league-low 57 wins in 2010. with the Kansas City Royals, CincinA major hurdle, indeed. nati Reds, New York Mets and St. Louis But this Hurdle is nothing if not opCardinals before retiring in 1987, never timistic. That’s his trademark, and he having reached that top billing. He says brighter days are ahead. Even if he managed six years in the Mets’ minor can’t promise when.

“Every man that’s come in here before league system before getting his first me for the last 18 years, I have no doubt managerial shot in the big leagues with Colorado in 2002. in my mind was coming with great The job he did to help transform a intentions, trying to make a difference,” young Rockies team into a contender said Hurdle, the former Colorado skipper who left a comfortable job as hitting was one of the reasons Pittsburgh was drawn to him. coach with the AL champion Texas Still, the Pirates’ brain trust had to Rangers to take over the Pirates. sell themselves to Hurdle as much as “Sometimes it’s timing. A lot of times he had to convince them. it is talent. ... Right now, I think we’ve After all, he liked his job in Texas. And, got a good combination of a lot of things the Rangers were coming off a World coming together at the right time,” the Series appearance.

53-year-old manager said.

“I told them my DNA challenges me The Pirates have averaged 97 losses every day. I’m looking for challenges at per season since 2005, yet a strong 53, I’m not looking for comfort,” Hurdle nucleus of young talent that includes said. center fielder Andrew McCutchen, On the opening day of camp, Hurdle second baseman Neil Walker and third implored the players to “set our bar on baseman Pedro Alvarez is a basis for a championship level” and work each real hope.

“If I was a guy just looking for a check, day toward the goal of becoming winners. all I do is mess this thing up,” said “There will be a group of men that Hurdle, who guided the Rockies to their turns us around here. It’ll happen. So only World Series appearance in 2007. why can’t we? Why can’t we be the “They needed somebody to come in and be committed, roll their sleeves up, start?” the manager said.

After all, once-downtrodden teams get some dirt in their spikes and put in such as Cleveland, Detroit, Tampa Bay a full day’s effort. Pittsburgh’s a bluecollar town, and it needs somebody with and Cincinnati built themselves up.

“How long will it take? That’s the one a blue-collar mentality. At least I know thing I’m not going to get caught up I have that. I’m not afraid to work, and in. The people who judge the job I do, I’m not afraid of a challenge.”

I can’t control that,” Hurdle said. “But And what a challenge it is – the what I can push forward is the mesPirates were last in the NL in hitting, sage, I can push forward practice, I can pitching and defense last season. push forward the intent and the focus, Not since Jim Leyland guided Pittsand I believe my doing that will get the burgh within one out of the 1992 World results.”

Series have the Pirates been a major

Encouraged by up-and-coming talent, new Pirates manager Clint Hurdle thinks the team’s losing culture is a thing of the past.

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The NFL will be more aggressive in suspending players next season for illegal hits and also could make changes to instant replay and kickoffs.

Ray Anderson, the NFL’s chief disciplinarian, said Wednesday that repeat offenders or players committing flagrant illegal hits will have a much greater chance of being suspended during the 2011 season.

No suspensions were handed down in 2010 even after the NFL’s crackdown on such hits, in part because “we were operating under the principle unless you have given sufficient advance notice of what the results could be, you need to be more lenient,” Anderson said.

“Frankly, now that the notice has been given, players and coaches and clubs are very aware of what the emphasis is and we won’t have that hesitation,” Anderson said. “Everyone will be very clearly on notice now that a suspension is very viable for us and we will exercise it ... when it comes to illegal hits to the head and neck area and to defenseless players.”

The NFL increased the amount on its fines for such hits last year after a series of fouls on one October weekend. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison was fined $75,000 for one such tackle, and Atlanta cornerback Dunta Robinson and New England safety Brandon Meriweather were docked $50,000 for hits to defenseless opponents that weekend.

More fines were implemented during the remainder of the season but no player was suspended, though suspensions were considered, Anderson said.

“We want to be much more clear on what can be a suspendable incident,” Anderson said.

“The emphasis is on head and neck hits and what a defenseless player is. And we will work hard that people understand what is a repeat offender and what is a flagrant foul.”

Rules defining a defenseless player will be expanded and now will include eight categories:

n A quarterback in the act of throwing; n A receiver trying to catch a pass; n A runner already in the grasp of tacklers and having his forward progress stopped; n A player fielding a punt or a kickoff; n A kicker or punter during the kick; n A quarterback at any time after change of possession; n A receiver who receives a blind-side block; n A player already on the ground.

At next week’s owners meetings in New Orleans, the competition committee will propose moving the kickoff up to the 35 yard-line and bringing a touchback out to the 25. There would be no changes for touchbacks on any other plays, with the ball coming out to the 20.

No player other than the kicker would be allowed to line up more than 5 yards behind the ball, and the committee will suggest outlawing the wedge on kickoffs; all blocking wedges were reduced to two players in 2009.

“The injury rate on kickoffs remains a real concern for us and the players and the coaches’ subcommittee,” said Falcons President Rich McKay, the chairman of the competition committee. “This is a pretty major change.”

So would be making all scoring plays reviewable, another proposal the committee will bring to the owners on Monday.

This change would empower the replay official to order replays on any touchdowns, field goals, safeties and extra points without the coaches needing to challenge. It would be similar to the current system for the final two minutes of each half and for overtime. It also would mirror what colleges do on scoring plays for entire games.

Eliminating a third coach’s challenge if he is successful on the first two also will be proposed; McKay said the third challenge rarely was used.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league plans to release the regular-season schedule in mid-April, despite the current work stoppage.

“A specific date is not set,” Aiello said. “We plan to do what we normally do.”

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants President and CEO John Mara remains optimistic there will be an NFL season in 2011. But to keep Giants fans at ease, he said Wednesday that season-ticket holders won’t have to make payments until the lockout ends.

Speaking on WFAN-AM in New York, Mara said a letter will go out to season-ticket holders next week that will give them the option of paying in full by May 1 or waiting until there is a new collective bargaining agreement in place with the players.

“We’ve tried to assure people that there will be a complete season,” Mara said. “We’re only in March. We have a lot of time to work this out.”

Mara, not surprisingly, expressed his disappointment in the work stoppage, which went into effect last week.

“We have never claimed that teams are not making money.

We’re just not making as much of it,” he said. “We need to recalculate this deal a little bit, and that was our message to them.”

When asked about the two sides and where they stand now, Mara again was optimistic.

“I don’t think,” he said, “it’s all that far (apart).”

BENGALS: Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is set for a fourday tryout with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer starting Tuesday. The club said that after the tryout, it would determine whether to extend the trial period.

“We’re always searching for players who can help our team and bringing in new talent,” Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes said. “We know that Chad is an exceptional athlete and that he loves the sport of soccer, and he did play a lot when he was younger.”

Ochocinco started playing soccer at age 4 but chose to focus on football in high school. n Hamilton County Municipal Judge Bernie Bouchard ordered Ochocinco to pay Exclusive Wear $11,717 for clothing the Cincinnati store said the player never paid for.

METRODOME REPAIRS: Work begins today on replacing the Metrodome’s roof, which collapsed after a December snowstorm.

Crews with Birdair Inc., the New York contractor hired for the job by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, will spread a protective tarp over the playing field.

The Star Tribune reported clamping for roof panels will be checked Monday, and the installation of new roof panels might begin as soon as late next week.

The commission decided to replace the 29-year-old roof after it ripped open following a storm that dumped 17 inches of snow on Minneapolis.

Birdair will be paid $18 million for completing the job by Aug. 1, in time for the Minnesota Vikings’ preseason games.

Birdair designed and installed the roof that covered the dome since its opening in 1982.

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NUMBERS

n 1-12: Temple Coach Fran

Dunphy’s record in NCAA tournament games, worst among coaches with at least eight appearances. n 175-1: Odds for Memphis to win the national championship, worst among teams not lumped into the “field” category. n 4: Number of teams with bears as mascots: Belmont, Northern Colorado, Oakland, UCLA. n 5: Number of 14-loss teams, one fewer than the previous 26 years combined. n 9: Wins in a row by Butler, which was in danger of missing the tournament a year after getting to the title game. n 11: Bids by the Big East, most in the country. n 14.5: Rebounds per game

by Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried, best in the country. n 15: Consecutive NCAA tournament appearances by defending national champion Duke. n 21: Years since ArkansasLittle Rock qualified for the NCAA tournament. n 24.3: Number of 3-point attempts per game by Louisville. n 30: Point spread between Ohio State and Alabama State, widest in the tournament. n 320: More shots than any of his teammates have taken by Kemba Walker, who’s cast up 632 this season. n 2,800: Approximate miles Washington has to travel to Charlotte, N.C., for its opening game, the longest trip in the bracket.

INTRIGUING MATCHUPS

n Memphis vs. Arizona, West

Regional, Tulsa, Okla. Tigers Coach Josh Pastner looked as if he’d be the heir apparent to Lute Olson at Arizona after spending four years playing there and serving as an assistant. Instead he was passed over and ended up at Memphis. He’s said there’s no hard feelings but it’s an interesting mix nonetheless. n Temple vs. Penn State, West Regional, Tucson, Ariz.

Two schools close in proximity who rarely play each other head across the country to meet in a defensive dogfight in the desert.

Makes sense. n Michigan State vs. UCLA, Southeast Regional, Tampa, Fla. Early in the season, the Spartans were a favorite to win the national title. After struggling for good chunks of the season, Michigan State got into the NCAA tournament and could give the Bruins all kinds of problems, not to mention other teams in that bracket. n UConn vs. San Diego State, West Regional, Anaheim, Calif.

OK, so maybe we’re jumping ahead a little since these teams wouldn’t meet until the regional semifinals. But Kemba vs. Kawhi (Leonard) would be fun.

UPSET POSSIBILITIES

Every year there are upsets in the bracket, some that might have been predicted, a few others that seem to come out of nowhere and throw a wrench into everyone’s bracket. Here are a few potential underdogs to keep

Foul shots

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Continued from Page C1 player to lead the ACC in scoring and assists, he’s one of those players who’s hard to take your eyes off, he does so much well. n Derrick Williams, Arizona.

Flew under the radar a little playing out West, but is a dynamic player who can finish with either hand and is good for one or two highlight-reel dunks per game. n Jared Sullinger, Ohio State.

Losing a national player of the year should have hurt the Buckeyes more than this. Ohio State did just fine without Evan Turner, thanks to this dynamic, beyond-his-years freshman. n Keith Benson, Oakland. Not many people know much about Benson because of where he plays, but this guy’s a legitimate NBA prospect who’s as athletic as any forward in the nation.

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may be key to beating a favorite Some of the country’s top teams have foul shooters who may make a coach shudder in close games.

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Jared Sullinger, a freshman, has made Ohio State forget all about losing Evan Turner, last season’s national player of the year, to the NBA.

an eye on: n No. 13 Belmont vs. No. 4 Wisconsin, Southeast Regional. The Bruins don’t make a lot of mistakes and enter the tournament on a 12-game winning streak.

The Badgers are great defensively but struggled in their past two games, including that 36-33 loss to Penn State. Thirty-three points? Really? n No. 12 Richmond vs. No. 5 Vanderbilt, Southwest Regional.

The Spiders have knocked off higher seeds in the past and have one of the nation’s leading scorers in Kevin Anderson. The Commodores lost to Murray State last year, Siena two years before that, so dropping out early isn’t out of the question. n No. 10 Georgia vs. No. 7 Washington. There was plenty of criticism about the Bulldogs getting such a high seed, but they know how to play defense.

The Huskies are a great offensive team but don’t always come through at the other end. OK, we might be stretching a little. n No. 11 Gonzaga vs. No. 6 St. John’s, Southeast Regional.

So much was made of what a down year Gonzaga was having, but the Bulldogs lost just three conference games and won the West Coast Conference to reach the NCAAs for the 13th straight year. St. John’s hung tough in the Big East and has 10 seniors, but none have played in the NCAA tournament.

THE INJURED

n Abdul Gaddy, Washington.

The sophomore point guard tore his ACL in practice in January, though the Huskies still managed to win the Pac-10 tournament without him. n Chris Singleton, Florida State. The Seminoles’ leading scorer and rebounder tweeted that he wants to play in Florida State’s opening game against Texas A&M just five weeks after breaking his foot, though it’s supposed to be a game-time decision. n Chris Wright, Georgetown.

Wright broke his non-shooting hand in late February and the Hoyas haven’t won since. He’s expected to play Friday against the winner between Southern California and Virginia Commonwealth. Georgetown clearly needs him. n Kyrie Irving, Duke. Like Singleton, Irving is hoping to be back for the NCAAs. The point guard injured his right big toe in early December, but Coach Mike Krzyzewski says there’s a chance he could play against Hampton on Friday. Even if he doesn’t, the Blue Devils should have him at some point during the tournament. n Kelsey Barlow, Purdue.

The sophomore guard wasn’t injured, but his loss takes away one of the Boilermakers’ best perimeter defenders. He was suspended for the rest of the season for conduct detrimental to the team.

That’s just a bit of what you might expect. With 68 teams in the field – still sounds weird, doesn’t it? – there are so many story lines, so many possibilities to keep up with.

Now it’s time to just sit back and enjoy the madness.

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Chris Duncan of Alabama State gets a foot in the face from Texas-San Antonio’s Melvin Johnson III, who scored 29 points in a 70-61 NCAA tournament win Wednesday night.

Roadrunners advance to face No. 1 Buckeyes From staff and news services

DAYTON, Ohio — Melvin Johnson III scored 29 points Wednesday night, leading Texas-San Antonio to a 70-61 victory over Alabama State in an NCAA men’s basketball tournament First Four game.

The Roadrunners improved to 20-13 and advanced to face top-seeded Ohio State on Friday night, while Alabama State finished 17-18.

Johnson outscored the Hornets 25-21 in the first half.

Tramayne Moorer and Jeff Middlebrooks each had 12 points for Alabama State, which had the worst record in the expanded 68-team field.

VCU 59, USC 46: Jamie Skeen scored 16 points to lead Virginia Commonwealth (24-11) past Southern California (19-15) in the last of the NCAA’s First Four tournament games at Dayton, Ohio.

The Rams pulled away down the stretch to earn the chance to face sixth-seeded Georgetown on Friday in Chicago.

SOFTBALL

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND 6, BOWDOIN 2: Rachel Wyrwa had three hits with four RBI to lead the Golden Bears (2-5) over the Polar Bears (0-1) at Clermont, Fla. Molly Nestor and Caroline Dewar each had a double for Bowdoin.

BOWDOIN 2, BABSON 0: Kara Nilan pitched a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts as the Polar Bears (1-1) beat the Beavers (5-4) at Clearmont, Fla. Nilan and Casey Correa

each had two hits, and Toni DaCampo had an RBI.

BASEBALL

WHEATON 6, ST. JOSEPH’S 1: Hal Landers had three hits and Frank Holbrook pitched six innings to help the Lyons (3-1) beat the Monks (24) at Auburndale, Fla. Chris Campbell singled home Nate Martin to give St. Joseph’s the lead in the first inning. The Monks loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth, and had runners on first and second with two outs in the seventh but failed to score.

Andrew Devereaux pitched 22⁄3 innings of scoreless relief for the Monks.

MEN’S LACROSSE

BOWDOIN 21, NAZARETH 5: Patrick Lawlor scored three goals and the Polar Bears (1-1) outscored the Golden Flyers (3-2) 17-2 over the final three quarters for a victory at Fairfield, Conn.

Ben Chadwick, Keegan Mehlhorn, Mark Flibotte, Franklin Reis and Nathan Fritts each had two goals.

RICHARD STOCKTON 10, UNE 9: The Ospreys (1-3) took a 9-4 lead midway through the third period and held off UNE (2-3) at Pomona, N.J. Michael Pennacchio had three goals for UNE.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MOUNT HOLYOKE 11, UNE 10: Hilary Bombard scored with three seconds left to lift the Lyons (3-2) over the Nor’easters (1-3) at Westminster, Md. UNE tied the game on a goal

by Sadie MacLean with about

three minutes left, her second of the game. Danielle Cate had four goals for UNE.

MEN’S HOCKEY

HOCKEY EAST AWARDS: Freshman goalie Dan Sullivan was one of the four University of Maine players to earn Hockey East honors announced by the league.

Sullivan, who was 10-7-2 with a 2.73 goals-against average, .890 save percentage and three shutouts, was named to the all-rookie team.

Others honored: center Tanner House (10 goals, 25 assists, plus-13 rating), best defensive forward; left wing Brian Flynn (20 goals, 16 assists, 6 penalty minutes), sportsmanship award; defenseman Jeff Dimmen, Turfer Athletic Award given to an individual, coach or team that exemplifies tenacity, commitment and innovation. n Brian Dumoulin of Biddeford, a Boston College defenseman, was named the best defensive defenseman.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU: Coach Van Chancellor is stepping down after four seasons and will become a special assistant to Athletic Director Joe Alleva for the remainder of his contract, which runs through the 2011-12 academic year.

CURLING

BOWDOIN WINS TITLE: Bowdoin, which formed a curling team only a few months ago, won its division Sunday at the national college curling championships in Chicago.

The championships are put on

by College Curling USA.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Some of the nation’s top teams face a dilemma late in close games: keep a top player on the floor or bench him because he’s a poor free-throw shooter.

The choice is often magnified in the NCAA tournament.

North Carolina forward John Henson knows all about the quandary.

For part of the season he went to the line thinking about what could go wrong. He could swish a shot, then barely nick the front of the rim – if at all – on another seconds later.

“Especially in the last minute of a close game, I think a free throw is more mental than form or anything,” said Henson, who has improved significantly lately. “You just have to hit them when it matters, when there’s pressure and people are like, ‘You need to make this.’ ” Now if a player clangs one, a season could end. And there is no shortage of candidates in this year’s tournament.

Top seeds Pittsburgh and Kansas rank among the 20 worstshooting teams at the line in the tournament, joined by No. 2s North Carolina and Florida, No. 3 Syracuse, No. 4 Texas and No. 5 Kansas State. Those teams, as well as top-seeded Duke, have at least one key player ranked among the 20 worst shooters by percentage (minimum 75 attempts) entering the tourney.

Plenty of teams have tripped over the foul line in the tournament. Most notably, Memphis missed 4 of 5 free throws late in regulation as Kansas forced overtime on a last-second 3pointer and won the 2008 national championship.

Bob Fisher, a former high school coach and soil conservation technician in Centralia, Kan., has at least eight Guinness World Records for freethrow shooting and works as a shooting coach.

He estimates the margin of error in a shooter’s release is a half-inch or less.

Then there’s the pressure.

“When they go to the line, the game is stopped and particularly when the game is on the line, the mental aspect comes out of the unconscious and into the conscious mind,” Fisher said.

“Then they have time to think about it and that actually gets in the way of them performing correctly.”

Henson is a perfect example.

There didn’t appear to be a huge flaw in his shot, but he missed 10 of his first 13 and was 20 of 60 (33 percent) as of mid-January despite shooting around 70 percent in practices.

That often had him on the bench late in close games even though his 10 rebounds and three blocks per game were critical on defense.

But Henson has hit 21 of 29 free throws (72.4 percent), including an 11-of-12 run over three games, entering the NCAAs. And he plays more late in games.

“If I’m 8 for 8, I’m sure (Coach Roy Williams) will leave me in,” Henson said. “If I’m 0 for 4, he might take me out, so I think that’s how it’s going to be. …Hopefully I’ll keep hitting free throws so I can stay in at the end of games defensively as well.”

SPORTS MEDICINE

It’s time to revisit traditional thinking about kids and distance running L

By DR. JAMES GLAZER

ike a lot of Mainers, a patient of mine named Mike is looking forward to the snow melting and the temperatures rising. He’s excited to get out of the gym and back on the road instead of the treadmill.

Now that he’s able to run on the roads he expects his weekly long runs to stretch to 20 miles and longer. They better: He’s signed up for this year’s Sugarloaf Marathon on May 15.

But one thing that makes Mike different from most Mainers preparing for this 26.2-mile race is his age. Mike is only 14.

For decades, there has been controversy about whether kids should participate in certain sports. First came those who suggested that skeletally immature people – those who are still growing – should not lift weights. The fear was that weightlifting might damage kids’ bones.

Later, skeptics warned that long-distance racing was harmful to kids, saying their frames simply couldn’t take the pounding of running more than 26 miles.

As it turns out, there is no research to support either of

these warnings. Though weightlifting in kids and adolescents has been studied extensively, it has never been shown to be harmful to kids of any age.

Just like adults, kids have to be taught to do exercises correctly and should have supervision in the gym. But parents can rest easy: There is no evidence that strength training causes harm to youngsters.

In fact, the National Strength and Conditioning Association recently released a position statement authored by a group of national experts whose conclusion was that strength train-

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ing “can offer unique benefits for children and adolescents.”

There is also good news for younger runners. Just last year, a major study examined the question of kids’ safety on the marathon course.

William Roberts, a sports medicine consultant and researcher at the University of Minnesota, and his colleague, William Nicholson, compiled data from 18 years of supervising the Twin Cities Marathon medical services. They looked at injury rates among all of the runners ages 7-17 who finished the marathon. You read right

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And his conclusion? In 18 years, only four of the 310 kids visited the medical tent, less than half the adult injury rate.

In addition, all of the four injuries reported during those 18 years were mild. None of them required any treatment other than rest in the medical tent.

Interestingly, none of the injuries occurred in runners younger than 16. In this group, the younger kids were actually safer than high schoolers.

Roberts and Nicholson were understandably cautious in interpreting their data. They

say only that in their group of marathoners there was no evidence that kids suffered any increased danger.

But to many others, this study is yet more evidence that suggests youngsters should not be unduly restricted from running.

The take-home message for parents – and for Mike as he prepares for his first marathon?

When it comes to running, even long distances, kids are fine.

Dr. James Glazer is a sports medicine physician for Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Freeport. He serves as a consultant for the U.S. ski team.

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New consumer bureau riles Republicans The still-forming agency has too much power, they say, but a top official says it will provide needed protections.

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans said Wednesday that a new government agency designed to protect consumers from problems with mortgages, credit cards and other lenders has too much power. They also criticized it for participating in a federal-state effort to force mortgage servicers to change the way they foreclose on troubled homeowners.

Testifying to Congress, the White House official assembling the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made no apologies. Elizabeth Warren said the agency was badly needed and might have helped the country avoid the housing problems it has suffered, including abuses in the ways that foreclosures have been processed.

“If there had been a consumer agency in place, the problems in mortgage servicing would have been exposed early and fixed while they were still small, long before they became a national scandal,” she told the financial institutions subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee.

The bureau was created by last year’s financial markets overhaul law, enacted by President Obama and congressional Democrats over strong GOP opposition.

The agency opens its doors July 21, and Obama has appointed Warren, a Harvard law professor and long-time consumer advocate, to put it together.

Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said

“If there had been a consumer agency in place, the problems in mortgage servicing would have been exposed . . . long before they became a national scandal.”

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the bureau will likely be “the most powerful agency that’s ever been created in Washington.” He and other Republicans have complained that Congress

doesn’t control the bureau’s budget, that it will be headed by a director and not a bipartisan commission, and that it has strong leeway to decide which

financial products it will curb.

“You have a lot of discretion and a lot of power, but I see very little accountability,” Bachus said.

“I look at this Congress. We are the voice of the American people,” said Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis. “And when we don’t have any oversight of what you’re doing, I see that as incredibly problematic.”

GOP lawmakers also challenged the bureau’s role in a push by federal agencies and the 50 state attorneys general to force five large U.S. banks to agree to make it easier for struggling homeowners to avoid foreclosure and rework their mortgages.

They complained that the consumer bureau should not be exercising authority until the agency formally comes into existence.

Warren said the agency will

WHAT NUCLEAR REVIVAL? The failure of backup cooling systems at a plant in Japan threatens to cut short any nuclear renaissance in the U.S. The Associated Press

Japan’s reactor crisis has renewed anxiety about nuclear safety and could derail efforts to revive the U.S. industry as a clean alternative-energy source.

The failure of the Japanese reactors’ backup cooling systems and the explosions that followed are likely to lead U.S. regulators to re-evaluate nuclear plant designs and safety. The heightened scrutiny could increase costs for new and existing reactors and make it harder to raise money for new plants.

The crisis comes just as the U.S. nuclear energy industry is starting to build the first new reactors in a generation.

“This accident has the potential to tamp down any nuclear renaissance that we’re poised to experience,” said Tim Echols, a utility regulator in Georgia who supports expanded nuclear power.

Before the crisis, the U.S. nuclear industry was enjoying more public and political backing than it had in years – 62 percent of the public, according to a Gallup Poll done last year. That support grew out of concerns about greenhouse gases, a growing record of safe and profitable nuclear power production, and volatile fossil fuel prices.

In Washington, nuclear energy was a rare issue on which the Obama administration and congressional Republicans agreed.

President George W. Bush established an $18.5 billion loan guarantee program to help build new plants. President Obama wants to raise that to $54.5 billion. Obama has also included nuclear power in his plan for a clean-energy standard.

Nuclear power generation emits no carbon dioxide, a damaging greenhouse gas. And unlike wind or solar, nuclear reactors produce huge amounts of power, uninterrupted, for months. The 104 commercial reactors in the United States supply about 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.

But only two of nearly three dozen nuclear plants that were proposed in the middle of the last decade remain on track to be built.

Low electricity prices and the huge expense of building new plants have contributed to the delay.

Industry analysts say few, if any, could be built without government loan guarantees, a low-carbon energy mandate, or both. That government help is predicated on support from a public that may have suddenly grown more fearful about the safety of nuclear power after the Japan crisis.

The two projects that appear to be furthest along, both with regulators and financing, are in the Southeast.

The Atlanta-based Southern Co. and its partners are seeking to build two more reactors at Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia. And SCANA, based in Cayce, S.C., has proposed adding two reactors to its Plant Summer site in Jenkinsville, S.C. Both utilities have said they expect to be granted operating licenses this year and insist their projects will proceed. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still evaluating both. Southern Co. says its proposal passed initial safety reviews, which analyzed how well its reactors could withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis – even a direct hit by a hijacked jetliner.

But nuclear experts and analysts say the Japan nuclear crisis will probably increase uncertainty and costs because of new regulations.

It could also rattle investors.

Shares of Exelon Corp., the nation’s biggest nuclear operator, have fallen 4 percent this week, to $41.34. Shares of Entergy Corp., the second-biggest nuclear operator, fell 7 percent to $68.49.

“When it comes to emergency response, who is better than Japan?” asked Jim Hempstead, a senior vice president in the Global Infrastructure Group at Moody’s Investors Service. “And now look what’s happened.”

play no role in any formal government settlement with the banks. But she said the bureau has been asked to give advice to government officials involved in the effort and has done so, since it will eventually have authority to set mortgage servicing standards.

The bureau is chiefly designed to give consumers simplified information about financial products and protect them from unfair practices.

Priorities that Warren considers important include regulating mortgages, credit cards and non-bank financial companies like mortgage brokers, payday lenders and private providers of student loans.

As part of an effort to assuage critics, Warren has met with over 60 members of Congress and dozens of executives of financial institutions, large and small, across the country.

Markets rattled by meltdown

Reports that Japan’s nuclear crisis could worsen push stocks sharply lower.

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Excavation continues for a new nuclear power plant near existing reactors at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga. Images of exploding nuclear facilities in Japan could deal a setback to the nuclear power revival in the United States.

NEW YORK — Financial markets were jolted for a third day Wednesday by fears that a partial meltdown may have occurred at a nuclear plant in Japan. Stocks erased nearly all of their gains for the year.

The losses were broad. Each of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average fell, with IBM Corp. and General Electric Co. losing the most. All 10 company groups in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, the basis for most U.S. mutual funds, lost ground.

Stocks dropped sharply in midmorning trading after the European Union’s energy chief was quoted as saying that Japan’s nuclear crisis could get worse.

Japan’s economy, the third-largest in the world after the United States and China, accounts for about 10 percent of U.S. exports.

Treasury prices jumped, sending yields to their lowest levels this year as investors piled into investments seen as being more stable. One measure of stock market volatility, the CBOE Market Volatility Index, jumped 18 percent in a sign that investors expect more wild swings.

“Investors are moving away from anything that has an element of risk with it because they don’t know what’s happening in Japan,” said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 242.12 points, or 2 percent, to 11,613.30.

It was the worst drop since Aug. 11. The Dow has now lost 3.6 percent in the past three days, its worst three-day loss since last July.

Japan temporarily suspended work at its stricken nuclear plant after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain there.

Supermarkets find consumers still reluctant to embrace reusable bags The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Supermarkets are finding a little bit of green doesn’t make a big difference in breaking shoppers of the “paper or plastic?” habit.

Some chains including Kroger and Safeway are starting to move away from the pennies-per-bag rebates, saying they don’t do enough to keep customers from forgetting reusables at home or in their cars.

Grocers save money when customers bring reusable bags.

They also want to stay ahead of plastic-bag bans and taxes that could cost them or their customers more money.

Kroger Co., the nation’s largest supermarket chain, had been giv-

ing 3- to 5-cent rebates or fuel discounts for each reusable bag. But it ended the bonuses this year in some regions. Customer feedback indicates most want to use reusable bags, company officials say; it’s a matter of making it a habit.

So Kroger officials say they’re focusing more on promotions and educational efforts, investing in signs and other visible reminders.

Now, many Kroger parking lots are dotted with signs asking “Are your reusable bags still in the car?” Messages around stores tout the environmental value of bag reuse. A reusable bag replaces hundreds of disposable bags, one says; another: “Less Plastic?

Fantastic.” Kroger also sent shop-

pers coupons for reusable bags.

Kroger spokesman Brendon Cull says the company has found no significant difference between reusable bag frequency in markets with rebates and those without them.

Safeway Inc. also has been phasing out cash rebates such as 3 cents per bag in some regions.

It’s still dangling discounts, but making them more occasional and targeted. Shoppers who use Safeway’s “Bright Green” reusable bags get 10 percent off Safeway’s line of environmentally geared household products.

Moral appeals and trendiness are more powerful than small discounts, said Ted Brown, a

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consultant who helped develop one of the earliest reusable bag programs two decades ago. Make reusables fashionable and fun, and shoppers won’t forget.

About 95 percent of food retailers offer reusable bags, the Food Marketing Institute says. In 2010, half of shoppers said they “try” to bring reusable bags, up 10 percent over 2009. However, half reported their use as never or less than monthly.

That figure isn’t falling much.

“Getting consumers to change their habits is difficult under any economic conditions,” said Joel Makower, a consultant and executive editor of Greener World Media Inc. “Stubbornness is recession-proof.”

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Lynne Curtiss places reusable Kroger bags in her car after shopping in Cincinnati. The grocery chain has eliminated a bonus for shoppers using their own bags.

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Students Frank Montana, left, and Allison Lewandowski, right, representing Saint Dominic Academy’s Student Senate, presented Caroline King of the Mid Coast Chapter of the Red Cross with a donation to help local disaster victims.

GOOD WORKS TOWN & COUNTRY AWARDS GRANTS

Town & Country Federal Credit Union awarded $25,000 last month to eight local charitable, non-profit and community organizations through its charitable giving campaign, Better Neighbor Fund.

The $5,000 grant recipients include: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine, Cancer Community Center and the Center For Grieving Children’s volunteer training program.

The $2,000 grant recipients include: Make a Wish Foundation of Maine for granting a child’s wish; Family Crisis Services for its young adult abuse prevention program; Stone Soup Food Pantry for its general operating and food expenses; Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine for its Chocolate Lovers Fling Fundraiser; and Wayside Food Programs Supplemental Community Meals.

TD BANK HELPS READERS

TD Bank’s TD Charitable Foundation awarded a $2,500 grant to New Books, New Readers, a book discussion initiative for adults who are working to improve their reading.

MAINE CREDIT UNIONS

Maine’s Credit Unions, through its Campaign for Ending Hunger, donated $21,000 to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank to help end hunger in Maine.

The donation represents the 21 years that Maine’s credit unions have raised funds for the cause. The donation was made Wednesday in memory of JoAnn Pike, the founder of the Good Shepherd Food-Bank.

Pike started the food bank 30 years ago and served as its executive director until February of 2004. She died of cancer six years ago.

QUALITY OF PLACE INITIATIVE

The Environmental Funders Network awarded $526,400 in grants to 14 organizations through its Quality of Place initiative. Second-year grantees are: Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, GrowSmart Maine, Healthy Community Coalition, Maine Conservation Voters Education Fund, Maine Downtown Center, Maine Farmland Trust, Small Woodland Owners

GOOD WORKS GOOD WORKS highlights the giving that takes place in our business community. Please let us know if your company or organization has made a charitable donation or gift in kind to help others.

SEND ITEMS to business@ pressherald.com, with a subject heading of Good Works.

Association of Maine, and the Trust for Public Land. Joining this group are Androscoggin Land Trust, Friends of Midcoast Maine, Mahoosuc Land Trust, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, and The Nature Conservancy.

The Maine Integrated Pest Management Council has launched its new website, http://gotpests.org.

The site is designed to help Maine homeowners identify the most common pests found in their homes and gardens, with information on managing those infestations with low-risk methods.

The council was established by the Maine Legislature to promote and enhance implementation of practices that reduce or minimize the harmful environmental effects of pesticides. The council also promotes healthy landscapes through ecologically based practices that minimize reliance on water, fertilizer and pesticides.

Networking site launched MyNetKing.com, a new networking site for Maine businesses, has launched.

The site offers membership for a limited group of professionals on a first-come, first-served basis. Just two business professionals from each profession and each ZIP code may join.

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Businessman Andrew Stone founded the site as a connecting point to establish virtual meetings and face-to-face meetings, and to track business referrals online without the restriction of multiple networking groups. For more details, go to the site.

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The student senate at Saint Dominic Academy presented the Mid Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross with a $500 donation on Monday to help local disaster victims.

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STATE OF MAINE CUMBERLAND COUNTY, SS DISTRICT COURT DIVISION OF PORTLAND CIVIL ACTION DOCKET NO. 10-536 BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. F/K/A COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. PLAINTIFF V. NICOLE M. CHAUSSE DEFENDANT(S) ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION This cause came to be heard on the Motion of Plaintiffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, Shechtman Halperin Savage LLP, whose address is 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860, for service by publication upon one or more of the Defendant(s) named in a certain Summons and Complaint for Foreclosure

By Civil Action, Title to Real Estate Involved, now pending before this Honorable Court, namely: on Nicole M. Chausse.

The real estate involved in this action is situated at: 88 Allen Avenue, Portland, Maine.

That after due diligence Plaintiff, BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P., has been unable to make service on Defendant(s), Nicole M. Chausse, of its Summons and Complaint For Foreclosure By Civil Action, Title to Real Estate Involved, now pending before this Honorable Court, and the present whereabouts of said Defendant(s) cannot be ascertained.

IT IS ORDERED that service be made upon the Defendant(s), Nicole M. Chausse, by publishing once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in the Portland Press Herald , a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Cumberland where the action is pending, a copy of the Order, attested by the Clerk of the District Court, Division of Portland.

The first publication shall be made within thirty (30) days after this Order is granted.

Twenty-one (21) days after the first publication of this Order, service shall be considered complete. Within twenty (20) days after service is considered complete, the Defendant(s), Nicole M. Chausse, shall appear and defend this action by filing an answer with the said Clerk of the District Court, Division of Cumberland, and also by filing a copy of said answer with the Plaintiffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, Shechtman Halperin Savage LLP, Attn: Victor Shapiro, Esq., 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860. (IN CASE OF FAILURE TO DO SO, JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT WILL BE RENDERED AGAINST THE DEFENDANT(S), Nicole M. Chausse.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order, as published, shall be sent by ordinary first class mail to the last known address to the Defendant(s), Nicole M. Chausse, if possible.

The Clerk shall enter the following in the docket: The ORDER dated 2/18/2011, is incorporated in the docket by reference. This entry is made in accordance with M.R.C.P. 79(a) at the specific direction of the Court.

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The first publication shall be made within thirty (30) days after this Order is granted.

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The Clerk shall enter the following in the docket: The ORDER dated February 18, 2011, is incorporated in the docket by reference. This entry is made in accordance with M.R.C.P. 79(a) at the specific direction of the Court.

DATED: February 18, 2011 E. Paul Eggert Judge, Maine District Court #4237499

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Bright and sunny 1500 sq ft, 2 bed, 2.5 bath unit in one of the area's most desirable condominium communities. Key features include: Granite kitchen countertops, upgraded kitchen appliances, recent hardwood floors and bathroom tile, extended first floor deck with awning, second floor deck off Master, large finished basement, close proximity to Yarmouth Village, and quick access to interstate 295. $269,000.

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Portland- 2,156 SF & 3,156 SF of 1st floor office on Marginal Way. Drive thru window. Call Joe.

Portland- 2,400Ă˝ SF available at 36 Market St. 2nd floor walk up. $12.75 psf NNN. Call Joe

PORTLAND3,000 to 30,465 SF office space available at 178-188 Middle St. Excellent location at the corner of Exchange St above Starbucks. Contact Joe Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Portland- 3,095 SF & 5,985 SF available at 50 Monument Sq in heart of downtown Portland.

Call Peter

PORTLAND- 3,308 SF 1st fl office space available at 119 Middle Street. 2 private offices. Lease rate: $17.75 psf MG. Contact Peter Harrington/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Portland- 3,616 SF Class A office available for sublease at One Canal Plaza. Call Peter.

Portland- 3,886 SF 2 level office suite available on Milk St. $17.50 psf MG includes heat.

Call Joe.

Portland- 4,900 SF of prof office space available at 2338 Congress St. Onsite parking. Call Peter.

Portland- 534 SF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6,176 SF suites available at 22 Free St. Nearby parking available. $17.50- $18.50 MG lease rates. Contact Joe Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422.

PORTLAND- 550 SF of prime waterfront office space available at 50 Portland Pier. Lease rate includes HVAC and electric. C o n t a c t J o h n Doyon, CCIM / Malone CB at 207-772-2422 PORTLAND- 8,085 SF of professional office space available at 130 Middle St in Portlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Old Port. Direct lobby access. Lease rate $12.00 psf NNN. Contact Peter Harrington/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Portland- 970 SF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2,313 SF suites available at 75 Market St. Lease includes heat and A/C. Call Peter.

Portland- Class A office space at Canal Plaza for lease. 1,897 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 34,065 SF. Call Joe Malone.

Portland- Small to large office suites available at 222 St John St. Ample free on-site parking.

Convenient location.

Contact Peter Harrington / Malone CB at 207-772-2422 PORTLAND- Small to large office suites for lease at 100 Commercial St. Class A office space. On-site bldg management. Call Peter Harrington/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Portland- Up to 20,000 SF office for lease at 27 Pearl St. Parking available in adj lot. Call Joe.

Scarborough- 2,938 SF Class A office available at 23 Spring St. $12.50 psf NNN. Call John Doyon.

SO. PORTLAND- 1,500 SF finished office space available at The Castle at Brickhill. 5,655 SF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8,009 SF unfinished also available. C o n t a c t J o e Malone/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 S Portland- 1,513 SF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3,758 SF of office w/ beautifully landscaped grounds, ample on-site parking available at 100 Foden Rd. Contact Peter / Malone CB at 207-722-2422 Westbrook- 3,600 SF of retail/office/flex space @ 33 Elmwood Ave. $6.00 psf NNN. Call Mark Malone.

W e s t b r o o k - PRICE REDUCED. Up to 1,776 SF office for lease at 91 Larrabee Rd. Call Peter.

Windham- 660 to 4,010 SF 2nd floor office space available. On Route 302 with great visibility. $8.95 psf NNN. Contact Joe Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Y a r m o u t h - Premier office space for lease at Lower Falls Landing.

895Âą-5,532Âą SF. Call Matthew

2ETAIL3PACE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Island Viewâ&#x20AC;? is a truly unique property w/spectacular views of South Freeport harbor and surrounding islands. Whether considering renovating existing 2,200 sq. ft. home or starting new, little imagination is needed to see the potential this property has to offer. Proximity to So. Freeport & marinas, southern exposure, huge building envelope, perpetual usage rights to water, and privacy, make this a great opportunity!

MLS#1004738. Also see MLS#990091 for residential listing. $599,000.

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Auburn- 1,925 SF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4,675 SF available at 593 Center St. Freestanding building in Auburn Mall area. $10.00 psf NNN. Contact David Caron / M a l o n e C B a t 207-772-2422 Bridgton- 4 , 0 0 0 S F f o r lease on Rt 302. Exc visibility with ample p a r k i n g . $ 7 . 5 0 p s f M G. Call John.

FALMOUTH- 1,600 SF retail space available for lease on busy Route 1.

Upscale shopping plaza. $ 1 6 . 0 0 P S F N N N Call Mark Malone/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422

PORTLAND - 4,128 SF of restaurant/retail space lease at 100 Commercial St. Call Peter PORTLAND - 4,600 SF former Aubuchon on Forest Ave. Exc visibility with onsite parking. Call Mark.

PORTLAND - 1,129 SF 1st floor condo at 15 Brown St. Also available for sale. Call Peter Harrington.

Scarborough- 1,500 SF retail space for lease at 450 Plaza. $14.00 psf NNN. Call Mark Malone, CCIM

SO. Portland- U p t o 13,786 SF of retail space available at Mallside Plaza. Call Mark Malone, CCIM

S Portland- 2,100 SF of prime end cap retail space available at Jetport Plaza on Western Ave. Contact Mark Malone, CCIM / Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Topsham- 5,695 SF of inline retail space available at Topsham Fair Mall. Subdividable.

Good local/national t e n a n t m i x . Contact Mark Malone, CCIM / M a l o n e C B a t 207-772-2422 Windham- 860 to 5,670 SF 1st floor retail/office space available at Shops at Sebago. Low lease rate. $8.95 psf NNN. Contact Joe Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422

7AREHOUSE3PACE Auburn- 2,500 SF available man Rd. Easy access. $5.50 Call David

SF-12,500 on Rodturnpike psf NNN.

P o r t l a n d â&#x20AC;&#x201C;( 3 ) 2 , 0 1 0 S F warehouse bays for lease at 273 Presumpscot St. $4.50 psf NNN. Call John

Portland- 9,800 SF office/whse space on Presumpscot St. 2 docks, 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings. $6.50 MG. Call Joe.

PORTLAND RIVERSIDE Forest Ave. Area. High Visibility 1500 SF w/OH Door + office. $1200 incl. all. (714)305-8242.

SO. Portland- 4,000 SF office/warehouse sublease near Maine Mall. $7.50 psf NNN. Call John Doyon.

SO Portland- Up to 20,000Âą SF office/whse for lease at 39 Wallace Ave. Close to Me Tpke.

Call Mark.

Windham6,000 SF available. Clear span warehouse. Lease rate $4.85 psf NNN. Call John Doyon.

#OMMERCIAL,AND GORHAM- 1.5 acre & 6.63 acre development lots available at New Portland Parkway. Industrial, business & service uses. Call John Doyon, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Wells- .56+/- acres commercial land for sale just off Route 1.

General Business Zone.

Sale price $295,000.

Contact Matthew Barney / Malone CB at 207-772-2422 W i n d h a m - Windham Mills Park lots available @ $115,000 ea. Up to 2,000 SF bldgs. Call David Caron.

#OMMERCIAL0ROPERTY NORTH TURNER, ME Country Store. Financing for qualified buyer. $289,000. 224-8477 O L D O R C H A R D - 16,086 SF downtown retail center for sale. 1.8 acres. Excellent development site. Call Mark

PORTLAND- 11,316 SF office/classroom/warehouse property on Brackett St for sale.

Great West End location. Contact Joe Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 Portland- Former Elks Lodge on 6.9 acres for sale. Located across from Portland Jetport.

Call Mark.

S a c o - 7 , 1 4 0 S F retail/whse property available for sale. 2 buildings, 4.61 acres, 200â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of road frontage on US Route 1. Contact James Harnden / Malone CB at 207-772-2422

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-ULTI 5NITS Portland- 4 legal (1) bedroom units plus additional unit. 100% leased @ 271 Spring St. Sale price $345,000.

Contact David Caron / M a l o n e C B a t 207-772-2422.

WestbrookComm/ residential property on Main St. 100% leased.

Sale price $530,000. Call David.

/FlCEFOR3ALE Cumberland- 4,400Âą SF office building on Longwoods Rd. Price R e d u c e d $294,000. Call Mark Malone

SO. Portland- 6,632 SF building on 1Âą acres.

On Broadway less than 1 mile from Route 1.

Call Mark.

WESTBROOK- 1,075 SF office condo for sale at 50 Park Rd. Near turnpike & next to Mercy Primary Care. Sale price $75,000. C o n t a c t J o e Malone, CCIM/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422

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!UTOSFOR3ALE BMW 325XI 2002 - Auto, AWD, 80K miles, exc cond, always garaged & dealer serviced $10,500 or best offer. 892-3404 BMW 330 Ci 2003 Convertible. Low mi. 41K Looks & Runs GREAT! TURNS HEADS! Rear wheel drive, Manual, Green exterior, Tan leather interior. $18,000 Negotiable.

(In Portland) Call 207-650-1153 BUICK LUCERNE SUPER C X S 2 0 0 6 - Norstar 4.6L,54K mi., metallic maroon, tan leather, heated 8 way power seats, individual climate control, bluetooth,, OnStar, remote start, every option except moonroof.

Asking $16,500. $45,225 to replace. 892-2052 CHEVROLET COLORADO 4X4 Z71 CREW CAB 2005 - Auto., 5-Cyl. 100K mi.

Red, A/C, new tires, exc.cond. Many extras. $11,000. 989-980-7653 anderson274@ hotmail.com CHEVROLET MALIBU CLASSIC 2005 - 63K, exc cond, 1 owner $6,995, lists for $8,100. Boothbay 380-3551 CHEVY CAMARO 2010 Manual, 6-Cyl.1475 mi.

Black, loaded, LT Coupe w/ RS Package.

20 "wheels. Rear spoiler, sunroof, auxillary gauges. Leather seats & much more. $25,500 608-359-1668

CHEVY COBALT 2008, 2DR, XM Radio Sporty coupe!

Must Sell- $8,950 obo Call Lou 518-8131

CHEVY IMPALA 2002, V6, Pwr Opt, Great commuter car!

Must Sell- $2,950 obo Call Stu 423-3986

CHEVY IMPALA 2002, V6, Pwr Opt, Great commuter car!

Must Sell- $5,750 obo Call Stu 423-3986

CHRY PT CRUISER 2003, 4Cyl, Pwr Options, Great MPG! Must Sell- $3,550 obo Call Stu 423-3986

CHRYSLER SEBRING 2008, 4Cyl, Leather Smooth ride.

Must Sell- $11,500 obo Call Lou 518-8131 CHRYSLER VOYAGER 2002 - Auto., 119K mi.

Maroon, runs well.

New Maine State Inspection Sticker as of 3/4/11. Good condition! $3950. 415-9569 CIVIC EX 2006 - Manual, 4-Cylinder, 110,000 miles, Blue, anti-lock brakes, power steering, air conditioning, CD, AM/FM, stereo, very clean, $7,800 .

207-798-0768

Exceptional colonial in Otterbrook, one of Windham's premier neighborhoods. Six bedrooms, 4 baths with some of the finest custom finish work. Granite, cherry, hardwood, built-ins, window seats and more. Nestled in the pines on over an acre. $425,000.

New Colonial in Anthoine Acres. Nearly complete and ready for your interior choices. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, main floor laundry room. Large private lot at the end of a culdesac. Great Portland commute.

This builder is a reputable perfectionist! $274,900.

The Tufts Team 712-5942

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DODGE CALIBER SXT 2008 - 4 D R , n e w t i r e s . exc. cond. 40,815 mi. has warranty. Clear title. 4 cyl, hatchback, auto, black, no accidents, 1 owner, N.S. $8295, retails $10,500.

423-313-7777, car is in Westbrook.

DODGE STRATUS 2006, V6, Alloys, Great student/family car!

Must Sell- $7,990 obo Call Stu 423-3986

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FREEPORT- Up to 10,000 SF of retail space available for lease on Route 1. 1st & 2nd floor retail/office suites as small as 600 SF. Contact Mark Malone/ Malone CB at 207-772-2422 PORTLAND- 1,409 SF retail space available at 157 Middle St. Large windows for displays.

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Portland- 2,550â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7,000 SF available at 250 Commercial St. Old Port w/ low lease rate. Call Peter.

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/FlCE 3PACE ,EASE P O R T L A N D - 12,600 SF 75,600 SF of Class A office space available at 1 Monument Sq. City & water views, recent major renovations. Contact James Harnden/ M a l o n e C B @ 207-772-2422 P O R T L A N D - 1,296 SF of office space available at 59 Baxter Blvd. Water views & onsite parking.

Lease rate $17.95 psf MG. Contact John Doyon, CCIM/ Malone CB 207-772-2422 Portland- 1,553 SFâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17,368 SF of office space in Portland Arts District. $9.50-$10 psf NNN. Call Joe.

FORD CROWN VICTORIA 2007 - 130K mi. Police Interceptor, excellent condition. $6500. Call 207-797-9046.

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FORD MUSTANG CONV E R T I B L E 2 0 0 5 maroon, auto, 6 cyl, A/C, PW, 26K mi., garaged winters. $12,500 or best offer.

Call Greg, 207-318-8116.

TOYOTA AVALON XLS â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;98 - Auto, leather, CD player, loaded, very clean, in great cond.

Aksing $4,900. Call 650-1100.

HONDA CIVIC 4DR 2001, 4Cyl, Auto, CD,Perfect student car!

Must Sell- $6,500 obo Call Stu 423-3986 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 2000 - new sticker, very clean, runs great, 206K mi.pewter, 37mpg. $2495 or best offer. Call 240-6505.

HYUNDIA ELANTRA 2010 4Cyl, 5Spd, CD, Great commuter car!

Must Sell- $12,477 obo Call Lou 518-8131

TOYOTA CAMRY LE 2006 - Excellent condition. well maintained, new tires, 1 owner. $9,200. Call 727-4778.

TOYOTA COROLLA 2009 4 cyl auto, white/ beinge interior, loaded with everything but power seats, 32K miles, exc cond $14,000/best offer 615-6329

TOYOTA COROLLA2010, Auto, Pwr Opt, Great MPG! Must Sell- $13,750 obo Call Lou 518-8131 TOYOTA SIENNA LE 2005 - 28K miles, auto, exc. cond., new tires, tow pkg $16,500. 865-4505 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2 0 1 0 - d i e s e l , 41-45mpg in town, standard trans. 7200 mi. $20,300. $24,800 new. loaded. 467-1518 VOLKSWAGON PASSAT 2004 - 4 motion, very good cond. silver, loaded, 107K mi. $7200.

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KIA RONDO LX 2008, V6, Pwr Opt,Perfect family vehicle!

Must Sell- $12,688 obo Call Lou 518-8131 LEXUS GS300 2004 - with navigation system, Mark Levinson sound system, sunroof & many other options 103K, exc. cond., regularly maintained by dealer, summer & BLIZAK winter tires $12,300. 207-358-0080.

LEXUS RX400H 2007 Auto., 145K highway mi. Charcoal, loaded, anti-lock brakes, P.S. A/C, GPS. New tires, runs well, leather interior, moon roof. $17,175. 207-318-1787

MERCEDES BENZ CLASS SL500 ROADSTER 2004 hardtop convertible, 2 dr, V8, 5.0L, auto, silver, light blue leather interior, 90K mi, loaded w/ all options, exc.cond.

Selling for $24,500. $89K new. 207-465-7189 or 207-233-5416.

NISSAN SENTRA GXE 2002 - Silver, auto, 4 cyl, A/C, PW, PL, PM, CD, sticker, no rust, 30MPG $4,600. 650-6772.

PONTIAC SUNFIRE 1996 Auto, sliding sunroof, great A/C & heater, recent inspection sticker, FWD, 127K miles, Nokian snow tires, great car! $2700.

518-9069 SAAB 93 2003 - 4 DR, LOADED, CD, moonroof, beautiful car, 1 owner. must see.

Asking $6800.650-1603 SAAB 9-5 AERO 2002 sedan, exc. cond.

24mpg combined, reliable, auto, elec. heated leather seats, moonroof, winter & summer tires on rims. All service records. Recent inspection sticker. 158K mi. $3950/best 650-3773 SUBARU LEGACY LSI STATION WAGON 1995 2nd owner, auto, AWD, 169K mi., exc. shape, new tires, brakes & tuneup. $2950 or best offer. 522-1599

VOLVO 850 WAGON 1993, 5CYL, Auto, Great in snow!

Must Sell- $1,950 obo Call Stu 423-3986 VOLVO S60 AWD 2003 Auto., 5-Cyl. 87K mi.

Red, loaded, leather interior, sunroof. Very clean, 1 owner. AWD, dealer maintained. $9,000. (KBB $11,000) Peter 207-838-1761 VOLVO S80 2000 leather, extremely clean, well main. exc. cond. Drives like new. $2945. 650-1603.

VOLVO V70 XC 1999, AWD, Leather Great in snow!

Must Sell- $3,950 obo Call Stu 423-3986

VW JETTA 2 0 0 7 H e a t e d Leather, Sunroof, 2.5L I-4, Auto, Full Power Must Sell- $13,900 obo Call Lou 518-8131

-OTORCYCLES -OPEDS BMW R27 1964 - Rebuilt motor & trans. Beautiful orig. paint. alloy wheels, new seat & bars incl. $3600/best offer Call FMI, 778-0735.

HARLEY DAVIDSON ROADGLIDE FI 2003 - 24K mi. Silver/black, garaged. Exc.cond.

Dealer installed Stage I kit & exhaust. Call 207-735-5440 for more details. Bangor. $11,500.

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CHEV SUBURBAN 2001, V8, 4WD Solid SUV! Must Sell - $6,000 obo Call Stu 423-3986

LEXUS GS300 2003 - 4 DR, exc. cond. verynice. loaded w/ everything. Asking $8900.

Call 650-1100.

CHEVY TAHOE 2005, V8, 4WD Great family SUV! Must Sell- $14,750 obo Call Stu 423-3986

CHEVY TAHOE LT 2007, Sunroof, 20â&#x20AC;? Alloys, Very sharp SUV! Must Sell - $21,500 obo Call Stu 423-3986

CHEVY TRAILBLAZER 2006 4 W D L S P a c k a g e , 4.2L I-6, Auto, Very clean truck.

Must Sell- $13,900 obo Call Stu 423-3986

MERCURY MARINER P R E M I E R E 2 0 1 0 - 4x4, 7500 miles, auto, leather interior, sync & GPS systems, back-up sensors, exc cond.

Asking $25,000.

415-8767.

TOYOTA 4RUNNER 2005 SR5 4WD 4 . 0 L V 6 , A u t o , Very Clean. Perfect reliable family SUV. Must Sell- $16,750 obo Call Stu 423-3986 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER sr5 2003 - V-8, moonroof, loaded, black, 1 owner, must see, 79K miles.

Asking $14,900. Call 529-5494 days or 529-5980.

TOYOTA RAV4 2008 Auto. , 4-Cyl. 51K mi., white pearl, new tires, cloth seats. Excellent condition. $17,000 207-694-4184

CHEVY TRLBLAZER 2003, 4WD, Alloys, great in snow!

Must Sell - $9,500 obo Call Stu 423-3986

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FORD ESCAPE HYBRID 2006 - 4WD, navigation, 6 CD player, exc cond, 105K, 1 owner $8,800 firm. Call 207-318-5248.

FORD EXPEDITION 2000 loaded, black. 132K mi. $5500 or best offer. Call 380-6609

FORD EXPLORER 2004 4WD 4.0L V6, Auto, Full Power Options, solid.

Must Sell- $9,200 obo Call Stu 423-3986 FORD EXPLORER EDDIE BAUER ED 2007 - 73K hwy miles, V-6 auto, 2 tone maroon, leather seats, 3rd row seat, remote start, DVD system, Satellite radio ready, sunroof, tow pkg, roof rack, exc cond $18,300. 985-9847 FORD EXPLORER XLT 1998 - Auto., 6-Cyl., 125K mi. White, antilock brakes, power steering,A/C, CD, AM/FM, stereo, runs well, tow package. $2900/Best. 510-1571 HONDA CRV 2002 Manual, 4-Cylinder, 120,000 miles, Mojave Mist, power steering, air conditioning, CD, AM/FM, stereo, runs well, moon roof, very clean, $8200 .

207-522-5617 HONDA CRV EX 2004 many features, auto, 4 cyl, 75K mi., like new, well-maintained. 1 owner, will sacrifice $9800. Call 229-8293.

HONDA PILOT LX â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;06 4WD, 5 spd auto, 8 passenger/3rd row seat, silver, 71K, all power, A/C, CD, alloys, traction /stability control, cruise 1st/2nd/3rd row curtain air bags, great int. , exc cond. $16,490/best.

Kennebunk 603-475-2208

CHEVY EQUINOX LT 2006, V6, AWD, Leather, very nice SUV! Must Sell - $16,500 obo Call Lou 518-8131

JEEP WRANGLER 4WD Unlimited Pkg, Two Tops 2005 Great in Snow.

Must Sell- $15,500 obo Call Stu 423-3986

FORD EXPLORER SPORT TRUCK XLT 2003 - 4 W D, a u t o , C D , heated seat, silver color, gray leather.

Must see. Exc. Cond. $8900. 650-1100 FORD F150 CC 2010 auto, 4X4, Sirus radio, tow pkg. power sunroof, bedliner w/only 25K mi.$34,500.

Call 615-3235.

FORD F150 STX 2005 -2WD , s h o r t b o x , r e a l sharp. Only 66K, small V8, auto, gray w/cloth int. Very well main.

Mint cond. $8950. Call 671-6885 or 232-3656.

CHEVROLET COLORADO 2007 - 2WD, short box, P/U, 2.9 4-cyl, auto, A/C, tilt, cruise, Posi rear, 1 owner, Immaculate cond., 152K $5595 firm.

Norway 207-515-4187 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 4 X 4 1 9 9 6 - 4 W D, 9 passenger, 200K, loaded.

3/4 ton HD, runs new, Class 3 hitch. blue. 5.7. $1900. 205-9123.

FORD F750 1998 - new tires, brakes, exhaust and more. 26â&#x20AC;&#x2122; box truck. Runs great, ready for road. $5000.

Call 828-8699.

FORD RANGER XLT 2004 ext. cab, A/C, auto, tow package, truck liner.

95K mi. 4WD, looks & runs exc. w/new power wheel chair lift. $7900.

Call 779-7843.

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GMC JIMMY SLE 2000 4X4, 4.3 Vortex, 176K. Originally Southern truck. no rust, good sticker, super clean champagne color , has trans issue, no 4th gear, loaded, all options w/tow pkg. Sell $1800.

Books $3200. 205-9123.

GMC P/U 1988 - 4WD, 89K, 8 ft Fisher plow, toolbox, bedliner, ready to go $2,195.

Boothbay 380-3551 GMC SIERRA SLE 2009 Regular cab, 4WD w/8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fisher plow, never used. 6 liter eng., 9143 mi. Asking $25,500.

Orig. price $40,000 .

Also space cap for additional $6000.

Call 467-1518.

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ORIG. $47,700. 467-1518

GMC SIERRA XCAB 2006, V8, 4WD Great in snow!

Must Sell - $13,900 obo Call Stu 423-3986 CHEVY COLORADO 2004, Z-71, Leather, very nice small truck!

Must Sell - $10,967 obo Call Stu 423-3986

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CHEVY SILV 1500 2008, V6, Auto Perfect work truck!

Must Sell- $16,500 obo Call Lou 518-8131 CHEVY SILVERADO 2010 ext cab, 3800 miles, black, auto, loaded, $27,000. 380-6609

CHEVY SILV EXT CAB 2004, V8, 4WD, Great work truck!

Must Sell - $6,950 obo Call Stu 423-3986 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY LX 2002 - 139K mi., new sticker, good cond., clean int., runs great. $3950. 839-7300.

DODGE CARAVAN 2005, V6, 7 Pass. Great family vehicle.

Must Sell- $6,750 obo Call Stu 423-3986

SUBARU OUTBACK 2001146K, new brakes, calipers, rotors, head gaskets, timing belt, cam seals, new tires, new sticker $6600. 831-9216 SUZUKI KAZASHI SE 2010 - AWD, auto, 10,000 miles, many features, exc cond, asking $22,000. 807-8622.

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TOYOTA TACOMA 2009, Crew, V6 Tough truck!

Must Sell $26,500 obo Call Lou 518-8131

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