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(Continued from Page D) Conflicting property rights were not troublesome in 17th century England, because custom and limited technology kept people in place. In America, people moved freely to fill the empty acres. As larger communities grew, conflicts among individuals’ rights became inevitable. American governments, following Locke’s reasoning, became responsible, as Madison wrote in Federalist #10, to protect both the minority against the majority, and the majority against the minority. Thus began a tense relationship in American thought — support the individual and at the same time support the community as the method through which people define the common good. This conflict is currently demonstrated by those who believe that environmental programs in the United States threaten individual property rights. They argue that rights of one person or group are more threatened by the rights of the community (as defined by a legally constituted majority). To further describe the conflict, consider the declining productivity of major
water resources such as the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Maine. A moderate rainstorm introduces millions of gallons of pollutants and other detritus that kill sea life and threaten the livelihood of countless watermen and associated businesses. The same concern is relevant to Maine’s lakes. Run-off from storms and human activity threaten local business and property values. What of the rights of citizens to earn a living, to maintain themselves and their families? To shift the emphasis from real American problems, some suggest a nefarious and foreign plot by the United Nations to restrict individual rights. This is an impossibility. Since the U.N.’s charter recognizes the sovereignty of all its members, it cannot make or enforce laws in member countries. Additionally, the United States has an absolute veto in the Security Council (along with the “Big Five” and other nations who sit on the council temporarily), and would use it to prevent policies counter to U.S. interests. Frankly, if this organization had any real power, there would be no more war and people would not die from hunger and disease. Those supporting these unsound ideas of property rights seem not interested in solving the real problems that
Public Notice
TOWN OF NAPLES PUBLIC HEARING
The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on May 20, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda: Renewals of a Liquor License Permit Application and Special Amusement Permit Application for Black Bear Cafe, submitted John Bohill. Public Welcome. 2T19 Public Notice
TOWN OF NAPLES PUBLIC HEARING
The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on June 3, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda: Renewal of a Liquor License Permit Application for Naples Pizza & Dugout, LLC, submitted by Keith & Lisa McKnight. Public Welcome. 2T20 Public Notice
TOWN OF NAPLES The Town of Naples respectfully requests that all floral and other arrangements be removed from grave sites prior to May 23, 2013. All remaining arrangements will be discarded after that date. 1T20
Broadcasting Studio, 423 Webbs Mills Road, Raymond Maine 04071
Map 053, Lot 009 C Zone
There will be a site walk conducted at the above property on May 18, 2013, at approximately 9:00 a.m. Copies of submitted applications are available at the Town Office during regular business hours. 2T19 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PURSUANT TO 14 M.R.S.A. §6323
paid in cash or by certified check payable to the USDA, Rural Development at the time and place of sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be paid within thirty (30) days following the sale. Failure to pay the balance due within thirty (30) days following the sale shall be deemed a forfeiture of the successful bidder’s deposit. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The above property is being sold “as is” and will be conveyed by Release Deed without any warranty as to the condition, size or location of the property or the state of title to the property. The property will be sold subject to utility easements and rights of way of record and utility easements and rights of way that are visible on the face of the earth. The property will be sold subject to real estate taxes assessed by and due and payable to the Town of Casco. Information regarding the terms and conditions of the sale of this property may be obtained by contacting the offices of Broderick & Broderick, P.A. at (207) 794-6557. Dated: April 29, 2013 /s/ Richard H. Broderick, Jr., Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff
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LEGAL AD
M.S.A.D. #61 INVITATION TO BID Maine School Administrative District No. 61 is accepting sealed bids from qualified financial institutions to provide the District with Lease/Purchase financing of various furniture and equipment items. Details information may be obtained by contacting the Business Office at (207) 647-3048 ext. 525. Bids close on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. 1T20
The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on May 20, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda: Application for Street Vendor Permit for Maine Blues Festival, submitted by Maine Blues Festival. 1T20
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1. Application for Outdoor Entertainment Permit for Maine Blues Festival, submitted by Maine Blues Festival. 2. Application for Street Vendor Permit for Maine Blues Festival, submitted by Maine Blues Festival. 1T20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold subject to all outstanding municipal assessments, whether or not of record in the Oxford County Registry of Deeds, as well as all real estate transfer taxes assessed on the transfer. The sale will be by public auction. The deposit to bid, nonrefundable as to the highest bidder, is $5,000.00 in official bank check or certified funds (cash deposits not accepted). The deposit to bid should be made payable to Bank of America, N.A. The highest bidder will be required to execute a purchase and sale agreement with Bank of America, N.A. as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P. The balance of the sale price will be due and payable within 45 days of the public sale. Conveyance of the property will be by release deed. All other terms will be announced at the public sale. Dated: May 13, 2013 s/Dan W. Thornhill, attorney for Bank of America, N.A. as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P. McEachern & Thornhill 10 Walker Street, PO Box 360 Kittery ME 03904 207-439-4881
Somebody in our high command let two former Navy SEALs die fighting off 80 radical Muslims. They fought bravely for seven hours and they could have been saved, but someone made a political decision that they should be left to die. Was that our commander in chief? Looks to me that it was, but we need a real investigation into that 40-year-old question: “What did the president know and when did he know it?” This isn’t what I started writing about for my weekly column, but after watching our president’s arrogant performance at the press conference Monday, my blood was boiling. We know he’s a political animal. All presidents are. A huge ego is necessary to even go after the job, but one must maintain basic human decency while functioning in the Oval Office. President Obama’s was running for a second term and Election Day was six weeks away. He had been bragging about killing Osama Bin Laden and putting al Qaida on the run and, on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, an al Qaida group murdered an American ambassador the president himself had appointed. His body was photographed being dragged through the streets and there are unconfirmed reports that he was degraded in other ways either before or after death — or both. It can’t be proven yet, but it’s obvious to millions of us that President Obama made a political decision that it was bad for his campaign for al Qaida to draw American blood again on the anniversary of September 11th, and on his watch — six weeks before the election. So, he tried to make it seem like it was something other than a terrorist attack, and hoped to ride it out until after Election Day. With the cooperation of our lapdog Mainstream Media, who either believed or pretended to believe his lies, he did. This writer is not a foreign policy expert or a White House correspondent. I’m a retired history teacher, but I knew right away it wasn’t a “demonstration” against a Youtube video. It was a full-scale terrorist attack by radical Muslims bent on killing Americans. People don’t bring rocket-propelled grenade launchers to demonstrations. So, when I watched as President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied to the families of the slain Americans next to their coffins at the airport, I was enraged. When I watched U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice go around the Sunday morning talk shows, I knew she was lying too. Right away, I got on my laptop and started typing to give vent to my anger. The next
MSAD 72 FY 2013–2014 INFORMATIONAL BUDGET MEETINGS Tuesday, May 21, 6:30 P.M. Brownfield/Denmark Elementary School Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 p.m. Molly Ockett Middle School
Thursday, May 23, 3:15 p.m. Molly Ockett Middle School Thursday, May 23, 6:30 p.m. New Suncoook Elementary School
Molly Ockett Middle School
TOWN OF BRIDGTON 3 CHASE STREET, SUITE 1 BRIDGTON, MAINE 04009
Notice of Public Hearing
The Municipal Officers of the Town of Bridgton will hold a Public Hearing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at the Municipal Building located at 3 Chase Street, in Bridgton to accept oral and written comments on an application from Punkin Valley Inn (1270 North High Street) for a Special Amusement Permit (karaoke, soloist, small bands, etc). 1T20
3 CHASE STREET, SUITE 1 BRIDGTON, MAINE 04009
Notice of Public Hearing The Municipal Officers of the Town of Bridgton will hold a Public Hearing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at the Municipal Building located at 3 Chase Street, in Bridgton to accept oral and written comments on an application from Depot Street Tap (18 Depot Street) for a New Liquor License. 1T20
TOWN OF BRIDGTON
NOTICE OF SALE
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Certain property situated generally at 39 Eastland Street, Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine. The property is also described on the Fryeburg Tax Maps as Map 48, Lot 22. Reference should be had to said mortgage deed for a more detailed legal description of the property to be conveyed.
Left to die, the telling of lies
TOWN OF BRIDGTON
The Naples Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on May 21, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda:
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 23, 2013, and entered in the action entitled Bank of America, N.A. as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P. v. Michelle M. Morin and David R. Morin et al., which Judgment was entered in the District Court for Northern Cumberland County, Docket No. BRI-RE-09-195, and wherein the Court adjudged a foreclosure of a mortgage deed granted by Michelle M. Morin and David R. Morin to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated August 9, 2005, and recorded in the Oxford County Registry of Deeds in Book 499, Page 623, the period of redemption from said Judgment having expired, a public sale will be conducted on June 19, 2013, commencing at 10:30 a.m. at the offices of McEachern & Thornhill, 10 Walker Street, Kittery, Maine, of the following property:
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Wednesday, May 29, 7:00 p.m.
PUBLIC HEARING
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
by Tom McLaughlin
DISTRICT BUDGET APPROVAL MEETING
TOWN OF NAPLES
Public Welcome.
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PLANNING BOARD
Reason: Applicant is requesting approval for Conditional Use Permit for outdoor sales.
The property shall be sold to the highest bidder at the sale. Ten percent of the purchase price will be required to be
To The Editor: Until recently I, like most people, had never heard of the United Nations Agenda 21. After reading some of the discussion in The Bridgton News, I got curious and decided to read this infamous document. I was especially concerned by the claim that part of the Agenda was to reduce world population to 500 million (in other words by well over 90%) and of course, that it proposed a large reduction in the rights of private landowners. I downloaded the Agenda from the U.N. website and read it. The Agenda is 351 pages long, it was clearly written by a committee of pendants, bureaucrats and probably lawyers (judging by the Latin
TOWN OF NAPLES
You are hereby notified that the Raymond Appeals Board will hold a public hearing at the Raymond Broadcasting Studio on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. to hear information on the following application:
By virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 23, 2013 entered in the Maine District Court, District Nine, Division of Northern Cumberland at Bridgton, Civil Action, Docket No. BRIDC-RE-2012-65, in an action brought by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA acting through the RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, USDA, f/k/a the FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION, Plaintiff, against MICHAEL J. BAUTER, Defendant, and ATLANTIC ACCEPTANCE CORPO-RATION and STATE OF MAINE, MAINE REVENUE SERVICES, Parties in Interest, for the foreclosure of Mortgage Deed dated May 22, 1989 and recorded in the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds in Book 8763 Page 200, the statutory ninety (90) day redemption period having elapsed without redemption, notice is hereby given that there will be sold at public sale at the offices of the USDA, Rural Development, 306 U. S. Route 1, Scarborough, Maine, on June 11, 2013 at 1:00 P.M., all and singular the premises described in said mortgage deed and being situate at 1280 Watkins Glen Road a/k/a 31 Glen Drive in Casco, Maine.
Sinister agenda?
Public Notice
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Public Hearing Monday, May 20, 2013 7:00 P.M.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
To The Editor: Over the years, many people have given inspiration to the Children’s Hands On Art Festival to make it a joyous event. The dedication of Marybeth Sullivan, executive director of Landmark Human Resources, has been key to the continued success of this event. Most of us get excited about it around February, however, Marybeth has it on her mind year round, picking out items for great gift baskets, coordinating crafts with her staff, clients and even board members. By 11 a.m., we are all grateful for David MacFarland’s famous hot dog lunch. I cannot imagine this event without the people of Landmark. The 10th Annual Children’s Hands On Art Festival was a great event with lots of new energy. The Bridgton Literacy Taskforce, represented by Pam and Bill Bruckner, George Bradt and Ellia Manners, added reading and book distribution. This is such a wonderful project to learn about and be involved in. If you are concerned about youth literacy please see them on Facebook. New ideas for crafts came from Anne Overman, Ruth Shalline, Betty Phillips and
Public Welcome.
TOWN OF RAYMOND
Tom Hartley 1284 Roosevelt Trail
Words of praise
our favorite volunteer, Deena. Also new this year were seedlings provided by the Gilroy Garden Initiative, thank you Carry and Nick. Although we always enjoy lively music by Chris Bannon, we were thrilled with the addition of Taryn Schorr, a student at Oxford Hills. A wonderful time was had by all and some great arts and crafts went home for Mother’s Day. None of this would be possible without the support and cooperation of Stevens Brook Elementary School, and in particular Ed Hatch and his crew. Bridgton is very lucky to have this wonderful facility available for community events. This is one of my favorite events. My sincere thanks to all who make it fun for our youth. You are all very special people! Carmen Lone Executive Director Bridgton Community Center
Public Notice
Cemetery Cleanup
Thank you for your cooperation.
face this country. Their views promote division, suspicion and fear. Neither John Locke nor James Madison would support a claim that individual property ownership should trump community interest and thereby endanger other people’s efforts to maintain their lives, property, and livelihood (the description of Jefferson’s “pursuit of happiness”). Such views seem to be patently “unAmerican.” Dee Miller Bridgton
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3 CHASE STREET, SUITE 1 BRIDGTON, MAINE 04009
Bid Request The Town of Bridgton is requesting proposals from qualified and experienced engineering firms for a wastewater disposal feasibility study. The purpose of the feasibility study is to determine the most prudent course of action for wastewater disposal given existing and future build out conditions in the Town. Full specifications are available on our website at www.bridgtonmaine.org Sealed proposals must be received by the Office of the Town Manager, Town of Bridgton, Three Chase Street, Suite 1, Bridgton, Maine 04009 no later than Thursday, June 6, 2013, at 2:00 p.m., at which place and time all proposals shall be opened and read aloud. The Town reserves the right to waive any informalities in the proposal process and will award the contract(s) based upon the qualifications and experience of an Engineering firm that best meets the type of work necessary and that are deemed to be in the best interest of the Town of Bridgton. Inquiries should be directed to the Town Manager, Mitchell A. Berkowitz, at 207-647-8786. Questions shall be submitted no later than Thursday, May 30, 2013, to be considered and answered. Inquiries, if deemed by the Town to be important to share with all proposers, will be answered through an addendum.