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Halloween road closures — safety issue over sanctioning

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer While the Covid-19 scare is real, trick-or-treaters can at least feel safe as they go door-to-door in the Elm Street neighborhood.

Citing “tradition,” Bridgton will close down Elm, Hillcrest, Bennett, Iredale and Chase Streets to vehicle traffic for a few hours on Halloween to allow safe passage for trick-ortreaters.

Officials stressed the decision as one of safety and not sanctioning parents and their children going door-todoor during this Covid-19 time. In talking with residents of this neighborhood, many indicated they planned THE LARGEST Northern White Cedar you’ll probably to offer candy to youngsters, ever see is located in Lovell and is one of the new State Champs listed in the 2020 Oxford County Register of Big Trees.

prompting the plan to close off those roadways.

Last week, nearby Raymond and the Sheriff’s Office issued a statement “not recommending” citizens to participate in traditional trick-or-treating in the Main Street area “where traditionally over a thousand children and adults gather in a short window of time.”

Officials suggested people participate in low risk activities like virtual Halloween costume contests, a movie night and house decorating.

Rec Director Gary Colello informed selectmen that due to Covid-19 restrictions, the annual Halloween Party held at the town hall is canceled. Other activities that can be “safely” held

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Will the Town of Casco find its next town manager from one of 13 applicants?

After the job opening for the Casco Town manager was advertised a second time, 13 resumes were turned in by the deadline of Oct. 7.

On Tuesday night, the Casco Board of Selectmen met in executive session to review the resumes, which included resumes from the first time the position was advertised.

Going forward, three candidates will be contacted for an interview, according to Casco Chairman Thomas Peaslee.

“There is one from the new batch, and two from the previous,” Peaslee said.

“It was nice to have more applicants,” Peaslee said.

However, it is difficult to get a feel for the people just by looking at the resumes.

“Until we interview them, we won’t know. Reading a piece of paper is not all

that exciting. It is more of a function. We definitely have to do a face-to-face interview,” he said.

The next step is setting up those interviews.

“The arrangement is that Don Gerrish will contact the candidates and make sure they are still interested and CASCO, Page 10B

Equipment to extricate motorists

was held last Thursday to accept the gift because the donation’s value exceeded $10,000 (under that amount, selectmen could vote to accept).

Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Murphy told officials that the new extrication cutting and spreading tools will be battery powered. On Saturday, fire fighters took part in a training at Harrison Auto Salvage, using similar extrication tools. Soon, they will have new tools at their disposal.

In other business: SAD 17 frustrations.

Kathy Laplante reached her end wits with the SAD 17 School Board, and now Mark Heidmann will give it a try as Harrison’s representative.

The Selectboard accepted Laplante’s resignation “with regret,” and brought attention to a growing concern regarding the direction the school district’s governing board is headed.

In her letter of resignation to SAD 17 Superintendent

of Schools Rick Colpitts, Laplante said, “It has become very clear to me that the process under which this board operates is contrary to my beliefs of how a board should work. I have found it more and more frustrating to try and promote critical thinking and forward visioning to this boards’ membership.”

She added, “It is also evident to me that my beliefs and perceptions of what are the best decisions for the HARRISON, Page 3A

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will include a pumpkincarving contest in the Town Commons (2 p.m.), virtual costume contest (5 p.m.), scavenger hunt (items placed on Pondicherry Park trails to be photographed and sent via social media or e-mail to organizers) and possibly a daylight-hour Spook Walk at the Bridgton Memorial School grounds with the help of Lake Region Drama Club members (this idea is still in the works since Colello sought selectmen’s input before pursuing it).

Colello looked to gauge public opinions via an online survey regarding Halloween events. Some results: 69% indicated families will be participating in some sort of Halloween festivity

55% will be trick or treating in Bridgton, 16% have not decided yet 26% will be distributing candy to trick or treaters.

50% do not live in in a place that get trick or treaters.

89% would support a status quo closure of Elm St this Halloween 75% Love Chocolate the Most 53% would not attend any Halloween event indoors Colello said that at any “town event,” he will follow CDC guidelines as well as protocols — such as temperature checks, use of sanitizer and masks — that have been successful during Rec childcare programs.

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This has been an amazing year for the Oxford County Register of Big Trees! Oxford County’s newest champion is a Balsam Poplar, or for those of you familiar with the works of local author C.A. Stephens, a Balm of Gilead.

Located in Bethel at the home of Scott and Michele Cole, the tree is 105 feet tall, 194 inches in circumference, and has a total of 318.6 points. It’s a beauty, but not only did it become the latest county champ, it also became a state champion.

In all, Oxford County lost one state champ and added 10 new trees to the Maine Register of Big Trees, for a total of 17 State Champions!

The other big news is that Oxford County now has its first two nominations for the National Registry of Big Trees! The two entries are a Mountain Paper Birch, also located in Bethel, and an Eastern Hophornbeam planted on Paris Hill in 1812.

Here’s a breakdown of where the Registry now stands: New County Champions: Aspen, Bigtooth (co-champion); Poplar, Balsam; Spruce, White (co-champion) New State Champions: Beech, American; Birch, Mountain Paper; Butternut; Cedar, Northern White; Chestnut; American; Hophornbeam, Eastern; Pine, Eastern White; Poplar, Balsam; Sumac, Staghorn; Tamarack Present State Champions: Ash, White; Basswood, American; Maple, Silver; Oak, Black; Redcedar; Sycamore, American; Oak, Northern Red BIG TREES, Page 2A

Donor gives HFD more bite

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer HARRISON — An anonymous local donor has pledged $50,000 to improve the Harrison Fire Department’s ability to extricate people trapped in vehicles involved in crashes.

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Voters getting a little testy returning ballots

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Given national news reports about voting fraud, some local residents have become concerned about handing over the completed absentee ballots.

“The attitude of voting this year has been different from I have ever seen in any other year. People are very possessive with their ballots,” Naples Town Manager John Hawley said.

Absentee ballot voting began last week in the Town of Naples. So, the staff has had a week to determine the pattern among some voters.

People have marked their choices on the absentee ballot or brought from home a completed ballot, and then acted fearfully about handing it to the clerk, Hawley said.

Some Naples voters have said they do not trust the ballots were going into a locked box, and perhaps the ballots were going to be shredded, he said.

“People have accused us of shredding the ballots. They don’t want to hand back the absentee ballots,” he said. “There are people who firmly believe” that the ballots are being dumped in a dumpster out back or something along that nature.”

“We are small town Naples,” he said, adding that the town hall staff is honorable and dedicated to an honest election process.

Hawley updated the Naples Board of Selectmen on absentee ballot voting during the board’s meeting on Tuesday.

In late September, the town was still waiting on the state to mail off the absentee ballots. Then, the town received the absentee ballots at the beginning of October. So,

people were able to come into the office and vote absentee — as long as they had not already requested an absentee ballot be mailed to them.

By Oct. 6, last Tuesday, all of the absentee ballots had been mailed to residents who had requested one.

“People didn’t have any patience. They were hearing that other communities had got absentee ballots and they wanted to know why they hadn’t got theirs yet,” Hawley said. “We have instances where two people in the same household requested absentee ballots but only one had arrived in the mail. We would show them that both ballots were mailed off on the same day. We explained it must be the postal service and not us. We have had a handful of those instances.”

It is important to note that if a person has requested an absentee ballot, that person cannot come into the office and ask for another absentee ballot. Anyone who has requested an absentee ballot has that written down next to their name on the registered voter list. That person cannot get a second absentee ballot.

Hawley explained the difference between early voting and absentee voting.

Some communities in Maine opted to give residents the chance to vote early.

Those communities have tally machines set up; and immediately after voting early, the ballot is counted.

“Naples did not offer early voting. But people can still vote early,” Hawley said.

“With early voting, they have a counting machine. And you run it right there. We don’t have the staff. We don’t have the VOTERS, Page 4A

THE STONE-WALL ENTRANCE of the Begin Estate lot is what drivers see from Route 302. The owner of the Great Northern Dock presented his proposal to lease the lot and expand his business.

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Plan, to lease, not buy

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The owner of Great Northern Dock presented his proposal to lease rather than buy the townowned land sometimes referred to as the Begin Estate lot.

More than a month ago, Sam Merriam, who owns Great Northern Dock, offered to pay fair market value to buy a section of the land next to the Naples Fire Station. He wanted it for expansion of his business, saying that docks and dock materials take up a lot

of space. Also, he has run out of room on his property on the other side of the fire station.

The suggestion of the town selling the lot generated quite a few comments in the community, with

residents saying the town should keep the land for multiple purposes.

On Tuesday, Merriam gave a quick overview of what he planned, including the important point that it PLAN, Page 3A

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Bridgton — Officials ponder sale of properties (Continued from Page 1A) To sell or not to sell?

Patty McDonald-Sholz and Peter Motel have their eyes on town-owned property and hope local officials might be willing to sell the lots.

McDonald-Sholz, who attended Tuesday’s meeting, asked to purchase a small parcel on Gibbs Avenue, across from her home, to build an oversized two-car garage. Code Officer Brenda Day reportedly looked over the plan and believes it would meet standards. The town has the lot assessed at $10,520.

Motel made his pitch virtually, looking to buy a 9.33acre non-waterfront parcel fronting on Cedar Drive.

“My intention, to do nothing,” he said.

If approved, Motel would tag a conservation easement on the lot to keep it in its natural state — free of development. He has approached the town three times to buy the land — in 2016 offering $43,000 and in 2017 offering $40,000 and $33,862.

Town Manager Bob Peabody outlined the process to follow if the Selectboard indeed decided to sell the two requested properties.

One, they would declare the land “surplus.” Second, the board would decide how to dispose of the property, either by sealed bid, public auction or through a real estate broker. And three, the proposed sale would need to be advertised, as well as notification made to abutters.

In regards to the McDonald-Sholz request, Selectmen Zaidman, Paul Tworog and Fred Packard wanted to check in with Fire Chief Tom Harriman to determine if the department had any use for the property (possible parking).

Selectperson Lone previously mentioned that maybe the town should hold onto the property as it continues to consider design options connected to streetscape.

The board tabled action until their Oct. 27 meeting.

As for Motel’s request, the same process would be in play if town officials decide to sell.

Zaidman suggested that the lot be appraised to determine what value the town should seek. Initially, offi-

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Residents of Casco can thank their local car salesman for easing the tax burden.

Or, maybe the thanks goes to those folks who are sporting a new ride.

The excise tax took a surprising turn since the sales of vehicles have increased compared to July through September of last year, according to Casco Interim Town Manager Don Gerrish.

Meanwhile, the State of Maine did come through with state revenue sharing, something that is almost always an uncertainty.

The two major revenue sources aside from property tax are: excise tax and revenue sharing. Those two sources of revenue are in good shape, Gerrish said.

Gerrish provided his monthly budget update to the Casco Board of Selectmen during its regu-

lar meeting on Oct. 6.

During the budget process, the town budgeted $760,000 to be received in excise tax, according to Gerrish. In the first three months of the town’s fiscal year, which started in July, the town collected almost $300,000 in excise tax, Gerrish said.

“We are $33,000 ahead for the first three months,” compared to 2019, he said.

The town has collected $298,500 through September compared to $267,633 at the same time last year, the town manager’s report said.

The excise tax outcome puts the town’s revenue in good shape. Apparently, people are buying more vehicles this summer.

“The interest rates went down and car dealerships are giving good deals. So that helps,” Gerrish said.

Then, he addressed state revenue sharing.

“When you passed the

budget, you were very conservative. You budgeted $125,000. We received $75,998 so far. We are in a good position. We got half of what we budgeted,” he said.

Another area of revenue, building permit fees, is also putting the town’s budget in pretty good shape, he said.

“On the spending side, nothing is staring out at me in the departments that we need to be concerned about at this time,” he said.

All expenditure budgets are in good shape, he said.

Meanwhile, the first half of the property tax bills was due on Oct. 7. Gerrish said that the treasurer had reported that payments were coming in. The board would be provided a better picture of what the town has collected after the payment deadline, he said.

Budget snapshot: Tax revenue surpasses last year

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(Continued from Page 1A) Nominees for National Registry: Birch, Mountain Paper; Hophornbeam, Eastern.

Area trees listed include: • White Ash, Waterford, 251 inches in circumference, 70-feet in height, last measured in 2019 • American Basswood, Waterford, 234 circumference, 82 height, 2020 measured • Northern White Cedar, Lovell, 193 circumference, 60 height, 2020 measured • Silver Maples, Fryeburg, 276 circumference, 96 height, 2020 measured • Red Mulbury,

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cials talked about gaining maximum value by possibly developing multiple house lots (some with “views”), but backed away from that scenario feeling the municipality has no business in property development. But, Zaidman wants the town to get fair value, so he suggested having a forester look over the lot and report on its development potential.

Proceeds from this sale would be placed in the Moose Pond Trust Fund.

The Selectboard asked Peabody to ascertain the cost of a real estate appraisal, and report back at the next meeting. If the town decides to hold onto the lot, at the very least, Zaidman said information gathered would tell future boards what the property is worth.

Tweaks to ordinances.

While the June 2021 town meeting is a ways off, the wheels are turning to update and tweak three town ordinances — Consumer Fireworks, Disorderly Houses and Nudity/Business Activities — whose changes will be up for voter approval.

During an hour workshop Tuesday, Ordinance Review Committee chairman Leonard Rudin highlighted the proposed changes to selectmen. Key points raised included: Disorderly Housing — The town’s authority is clearly defined, as well as who administers the ordinance (police and code enforcement); the threshold for declaring a disorderly house is tightened from three disorderly events in 90 days as opposed to the current 60 days; the officer responding should have sole discretion in deciding if a violation has occurred.

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committee excluded domestic violence as one of the disorderly events (these include loud music, boisterous gatherings, excessive, loud or unnecessary noise, altercations at the property such as fighting). The chief pointed out that victims of abuse would hesitate to report an incident if they thought doing so would jeopardize having a place to live.

Nudity — The committee created a definition of “explicit body parts” to be used rather than the previous lengthy phrase. “This change makes the ordinance easier to read, increases consistency throughout the ordinance and consequently makes the ordinance easier to understand,” the committee wrote.

Fireworks — Maybe the most controversial, the committee strived for a balance between the right to celebration and the right for peace of mind. The goal was to clarify hours that fireworks are allowed; add an age requirement to conform with state statute; and add locations where fireworks may be used safely.

• When — Continue to allow fireworks on holidays (July 2-6, Dec. 31 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.) and non-holiday weekends (starting Friday at 10 a.m. until Sunday at 10 p.m. year-round); disallow use Monday through Thursday.

• Age — No one under the age of 21 may sell, purchase, possess or use fireworks.

• Locations — 100 feet from a structure. Structures do not include parking lots, docks or boat houses. Use of fireworks on property with written consent of owner.

The ordinance will be enforced by the Department of Public Safety (police).

Fines would be increased from: $50 to $75 first offense, $250 to $300 for second offense, and $500 to $600 for third or subsequent offense.

The Selectboard had varied opinions. Selectman Bear Zaidman felt the ordinance should be left “as is,” citing Bridgton is a tourist town and he did not agree with restricting days fireworks could be used, noting some folks come here to celebrate special events like anniversaries, weddings and birthdays and make fireworks as

part of the festivities.

Selectperson Carmen Lone felt keeping Monday through Thursday off limits (other than holidays) is a reasonable expectation for those who live here, and may have to work the next day or have young children that need to be able to sleep without the “bang” of fireworks.

“There is no reason to have open season blowing things up seven days a week,” said Lone, also noting some local veterans suffered from PTSD and should not be subjected to unlimited fireworks displays. “We’re giving plenty of opportunity for people to plan special events and enjoy fireworks.”

Selectman Lee Eastman suggested the 10 a.m. start time be changed to 5 p.m.

An earlier time was suggested to allow individuals time to pretest fireworks before planned displays.

Concerning docks, Zaidman noted a dock must somehow be “connected” to private property to be used to ignite fireworks — that’s state law.

Selectmen asked that the proposed changes and wording be reviewed by Maine Municipal Association, and brought back to the board for final review.

Road closed for rededication. A portion of Depot Street will be closed to vehicle traffic Oct. 23-24 to accommodate a rededication ceremony at American Legion Post 67. The street will be blocked from the Legion building to the bridge, starting late Friday through Saturday at 8 p.m.

Short takes. A $370 donation from the Ed Rock Community Spirit Fund was accepted. The money will support the Summer Rec Program.

Selectmen approved the following street names — Twilight View for the private way owned by the Packard Family Trust, and Mackenzie Lane for the private way owned by Lakefront Builders.

Planning Board Chairperson Deb Brusini suggested that since the downstairs meeting room is heavily used that the town should look into some type of air filtration device as another safety precaution in this Covid-19 world.

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(Continued from Page 1A) students of the Oxford Hills community are completely contrary to this boards’ thinking.”

In closing, Laplante noted, “For the above reasons, minimally and for my own sanity, I must terminate my position.”

Laplante had 2 ½ years remaining on her term. Heidmann taught English at the University of Southern Connecticut, and locally served on the library board for seven years, one as chairman and five as vice chairman.

Local officials thanked Laplante for the “great job” she did keeping the town informed and providing Harrison with a strong voice on the school board. Education costs to SAD 17 amounts for 51% of the town’s overall budget.

Selectman Rick Sykes noted that serving as a town’s school board representative is a “thankless” job, and hopes that like Laplante, Heidmann provides regular updates to the Harrison Selectboard.

Building, boom for town. While Covid-19 forced the closure of a great part of the economy, one sector that seemed to chug along is real estate. Not only has the area seen steady sales, building has kept the local code enforcement hopping. For September, 32 permits — 21 building and 11 plumbing — were written. The result has been a revenue boom for Harrison. Town Manager Tim Pellerin reported that revenue taken in last year at this period was 21.5%. This year for the same period, revenue stands at 47.81%. And it appears the building engine is showing no signs for slowing down. Local contractors report they have worked lined up through the winter. Pellerin had a call last Wednesday from an individual wondering if he knew of an available contractor.

“I didn’t,” he said.

Looking at their options. While town officials praise the work and effort turned in by new local Cumberland County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Sawyer, they will continue to study what law enforcement options Harrison might have as the next budget development process begins.

Pellerin and the Selectboard emphasized that Deputy Sawyer — who was initially in attendance at last Thursday’s meeting but had to leave for a call just as this issue was being discussed — “has done an excellent job and has been an asset to us.”

“We’re very happy with Deputy Sawyer,” Pellerin said.

“The only failure is we can’t have him more.”

Harrison contracts for 40-hours of local coverage a week, leaving 128 hours without assigned patrol.

Pickleball fever. The game of pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports that can be enjoyed by folks of all ages. A recent three-day tournament at RADR, sponsored

by Harrison Rec, had a draw of 136 participants. The event went so well that Harrison is being considered as the location for a New England tourney in 2021.

By the Numbers. Some stats from the town manager’s report — fire department had 31 calls for this reporting period; as of Sept. 28, the call number for 2020 is at 273, up 41 from this date a year ago; in September, there were 3,274 visits to the Transfer Station; the Sheriff’s Office handled 272 incidents in August.

Public hearing will be held on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. at the town office to answer questions on the ordinance questions on the municipal ballot. The ordinances can be found on the town website.

Rabies clinic. Fryeburg Veterinary will hold a clinic on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the town office. Face coverings are required. Rabies shots will be $10.

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“Going forward, Sam’s proposal would keep that space open for potential use,” Turpin said.

Selectman Caleb Humphrey said that he was concerned about Code Enforcement Officer Renee Carter’s memo, stating that storing docks and dock materials would be in violation of the land-use ordinance for the Village District. He said he did not want to open a can of worm by entering into a lease when the activity was forbidden in the Village District zone.

Naples Town Manager John Hawley addressed this issue, saying that perhaps more research is needed.

“What she is suggesting is that commercial storage is not a permitted use in the Village district. I think I need to have some clarification. I think Sam makes a point — this is already sold inventory. It’s no different from the marina down the street storing sold boats,” Hawley said.

The board decided that before making a decision, it would like to clarify whether or not the land-use ordi-

nance would permit this use.

“Let clarify that at the next meeting. Then, get with legal and draft some form of agreement,” Caron said.

Resident David Garcia spoke against the lease “I am the chair of the Parks and Land-Use Committee.

We haven’t been notified of any of this We have looked at Begin property to use for the residents of the Town of Naples,” he said.

“I really have a problem with them using the land.

My problem is that you are giving it away,” Garcia said. “I would just like to be informed of what you plan on doing with the property before you make the decision. It would be nice if we were informed. We have done a lot with the property.”

Caron asked how far back from the property line did Great Northern Dock plan to stage docks.

Merriam answered.

The Begin Estate lot “is a little over two acres.

Probably one-third of it is in the back, which leaves two-thirds for you to use for whatever you need,” Merriam said.

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“It would help me in the short term until I find a more permanent situation,” he told the board.

Vice Chairman Bob Caron II recalled that several years ago Merriam struck a deal with the town to use a strip of land next to the fire station.

“I wanted to know if your intention was to continue to use that small space or get everything other there,” Caron said.

Merriam said he’d likely relinquish the space next to the fire station once he started leasing the Begin lot.

Selectman Jim Turpin said he favored a lease agreement.

“I see this as a good thing. It helps out a valued business,” Turpin said.

Other bonuses include the town retains ownership, he said. “It is not permanent.”

People in the community have mentioned that parking of boats and automobiles

by Kent’s Landing takes up a lot of space, and that it would be nice to keep the Begin lot for overflow park-

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Currently, only 11 percent of the forests in the 234,000-acre watershed are conserved.

These forests act as a natural filter for the water that feeds into Sebago Lake. As the drinking water supply for more than 200,000 people in Greater Portland — Maine’s largest urban area — the lake is a unique and critical resource for the state.

The increasing pace of development in the region threatens the quality of this pristine water supply.

“The first step in providing safe drinking water is to protect the water source. This grant will enable the protection of thousands of acres of forests that naturally clean Sebago Lake,” said Carrie Lewis, general manager of Portland Water District.

“We work with willing landowners who want to see their forests stay forests forever.

The result is we get cleaner drinking water and help keep Maine looking like Maine,” added Paul Hunt, environmental services manager at Portland Water District.

In addition to protecting drinking water, these funds will improve aquatic habitat for wildlife, boost local and regional economic benefits through the forest products sector, and provide public health benefits through increased recreational access.

“We are in a watershed moment figuratively, and now literally, thanks to this grant and our partners at Sebago Clean Waters,” said Lee Dassler, executive director of SCW partner Western Foothills Land Trust. “Protecting our forests and waters, strengthening the forest-based economies of our region, and ensuring biological CLEAN WATERS, Page 4A

Do you ever wonder just how fast your Internet connection is? Whether you’re really getting what you pay for?

To help answer these questions, the Maine West initiative is partnering with the Maine Broadband Coalition to pilot a first-ever crowdsourcing effort to map actual Internet speeds in western Maine and across the state.

Following the recent passage of a $15 million bond issue to support statewide expansion of high-speed Internet connectivity, the new Speed Testing initiative will help local, regional and state leaders develop projects and steer investments to the places that need it most.

“The new Speed Testing program will let people know just how fast, or slow, their Internet connection really is,” says Mia Purcell of Community Concepts Finance Corporation who coordinates the Maine West broadband access and adoption effort. “By mapping the results, it will also provide local leaders with a powerful new tool for identifying areas that lack service and for working with internet service providers and the ConnectMaine Authority to fill those gaps.”

To test your Internet speed, and contribute to this statewide effort, just visit: www. mainebroadbandcoalition. org/speedtesting-link.

You can then compare their results with state and federal definitions of “broadband” connectivity as speeds of at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload.

Additional support for the new Speed Testing program is being provided by the ConnectMaine Authority, Maine Community Foundation, and the Island Institute.

The Maine West area was INTERNET, Page 4A

Begin Plan — lease, not buy

(Continued from Page 1A) was a lease rather than a land purchase.

He spoke during the Naples Board of Selectmen’s meeting, which was held on Tuesday since Monday was a holiday.

“I am interested in leasing the property, a short lease for two to three years,” Merriam said.

The arrangement would benefit both the town and his business, he said. It would buy time so the business could find some land to store extra inventory.

Meanwhile, the town would bring in revenue by leasing the land. Plus, in the end, the town would benefit from improvements made to the property.

“It would give us time to find other property. It would provide the opportunity to make the property to look better,” Merriam said.

He stressed that the company would not use the space on the lot for manufacturing. It would be a storage area for materials that had already been purchased, he said.

“We wouldn’t be using it for retail. All we really need is space in the back for a holding area. It would not be used for manufacturing process,” he said.

Later, he explained that the space he is requesting is on the far end of the property, away from the entrance,

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Police news

Bridgton Police Department

These items appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter (this is a partial listing): Monday, October 5 9:04 a.m. A canvas tent was reportedly stolen on Mountain Road.

11:40 a.m. A “Black Lives Matter” flag was stolen from a South High Street property.

8:36 p.m. Welfare check on Pleasant Valley Road.

Tuesday, October 6 6:33 a.m. Suspicious man (asking for spare change and reportedly threatening to break a vehicle’s window) at the Depot Street parking lot.

Vehicle found with a broken passenger window. Man told officer he had locked the keys inside the vehicle and broke the window to gain access.

3:32 p.m. A person drove up to a BPD officer parked at the turnout on Harrison Road and handed the officer a wallet found in Naples.

The officer recognized the individual pictured in the driver’s license found inside the wallet, and drove to that individual’s place of work to return the wallet. The individual said it had been years since he had lost the wallet, and thanked the officer for returning it.

3:43 p.m. Local store asked police to issue a criminal trespass notice to a female subject.

4:40 p.m. Welfare check of elderly man, who appeared out of breath, walking on Milbrook Road. The patrolman found the man, who was resting on a rock. He told the officer he was out for a walk, as recommended by his doctor.

6:50 p.m. Noise complaint (revving of vehicle engine) on Holden Hills Road. Officer checked area, no sounds of revving engines.

Wednesday, October 7 1:35 a.m. Suspicious vehicle parked in store lot on Portland Road.

Officer found that the driver was trying to find a place to stay.

4:45 a.m. Man yelling outside of his vehicle, parked in the middle of the street, on South Bridgton Road.

Police were unable to locate.

4:49 p.m. Report of a vehicle, with New York license plates, drove past a stopped school bus.

5:38 p.m. Juvenile problem (kids kicking campaign signs by the traffic light on Portland Road near Hannaford) reported, officer unable to locate subjects.

Thursday, October 8 3:39 a.m. Assist Fryeburg Police with a “paranoid” subject at Bridgton Hospital.

1:46 p.m. Report of lost wallet at Power House Road boat launch.

Friday, October 9 2:54 a.m. Suspicious man (asking customers to use their cell phones) at Main Street store.

3:53 a.m. Mattress in the roadway on Route 302 near Prescott Ridge.

4:51 a.m. Officer went to a Wildwood Road residence at the request of Vermont State Police for a death notification.

9:05 a.m. Sometime during the past two days, someone cut the catalytic convertor out of a RV parked off Mountain Road. Police learned that Fryeburg Police also had a catalytic convertor theft.

9:59 a.m. Criminal trespass complaint on Power House Road.

4:08 p.m. Welfare check on Cottage Street.

6:21 p.m. Citizen assist (talk to a woman regarding possible scam) on North High Street.

9:16 p.m. Suspicious vehicle parked in a Highland Road property driveway. Officer George located subject, who said his GPS had taken him to the wrong house rental.

Saturday, October 10 9:28 a.m. A copy of the town’s Main Street parking ordinance was left with a Fowler Street resident, whose vehicle had been left parked on Main Street. The individual informed the officer that the vehicle would be moved.

9:42 a.m. Death notification on North Bridgton Road.

12:05 p.m. Motor vehicle crash on Depot Street.

12:45 p.m. Parking problem (vehicles parked on both sides of the street near Bald Peak and Pleasant Mountain trailheads) on Mountain Road. Officer Regis found 10 to 20 cars parked on both sides of the roadway, but found there was plenty of space for a firetruck or ambulance to travel by.

5:15 p.m. Blue Jay Lane resident reported that his boat was missing, possibly caused by recent storms.

Game Warden Service also notified.

10:54 p.m. Suspicious person on Fern Street.

Sunday, October 11 2:10 a.m. Domestic verbal argument on South High Street.

4:58 p.m. Attempt to locate truck “doing burnouts” in Moose Cove Lodge Road and Bridgton Road areas.

8:02 p.m. Assist individual (using coat hangers taped together) with retrieving car and house keys that were accidentally dropped into a Main Street storm drain.

10:11 p.m. Assist ambulance personnel with a person who had fallen at Riley’s Run residence.

MDOT foots Casco sidewalk bill

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — A leisurely stroll through Casco Village could be sweeter with new ADC-compliant sidewalks under one’s feet.

The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) has budgeted to put in two sections of sidewalk in Casco Village.

The state will foot the bill of installing the sidewalks with wheelchair ramps and also establishing

a new crosswalk.

Then, the Town of Casco will shoulder the responsibility of the maintenance of the sidewalk area by doing yearly crosswalk striping.

“As you know, the town received a request from the MDOT to approve two sidewalks at Pleasant Lake B&B and the Post office.

The town would be responsible for any maintenance after the state puts them in,” according to Casco Interim Town Manager

Don Gerrish.

The upkeep includes repainting the crosswalks, he said.

Gerrish mentioned the infrastructure project in the village during the Casco Board of Selectmen’s meeting on Oct. 6.

There was one speed bump, however. At this point in time, only one crosswalk meet the state’s standards.

“I asked the state if the requests met MDOT standards for a crosswalk and

they said the Pleasant Lake B&B does but they haven’t reviewed the one at the post office to see if that meets the standards. I was told the review will be done shortly and they will let us know the results,” Gerrish said.

If the state’s response comes back in the next few weeks, the sidewalk and crosswalk item will be on the board’s agenda.

The next meeting of the Casco selectmen is scheduled for Oct. 27.

(Continued from Page 3A) selected to pilot this effort because of ongoing work to support local broadband committees through the Maine West Broadband Boot Camp — a seven-part training and technical assistance program to provide local broadband committees with the knowledge, tools and support needed to take action

on this increasingly important issue.

“The Maine West Broadband Boot Camp is a model for the kind of local community engagement we’d like to see happening across the state,” said Andrew Butcher, coordinator of the Maine Broadband Coalition. “Rolling out this new speed testing program

in the Maine West area allows us to give participating communities early access to information about the actual internet speeds they’re receiving while also testing the program before we go statewide.”

The Boot Camp program is currently supporting broadband committees serving the towns of Bethel, Newry, Woodstock, Greenwood, Gilead, Albany, Buckfield, Sumner, Hebron, Hartford, Harrison, Naples, Denmark, Bridgton and Fryeburg.

In addition to the speed testing effort, participating broadband committees are also circulating community surveys to better understand local broadband needs and priorities. Surveys will be distributed electronically and by mail in the coming weeks.

If you live in one of the par-

ticipating communities, you can also access the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey. com/r/N7HG2DM. (Note: residents of Denmark and Harrison should watch for a different survey being developed by their local broadband committees.)

Maine West is a partnership of local and regional organizations working to position rural communities in northern Oxford County as viable and attractive places to live, work, do business, and raise families.

Maine West works across the Oxford Hills, River Valley and Bethel-Mahoosuc areas to provide network-based, collaborative programming in three focal areas: Active Communities, Broadband Access and Adoption, and Educational Attainment and Aspirations.

Effort to map Internet speed

Filling fountain grant

Applications for 2021 Water Bottle Filling Fountain Grants are now being accepted. The grant program offers free water bottle filling fountains to local entities. Last year, five grants were awarded.

Water bottle filling fountains provide touch free, sanitary access to Greater Portland’s excellent tap water.

Applications are due Oct. 31. Complete criteria and eligibility requirements and the application can be found online, www.pwd.org/water-bottle-filling-station-grants Preference will be given to those organizations that provide the largest exposure and benefit for public use.

TALKING WITH THE SENATOR — Bridgton Police Department Officer Smolinsky speaks with U.S. Senator Susan Collins during her visit last week.

Clean Waters grant (Continued from Page 3A) diversity in the watershed — all elements of this grant — are essential to achieving a sustainable future for our wild and human communities.”

In its first two and a half years, SCW partners have already protected nearly 2,000 acres of critical forest with the help of public and private donors, and a growing number of Portland-based business partners. As part of this new initiative, SCW is seeking additional business partners to co-invest in the sustainability of the Sebago Lake watershed.

Through RCPP, NRCS co-invests with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes. SCW was one of ten recipients out of 49 applicants this year for the RCPP Alternative Funding Arrangements (AFA).

The AFA provision will allow SCW to work with landowners, businesses, communities, and local NRCS experts to develop innovative conservation finance approaches to protecting the watershed. These include a new landowner carbon offset program and partnering with downstream businesses that rely on clean water for high-quality products and the well-being of their employees.

“Through these projects, partners are able to take the lead and leverage the flexibilities that make RCPP so effective,” said Benjamin Naumann, assistant state conservationist for NRCS in Maine. “Partners are delivering conservation in new and innovative ways, and by working together we can harness our collective resources to produce greater results for conservation and agriculture.”

Sebago Clean Waters is a partnership between the Portland Water District and eight local, regional, and national conservation organizations working collaboratively to protect water quality, community well-being, a vibrant economy, and fish and wildlife habitat in the Sebago region through voluntary forest conservation and stewardship.

Sebago Clean Waters partners are Loon Echo Land Trust, Western Foothills Land Trust, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, Highstead Foundation, Lakes Environmental Association, Open Space Institute, Portland Water District, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land.

Website: www.sebagocleanwaters.org

Voters get testy (Continued from Page 1A) machine.”

However, “if someone wants to vote early, they can request the absentee ballot at the front desk,” Hawley said.

The ballots are then put in a locked box, and counted with others on election day.

The attitude prior to Election Day 2020 has been unprecedented — filled with emotion and fear, the town manager said.

The women at the front office “have taken a lot of verbal abuse this year. We are just anxious for Nov. 3 to come and go,” Hawley said.

Area news

October 15, 2020 The Bridgton News, Page 5A

On the Ballot: HD 71 Ballot: Austin, HD 67 Sweden Millett vs. Morse Waterford Accardi, Grover Casco

The House District 71 race features incumbent Sawin Millett (R-Waterford) against challenger Ken Morse (D-Norway). HD 71 includes Norway, Sweden, Waterford and West Paris.

The News posed the following questions to the candidates; and their responses are arranged in alphabetical order: Q. 1 — What qualities, skills and experiences do you possess that make you the best candidate for the job?

Millett: Experience — 10 years representing the citizens in District 71, 23 years in Cabinet level positions appointed by four governors; Knowledge — 20-plus years with oversight authority over the entire state budget; Honesty and Integrity — recognized and acknowledged by all with whom I have served.

Morse: I’ve had these jobs: • Food cooperative organizer, active at local, state and national levels • Graphic Design and Printing, operated Grassroots Graphics in Norway for 18 years • Director, Healthy Oxford Hills for eight years, a Healthy Maine Partnership working on community public H. Sawin Millett, Jr. Age: 82 health • Organizer of food system networks, including Maine Political Party: Republican Farm to School Network, Farm to Institution New England, Family: Married 62-plus Maine Food Strategy, Maine Network of Community Food years; 5 children; 10 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchilCouncils, Maine Farm to Institution • Skills include graphic design, communications, net- dren Education: B.S. (Bates work design and organizing, cooperatives.

Q. 2 — As Maine continues to contend with and College), M.Ed. (UMaine) Educator, bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic, what three Occupation: area should state government focus on and what pos- farmer, government administrator sible solutions would you propose?

Millett: Health and Safety — continued vigilance and Organizations: Hospital prevention policy guidance from state officials; Education Board, Chamber Board, — ongoing support and strategic guidance for all of our Rotary, Town Meeting modpublic Pre-K to graduate level education systems; and erator Economic Recovery — we need to provide monetary and Honors: Public Service regulatory assistance to those sectors of the Maine econo- Award (OH Chamber), my that have been damaged by the Covid-19 virus, at least Citizen of the Year (Waterford Grange) plus through the next biennium.

Morse: Building the economy back better and greener; many more Expanding regenerative agriculture and food systems; Media: E-mail sawin.milAdapting public education to support good jobs and cli- lett@gmail.com; Facebook mate solutions.

Q. 3 — Where do you stand on the proposed Central Maine Power proposed transmission corridor, good or bad deal and why?

Millett: I am supportive of the project going forward because it relies on bringing renewable energy to Maine and New England and the developers played by the existing regulations and received all necessary permits and approvals.

Morse: I do not support the CMP transmission corridor. I support consumer ownership of CMP, and believe Mainers should own and benefit from Maine infrastructure projects. Distant owners drain value and profits from Maine.

Q. 4 — If elected, what items/issues would be priorities and what might be ways to address them?

Millett: The two most immediate issues facing the 130th Maine Legislature will be: 1.) To promote and adopt Ken Morse strategies to chart a course for recovery from the negative Age: 72 impacts of the Covid pandemic on our citizens and the Political Party: Democrat Maine economy, and 2.) To re-balance the current state Family: Yes Wesleyan budget and adopt a recovery budget for the next two years Education: that maintains critical services and doesn’t raise taxes. I University believe my knowledge, experience and record of working Occupation: Retired graphtoward realistic and bipartisan outcomes uniquely prepares ic designer/community organizer for food systems me for meeting these challenges.

Morse: Climate action — Improve efficiency of Maine Organizations: buildings. Support electric vehicles and public transporta- Community Food Matters, Maine Network of tion. Invest in regenerative agriculture.

• Improving Maine agriculture and food security — Community Food Councils, Invest in regenerative agriculture, local processing, farm to Maine People’s Alliance, Western Foothills Land school programs.

• Address social and economic inequities — Support Trust, policies that help working and vulnerable families; Make Fare Share Co-op, the tax code fairer and less rigged to help the rich; Support Norway Downtown worker and consumer cooperative that build more eco- Website: www.kenmorse. nomic democracy in the market place; Support fiber optic org broadband for rural Maine.

Q. 5 — What are the three biggest challenges Maine faces in the next three years…

Millett: 1.) Strengthening and focusing our education and training programs to better prepare our youth and displaced workers for the jobs — and worker shortages — that will be needed in Maine during the next decade; 2.) Preserving and protecting our natural resource industries through enlightened environmental, regulatory and marketing strategies, and 3.) Investing wisely and aggressively in improvements to meet critical Infrastructure needs, particularly in the areas of transportation improvements and broadband expansion.

Morse: Recovering from the economic impact of Covid-19 with priority support for working families and small businesses; Reduction of Maine’s dependence on fossil fuels; Creating solutions to Maine’s systemic problems with racial and economic injustices.

Q. 6 — …And how should state government go about addressing those challenges?

Millett: Our newly prepared 10-year Economic Development Plan provides some broad goals and preliminary guidance and timelines for progressing toward those goals.

My three priority issues, stated in response to Q. 5 above, fall consistently within that plan.

I am already working on legislation to address the workforce development and infrastructure investment strategies and through my work on the Appropriations Committee and my lifelong interest in agriculture and Maine’s other valuable natural resource industries, I believe I can play a leadership role in advancing such strategies.

Morse: Economic recovery must include small business employer relief, supporting safety for schools and child care, investing in broadband and sustaining public health measures to keep communities safe.

• Reducing fossil fuel dependence can be done by increasing mitigation through regenerative food systems, expanding Efficiency Maine incentives to lower emissions and energy bills, modernizing Maine’s electric grid, creating a Maine Green Bank to provide investments in renewables and expanding support electric vehicles and charging stations.

• Racial and economic injustice can be addressed by expanding representation of vulnerable peoples, making the tax code more equitable. Maine must work to make sure everyone has access to health care, food and housing. Public policy and investments must assure that no one is left behind.

Norway West Paris

Gray Raymond

The House District 67 race features incumbent Susan Austin (R-Gray) against challengers Susan Accardi (D-Raymond) and Mark Grover (I-Gray). HD 67 includes Casco, Gray and Raymond.

The News posed the following questions to the candidates; and their responses are arranged in alphabetical order. Attempts to reach Accardi were unsuccesful.

Q. 1 — What qualities, skills and experiences do you possess that make you the best candidate for the job?

Austin: Even keel, sense of humor, finish tasks and follow through on responsibilities. I am a very patient person in the face of adversity and intense discussion.

Most of all, I have had a good many different experiences to draw from!

Grover: As an Independent and a moderate, I owe nothing to any political party, its platform, or its lead- Susan Austin ers. I can look at each issue as a problem to be solved, Age: 71 and stay away from emotional arguments. I believe I Political Party: Republican can offer reasonable compromises that might not be Family: Husband Ernie, 4 proposed by members of a political party. If elected, children, 12 grandchildren I would offer to be part of negotiating teams dealing Education: Associate with difficult subjects.

Degree of Science Q. 2 — As Maine continues to contend with and Occupation: Prior bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic, what Management Assistant three area should state government focus on and Organizations: Crystal what possible solutions would you propose?

Lake Association, Austin: 1.) Address financial forecast that is daunt- Gray-New Gloucester ing; 2.) Strengthen persuasion to focus on top spend- Optimist-Ambassador, ing priorities and sideline in a categorized checklist Maine Wildlife Park of those things that can wait. Legislators have been Advocate, isolated and so locked out of essential information Gray Senior Housing and the decision-making. One feels at a six-foot sepa- Comm., ration from knowing the full and total condition at Governor’s Appointmentpresent as a result of ongoing Covid challenge.

Pineland Conversion One of my committees is Labor and Housing. Committee, I have had constant exchanges working with con- Greater Portland Council of stituents for the last six months shepherding their Government, terrific challenges attempting to penetrate the Labor She Leads Director, Department for information and necessary benefits. Gray-New Gloucester We have had only three Zoom committee meetings School Board, since March 17, 2020!

Gray Town Council, Grover: I agree with the governor’s measured St. Gregory’s Parish Council approach to opening as much business as possible Honors: The Friend of the while using safe practices and limiting physical con- Friends of Maine Wildlife tact. I also agree that Maine is diverse, and the rules Park Award, should differ depending on the local region’s situa- NRA “A” Rating, tion. Mainers are to be commended for cooperating Maine Realtors’ Association during this emergency. We must also continue offer- endorsement, ing loans, grants, and extensions of aid to those most SAM’s Grade A, affected. I support expansion of the Public Health Speaker Pro-Temp of Maine nursing and tracing staff.

House of Representatives Q. 3 — Where do you stand on the proposed Website: N/A Central Maine Power proposed transmission corridor, good or bad deal and why?

Austin: After attending forums by stakeholders, there was evidence of advancement to the proposal and there was evidence that change to the natural areas along the corridor was not what many Maine people wanted changed. The role as legislators was seeking information and sharing it with concerned folks. Folks were committed in their individual opinions of the initiative. The people now have the opportunity to cast their vote and have their say.

Grover: I oppose the corridor as providing insufficient benefits to Mainers, at the potential expense of our natural resources.

Q. 4 — If elected, what items/issues would be priorities and what might be ways to address them?

Mark D. Grover Austin: I will get updated on all the decisions that Age: 65 have been made by the administration and the gov- Political Party: Independent ernor’s cabinet…that will share a full view if there (unenrolled) are changes that can be accomplished to help Maine Family: Single, never marfolks, Maine families and Maine businesses and ried health care facilities move ahead.

Education: Ph.D., Grover: I see anxiety and anger as the source of Computer Science, many problems in public health, law enforcement, Northwestern University, domestic abuse and the economy. I want Maine to Evanston, Illinois establish a goal of a free or affordable mental health Occupation: Retired softclinic in every Maine town of over 5,000 residents. ware engineer (DeLorme/ Q. 5 — What are the three biggest challenges Garmin) Maine faces in the next three years?

Organizations: Austin: Revenues, debt, financial planning, Rainy Served on Cumberland Day Fund, balanced budget, behaviorally challenged County Commissioners, care, senior care/caregiver options and emotional Gray Town Council, stability/relief to our families that have been stopped Cumberland District Public in their tracks for six months with a heavy burden… Health Council, Grover: The pandemic, the budget, and Maine’s Gray Fire-Rescue, job economy.

Cumberland County Finance Q. 6 — …And how should state government go Committee, and others. about addressing those challenges?

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Austin: By making the most extreme effort compa- Tau Beta Pi (engineering), rably competitive to that of the Covid challenge, to work Who’s Who in America side-by-side which we have before. We can do it again Website: to sure up the state from this trauma that has reached to www.VoteForGrover.com every Home n’ Hamlet across Maine … let go of personal glory bills that edify the sponsor and commit to a deep dig to find sincere solutions for a more natural living in the state people love!

Grover: I addressed the pandemic under the previous question.

We need to be realistic to solve the budget problem and we must consider all options. Service cuts, project deferrals, temporary reductions in state employee salary or benefits, and limits to revenue sharing should all be on the table. So should targeted tax increases, such as surtaxes on electric vehicles, taxing Internet usage, and a higher rate on top incomes.

I believe education is the key to improving our state economy, which is too heavily dependent on cyclical, unsustainable and declining businesses, such as hospitality services, uncompetitive manufacturing, and unpredictable natural resource use. I believe educational institutions at all levels should shift emphasis to increase its capacity to produce workers (and teachers) who are highly competent in fields such as healthcare (in all capacities), engineering (in many disciplines), sciences and mathematics.

Rep. Fay named ‘Legislator of Year’

State Representative Jessica Fay, D-Raymond, received the “Legislator of the Year” award from the Independence Association.

Fay received the award for her work as House chairperson of the Commission to Study Long-Term Care Workforce Issues, and her efforts to turn the recommendations of that committee into action.

“I am very proud to receive this award,” Fay said. “There is a lot more work to do, how-

ever, to make sure people with intellectual and physical disabilities can live their best and most independent lives. I hope to continue this work to live up to the honor this award represents.”

There has been a shortage of people providing direct care to people with disabilities, in large part because the pay is insufficient and there are few opportunities for advancement. The committee recommended that, among other

things, pay for direct service providers be increased.

Fay’s championing of the issue resulted in the passage of a law that requires that the wages of these workers be at least 125% of the minimum wage.

The Independence Association is a Maine-based nonprofit organization that works to assist adults and children with disabilities in obtaining full and inclusive lives in their chosen commu-

nities.

The “Legislator of the Year” award is given annually to an elected official who embodies the spirit of Independence Association through their advocacy on behalf of individuals with disabilities. The award was presented at a virtual ceremony on Sept. 16.

Rep. Fay is serving her second term in the Maine Legislature and represents FAY, Page 8A

College notes

Kate Hall of Casco has been awarded a bachelor of science in Physical Activity and Health from the Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon. EOU awarded 595 degrees during the 2019-20 academic year.

Kayleen Fellows of Harrison was one of the nearly 465 students who were awarded bachelor degrees from St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. conferred

in May 2020. Kayleen is a member of the Class of 2020 and majored in Statistics. She attended Oxford Hills High School.

Hannah M. Frye of Brownfield has been selected for inclusion on St. Lawrence University’s (Canton, N.Y.) Dean’s List for academic achievement during the spring 2020 semester.

Hannah is a member of the COLLEGE, Page 8A

Sports

Page 6A, The Bridgton News, October 15, 2020

Senior Rambles Hiking Trips & Tips

by Allen Crabtree

Hiking Boulder Loop in the rain The Denmark Mountain Hikers take pride in the fact that we go for a hike every Friday, year-round, despite snow, fog, ice, rain, cold and blistering heat. Of these, hiking in the rain is probably our least favorite. But this is what we were dealt on our hike to the Boulder Loop on the Kancamagus Highway on Oct. 2.

The Boulder Loop Trail gets its name from the many huge boulders strewn about like giant’s playthings. During the last ice age, over 50,000 years ago, every mountain and valley in New Hampshire and Maine was covered with a thick layer of ice. When the last of the ice melted about 10,000 years ago, it left behind huge boulders and gouged and scratched ledges. These “glacial erratics” were split off from their parent rock by glaciers and were ground and shaped by rubbing against other boulders, coarse sand and gravel in the glacier as they were carried along, sometimes for great distances.

A geologist once explained to me that the course of the glaciers can be read from today’s terrain — the northern side of many hills and mountains are sloping showing where the glaciers rode over and smoothed them, while the southern and western sides

are often cliffs, with glacial erratics scattered about below the cliffs. When you hike the Boulder Loop trail, this is very evident.

There was a light pattering of rain on the windshield as I drove to the church, and a light sprinkle as we gathered in the parking lot of the church. Denmark Mountain Hiker Paul Tworog pulled up and said the weather radar showed heavy rain coming from the west right across the Boulder Loop — he opted to do a hike closer to home, hoping to miss the heaviest of the rain.

Hoping that the wet weather would have passed through the Boulder Loop by the time we got there, we headed out in a convoy of cars. As we got closer to the trailhead, the rain intensified, and by the time we got there at 9 a.m. it was steady. Most of us donned rain gear and rain covers for our packs, but two others evaluated the prospect of a wet hike and opted to sit this one out.

By this time, the rain was steady and it continued that way nearly the entire time.

It let up to light sprinkles when we reached the top, and again when we finished the hike and made it back to the parking lot. We climbed the loop trail clockwise, taking the left loop on the way up and returning via

OVERSIZED — Denmark Mountain Hiker Kathy Huchthausen is dwarfed by this huge glacial erratic.

(Photo by Dale Nelson) the right loop. The steady rain made a dull roar on the leaves on the trees as we climbed, and the trail was littered with fall leaves that the rain had knocked down. The wet leaves on the trail plus the wet rocks on what was sometimes a very “bony” trail made footing challenging at time.

The trail involves a moderate climb of 950 feet vertical, with some steep sections, to ledges on a southwest spur of the Moat Range. From the open ledges at the top, there are wonderful clear views of Mount Chocorua and the Middle Sister, Mount Passaconaway, and a whole range of other peaks in the Sandwich Range.

Views through the rain and clouds were limited, but still impressive. We’ve hiked here in fine weather as well, and the views are spectacular.

Temperature was in the low 50s, and with the rain it was perfect hypothermia weather, but everyone was hale and hearty, albeit some

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were a little leg-weary. Even in the rain the huge glacial erratics scattered around the side of the mountain were spectacular, and we even got a bit of a view through the clouds from the summit!

The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) has placed numbered interpretive signs along the Boulder Loop trail and have posted an interpretive brochure at the trailhead kiosk that explains the signs. Hikers can take a photo of the brochure with their phone and carry it with them on the hike. This is how the Boulder Loop trail guide described at one of the signs about what probably happened when the glaciers were here: “Station 17 — This mountain shook when boulders crashed down from the cliffs above. The land was pounded and ancient trees were felled. Here, all around you, the boulders came to rest. Trees and underbrush have healed the scars and obscured the once dramatic plunge of the boulders.”

This is a delightful hike AT THE SUMMIT — Denmark Mountain Hiker Jane in any season, but better Gibbon at the summit ledges of the Boulder Loop with RAMBLES, Page 8A a cloudy, wet view.

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BLAST TO THE GOAL — Lake Region’s Sadie Tirrell unloads a drive during varsity field hockey action.

(Rivet Photo)

Lakers zip the Patriots PLAYING A LITTLE 7-ON-7 between Lake Region and Fryeburg Academy.

Top, Raider Austin Warren makes a catch, in front of Lake Region’s Logan Allen; bottom left, ball is up for grabs between FA’s Colton McCarthy and Lake Region’s Ayden Griffin; and bottom right, Laker Daniel Murphy gets his fingers around a toss. The two squads are tentatively scheduled to play this Saturday in Naples at 2 p.m. Spectator protocol in force. (Photos by Julian Zhu)

FIELD HOCKEY Lakers 3, Gray-New Gloucester 0: Lake Region had a 1-0 lead at the half on a goal scored by Sadie Tirrell, which proved to be the game winner. “Sadie used her speed and stick work to get by a couple defenders into the circle then pulled the ball to her reverse stick and scored with a reverse sweep,” Coach Pauline Webb reported.

Sadie scored her second goal, unassisted just 4 1/2 minutes into the third quarter. Kasey Johnson was in the right place, with her stick ready to tip in a rebound off the pads to give the Lakers a 3-0 lead.

Freshman Sera Travis got some minutes in the midfield and did “a very nice job,” Coach Webb said. Elle Hall and Leah Brogan had a strong defensive game while

Lizzie Brewer helped out with her speed in the midfield.

Goalie Alli Vogel had some action with four saves.

“She’s getting stronger as a goalie every day,” the coach added.

JV: Lakers 5, GNG 0: The Laker JV team played their first game and did a great job in the 7v7. With only six players on the field, there’s a lot of field to cover.

The JV team is made up of all freshmen and one sophomore.

“They did a great job working together, especially in the second half with some give-n-go passes to beat GNG’s defenders,” Coach

Webb said.

Sera Travis had two goals, one unassisted and one assisted by Emma Aker.

Mallory Smith and Emma Aker both scored in the first half and Kylie Myers gave the team their fifth goal with just seconds left on the clock in the third quarter.

Maddie Meserve and Hannah Siebert teamed up as defenders and helped goalie Dylan Gerrish to a shut-out. Natalyn Williams has great speed and endurance in the midfield and Kalee Charette showed off a good defensive sick, playing in the midfield and back.

Goalie Dylan Gerrish had three saves.

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Preview: FA girls’ soccer Strong Head Coach: Antonio Barrionuevo JV Coach: Billie L’Heureux What do you like most about this team? This year, our girls’ soccer team has passion and dedication for the game.

They have been playing together since middle school, they understand each other’s personalities and there is a bond between them, which makes the game a lot more fun.

Strengths? Teamwork and each other support on and off the field; supporting our key players; work together as a team.

Areas needing some work? We need more time on the field, with the special season of the virus, we haven’t been able to be on the field much.

Team goals? Have fun! Since there are seven seniors, they want to finish their high school soccer season strongly with good memories; no injuries; some of our players — Morgan Fusco and Luna Barrionuevo — plan to play college sports in their future.

Raider recaps

Field Hockey: Raiders 5, Sacopee Valley 0 ­— Maddie Foreman and Camden Jones each scored twice and Maggie Powers also tallied as the Raiders blanked the Hawks. Jade Blood and Eliza Thorne recorded assists.

Cross-Country: The Raiders took first places against Sacopee Valley last Friday as Alana Nataluk posted a winning time of 20 minutes 33 seconds in the 5,000-meter run, while Arkie Baptista claimed the boys’ race in 20 minutes, 23 seconds.

On the girls’ side: Samantha Carus was second in 22:12; Livia Devries was fifth in 26:31 and Aleigha Roy placed eighth in 46:30.

On the boys’ side, Chris Kwon was second in 23:54; Isaac Twombly-Wiser was third in 24:00; and Andrew Irwin captured fourth in 25:26.

Boys’ Soccer: Raiders 8, Sacopee Valley 1 — Loyd Djirosse, Louis Sehr and Jil Sehr each netted two goals while Armel Maloji and Kyeni Musembi each tallied as the FA offense thumped the Hawks.

Raiders 5, Oxford Hills

Captains: Morgan Fusco, Lucy Hodgman-Burns, Luna Barrionuevo Roster: Seniors Jordan Eastman (goalkeeper/forward), Morgan Fusco (goalkeeper), Luna Barrionuevo (attack center mid), Sharlah Mae Day (forward), Karyn Johnson (defense), Ella Baptista (defense), Lucy HodgmanBurns (defense); juniors Audria Cormack (midfielder), Brooke Emery (forward), Emma Ridman (defense), Katy McIntyre (defense); sophomores Allison Southwick (midfielder), Ashley Bariteau (midfielder); freshmen Emily Chaine (defense), Jilian Byrne (forward).

Game Results: Last Friday, the Raiders fell to Sacopee Valley 2-1.

Brooke Emery evened the game at 1-1 in the first half. On Monday, the Raiders tied Oxford Hills 2-2 in double overtime. Katy McIntyre put the Raiders up 1-0 on a direct kick chance. FA led 2-1 at the half as Luna Barrionuevo netted a score.

ON THE DOOR STEP and looking to score for Fryeburg Academy is #4 Lilah Felix.

(Photo by Julian Zhu) 4: Louis Sehr recorded a hat trick while Loyd Djirosse and Armel Maloji each booted a goal in a win over the Vikings.

This Week • Schedule subject to change Cross Country is set to run Friday at Gray-New

Gloucester.

Flag Football game against Poland today (Thursday) has been canceled, so the Raiders will host Gray-New Gloucester instead Thursday.

Girls’ soccer to play Thursday and Friday at home.

XC run

Both the Lake Region boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams had a great day in cold and windy conditions in Auburn against St. Dom’s; the girls won handily while the boys’ race came down to a tie-breaker that fell upon the sixth scorer for each team as Alex Freitas managed to give Lake Region the win by outkicking St. Dom’s sixth boy by just one second!

Boys’ scorers: Nathan Casali was the top Laker, showing an impressive kick in the last 100 meters to break up St. Dom’s #2 and #3 runners, even after going the wrong way on the course and losing nearly a minute off his time. Liam Levasseur of SD set the winning time in 17:01, while Casali was third in 19:43 just nipping SD’s Owen Mitchell (19:45).

Casali was followed by Tristan Cormier (#5, 21:18), Ezra Gronlund (#6, 22:06), Justin Lees (#7, 22:11), and Bhavnish Tucker (#8, 22:38); Alex Freitas was the tie-breaker (#9, 23:26).

Other finishers were: Sanjay Tucker, #13, 24:51; Payton Owen, #14, 24:58; Brody Sandberg, #15, 26:04; Keegan Owen, #16, 26:13; Daniel Brewer, #17, 28:03; Alexander Kuvaja, #18, 30:14.

Girls’ scorers: Carly Dyer was the top Laker placing second overall in 25:17 (SD’s Sarah Brown posted a winning time of 22:39).

Dyer was followed closely

by Annie O’Connor (#3, 25:22), Aleesa Jordan (#4, 25:32), Sadie Plummer (#5, 26:44), and Caitlin Lees (#6, 27:57).

Other LR finishers were: Micaela Reed, #7, 28:20; Campbell Johnson, #9, 28:30; Madison Martin, #10, 28:47.

A number of Lakers posted their season best times: Tristan Cormier, Bhavnish Tucker, Alex Freitas, Annie O’Connor, Aleesa Jordan and Sadie Plummer.

“We are very proud of them!” Coach Laura Pulito said.

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Ioanna Katsigiannis regularly helps to provide tips and support for Lake Region new volleyball players; she has had excellent attendance at practices; and she works hard and is motivated to improve in every area of the sport.

“Ioanna has demonstrated tremendous commitment to her team,” Lake Region varsity volleyball coach Ryan Shible said. “Since joining our team three years ago, she has been driven to improve in all areas.”

In recognition of her strong work ethic, determination, commitment and good sportsmanship, Ioanna is this week’s Boosters and Hancock Lumber “Player of the Week.” Each week, a Lake Region athlete is recognized for his/her dedication (does more than what is asked), work ethic, coachability and academic good standing. Recipients receive a speciallydesigned t-shirt, sponsored

by Hancock Lumber.

Player of Week: Ioanna Katsigiannis Where do you live: Bridgton Year in School: 2021 Parents: Aggelos Katsigiannis and Vicky Hronarakis Sports you play: Volleyball and tennis School groups/honors: National Honor Society and Varsity Club Why did you choose volleyball? I chose volleyball because I loved playing it since I was a kid.

What do you enjoy most about this sport?

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Noah Duprey’s hard work paid off on the golf course.

The Lake Region junior placed fifth in the State High School Golf Championship held at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro. Brother, Evan, was 35th overall.

“This year, Noah, who has been a member of the Laker golf team for the past three seasons, has developed his skills through hard work and many hours of practice. He has become a student of the game and helped others of the team in improving their play!”

Coach Art Kilborn said.

“He is a very gifted athlete with a definite propensity for the game of golf. He has been very consistent playing in the top two positions for the past three seasons.

Currently, he has won all his matches and has a nine-hole scoring average of 36.78.

The first Lake Region golfer to ever achieve this goal.

He has constantly been paired up with our opponent’s strongest players.

Noah enjoys the competitive nature of golf and performs well when placed in key matches.”

As a team leader, Noah demonstrates a strong work ethic, is always prompt for practice and works enthusiastically toward improving his game, Coach Kilborn added. “Noah takes advice very well, seeks it out and when asked gives help to his teammates. He is a respected leader of this team and has proven himself to be reliable and dependable.”

In recognition of his strong work ethic, determination, commitment and good sportsmanship, Noah NOAH, Page 8A

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College notes

NEAR THE SIDELINES — Lake Region’s Emmitt Herrick (above) tries to slip the grip of Fryeburg Academy’s Owen Galligam (Photo by Julian Zhu); LR Brianna Lewis works to take control of the ball against St. Dom’s.

(Rivet Photo)

Rambles Player of Week: Ioanna Katsigiannis

(Continued from Page 6A) when it is not pouring down rain. Still, we met several groups of hikers on the Boulder Loop trail in the rain. I recommend this hike for its uniqueness, and it is suitable for families with children. On the way to the trailhead, there is a neat covered bridge to drive through as well!

Boulder Loop in Carroll County, Albany, NH Difficulty – Moderate Trail distance –. 3.1 mile for the loop trail Hiking times for the loop – 2 hours for the loop (book time) Elevation – 1,750 feet Vertical gains – 950 feet Coordinates – 44° 0’ 56.81” N 71° 15’ 14.62” W Topographic Map – North Conway West 7.5-minute quad / 44.10567; -71.094 Directions to the trailhead: Take the Kancamagus Highway west about 5.5 miles from Route 16 in Conway.

Turn right onto Dugway Road/Passaconaway Road, cross the Swift River through the Albany Covered Bridge (built 1858 and restored 1970). Just beyond on the right is a good-sized parking lot (this is a WMNF parking lot and there is a daily fee for parking). The Boulder Loop trail begins just across the road from the parking lot.

Dugway Road is not plowed in winter and parking then is at the intersection with the Kank requiring an additional 0.2 mile walk to the trailhead.

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(Continued from Page 7A) I enjoy the adrenaline rush during the games and the feeling of reward I get when we win a game.

How has competing in sports changed you as a person? Competing in a sport has taught me a lot.

One of the most important things it has taught me is to never give up and give my best until the end. I remember my sophomore year we were losing 12-22, we were 10 points away from being tied but they were only 3 points away from winning. Even though it was not looking too bright for us, we persevered and won the game.

During this period of Covid-19, what has been the most difficult adjustment? My season getting postponed (the team is currently practicing outdoors and the hope is teams will compete indoors after the winter sports season and before the start of spring sports) has by far been the most difficult adjustment.

When you look forward to the games, the bus rides and the practices for months, it can be very disappointing to hear that we might not have a season.

What is your most memorable sports moment? My most memorable game was my first varsity game. I had

just played for the junior varsity team and had to run to change into my varsity uniform. I still remember how nervous I was during the warmups and how happy I was after the game because I performed well.

What is your most disappointing sports memory? My most disappointing memory was against one of our rival schools last year.

It was an away game and we were all in a great mood until we walked through the doors to one of the rudest student sections we had ever encountered. They really got under our skin and we ended up losing the game.

How has sports pre-

pared you for your future?

Playing a sport has prepared me a lot for the future.

Volleyball has taught me responsibility, perseverance and positivity.

Name a coach who has made a difference in your life and in what way?

Coach Shible and Coach Guptil both have made a big difference in my life. They both have taught me a lot about the sport and about life in general. They have pushed me to be the best version of myself on and off the court.

What are your future goals? I plan on attending a four-year college in Maine after my graduation.

(Continued from Page 7A) is this week’s Boosters and Hancock Lumber “Player of the Week.” Each week, a Lake Region athlete is recognized for his/her dedication (does more than what is asked), work ethic, coachability and academic good standing. Recipients receive a specially-designed t-shirt, sponsored by Hancock Lumber.

Player of the Week: Noah Duprey Where do you live: Casco Year in School: Junior Parents: Matt and Alison Duprey Sports you play: Golf, basketball, baseball Why did you choose golf?

I chose this sport because I picked up a golf club at the age of 3 and have loved it ever since. It is a challenging sport but that’s what makes me love it more and more.

It keeps me pushing myself to get better and try to keep lowering my score.

What do you enjoy most about this sport? I enjoy the competition aspect of golf. I love to play against myself and other golfers to see where my golf game is at. Also, golf is a really fun sport to play with friends and family of any age, I especially enjoy playing with my grandparents. There aren’t many sports that we can all do together.

How has competing in sports changed you as a person? Competing in sports has changed me as a person because I am an intense

player, but a quiet person in general. Sports has pushed me to become a better communicator and leader.

During this period of Covid-19, what has been the most difficult adjustment? The biggest adjustment I had the make is that we were limited to who we could see, and what we could do during that time. Missing playing the team sports I truly enjoy — basketball and baseball. I was grateful to have been able to play golf pretty early on during this period of time.

What is your most memorable sports moment?

My most memorable sports moment is I have qualified for States three years in a row.

Another one is that I won the State Qualifiers this year.

What is your most disappointing sports memory?

My most disappointing golf memory was not performing my best during States my freshman year. It taught me a lot about perseverance and to keep working hard and not give up on achieving my goals.

How has sports prepared you for your future? Sports has prepared me for the future in many ways. The first one being sometimes you have to fail in order to really get better at what you want to get accomplished. It makes me even more motivated, dedicated and resilient. It is also helping me become a better communicator and hopefully leader in the many paths of my life.

Name a coach who has made a difference in your life and in what way? It’s great to be coached by someone who has had such a great athletic career as a player and decades as coach. I would like to thank Coach Kilborn

for helping me progress in the game of golf.

What are your future goals? My future goals are to play one or two sports in college, and play at the highest level I can. Also, to go to a D2 or D1 college.

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Riley Silvia of Raymond became a new student at Lasell University (Newton, Mass.) this fall. Riley will study Sport Management.

More than 370 new students joined the Lasell community in September for the fall semester. New and returning students were given a choice to study in residential, commuter or fully online settings to accommodate their preferences during the pandemic.

Stonehill Graduates Three local students graduated as part of Stonehill College’s (Easton, Mass.) Class of 2020 virtual Commencement ceremony this past August — Anna Lastra of Bridgton, Katherine Clavette of Naples and Nick Landano of Fryeburg.

Initially scheduled for Sunday, May 17 with a traditional in-person format but knocked off course by Covid-19, Stonehill’s 69th Commencement finally took place on Saturday, Aug. 8 making history as the college’s first virtual Commencement and the first ever held in August. Another big change this year was the presentation of candidates for master’s degrees.

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Rufus Porter Museum’s three new board members

The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity in Bridgton is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Trustees.

Anne Overman started working in the movie business, becoming a production coordinator on major motion pictures and television shows. While filming, Anne met actress Barbara Hale, best known for her role as “Della Street” to actor Raymond Burr’s character, “Perry Mason.” Barbara was looking for a personal assistant. After 16 years of managing Barbara’s life, including traveling on location, picking up a grandchild from school, and managing Barbara’s extensive properties, Anne decided it was time to move ROTARIAN Therese Johnson (Left) hands over 500 masks to Penni Robbins of the Bridgton Food Pantry.

Rotary part of Million Mask Challenge Tour The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club last Thursday, Oct. 8, picked up in Portland its portion of the “Rotary Million Mask Challenge Tour” happening throughout New England.

The Club’s share of the masks is being distributed to Food Pantry recipients as part of the Health & Wellness Packets that Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club has been donating since April.

In addition, masks will be donated to the Bridgton Community Center, the Bridgton Fire Department and the Bridgton Town Hall.

Town and public safety offices in Naples, Harrison, Sweden and Denmark also will be offered boxes of the masks.

In late September, a cargo ship arrived in Boston with 800,000 masks on board to be distributed to communities across New England.

The mask cargo was part of a project launched by the New England Rotary District, which includes Connecticut and western Massachusetts.

An additional 200,000 masks were donated by East Hampton, Conn., Rotarian Ted Rossi and the

Rossi Family Foundation, and the project was named the “Rotary Million Mask Challenge Tour.”

A 26-foot truck filled with masks made one of the nine scheduled stops throughout New England in Portland, where representatives from local Rotary clubs gathered for their share of the precious cargo.

Julie Forbes, president of the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club, wanted to remind everyone that it is a great time to be a Rotarian.

“Just this month, we are distributing much needed masks; hosting a drive through Community Kettle at the Bridgton Community Center on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 5 p.m.; and planting 1,000 purple crocus bulbs at Bridgton Hospital on Friday, Oct. 23, at noon as part of the End Polio Now campaign,” she reported. “At the same time, we are continuing to assemble packets and distribute cleaning supplies through food pantries to the 800 families in the region using their services. We are so pleased that we are able to serve our communities during this unusual time.”

6th annual Indoor yard sale

NORWAY — The Second Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, (205 Main Street, Norway) will hold its sixth indoor yard sale on Saturday, Oct. 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This sixth sale is a deep discount sale: a $5 per bag sale.

The church will provide the bags and all that you can fit in the bag. There will be huge discounts on all items that do not fit in the bags. As usual, everything is clean, in good working order and reasonably priced. There will be many decorations, holiday gifts, small appliances, linens, dishes, cookware, household items, antiques, kids’ toys, sporting goods, tools and furniture. They are spaced in the church basement, so that workers and shoppers can maintain a social distance.

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Country Calendar Masonic Lodge assisting food bank with donations

Please help Delta Masonic Lodge in assisting the North Lovell Food Bank with donations of nonperishable goods. Collection times and dates are as follows: for Saturdays, Oct. 17 and Oct. 24 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Delta Lodge (located at the junction of Route 93/ Main Street in Lovell) Masons will be selling breakfast sandwiches on Oct. 31 at $5 each and with a donation of nonperishable goods they will be $4. Please, let’s make this another success for the needy in the area.

BRAG bottle drive

The Bridgton Recreation Advancement Group (BRAG) is seeking any returnable bottles/cans for its October fundraiser. Bags can be left at the Bridgton Transfer Station bottle/can returnable building and or at the Ham Recreation Complex next to the garage.

BRAG appreciates all help as funds will go to build the new concession and bathroom building, currently under construction. Questions: call Lyn Carter at 408-2833.

Texas Hold’em tournament

HARRISON — The Harrison Lions Club will be holding its Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Lions’ Den. The Den is located in the back of the Block Building on Main Street in Harrison.

There will be a $60 entry fee. Doors will open at 12 p.m. with a starting time of 1 p.m. Due to Covid-19, Lions will be limiting the game to 30 players. Please RSVP to mhfrank10024@yahoo.com. Bring your masks.

Senior lunch at BCC

A “drive-through” senior lunch will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Bridgton Community Center (15 Depot Street). The menu includes pork loin, mashed potato, veggie and dessert. If you cannot come, call (647-3116) and organizers will deliver.

Food drive for local pantry

NAPLES — Great Northern Docks and Maine Cabin Masters invite the public to come by Great Northern Docks (1114 Roosevelt Trail, Naples) with a non-perishable donation for the Crosswalk Food Pantry in Naples on Thursday, Oct. 22 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Meet the Maine Cabin Masters and be entered into a raffle to win a dock ladder ($350 value) or a Maine Cabin Masters gift basket.

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The Raymond/Casco Historical Society wants to thank everyone for coming to see the museum and for the wonderful donations to the museum, Quaker Schoolhouse, and Museum Barn. The school grand opening and ice cream social was very successful.

The Society appreciates seeing so many visitors and hearing all of the great stories and memories.

“Our sincere thanks to all that have helped to make our museums a success,” the group said.

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CASCO — The Raymond/Casco Historical Society has been affected by Covid-19, which prevented it from opening this year.

“We are hopeful that 2021 will a better year,” the Society said in a press release. “We have missed all of our visitors, from school children to many retired individuals. We especially enjoyed one of the Lake Region High School reunion at our facilities.”

It has been the Society’s sincere pleasure and honor to serve the public by collecting, cataloging and displaying all of the historical treasures.

“We strive to keep Raymond and Casco’s history alive and interesting,” The Society said.

Please visit RCHS in 2021 and to keep the Historical Society in mind if you have any item you want to donate. If you have any questions or items to donate, please call Rose at 627-4595

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The Bridgton Historical Society will hold its annual meeting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25, in the Magic Lantern Theatre. Mask wearing and social distancing will be mandatory and all CDC recommended protocols will be strictly followed and enforced.

Seating is limited and members who wish to attend should RSVP to the Society at 647-3699 or info@bridgtonhistory.org.

There will be a brief business meeting and report on the Society’s activities in the last year. Members will then vote on several amendments to the by-laws. One will provide indemnification for board members, as long as they are acting in good faith for the good of the society. Others will clarify and streamline the Annual Meeting process, in large part providing for the election of trustees to be by voice vote or show of hands, dropping the current requirement for a secret ballot. The specific language can be found at the

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back east to a slower time and space.

Anne resides in the former Benjamin Kimball, (founder of North Bridgton), circa 1770 farmhouse and is co-owner of “Caron and Company,” a gift boutique on Depot Street in Bridgton.

Peg Puza, a native New Englander from western Massachusetts, is delighted to have moved to Maine with her husband in 2015.

Peg had a 35-year career as an operations coordinator with a regional food retailer in Massachusetts before the couple moved to North Carolina.

Her lifelong affinity for historic museums began with a college internship at Old Sturbridge Village, and since then, has led to involvement with numerous historic sites and preservation groups. She served on the Historical Commission in her hometown of Brookfield, Mass., and while living in North Carolina, volunteered with Historic Salisbury Foundation, and was employed at Historic Rosedale Plantation.

Since moving to Windham, she has worked at Victoria Mansion, The Portland Observatory and The Tate House Museum.

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SCHOOL CROSSING as these geese make their way across the road, motorists watch.

(Photo by Jim Cunniff)

Birth Announcement Baby: Ivianna Anastasia Bouknight. Date: Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Weight: 7 pounds, 1 ounce. Place: Family Birth Center at Memorial Hospital, North Conway, N.H. Parents: Stephanie and Bryan Bouknight of Limington Siblings: Rose, Lily, Damian, Cedric, Garrett, Mitchell and Violet. Maternal Grandparents: Rhonda and Robert Hill of Limington. Paternal Grandparents: Laureen and Mark Adams of Lovell.

(Continued from Page 1B) Samantha Zawistowski has spent her whole life in and out of the Lake Region area and has called Bridgton home for the past 15 years.

She has served the Bridgton community in her position as Youth Services librarian of the Bridgton Public Library for the past three years and on the Ordinance Review Committee for one year.

During her undergraduate, she had two papers accepted to the National Conference for Undergraduate Research and worked as a research assistant and crew lead for a Neolithic burial ground on the island of Crete, Greece.

Her work with anthropology

Obituaries

Margery Stalch The eldest and only daughter of the three children born to Helen Mary Benesch Strauss and Ned Heilbrun Strauss (of Baltimore and Chicago respectively), Margery Heilbrun Strauss Stalch arrived in this world on Feb. 24, 1947. She died on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at the age of 73 in her home in Charlottesville, Va., after a long and courageous battle with NTM lung disease.

What do we do with the gift of life? Margery Stalch chose to give of herself…to participate fully in life… to offer honesty, authenticity, and a caring approach to all.

Margery worked as a professional IT recruiter for 20 years and her retirement years were dedicated to volunteer services with the Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice of Maine, Hospice of the Piedmont, and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Va. She loved the fun, competition, and camaraderie of a rousing game of mah jongg or cribbage and could spend hours focused on a jigsaw puzzle. She also enjoyed gardening, reading, cooking, cross-stitch, hiking, and bird-watching and Margery was a lifetime Baltimore Colts and Orioles fan.

Margery is survived by Michael, her husband and companion of 41 years, who was her loving and primary caregiver support, and her sons, Dr. Michael Eng, who currently provides treatment for addiction and substance abuse patients, and Richard Eng, a thriving, energetic entrepreneur. Both reside in Maine.

Other surviving family members are her brothers, Jerome Benesch Strauss of Annandale, Va., Robert William Strauss of Waterford, and four beautiful grandchildren: Maya, Kobi, Gabrielle and Jonah Dean Eng. Please remember Margery with donations to Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice, Lewiston, ME, or Hospice of the Piedmont, Charlottesville, VA.

Lawrence E. Shackley Sr. Lawrence E. Shackley Sr., (Larry, Old Dad, Big Guy) 73, of Bridgton, passed away on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, at his home with his family by his side. He was born in Portland on Nov. 13, 1946, the son of Edward L. and Madelyn Trumble Shackley.

He graduated from Bridgton High School in the class of 1965. He worked for Tarr Electric, then 25 years in Environmental Services at Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital (Bridgton Hospital) and finished his working career selfemployed at L.E. Shackley.

He enjoyed going to the rifle range, hunting, bowling and being with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as the daycare kids his wife took care of throughout the years. He also enjoyed his daily visits to Ricky’s Diner and his morning coffee with the Coffee Club Boys. He will always be remembered for his constant smile, all his jokes, and especially all his stories that were typically of his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

He was the vice president of the Maine Coon Hound Association.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years Lola (Wiggin) Shackley of Bridgton; five children, Lisa (Ken) Lane of Bridgton, Lawrence (Larry) Jr. (Julie) of Bridgton, Lori (Ken) of Lewiston, Luke (Desneiges) of Herman, and Lynne of Naples; Grandchildren, Jessica Lane (Jacob) Webb, Krystal Lane (Tyler) Murphy, Kayla Dittmeyer, Kassandra (Scott) Shackley, Gage and Skylar Shackley, Bryan, Breyanna and Brenna Barboza, Jessica, Christopher, Dennis and Daniel and their families and Barbara, Faith and Hannah; great-grandchildren, Brayden, Kendall, Noah, Gunnar, Aliyah and Emery; brother Leon (Karen) of Rockland; nephew Chris (Nancy) of Hollis who lived with his aunt and uncle for many years and felt they were his second parents. Ex-son-in-law Dean Bardoza and ex-daughter-in-law LaNell Shackley whom he always felt were his “children.” As well as many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, brother Robert (Bob) and granddaughter Krista.

Services will be determined by the family at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Larry’s memory may be made to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, at Maine Medical Center.

Arrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. Online condolences may be shared with his family at www.chandlerfunerals.com

and children has made museums and education a central focus of her career thus far.

About the Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity Founded in 2005, the Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity celebrates the life, times, and legacy of Rufus Porter through the preservation and promotion of creativity and invention.

Open Thursday through Saturday, 12 to 4 p.m. until Oct. 10. Also open by appointment.

Rufus Porter (17921884): Artist, musician, teacher, inventor and founder of Scientific American magazine.

Joanne Chute 9/27/1934 – 9/27/2020

PORTLAND — Joanne Chute, 86 of Dennett St., Portland, passed away Sept. 27, 2020, at “The Cedars,” elder care home where she had been a resident for the past year.

Joanne met her future husband Clyde Chute, at the Harrison (Maine) Insurance Co. where they both worked. The couple married and soon after Clyde changed jobs so they moved to Portland and started a family. They enjoyed 35 years of marriage until Clyde’s death on 9/14/2008.

Joanne and Clyde had two children, Mary Robichaud, her husband Donald and sons Zachary and Kyle. A son William Chute, his wife Nicole and their daughter Aryana. Clyde and Joanne raised a granddaughter Calysta Chute as a daughter. A nephew Dennis Stackhouse, his wife Lynda and their two sons. Two nieces, Cindi Stackhouse and her family and the late Penny Thomas and her husband Jimmy. Joanne was predeceased by Clyde, her parents and two brothers, Vernon and Clayton Joanne was a member of The Eastern Star and the Harrison, Lake Side Grange. Joanne was a homemaker, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and aunt. She worked tirelessly and faithfully for her family, God and church.

Visitation will be held Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., at 199 Woodford Street, Portland, Maine. A Funeral Service will take place 1 p.m. Oct. 17, 2020, at The Maple Ridge Cemetery, Maple Ridge Road, Harrison. Please view Joanne’s full obituary at www.jonesrichandbarnes.com In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Boston.

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(Continued from Page 1B) people wear masks and stay in their cars. We will have people available to direct you.”

“We are all in this together” said Jeff Myers, sales manager at Great Northern Docks. “Let’s come together to support our community and bring a few smiles.”

Holiday wreath, spray sale

WINDHAM — The Windham Hill United Church of Christ (140 Windham Center Road) will hold a Holiday Wreath & Spray Sale.

Costs: $15 for a plain wreath; $18 for wreath or spray with a bow; or $25 for fully decorated wreath or spray.

Pick up time in the Parsonage Garage on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 from noon to 2 p.m. Checks can be made out to Women’s Fellowship, WHUCC. Paying in cash, please bring the correct amount.

Please wear a mask at pick-up.

Questions or to order, call Phyllis Hall at 892-4948 or Joyce Greenacre at 892-3272.

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(Continued from Page 1B) Society’s website, Facebook Page, or on request by e-mail at info@bridgtonhistory.org.

Finally, Mike Davis will present a 10 to 15-minute illustrated program on “The Great Corn Riot of 1873,” a little-known but colorful piece of Bridgton history that he discovered in the pages of The Bridgton News.

The Society’s mission is to Collect, Preserve, Interpret and Share Bridgton’s History. It operates an archives and museum in the former fire station on Gibbs Avenue in downtown Bridgton and Narramissic Historic Farm, an historic house museum and a venue for events and workshops that further an appreciation of early American life. The grounds, which are now interconnected with Loon Echo Land Trust’s Peabody-Fitch Woods and its universal access trail, are open year-round from dawn to dusk.

For further information contact the Bridgton Historical Society at 647-3699, e-mail info@bridgtonhistory.org, or visit the website or Facebook page.

George E. Lariviere George E. Lariviere, 79, of Bridgton, formerly of, Marshfield, Mass., died Wednesday morning, Oct. 7, 2020, at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

He was born on Dec. 20, 1940, in Portsmouth, N.H., a son of Robert and Irene (Morin) Lariviere.

George moved to Bridgton in 2006, while continuing a long career in marine electronics and safety equipment, which took him all over the world.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and continued to serve in civilian life as devoted member of the Bridgton/Fryeburg Knights of Columbus Council 11376 and Lions Clubs of Bridgton and Eliot.

George is survived by his wife of 59 years, Charlene (Hett); son Edward “Mark” Lariviere and his wife, Marsha; a daughter, Lynn McLeod and her husband, John J., Jr.; a brother, Larry Lariviere; a sister, Wilda Southard; two grandchildren, Charlene Thomas and Matthew Lariviere; and two great-granddaughters. He was predeceased by two brothers, Jean and Ray. A private Memorial Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Church in Bridgton. Interment with military honors was held at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Eliot. Please consider a contribution in George’s memory to the Special Olympics of Maine, 125 John Roberts Road, Suite 5, South Portland, ME 04106.

Arrangements are in the care of the Hall Funeral Home, 165 Quaker Ridge Road, Casco where George’s family encourages you to share your kind words at www.hallfuneralhome.net.

SWOLLEN FALLS on the Bald Peak Trail at Pleasant Mountain.

(Photo by Pam Ward)

Indoor Yard Sale (Continued from Page 1B) the many missions of the community church, which include but are not limited to: the free drive-thru supper, online worship service, Bible study, knitting and book groups.

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Always Improving We just completed a major renovation to be more comfortable and up-to-date for today’s families. And Chandler Funeral Homes is constantly advancing and offering more services than any other funeral homes in the area.

Family and friends attending services now have a stunning reception area to share a meal after the service. Also, our casket selection is now online for your convenience.

Improvements all done with our families in mind to give quality service above and beyond the rest at affordable prices.

While we are adding more, we are still committed to keeping our prices fair. That’s one important reason we are the most preferred funeral home and we won’t ever forget that.

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The News will run, at no charge, obituaries that have local connections.

Photographs may be submitted at no additional charge, and whenever possible, they should be e-mailed as a jpg file.

For an obituary to run at no charge, The News will include: who the person was predeceased by (i.e. parents, siblings, spouse, children), or survived by (i.e. spouse or significant other, children, and parents). Names of spouses of surviving relatives will not be included. Names of grandchildren will not be included, but the number of grandchildren will be used. We do not list the names of nephews and nieces, just the number of each. However, if the deceased individual’s only connection to the area is a nephew, niece or grandchild, that person will be listed by name. Also, thanking doctors, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, hospice houses, etc., for the care of the deceased and their family will not be included. However, donations in lieu of flowers are acceptable.

Requests for obituaries to run “as written” will be accepted as paid obituaries, with a price quote and proof to follow receipt of the obituary.

The News reserves the right to edit all obituaries. If necessary, The News reserves the right to edit all obituaries for length.

Contact: The Bridgton News P.O. Box 244,118 Main Street Bridgton, ME 04009 tel. 207-647-2851, fax 207-647-5001 e-mail: bnews@roadrunner.com

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October 15, 2020, The Bridgton News, Page 3B

MH welcomes Carolyn Brown

Farmers’ Market recipe

Kale – The Super Veg!

By Nancy Tripp Bridgton Farmers’ Market I’m using kale these days as it is the superstar vegetable that is advertised as “the” veggie to promote good health and regularity.

Nutrient dense kale is loaded with powerful antioxidants and vitamins A, C, K and B6, not to mention calcium and magnesium. With a high fiber content and bile acid sequestrants, kale when eaten regularly can lower cholesterol levels and promote heart health. The regular use of kale juiced into a smoothie and drunk daily, has been shown to increase good HDL cholesterol levels and lower LDL levels.

All that being said, this recipe is a wee bit decadent (it has cream), but I love this recipe.

I used to eat a similar version when I worked at The Scottish Lion as it was a side dish that was served with everything from an elegant evening entree to an afternoon sandwich.

Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish that is potatoes and cabbage. Riff on that and use some of the fresh baby potatoes recently dug out of the ground by our farmers at the Bridgton Farmers’ Market and any member of the cabbage family, kale, cabbage or cauliflower and you have a hearty, belly warming dish that goes with almost anything. Or, add some carrots or favorite vegetables, a sprinkle of your favorite cheese and you have a pottage that can stand alone as an entree.

Don’t think you have to follow the recipe exactly! Have some fun.

cut into chunks 1 bunch of kale, leaves torn from the stem and then torn into 3-inch pieces 1 leek, trimmed, halved lengthwise, cleansed well, and cut crosswise into ¼ inch thick half moons 2 tablespoons unsalted butter ½ cup heavy cream or creme fraiche Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 tablespoons of your favorite herbed butter (or garlic butter) Put the potatoes in a large pot of water and add salt until it tastes like the sea. Bring to a boil and cook until they are tender but not mushy, about 15 minutes.

Add the kale and cook for another minute, then add the leeks and cook everything for another minute or until all the vegetables are very tender. With a ladle or measuring cup scoop out about a cup of the cooking water (reserve) and drain the vegetables.

Return the potatoes, kale, and leeks to the pot. Smash everything together and add the unsalted butter and cream. Season with salt and lots of pepper and taste.

Place in a bowl piping hot and put the herbed butter right in the middle so it melts and people fight for it at the table.

Enjoy!

Kitchen Trick: A trick to ensure tender kale without long cooking: freeze the raw kale (trimmed) for a few hours: freezing will break down the fibers. Cook straight from the freezer.

The Bridgton Farmers’ Market is located on the green behind Renys by the Bridgton Colcannon with Community Center and runs to Oct. 31, from Herbed Butter 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Six Seasons a New Way with Vegetables For a full list of vendors visit https://

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Carolyn Brown, Memorial Hospital Primary Care’s newest Nurse Practitioner.

(Photo courtesy Memorial Hospital) NORTH CONWAY, NH — Carolyn Brown has worn many hats in her career. A native of Moultonborough, N.H., she says she rode horses for a while, waited tables, went back to school to be a nurse, then went back to school again to be a nurse practitioner.

Her experiences in the emergency room, as a school nurse, and in family practice

will serve her well in her new position with Memorial Hospital’s Mt. Washington Valley Rural Health Care practice.

“We are so very happy to have Carolyn Brown join us at memorial,” says Chief Medical Officer Dr. Matt Dunn. “Our patients will benefit from her diverse background and unique path to becoming a health care provider.”

According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, a nurse practitioner “assesses patients, orders and interprets diagnostic tests, makes diagnoses and initiates and manage treatment plans — including prescribing medications.”

They are a vital link in patient care working independently and often collaborating with

physicians.

Having several family members in health care fields may have influenced Brown’s second career in health care, she also noted several reasons why she returned to school.

“I like medicine, wanted to be useful, and wanted to make a difference in people’s lives,” she said.

After earning her registered nurse degree through New Hampshire Technical Institute, Brown worked in the emergency department at LRG health care and served as the school nurse at Moultonborough Academy.

In 2010, Brown spent two weeks in Haiti serving as a medical volunteer after an earthquake struck the island nation. Inspired by that experience, she says, “when I returned I signed up for nurse CAROLYN, Page 4B

Mad Horse Theatre

Mad Horse Theatre Company is busy developing inventive virtual content to connect with, entertain and stimulate the community. With upcoming artist Chit Chats, a Halloween Event and play readings, Mad Horse will actively engage theater devotees in lively “virtual” events over the next few months.

Sunday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. — Mad Horse Theatre Company will present a virtual staged reading of Andrei Kureichik’s new play, Insulted. Belarus(sia), trans-

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Women, anger, political change talk Oct. 29

Women, anger and political change are topics of a virtual lecture by awardwinning journalist Rebecca Traister on Thursday, Oct. 29, as part of the Stephen E. King Chair lecture series at the University of Maine.

The free, public lecture “Good and Mad: Rebecca Traister on Women, Anger, and Political Change” begins at 5 p.m. via Zoom.

Online preregistration is required at our.umaine.edu/ king-chair-lecture-series.

Traister is a leading voice on gender, society and politics. She has authored three books, including The New York Times bestsellers Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger and All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an

Independent Nation. She is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut and has been called “the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country” by American novelist and nonfiction writer Anne Lamott.

The lecture was originally scheduled to be held April 2 on campus.

The Stephen E. King Chair in Literature; the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the University of

Maine Alumni Association are co-sponsoring the event, with support from the Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the departments of Sociology and Communication and Journalism.

More information about the King Chair Lecture Series is online. To request a reasonable accommodation, call 581-1226.

(Continued from Page 3B) practitioner school.”

As a nurse practitioner Brown chose to focus on family practice because she is able to develop relationships

with patients. “In the ER you get one chance to fix people and often never find out what happened to them. In family practice you get to follow a patient. You get to watch kids grow up, you know their history so you can help them in the best possible way,” she said.

She adds, “If you’re lucky, you get to have a patient for their lifespan and make sure they have a good end.”

To schedule an appointment with any Mt. Washington Valley Rural Health Care provider, call 603-356-5472. Current practice patients can also request an appointment by visiting mychart.mainehealth.org.

Nasty Women honor 100 years of voting right for women

Carolyn Brown

PUBLIC NOTICE

TOWN OF HARRISON Public Hearing There will be a public hearing on October 22, 2020, at 6p.m. at the Harrison Town Office to discuss any questions or comments on the ordinances for the November municipal ballot. All ballot information is available on the website or in the clerk’s office. Face coverings are required.

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Extra Early Voting Hours The Town Clerk’s Office will be open Wed., October 21 and Thurs., October 29, from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. for the purpose of Absentee Ballot Voting and registering to vote. All are encouraged to vote by absentee ballot. To order call the office at 583-2241 or go online at www. harrisonmaine.org to order yours today. s/Melissa St. John Town Clerk/Registrar of Voters

NASTY WOMEN RALLY — In honor of 100 years of voting rights for women in the United States and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s commitment to equity, a group of Bridgton area residents held a peaceful rally on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020 in Bridgton at the intersection of Routes 302 and 117. The rally was intended to inspire all who are eligible to vote and to vote for candidates who support the ideals of our democracy and equity for all. “Women have been freely called a lot of names over the past four years. This rally is intended to take that name-calling and own it. We are called ‘nasty’ when we express our power, and we plan to show just how ‘nasty’ and influential we can be this Election Day. Also, we want to highlight that women of color didn’t secure the right to vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and are now facing inordinate obstacles to voting across this country. The stakes are high, and women are ready to lead us out of a status quo that that undermines not only our voting rights but also equity in pay, education, housing, and healthcare access,” organizer Ursula Flaherty of Bridgton said. Participants were asked to make encouraging signs. Men were also invited to support their strong and empowered wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts and friends.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING ADULT USE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA STOREFRONT The Planning Board for the Town of Bridgton will hold a Virtual Public Hearing at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, in the Downstairs Meeting Room, 10 Iredale Street entrance of the Municipal Building in Bridgton, to hear public comment for Puffin Co. for a proposed Adult Use Recreational Marijuana Storefront.

Public Notice

A copy of the application can be viewed at the Town office by appointment. Agenda and instructions for Virtual Public Hearing will be posted at a later date.

Planning Board Meeting

Please direct any questions or make an appointment with Erin O’Connor, Administrative Assistant at eoconnor@bridgtonmaine.org or 207-803-9952.

TOWN OF NAPLES The Naples Planning Board will be holding a meeting at 15 Village Green Lane on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, at 7 p.m. On the agenda: 1. A Change of Use Application submitted by Smarties School Age Care for property found on Tax Map U02, Lot 8, located at 703 Roosevelt Trail, to occupy the building as a day care facility.

Plans may be viewed online at www.townofnaples.org.

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PUBLIC NOTICE HIGHLAND LAKE LOWERING NOTIFICATION Starting Friday, October 30, 2020, we will begin Highland Lakes’ water lowering process, which will allow lakefront property owners to perform their dock repairs, place rip rap, clean the exposed lake bottom along the shoreline, and perform other waterfront improvements. This process will cease

by November 30th.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Lakefront property owners should take actions necessary to protect their personal property. This includes, but is not limited to, adjusting pontoon retaining lines and/or properly securing or removing all boats, canoes and kayaks.

CEMETERIES NOTIFICATION Please be advised that all baskets, pots and flowers must be removed from all Bridgton town-maintained cemeteries by Thursday, October 15, 2020 so that we may begin the process of cleaning up our cemetery grounds and preparing for the winter season.

Thank you for your cooperation.

David Madsen Public Services Director Town of Bridgton

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Owners planning improvements to their docks or shorelines are advised to consult the DEP and Brenda Day, Code Enforcement Officer, for allowed improvements or permits required prior to doing so. If you have any questions regarding which improvements require approval, please contact Brenda at bday@bridgtonmaine.org or call (207) 803-9963.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PURSUANT TO 14 M.R.S. §6323

Town of Sweden SITE WALK & PUBLIC HEARING The Sweden Planning Board will hold a Site Walk followed by a Public Hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. beginning at 4 p.m., to consider two Conditional Use applications to construct solar farms on adjacent properties at 1011 Knights Hill Road (Map R-9, Lot 17, owned by Sharon and Francis LaRosa) and 784 Lovell Road (Map R-9, Lot 9, owned by Charlotte Riley).

The Board will commence with a site walk at 4: p.m., starting at 1011 Knights Hill Road and proceed on foot to both properties. The Board will reconvene at the Town Meeting House located at 147 Bridgton Road at 5:30 p.m. for the public hearing and their regular meeting. Appropriate social distancing measures, including mandatory face coverings, will be in place at the public hearing.

The applicants for the solar farms are Sweden Solar, LLC (1011 Knights Hill Road) and Sweden Solar 2, LLC (748 Lovell Road). Details about each of these Conditional Use applications are available on the Sweden Town website at https://swedenmaine.org/

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By virtue of a Stipulated Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated September 29, 2020 and entered in the Maine District Court, District Six, Division of Sagadahoc at West Bath, Civil Action, Docket No. WESDC-RE-2020-010, 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 CHRIS W. STIMPSON, Defendant, and INFINITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, Parties in Interest, for the foreclosure of a Mortgage Deed dated September 16, 2004 and recorded in the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds in Book 21829 Page 201, the 90 day equity of redemption having been waived, notice is hereby given that there will be sold at public sale at the offices of the USDA, Rural Development, 967 Illinois Avenue, Bangor, Maine (the sale may be conducted outside if the agency is closed for any reason and attendees at the sale may be asked to observe social distancing due to the COVID-19 restrictions), on November 17, 2020 at 10:45 A.M., all and singular the premises described in said mortgage deeds and being situate at 25 Riverview Drive in Brunswick, Maine.

The property shall be sold to the highest bidder at the sale. Ten Percent (10%) of the purchase price will be required to be 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.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. In the event a representative of the mortgagee is not present at the time and place stated in this notice, no sale shall be deemed to have occurred and all rights to reschedule a subsequent sale are reserved.

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 Brunswick.

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) 7946557. /s/ Richard H. Broderick, Jr., Esq. Dated: October 5, 2020 Attorney for Plaintiff 3T41

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Opinion & Comment

October 15, 2020, The Bridgton News, Page 5B

In Ye Olden Times

by Michael Davis BHS Assistant Director

Bridgton and the flu of 1918

Hello Neighbors!

This week’s column seems much too timely, given the state of things today, but it was our determination that the following information may prove useful to the public. What we’ve selected for today are excerpts from a lengthy interview which ran in The Bridgton News on Oct. 18, 1918, in which the then Surgeon General of the United States gave his official recommendations for identifying, avoiding and surviving the then worldwide Spanish Flu epidemic.

Lest we forget, the context of this article, the Spanish flu killed three people in Bridgton that week alone. Dozens WITCHES ditched their brooms and decided to take paddle boat rides on Woods Pond. (Pam Ward Photo) of our citizens would die over the following months, with hundreds of recorded infections in Bridgton during the close of 1918. While the Spanish Flu hit our community far harder than the present virus is doing, it is striking to consider how similar our response was as compared to our present guideYou know, back in the spring, I issued a Stay Healthy lines. Accordingly, we have selected several highlights from at Home Order that required Maine people to stay home the interview for your consideration. Stay safe! as much as possible to mitigate the spread of the horrible Uncle Sam’s Advice on Flu virus, the COVID-19 virus. That was an extremely difficult decision, one of many now. Nobody runs for office thinking sometime they’ll have to shut down their state

by Janet Mills and tell businesses to close their doors. Like all Maine Governor of Maine people, I want our state to reopen as quickly as it is safe to do so.

That’s why a few months ago we initiated our Plan to Restart Maine’s Economy. Today, Maine adjusted for allowed to operate outside in the summer months are population, ranks second lowest in the nation in terms of able to continue operating as the weather gets colder. positive COVID cases; fourth lowest in terms of deaths; So, I announced this week that beginning Tuesday, lowest in terms of patients ever-hospitalized (out of the Oct. 13, Maine will move into Stage 4 of the Plan to 36 states reporting); and we’re doing so well in so many Restart Maine’s Economy. Businesses and organizations metrics. that serve people through seated activities — such as We have to balance public health with economic indoor dining, religious gatherings, and movie theaters health every step of the way, although it has been kind — will be allowed to operate at 50 percent of their of painful and difficult for many businesses. capacity, up to a maximum of 100 people. We consulted Now as winter approaches, we have to continue this with the chambers of commerce, and the restaurant balancing act and ensure that some businesses that were industry and the visitors’ bureaus. What we heard repeatedly is they’d like to operate at 50 percent capacity, so The Bridgton News does not print political letters/ we’ve accommodated that, but put it at a maximum of commentary after the Oct 22nd edition because there 100 people. is no following edition for a response.

KEEPING MAINE OPEN, Page 5B

Keeping Maine open and safe

Views from Augusta

U.S. Public Health Service Issues Official Health Bulletin on Influenza Latest Word on Subject Washington, D.C. — Special — Although King Alfonso of Spain was one of the victims of the influenza epidemic in 1893 and again this summer, Spanish authorities repudiate any claim to influenza as a “Spanish” disease. If the people of this country do not take care, the epidemic will become so widespread throughout the United States that soon we shall hear the disease called ‘American’ influenza.

In response to a request for definite information concerning Spanish influenza, Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the U.S. Public Health Service has authorized the following official interview: What is Spanish influenza? Is it something new? Does it come from Spain? “The disease now occurring in this country and called Spanish Influenza resembles a very contagions kind of ‘cold,’ accompanied by fever, pains in the head, eyes, ears, back or other parts of the body and a feeling of severe sickness. In most of the cases, the symptoms disappear after three or four days, the patient then rapidly recovering. Some of the patients, however, develop pneumonia, or inflammation of the ear, or meningitis, and many of these complicated cases die. Whether this so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza is identical with the epidemics of influenza of early years is not yet known.

Epidemics of influenza have visited this country since 1647. It is interesting to know that this first epidemic was brought here from Valencin, Spain. Since that time, there have been numerous epidemics of the disease. In 1889 and FLU OF 1918, Page 6B

Surprising Spotted Sandpiper

This morning, I dressed warmly, pushed my kayak into the water, and paddled north along the lakeshore. It was quiet, the October air was crisp, and I was alone. Pink and red leaves drifted down through the air and landed beside my boat, but I resisted the temptation to reach out and collect a few. Reaching out to the side is a good way to tip a kayak, so I left them there. At times, I paddled, and then drifted, and I watched a chipmunk scamper down for a drink, and heard Chickadees and Blue Jays calling from somewhere in the woods. Overhead, a few Crows flew by on some errand known only to them. Then, I noticed a small Sandpiper walking along the rocks beside the water, bobbing its tail up and down and poking its bill in and around the rocks. Abruptly, it launched itself into the air, and with quick shallow wing beats, with wings barely clearing the surface, it flew past my kayak, and disappeared.

A light breeze came up and carried me along while I absorbed the quiet beauty of the lake and the surrounding mountains. A Pine Warbler fluttered down from a shrub to get a drink, and on a rocky point of land a Hawk perched high in a dead tree. I felt as if I could have drifted and paddled all day, drinking in the sights and sounds of autumn on the lake, but I had been out for a while and there were chores to be done, so I turned my kayak and headed slowly toward home. I was almost home when I saw the small Sandpiper again, moving along the rocks next to the water.

It was brown on the back and whitish underneath, and in

SENATOR COLLINS VISITS BRIDGTON — Last Thursday afternoon, U.S. Senator Susan Collins met with Bridgton Town Manager Robert (Bob) Peabody Jr. to visit downtown businesses and see the ongoing renovations being made through the Main Street Streetscape Project and the Bridgton Water District Project.

“During my visit to Bridgton today, I had a wonderful discussion with Bob Peabody and other members of the community about the exciting work being done to enhance the streetscape and improve the town’s water infrastructure,” said Senator Collins.

“Bridgton is already a wellknown destination for outdoor recreational enthusiasts, and these investments will help attract more visitors, businesses, and jobs.

As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, I will continue to champion federal funding to support Maine communities.” Senator Collins has worked to secure significant funding to aid Bridgton’s revitalization projects. In August 2020, Bridgton Water District received a $600,000 grant and a $1,800,000 loan through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development Water and Waste Disposal program to replace existing water mains in the downtown area, upgrade aging infrastructure, and help the distribution system operate more effectively and efficiently. In December 2018, Bridgton received more than $20 million from USDA Rural Development for water infrastructure, including a $10.4 million loan and a $10 million grant to rehabilitate its wastewater treatment system. The project will construct a new wastewater treatment facility, upgrade some aging sewer collection infrastructure, and expand the system, which will enable additional users in the greater downtown area to have access to public wastewater services. Additional funding included $2 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and $443,000 from the town. Senator Collins also made stops at Chalmers Insurance Group and Chalmers Realty, Renys and Macdonald Motors, which was recipient of a forgivable loan through the Paycheck Protection Program that Senator Collins co-authored.

Letters Pat Scully Cares

To The Editor: My name is Kamden Keefe, I’m 10 years old and I live in Naples. I first met Pat Scully and his wife Tory while walking my dog in my neighborhood. They were nice to me.

They invited me to help be a part of the community garden here in town.

We planted vegetables and took care of them each week so the people in town could have them.

We now talk often, even though I am only 10 years old. Pat is always interested in what I have to say and takes the time to make me feel important.

I think Pat will make a great representative because I know he will listen, and he really cares.

Kamden Keefe Naples

Branch is a listener

To The Editor: Amidst the uncertainty that we live in these days, Katey Branch is the type of

Bird Watch

by Jean Preis BN Columnist

the sunlight its legs showed bright yellow. The white on its side curved up slightly in front of the folded wing, and as it moved the bird bobbed its tail, and the entire back half of its body, up and down rapidly. It was a Spotted Sandpiper on its southbound migration. They breed throughout Canada and the northern United States, but winter from the southern U.S. to southern South America. This one had stopped here to refuel on worms, small fish, crustaceans, mollusks, carrion and even insects from the air and the surface of the water.

Spotted Sandpipers are one of the very few species of birds that reverse gender roles, which allows them to raise more than one brood each year. It is very difficult for a female bird to produce a clutch of eggs, incubate them, and then protect and feed the hungry chicks until they are indeSURPRISING SANDPIPER, Page 6B candidate we need to elect to the State Senate this year (District 19, which includes Bridgton, Harrison, Naples, Sebago, Brownfield, Denmark, Fryeburg, Hiram, Norway, Otisfield, Oxford, Paris and Porter). I have observed a lot of qualified political candidates over the years but never one as open, caring and connected to her community as Katey.

I have known Katey for 30 years. Katy’s two daughters were on my gymnastics team and throughout that time, we traveled together to meets across the state. You can really get to know someone on those long car trips. For example, how well they can patiently listen, what they care about in their community and how important family is to them. When you play volleyball together at the local YMCA as Katey and I have, you get to know what kind of team player they are and how well they are willing to work with others. When you run a small business as Katey and I have, you understand what it means to operate in a Covid environment and how resilient you have to be. With these qualities, I know firsthand that Katey is prepared to serve in the Maine Senate.

Katey also cares deeply about issues that are getting lost in the noise of cam-

paigns including the role that education and our natural resources play in Oxford County’s future. But it was her work with schools throughout Maine that helped me understand an issue I knew little about — the devastating impact that prescription drug use was beginning to have on young people. She connected with many of those teens and the stories she told while doing this work made me appreciate her ability to relate to people of all ages and backgrounds even more.

Finally, I have friends from both political parties who believe Katy is a beacon of hope for the difficult years ahead in the legislature. When confronted with a different viewpoint, I have watched her invite a discussion, listen and bridge the divide. I’m convinced If you got to know Katey, you too would support her regardless of your political affiliation. And she will listen to you!

Donna Landry Oxford

Real or Memorex?

To The Editor: Your writer who is so absorbed with a (more perfect union but not so much LETTERS, Page 6B

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Opinions

Keeping Maine open and safe

70TH ANNIVERSARY — After two years of volunteer labor, the new Community Church in Brownfield was opened to the congregation in 1950. Bowing their heads in prayer, the group of 400 gave fervent thanks to the countless friends throughout the world whose generous contributions made possible the building of this gleaming, spired house of worship. The bell rang in the belfry for the first time, which was a gift from the town of Kearsarge, N.H. The sign on the right urges caution in preventing forest fires. (Photo: Village, Brownfield by George French, ca. 1950.) For more on the Brownfield and its local history, you can pick up a copy of Brownfield, Maine. An Illustrated History by calling 935-2817. All proceeds benefit the Brownfield Public Library.

(Continued from Page 5B) We’ve also updated the checklists for these businesses and we’re posting them on the DECD website.

For non-seated indoor activities, like physical activities in gyms, the capacity limit remains at 50 and the outdoor gathering limit also remains at 100.

Stage 4 also establishes the reopening date for indoor services for bars, tasting rooms, and distilleries as Monday, Nov. 2. They have to commit to abiding by the newly-posted checklist for seated food and drink service.

You know back in the summer, I also issued an Executive Order that required Maine’s coastal counties and more populous cities — the businesses in those places — to enforce our statewide face-covering mandate. Now, we have expanded that statewide so all of the businesses under that Executive Order are required to post a sign on their business and to require customers and employees to wear a mask when facing the public. I also broadened the Order to make clear that places, such as private schools and local government buildings, also have to wear masks. Face coverings have been proven to significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 and they may also reduce the spread of the flu now that we’re all out getting our flu shots. Think about that.

Businesses that violate the Executive Orders are subject to enforcement, including fines and potential loss of license. We’ve already had in one instance a $20,000 fine and more than two-dozen imminent health hazard warnings to organizations that have not abided

Bridgton and the flu of 1918

(Continued from Page 5B) 1890, an epidemic of influenza, starting somewhere in the Orient, spread first to Russia and thence over practically the entire civilized world. Three years later, there was another flare-up of the disease. Both times, the epidemic spread widely over the United States.

How can the Spanish Influenza be recognized? “There is as yet no certain way in which a single case of Spanish Influenza can be recognized. On the other hand, recognition is easy where there is a group of cases. In contrast to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs and colds, which usually occur in the cold months, epidemics of influenza may occur at any season of the year. Thus, the present epidemic raged most intensely in Europe in May, June and July. Moreover, in the case of ordinary colds, the general symptoms (fever, pain, depression) are by no means as severe or as sudden in their onset as they are in influenza. Finally, ordinary colds do not spread through the community so rapidly or so extensively as does influenza.”

What is the course of the disease? Do people die of it?

“Ordinarily, the fever lasts from three to four days and the patient recovers. But while the proportion of deaths in the present epidemic has generally been low, in some places the outbreak has been severe and deaths have been numerous.

When death occurs, it is usually the result of a complication.

No matter what particular kind of germ causes the epidemic, it is now believed that influenza is always spread from person to person, the germs being carried with the air along with the very small droplets of mucous expelled by coughing or sneezing, forceful talking, and the like by one who already has the germs of the disease. They may also be carried about in the air from coughing or sneezing, or from careless people who spit on the floor and on the sidewalk. As in most other catching diseases, a person who has only a mild attack of the disease himself may give a very severe attack to others.”

What should be done by those who catch the disease?

“It is very important that every person who become sick with influenza should go home at once and go to bed. This will help keep away dangerous complications and will, at the same time, keep the patient from scattering the disease far and wide. It is highly desirable that no one be allowed to sleep in the same room with the patient. In fact, no one but the nurse should be allowed in the room. If there is cough and sputum or running of the eyes and nose, care should be taken that all such discharges are collected on bits of gauze or rag or paper napkins and burned. Only such medicines should be given as prescribed by the doctor. It is foolish to ask the druggist to prescribe and may be dangerous to take the so called ‘safe, sure and harmless’ remedies advertised by patent medicine manufacturers.

If the patient is so situated that he can be attended only by someone who must look after others in the family, it is advisable that such attendant wear a wrapper, apron or gown over the ordinary house clothes while in the sick room and slip this off when leaving to look after the others. Nurses and attendants will do well to guard against breathing in dangerous disease germs by wearing a simple fold of gauze or mask

while near the patient.”

How can one guard against influenza? So far, as a disease like influenza is concerned, health authorities everywhere recognize the very close relation between its spread and overcrowded homes. While it is not always possible, especially in times like the present, to avoid such overcrowding, people should consider the health danger and make every effort to reduce the home overcrowding to a minimum.

The value of fresh air through open windows cannot be overemphasized. When crowding is unavoidable, as in street cars, care should be taken to keep the face so turned as not to inhale directly the air breather out by another person. It is especially important to be aware of the person who coughs or sneezes without covering his mouth and nose. It also follows that one should keep out of crowds and stuffy places as much as possible, keep homes, offices and workshops well aired, spend some time out of doors each day, walk to work if at all practicable — in short, make every possible effort to breathe as much pure air as possible. In all heath matters, follow the advice of your doctor and obey the regulations of your local and state health officers.

In our view, “words of wisdom” these still are. Till next time!

Mike Davis is assistant executive director of the Bridgton Historical Society. In recognition of The Bridgton News’ 150th year of publishing, Mike takes a weekly look back into The News’ archives to look at life in ye olden days.

Surprising Sandpiper

(Continued from Page 5B) pendent, but by reversing roles with the male she is able to raise multiple broods in a season. In a system of reproduction known as polyandry, the female has more than one mate. In a reversal of roles, the female Spotted Sandpiper arrives on the breeding grounds ahead of the males, claims a territory and defends it against other females. When males arrive, competition among females for mates can be fierce, but by July, when insects hatch and are abundant, the birds have paired up. The female lays a clutch of up to four eggs in the nest, and while her mate incubates the eggs and raises the chicks she finds another mate. She repeats this process as long as she can find available mates and can produce eggs. Surprisingly, according to birdsoftheworld.org not all Spotted Sandpipers behave this way. In some places, they are monogamous, and the female helps raise the young.

I watched the Sandpiper search for food along the lakeshore, and thought about the ability of this little bird to adapt to the challenges of life. In this magnificent place, in a season of such beauty, I marveled at the wonderful complexity of the natural world in which we are so fortunate to live.

by these measures. These measures are to protect you, your families, the customers, clients and people in those businesses and their employees — to protect everybody.

And mind you, just because a business may open doesn’t mean you have to go there or that you should go there. We’re trying to do that balancing act and keep people as safe as possible. If you have underlying conditions, don’t take risks. You know if you’re a vulnerable person, don’t take risks, stay safe.

We think that this expanded capacity though, along with the continued health and safety precautions, is a good step forward in balancing public health and economic health and fairly consistent with what other New England states are doing too.

We keep evaluating these things and while we are making these adjustments, don’t be lured into a false sense of security. We’re doing pretty well as a state compared to other states, but this virus is still very much among us. Wearing a face covering, staying six feet apart, avoiding large gatherings, and washing our hands — all of that is key to keeping Maine open and keeping Maine safe and healthy.

We all worked together this spring, summer and fall to ensure that we could leave our homes safely and get back to something of what life used to be like, with many adjustments. This fall and winter, let us adapt again to keep it that way.

Thank you and please stay safe.

Letters

last three months the average number of people in the hospital has been approximately 10. Now, if Mr. Angelo wishes to find autocracy, look no further than Mill’s office in Augusta.

Speaking of autocracy, Mr. Angelo, would you please for once answer the question of how Trump either has or could accomplish this given our checks and balances, and separation of powers. If you can’t or won’t answer this, please drop this spurious charge in future letters.

Mr. Angelo did get one fact right. Trump has been impeached and acquitted in one of the most outrageously partisan proceedings in the history of this country.

A process, by the way, led by the “three stooges” — Pelosi, Nadler and Schiff.

Chuck Schumer was in a supporting role.

Finally, the Post Office and potential voter fraud.

What could go wrong based on voter lists? Well, this summer I received three letters for my mother who died in 2010 at age 102.

As to the bogus assertion there has never been any “significant” voter fraud by the Democrats, answer these three questions: how did LBJ acquire the nickname “landslide Lyndon,” why did Joseph Kennedy say he wouldn’t pay for a landslide in Kennedy vs. Humphrey in the 1960 West Virginia primary; anybody ever heard of Richard Daley? I rest my case.

Don Vose Naples

(Continued from Page 5B) with grammar — see very unique), continues to have problems separating facts from fiction, misinterpreting actual facts, and making groundless assertions.

Fact number one… notwithstanding the Atlantic’s assertion that Trump called our soldiers “suckers and losers” that was quickly disproved with testimony by the people actually there when this incident is alleged to have happened, including John Bolton who obviously would be disinclined to help Trump were it true. There is also the curious coincidence that Biden’s campaign released an attack ad on this “alleged incident,” the very day the false article came out. What a coincidence!

Fact number two. While the economy is stressed, it is hardly in a catastrophic state primarily as a result of the federal stimulus the Trump administration provided early on. More importantly, the writer while trying to cast blame for this stress on Trump conveniently forgot that his beloved Constitution via the tenth amendment and the commerce clause limits the authority of central government regarding the economy. Thus, ironically whatever stresses are present must be laid at the feet of despotic governors like Mills who have done everything in their power to create economic distress for people and businesses under the guise of public health. How serious is this pandemic? If you were here at the beginning, the odds To The Editor: What do I want in a presof your still being here are .9999. That’s right .9999. ident of the United States?

In the entire state for the LETTERS, Page 7B

Guess who?

This week’s puzzle theme:

Halloween

ACROSS 1. Bobby Fischer’s game 6. Reggae precursor 9. Octagonal sign 13. Haile Selassie’s disciple 14. Goose egg 15. Water-filled gorge 16. Blue eyes, e.g.

17. Jean of Dadaism 18. Pariah, for medical reasons 19. *Pumpkin’s Halloween precursor 21. *Famous magician who died on Halloween 23. *____ mortuaire, or body bag in Paris 24. Nordstrom’s outlet 25. “____ Now or Never” 28. Good or bad and felt by others, sing.

30. Haiku, e.g.

35. Equal to distance divided by time 37. Post-it slip 39. Quickly fry 40. Type of mountain goat 41. *Graveyard denizen 43. Heart of the matter 44. Tender spots 46. Bailing twine, e.g.

47. Icelandic epic 48. Boss 50. Greek muse’s strings 52. Up and down nod 53. “Beware the ____ of March”

55. One of seven, in eponymous 1995 film 57. *Dead one 61. *Jordan Peele’s scary 2017 film 64. Dodge 65. Freud’s concern 67. Pertaining to hours 69. *Funereal feeling 70. Swindle 71. Boredom 72. Adult elvers 73. Human digit 74. *What vampire does in a coffin DOWN 1. TV tube in days of yore 2. Wagner or Powers in a TV classic 3. Isaac’s firstborn 4. Mixes up 5. Geo-spacial positioning system, for short 6. Ginger cookie 7. CrËme de cassis plus wine 8. Top dog 9. Musher’s ride 10. Language of Tupi people 11. *Black cat, possibly 12. ____wig or ____winkle 15. Oopsie daisy moments 20. Best part of cake?

22. *Halloween month 24. Alters to be more useful

25. Type of coffee with alcohol 26. Forbidden 27. Howard of radio fame 29. Physicist Niels ____ 31. Preakness, e.g.

32. Like cottage cheese 33. Piano student’s exercise

34. *Leatherface’s state 36. Biz bigwig 38. ESPN award 42. To the point 45. *Scary story-related sensation 49. Lyric poem 51. Choice word 54. Upright

56. Nary a soul 57. Give up 58. Skin soothing gel 59. Boring 60. Fusses

61. Departed 62. *RIP pots 63. Like a bow string 66. Gunk 68. Fleur-de-____

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Opinions

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Bringing Transparency to Health Care

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(Continued from Page 6B) • Compassion • Integrity • Decency • Steadiness • Leadership • A vision of American that is inclusive, not divisive • A respect for other nations and cultures • Opposition to white supremacy • A diplomat who can repair damaged alliances • A respect for the rule of law • An experienced public servant who understands how government works • A commitment to neutralize the forces that promote misogyny, xenophobia, and systemic racism • Has the interests of ALL Americans at heart — not just those who support him or her • A steadfast respect for science • The ability and character to make timely decisions based on intelligence, not based on ideology or self promotion • A leader who will acquire diverse, knowledge-

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able advisors who are not sycophants Guess who I voted for?

Stan Cohen Bridgton

Savage for Senate

To The Editor: Mainers have an unusual opportunity in November to elect Lisa Savage for the U.S. Senate. She will represent us on issues that desperately need to be addressed. As the Republican and Democratic candidates slug it out on the air waves ad nauseam, we now have the right to rank our choices thus preventing Lisa from becoming a “spoiler.” Lisa Savage has been up front about where she stands on issues and has held several webinars on topics such as: the cost of war, racial justice, Medicare for all, the CMP corridor and homelessness. An advocate of the Green New Deal, she favors converting Bath Iron Works projects to useful infrastructure that will help abate climate change instead of the constant construction of provocative destroyers designed to intimidate potential adversaries. Even the

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by Susan Collins United States Senator in paper form, would allow consumers to shop and compare costs prior to receiving care.

As the chairman of the Senate Aging Committee and a member of the Senate Health Committee, I have seen how transparency reforms can lower prices for patients. In 2018, I authored the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act that prohibited an egregious practice that prevented pharmacists from disclosing to their customers whether there were less expensive ways to pay for their prescription drugs. These pharmacy “gag clauses” hid cost information from consumers and caused them to needlessly overpay. In fact, before my bill became law, nearly one out of four prescriptions filled through insurance ended up costing more for customA RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD was attracted ers than if they had paid out of pocket.

By ensuring patients have this accessible cost infor- to a Gladiola blooming in a Denmark garden this past mation, Americans are now able to save at the pharmacy summer. (Photo by Suzanne Richard) counter. This same principle can be applied to patient care accusations and hatred of mented by a Broadband in general. Currently, the lack of transparency across the President Trump. Belonging Survey and his initiative to entire health care system limits patients’ ability to get the to the Democrat Party is no greatly improve the accesinformation they need to shop for care that fits their needs longer a proud tradition. sibility and affordability of and budget. The Health Care PRICE Transparency Act is Bob Pelletier Broadband in our district — a straightforward solution that would both lower costs and West Bridgton a key ingredient in our longimprove care for the people of Maine and throughout the term response to the ecocountry. nomic devastation caused by our country’s anemic rePentagon recognizes the nasponse to the Covid-19 pantional security risks of clidemic. (See July 9, 2020 armate change. ticle in The Bridgton News) Too radical? In its time, The complete scope of the abolition of slavery was Walter’s principles, policies, To The Editor: considered radical. The right The challenges fac- priorities and performance for women to vote was con- To The Editor: ing the communities of are clearly described in his sidered radical. Is it realWhat’s next?

Bridgton, Harrison and Riseman for Legislature web ly that radical to expect Once again, Joe Angelo Denmark today require a page at walterriseman.com. our government to provide has shown that he has done State Representative who As all voters should always health care for its citizens as diligent research back some has clearly demonstrated his do whenever facing a votdo most all developed coun- 30-plus years but a tiresome understanding of them and, ing decision to select among tries? It was recently re- repetition of his hatred of perhaps more importantly, competing candidates for ported on several news out- President Trump. I would one who has taken concrete representation, please comlets that the 643 American suggest, Joe, that you do steps to seek and appreciate pare the material on this site billionaires’ wealth has in- like research for the past the concerns of those whom with any comparable inforcreased in the last six three years of the presi- he represents. mation you can find about months by 29% at the same dent’s positive accomplishWalter Riseman’s focus his opposition. Be, howevtime that Americans are los- ments despite the constant while in the State Legislature er, wary of vague statements ing their jobs, depending on harassment, failed Russian has been and continues to be about how it used to be betfood pantries for sustenance collusion attacks and driven by the Community ter and can be again. and living in a pandemic failed impeachment by the Issues Survey he launched And remember that these without health care. That’s a Democrats. before his first election to times cannot allow on the radical situation calling for Speaking of harassment, the office he now holds. That job training. change.

George Szok it has come to our attention survey showed that health With ranked choice vot- at Republican Headquarters care and protection of our Bridgton ing, we can vote for Lisa that there is an epidemic of environment were among as our first choice and still missing Trump/Pence polit- the top concerns of the vothave a say between the two ical road signs. These are ers in this district. His submajor candidates if neither not isolated cases but rath- stantial accomplishments of them gets 50% of the er a concerted effort to de- in the Legislature reflect first-choice votes. Voting prive Republicans of free these concerns and also infor Lisa will send a strong speech! Book burning will clude sponsoring, co-sponmessage to the major par- be next! Unfortunately, the soring or supporting bills To The Editor: ties that we’re tired of big, perpetrators probably can’t to provide property tax reEspecially these days, it dark money politics as usu- read either. lief, ensure state funding to is important to know that al. Wouldn’t it be wonderful Respected members of schools, and require finan- someone representing you in for Maine to have two inde- the Democrat Party should cial accountability by utility public office has your best pendent senators? be embarrassed by this kind companies and political ac- interests in mind. Jessica Sally Chappell of behavior but it’s obvious- tion committees.

Fay, running for her third Bridgton ly inspired by the ongoing This has now been augLETTERS, Page 8B

Loss of political signs

Fay understands needs

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ATTORNEYS Shelley P. Carter, Attorney Law Office of Shelley P. Carter, PA 110 Portland St., Fryeburg, ME 04037 935-1950 www.spcarterlaw.com Michael G. Friedman, Esq., PA 132 Main St. P.O. Box 10, Bridgton, ME 04009 647-8360 Hastings Malia, PA 376 Main Street – PO Box 290 Fryeburg, ME 04037 935-2061 www.hastingsmalia.com

CARETAKERS Caretake America Managing and Patrolling Kevin Rogers, Owner/Manager Rte. 35, Naples 693-6000

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REAL ESTATE Chalmers Real Estate 100 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-3311

Kezar Realty Southern Maine Retirement Services Homes, Land & Vacation Rentals Medicare Supplements & Prescription Plans Lovell Village 207-925-1500 Life and Senior Dental Insurance KezarRealty.com 150 Main St., Bridgton 207-647-2900

D. M. Electric Inc. & Sons Dennis McIver, Electrical Contractor INTERIOR DESIGN Residential/Commercial/Industrial Licensed in Maine & New Hampshire Universal Designz Bridgton 207-647-5012 Consulting – Design Decorating – Aging in Place J.P. Gallinari Electric Co. Residential - Commercial - Industrial www.UniversalDesignzMaine.com Aerial - Auger - Lifting Service 207-754-0730 Bridgton 647-9435

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In nearly every industry, we are able to shop for goods and services by comparing publicly available price and quality information. From buying shoes to building a house, we expect to know the full price of what we are purchasing before we buy it.

In health care, however, patients rarely know how much they will pay for medical services before receiving them.

In contrast to the transparency found elsewhere, the opaque nature of health care pricing makes comparison shopping virtually impossible in most states. When the bills eventually arrive, they can be shocking.

Americans increasingly pay more out-of-pocket for their health care, so it is crucial that they have access to the information they need to make informed decisions. The health and economic crisis we are currently experiencing due to COVID-19 has underscored the need for Congress to come together to increase the affordability and accessibility of medical care.

The Health Care PRICE Transparency Act I co-sponsored would significantly increase transparency. This commonsense bill would help promote competition among providers and ensure consumers pay the lowest possible price for care. By making the price of health care services available to consumers in advance, this legislation would empower patients. The Health Care PRICE Transparency Act would require hospitals to provide patients with clear, accessible information about their standard charges for items and services, making it easier to shop and compare across hospitals and helping to prevent unpleasant surprises. In addition, the bill would require insurers to give consumers real-time, personalized access to cost-sharing information and disclose their negotiated rates for innetwork providers and allowed amounts paid for out-ofnetwork providers. This information, available online and

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FLOORING Bolsters Decorating Center Carpet – vinyl – ceramic Always free decorating consulting bolsters@megalink.net 9 Market Sq., So. Paris 207-743-9202

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NCC Ladies help Drive Out Cancer

SMILES UNDER THOSE MASKS — The Norway Country Club Ladies Association raised over $10,700 in their 7th annual Drive Out Cancer Golf Tournament for the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine on Aug. 13.

Many area businesses and individuals sponsored the golf tournament with cash donations or donated items to their Silent Auction and Ticket Raffle Table.

Smiling behind their masks are: NCCLA treasurer Maureen Thorn, Executive Director of Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine Diane Madden, NCCLA President Kathy Jillson, Tournament Committee members Sue Craib, Carol Roth, Kathy Greenleaf and Chairperson Alice Goodwin. The Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine (CRCofWM) is located at 199 Main Street, Norway in the Stephens Memorial Hospital Specialty Clinic building. The CRCofWM offers a variety of programs, as well as comfort items, free to anyone impacted by cancer. Anyone needing assistance should call 890-0329 or e-mail info@crcofwm. org. Check their website, www.crcofwm.org, for more information, find them on Facebook or call 890-0329.

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(Continued from Page 7B) term in Maine’s House of Representatives, is very much that person.

Our experience with Jess began two decades ago when she ran the storefront Raymond Village Florist shop. Her focus was of course on the quality of her merchandise, but even more so was her high levels of customer service, understanding the needs of each client, whether walk-in or event-driven.

Jess brings empathy and positive energy to her role as our District 66 Representative (Raymond,

Casco, Poland). She helped roll out the state’s AgeFriendly initiative, which focuses on understanding and supporting the needs of residents as we strive to age gracefully and safely in place. She founded AgeFriendly Raymond, which through collaboration with town officials, Fire and Rescue and volunteers within the community, identified what Raymond residents feel they are missing in order to stay at home as they age. Jess reached out to local and state service entities (such as Meals on Wheels, state and private home healthcare groups, medical insurance and legal providers, to name just a few), and coordinated monthly informational meetings.

Please vote for Jessica Fay in the coming election, so that she, through teamwork and nonpartisan efforts, can continue accomplishing local- and statebased measures so critical to the health of this community.

Ginger Wallace Laurie Wallace Raymond

The five parts

To The Editor: “We the People of the United States…” Donald Trump is an impeached, pathological liar who is taking the United States from a 200-year-old democracy (the envy of the world) to

an autocracy. This pathetic process comes in five parts: Part 1, The Attitude: Decency, honesty and integrity do not make headlines. These are values everyone expects. Trump holds the opposite values — disrespect, lie and denigrate (ask Secretary Tillerson, General Kelly or General Mattis). This is the attitude Trump uses to brand his name. He bullies all those who disagree with him. This is the attitude Trump used from his youth in order to brand his name and this is the attitude Donnie brings to the government of the United States.

Part 2, The Behavior: Donald Trump uses chaos, confusion, misdirection, and of course, lies at every opportunity to feed and enhance his own ego.

Trump’s loyal followers, The Trumplican Party (former Republicans who consistently appease Trump) believe Trump was elected to completely overturn the entire U.S. government. He famously claimed the system is broken and “Only I can fix it.” The Trumplicans don’t care what the government “… Of the People” looks like after Donnie “fixes it;” all they want is chaos. Trumplicans want to “Keep America Great” — you know — the America with Covid-19 out of control, an economy in shambles, a completely dysfunctional government, and so on.

Part 3, The Lie: Illegal voting caused Trump to lose the 2016 election by 2,864,903 popular votes to Sec. Clinton, (8,810,884 if you add the popular vote for Johnson and Stein). There is no evidence to prove this lie, but as Joseph Goebbels famously said, if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, the people will believe it.

Part 4, The Deal: Mitch McConnell spent his entire career working toward a complete conser-

vative Judicial branch of government. Now, he has it. Donald Trump wanted and needed silence from the former Grand Old Party (Republicans now Trumplicans) to close the deal. There it is! Donnie appointed all the judges McConnell wanted. For his part, Trump got the silence he wanted/needed from all Trumplicans and lied about everything else. That, my friends, is the Art of the Deal.

Part 5, The Goal: Donald Trump wants to take the U.S. Democracy to an Autocracy. To accomplish this goal, Donnie needed silence from the Executive Branch of Government. He got it! Just fire all those people who were not silent.

The Deal Donnie made with McConnell effectively shut down the Legislative Branch. In 2018, when the House of Representatives found their voice, Donnie still had silence from the Senate — count the number of bills sitting on McConnell’s desk or listen to the outrage from Trumplican senators.

When Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, and Mitch McConnell guarantees her confirmation, then Donnie will no longer need Mitch. The politicized Supreme Court will be under Trump’s influence going forward. Donnie claims that if he loses the 2020 election it will be because the election is rigged and there is widespread voteby-mail fraud (again the lie) which invalidates the election. He will bring his claim to court where it will go before the 6/3 Supreme Court to decide who is the president. However, from Nov. 3 until Donnie’s case is finally settled, no one other than Trump will be the president, not Mr. Biden, not the Speaker of the House, not the Senate. The Nov. 3 status cannot change until the court case is decided.

Trump will have his Autocracy; he will be the

Supreme Leader. Donnie applied the attitude, the behavior, the lie, and the deal to reach his goal. The Trumplicans will have saved Trump’s Autocracy!

“We the People…” will have lost our Democracy.

It is up to Independent voters in 2020 to decide whether our Democracy survives or goes to a Trumplican Autocracy. It is up to Independent voters to answer four questions: 1. Do we want a government by a Supreme Leader?

2. Do we want a narcissistic, Supreme Leader who is an impeached, pathological liar?

3. Do we want four more years of utter chaos in our government?

4. Are we better off now — medically, socially and economically — than four years ago?

If the answer to these questions is “no,” then it is up to Independent voters to rise up, speak out and vote Trump and his Trumplican party out of office.

Joseph W. Angelo Bridgton

How to handle invaders

To the Editor: Thank you for your article “Town to seek trespass order” (Bridgton News, Oct. 8). It must have been frightening for the Harrison Town Office staff to have to deal with the “invaders.”

The web seems to be full of posts of similar invasions by similar gangs of malevolent trolls into public areas. Perhaps some agency (Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office? State Attorney General’s office?) could draft a protocol, a crib sheet, if you would, to advise public employees on how to handle these situations.

Steve Collins Bridgton LETTERS, Page 9B

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Working Hard for Us!

To The Editor: I want to let folks know how lucky we are to have a candidate with the quality of character and caring attitude of Walter Riseman.

There is no doubt in my mind that Walter Riseman has worked hard representing us in the Legislature. He has sponsored and supported many important pieces of legislation during the last two years. At the same time, he is deeply con-

cerned about the well-being of people in the community.

This is another side of the job that is equally important to us as constituents.

I want to say thank you to him. I had a big issue I could not solve. I didn’t know where to turn. A friend said call his office, so I did. He promptly called me back and I told him my story; how I had custody of my nephew who was born with an opioid addiction along with other special needs and he needed help and support. I had tried repeatedly to navigate the bureaucracy of state services for over six years little success. Once we talked, he stepped right up and went to work on my nephew’s behalf. We were able to break through the numerous roadblocks and I quickly set up

the services he needed. He now has had testing done, a case manager appointed, and he is attending a special school and is doing so much better.

All this because Mr. Riseman took the time to care. We need more people like Walter working on behalf of our community. His experience and knowledge are valuable assets to have in a state representative.

Thank you, Walter.

Thank you so very much.

I wish there were more I could do to thank you.

You have given my nephew a better chance at life.

Thank you. Vote for Walter Riseman, Independent for Legislature (House District 69 which includes Bridgton, Harrison and Denmark).

Christina Ford Bridgton

October 15, 2020, The Bridgton News, Page 9B

No ‘I’ in Democrat

To The Editor: Hello neighbors! This is Mike Davis, your candidate for State Representative this November. I hope your Columbus Day went well, and that I can see you in these last weeks if I have not already. I’m glad to have heard from many in our district (HD 69 which includes Bridgton, Harrison and Denmark) that my letter of last week was “news to them,” so I felt it only appropriate to continue this dialogue in-so-far as there were a few points I was unable to address in my last letter.

I know Walter (Riseman).

I’ve met him several times,

and I must stress that my disappointment stems straightly from his record; from evidence of his voice and vote, I am unconvinced that his position represents the majority of political thought in our district. The word “politician” is now seen in an unfavorable light, and our Legislature has been made to take a rather inferior position in the public eye, from the common belief that many of our representatives sacrifice the general interests of their constituency to further their own agendas.

I see this as the case here, else why did Mr. Riseman vote in opposition to LD 255, a bill which would have changed the broken citizen’s initiative process to require that signatures be gathered equally in both of Maine’s congressio-

nal districts? As a representative of Denmark, a town in the Second District, we rightly expected his position to align with ours. This was a bill we supported, which would have required that signature gatherers actually come, set foot in, and hear the concerns of rural towns like ours. The people of Denmark can only gain by such a proposal.

And knowing that, knowing he represented a people who stood the most to gain by this bill’s passage, my opponent voted against it, and in doing, voted against the interests of our people. This is not Independent, but rather a display fully in keeping with the wishes of the Democrat Party of Maine, which finds great utility in the present LETTERS, Page 10B

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with the wise, the patriotic, and the good citizens whose honest work raised the reputation of our country to so high a state.

We can have such legislators again. Are you with me?

Mike Davis Republican Candidate House District 69

Fay works for all

HERE’S A TWIST on the pumpkin stem. This pumpkin is among the ones that were being displayed and sold at Ricker Hill Orchards in Turner. (De Busk Photo)

Letters

(Continued from Page 9B) arrangement which enables them to ignore and dismiss the will of our rural communities.

And for perhaps the clearest, most simple evidence yet, do you recall the political booths which pop up every year at the Fryeburg Fair? These past years, do you recall for which party Mr. Riseman put out his signs, and where he stood and met voters every time he was there? Knowing his record, it came as no surprise to me to find him always with the Democrats.

And, when he was asked by his townsmen why he was there, and if he would ever go to caucus with the Republicans, what was his response? He replied that he didn’t have the time, that he “hadn’t got around to it yet.” I would ask my oppo-

nent today, has he ever “got around” to siding with the Republicans on any significant issue that the Democrat Party opposed?

So, speaking now to those Independents in our district who might be wary of partisanship and who may find comfort in the assurance that their current representative is a declared Independent, I would ask them to consider the record of their candidate, and what it is they owe to a politician who had carried out his work in Augusta in opposition to their principles. This record is a trespass upon the public’s conscience, and he should perhaps be fearful that his actions have not earned him the best reputation in the hearts of those Independents who once supported him. It was not such a course as his which once guided our legislators in the early days of our republic. It was not such policies as his which once filled our offices

To The Editor: We are writing this letter in support of the re-election of Jessica Fay as the District 66 State Representative. We have known Jess for years, but recently had the pleasure of working closely with her on the summer Raymond Backpack Program and some age-related issues.

She is extremely knowledgeable, very willing to share, and open to different approaches and ideas. These qualities have made her a very capable legislator, willing and able to work with everybody to get positive results for her constituents.

With Maine potentially facing the greatest economic and health crisis in generations, Jess is the type of pragmatic leader we need at the State House to help derive difficult compromise solutions. We hope you will join us in voting on Nov. 3, to re-elect Jessica Fay in Maine House District 66.

Frank and Nancy Fowles Raymond

Bennett for Senate

To The Editor: During these unprecedented times in our state, we need representatives in Augusta who have the experience and understanding to guide us through these uncertain times. Rick Bennett has that experience and the ability to bring people together for the common good.

Having previously served on Rick’s legislative staff, I saw

firsthand his compassion, respect and civility in working with all legislative members and staff. He knows how to reach consensus, he knows that all opinions matter and he knows that working collaboratively produces positive results. Please join me and my family in supporting Rick Bennett for Senate — we need him now more than ever.

Diane Jackson Oxford

“someone who believes that are “white only” drinking their race makes them better, fountains, but systemic, inmore intelligent, more mor- stitutionalized racism is front al, etc. than people of other and center in the structure races and who does or says of American culture: racial unfair or harmful things as a profiling, redlining, discrimresult…” inatory lending and housThe Merriam-Webster ing practices, food deserts, Dictionary defines the re- mass incarceration of peolated word “racism” as “the ple of color, lack of adequate systemic oppression of a ra- healthcare and police bias. cial group to the social, ecoMr. Framarin concludes nomic, and political advan- his letter by bemoaning that, tage of another,” and this “people now use the word dictionary specifically uses [racist] to insult each oththe term “white supremacy” er” and “as a weapon to as a specific example of rac- hurt and divide people.” The ism. word “racist” is not an inIn the United States, over sult nor a weapon — it’s a the past century, structur- fact of our American society. al racism has become in- We are not post-racist, not creasingly subjective — less by any stretch of the imagovert. Most racists may no ination.

To The Editor: Deirdre Donahue In his Oct. 8, 2020 let- longer use the “n” word in Bridgton ter, Mr. Ronald Framarin in- public and there no longer quired what the word “racist” means.

It’s apparent that Mr. Framarin’s question was rhetorical or else tongue-in(Continued from Page 1A) cheek because he continued schedule the interviews,” Peaslee said. “He does that by providing his definition stuff. That is why we hired him.” of racist: “Calling somebody This summer, the Casco selectmen hired Gerrish, of a racist should be nothing Eaton Peabody Consulting, after former Casco Town more than saying [one has] a Manager Courtney O’Donnell announced her resignation. preference for a race, which O’Donnell’s last day was Sept. 11. all humans do … It is perGoing into the process of hiring a new town manfectly human for a brain to ager, the selectmen knew the timeframe was tight to try create a race preference. It to name somebody as the new town manager by middoes not mean hate or aniSeptember. mosity — it means favored.”

Currently, Gerrish is acting as interim town manager.

I do not know if Mr. On Wednesday morning, Gerrish confirmed that three Framarin is a lexicographer. candidates will be contacted for interviews.

I am not one, but I do know “The board is considering three applicants,” he said. that Mr. Framarin’s personal “We are going to try to schedule some of them [the interdefinition of “racist” is just views] today.” that — personal.

On Tuesday afternoon, Gerrish said that he had “Racism” and “racist” received 13 resumes. Four of those applicants were from are relatively new words in Maine. The number of resumes received was exactly the English language (earhalf the amount that had been received a few months ago. ly 20th century). However, Previously, after the job opening was advertised for four these two words have been weeks, 26 resumes were submitted. defined by lexicographers, Gerrish explained why there were fewer submissions. and their meanings definite“We were just out. Every time you go out [advertise] ly are based on feelings of you don’t get as many as you do the first time. People “hate and animosity.” knew about it the first time and they applied and they The Oxford Dictionary weren’t considered and normally don’t apply the second defines a racist as “a person time,” he said. who is prejudiced against or The first time the job advertisement ran for four antagonistic toward people weeks. The second time the board had decided to keep on the basis of their memberthe advertising to three weeks. ship in a particular racial or “You get most of your applications in the last week, ethnic group, typically one whether it’s three weeks or four weeks,” Gerrish said. that is a minority or margin“There was a timeframe that the board approved. It alized.” was trying to get it [the hiring] done before the second The Cambridge week in November,” Gerrish said.

Dictionary defines a racist as

Racist really defined

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