Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME) articles from August 2011, page 8

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Robert Young, 80, taught inmates to weld, kids to raise cattle.
August 4, 2011... Byline: Melanie Creamer Aug. 04--GORHAM -- Robert Young taught welding and metal fabrication to inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham for 30 years. He also was an accomplished farmer who had a passion for agriculture and...

Wright Express income soars; guidance increased for year.
August 4, 2011... Byline: Edward D. Murphy Aug. 04--SOUTH PORTLAND -- Second-quarter income for Wright Express Corp. shot up 33 percent and revenue increased 55 percent, the company said Wednesday. Earnings, after excluding income from fuel derivatives,...

EDITORIAL: Summers' allegations not fitting for his post.(Editorial)
August 4, 2011... Aug. 04--Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers oversees the state's elections, and elections are something that he knows a lot about. Summers is a former state senator and has made three unsuccessful runs for Congress. But in his current...

BRIEF: Legislature to consider redistricting plan Sept. 27.
August 4, 2011... Byline: Tom Bell Aug. 04--AUGUSTA -- The Maine Legislature will hold a special session on Sept. 27 to consider a congressional reapportionment plan, Gov. Paul LePage announced today. Congressional redistricting is required to be updated...

BRIEF: Buxton house fire was accidental.
August 4, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 04--BUXTON -- The fire that badly damaged a Buxton house Wednesday night was accidental, fire officials said this morning. The fire at 11 Rocky Dundee Road was noticed by neighbors at about 10 p.m., said Fire Chief...

Kittery businessman loses bid for new trial.
August 4, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 04--PORTLAND -- A Kittery businessman facing a prison sentence for falsely declaring on a Small Business Administration loan application that he had no criminal past has lost his bid for a new trial. Peter Enzinger, 44,...

Former Pirate returning as assistant coach.
August 4, 2011... Byline: Mike Lowe Aug. 04--PORTLAND -- An original Portland Pirate is returning. John Slaney, a defenseman who played on the Portland Pirates' inaugural team that won the Calder Cup, was named as an assistant coach for the Pirates today. ...

East Bayside gets together for a National Night Out.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 03--PORTLAND -- A procession of more than 40 adults, children and police officers, holding signs that said National Night Out, made its way through Portland's East Bayside neighborhood Tuesday night. It was a...

Steve Soloway: Mainers' stock just went up in Sprint Cup community.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Steve Solloway Aug. 03--Replay the video The finish to Sunday's Brickyard 400 was an extraordinary day for Maine's small but close-knit Sprint Cup community. Slugger Labbe guided Paul Menard to his first Sprint Cup victory at...

Beach to Beacon: Fresh face joins the mix.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Glenn Jordan Aug. 03--CAPE ELIZABETH -- Ever since three-time winner Emily Levan moved to Vermont, the Maine women's race at Beach to Beacon has been dominated by two good friends: Kristin Barry of Scarborough and Sheri Piers of...

Maine basketball team captures history-making title.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Paul Betit Aug. 03--A group of young basketball players returned to Maine Tuesday after making history. MBNation won the AAU boys' basketball Division I 12th-grade national championship Monday at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports...

Pier reviewed: Pine Point fishermen benefit.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Trevor Maxwell Aug. 03--SCARBOROUGH -- For commercial fishermen at Pine Point, the old way to load and unload gear was a back-breaking process, which put them at a disadvantage against competitors from other harbors. It often...

EDITORIAL: No one to applaud in dreadful debt debate.(Editorial)
August 3, 2011... Aug. 03--The House and Senate reluctantly passed it. President Obama reluctantly signed it. Tea party cheerleaders on talk radio and cable TV took a victory lap but they didn't really like it. And just plain Americans? Well, they were torn...

Portland Press Herald, Maine, Soup to Nuts column.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Meredith Goad Aug. 03--FALMOUTH -- Boulis Kodi treads lightly through a thriving garden patch, showing off a summer's worth of hard work by Nuba Mountain refugees from Sudan. "This is the sweet corn, and this is the tomatoes over...

Portland Press Herald, Maine, Natural Foodie column.(Column)
August 3, 2011... Byline: Avery Yale Kamila Aug. 03--As a mother of two, a grandmother of four and a former sixth-grade teacher, Vesta Rand knows how to get kids excited about food. As an avid walker, she also knows what it takes to create portable eats. ...

Scraps a" Stuff we've heard about this 'n' that, Aug. 3, 2011.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Meredith Goad Aug. 03----Jessica James, a school counselor, has just opened a lobster cart on Commercial Street in Portland. She sells lobster rolls with a quarter pound of fresh lobster meat for $12. The rolls are served in a toasted...

Portland Press Herald, Maine, Cookbook Corner column.(Column)
August 3, 2011... Byline: Meredith Goad Aug. 03--Are you one of those people who just love breakfast? Or maybe you've got a lot of visitors from away you need to feed? In either case, make your life easier by picking up a copy of "The Art of Breakfast: How to...

'Bachelorette' from Maine to ring out TV, ring in 'real world'.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Ray Routhier Aug. 03--Though TV has been pretty good to Maine's Ashley Hebert -- she traveled the world and found a fiance while starring on two reality shows this year -- she says her days on the small screen are over. She told...

Demise of Wiscasset bypass puts a drag on Route 1.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Tom Bell Aug. 03--WISCASSET -- The Maine Department of Transportation's decision to call off plans for a bypass around Wiscasset has revealed mixed feelings about the project that depend largely on geography. Many merchants in...

Snowe, Collins: Averting disaster was priority.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Jonathan Riskind Aug. 03--WASHINGTON -- Both of Maine's U.S. senators voted Tuesday for the landmark agreement to cut federal spending and raise the debt ceiling. As expected, the Senate approved the deal by a wide margin, 74-26. ...

Deadly force justified by Kennebunk officer, state says.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 03--The Kennebunk police officer who fatally shot a woman while responding to a domestic-dispute call in March was justified in using deadly force, Attorney General William Schneider concluded in a report released...

Kennebunk officer on leave amid probe of off-duty conduct.
August 3, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 03--Officer Joshua Morneau remains on administrative leave from the Kennebunk Police Department pending an internal investigation into his alleged off-duty conduct. Morneau was put on leave with pay about two...

Medical examiner: Portland man died from shot to chest.
August 3, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 03--PORTLAND -- The Portland man who was killed Monday near the corner of Congress Street and Massachusetts Avenue died from a gunshot wound to the chest, the state medical examiner ruled after an autopsy Tuesday. ...

Portland Press Herald, Maine, Bill Nemitz column.(Column)
August 3, 2011... Byline: Bill Nemitz Aug. 03--Having trouble keeping track of the "two Charlies" lately? Former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap offers a not-so-seasonal metaphor. "One makes the snowballs," Dunlap said this week, "and the other one...

Mayoral Race 2011: Survey will ask voters to rank issues by importance.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Edward D. Murphy Aug. 03--The city of Portland has ranked choice voting, so why not ranked choice surveys? Candidate Michael Brennan said he and volunteers plan to fan out around the city Saturday, asking voters to rank a...

Legal woes slow trash-site sale in Gorham.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Leslie Bridgers Aug. 03--Buyers interested in purchasing Plan-It Recycling & Transfer Inc. are waiting for a resolution to the Gorham company's legal issues before taking over the site and cleaning up the massive piles of trash...

Ex-GOP spokesman Lance Dutson will lead think tank.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Rebekah Metzler Aug. 03--AUGUSTA -- The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a Portland-based conservative think tank, announced Tuesday that Lance Dutson of Portland will take over as the group's chief executive officer. Dutson is a...

Kennebunks, Arundel, Wells-Ogunquit eye regional high school.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Emma Bouthillette Aug. 03--KENNEBUNK -- Officials from Regional School Unit 21 and the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District are expected to meet Thursday to discuss the feasibility of creating a regional high school....

Old Orchard Beach library seeks bond for expansion.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Emma Bouthillette Aug. 03--OLD ORCHARD BEACH -- The demand for library services has increased in recent years, and the Edith Belle Libby Memorial Library's trustees are recognizing that need. In a presentation Tuesday night,...

Gene McDaniels, 76, pop star and Maine music icon.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Melanie Creamer Aug. 03--KITTERY -- Gene McDaniels was a pop star in the early 1960s who recorded the million-selling "A Hundred Pounds of Clay" and later wrote the monster hit "Feel Like Makin' Love" for Roberta Flack. For the...

Wright Express earnings up, top expectations.(Financial report)
August 3, 2011... Byline: Edward D. Murphy Aug. 03--SOUTH PORTLAND -- Second-quarter income for Wright Express Corp. shot up 33 percent and revenue increased 55 percent, the company said. Earnings per share, after excluding income from fuel derivatives,...

BRIEF: Man known to lie in road is run over and killed.
August 3, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 03--CARTHAGE -- A man who police say had a history of lying in the road was killed this morning after he was hit by a pickup on Route 142 in the Franklin County town of Carthage. State police say Bert Knox, 44,...

Murder charge dismissed in Sanford woman's slaying.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 03--ALFRED -- The murder charge against a Hiram man accused in the 2006 death of a Sanford woman was dismissed today -- more than a year after he told authorities that he had falsely confessed to the crime. Robert...

BRIEF: Amtrak history exhibit to visit Freeport.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Kelley Bouchard Aug. 03--FREEPORT -- An Amtrak Exhibit Train will visit Freeport on Aug. 13 and 14, offering a unique showcase of the railroad's history in celebration of its 40th anniversary. The free exhibit is touring the...

BRIEF: Michelle Obama coming to Maine for fundraisers.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Rebekah Metzler Aug. 03--Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit Maine in late September to attend a pair of fundraising events. The first lady's trip was confirmed by Willy Ritch, spokesman for Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a...

BRIEF: Man charged with torching fire investigator's car.
August 3, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 03--PRENTISS TOWNSHIP -- The state Fire Marshall's Office charged a Prentiss Township man with arson after he allegedly set fire to a state fire marshal investigator's vehicle. Sgt. Timothy York had parked his...

BRIEF: New walk-in medical clinic opening in Brunswick.
August 3, 2011... Byline: John Richardson Aug. 03--BRUNSWICK -- The Mid Coast Primary Care and Walk-In Clinic is set to open Monday in downtown Brunswick. The 10,000-square-foot health center is in Brunswick Station on Station Avenue. Lois Skillings,...

Trahan to keep Senate seat until December.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Susan M. Cover Aug. 03--AUGUSTA -- Sen. David Trahan said today he will step down from his Senate seat by the end of the year and immediately resign from the fish and wildlife committee so he can serve as executive director of the...

Residents restore $75K to SAD 61 budget.
August 3, 2011... Byline: Leslie Bridgers Aug. 03--NAPLES -- Residents of the four towns in School Administrative District 61 will vote in a referendum Tuesday on the same $26.6 million budget that they rejected in June. The district's Board of Directors...

Forget about the chip, but hold onto that bib.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Rachel Lenzi Aug. 02--When it comes to explaining the technological focal point of road racing, Pete Bottomley provides a fitting analogy for the timing chip. "It's much like an E-ZPass," said Bottomley, a Cape Elizabeth resident...

LeRoy wants to teach again, so he's leaving as Deering's AD.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Mike Lowe Aug. 02--Bill LeRoy got into education so he could work with students. He's getting back into the classroom because he missed that interaction. LeRoy will resign as athletic director at Deering High, a post he has held...

Local baseball, softball: Maine team stumbles in regional, 7-3.
August 2, 2011... Aug. 02--WORCESTER, Mass. -- Worcester defeated Gray-New Gloucester 7-3 Monday, giving the Maine state champions their first loss of the Senior League Eastern Regional softball tournament. GNG took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI...

EDITORIAL: Old Orchard Beach should kick beach smoking habit.(Editorial)
August 2, 2011... Aug. 02--As the Old Orchard Beach Town Council gets ready to discuss a perfectly reasonable ban on smoking at Maine's busiest beach, let's get one argument out of the way: No one has a right to smoke on a beach, or in any other public place. ...

EDITORIAL: Dick Durbin, John McCain show how issues should be debated.(Editorial)
August 2, 2011... Aug. 02--In the final hours of the debt ceiling talks Sunday, something strange happened. While Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin was running out the clock on a bill he and everyone in the chamber knew was dead and was about to be replaced...

'Bachelorette' makes 'passionate' choice a" J.P.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Ray Routhier Aug. 02--Maine's Ashley Hebert finally picked the man she wants to marry. Even though he seemed to be the man that her sister definitely, positively, didn't want her to marry. Hebert, a 27-year-old dental student...

Maine could feel more pain than most states from debt deal.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Tom Bell Aug. 02--The deal to raise the federal government's debt ceiling imposes sweeping spending cuts -- as much as $2.4 trillion over the next decade. Although it's uncertain which programs will be affected, Maine stands to lose...

Debt deal: Maine lawmakers divided, pleased, concerned.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Jonathan Riskind Aug. 02--WASHINGTON -- Maine's Democratic House members split their votes on a landmark agreement to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling that cleared the House on Monday night and now is headed for a Senate vote....

Portland police seek suspect in fatal shooting.
August 2, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- Police scoured the city Monday for a suspect and witnesses in the predawn shooting death of a 41-year-old Portland man at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Congress Street. The state medical...

Bypass plan goes nowhere in Wiscasset: State kills it.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Leslie Bridgers Aug. 02--The commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation has called off all plans to build a bypass around Wiscasset, where potential solutions for summer traffic congestion have been studied for more than...

Galaxy nightclub owner vows to reopen after fire.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Trevor Maxwell Aug. 02--OLD ORCHARD BEACH -- The manager of the Galaxy nightclub said a contractor was to start installing a sprinkler system in the club on Sept. 6, after most tourists had left the popular beachfront town. Had...

Westbrook quickly OKs ex-fire chief settlement.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 02--WESTBROOK -- City councilors wasted no time Monday night in agreeing to the terms of a legal settlement that will cost Westbrook taxpayers $110,000. Councilors voted 6-0 to approve the settlement with former...

Portland puts off votes on organ bond, petition rules.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Edward D. Murphy Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- Vacations messed up the City Council's agenda Monday night. Two very different issues -- a bond to help pay for repairs to the nearly century-old Kotzschmar Organ and a proposal to give more...

Chief justice 'breaks' his family vacation rule, speaks in Maine.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court made an exception Monday to his family's rule that they do nothing in August but spend time on Hupper Island, off the coast of St. George. Chief Justice John...

Benjamin York Sr., 83, hard worker, generous, put family first.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Melanie Creamer Aug. 02--WINDHAM -- The family of Benjamin York Sr. expressed sadness Monday over the passing of a man they say worked hard his whole life for the good of his family. Mr. York, who died Sunday at age 83, worked two...

BRIEF: Restaurateur sentenced to prison for tax evasion.
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AG: Kennebunk officer's use of deadly force justified.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 02--AUGUSTA -- A Kennebunk police officer who fatally shot a woman in March while responding to a call about a domestic dispute was justified in using deadly force, according to Attorney General William Schneider. On...

Collins, Snowe vote in favor of debt deal.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Jonathan Riskind Aug. 02--WASHINGTON -- Both of Maine's Republican U.S. senators voted for a landmark agreement to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling. As expected, the Senate approved the deal by a wide margin, 74-26. ...

Former GOP spokesman to lead conservative think tank.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Rebekah Metzler Aug. 02--AUGUSTA -- Lance Dutson, a former spokesman for the Maine Republican Party and Republican House Speaker, will be the new chief executive officer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center. The conservative think...

BRIEF: Craig to be sworn in as Cincinnati police chief today.
August 2, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- James Craig is being sworn in as CIncinnati's police chief today. Michael Sauschuck is now Portland's acting police chief. He will serve in that position until a permanent replacement is hired. To...

BRIEF: Unum posts solid second-quarter earnings.(Financial report)
August 2, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- The Unum Group, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., reported today a net income of $229.8 million or 75 cents per share for the second quarter of 2011, compared to its net income of $209.7 million or 63 cents...

Restaurateur sentenced to prison for tax evasion.
August 2, 2011... Aug. 02--A restaurateur from Kennebunkport has been sentenced to three years in prison, with all but nine months suspended, and three years of probation for tax evasion and unemployment fraud. Attorney General William J. Schneider said in a...

Portland man died of gunshot wound to chest.
August 2, 2011... Byline: David Hench Aug. 02--PORTLAND -- The state medical examiner has determined that Allen MacLean, the 41-year-old Portland man killed Monday morning near the corner of Congress Street and Massachusetts Avenue, died from a gunshot wound...

A UMaine reunion.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Rachel Lenzi Aug. 01--SACO -- As a child, Tyler Walsh would travel with the University of Maine hockey team on various out-of-town trips, including the annual December trek to Florida's Gulf Coast for the Florida College Classic. ...

Local Baseball, Softball: Gayton repeats as state champ.
August 1, 2011... Aug. 01--AUGUSTA -- It all looked so perfect. Augusta led by five runs in the sixth inning. Top pitcher Ryan Minoty was on the mound and was cruising. Corey Lapierre had already hit two home runs. But when Minoty finally tired under a heavy...

Gunmaking returns to Maine.
August 1, 2011... Byline: J. Hemmerdinger Aug. 01--WINDHAM -- While traveling on the Orient Express train through Europe in early April, Richard Dyke fired off an email to his former staffers back in Maine. "Would you be crazy enough to go back into...

EDITORIAL: Congress shouldn't let bitter debt talks set tone.(Editorial)
August 1, 2011... Aug. 01--Given the tone of the president's speech and the shorter but comparably unyielding reply by House Speaker John Boehner, it's hard to imagine how these individuals and their Washington colleagues can come together to conduct future...

Tri for a Cure inspires with a special bond.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Glenn Jordan Aug. 01--SOUTH PORTLAND -- It began with emotion and inspiration, with survivors of cancer standing on a beach reading a poem about what the disease cannot do. More than an hour later -- two or three hours later for...

Portland Press Herald, Maine, Maine at Work column.(Column)
August 1, 2011... Byline: Ray Routhier Aug. 01--KENNEBUNKPORT -- With a damp cloth in hand, I set about wiping down surfaces in a third-floor room at the historic Nonantum Resort. Christine Grant, a housekeeper at the waterfront hotel for 23 years, told...

State confirms poisonous plant sightings.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Leslie Bridgers Aug. 01--State horticulturist Ann Gibbs describes the plant as Queen Anne's lace on steroids. Since news reports earlier this month about an effort in New York state to control giant hogweed there, Gibbs has gotten...

State House Notebook: Alliance faces decision day on voting petition drive.
August 1, 2011... Aug. 01--The Maine People's Alliance and its partners have a decision to make this week about their effort to preserve people's ability to register to vote on Election Day. They will decide whether they have gathered enough signatures to put...

Mud race crash hurts driver.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 01--LEBANON -- A Massachusetts man was taken to a York County hospital Sunday after he lost control of his truck during a race at the Go Deep Mud Track in East Lebanon. Jason A. Cole, Lebanon's assistant rescue...

Beatrice Smith, inspiring mom; George Smith, war hero, climber.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 01--As they lay in separate hospital beds during the final days of their lives, the Smiths were able to reach out and hold each other's hand -- a symbol of the love and trust that sustained them during their 64-year...

Inaugural Portland Brew Festival announced for Sept. 3-4, spotlighting regional beers and home brewing.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Shannon Bryan Aug. 01--Designed for ale aficionados and brew neophytes alike, the festival is designed to embrace the brewing community and give beer devotees the opportunity to discover both high-profile and up-and-coming regional...

Firefighters extinguishing blaze at OOB night club.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Trevor Maxwell Aug. 01--OLD ORCHARD BEACH -- Fire officials don't know what caused the early morning blaze at the Galaxy nightclub, or where in the two-story building it might have started, Old Orchard Beach Fire Chief John Glass just...

BRIEF: K'bunk officer involved in fatal shooting placed on leave.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Ann Kim Aug. 01--KENNEBUNK -- The town police officer involved in a March fatal shooting is on paid administrative leave again. Officer Joshua Morneau was placed on paid administrative leave about two weeks ago in connection with...

BRIEF: Otto mashed potato pizza named 1 of 50 best in U.S.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Meredith Goad Aug. 01--PORTLAND -- Otto's mashed potato, bacon and scallion pizza has been named one of the 50 best pizzas in the country by the editors at Food Network Magazine. The pizza will be featured in the magazine's...

BRIEF: MDOT drops plan for Wiscasset bypass.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Leslie Bridgers Aug. 01--WISCASSET -- Plans to build a bypass around Wiscasset will not move forward, the Maine Department of Transportation announced today. The department's commissioner, David Bernhardt, will discuss the...

BRIEF: Waterboro man charged with terrorizing shop employees.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Dennis Hoey Aug. 01--WATERBORO -- A Waterboro man has been charged with the Class C crime of terrorizing after he allegedly threatened employees at a Subway restaurant on Sokokis Trail. Major William L. King Jr. said deputies from...

Maine delegation undecided on debt reduction deal.
August 1, 2011... Byline: Jonathan Riskind Aug. 01--WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers prepared to vote on the debt ceiling deal brokered by President Obama and congressional leaders, it's a sign of the political heartburn the agreement is causing many in Congress...