Saturday, November 21, 2009 in Lewiston, Maine
NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen on Monday approved spending up to $50,000 in an effort to find a public water supply for residents and businesses in the Upper Gloucester area.
For two decades, the town has supplied bottled drinking water to homes and businesses that have private wells contaminated by salt from the town's open sand/salt pile. Other wells are contaminated with benzene from leaking underground gasoline tanks and the chemical MTBE used as an additive in gasoline.
FREEPORT — The Durham-Pownal-Freeport school system directors will host its second community forum at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Freeport High School cafeteria.
Residents of the three communities will have an opportunity to help refine three components of the strategic plan for Regional School Unit 5: mission, vision statement and baseline performance indicators.
Arborist Steve Murch has 11 years experience choosing Christmas trees for the city of Lewiston, looking for those that look nice, are easily accessible and the right size for Courthouse Plaza on Lisbon Street.
For the past two years, the Turner man and his daughter Kassie, 9, have been a team when it comes to getting the green centerpiece.
"Most of the time it is a spruce, white or blue," Steve said. They are nice and full
without a lot of maintenance and pruning."
Charges
Lewiston
• Zackery Smith, 29, of 227 Main St. No. 1, West Paris, unspecified warrant, 1:20 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Pine and Park streets.
• Meteash Davis, 34, of 22 Wakefield St. No. 1B, operating under the influence, 1:43 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Bartlett and Ash streets.
• James Raymond Girouard, 50, of 6 Surry Lane, domestic violence assault, 3 p.m. Sunday at 50 West Bates St. No. 4.
AUBURN — The massive evergreen tree in front of the Vincent Apartment building on Mill Street has served as New Auburn's Christmas tree for the last 30 years — but not this year.
Crews are scheduled to cut down the three-story-tall tree Thursday morning and truck it three-quarters of a mile north on Main Street, to Festival Plaza. It will be decorated there as the official Christmas tree for the city.
AUBURN — Jim Day knows a thing or two about real estate development.
Nick Glicos, a Class A PGA professional and new president of the Maine chapter of the PGA, knows plenty about golf.
The pair hopes by combining those individual strengths, its new partnership as owner of Martindale Country Club in Auburn will lead to a new and improved era in the club's storied history.
Local family members of Col. Lewis Millett remember the former Mechanic Falls man as someone who proudly served his country even long after his retirement from the military.
"He was a very proud man and very proud of his country," said Alice Pepin, 75, Millett's younger sister who lives in Turner. "He felt very strongly about defending his country. He was very involved, especially with the young people involved in the army."
Charges
Auburn
• Joseph Stillman Berry, 45, of 15 Hampshire St. No. 7, unspecified warrant and violating condition of release, 7:54 p.m. Saturday at that address.
• Nicole Elizabeth Rawls, 21, of 795 Brighton Hill Road, Minot, operating under the influence, 1:59 a.m. Sunday at 33 Center St.
Lewiston
• Shawn Edward Bosse, 38, of 44 Wood St., operating under the influence (one prior), 1:30 a.m. Saturday at 281 Montello St.
Incident report statistics
Lewiston police responded to 647 calls for service from 7 a.m. Nov. 6 to 7 a.m. Nov. 13. Of these, 161 were motor vehicle stops.
Accidents: 25
Disorderly disturbances: 19
Domestic disputes: 13
Arrests: 38
Criminal Mischief
A window of an apartment at 70 Elm St. was shot out by a BB before 1 p.m. Nov. 9.
A window at CMMC at 29 Lowell St. was broken by a thrown rock on Nov. 7 at
1:40 a.m.
Vaccine free
None of Maine's congressional delegation has received the H1N1 flu vaccine.
Staffers for Democratic Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree and Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, all confirmed they had not been vaccinated against the pandemic flu.
"She's not in the so-called "high-risk" group," wrote Collins' spokesman in an e-mail.
SABATTUS — They greeted one another like long-lost brothers amid the quiet backdrop of Loon Pond. In the distance, the thick stand of pine trees surrounding the small pond and the clouds overhead reflected off water smooth as glass.
LISBON — The town's Revitalization Committee and the Maine Downtown Network have established a Business Roundtable.
Business representatives in Lisbon will meet once a month with the town manager and Economic/Community Development director to discuss issues, answer questions, create a networking opportunity and create a mutually beneficial partnership between the businesses and the municipality.
The first one is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 18, at ETTI at 42 Capital Ave. It will start at noon and lunch will be provided for this kickoff event.
Gary Ouellette loves mountain biking. For him it's calming and peaceful. Healthful. A challenge.
After 20 years in the sport, he knows exactly where to go for a good ride, which places will offer the best trails and the most tranquil setting. He recently spent $3,000 on a mountain biking vacation in Colorado and Utah. Closer to home he likes the Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal and Androscoggin Riverlands in Turner.
But Ouellette fears that his favorite Riverlands trail may soon be closed off.
At least to mountain bikers.
SABATTUS — Less than halfway into the fiscal year, the town of Sabattus has spent $77 more than it budgeted for legal expenses, according to a town official.
"For the year, we had budgeted $4,500 and we've so far spent $4,577; so we're over-budget on that," Town Clerk Suzanne Adams said. The town budget began July 1 and runs until June 30, Adams said.
Charges
Lewiston
Mohamed Jama Abdalla, 26, of Tall Pines Drive, on a probation hold, 2:55 a.m. Saturday at 63 Russell St.
Alvin Houston Jr., 22, of 169 Madison St., Auburn, on charges of unlawful possession of hydrocodone and carrying a concealed weapon, 2 a.m. Saturday at 43 Walnut St.
Robert Elie St. Pierre, 32, of 5 Radio Circle, on a charge of violating a condition of release, 1:56 a.m. Saturday at his home.
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Patty Blanchard of Auburn looks for a place for a pair of skis dropped off Saturday at Auburn Middle School in preparation for the annual Auburn Ski Association's Ski Swap, which is set to take place Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Boy Scouts' Camp Gustin is nothing fancy, on purpose.
The 100-plus-acre camp on the side of Loon Pond in Sabattus doesn't have a single mess hall or bunkhouse, just one covered shelter and two outhouses, with a rumor that somewhere out there in the woods, there's a third.
For 60 years, since it was donated by Charles Gustin, boys have learned to canoe, make campfires, track animals.
DURHAM — An 18-year-old college student from Durham is believed to have been killed Friday in a fiery crash.
A combination of speed and driver distraction likely caused Maxwell Allen to swerve on Quaker Meeting House Road, about a half-mile south of Route 136, State Police Trooper Tyler Stevenson said. Allen's 1999 Dodge Stratus veered into the oncoming lane and swerved back to the right, where it crossed the road and struck a power pole.
The force split that pole and two others.
LISBON — A 22-year-old local man, Seth Card of Bowdoinham Road, lost control of the car he was driving on Route 196 in Lisbon Falls on Saturday afternoon, striking and snapping a utility pole in front of the Big Apple, police said.
After striking the pole, the car rolled over and came to a rest on its roof in the middle of the road.
Card and an unidentified female passenger were taken to a Lewiston hospital with apparent minor injuries, Sgt. Scott Stewart said. Neither speed nor alcohol was involved, he said.
Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
A horse pokes his head out of a barn on East Hebron Road in Turner on Friday.
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