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Casco Bay Weekly : 6 April 1989 Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1989) Casco Bay Weekly 4-6-1989 Casco Bay Weekly : 6 April 1989 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989 Recommended Citation for This Issue "Casco Bay Weekly : 6 April 1989" (1989). Casco Bay Weekly (1989). Book 52. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989/52 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1989) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GET YOUR TREASURE HUNT ENTRY IN BY APRIL 11 w y Thursday Portland's FREE April 6, 1989 news and arts weekly ,. • oca or not to ca ? The 1989 tax cap debate has begun: "Caps limit the most flexible of revenue sources. Rather than increase local control, they in fact decrease it." "The city will have to look at where they are spending the. money, what they provide and how they provide it." walter Gallant Nathan Smith 2 . Ca$coBay. W.eekly IN BRIEF: Jewell access at issue Private boat moorings in JewellIsland' s beautiful Cock­ tail Cove may be cut this sum­ mer to make room for more people to use the cove, which is the only access to the island. Jewell lies outside of Cliff Is­ GOTIA PAY IF YA WANNA PLAY land and is owned by the state. Herbert Hartman, director of Deering Oaks gets festival protection the Maine Bureau of Parks and Deering Oaks has won a through to the roots, they year - 10:30 p.m. weekdays; l Recreation, said the Town of partial reprieve from summer warned. 11:30 p.m. weekends. Two days '. Cumberland has agreed pri­ festivals . The Portland City The council put off its deci­ instead of seven will be allot­ vate moorings should be cut Council decided that the Fam­ sion, asking the park advocates ted for clearing tents and equip­ (or removed) in its 75 percent ily Festival and the Maine Arts to meet with administrators of ment out of the park when the of the cove. The five Portland Festival should reduce their the Maine Arts and the Deer­ festival is over. Harbor Commissioners will impact on the grass and trees ing Oaks Family festivals. The Both festivals will have to decide what to do with of the park. compromises they arrived at keep cars off the grass unless Portland's 25 percent of the Advocates for the park - were adopted April 3 by the "absolutely essential," and cove at an April 13 public hear­ mostly members of the council. both will have to pay for re­ ing at the South Portland City Parkside Neighborhood Asso­ The carnival part of the storing the park when they're Hall at 5 p.m. Portland Har­ ciation - convinced the council Deering Oaks Family Festival through. Restoration will be '. bor Master Alfred Trefry pre­ two weeks ago to think twice will move across Deering done by an outside contractor, Casco Bay Weekly dicts "fireworks." before scheduling the festivals Avenue to the King Middle instead of the city's short­ Thursday as usual. They pointed to ex~ School parking lot. Signs and handed Parks and Recreation April 6,1989 Moody Beach barred tensive damage to the grass, temporary crosswalks will be Department. 28 pages The Maine Supreme Court and long-term consequences used to warn drivers of extra The Deering Oaks Family /4\\. decided March 31 that the for the old oaks themselves. pedestrian traffic. Park neigh­ Festival is scheduled for July UPDATES .f'· property owners on Moody When the soil is compacted by bors are also happy that the 18 through 23; the Maine Festi­ /" ;f.{::-~:4 Beach in Wells have the right val is Aug. 11 through 13. /.~::::~ trucks, tents and thousands of closing time for the festival will ~t~~¥~L~ to keep the public off the mile­ feet, water no longer seeps come half an hour earlier this -Hannah Holmes long beach. The coast of Maine ~~~~Uy ;i~~s it LEGISLATION has just 35 miles of sand beach. Herbert Hartman, director of HOUNDS DOGS the Maine Bureau of Parks and Been bear huntin' with i·VIEWS Recreation, predicted that the City planning and seven hounds? Better shoot 20 miles presumably owned Proposed tax cap already more recyding one. Senator Margaret Ludwig by towns (mostly from Kit­ from up to Aroostook doesn't tery to Freeport) will now be burdens Portland budget want folks hunting with more subject to ownership research. .. than six. She's proposed legis­ Eleven percent of Portland' s did say, "ltold the departments To cap /r~h lation saying that hunting with school staff may lose their jobs I didn't see this as a year to look Sewage to be studied at adding any new programs." any more than 24 paws will Portland City Manager if the property tax cap wins in or n ot :~&1t~~} At 4 a.m., we're still out on the town. cost you 1,000 clams. Robert Ganley will ask the city the May 2 election. In tum, Ganley said he didn't At Harris Oil service never stop~. We're on ~alI24 hours a day f6r our full-service customers in Greater Portland. We respond with the areas largest fleet of And tie 'em up when you council April 18 to appropri­ Richard McDonough, chair get any cap-related instructions to cap?Wh",f'" servtce vehlc jes, the most expenenced service team, and the exclusive "A to Z" service plan. Best of all, when ~ou trust all your oil heating needs to Harris get back home. If your dog has ofthe school budget panel, told from the city council. ate $113,600 to begin design­ COVER STORY all, you get the b~nefits of our commitment to cu.stomer s~pp0rt, 24 h~urs a day. It's the kind of attention you(! expect from a comp,any tfiat puts its name "inflicted severe injury on a .!. ing a new sewer system. Superintendent Rodney Her­ The council finance commit­ human without provocation" by Christine McConville -and Its reputatIon-out front. To Jom the Hams all family, sunply give us a call. If your heating system goes out one night, you 11 be glad we're in town. Portland's combined sewage mes to prepare a tits of cuts that tee, chaired by Councilor Es­ Photos by Tonee Harbert or "killed a domestic animal ~ overflow (CSO) system has would accomodate the pro­ ther Clenott, begins its review without provocation," it'll be . ' drawn the threat of lawsuits posed cap. The cap would force of Ganley'S city budget April ..... ~.:~.:(.;~ .....:.: :::;'. considered "dangerous" under ,.. .:::. r..;.~.:. ;.·,. from environmental groups £. Freeport Rep. James Mitchell's the school to stay within a 4.5 10. Clenott says, "I have every W and the Maine Department of percent budget increase this confidence that the manager ART SEEN . ;,,?,. "'.. j}" rule. Mitchell wants danger- - l Environmental Protection. In A surplus of art and artiSts ous dogs to get special regis­ year, meaning Hermes would will come in with as tight a the CSO system rain runoff have to trim over $4 million budget as he can, while still tration certificates and their can flood the sewer, sending from a $45,8 million budget. maintaining existing services. owners to buy $100,000 insur­ raw sewage into Casco Bay. ance policies. Police dogs The suggested cuts range from Every one of us is aware of CALENDAR Writers from south of the border and would be exempt. janitors to teachers. peoples' concerns to keep a cap biking from the mountains to the sea Got a dog you don't want? Falmouth deeds dude While school ' committee on taxes." Governor John McKernan Under Skowhegan Rep. Mi­ Several copies of Ganley's has appointed a Republican members claim the suggested chael Hepburn's bill dogs could cuts were not intended to scare proposed budget are available be sold or given away immedi­ successor to Democrat James Walsh, the Cumberland voters, they themselves are not for public review in room 103 ately if it was obvious they were LISTINGS abandoned. Write a note or County register of deeds re­ prepared to quickly accept of City Hall, Besides the school phone the pound when you moved from office for mis­ Hermes' recommendations. department, 18 other budget abandon him, and you'll save conduct in February. Robert The budget is still under re­ areas, from public works and him from sitting in the pound P. Titcomb, 63, a retired land view by the panel. The public police to the golf course and for the required eight days surveyor from Falmouth, ac­ will have a chance to respond the harbor commission are before being adopted. cepted the post, which comes to the cuts at two public hear­ addressed. Combined, they -Hannah Holmes up for election in November ings, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. and present a $15.2 million increase, ..... ~';~~:;:::..... '":;~: j i}' ~k 1990. A McKernan spokesper­ April 6 at 7:00 p.m. at PRVTC which translates to a 5.4 per­ ·k',,,,,~ ,)N•. STAGE NEWS OF son said Titcomb must be on Allen A venue. After that cent rise in property tax rates. sworn in by April 12. Out of sight, out 01 mind: The THE WEIRD the school committee will form The public isn't permitted tragedy of -The Crackwalker- "A report in a January its final budget, which is sched­ to comment during finance City sour on study committee meetings, but coun­ Physician's Weekly by Indiana The consultant hired to uled for city council review University doctors attributed a April 13, 7-10 p.m.
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