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Members of a commission charged with recommending ways to create a more diverse school board met for the first time Wednesday, discussing voter engagement, ways to attract candidates and measures that have worked in other counties.
County Executive Ken Ulman appointed the board to discuss Howard's all-elected seven-member school board last month after concerns over the lack of geographic and ethnic diversity arose. The commission is made up of members of the county legislative delegation, current and former educators and is chaired by former state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick.
While Howard's 51,000-student population is becoming increasingly diverse, the school board currently has no African-American members. The board also has no representatives from heavily populated Columbia or Elkridge.
"This is a premier school system," Grasmick said at the start of the meeting, adding, "We want to be thoughtful to the recommendations we make."
The commission did not make immediate suggestions, but members did discuss the trend of school systems moving toward a hybrid system of elected and appointed members.
Grasmick said only three of the 24 school systems in the state have retained an all-appointed school board — Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Wicomico County, with several moving toward a hybrid system, such as in Harford County. Baltimore County Council members are also looking at revising their all-appointed system. The commission in Howard could also recommend a variation of an elected and appointed model, as well as changes to the countywide voting process.
Howard County school board member Ellen Flynn Giles, who attended the meeting, said, "I don't think it's not worth looking at — to look at what people want to see from their school board."
Though she praised the commission and evaluation of the system, Giles said she was confused by the timing, noting that there is a school board election next spring.
Up until early this year, Patricia Gordon, a retired New York educator who became the first African-American board member in 15 years when she joined the formerly all-white body a decade ago, remained on the board before retiring.
The board's one minority member is Brian Meshkin, who is Asian-American with a father born in Iran.
Howard's school board members are elected countywide and without political party designation. Grasmick said some school systems vote for officials by district for geographic diversity while others have a countywide vote to preserve a balance among districts.
The current all-elected system was created by a referendum in 1974. Giles said there was a countywide recommendation 10 years ago when terms were reduced from six to four years.
Giles said there was strong support then for a nonpartisan system, and added, "Schools don't fit neatly in [council] districts."
She said she liked the at-large system, noting it "makes us more balanced" and that she likes the opportunity to work with residents across the county.
But state Sen. James Robey questioned during the meeting why it's acceptable for council members to be elected by district but not a school board.
Several commission members also brought up the difficulties of running a countywide campaign when school board members often have less money to work with.
Del. Guy Guzzone, a Democrat, said, "I would never have run for school board," saying the large area and typically lower campaign funds can make it difficult for those running to get their message across.
Paul Lemle, president of the Howard County Education Association, raised the issue of "ballot fatigue," suggesting voters don't always know much about the candidates for school board.
Felícita Sola-Carter, president of Conexiones, an advocacy group, said she would like to look at what the job entails, as well as "what has triggered the current activity that there isn't an understanding on community issues," mentioning new diverse populations that might have different needs.
"It's a public service. Nobody can do this as a full-time job. It's not a career," Giles said after the meeting, adding board members earn $1,000 a month for their services.
In addition to the voting process, the commission members also discussed the process for perspective candidates.
Kevin Doyle, a trustee at Howard Community College, said, "Let's not make a change for the sake of change." He then asked, "What is it about the election process itself that's doing this?"
A public hearing is scheduled for Sept. 12, but the commission has not named a time or location yet. Starting Aug. 22, minutes for public comment will be available at the end of each meeting: Monday, Aug. 29, Thursday, Sept. 8, Monday, Sept. 19, and Monday, Sept. 26.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the birthplace of Brian Meshkin's father. The Sun regrets the error.
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MATEWAN, West Virginia More than a century after the last shots were fired in Americas most famous feud, the Hatfields and McCoys mingle peacefully in the mountains they call home, their names forever linked, but now in the pursuit of commerce.
The national fascination with the families bloody past may help push this rough patch of Appalachia, traditionally one of the poorest places in the country, toward a more prosperous future.
A three-night miniseries about the feud, starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, set basic cable viewing records and sparked renewed interest in the Hatfields and the McCoys, who waged their own cross-border war between West Virginia and Kentucky. The History Channel drama drew more than 13.9 million viewers the first night. The finale did even better, with 14.3 million.
Television producers now are looking for descendants of the families to take part in a reality show.
Officials in both states are hoping to transform a century-old spasm of violence into a modern tourism brand. They offer bus tours of the crucial sites in the feuding that killed at least a dozen people by 1888 and catapulted both families into the American vernacular, becoming shorthand to describe bitter rivals.
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said tourism officials in southern West Virginia have been inundated with calls, and websites are getting hundreds of hits.
On the Kentucky side, tours of feud sites are filled within hours after being scheduled, said Pike County tourism director Tony Tackett. His offices website had more than 300,000 hits in two weeks; it normally averaged about 5,500 hits a month.
Were just going to roll with it ... hold on tight and market it as well as we can, Tackett said.
The feud officially ended June 14, 2003, when about 60 descendants of the two families gathered in Pikeville, Ky., to sign a truce during the fourth festival.
Many believe the feud was rooted in the Civil War, but the bitterness was perpetuated by disputes over timber rights and even a pig.
Lisa Alther, author of the book Blood Feud about the warring families, said other feuds happened in the Southern Appalachians during that era, but none captured the publics imagination like the Hatfields and McCoys, due partly to its web of compelling plot lines.
Its partly a culture of honor, where insults can lead to fights, and nobody would step down, she said. There was too much alcohol for sure, too many guns, possibly too little formal education so people hadnt learned how to discuss rather than fight.
From an ancestral McCoy home in Kentucky where the family had gathered for the reunion, Elliott McCoy said the hatred and distrust between the families died out long ago.
Descendants on both sides share a pride in their heritage, though they disavow the violent streak.
Its knowing that you come from a long line of people who didnt make a lot of right decisions at times, but they thought it was right in their mind, so thats what they did, said Michael Maurice Hatfield. Now Ive got a short fuse myself, and I understand where it comes from.
Associated Press writer Lawrence Messina in Charleston, West Virginia, contributed to this report.

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U.S. charities, like many individuals and entities trying to raise funds for special projects, are embracing crowdfunding.
At the same time, many brand-name nonprofits are concerned that individuals unaffiliated with an organization may be the ones pitching a proposal on crowdfunding sites, depriving the charity of an opportunity to train volunteers about its mission and what it wants to tell donors.
Another issue for nonprofits is that they usually don't know who contributes to them through crowdfunding sites, often because the sites won't reveal names or will charge for the information. As a result, the charity is unable to build a relationship with donors to encourage them to give more.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported last week from the annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, that two players in the crowdfunding arena had proposed best practices they would ask sites to follow.
Miriam Kagan, a senior principal at Kimbia, an online fundraising outfit, and David Neff, a digital strategist at PricewaterhouseCoopers and co-founder of Lights. Camera. Help., a nonprofit group that encourages other nonprofits to use film and video to tell their stories, offered the following guidelines:
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PETALUMA (CBS SF/AP) — Videos showing Petaluma high school students abusing rats at an on-campus wildlife museum have sparked outrage and a petition to the governor asking him to shut down the nonprofit program.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Thursday that the videos, posted to an anonymous student's Instagram account, show at least two students slamming live rats against a wall or a bin to kill them. The incidents are believed to have occurred late last year and in February at the Petaluma Wildlife Museum, a private-public partnership that provides students with hands-on animal husbandry schoolwork and job experience with the nonprofit museum.
School and museum officials say the students involved have been disciplined. Student disciplinary records are confidential, but officials tell the newspaper the students involved have been removed from the program.
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Volvo has always had an unusual approach to marketing.
For many years it seemed to seek buyers who liked ugly things, and those who knew, deep down, that they were terrible drivers and were thus likely to have many car accidents.
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LONDON – Britain's top court on Wednesday handed an oil tycoon a costly setback in a divorce case, ruling he must give his ex-wife assets held by companies he owns.
In a case with significant implications for wealthy divorcing couples, the Supreme Court ruled that Nigeria-born Michael Prest should surrender seven properties to his English former wife, Yasmin.
Alison Hawes, a specialist family lawyer at law firm Irwin Mitchell, said the ruling meant "that business people cannot deliberately 'hide' their assets in businesses and corporate structures to protect them in future in the event of a divorce."
The couple, now in their 50s, married in 1993 and lived in Britain before divorcing in 2011. Michael Prest was ordered to transfer the properties as partial payment of a 17.5 million pound (about $27 million) settlement.
He challenged that decision, and last year the Court of Appeal ruled that the companies constituted a separate legal entity and couldn't be included in the divorce.
But seven Supreme Court justices ruled the properties were assets to which Michael Prest was "entitled" and should be included in a divorce settlement.
The court insisted it wasn't establishing a general principle allowing courts to "pierce the corporate veil" and seize assets in divorce cases. But legal experts said the judgment was still significant.
"The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark decision in which, for the first time since at least the end of the 19th century, it has accepted a general exception to the rule against 'piercing the corporate veil,'" said Michael Hutchinson, a partner at law firm Mayer Brown.
"This is an extraordinary decision and the implications for corporate governance are potentially huge."
Yasmin Prest said the judgment was "more a case of satisfaction and relief than celebration. None of this would have been necessary if Michael had been sensible and played fair."
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Sons of Anarchy Season 5 Teases: The Return of Opie, Wendy?TV Fanatic Staff at .
It would have been too easy.
That was Kurt Sutter's response yesterday during a conference call with reporters, when asked why he chose to keep Clay alive on the season four finale of Sons of Anarchy.
"We get to play that out now with Jax and Clay, and I think that's great turf for potent storytelling," the creator said. "I want to see what that looks like for a season or two."
Aside from extreme tension between past and current SAMCRO Presidents, what can viewers expect from the intense series on season five? Sutter offered the following teases:
Will Opie return? "I think it's all just sort of catching up with Opie and he's not a guy who processes things quickly. It will take a minute for him to get back to that table, if he does get back and that's something we get to play off next season."
What about Wendy? "I like the character very much... I just think she will be, in a very general way, very interesting to throw into the mix with Gemma and Tara next season."
Is Tara the new Gemma? Not totally: "It'll be an interesting season between the two of them... [Gemma] has ultimately created a little bit of a Frankenstein... I don't think Gemma will be usurped... Tara is not Gemma. She's not there yet. Next season, not that I'm going to take a step back, and bring her back the wavering Tara that she's been to a certain extent, but I think she will have her struggles in that role."
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The Information Commissioner will today name and shame the newspapers he says are breaking the law in their pursuit of stories. Richard Thomas has published a report to Parliament on information theft which contains a league table of alleged offenders.
Six months ago Thomas signalled his intent to get tough on those who trade in illegally obtained personal information.
His league table alleges that the Daily Mail has used a raided investigations agency more than any other paper. As well as tabloid papers, broadsheets and magazines were represented on the list. The list should not be taken as definitive, since it only represents the usage ratios relating to one agency, but it does show how widespread the purchase of information is.
"People care about their personal privacy and have a right to expect that their personal details are and should remain confidential. Who they are, where they live, who their friends and family are, how they run their lives: these are all private matters," said Thomas in the introduction to the new report. "Individuals may choose to divulge such information to others, but information about them held confidentially by others should not be available to anyone prepared to pay the right price."
The report, What Price Privacy Now?, is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) update to his original report, What Price Privacy?, published in May. In that report he outlined the market for information and said he wanted sentences to increase and wanted individuals to face jail sentences of up to two years for buying or selling illegally obtained information.
"Progress has been significant and encouraging. In particular I welcome the Government's consultation on increased sentences," he said. "Overwhelmingly the responses indicate support for the proposals. Many organisations have taken steps of their own to raise awareness and tighten security as well as more generally condemning the illegal trade."
Thomas's naming of newspapers is sure to be a controversial step in the battle against information theft. Newspapers have already accused him of seeking to stifle free speech in recommending stiff sentences for people such as the News of the World's Clive Goodman, who recently pleaded guilty to plotting to intercept personal information.
"Explicitly targeting the press in his report is a high risk strategy," said Dr Chris Pounder, a specialist in privacy law at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW. "Many journalists still think the end justifies the means and see no wrong if they obtain information by deception when an overriding public interest can be claimed for story."
"In order to comply with the ICO's orders newspapers will have to start training journalists to use legal techniques or they themselves could face action", said Pounder.
"If a newspaper publishes a story which the journalist has written about an individual which has used personal data obtained by deception, then the newspaper could also be in breach of the Seventh Principle [of the Data Protection Act] which requires all appropriate steps to be taken to guard against unlawful processing. This means training journalists not to use such methods complained of in the Commissioner's new report."
The Commissioner's report says that most investigations agency representative bodies and press representative groups have responded positively to his recommendations and communicated with their members about their obligations, and that he was disappointed with only a few of them.
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Conspiracy theorists focused on President Obama's citizenship may have been on the wrong track. Perhaps he didn't call Kenya or Indonesia home. Perhaps he's not a citizen of Earth at all.
In fact, new photographic evidence leaked to TwitPic suggests the commander in chief may not even be human. The photo -- no doubt intended as a personal memento and not for the eyes of Earthlings -- shows Obama (if that's really his name) flashing the Vulcan salute alongside none other than Admiral (formerly Lt.) Nyota Uhura, who apparently time-traveled from her administrative offices at Starfleet Intelligence for a top secret conference with the president.
Come to think of it, Obama always did strike us as looking a bit Vulcan-like.
Kidding aside, actress Nichelle Nichols posted the shot to TwitPic last night, saying in a tweet that "A photo came to me in the mail that I've kept for myself for over a week, but now it's time to share it with Trekkers everywhere." She's also using the photo as her Twitter thumbnail picture.
The shot was taken back in February, when Nichols visited the White House after presenting the keynote address at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in observance of Black History Month.
An article in the center's "Goddard View" magazine (PDF) stresses the cultural significance of the interracial crew on "Star Trek" and relates an anecdote Nichols told during her speech, in which a surprise face-to-face meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King -- who apparently recognized that significance -- prompted her to alter her plans to leave the show.
Among other things, in 1968 Nichols and William Shatner performed what some claim was the first-ever scripted interracial kiss on U.S. television. And the name Uhura was apparently inspired by the Swahili word for "freedom."
As blog Kotaku points out, it's not the first time President Obama has flashed the Vulcan salute, but the appeal of this photo to "Star Trek" fans and others seems undeniable.


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September 2, 2010
Dear Governors:
In June 2009, I announced that the Department would reserve approximately $350 million of the total $4.35 billion appropriated for the Race to the Top program for a separate Race to the Top Assessment competition in order to support consortia of states in designing and implementing common, high-quality assessments aligned with a common set of rigorous, college- and career-ready, K-12 standards.
Through the Race to the Top Assessment program, the Department invited consortia of states to apply for two categories of grants:
Comprehensive Assessment Systems Grants, to fund the development of new assessment systems that measure student knowledge and skills against a common set of college- and career-ready standards in mathematics and English language arts. These assessments could replace those currently used under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
High School Course Assessment Program Grants, to support states in their high school improvement efforts by funding end-of-course assessments across a diverse set of courses that measure student knowledge and skills against a common set of rigorous expectations. These assessments would have no federal accountability "stakes."
Today, I am pleased to announce that the Department will make Race to the Top Assessment grants in the Comprehensive Assessment Systems category to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium. Both awards include full funding for development of the assessments proposed in the applications submitted by the two consortia and full funding of the optional budget modules they submitted. However, after a comprehensive review and careful consideration of the recommendation of the expert peer reviewers that scored the application, the Department has elected not to fund a High School Course Assessment Program grant.
The Department established the Race to the Top Assessment program in direct response to the leadership governors have shown in developing and adopting common, college- and career-ready standards. The development of new assessments aligned with these standards is critical to the successful implementation of the standards.
The Race to the Top Assessment program provides an unprecedented opportunity to address the concerns of teachers, administrators, parents, and policymakers regarding the limitations of the tests currently in use. This next generation of assessments will provide more valid information about what students know and can do. The data these assessments produce will support a culture of continuous improvement in education by providing information that can be used meaningfully and in a timely way to inform students and their families about how they are doing, to guide instruction, to improve programs, and to identify professional development and support needs.
Forty-four states and the District of Columbia rose to this challenge and are part of the winning consortia. These states enroll 85 percent of the students in America. Overall, the Department and our peer reviewers were enormously impressed by the quality and thought behind the applications, by the innovation and creativity displayed, and by the efforts to trail blaze new and better approaches to assessment.I congratulate and salute you for your hard work, and look forward to continuing to work with the consortia to support your efforts to develop the next generation of assessment systems that will benefit educators, students, and families across the country.
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The tangled web of airline change fees and how to avoid them
Question: I recently received a second notification of a change in my flight for a trip next year. I wanted to change my ticket as a result; I was told there was a $200 change fee plus any fare increase. No waiver, even though the airline was the one that started it. As I pointed out to the agent, I didn't charge the airline a change fee. The agent laughed. In the end, I didn't change my ticket. What's your opinion about the airlines making changes and passengers getting nothing from them as a result?
Randy Smith
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Answer: I think change fees should be called "estrange" fees because they drive a wedge between the traveler and the airlines that charge them. However, there is some hope for those who want to avoid the tangled web of the nonrefundable ticket, generally the lowest fare class.
First, though, let's look at the numbers. In 2007, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics notes, change fees totaled $915 million. By 2012, that figure had grown to almost $2.6 billion, including a significant increase in 2009 when fees went up.
That's apt to happen again when the damage is totaled for 2013; in the spring, many of the "legacy" carriers increased their domestic change fees to $200 for a domestic ticket and $300 for an international one. You can identify the fee-change heavyweights by looking at this chart from FareCompare.com at https://www.lat.ms/187dfS7.
Airfare experts don't necessarily object to a fee for making a change to a nonrefundable ticket.
"If they [the airlines] had free change fees … people would book speculative flights to lock in lower fares," said Brian Kelly, who writes ThePointsGuy.com, which tells readers how to maximize their award miles. "Airlines would lose money."
Rick Seaney, co-founder of the above-mentioned FareCompare.com, said, "You do what you have to do to run your business."
Sigh. Both are correct.
But the change fee becomes onerous, most experts agree, when you've bought a nonrefundable ticket to, say, Seattle. When I checked Monday morning, a fare for an Oct. 31 departure, an optimal 45-day advance purchase on Delta, round trip from LAX returning a week later, was $188. If I need to make a change, the fee will cost more than the ticket.
Seaney also pointed out that the fee isn't exactly transparent. He led me through a booking exercise with an online travel agency, and it was not until the end that the change fee appeared.
What's a consumer to do? Several options, not all of them palatable.
•Buy a refundable ticket. That's the wisest course, Kelly said, if you think you might have to change your ticket. It will cost you more — that Delta flight with a refundable ticket would cost about $825— but if you have to make multiple changes, you will save yourself the fees.
•Book airlines according to its fees. A quick look at the chart shows that not every airline charges the same amount.
•Consider American's Choice Essential ($68) or Choice Plus ($88) add-ons. You don't pay a change fee, and you get a free checked bag and preferred boarding. (Plus gives you bonus miles too.)
•Fly Southwest. Media are often accused of fawning over Southwest, but there's a reason for that: No change fee, no bag fee and no nonsense (usually) mean a better consumer experience.
Next week: What an airline economist and the National Consumers League have to say about these fees.
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DCA & HMFA Break Ground on New 21 Unit Affordable Housing Complex in Newark
NEWARK - Along with local officials, Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia, today attended the official ground breaking ceremony for Ridgewood Avenue Supportive Housing Apartments, a 21 unit affordable housing complex located at 180-190 Ridgewood Avenue in Newark.
"Governor Corzine has continuously stressed his commitment to providing good, quality affordable housing for New Jersey residents and to assist those with special needs," said Acting Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Charles A. Richman. "This development helps accomplish both of those goals, as Ridgewood Avenue Support Housing will greatly assist the residents of Newark."
The Ridgewood Avenue Supportive Housing Development will be an attractive three-story, twenty-one one-bedroom building with safe, affordable housing that will give 21 homeless individuals the opportunity, stability and support needed to live a productive and stable life. Each apartment will be fully furnished, have new appliances, have a living room, a kitchen/eat in area, storage space, a separate bedroom and a full bathroom, and will cover an average of 550 square feet. Two apartments on the first floor will be fully handicap accessible and the rest will be designed to be handicap adaptable. The project will accommodate residents with both physical and mental disabilities so they can live with minimal assistance.
The HMFA provided $2,250,000 in funding for this development through the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund, and DCA provided State Rental Assistance Program (SRAP) project based assistance for the units. These programs are designed to provide the financing and a portion of the rental assistance needed to develop the units and for the residents to live independently in. The project has the support of the Department of Human Services and has also received funding from the Essex County HOME fund, the Newark City HOME fund, HUD's McKinney-Vento fund, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing.
"This project will provide an opportunity for residents to live in quality housing that is well located and well constructed," said Marge Della Vecchia. "The design of the building will be an asset to the neighborhood and an opportunity for the residents to both live independently, obtain the services they need and have companionship in each other. We are proud to be a part of this project and we will be back to welcome the residents home!"
Project Live, the project developer, is a private, non-profit, community-based mental health services entity that provides a range of housing and social services to mental health consumers in Essex County. In addition to developing projects such as this, they operate supportive housing properties and have an excellent record of success in serving individuals in both Newark and throughout Essex County.
For more information on HMFA programs and mortgages, please call 1-800-NJHOUSE or 609-278-7400, or log on to www.nj-hmfa.com.


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So SPH is suing Yahoo!. Doesn't surprise me. I had seen various pieces in Yahoo! over the past 12 months that looked close, very close to pieces that had appeared in ST or Today.
Two weeks ago (before I knew of the existence of an issue between SPH and Yahoo!), I was telling my friends about one piece from Yahoo! that was in my view very, very close to a Today piece. I was speculating openly why Yahoo! was doing this.
Well should be gd for SPH if it wins. Might relook at my decision not to own the shares despite the gd dividend.
Coming back to Yahoo!. Reuters is always quoting from WSJ and FT (behind pay walls), but it has yet to be sued.
"Our editorial business model of acquired, commissioned and original content proven," says Yahoo!. What does "acquired" mean? It surely can't mean taking out a subscription to ST or any other SPH publication, then cutting and pasteing stuff, and then slapping Yahoo!'s name onto the rejigged artcles? Even such a dysfunctional organisation like Yahoo! would realise that it is so easy to be caught out. SPH can ask the court for Yahoo!'s Words docs and trace changes to the originals. If an original document was an ST article … Balls-up time at Yahoo! again.
HEHEHE. Nothing new there. Think the bid by Microsoft, the problems with Jack Ma or the sacking of its CEO. Only Yahoo! could do these things.


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SANFORD — There were 13,779 registered voters in Sanford on the Saturday before last week's election, according to Town Clerk Sue Cote. A significant number of other residents — the exact tally is not yet counted — added to that total when they registered to vote on Monday, Nov. 5, and on the day of the election itself, Nov. 6. In all, 9,688 registered voters turned out at the polls last Tuesday.
Cote called it the highest voter turnout in many years — at least dating as far back as when Gilles Auger was the town's registrar of voters.
The Sanford News published the election's unofficial results in last week's issue. Cote distributed the official results after deadline on Wednesday, Nov. 7. None of the official numbers changed the outcomes of any of the races that appeared on Sanford's municipal ballot. Incumbent town councilor Alan Walsh is officially the top vote-getter in the race to fill three vacancies on the Sanford Town Council. Walsh scored 3,128 votes, or 17 percent, out of the 18,669 cast for candidates. Newcomer Fred Smith landed in second with 2,788 votes, or 15 percent, and incumbent Richard Wilkins eked out third with 2,736 votes, or 15 percent. Other council candidates included Matthew Treadwell, with 2,375 votes, or roughly 13 percent; Victor DiGregorio, with 2,319 votes, or about 12 percent; Steven Bruno, with 2,218 votes, or 12 percent; David Mongeau, with 1,863 votes, or 10 percent; and Everard Horr, with 1,242 votes, or around 7 percent.
Walsh, Smith and Wilkins will begin their new three-year terms on Jan. 1, 2013.
Jonathan Mapes solidified his write-in candidacy for a three-year term on the Sanford School Committee by winning 900 votes, or 68 percent of the final tally, according to official results. Ayn Hanselmann and Louis Coluni, who also ran as write-ins, garnered 224 and 207 votes, respectively.
Mapes will succeed current school committee member Marguerite Herlihy, who after years of service opted not to seek reelection.
By a vote of 4,517 to 3,630, voters approved the Sanford Charter Commission's recommendations on Nov. 6, so the Sanford Finance Committee is being eliminated and replaced with a budget committee as a result. However, two candidates appeared on the ballot and sought the two available posts on the finance committee, in the event that the charter would not have passed. Nicole Gervais led with 5,766 votes, or 54 percent of the official total, and John Davie collected 4,941 votes.
Town Meeting also is being eliminated as a result of the charter's passage; in its place, voters now will vote on the town's and school department's budgets by referendum. However, a small number of candidates were elected to represent their wards at Town Meeting, in case the charter would have failed to pass. Here are the results:
■ Ward 1: Charles Plante, Sr., 897 votes; Roland Cote, 895 votes; and Douglas Spaulding, 703 votes.
■ Ward 2: Peter French, 12 votes.
■ Ward 3: Susan St. John, 995 votes.
■ Ward 4: David Bowles, 1,124 votes; and Sheryl Jones, 1,006 votes.
■ Ward 5: Judith Gibbs, 967 votes.
There were not any Town Meeting candidates in Wards 6 and 7.
John Cochin and Paul Demers were unchallenged in their respective bids to continue as trustees of the water and sewerage districts and got 7,480 votes and 7,451 votes.
The following numbers reflect Sanford's official results and may or may not mirror state and national results.
For the big race — that for president of the United States — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden got 5,588 votes, or 58 percent, of Sanford's total, while Republican challengers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for 3,701 votes, or 37 percent. Green Independent presidential candidate Jill Stein collected 114 votes, or one percent, of the official Sanford tally, and Libertarian Gary Johnson got 111 votes, and roughly the same percentage. Republican Ron Paul got 61 write-in votes from Sanford voters.
Sanford voters went with Independent candidate Angus King for Maine's U.S. Senate, handing the former governor 5,021 votes, or 53 percent, of the final local tally. Republican Charles Summers came in second in Sanford with 2,520 votes, or 27 percent. Democrat Cynthia Dill trailed with 1,528 votes, or 16 percent. From there it was also-rans Stephen Woods with 175 votes, Andrew Dodge with 77 votes, and Danny Dalton with 65 votes. King won the seat statewide too.
In the race to represent Maine's 1st District in Congress, incumbent Democrat Chellie Pingree won 4,712 votes, whereas Republican challenger Jon Courtney garnered 4,617 votes from his fellow Sanford residents. The result is a 51-49 percent split. Pingree won the First District as well.
Democrat John Tuttle will succeed Courtney as State Senator Maine's District 3. Tuttle scored 6,148 votes, or 68 percent of Sanford's tally, to Republican Brad Littlefield's 2,915 votes, or 32 percent. Tuttle also won the district.
State Rep. Andrea Boland, unchallenged in her bid to keep representing House District 142, collected 3,375 votes.
As for House District 143, Sanford voters went with Democrat Anne Marie Mastraccio over Republican Adam Courtney, with an official tally of 1,725 to 1,449, or 54 to 46 percent. Mastraccio won the seat over all.
For House District 144, Democrat William Noon got 1,048 votes, or 57 percent of his hometown tally, and Republican Dan Archambault, of Acton, garnered 794 votes, or 43 percent. Noon also took the district.
In Sanford, Robert Nadeau won 4,622 votes for Judge of Probate versus incumbent Donna Bailey's 3,929. Countywide, Nadeau also won the seat.
Also, Carol Lovejoy collected 7,142 votes in her uncontested bid to remain York County's Register of Probate.
Lastly, incumbent Republican David Bowles, of Sanford, and Independent challenger Michael Cote, of Shapleigh tied for the Sanford vote with exactly 4,376 nods each. Cote won the overall race for the district.
Voter turnout the largest in years Town clerk releases Sanford's official election results
SANFORD — There were 13,779 registered voters in Sanford on the Saturday before last week's election, according to Town Clerk Sue Cote. A significant number of other residents — the exact tally is not yet counted — added to that total when they registered to vote on Monday, Nov. 5, and on the day of the election itself, Nov. 6. In all, 9,688 registered voters turned out at the polls last Tuesday.


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Director Yorgos Lanthimos, who co-wrote "Dogtooth" with Efthymis Filippou, has crafted a film so smart, funny and tragic that it won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year and nearly swept the Greek Oscars. It's a bewildering, humorous and sad look at a family raised in isolation.
"Dogtooth" finds a husband and wife raising their three 20-something children, a son and two daughters, wholly within the confines of a sizable compound surrounded by an 8-foot-wall. The "children" have been warned that their bodies won't be ready for the dangers of the outside world until one of their one of their dogteeth, aka "canines," falls out.
"The idea is kind of a sci-fi idea, the initial thought behind it: 'What if, in the future, there were no more families?'" Lanthimos recently explained to The Playlist. While that may have been his starting pointing, the end result is a look at the family on a macro level, with the nation as family.
What unspools is a brilliant absurdist satire about how crippling statist, patriarchal socities are, and what happen can happen when there's a leak in the carefully maintained bubble.
Lanthimos typically keeps his camera very still. Often framing his and letting his characters move in and out of the frame, even cutting off their heads. The extra wide aspect ratio (2.35:1), coupled with Lanthimos's composition makes for some gorgeous moments, and the stillness of his frame doubles as a nice echo of the arbitrary boundary of the fence that keeps the kids penned in.
The children are so insulated that they are successfully taught to believe airplanes are actually small toys that fall from the sky and land in their yard, and that "zombies' are small yellow flowers.
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The only visitor to the family's home is Christina, a security guard at the factory where the father works, who is brought in to tend to the needs of the son. She inevitably becomes an agent of change, introducing the kids to such nefarious influences as commerce and sparkles and "Jaws" and "Rocky."
The cast playing the family -- Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis and Mary Tsoni – are all excellent, displaying a willingness to go all-in with Lanthimos' vision. Anna Kalaitzidou's reading of Christina feels off, only because she seems only slightly less damaged, without having endured a similar upbringing, but that's as much – if not more – Lanthimos' fault as hers.
Throughout "Dogtooth," we watch as the children bark like dogs, fear cats, count the stickers on their headboards and fight over toy airplanes. It's mesmerizing.


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