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A5 lortlanb JJrcss JolL Copyright 2009 Blethen Maine Ncwspafiers Inc 1 Volume 147 Number 307 52 pages £ri Thursday June 11 2009 EST 186 wwwpressheraldcom 75 cents ixing bikes learning values A Biddeford bike group biggest adventure may be what it does forJocal youths OUTDOORS CIO Portland girls win Western Class A Windham boys also win in A Yarmouth boys almouth girls take regionals SPORTS Cl Ifc liO' i iff vvk A ul u' KI Kr' WXfBt 1 1 Iff wk 7 7 Jk JL I Mg BRI EING CT JtLw MMwS KsSbLju' I BJEMMMT Marauding re enactors descend on Damariscotta The second annual Pirate Rendezvous a family affair) takes place this Sat urday by the way the Pi rates of the Dark Rose are looking for recruits DIO They Might Be Giants played Portland since 1999 The alt rock band plays Port City Music Hall on riday D15 SPORTS Red Sox start fast hold on to defeat Yankees 6 5 Tim Wakefield gets his second straight win against New York and Boston beats its division rival for the eighth straight time a feat unmatched since the 1912 season Cl BUSINESS THURSDAY Obama walks a fine line on limiting executive payThe administration rejects direct intervention on bonuses and other pay for most corporate executives but for those working for banks and other entities accepting TARP payments a different story B7 LOUIS STATE The tourism Industry which normally employs many workers from other countries during the sum mer season is having an easier time finding local help this year Bl NATION A 72 year old great grand mother stopped for speed ing in Texas cursed at a deputy who pulled her over and dared him to shock her with a Taser So he did A3 COMING UP On tap today: Chamber Music estival featuring Ambrosia Trio at Ogunquit Performing Arts "orever Plaid" at the Opera House in Boothpay Harbor B12 WEATHER og and clouds Highs 62 65 Bu INDEX Abby 86 Horoscope B6 Business 87 Hax 86 Classified C7 Lottery A2 Comics BS Outdoors CIO Deaths B11 Public Notices Cl Dispatches B2 Sports Cl Editorials Al Television C6 Go DI Theaters D5 29346 airPoint prices called misleading Mandatory low cost service options being offered to customers says Public Advocate who wants a meeting By TUX TURKEY Staff Writer airPoint Communications is failing to tell cus tomers about bargain priced Internet and basic phone service as it agreed to do the state Public Advocate Office is charging The company seems to be missing opportuni ties to win new customers and increase revenue lawyers in the office say They want to meet with airPoint and find out why In response airPoint disputes some of the Public allegations willing to meet and discuss the matter the company said but ulti mately must make its own business decisions This latest dispute is brewing as airPoint is slowly restoring normal phone service across northern New England five months after it took control of the landline network from Verizon Com munications and became the dominant phone provider airPoint has been struggling with computer Please see AIRPOINT Back Page MAIKEPUBLKADmiS CWfflABflSABQWAW AIRPOINT agreed to offer basic DSL service if or $15 a month with a two year contract with the offer to remain in effect for two years The Public Advocate complains that the least expensive DSL option offered on Web site costs $3399 a month THE COMPANY agreed to reduce basic telephone exchange rates to $1469 a month But the only rates offered on its Web site are for more costly plans that bundle basic phone with long distance and other options STAYING IN TOUCH Photos by Gregory RecStaff Photographer Two seals look toward shore after their release Wednesday in Biddeford by UNE's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center outfitted with satellite transmitters to track their movements 7" 1 1 ''r tl 'r 1 'IHbw NONA AND DORIS two yearling harp seals were released at Granite Point in Biddeford on Wednesday afternoon after being found stranded in Phippsburg and Edgecomb earlier this year They were nursed to health at thef Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center at the University of New England in Biddeford Kristen Patchett who oversaw the recovery said both were suffering from extreme stress Anyone interested in tracking their progress can log on to whalenetorg A satellite tag has been embedded in each seal One of the two female seals makes her way down the beach at'Granite Point in Biddeford on Wednesday afternoon TV stations to go all digital on riday Only two of Portland's seven stations had yet to make the switch to give viewers more time to prepare By RAY ROUTHIER StaffWriier The end of analog broadcast ing is finally uponus After years of planning and hype followed by a four month extension television stations will be required to do all their broadcasting using a digital signal by the end of riday In the greater Portland area the digital transition might be a little anticlimactic because five of seven TV stations shut off their analog transmit ters and switched to digital signals months ago The other two local stations WCSH (NBC) and WMTW (ABC) decided to stick to the federal deadline They will shut off their analog signals and go all digital at 9 a riday The five stations that switched earlier were granted permis sion by the ederal Communi cations Commission to do so Three switched before the end of January and two switched on the original conversion dead line of eb 17 Managers at WCSH and WMTW decided to wait to give their viewers more time to Please see DIGITAL TV Back Page Inmates attacked killed sex offender Sheldon State police launch an investigation into the death of a man convicted of assaulting a young girl By DAVID BENCH Staffwriter The state medical examiner has concluded that a 64 year old sex offender found dead at the Maine State Prison in April was the victim of a homicide appar ently at the hands of one or more prisoners Sheldon Wein stein who was in a wheelchair died April 24 of blunt force trauma accord ing to the medi cal report It does Weinstein not specify which parts of body were injured The Maine State Police have launched a homicide investiga tion and the Department of Corrections is conducting a per sonnel investigation into the in cident Some prison workers are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the personnel inquiry Police say the attack took place four days before death on April 20 He had been transferred from the Maine Cor rectional Center in Windham to the state prison in Warren on April 16 because there is a re habilitation facility there and he had been injured in a fall have interviewed numer ous individuals inmates and staff We feel like starting to get our arms around said state police Lt Gary Wright head of detectives for central Maine information be ing developed Every few days we get a tidbit here and there hoping our other re sources working with like Please see INMATE Back Page Auoclittd Pru itgaggpc a 18 MIES ft i ME Police walk toward the rear entrance of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Wednesday Earlier in the dax a shooting inside the museum kied a guard Holocaust museum guard shot killed fe The gunman an 88 year old white supremacist is hospitalized after being shot by other guards By NAEESA SYEED and DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON An 88 year old gunman with a violent and virulently anti Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded US Holocaust Memo rial Museum on Wednesday fa tally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers authorities said The assailant was hospitalized in critical condition leaving be hind a sprawling investigation by federal and local law enforce ment and expressions of shock from the Israeli government Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the gunman was by security guards immediately after entering the with a rifle second he stepped into the building he began Law enforcement officials said that James von Brunn a white supremacist is under investigation in the shooting and that his car was found near the museum and tested for ex plosives The weapon was a 22 caliber rifle they said They spoke on condition of anonymity saying they were not authorized to dis cuss the investigation When von Brunn was captured he possessed a list he had made of lawmakers on Capitol Hill ac cording to another law enforce ment officer who requested anonymity The purpose of the list was not immediately clear The dead guard Stephen Ty rone Johns 39 was a six year veteran of the facility who lived in Temple Hills Md Museum Director Sara Bloomfield said Please see SHOOTING BadPage.