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A6 Portland Press Herald Friday, April 15, 2016 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE appeal is his easy relationship with viewers, including how he frequently mentions peo- ple who call in to tell him the weather conditions in their part of Maine. grew up watching Joe, now their kids are watch- ing Carter said. He said two meteorologists will be hired to replace Cupo and McKay. The voluntary re- tirement offerings were not strictly a cost-cutting measure, but a chance to look at er we should be doing things and possibly invest the savings in different areas, Carter said. WCSH has been top-rated local news station for most of the past 20 years, partly because of the longevity of its anchors and of Cupo.

Pat Callaghan, one of the main anchors, also started in 1979. Anchor Cindy Williams began in 1989. retirement comes a little more than a year after the station lost another vet- eran weather forecaster, Kev- in Mannix, who retired from his full-time duties at WCSH last February after 25 years. Mannix occasionally does the weather forecasts for WCSH as a fill-in, and probably will be asked to do so while a replace- ment for Cupo is sought, Car- ter said. McKay, who is based in Ban- gor but whose forecasts are sometimes seen on WCSH, an- nounced earlier this week that he will leave his TV job after 22 years.

McKay, who has been a part-time minister for many years, is leaving to devote more time to that vocation. His last day on the air will be Sunday. Cupo, who lives in Falmouth, is an avid cyclist and gardener. He has a degree in atmospheric science from the State University of New York at Albany. He return a call for comment Thursday.

retirement could have the strange side effect of sav- ing people money on garden- ing supplies. Maine Wreath Flower on Bow Street in Free- port is advertising a ing Joe Retirement Friday through April 30. People can get 25 percent off garden flags, mailbox covers and fairy garden items. Ray Routhier can be contacted at 791-6454 or at: Twitter: RayRouthier CUPO Continued from Page A1 Gabe Photographer Meteorologist Joe Cupo prepares a forecast in 2013. During newscasts, he frequently mentions people who call in to tell him the weather conditions in their part of Maine.

grew up watching said WCSH President Steve Carter. partner with local retail- ers and power their local de- livery he said. liquor, beer and wine stores themselves are the ones doing the In Portland, Drizly has part- nered with Old Port Spirits Cigars at 79 Commercial St. Robinson hopes to sign similar agreements with other liquor, beer and wine stores in the area. Home delivery of alcoholic beverages entirely new to Portland.

For example, Maine Beer Beverage Co. inside the Public Market at Monument Square has been offering it for about a year, said store associ- ate Jeremy Lota. However, Maine deliv- ery business is geared toward weddings, banquets and other large gatherings, he said. The retailer charges a $20 delivery fee too high for most people making smaller purchases. Drizly requires a minimum purchase of $30 and adds a $5 delivery charge.

It does not mark up the prices of the alco- holic beverages themselves. Its selection currently consists of all the beverages that Old Port Spirits has in its inventory nearly 1,300 varieties of beer, wine and liquor as of Thursday afternoon. Old Port Spirits manager Kev- in Casey said he discovered Drizly one day while browsing the Internet and contacted the company about becoming a de- livery partner in Portland. Drizly, which was founded in 2013 and has raised nearly $18 million in venture capital funding, operates in several major cities, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, Balti- more and New Orleans. While Robinson said the com- pany overall is growing the pace of (app-based car service) Casey said impossi- ble to predict how popular the service will be in Portland.

He has not yet hired additional em- ployees to work as drivers, but said he will do so if the demand is there. never entered into a market as unique as Casey said. all got our fingers crossed and hope that it HOW THE SERVICE WORKS Under the partnership agree- ment, Old Port Spirits pays a licensing fee to Drizly to use its website and apps for iPhone and Android devices. There are sep- arate apps for both customers and delivery drivers. Consumers who download the free app or visit the Drizly.com website first enter their address and then are presented with a menu of available beverages if their location is within the com- delivery area.

In Port- land, the area extends about 5 miles out from Old Port Commercial Street location, in- cluding parts of South Portland. The menu can be sorted and filtered in various ways, such as Belgian ales under $10 sorted from lowest to highest price, or Scotch whiskys over $100 sorted by popularity. Casey said the Drizly online menu alone will be useful to his customers, who can browse all of the items Old Port Spirits has in its inventory without leaving their homes. Every menu item is accompanied by a picture, description, price, and in some cases, customer ratings and re- views. even have a web- Casey said, this really (is) great for us in that it opens up this huge market with, for us, a low barrier to TO FACE REQUIRED Purchase transactions are made entirely online.

Custom- ers must first create an account and pay for purchases in ad- vance with a credit or debit card. Upon delivery, the driver checks the photo ID and scans it with a separate driver app that Drizly developed. The name on the ID must match the name on the credit or debit card used to make the purchase, and the face must match the cus- face. want to bring the same sort of values that we use here at the register to the door- Casey said. Portland officials had no com- ment on whether they consider home alcohol delivery a good or bad thing, but Laurence San- born, division manager of liquor licensing and enforcement for the state Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages Lottery Opera- tions, said in-person ID check and beverage hand-off satisfies state law.

Delivering the booze by mail or drone would not, Sanborn said. law requires face-to-face he said. J. Craig Anderson can be contacted at 791-6390 or at: Twitter: jcraiganderson ALCOHOL Continued from Page A1 Gabe Photographer Operating on iPhone and Android devices, the Drizly app allows consumers to filter through and search a stock, then purchase alcohol for home delivery. Drivers use a companion app to verify sales in a face-to-face transaction.

said of the standoff organizers. a prison mentality in a county In response, the York Coun- ty Jail staff has stepped up en- forcement of rules to keep those inmates in check. are getting more sophis- ticated offenders because of the heroin King said. He said the inmates staged the standoff to protest recent poli- cy changes at the jail, which he refused to describe, other than to say the changes were opera- tional. He said the standoff was initially as a leading to an outsized response by York County sher- iff deputies, officers from sur- rounding towns and ambulance crews.

The jail supervisor called in all available personnel, and police blocked the jail entrance with cruisers for more than an hour. ended when some of the higher-level jail (staff members) came in and said, how you are going to get your issue King said. About half of the inmates in the general population unit where the standoff took place take part and remained in their cells. The inmates staged their standoff in a large, open com- mon area in the unit, King said. That unit can hold 79 inmates.

On Thursday, jail staff respond- ed to the incident by searching all cells, strictly enforcing rules such as no more than two books per cell and removing pictures. Many of the inmates involved were moved to different units to break up cliques that may have formed in the general popula- tion unit. Scott Dolan can be contacted at 791-6304 or at: Twitter: scottddolan JAIL Continued from Page A1 pletely different student. The case ultimately will SAD 55 Superintendent Carl Landry confirmed to WCSH that Sherburne worked at the high school from November to February as an ed tech when the alleged sexual assault took place. Frank Sherburne im- mediately return a call and email from the Press Herald for comment, nor did Rebec- ca Bowley, chair of the SAD 6 school board.

The district website says: is the policy of the MSAD 6 board not to employ any person who is a member of the family of a board member or the su- In 2013, the SAD 6 board cleared Frank Sherburne of al- legations by the Sacopee Valley Association that the superintendent had improper communications with a stu- dent. A letter from the union that May said Sherburne commu- nicated directly with a troubled student and interfered with the staff ability to to the significant mental health The Pierce At- wood law firm investigated the allegations for the board and found they were without merit. Zachariah Sherburne was ar- rested March 15 and released on $500 bail. His next court ap- pearance is in June. According to LinkedIn page, he graduated in 2010 from Sacopee Valley High, where he participated in stu- dent government, soccer, the drama club, band, and track and field.

The page says he received a degree in political science from John Cabot University in Rome, It- aly. CHARGED Continued from Page A1 Drizly, which was founded in 2013 and has raised nearly $18 million in venture capital funding, operates in several major cities, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, Baltimore and New Orleans. merly chronically homeless tenants with serious medi- cal and mental health condi- are the most affected, the coalition said in flier that was distributed at a meeting Thursday. is a horrific crisis that affects 100 people and their families. And these are only the evictions that we know Spurred by the housing crisis, the group called an for the Parkside Neighborhood Center on Thursday night, and about 100 people packed into a small meeting room to share their eviction stories while mayor and three city councilors listened.

is a crisis because more than 100 people and their families have lost their said Dee Clarke of Homeless Voices for Justice. the city of Portland wants to remain a diverse communi- ty, then it needs to take care of its low-income A MARKET SOME AFFORD Evictions have been hap- pening throughout the rental neighborhoods as a shortage of housing has pushed up rents and created a market for investors to buy and refurbish old or neglect- ed apartment buildings. Pine Tree Legal Assistance said it handled over 1,200 dis- puted eviction cases in Port- land in 2015, more than the normal amount. A Maine Sunday Portland Press Herald spe- cial report to Port- land: No found that market rents in the city had increased 40 percent in the past five years and that low-income renters are facing evictions and rent increas- es as the hot market fuels the construction of high-end apartments and condos. That has tossed many low-income individuals and their families into a housing market that is way above what they can afford.

Clarke said the coalition plans to bring six demands to the City Council Housing next meeting. In addition to enacting a moratorium on no-cause evictions, Clarke said the co- alition will ask the City Coun- cil to consider an immediate freeze or significant limita- tion on rent increases, to en- act a ban on discrimination against people who hold gov- ernment housing vouchers, and to make amendments to the housing replace- ment ordinance that would ensure that affordably priced housing is not lost to luxury housing. The coalition also wants to raise the General Assis- tance rent cap to reflect the cost of market housing and it wants the city to fully fund the Tenant Based Rental Assistance program to pre- vent low-income people from being evicted for temporary lack of payment. The Housing Committee, which consists of five coun- cilors, can only make recom- mendations to the nine-mem- ber council. Councilor Spencer Thibo- deau, who represents the Parkside neighborhood, said he a lot of these but cautioned the crowd of about 100 people at the Parkside Neighborhood Center about taking rash actions that might be more harmful than helpful to those at risk of being evicted.

will look at the list (of demands), but not sure they will keep people in their Thibodeau said. IS GOING TO TAKE Mayor Ethan Strimling said the eviction of tenants from a 24-unit apartment building at 61-69 Grant St. in February served as a call for the city. Most of the ten- ants who were evicted were low-income or mentally dis- abled. Strimling told the audience that there are at work in Portland that want to see changes in the way the city regulates hous- ing.

have to keep hearing the stories about you getting evicted because change is going to take Strimling said. Debra Priest was among those tenants evicted from Grant Street. She is currently homeless. almost 59 years old and I have Priest said. have to start all over Vichelle Bonner had been living in an apartment on Grant Street since 2008, but was evicted for no cause by an out-of-state landlord.

(landlords) need to go back to where they came from and leave us Bonner said. Margaret Lamy has lived in a shelter since 2013, saying landlords accept her government housing voucher. know how anyone with a limited income can live in this she said. of us have been hurt by these the coalition said in its flier. known for years who have cancer, who are disabled, who are formerly chronical- ly homeless and on a path to stability and recovery face the prospect of being forced into homelessness, to a life of sickness, instability and in- The coalition said one man who was living in an apart- ment on Cumberland Avenue was evicted last week for no cause.

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