The end of a year, the end of a drama...

The final outcome to the Guilford saga (thanks to the anonymous reader who – yet again – came through and posted the link):

12/31/08

GUILFORD GROUP LOOKS TO FUTURE AFTER HARD YEAR
MAN PLEADED NO CONTEST TO ASSAULT AT MEETING

By Diana Bowley
BDN Staff

GUILFORD, Maine — After a difficult year, members of the Guilford Historical Society are looking forward to 2009 with optimism.

“Our travails of the past we hope to keep behind us,” President Sieferd “Stubby” Schultz said Tuesday.

Schultz was speaking about an assault that took place among members in May. It came after a “pretty heated” meeting during which members questioned former society president Robert Shaffer about his release of original, one-of-a-kind photographs, police said after the incident.

Police charged Shaffer’s son Zarvin Shaffer, 38, with assault after he struck member Al Hunt in the jaw with his fist. A teenager who allegedly pulled the hair of Hunt’s wife later was charged with assault. Zarvin Shaffer pleaded no contest in 13th District Court in October and was fined $500. The charge against the teenager was dropped.

Both Zarvin Shaffer and the teenager have been permanently banned from the historical society and its museum.

Schultz said the event is in the past and the society’s efforts will be focused on what they should be: preserving the town’s history and making it a better place to live.

The comments on the article also cracked me up:

1. On 1/1/09 at 11:51 AM, renaruth wrote:
   sounds as if the thugs on the hill finally found out what justice in Maine is. Hope Bill (no assault ever took place) Hume got to read it.



2. On 1/2/09 at 12:04 PM, cobbmill wrote:
   Good luck to Stubby and the crew. I hope you all have smooth sailing from here on.................



3. On 1/4/09 at 10:38 PM, Sigfried wrote:
   It's sad this "family" keeps getting attention in the press. They live for the attention and the more negative the better. They prefer infamous and notorious to just famous. That way when people figure out that the Shaffer's don't do anything except try to destroy people and institutions they'll just blame everyone else and say everyone hates them, they're too eccentric, the children don't understand or some other pathetic excuse why nothing is ever their fault. It seems to me they started this whole mess because they knew they'd lost and had to do something to divert attention away from their defeat. Stop giving these people attention they don't deserve!!

Nothing quite like good 'ole small town drama!