FREEPORT The Cumberland and Sagadahoc County domestic violence prevention agency Family Crisis Services (FCS) will host a special photo and poem exhibit at the Freeport Community Library during the month of January. From Thursday through Jan. 30, the exhibit “ More than a Rap Sheet: The Real Stories of Incarcerated Women,” will be on display. […]
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A (police) dog’s life: Sagadahoc’s first canine cop retires reluctantly
BATH — It may have seemed like the start of a normal shift this particular Saturday night, just like the hundreds he’d pulled during the last eight years. But that Saturday shift marked the fourlegged officer’s last day on the job as Sagadahoc County’s police dog. Nine- year- old Rocko, a German shepherd who is well […]
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Private land offered to Baxter State Park
MILLINOCKET A timber management company is offering to donate one of the last remaining privately owned parcels of land around Katahdin Lake to Baxter State Park. Five years ago, Baxter State Park officials accepted the deed to roughly 4,000 acres surrounding Katahdin Lake and, in the process, achieved the original vision of the late Gov. […]
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GOP rivals vie for voters’ trust in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa In the kickoff contest of the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidates argued up to today’s finish line in Iowa over which candidate the voters can trust and who they can count on to defeat President Barack Obama. With large numbers of likely caucus goers still undecided or willing to change their minds […]
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First at Mid Coast
BRUNSWICK — A girl, Violet Amelia Beardsley, born to Joey-Lynne Beardsley and Michael Elias Beardsley of Brunswick, was the first baby born in 2012 at Mid Coast Hospital. Violet was born at 12:07 a.m. Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. She will be eligible to receive the $500 Harold Alfond College Challenge grant to start a NextGen […]
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A photographic journey through 2011
Today is exactly 11-and-a-half years since I came to work at The Times Record, to chronicle the Mid-coast from Freeport to Wiscasset, from Phippsburg to Richmond, and Harpswell to Lisbon Falls. It’s been my privilege to show readers the things they miss. To be their eyes when they’re not there to see things first hand. […]
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Passers-by rescue 3 children from icy Utah river
SALT LAKE CITY Former police officer Chris Willden didn’t hesitate when he realized children were trapped in an upside down car in an icy Utah river. He pulled his handgun, pushed it up against the submerged windows and shot out the glass. Then he reached inside. “I was trying to grab arms, but I couldn’t […]
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High court to hear woman’s suicide case
PORTLAND ( AP) — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments to decide if the parents of a 25- year-old woman were legally obligated in preventing her from committing suicide. Kristin Cummings shot herself with her father’s gun in 2008 at her parents’ home in Norway. As the representative of Cummings’ estate, her husband […]
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Shrimp fishing season kicks off in Maine gulf
PORTLAND (AP) — Fishermen are casting their nets as the Gulf of Maine shrimp fishing season kicks off. Shrimp boats from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts take to the waters each winter for the sweet northern shrimp, with Maine boats typically accounting for about 90 percent of the catch This winter’s season began today. The […]