WEST BATH After 8.5 years on the job, West Bath Town Administrator Pam Hile will work her last day at the town office on Friday before beginning a new job as Sagadahoc County administrator. “It’s very exciting,” Hile said Wednesday. “It’s going to be challenging. These are interesting times for everyone. I look forward to […]
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Newsmakers 2011: Patrick Manuel
BATH — Regional School Unit 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel learned during his tenure leading Phippsburg Elementary School a decade ago that residents of the Midcoast region maintain a special connection to their schools. Being a parent of two children who now attend public schools provides Manuel with added insights on that relationship. When former RSU 1 superintendent William […]
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Following his star
FREEPORT — As a child, Freeport native Alexander Libby didn’t know that putting on puppet shows and plays for his family would pay off. But when a scene in the new Warner Bros. film “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” called for leading actor Tom Hanks to put on a shadow puppet show, Libby’s childhood experience proved […]
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Correction: Rte. 1 accident
The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Robert Long at 504-8233. A report on page A3 of Tuesday’s edition should have stated that in a Friday night collision on Route 196 near Route 1 in Brunswick, […]
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Lawyer says soldier-shooting client was attacked
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The lawyer for the 19- year- old California man charged with the attempted murder of an Afghanistan war veteran said his client was under attack when gunfire rang out. Ruben Ray Jurado was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and multiple sentencing enhancements for using a firearm in the shooting that […]
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How to avoid costly surprises
Experts offer the following tips for avoiding surprise medical bills for preventive care: — Call your insurance plan — the 800-number on the back of your insurance card — to find out whether the plan must comply with the Affordable Care Act. If your plan is “grandfathered,” it’s exempt from the law’s requirement to pay […]
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Preventive care: It’s free, except when it’s not free
CHICAGO — Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free. His insurance company told him it would be covered 100 percent, with no copayment from him and no charge against his deductible. The nation’s 1-year-old health law requires most insurance plans to cover all costs for preventive care including colon cancer screening. So Dunphy had the […]
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BRIEFS
Longshot Ron Paul’s rising chances in Iowa SAN ANTONIO ( AP) — Ron Paul wants to legalize pot and shut down the Federal Reserve. He thinks the federal government has no authority to outlaw abortion, no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and no justification to print money unless it’s […]
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N. Koreans salute, cry for late leader Kim Jong Il
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s next leader escorted his father’s hearse in an elaborate state funeral on a bitter, snowy day today, bowing and saluting in front of tens of thousands of citizens who wailed and stamped their feet in grief for Kim Jong Il. Son and successor Kim Jong Un was head […]
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Former football star, wife die Tuesday
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Houston Antwine, one of the Patriots’ top defensive players in their early years, and his wife, Evelyn, have died, the team said Tuesday. Antwine, 72, died Monday in Memphis, Tenn., of heart failure, and his wife died Tuesday of lung cancer, the team said. A member of the Patriots’ 50th Anniversary […]