By upholding Obamacare the Supreme Court has changed this county as we know it. I worked in health care 40 years and this act will cripple health care: higher premiums, longer wait times to see a physician, denied/delayed surgeries, etc. Socialized medicine has not been successful even in Canada, but here we go following their lead.
July 2012
Posted inNews
Workshop to tackle pharmacy robbery problem
AUGUSTA — City Police are organizing a workshop aimed at stemming the growing problem of pharmacy robberies.
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Four charged after drug raids in Winthrop, Monmouth
Four people are facing trafficking and possession charges after police and drug agents raided homes in Winthrop and Monmouth on Thursday.
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Mercier’s murder trial to include remarks
SKOWHEGAN — A search by police in 1980 of a pickup truck owned by Jay Mercier and statements made by him to police investigators that year, and later in 2010 and 2011, will be admissible when the Industry man goes on trial for murder.
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Convicted man charged with OUI
AUGUSTA — In 1988, Timothy J. Sharkey pleaded guilty to criminal homicide for being behind the wheel in a fatal crash on Old Brunswick Road in Bath.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Moscow should get out of the school district now
The School Administrative District 13 school board is planning on closing both the Quimby and Moscow schools, then building a multi-million dollar expansion to the high school to house all the kids there. The high school was designed to hold more than 300 children. Why build an extension?
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State IDs 3 suspects in Winslow fire bombings
For three consecutive mornings beginning Tuesday, homemade fire bombs were ignited near Winslow schools.
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AMY CALDER: Farewell to the ‘Cross Man’
John Lewis was laid to rest Friday in a peaceful cemetery off Grove Street, just inches from the mother he loved dearly.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Small brooks producing brookies midsummer
Typical, small Maine trout brooks see little angler traffic, even in spring, but that rule proves doubly true in July and August, when folks turn their attention striped bass in tidal water or black bass in lakes and ponds.
Posted inOpinion
Supreme Court plunges us into the abyss
“And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”