AUGUSTA — Anthem Health Plans of Maine Inc. is seeking a 1.7 percent overall rate increase for its plans for individuals in 2012, according to a filing with the Maine Bureau of Insurance.
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‘Dark Shadows’ creeps
Barnabas Collins is back, and because it’s Johnny Depp this time, it’s really Jack Sparrow on Zanax and in need of a manicure. Okay, admit it. You’re not coming to see another vampire movie. You’re here to see Johnny and what he and director Tim Burton are up to.
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Grant, DeVane and Barter spar in House District 59
A former state legislator, a Realtor and the owner of a writing consulting business are vying in the June primary to be the Democratic candidate for the House District 59 seat, which serves Gardiner and Randolph.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Good things happening in all levels of our schools
As I prepared to see my first child walk across the stage to receive his diploma, I started thinking about all the good things that go on in our schools. We have students learning about giving back to their community at all levels through service projects. At the last school board meeting, we had a […]
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Fallen Newport soldier loved rural Maine life
NEWPORT — An aunt and uncle who helped raise Jay Brainard said Wednesday the soldier loved the Maine outdoors, loved his family and was honored to serve in the military.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Collins walks the walk with Alzheimer’s families
Eighteen years ago, Sen. Susan Collins volunteered to walk door to door in Farmington with me during the first of my three campaigns for the Maine Senate. She’s walking now with 25,000-plus Mainers afflicted with Alzheimer’s, and with me and thousands of caregivers. Her family knows the pain. Collins’s informative Kennebec Journal opinion page piece, […]
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Proud to see unveiling of new veterans monument
It was with great pride to see the unveiling of the new veterans monument in Hallowell. I volunteered to reconstruct the World War ll monument by the post office in 1993 as a tribute to my father, Sheridan Truman, whose name was on the original that was dedicated in 1945. A newspaper picture and most […]
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Man returned to Riverview enters plea
AUGUSTA — A man committed to state custody went AWOL from his supervised-living apartment in the city last November and was arrested by police five days later in Georgia.
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Four vetoes await Maine lawmakers on closing day
AUGUSTA — Legislative Democrats said Wednesday they will try to persuade their Republican colleagues to stick by their earlier votes and pass a $20 million borrowing proposal for research and development projects as lawmakers consider whether to override vetoes of that measure and three other bills by Gov. Paul LePage.
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Fears of European collapse sink markets across globe
Fearing a financial rupture in Europe, investors around the world fled from risk Wednesday. They punished stocks and the euro and flocked to bonds, driving the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note to its lowest point since World War II.