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OUT OF HIDING

Georgetown artist’s early works discovered in walls

BY DARREN FISHELL Times Record Staff

GEORGETOWN — Art curator Susie Westly Wren didn’t think there could be any more paintings. More...

LePage signs budget that further cuts social services

BY GLENN ADAMS The Associated Press

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage this morning signed into law a state budget rewrite that makes up for an $80 million shortfall largely through cuts in social services. More...

Special Sections

Dana Douglass, portraying the Doctor of Physic, rehearses a scene from Morse High School’s production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” The production opens at 7 p.m. today in Montgomery Theatre at the school on High Street in Bath. More...

Alleged neck stabber indicted

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BRUNSWICK — A Cumberland County grand jury indicted a 46-yearold Brunswick man for felony aggravated assault after he allegedly stabbed another man in the neck with a pair of scissors in March. More...

Honda rear-ends turning Kia

BY DARCIE MOORE Times Record Staff

TOPSHAM — Topsham police and rescue workers responded to a crash on Middlesex Road early Sunday night. More...

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Sports

Diamonds in the rough

Small-school Freeport still competing against the big boys in baseball

BY GEORGE ALMASI Times Record Staff

FREEPORT — The raindrops kept falling, but Freeport High School baseball coach Hank Ogilby stayed upbeat and positive. During innings he checked on pitcher Dan Burke. How’s his arm feeling? Can he go another inning? More...

Bowdoin baseball to face St. Joseph’s

BY BOB CONN Times Record Staff

BRUNSWICK — It has been an interesting week for the Bowdoin College baseball team. More...

Tough one for Morse

Errors cost Shipbuilders in 6-3 softball loss

BY BOB CONN Times Record Staff

BATH — Morse High School coach Will Laffely has seen it before, the one or two plays a game that cost his Shipbuilders a run here or there. More...

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World

Obama raises $44 million in April

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House. More...

Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percent

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says 25 percent more shares will be sold as investors clamor for shares in the year’s hottest stock offering. More...

Evacs, drills pared near nuclear plants

BY JEFF DONN AP National Writer

Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated rig More...

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Editorial

King of the Wild Things

OTHER VOICES

Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak understood darkness. More...

A sensible plan

The U.S. Postal Service has announced a plan to keep thousands of rural post offices nationwide, but with limited hours for business. More...

Political Cartoon

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Focus

Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83

BY ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. More...

Fuller, owner of Dancer’s Image, dies

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Peter Fuller, owner of the thoroughbred Dancer’s Image that won the 1968 Kentucky Derby but was disqualified days later, has died of cancer in Portsmouth, N.H. He was 89. More...

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Chronic offenders: Bath man hit with new pot growth charges at arraignment for earlier charge; girlfriend also arrested again

WEB NEWS

BY BETH BROGAN Times Record Staff

BATH — A Bath man was arrested at the Sagadahoc County Courthouse last week as he emerged from his arraignment on charges of aggravated marijuana cultivation. More...

RSU 1 board OKs revised budget

Woolwich soccer, pre-K slots restored; local tabs trimmed

BY DARREN FISHELL Times Record Staff

BATH — Cuts and compromise led the way to unanimous approval of a Regional School Unit 1 budget Tuesday that maintains slots in the district’s pre-kindergarten program, restores funding for a soccer program at Woolwich Central School, and reduc More...

‘Green bridge’ closure planned

BY DARCIE MOORE Times Record Staff

TOPSHAM — The Frank J. Wood Bridge connecting Brunswick and Topsham will be closed to northbound traffic most of the day Monday through May 23 for a safety inspection, according to an announcement by the Maine Department of Transportation. More...

Obituaries

Jack L. Swindler - 2012-05-16

Bernice H. Brawn - 2012-05-16

Conrad Real Caron - 2012-05-16

Ellen Tapley Berrie - 2012-05-15

Carl A. Quimby - 2012-05-15

Sally G. Coffin - 2012-05-14

Sharon D. Hollingshead - 2012-05-14

Berdina R. Ralph - 2012-05-14

Marcelle S. Pinette Rodrigue - 2012-05-14

Mark Anthony Peterson - 2012-05-14

Dr. Susan Ann Kinder Haake - 2012-05-14

Carl A. Quimby - 2012-05-14

Patrick Joseph Vaillancourt - 2012-05-14

Cecile Marie Rossignol - 2012-05-14

Geraldine L. Vermette - 2012-05-11

John H. Grondin - 2012-05-11

Rev. Dr. James A. Purington - 2012-05-11

Shirley Margaret Osborne - 2012-05-11

Community

CAPSTONE ACHIEVEMENT

Trevor Bostic of Brunswick, right, accepts a Capstone Presentation Award from Associate Dean Bruce Logan of Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. Bostic received the award for academic achievement in communications. More...

Forum explores legal rights of gay Mainers

WATERVILLE — PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will sponsor a free event titled “Rights and Wrongs — A Discussion of Life in Maine for Gay and Lesbian Families” at 7 p.m. More...

CHANGE OF WATCH

A local U.S. Power Squadron Change of Watch took place in late March at the Gallery in Boothbay Harbor. Ronald Adams, the executive officer of District 19 (Northern New England) of the U.S. More...

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Maine

Electrical union sues over lost money

AUGUSTA (AP) — Trustees of a Maine electrical workers union’s trust fund have filed a lawsuit to recover $260,000 they say the fund’s now-dead administrator embezzled. More...

Trail of petals leads to burglary suspect

WATERVILLE (AP) — Investigators followed a trail of flower petals to find the man suspected of breaking into the personal vehicles of Waterville police officers. More...

Standish college picks new president

STANDISH (AP) — Saint Joseph’s College has appointed a new president. The college says James Dlugos of Netcong, N.J., will assume the top job at the Standish college in July. More...

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Nation

Manhunt under way for groom

CHICAGO (AP) — A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death in a bathtub in her suburban Chicago home just hours after t More...

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Et Cetera

CALENDAR Free Access

We welcome community groups to list their special events in Calendar. Items should be submitted two weeks in advance. Send them to: Calendar Editor, The Times Record, P.O. Box 10, Brunswick, ME 04011; or e-mail, calendar@timesrecord.com. More...

Dear Abby

BY JEANNE PHILLIPS

DEAR ABBY: Between juggling the joys and challenges of home life and staying productive at work, it’s easy for women to make quick decisions now that could affect their health later on, or to miss early signs of medical problems altogether. More...

Sudoku

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Commentary

Obama’s postmodern masculinity

BY DAVID BROOKS

Two of the nation’s smartest analysts have just come out with reports on how the presidential election looks six months out. More...

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Letters

Poor planning

To the editor: Does Brunswick Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski have trouble with arithmetic? His proposed school budget, which would raise the property tax rate by 6.21 percent, doesn’t add up. More...

Disrespectful act

To the editor: We purchased a basket of flowers to place on our son’s grave on his birthday. We returned three days later to show a friend the arrangement. We were surprised to find the basket gone. Someone had taken it. More...

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Business

THE BRUNSWICK INN NAMED ‘BEST’ BY YANKEE Free Access

Yankee Magazine's “2012 Travel Guide to New England” recently named The Brunswick Inn the “Best College-Town Inn.” The Brunswick Inn, located at 165 Park Row, boasts 16 accommodations, a cozy venue for special events and parties, and a full bar tha More...

L.L. Bean ‘camping out’ this weekend

FREEPORT — L.L. Bean is celebrating spring with its annual Camping Weekend this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday. More...

Credit unions reveal 3 ‘spokester’ finalists

Voting now under way

PORTLAND — Earlier this month at the Maine Credit Union League’s 74th Annual Meeting and Convention, the three finalists in the search for the next Young & Free spokester were announced. More...

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