LEWISTON — The nonprofit health insurance cooperative Maine Community Health Options has received preliminary approval to offer its plans in four New Hampshire counties that border Maine, where the company started and has captured nearly 80 percent of the federally required health care marketplace. The New Hampshire Department of Insurance reported Monday that it licensed […]
June 2014
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Maine Medicare expenditures below national average
Maine hospitals are touting new data released by the federal government showing the state delivers health care to seniors more cost effectively than most of its counterparts. A Maine health care cost and quality organization, however, urged examining the numbers from a global perspective. On Monday, Medicare released a trove of data aimed at making […]
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Oxford Dragway cancels season
OXFORD — The Oxford Dragway has closed for the season following declining revenues and personnel issues, a company official said late Monday night. All events but the Show, Shine and Drag race on June 15 have been canceled, President Mike Mayberry said. “We couldn’t organize and run it in the way we wanted to,” he […]
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Maine man arrested for trying to shoot female and set her on fire
MOSCOW (AP) — Police say a Maine man is facing charges for allegedly dousing a woman with lighter fluid and trying to set her on fire, then pointing a rifle at her and pulling the trigger, only to have the gun misfire. Danny Parrish Jr. is charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited […]
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DeCoster to pay $6.8M fine in plea deal for salmonella outbreak
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa company has agreed to pay $6.8 million in fines for selling old eggs with false labels for years as well as the tainted products that caused a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010, according to a plea agreement released Monday. Quality Egg LLC, once one of the nation’s largest […]
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Waterville film festival to honor Glenn Close
WATERVILLE (AP) — Glenn Close has had plenty of commercial success as an actor, including six Oscar nominations, but it is in independent film where her passion lies. That passion is being honored next month when she is scheduled to receive the Mid-Life Achievement Award at the 17th annual Maine International Film Festival in Waterville. […]
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Maine may suspend lobsterman for large illegal catch
STONINGTON (AP) — The Maine Department of Marine Resources is starting the process of suspending the license of a lobsterman it cited in May for one of the largest illegal lobster harvests in recent history. The marine patrol said Theodore Gray, who operates out of Stonington, possessed 269 undersized lobsters and 123 known breeding lobsters. […]
Posted inThe Penobscot Times
Special Olympians holding Summer Games
The 44th annual Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games are fast approaching. Over 1500 athletes, ages 8-88 have been training, planning, and now packing for this exciting event. They will represent approximately 125 teams from Kittery to Presque Isle and will compete in a variety of Olympic Style sports at the University of Maine in Orono June […]
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Flies, flies and more flies at Turner meeting
TURNER — Residents told selectmen Monday night that flies have taken over their lives. It was the first meeting for newly elected Angelo Terreri. Laura Balhelder, who lives on Betty Road about a half mile from the Moark Egg Farm, said she has lived in Turner for 15 years but now can’t enjoy her home, her […]
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Ex-Maine basketball star on trial for child porn
BANGOR — Testimony in the trial a former Maine college basketball star who faces child pornography charges has concluded. Closing arguments are expected at a later date. Dana Wilson of Brewer, who’s a well-known disc jockey at school dances and former member of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, stood trial Monday before a judge […]