To the editor: We have been listening to the various arguments, some favoring and some opposing, locating the proposed railroad maintenance facility close to a residential neighborhood. I cannot help but wonder how many of us would favor such a proposal, should the plan suggested be in our backyards. Cost for constructing any project is […]
February 2012
Posted inTimes Record
‘The Artist’ earns best-picture, lead-actor Oscars
LOS ANGELES ( AP) — “ The Artist” won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood’s highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes for the blackand white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel […]
advertisement
Posted inTimes Record
CORRECTION
The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Robert Long at 729-3311. A meeting list published in Friday’s edition incorrectly listed the location of a special Freeport Town Council meeting. The meeting is scheduled to start […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Repeat performance
AUGUSTA — Jamie Plummer sat on the Richmond bench, saddled with two fouls just three minutes into the Western Maine Class D girls high school basketball final against Rangeley at the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday. How were the Bobcats going to beat their second-seeded rivals without their 6-foot-1 center, especially after playing two close East-West […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Daytona postponed
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 has been postponed for the first time in its 54-year history. NASCAR postponed The Great American Race after heavy rain saturated Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. Officials spent more than four hours waiting for a window to dry the famed track, but it never came. And when the latest […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Bears hold off Trinity
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College men’s hockey coach Terry Meagher has just about seen it all during his 29 years of coaching the Polar Bears. He has led offensive juggernauts, teams with tough-as-nails defenders and big-time goaltenders who allowed little in crunch time. But, one thing Meagher says never changes is the difference between regular-season hockey and […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Bowdoin women skate past Ephs
BRUNSWICK — Stephanie Ludy scored the game-winning goal with 21 seconds left in overtime to lift the Bowdoin College women’s ice hockey team to a 3-2 win over Williams in the quarterfinals of the New England Small College Athletic Conference tournament Saturday at Sidney J. Watson Arena. The victory propels Bowdoin (12-9-4) to the NESCAC […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Worster, Tigers prevail
AUGUSTA — It was comeback of nearepic proportions and no one seemed to see it coming, least of all Hyde School. The top- seeded Phoenix squandered a 19-point advantage as Evan Worster-led Forest Hills charged back to sew up the Western Maine Class D boys basketball championship Saturday, 61-60. Worster poured in 33 points, giving him […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Maine Women’s Lacrosse seeks adult umpires
BRUNSWICK — The Maine Women’s Lacrosse Officials Association is looking for adults interested in becoming girls lacrosse umpires for the 2012 season. Prospective candidates can attend one of three sets of classes that run for four weeks through the month of March and early April. Classes will be held at Brunswick High School on March […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Boston’s Ellsbury set to build off super season
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury’s offseason was pretty routine. He did the same things he usually does. Except that this time the Boston outfielder was enjoying it as the AL MVP runnerup. Which was much different than how Ellsbury spent the previous winter, when he was coming off an injury-filled season. Ellsbury hit […]