AUGUSTA — Authorities say home burglaries have skyrocketed to such a degree that the city averages nearly one each day.
Keith Edwards
Staff Writer
Keith Edwards covers the city of Augusta and courts in Kennebec County, writing feature stories and covering breaking news, local people and events, and local politics. He has worked at the Kennebec Journal since 1995, having previously worked at the Camden Herald. He was born and raised in Winthrop and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in political science. He is married and has a dog and cat. A lifelong Mainer, he enjoys skiing, hiking, canoeing, camping, and cooking out but spends most of his “off” time restoring and maintaining his 170, or so, year-old home in Richmond.
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Board approves busing contract
AUGUSTA — The Board of Education has unanimously approved a new five-year bus contract.
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Council to firm: Scale down plan
AUGUSTA — The city has told a company that proposes to use the sun and wood to help heat and power some city and school buildings to come back with a watered-down project.
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Augusta red kettles filling at record pace, and so are needs
AUGUSTA — The local Salvation Army’s red kettles and the volunteers who use them to collect money to help those in need are on a record-breaking pace so far this holiday season, even as others report a decline in donations.
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City may ban tobacco use on its property
AUGUSTA — A proposed ban on smoking and other forms of tobacco use on all city property, even outdoors, goes before city councilors on Thursday.
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School board to consider five-year busing contract
AUGUSTA — School officials are poised to ink a new contract to keep the company First Student busing Augusta students into 2017 for about $1.63 million a year.
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Bridge replacement gets $10 million federal grant
RICHMOND — The state will get a $10.8 million federal grant to help replace the deteriorated 80-year-old Richmond-Dresden bridge, two of Maine’s U.S. legislators said Monday.
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Augusta seeks energy-saving options
AUGUSTA — More than $4 million could be saved over the next few decades if a firm’s proposal is accepted for alternative energy systems harnessing wood and solar sources at some city and school buildings.
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Occupy Augusta demonstrators pack it in
AUGUSTA — After nearly two months, Capitol Park is now unoccupied.
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A bridge too tall?
DRESDEN — Some area residents fear the proposed new Richmond-Dresden bridge will be an unsightly monstrosity.