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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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City outlaws fireworks’ use, sale
AUGUSTA — City councilors voted 5-2 to ban the use and sale of fireworks in the city.
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Augusta’s Capitol Park still Occupy-able
Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin said Tuesday that the group Occupy Augusta is still being allowed at Capitol Park in Augusta.
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Wilderness story goes graphic
Winthrop author Lynn Plourde would run into Donn Fendler at different events in recent years and nicely nag the famous “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” author to pen a new version of the book that countless Maine children have read since its publication in 1939.
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Augusta councilors agree with ideas to revamp riverfront
AUGUSTA — The old tissue mill is gone from the east side riverfront, and the hospital, too, is moving out of that part of the city.
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Augusta ponders riverfront vision
AUGUSTA — A new report envisions the east side of the city connected to the west side by a pedestrian path crossing the Kennebec River on the old train trestle.
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Bilodeau, Emery win in Augusta
AUGUSTA — Daniel Emery and Jeffrey Bilodeau were elected to the City Council Tuesday.
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Emery, Bilodeau, elected in Augusta
AUGUSTA — Daniel Emery and Jeffrey Bilodeau were elected to the City Council Tuesday. Emery, with 2,345 votes, beat out David Smith, who received 1,770 votes. Bilodeau’s 2,931 votes topped Corey Vose’s 1,550 votes. Emery will take the at-large council seat vacated by William Stokes when he was elected mayor. “I’m very appreciative of the […]
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Hunters give up deer blood samples to track deadly disease
State epidemiologists and other volunteers are out for blood at deer-tagging stations across the state, as part of efforts to track the spread of a primarily mosquito-borne disease deadly to people and horses.
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Testing of deer blood helps fight disease
State epidemiologists and other volunteers are out for blood at deer-tagging stations across the state, as part of efforts to track the spread of a primarily mosquito-borne disease deadly to people and horses.