The University of Maine at Augusta has been without a permanent president since Allyson Handley left in 2014 to take a job in California after more than six years in Augusta.
Craig Crosby
Augusta police seek public input on ‘hot spot’ program
Augusta police will host a community meeting Thursday to gauge the public’s response to a new program aimed at cracking down on the city’s high-crime areas.
Man homeless after Chelsea fire destroys mobile home
A Windsor Road home believed to be unoccupied was actually a longtime home of a Chelsea man who says a weekend fire destroyed nearly all he owns.
Maine State Police kept quiet about additional search in Jay for Kimberly Moreau
Police say they conducted at least one additional search last month to find a teenage girl from Jay missing for nearly 30 years.
Emergency responders kick off bicycle tour in Augusta to honor fallen officers
Participants from up and down the eastern seaboard gathered Tuesday at the Maine law enforcement memorial on State Street to launch a nearly 300-mile bicycle tour of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Car pulled from Wayne pond
The car, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am four door, was reported stolen from a Leeds Road home shortly before 8 a.m.
Fire damages Chelsea home
A fire on Saturday badly damaged a vacant mobile home on Windsor Road.
Police: Naked man breaks into Farmingdale home
Jonathan Choate, 43, of Waterville is charged with breaking into a Bowman Street home and punching a man who lives there.
Augusta to mark anniversary of 1865 Great Fire
The fire wiped out nearly all of the downtown leaving the business district ‘a smoking mass of ruins.’
Augusta council approves spending for roads, buildings
The City Council on Thursday agreed to borrow $750,000 and send a $1.7 million loan request to voters, to pay for upgrades to city streets, sidewalks and buildings.