Roger Guenveur Smith, who has appeared in numerous Spike Lee films, is in Maine doing research for a one-man show about Anne Frank’s father, Otto.
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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Marketplace at Augusta gets zoning changes approved to allow brew pubs, distilleries, warehousing
Businessman Roger Pomerleau said retail businesses would continue to be the dominant activity in the area.
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Councilors to consider zoning change for Marketplace at Augusta
Developer Roger Pomerleau wants the change to allow brew pubs, distilleries and light manufacturing businesses to operate at the complex.
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Advocates donate another $100K to help restore Augusta’s Colonial Theater
A total of $1 million, of an $8 million goal, has been raised to fund the project.
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Augusta Buddy Walk raises funds, awareness for Down syndrome
The Augusta event raised more than $28,000 this year, more than any of the previous Buddy Walks in Maine, according to Jen Greslick, president of the Maine Down Syndrome Network.
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Watch: Old Fort Western re-enactors in Augusta find new bateaux just as unfit at Benedict Arnold’s
Displaying the heavy, leaky, unsteady boats was part of the point of explaining how Arnold’s 17785 March to Quebec was such an arduous undertaking.
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Augusta Unitarian Universalist minister taking exchange trip across the pond
The Rev. Carie Johnson will spend October in Wales, while a Welsh minister, the Rev. Alun Dafis, will serve as minister here for the month.
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Central Maine apple crop weathers dry spell, squirrel surge
With apples in peak season, some orchard owners say the fruit looks good, if maybe a little small.
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Zoning change approved, paving way for 250 new apartments in Augusta
The city is expected to change the allowance for development on the parcel off Civic Center Drive, which is being eyed for housing aimed at medical workers.
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Shut up and listen: Augusta nonprofit, and a statewide initiative, preserving Mainers’ stories before they’re gone
Keith Ludden, founder of Oral History and Folklife Research Inc., advises interviewers that narrators will ‘take you places you never knew about.’