Lynda and Mike MacFarland, who have been selling Greyhound bus tickets for 35 years, are saying goodbye to Augusta and hello to retirement.
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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MoveOn.org and union protesters hit Augusta Walmart
Activists chose the biggest shopping day of the year to decry what they said are low wages and poor working conditions.
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Augusta tree-lighting festivities to be a singing, plunging extravaganza
A grammy nominee and a mini-polar plunge will help mark the last year for the big blue spruce downtown, which will be cut down next year.
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Augusta officials inspect buildings, find only minor violations
The city is acting on court approval to inspect properties owned by Jim Pepin, the city’s largest landlord.
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Augusta restaurant hosting Thanksgiving dinner for hundreds
Red Barn partners with Green Street church for community Thanksgiving dinner
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Augusta council approves apartment inspection ordinance
In the last year, the city has shut down 11 apartment buildings, and a floor of a twelfth, for what city staff deemed serious safety code violations.
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Augusta lawmakers to push for homeless housing
Rep. Corey Wilson, R-Augusta, proposes that four former group homes on state property be turned into housing for homeless veterans.
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Augusta landlord refuses to allow city inspections
Jim Pepin, the city’s largest landlord, says the city needs to inspect for specific code violations, not just when it suspects there may be a problem.
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Augusta apartment ordinance up for final vote
In the last year, the city has declared nine buildings and a floor of another building unsafe for occupancy and ordered tenants of the 50 units in those buildings to move out.
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Bangor woman who killed boyfriend gets time outside Riverview
Gail Judd, 54, was found not criminally responsible and was granted supervised time out in the community.