AUGUSTA — City councilors voted Thursday to ask the state and a nonprofit organization that houses people with mental illness in Augusta to come up with some money to help offset the city’s cost of providing police, fire and other municipal services to mentally ill clients and residences that house them in Augusta.
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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Augusta may ask mental health care providers for help
The city may ask a nonprofit organization to make an annual payment-in-lieu-of-taxes to help offset the cost of providing municipal services.
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State panel weighs natural gas appeal
AUGUSTA — Attorneys representing two natural gas firms are battling at a state hearing today over whether the state made a mistake when it granted a project bid award for a gas system in the Augusta area.
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Pair of festivals celebrate Augusta’s downtown riverfront and Jamaican reggae
AUGUSTA — Two new events are coinciding on Saturday to make the capital area a festive place.
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Brown’s new employer to help find successor to head Augusta schools
AUGUSTA — The state association that has hired Superintendent Cornelia Brown away from the city’s schools to become its next leader probably will help local officials find Brown’s replacement.
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20th Maine reborn at Augusta Civil War re-enactment
AUGUSTA — Pvt. Art Custer promptly followed each of Lt. Paul Dudley’s sharply barked commands, making sure he performed all nine of the steps required to load his Civil War-era musket before he cracked off a loud shot over the trees of Viles Arboretum, smoke trailing out the end of the barrel.
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Augusta voters to try Cony High School as polling place in fall
AUGUSTA — The city’s Ward 4 voters will have yet another new polling place come November: Cony High School.
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Rather civil about this war: Re-enactors bring back 20th Maine Infantry
AUGUSTA — Pvt. Art Custer promptly followed each of Lt. Paul Dudley’s sharply barked commands, making sure he performed all nine of the steps required to load his Civil War-era musket before he cracked off a loud shot over the trees of Viles Arboretum, smoke trailing out the end of the barrel.
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Augusta council votes not to speak up about state pipeline contract decision
AUGUSTA — While city councilors in Augusta have declined to get involved, several municipalities are intervening in a state appeal process and fueling a battle over which of two competing companies will bring natural gas to the region.
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Augusta declines to intervene in dispute between natural gas pipeline companies
AUGUSTA — While city councilors in Augusta have declined to get involved, several municipalities are intervening in a state appeal process and fueling a battle over which of two competing companies will bring natural gas to the region.