AUGUSTA — In response to a group of Cony High School students’ disgust at the number of cigarette butts littering local streets and sidewalks, city councilors recently voted to alter an ordinance against littering to specify that tobacco products such as butts are, indeed, litter, and thus illegal to just toss onto the ground.
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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Celebrating season’s bounty
AUGUSTA — The winters in Sweden are long and dark, and the summer sun is fairly short-lived, conditions which many Mainers might say describes those two seasons pretty well here, too.
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Augusta police charge second suspect in May robbery of CVS
AUGUSTA — A second man has been charged for his alleged role in a May 8 robbery at the Stone Street CVS pharmacy.
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State picks gas company, and cost wins
AUGUSTA — The state government has selected a company affiliated with Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company to build a natural gas pipeline system in the Augusta area to distribute the gas to state property throughout the region.
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World’s smallest jet swoops in during Augusta flight talk
AUGUSTA — Stuffed into the cockpit of the world’s smallest jet, Peter Reny, who first learned to fly at Maine Instrument Flight while a junior at Cony High School, made a big, smoke-spewing entrance Wednesday night.
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STATE PICKS PIPELINE BUILDER
AUGUSTA — The state government has selected a company affiliated with Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company to build a natural gas pipeline system in the Augusta area to distribute the gas to state property throughout the region.
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World’s smallest jet lands at aviation history talk
AUGUSTA — Stuffed into the cockpit of the world’s smallest jet, Peter Reny, who first learned to fly at Maine Instrument Flight while a junior at Cony High School, made a big, smoke-spewing entrance Wednesday night.
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No candidates for House seat on ballot
AUGUSTA — There are now no official candidates running for a state legislative district representing much of Maine’s capital city, as the winners of both the Republican and Democrat primaries have withdrawn from the race.
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Neither party’s primary winner running now
AUGUSTA — There are now no official candidates running for a state legislative district representing much of Maine’s capital city, as the winners of both the Republican and Democrat primaries have withdrawn from the race.
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Second House District 57 candidate drops out
AUGUSTA — Andrew D. Worcester, who won the Republican primary for state House of Representatives District 57, has informed the state and local Republican leadership he is withdrawing from the race. His withdrawal follows that of Democratic incumbent District 57 Rep. Maeghan Maloney. So neither of the victorious primary candidates for the two major parties […]