AUGUSTA — Even for the University of Maine at Augusta, where it seems stories of nontraditional students overcoming daunting obstacles to find success can be found hiding under nearly every graduate’s black cap and gown, Tessa Pyles has a unique success story to tell.
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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647 great stories graduate
AUGUSTA — Even for the University of Maine at Augusta, where it seems stories of nontraditional students overcoming daunting obstacles to find success can be found hiding under nearly every graduate’s black cap and gown, Tessa Pyles has a unique success story to tell.
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Toxic gas feared in 3 deaths
WINDSOR — Three local residents were found dead Saturday after they apparently did some off-road riding and their Jeep became stuck in a bog.
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Mother who starved child to death in 1993 now seeking discharge
AUGUSTA — A woman diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when she starved her 5-year-old daughter to death in 1993 asked a judge Friday to discharge her from state custody.
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Cony students: Ban cigarette butt litter
AUGUSTA — A group of Cony High School freshmen wants the city to ban tossing cigarette butts where they don’t belong.
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Despite neighbors’ objections, board OKs church plan
AUGUSTA — Over the objections of many neighbors, the Planning Board gave unanimous, but conditional, approval to a new home for Augusta Spiritualist Church on Townsend Road.
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Council to hear students’ anti-smoking ideas
AUGUSTA — A group of Cony High School freshmen want smokers to stop littering the city — and the world — with their cigarette butts.
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Tech center director calling it quits
AUGUSTA — Capital Area Technical Center Director Scott Phair is retiring to spend more time riding, writing and rafting, while he still can.
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Not all ‘good feelings’ about church site
AUGUSTA — A proposal to build a new Augusta Spiritualist Church on Townsend Road has prompted a spirited debate among its potential new neighbors.
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City taxpayers asked to cover for state cutbacks
AUGUSTA — City officials said Thursday local property taxpayers will be forced to pick up the tab for state cuts to General Assistance.