AUGUSTA — Police arrested an Augusta man on multiple charges of burglarizing motor vehicles early Sunday morning.
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 fire leaves six homeless
AUGUSTA — An early morning fire at a Drew Street apartment building left six residents homeless.
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Blaze forces 6 to flee apartments
AUGUSTA — An early morning fire at a Drew Street apartment building left six residents homeless.
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Resident: Manchester intersection may be accident waiting to happen
MANCHESTER — Glenn Lewis said he recently was turning onto Old Winthrop Road from busy U.S. Route 202 with his blinker flashing when a woman on Bowdoin Street, the access road to a new medical services building, pulled right out in front of him.
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Augusta apartment building fire displaces six
AUGUSTA – An early morning fire at a Drew Street apartment building left six residents homeless today.
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No smoking on city property
AUGUSTA — City councilors banned smoking and all other forms of tobacco use on all city property, indoors and outdoors, Thursday.
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Public officials to take oaths tonight
AUGUSTA — City councilors and Board of Education members will take their oaths of office tonight.
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Flatiron’s fate still uncertain due to stagnant economy
AUGUSTA — The old Cony Flatiron building appears destined to start 2012 the same way it has the last several years: vacant, in city hands and with an uncertain future.
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Cigarette starts Whitefield blaze
WHITEFIELD — A Rockland Road home was heavily damaged by a fire Wednesday night after the man living inside fell asleep while smoking a cigarette on the couch, an investigator said.
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Fire damages Whitefield home; man escapes with minor burns
WHITEFIELD – The lone occupant of a Rockland Road home heavily damaged by fire Thursday night escaped the burning building with minor burns and smoke inhalation.