MANCHESTER — Hearing there was a need for a communal gathering spot in town, Manchester Community Church officials have opened their building for weekly gatherings they hope will help fill that need with conversation and companionship.
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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John Finnegan is Business Person of the Year
AUGUSTA — John Finnegan started as a secretary working on the cheap to get his foot in the door at Macomber, Farr & Whitten.
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Tenants unable to promptly return to fire-damaged apartments
AUGUSTA — A Drew Street apartment building has been deemed unsafe and unlivable by the city following a fire during the weekend that displaced six tenants.
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LePage likes pipeline plan
HALLOWELL — Gov. Paul LePage says Maine must reduce energy costs to compete with other states and his administration will do whatever it can — short of providing direct funding — to encourage the expansion of natural gas.
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LePage backs natural gas pipeline
HALLOWELL — Gov. Paul LePage says Maine must reduce energy costs to compete with other states and his administration will do whatever it can — short of providing direct funding — to encourage the expansion of natural gas.
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Thefts arrest made
AUGUSTA — Police arrested an Augusta man on multiple charges of burglarizing motor vehicles early Sunday morning.
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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.