AUGUSTA — School officials are poised to ink a new contract to keep the company First Student busing Augusta students into 2017 for about $1.63 million a year.
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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Bridge replacement gets $10 million federal grant
RICHMOND — The state will get a $10.8 million federal grant to help replace the deteriorated 80-year-old Richmond-Dresden bridge, two of Maine’s U.S. legislators said Monday.
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Augusta seeks energy-saving options
AUGUSTA — More than $4 million could be saved over the next few decades if a firm’s proposal is accepted for alternative energy systems harnessing wood and solar sources at some city and school buildings.
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Occupy Augusta demonstrators pack it in
AUGUSTA — After nearly two months, Capitol Park is now unoccupied.
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A bridge too tall?
DRESDEN — Some area residents fear the proposed new Richmond-Dresden bridge will be an unsightly monstrosity.
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Occupy Augusta leaving park
AUGUSTA — After nearly two months, Capitol Park is now unoccupied.
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Augusta Police say occupier set tent fire
AUGUSTA — An Occupy Augusta participant was charged with arson Wednesday after he confessed to starting a fire that burned a tent in the Capitol Park encampment of protesters, authorities said.
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Occupy protester charged in arson
AUGUSTA — An Occupy Augusta participant was charged with arson Wednesday after he confessed to starting a fire that burned a tent in the Capitol Park encampment of protesters, authorities said.
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Augusta Occupiers say they will stay despite arson
AUGUSTA — Scared. But not scared out of occupying. So say Occupy Augusta participants, following a tent fire Monday night at their Capitol Park encampment that authorities later said was intentionally set.
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Occupiers vow arson won’t run them off
AUGUSTA — Scared. But not scared out of occupying.