AUGUSTA — A new sign ordinance approved by city councilors this week makes lots of changes, but it doesn’t alter the number of times an electronic sign’s message can change.
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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Heating assistance likely to be less this winter
AUGUSTA — The average projected payment through a federal program helping low-income Mainers heat their homes isn’t expected to be enough to buy even 100 gallons of heating oil this winter.
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Fairfield violinist makes his music
Nate Saunders is passionate about the two Cordelias in his life.
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City outlaws fireworks’ use, sale
AUGUSTA — City councilors voted 5-2 to ban the use and sale of fireworks in the city.
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Augusta’s Capitol Park still Occupy-able
Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin said Tuesday that the group Occupy Augusta is still being allowed at Capitol Park in Augusta.
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Wilderness story goes graphic
Winthrop author Lynn Plourde would run into Donn Fendler at different events in recent years and nicely nag the famous “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” author to pen a new version of the book that countless Maine children have read since its publication in 1939.
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Augusta councilors agree with ideas to revamp riverfront
AUGUSTA — The old tissue mill is gone from the east side riverfront, and the hospital, too, is moving out of that part of the city.
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Augusta ponders riverfront vision
AUGUSTA — A new report envisions the east side of the city connected to the west side by a pedestrian path crossing the Kennebec River on the old train trestle.
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Bilodeau, Emery win in Augusta
AUGUSTA — Daniel Emery and Jeffrey Bilodeau were elected to the City Council Tuesday.