Pending government approvals, developers plan to open 47 units for low-income senior in the former Hodgkins Middle School building by 2016.
Michael Shepherd
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City council names O’Brien Augusta’s interim mayor
Voters will pick his long-term replacement in November and also will decide whether to repeal the city’s superintendent residency requirement.
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Police optimistic they’ll nab Manchester pharmacy robber
Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said his office has received many tips about a possible suspect’s name.
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Two Augusta councilors to vie for three-month mayoral stint
Mark O’Brien is likely to fill William Stokes’ shoes until November, while Michael Byron said he doesn’t have the votes to win.
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Monmouth Fair winds down on a day for the horses
A veteran puller says the competition would be ‘a dying art’ without competitors like 10-year-old Logan Robinson of Litchfield.
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Manchester Rite Aid pharmacy robbed Sunday afternoon
Lone man wearing Yankees hat makes off with oxycodone in first pharmacy robbery of the year in the Augusta area.
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Eight decades after Earhart’s visit to Maine, female pilots scarce
A group of female fliers that honored the legendary aviator’s 1934 visit to Augusta on Saturday, wants to add more women to it ranks.
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Winthrop girl with ‘everything going for her’ dies early Saturday
Kelsey Stoneton, 17, ‘meant everything to us,’ said her father, the athletic director at the town’s schools.
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In Maine’s 2nd District, a debate over debates
Democrat Emily Cain and independent Blaine Richardson, at a joint press conference, oppose Republican Bruce Poliquin’s insistence that Richardson not be included.
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Hallowell’s self-proclaimed ‘richest old woman’ dies at 93
Writer Katy Perry was ‘a community connector,’ says the director of a local art gallery.