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PublishedJuly 7, 2015
Hallowell’s top city manager candidate backs out of consideration
Denmark Town Manager Daniel Merhalski said he got a better job offer and accepted it a week before the Hallowell City Council was set to approve his hiring.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2015
As Augusta awaits Mount Vernon Avenue overhaul, business owners worry
The $4.3 million project has been awaited for a long time, but a flooring shop owner says it could cut down on drive-by business and an ice cream shop already has closed.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2015
State money for Togus homeless veterans project unavailable this year
Supporters of the $4 million effort say they’ll continue to raise money on their own and that funding could come through in 2016.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2015
Legislative effort to increase well water testing fails after LePage veto
The bill was a response to recent scientific findings on arsenic, a carcinogen occurring naturally in Maine’s bedrock, which is a problem in central and Down East portions of Maine.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2015
After adoption, Sidney jeweler discovers family link to Declaration of Independence signer
When Hallowell shows the document this weekend, it’ll have new meaning to Jack Turner, whose ancestor Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, signed it in 1776.
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PublishedJune 30, 2015
Lithgow library contractors, ‘right on schedule,’ take down 1970s addition
It’s a key step in the library’s $11 million expansion, which is expected to open late next year.
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PublishedJune 28, 2015
Hallowell’s valuable Declaration of Independence copy to be displayed at weekend events
The city says the 1776 document, printed in the days after the declaration’s adoption and recently appraised at $1.2 million, will be guarded by police and locked in a safe overnight.
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PublishedJune 26, 2015
Augusta, Skowhegan couples hail Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision
The Friday ruling was something that a Hallowell lawyer known as Maine’s first openly gay legislator said “just seemed beyond my comprehension” when she held her seat in the 1980s and ’90s.
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PublishedJune 24, 2015
Augusta man already jailed on burglary charges linked to 2011 break-in
City police say Jed St. Hilaire’s DNA was in blood collected at the scene of a burglary on Mount Vernon Avenue.
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PublishedJune 22, 2015
Critical Togus review has veterans concerned
Federal inspectors identify scheduling and staffing problems that caused long waits.
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