WINTHROP — The Bailey Library plans to resume in-person events with a presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, at 39 Bowdoin St. The event, which features guest speaker Dawn McAndrews, is the fifth part of a yearlong series celebrating Maine women that will run through 2021. McAndrews is the producing artistic director at the […]
Kennebec Journal
News and information from the greater Augusta area.
For now, Augusta to continue mask requirement for council meetings, entry to City Center
Despite the state loosening its mask mandate, central Maine towns and cities are varied in their approaches to changing regulations.
Job Corps offers career training to young adults
AUGUSTA — Job Corps is enrolling youths aged 16-24, interested in areas such as automotive, welding, healthcare, electrical, and culinary arts, through free training. Virtual and online learning options are available, and people can meanwhile earn their high school diploma/equivalency and driver’s license. Housing and meals are included at no additional cost, and job placement […]
Augusta brewery to offer a beer with a COVID-19 shot
Cushnoc Brewing Co. is partnering with Waldo County General Hospital for a pop-up COVID-19 clinic on June 4 at the brewery’s Annex on North Belfast Avenue.
Augusta’s Fort Western museum to reopen May 29
Fort Western, the 1754 national landmark fort, store, and house on the Kennebec River in downtown Augusta, will open for the 2021 season on Saturday, May 29. Fort Western was built as part of the Massachusetts military and settlement expansion into the Kennebec River Valley. During the French and Indian War, soldiers were stationed at […]
Wayne Farmers’ Market to open May 29
The Wayne Farmers’ Market is to open for the season from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 29, and plans to continue every Saturday morning until Labor Day weekend. The market is located on Route 133, on the green next to the post office, overlooking the Mill Pond. There will be a wide variety […]
Newcastle church seeks donations for restoration project
NEWCASTLE — St. Patrick Church, the home to significant artifacts such as the altar of Bishop Cheverus and a bell cast by Paul Revere & Sons, seeks donations for a restoration project. It is the oldest active Catholic Church in New England, dedicated in 1808. “All Saints Parish, of which St. Patrick Church is a […]
Augusta musician to hold neurofibromatosis fundraiser
An EP release concert, to benefit Neurofibromatosis Northeast, will be streamed May 29.
Whitefield students get hands-on aquaponics experience with school garden
Plants and seeds from the Whitefield Elementary School are being sold from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Augusta City Council approves $69.4 million city and school budget
No change expected in tax rate for city property owners.