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SNAPSHOT: Touching up history in Augusta

FINISHING UP: Anthony Tafuri, of Pro Point Restoration, paints on chemicals and uses a torch to add a patina to the recently cleaned plaques on the Civil War monuments Tuesday in Augusta’s Memorial Circle. Pro Point, a company from Pittsfield, N.H., has been working for about a month on repointing the stones and cleaning and […]

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State-run prison to remain open

AUGUSTA — Senate President Kevin Raye and other members of the Down East delegation won a victory Friday when the state’s streamlining commission rejected a proposal to close a state-run prison in Washington County.