The City Council was told a combination of pesticides, alternate grass varieties and other techniques can solve the problem that has turned many of the city’s formerly green spaces brown.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Politics
LePage finally authorizes voter-approved bonds to fund a variety of projects
LePage previously had stalled the sale of a $117 million bond package in a dispute with the Legislature over state borrowing and a package of new spending bills.
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Posted inCommunity
Animal swap event set for July 21 in Augusta
Tractor Supply Company Store to host free event.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Man convicted of kidnapping, assaulting Augusta girl seeks new trial
Albert Dumas pleaded guilty to abducting and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Augusta but now says he wouldn’t have made the guilty plea if he had known about a change in genetic evidence.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Kennebec Journal July 12 police log
Augusta area police reports for July 12, 2018.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Waterville robbery suspect told police he was picking berries when caught
GPS tracking devices secreted in the stolen money led police to Kevin Barr, who was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 cash bail in connection with Tuesday’s heist at KeyBank in Waterville.
Posted inLocal & State, Outdoors
Beetle grubs leaving Augusta grassless
City officials are weighing how to attack the problem, which is affecting parks, cemeteries, major intersections and public grounds.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Former Augusta woman sentenced for drug trafficking
Jaci Beane, of Farmingdale, will spend an initial 18 months behinds bars and then two years on probation.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Public gets a chance to weigh in on insurers’ ACA rate requests for 2019
Two meetings, in Bangor and Portland, will allow residents to ask questions and comment on proposed increases of up to 13.8%.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Defense: Prosecutors challenged by lack of forensics in Manchester double murder
David W. Marble Jr. is charged with killing two people near a gravel pit on Christmas morning 2015.