Kennebec Valley Gas has conditional PUC approval for the $70 million to $80 million project.
Keith Edwards
Staff Writer
Keith Edwards covers the city of Augusta and courts in Kennebec County, writing feature stories and covering breaking news, local people and events, and local politics. He has worked at the Kennebec Journal since 1995, having previously worked at the Camden Herald. He was born and raised in Winthrop and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in political science. He is married and has a dog and cat. A lifelong Mainer, he enjoys skiing, hiking, canoeing, camping, and cooking out but spends most of his “off” time restoring and maintaining his 170, or so, year-old home in Richmond.
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Maine DOT crews depart to help Vermont
Maine officials expect the cost of the relief effort will be reimbursed from federal emergency relief funds.
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Windsor Fair: Big or small,horses demonstrate their pull
WINDSOR — The crowd eagerly awaiting the start of the Windsor Fair’s annual horse-pulling contest enjoyed a group chuckle Monday as the first “entrant” in the contest strode into the arena and headed for the competition sled, which waited at the opposite end of the arena, stacked high with 7,600 pounds of solid blocks.
Expecting to see one of the teams of massive, muscled Belgian draft horses get strapped to the sled and pull it through the dirt, spectators instead watched as Buddy and BJ, two miniature horses, pulled their handlers, Ben and Nicole LaPointe of Greene, around the ring on a red three-wheeled cart that looked suspiciously like a converted riding lawnmower.
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School officials fear last-minute changes
AUGUSTA — Parents of students attending three city elementary schools that have not met federal progress standards can send their children to the one elementary school that does.
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Augusta bomb shelter in way
A Cold War-era bomb shelter built by a local veteran to withstand nuclear attack won’t survive a much more benign offensive: Augusta’s upcoming sewer line replacement.
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Police identify Augusta man found dead
AUGUSTA — Police have identified the man found dead in an apartment before dawn Saturday as David Cox. Cox was 46 and lived at 12 Green St. with a male roommate. Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says the state Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy this afternoon. “We hope to know more after […]
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Police investigate Augusta death
AUGUSTA — State and local police are investigating the death of a 46-year-old Augusta man found dead in his Green Street apartment before dawn Saturday, Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said. The police would not release the man’s identity because his next of kin had not been notified as of this afternoon. McCausland said […]
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West Gardiner contractor agrees to pay fine in blast case
Steve McGee says a subcontractor failed to properly notify neighbors prior to two blasts.
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Augusta contractor pays for 2 quarry blasts
AUGUSTA — Contractor and quarry owner Steve McGee has signed a consent agreement with the city that acknowledges a subcontractor working for his firm failed to properly notify all neighbors prior to two blasts in his West River Road pit last year. He also agreed to pay $3,500 to the city, though the subcontractor, Gardiner-based […]
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State poet plans to be ‘active laureate’
Wesley McNair, a UMaine Farmington professor emeritus, is installed Wednesday at the Blaine House.