Krystal Reardon, who has been on dialysis for eight months and is on a transplant waiting list, put up signs this week along a busy street, and calls have started coming in.
Sam Shepherd
Sam Shepherd covers general news in the Hallowell and Farmingdale area. He grew up in Hallowell, attending Hall-Dale High School and later the University of Maine. He previously worked at the Mount Desert Islander in Bar Harbor before moving home to work for the Kennebec Journal in summer 2018. His interests include cooking, tracking down the best local food and drink and soccer.
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University of Maine at Augusta pursues agreement to create student housing
The University of Maine System board of trustees is expected to consider a contract the commuter school has entered to lease apartments in a building to be renovated at Stevens Commons in Hallowell.
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Hallowell OKs first reading of marijuana licensing ordinances
The city council also approves draft regulations governing street performers.
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House overlooking Cobbossee Lake burns to ground in Manchester
Crews from eight communities responded to the scene, but all that was left standing at the camp was a stone chimney.
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Augusta police release images of man suspected in Walgreens robbery
The man made off with narcotic medication from the store’s pharmacy on Sunday, police said.
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Augusta sex offender arrested on three child porn charges
Complaints had been lodged previously that Robert L. Robinson III, 34, was posting candid photos of Augusta-area children on social media.
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Morning crash slows traffic on I-295 in Richmond
State police say a tractor-trailer struck a camper, causing it and the pickup hauling it to overturn.
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After 7 overdoses in 5 days, Augusta police warn of ‘highly lethal’ heroin
Seven overdoses in five days prompted the department to issue a public service announcement.
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Family of woman found dead in Gardiner looks to help victims of domestic abuse
McKenzie Burgess said her older sister Maddilyn ‘didn’t have a place she felt she could go and be safe.’
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Police say Augusta man facing drug charges stole car from his mother
Randy Dennison, 26, has been charged with theft in addition to numerous drug trafficking charges stemming from his arrest and a strip search when he was being booked into jail.