Expecting to offset electrical costs, the city will install a piping system to capture methane at Hatch Hill Landfill by next fall.
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Augusta to consider collecting more gas from city landfill
A plan to spend $350,000 to collect and maximize methane gas from the Hatch Hill landfill will go to city councilors.
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Barred from having gun, man arrested after officer sees him at gun show
Ignazio Falcone, 27, was arrested after the Hallowell officer reported him to Maine State Police.
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Drone training event for Augusta teens turns into stunning lesson about safety
The Maine Drones Society demonstration at the Augusta Boys and Girls Club included how to handle a drone that malfunctions.
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More than 100 Maine schools look to launch regional service centers
Some rural districts see them as a way to share resources and tap into state education funding.
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LePage leads groundbreaking for Augusta state office building
The new DHHS building is the first major addition to the State House complex since the 1970s.
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State upholds permit to remove historic pilings in Phippsburg
The pilings at the edge of the water near Popham village were left behind from an old steamship pier, and some neighbors wanted them to stay.
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Augusta’s Children’s Discovery Museum will move to Waterville in 2019
The new space will triple the size of the museum’s accommodations.
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Maine man who drove SUV into couple in their driveway sentenced to 20 months
After an argument with the couple the West Gardiner man got into his 2005 Cadillac Escalade and struck them, the prosecutor says.
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Pearl Harbor attack eventually cost former Augusta woman her father
Hope Weston, who also lived in Winthrop, left the Philippines for the United States before the war; her father stayed behind to help the U.S., and was executed by the Japanese.