About $675,000 is needed for the construction of a home for the food bank on Mount Vernon Avenue.
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Augusta city offices close after man unleashes 100 live bedbugs
A man apparently upset that he didn’t qualify for General Assistance slams down a cup full of the bugs, prompting the building’s closure.
Augusta police charge Portland man with possessing heroin during traffic stop
Preston Cooper, 52, faces several drug charges following an early morning traffic stop Thursday.
Restored stained-glass windows return to Lithgow Public Library in Augusta
The window installation on Wednesday came following some 20 months of restoration work by Richard Bolton and the team at Stained Glass Express in Manchester.
A look back at when the Kennebec River crested – and a look ahead
With climate conditions changing, experts can’t say when the next great flood will happen – only that it will.
Augusta art students prepare to paint the town
Urged to add ‘vibrancy’ to the downtown, city groups decide to put four murals on prominent walls.
Maine law firm sues state over delay in granting public records requests
Its request has sat idle for six months, but Gov. LePage’s office says state agencies received more than 1,000 requests last year alone.
Augusta condo association ‘stunned’ by police chief’s claim of discrimination
Robert Gregoire, who uses a wheelchair, says he was a victim because his street was not plowed immediately after a big storm, but the Maine Human Rights Commission finds no reasonable grounds for the complaint.
Augusta residents say taller sidewalk has turned yards into swamps
Homeowners in the Mayfair area say the city should replace the sidewalks installed in 2015.
Augusta ceremony honors Maine officers who died in line of duty
The ceremony included a keynote address from Attorney General Janet Mills, who told those gathered ‘the law is not some dusty book sitting on a shelf.’