Craig Crosby

Staff Writer

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September 16, 2015

UMA announces three presidential finalists

The University of Maine at Augusta has been without a permanent president since Allyson Handley left in 2014 to take a job in California after more than six years in Augusta.
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September 15, 2015

Augusta police seek public input on ‘hot spot’ program

Augusta police will host a community meeting Thursday to gauge the public’s response to a new program aimed at cracking down on the city’s high-crime areas.
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September 15, 2015

Man homeless after Chelsea fire destroys mobile home

A Windsor Road home believed to be unoccupied was actually a longtime home of a Chelsea man who says a weekend fire destroyed nearly all he owns.
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September 15, 2015

Maine State Police kept quiet about additional search in Jay for Kimberly Moreau

Police say they conducted at least one additional search last month to find a teenage girl from Jay missing for nearly 30 years.
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September 15, 2015

Emergency responders kick off bicycle tour in Augusta to honor fallen officers

Participants from up and down the eastern seaboard gathered Tuesday at the Maine law enforcement memorial on State Street to launch a nearly 300-mile bicycle tour of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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September 14, 2015

Car pulled from Wayne pond

The car, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am four door, was reported stolen from a Leeds Road home shortly before 8 a.m.
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September 14, 2015

Fire damages Chelsea home

A fire on Saturday badly damaged a vacant mobile home on Windsor Road.
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September 14, 2015

Police: Naked man breaks into Farmingdale home

Jonathan Choate, 43, of Waterville is charged with breaking into a Bowman Street home and punching a man who lives there.
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September 13, 2015

Augusta to mark anniversary of 1865 Great Fire

The fire wiped out nearly all of the downtown leaving the business district ‘a smoking mass of ruins.’
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September 10, 2015

Augusta council approves spending for roads, buildings

The City Council on Thursday agreed to borrow $750,000 and send a $1.7 million loan request to voters, to pay for upgrades to city streets, sidewalks and buildings.