Keith Edwards

Kennebec Journal

Keith Edwards covers the city of Augusta and towns of Manchester and Windsor, 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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Published
August 23, 2012

Federal backing likely won’t speed up Richmond-Dresden Bridge project

RICHMOND — Despite its recent prominent designation as one of just four projects nationwide to have its federal permitting process fast-tracked through an initiative announced by President Barack Obama, a new Richmond-Dresden bridge is not expected to start any sooner than was already planned.
Published
August 20, 2012

Augusta arsenal owner says he’s talking to other parties

AUGUSTA — The owner and would-be developer of the historic Kennebec Arsenal property says he is in talks with other developers who could take over.
Published
August 17, 2012

Augusta will ask for help from state, nonprofit

AUGUSTA — City councilors voted Thursday to ask the state and a nonprofit organization that houses people with mental illness in Augusta to come up with some money to help offset the city’s cost of providing police, fire and other municipal services to mentally ill clients and residences that house them in Augusta.
Published
August 15, 2012

Augusta may ask mental health care providers for help

The city may ask a nonprofit organization to make an annual payment-in-lieu-of-taxes to help offset the cost of providing municipal services.
Published
August 14, 2012

State panel weighs natural gas appeal

AUGUSTA — Attorneys representing two natural gas firms are battling at a state hearing today over whether the state made a mistake when it granted a project bid award for a gas system in the Augusta area.
Published
August 8, 2012

Pair of festivals celebrate Augusta’s downtown riverfront and Jamaican reggae

AUGUSTA — Two new events are coinciding on Saturday to make the capital area a festive place.
Published
August 6, 2012

Brown’s new employer to help find successor to head Augusta schools

AUGUSTA — The state association that has hired Superintendent Cornelia Brown away from the city’s schools to become its next leader probably will help local officials find Brown’s replacement.
Published
August 5, 2012

20th Maine reborn at Augusta Civil War re-enactment

AUGUSTA — Pvt. Art Custer promptly followed each of Lt. Paul Dudley’s sharply barked commands, making sure he performed all nine of the steps required to load his Civil War-era musket before he cracked off a loud shot over the trees of Viles Arboretum, smoke trailing out the end of the barrel.
Published
August 5, 2012

Augusta voters to try Cony High School as polling place in fall

AUGUSTA — The city’s Ward 4 voters will have yet another new polling place come November: Cony High School.
Published
August 4, 2012

Rather civil about this war: Re-enactors bring back 20th Maine Infantry

AUGUSTA — Pvt. Art Custer promptly followed each of Lt. Paul Dudley’s sharply barked commands, making sure he performed all nine of the steps required to load his Civil War-era musket before he cracked off a loud shot over the trees of Viles Arboretum, smoke trailing out the end of the barrel.