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
June 29, 2012

Middle, high schools to have same schedule

AUGUSTA — Middle school students are going to have to get out of bed about an hour earlier next school year.
Published
June 28, 2012

State officials’ choice sparks natural gas war

AUGUSTA — Central Maine’s natural gas war is on.
Some local and regional officials fear the state’s recent choice of the smaller of two proposals to build a natural gas pipeline in the region could kill what they see as a much bigger and better opportunity for residents and businesses.
Published
June 28, 2012

Natural gas war is on

AUGUSTA — Some local and regional officials fear the state’s recent choice of the smaller of two proposals to build a natural gas pipeline in the region could kill what they see as a much bigger and better opportunity for residents and businesses.
Published
June 27, 2012

City’s pursuit of new use for Cony flatiron building still seeing no results

AUGUSTA — The distinctive old Cony flatiron building just can’t seem to attract a new use, or a developer able to secure enough tenants to make things happen at the former school.
Published
June 25, 2012

Man, daughter injured while washing family car

LITCHFIELD — A Nottingham Lane man and his teenage daughter were injured while washing the family car in their driveway Sunday.
Published
June 25, 2012

Litter rules now cover cigarettes

AUGUSTA — In response to a group of Cony High School students’ disgust at the number of cigarette butts littering local streets and sidewalks, city councilors recently voted to alter an ordinance against littering to specify that tobacco products such as butts are, indeed, litter, and thus illegal to just toss onto the ground.
Published
June 24, 2012

Celebrating season’s bounty

AUGUSTA — The winters in Sweden are long and dark, and the summer sun is fairly short-lived, conditions which many Mainers might say describes those two seasons pretty well here, too.
Published
June 22, 2012

Augusta police charge second suspect in May robbery of CVS

AUGUSTA — A second man has been charged for his alleged role in a May 8 robbery at the Stone Street CVS pharmacy.
Published
June 21, 2012

State picks gas company, and cost wins

AUGUSTA — The state government has selected a company affiliated with Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company to build a natural gas pipeline system in the Augusta area to distribute the gas to state property throughout the region.
Published
June 21, 2012

World’s smallest jet swoops in during Augusta flight talk

AUGUSTA — Stuffed into the cockpit of the world’s smallest jet, Peter Reny, who first learned to fly at Maine Instrument Flight while a junior at Cony High School, made a big, smoke-spewing entrance Wednesday night.