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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PublishedJune 21, 2012
STATE PICKS PIPELINE BUILDER
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.
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PublishedJune 21, 2012
World’s smallest jet lands at aviation history 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.
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PublishedJune 20, 2012
No candidates for House seat on ballot
AUGUSTA — There are now no official candidates running for a state legislative district representing much of Maine’s capital city, as the winners of both the Republican and Democrat primaries have withdrawn from the race.
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PublishedJune 20, 2012
Neither party’s primary winner running now
AUGUSTA — There are now no official candidates running for a state legislative district representing much of Maine’s capital city, as the winners of both the Republican and Democrat primaries have withdrawn from the race.
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PublishedJune 19, 2012
Second House District 57 candidate drops out
AUGUSTA — Andrew D. Worcester, who won the Republican primary for state House of Representatives District 57, has informed the state and local Republican leadership he is withdrawing from the race. His withdrawal follows that of Democratic incumbent District 57 Rep. Maeghan Maloney. So neither of the victorious primary candidates for the two major parties […]
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PublishedJune 18, 2012
Talk to feature Augusta’s place in early aviation
AUGUSTA — Just eight years after the Wright brothers’ historic first flight, St. Croix Johnstone took off from a baseball field in Augusta in his rudimentary monoplane.
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PublishedJune 16, 2012
No money, staff for Nature Park
AUGUSTA — Bicentennial Nature Park is going to take the summer off, despite last-ditch efforts to find a way to keep the swimming spot open by raising money privately and charging user fees.
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PublishedJune 16, 2012
Manchester gets back to business
MANCHESTER — Residents at a raucous annual Town Meeting Thursday night rejected funding for a new park voters had just approved the concept for two days earlier.
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PublishedJune 15, 2012
Manchester’s town meeting gets heated up
MANCHESTER — Residents and others at the annual town meeting argued about how voting would take place at the meeting, and who could speak at it before any substantive votes had even taken place.
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PublishedJune 14, 2012
Bicentennial Nature Park could be back
AUGUSTA — Bicentennial Nature Park could return from the brink of closure once again.
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