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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PublishedMay 25, 2012
Council reduces budget impact on taxpayers
AUGUSTA — Some last-minute corporate tax submissions and other budget changes have reduced the hit from the proposed city budget to taxpayers by more than half, while also allowing some items cut from the budget to be restored.
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PublishedMay 22, 2012
Natural gas seen as key fuel for area
AUGUSTA — Natural gas, whoever provides it, will be the main heating and cooking fuel at MaineGeneral Medical Center’s new hospital in north Augusta.
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PublishedMay 21, 2012
Big park, small park? Time to vote on it
MANCHESTER — Officials want to know if the town should go big or think small when it comes to a proposed new park at the site of the former fire station.
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PublishedMay 18, 2012
21 cats found abandoned at Augusta shelter
AUGUSTA — Kennebec Valley Humane Society workers arrived at the shelter Thursday to find 21 cats and kittens had been left outside in boxes.
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PublishedMay 16, 2012
Keeping Fort Richmond artifacts at Old Fort Western on planners’ agenda
AUGUSTA — Two zoning changes and a proposal to give a new above-ground home to artifacts expected to be dug up at the former site of Fort Richmond will be before city councilors Thursday.
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PublishedMay 15, 2012
VA restoration will stay true to history
TOGUS — When you’re restoring the 80-year-old main hospital building on the oldest veterans’ facility in the country, you want it to function, though necessarily look, modern.
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PublishedMay 14, 2012
Pedestrian fears growing
AUGUSTA — Chuck Mahaleris was working in Portland when he got the call every parent dreads.
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PublishedMay 14, 2012
UPDATE: Continual revving may have doomed trio found in Jeep
WINDSOR — Although carbon monoxide is suspected by police, it could take weeks to determine what killed three people found over the weekend inside a Jeep off Crosby Road in Windsor.
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PublishedMay 13, 2012
Windsor crash closes Route 32
WINDSOR – Police are at the scene of a serious crash on Route 32 in Windsor on Sunday afternoon. Authorities have closed the road, and expect it to be closed for about an hour so they can reconstruct the accident. Route 32 is expected to be closed east of Hussey’s General Store and west of […]
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PublishedMay 13, 2012
Woman who killed child seeks discharge
AUGUSTA — A woman diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when she starved her 5-year-old daughter to death in 1993 asked a judge Friday to discharge her from state custody.
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