Steve McGee says a subcontractor failed to properly notify neighbors prior to two blasts.
Keith Edwards
Staff Writer
Keith Edwards covers the city of Augusta and courts in Kennebec County, 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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Augusta contractor pays for 2 quarry blasts
AUGUSTA — Contractor and quarry owner Steve McGee has signed a consent agreement with the city that acknowledges a subcontractor working for his firm failed to properly notify all neighbors prior to two blasts in his West River Road pit last year. He also agreed to pay $3,500 to the city, though the subcontractor, Gardiner-based […]
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State poet plans to be ‘active laureate’
Wesley McNair, a UMaine Farmington professor emeritus, is installed Wednesday at the Blaine House.
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Augusta’s riverside downtown ‘can turn around’
AUGUSTA — When Capital City Skate shop closed in downtown Augusta earlier this month, it left building owner Toebee Parkhurst with a vacant storefront, joining several other empty storefronts in the city’s downtown.
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Cape Air to take over Augusta flight service
Cape Air’s nine-passenger Cessna 402s will replace the 34-passenger Saab 340-Bs that Colgan Air now uses.
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Woman dies in Somerville fire
SOMERVILLE – An 86-year-old woman died Saturday night when fire swept through her home on Long Pond. Fire investigators found the body of Pauline Danley in the second-floor bedroom of her home off Frye Road, the state Fire Marshal’s Office said. Firefighters mounted rescue efforts but were turned back by the extreme heat of the […]
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Augusta approves sex-segregated math class
AUGUSTA — A proposal to allow girls and boys to be separated into single-gender classrooms for some math classes won unanimous approval from the Augusta Board of Education on Wednesday.
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Soldier’s Purple Heart awarded with personal touch
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gives the award to wounded Augusta native Pfc. Adam Moreau while at a medical facility in Afghanistan.
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Augusta considering $52,000 study of police
Staffing levels are of particular concern, but a review would cover nearly all police services.
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Augusta residents rip pot proposal
AUGUSTA — Residents blasted a proposal to expand the city’s medical district to their neighborhood, a change that could allow a medical marijuana dispensary to locate at a north Augusta location.