The Augusta Board of Education will meet Wednesday to consider a new two-year contract for teachers.

Crisis and Counseling, a local behavioral health agency, provides trained mental health professionals to ride along with police on the late night shift.

Mayor David Rollins called employing Bridgeo for $117,000 a year ‘a steal for the city.’

Under the settlement, CMP agrees to make a one-time $95,000 payment to be used to reduce electricity delivery rates and not to allow CMP officials to join Maine Natural Gas representatives on sales calls.

The City Council will vote Thursday on a new three-year contract for William Bridgeo.

Notorious ‘can-opener’ train overpass claims another truck Tuesday morning and slowed the morning commute.

Plans are to eliminate one of two lanes that now takes traffic from Manchester to Augusta and create a center turn lane in its place.