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 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.
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PublishedJune 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.
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PublishedJune 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.
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PublishedJune 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.
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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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