Patsy Crockett News Today

County commissioners and the Budget Committee agreed to a $23.3 million spending plan after making cuts to a proposal that drew ire from municipal officials.

Costs are going up, county officials said, and revenue that has been used in the past to offset spending is no longer available, meaning residents will have to make up the difference.

A first-of-its-kind pilot program in the region brings physicians to the scenes of crashes and crises, upping the level of care that can be provided and diverting patients from crowded emergency rooms.

A first-of-its-kind pilot program in the region brings physicians to the scenes of crashes and crises, upping the level of care that can be provided and diverting patients from crowded emergency rooms.

Kennebec County commissioners plan to decide in two weeks whether to accept a granite bench as a memorial to the late Judge James Mitchell, who presided over Kennebec County's probate court for nearly four decades before his death in 2016.

The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.

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A pilot program rewarding corrections officers at the Kennebec County jail for good attendance with $100 gas cards to preserve staffing levels at the correctional facility and curb forced overtime will continue for three more months.

Kennebec County commissioners on Tuesday endorsed a list of 39 projects to be supported by Kennebec County's $23.7 million share of American Rescue Plan Act funds that will support child care, housing and health programs as well as sewer, water and construction projects, among others.

A controversial statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice was removed from the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta without notice.