Truck driver injured in Augusta crash involving 2 big rigs, ambulance
Other drivers, including a patient in the Delta ambulance, were uninjured in early Tuesday morning crash on Interstate 95.
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The scene of an accident on Interstate 95 early Tuesday that involved two tractor trailers and a Delta ambulance that shut down traffic for several hours. There were no life-threatening injuries reported by police.
Photo courtesy of Maine State Police
AUGUSTA A tractor-trailer driver was injured after his rig struck another tractor-trailer that had slowed to nearly a stop in an accident that also involved an ambulance early Tuesday morning on Interstate 95.
Survey identifies 237 sites where pollution affected water quality of Belgrade-area Great Pond
7 Lakes Alliance and the Belgrade Lakes Association updated the Great Pond watershed community about efforts to improve water quality in Great Pond.
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Besides the problems caused by phosphorous, invasive milfoil is a problem at Great Pond in Belgrade. With collection bag in hand, Sharon Mann jumps out of the boat to pull out variable milfoil in North Bay of Great Pond on June 28, 2019, in Belgrade. This week, representatives of the 7 Lakes Alliance and Belgrade Lakes Association briefed local communities about water quality in the watershed.
Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file
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A view of Pickett Mountain and Pickett Mountain Pond. (Courtesy of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission)
A view of Pickett Mountain and Pickett Mountain Pond. (Courtesy of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission)
Canadian mining company says zinc and silver in new test drills at Pickett Mountain Wolfden Resources, the Canada-based company that has applied to establish a mineral mine near Mt. Chase, has discovered new mineralization on the 528-acre property it has established on Pickett Mountain.
HOULTON, Maine Wolfden Resources, the Canada-based company that has applied to establish a mineral mine near Mt. Chase, has discovered new mineralization on the 528-acre property it has established on Pickett Mountain.
SUSAN JOHNS
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After a 3-2 planning board vote on Zoom Thursday night, Dec. 10, if he gets any other agencies’ permits he needs, Alna’s Jeff Spinney can roll a mat down to the Sheepscot River as a boat ramp; he can also replace some earth with gravel. But with his previous ramp request headed for mediation Dec. 16, he was not sure what project he will choose for his Golden Ridge Road property.
“I’ve got multiple things going on and I’m going to see them probably through to the end on all aspects, and then evaluate what’s the best thing to do. And if the other items drag out for a long time, then I can always fall back to this (mat) option while I’m battling with the others,” Spinney said in a phone interview minutes after the vote. He will also look at which items need Maine Department of Environmental Protection or other approval. And he noted, abutters who opposed his latest proposal to the planning board can appeal Thursday’s outcome. “I’m not foo
Katharine England
On the early morning of Dec. 8, 2020, at approximately 2:00 a.m., State Police received the report of a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 southbound in the area of mile 113 in Augusta. Kennebec Sheriff’s deputies were in the area and immediately responded as well as State Police Troopers.
As a result of the investigation, it was determined that a 2021 Volvo tractor-trailer unit owned by Trans 99 Logistics of Ontario, Canada was hauling peat moss had slowed to an almost stop in the breakdown lane however partially exposed to the right driving lane. A 2013 Freightliner tractor-trailer owned by Kris-Way Trucking of South Portland, ME was hauling US Mail and also was traveling south on I-95, followed by a Delta Ambulance in the right travel lane. The Freightliner Tractor-Trailer unit crashed into the rear of the Volvo tractor-trailer. The ambulance struck debris from the load of peat moss in the roadway.