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Augusta City Council votes to pursue Willow Street site for new police station Former supermarket site chosen over downtown Water Street spot and Union Street site, next to existing station. Share AUGUSTA — The Augusta City Council has unanimously voted to authorize negotiations with the owner and tenant of the old Willow Street Hannaford property to buy the site and use it to build a new police station. On Thursday, councilors backed up that discussion with a 7-0 vote to authorize City Manager William Bridgeo to negotiate with the owner of the property, JOFKAM Co., according to city asses...

United Way of Kennebec Valley holds virtual campaign celebration Event covered 2020 fundraising campaign, awards presented, board members recognized, new board members named. Share United Way of Kennebec Valley recently announced that it helped 57,534 people and raised $1,665,005 in the 2020 campaign. This growth represents a 3% increase in donations from 2019 and the most funds ever raised in support of UWKV’s 50 partner programs. Campaign co-chairman and -woman Chris and Sarah Voynik shared this news at UWKV’s Campaign Celebration, which attracted 87 people virtually on Jan. 27, accord...

Augusta Council confirms city’s new fire chief Dave Groder, 54, of Oakland, a three-decade Augusta firefighter, confirmed as chief of department Thursday. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal file AUGUSTA — City councilors made Dave Groder the city’s new fire chief in a unanimous vote Thursday. Groder, who most recently served as acting chief and deputy chief of the department, grew up wanting to be a firefighter like his dad Alfred was in Skowhegan. He said becoming fire chief fulfills a lifelong goal. He’s been a firefighter in Augusta since 1988. “That 33 years is a commitment; 33 years...

Roger Audette, Augusta’s longest-tenured fire chief, to retire Dec. 11 Audette, 55, is finally retiring after delaying the move due to coronavirus pandemic. Share Roger Audette, 55, is set to retire Dec. 11 as the fire chief in Augusta. He is shown Friday at the Hartford Fire Station in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — After his planned departure was delayed by a few months due to the coronavirus pandemic, Roger Audette, the longest-tenured fire chief in Augusta history, is finally set to retire. Audette had initially planned to retire last spring. When the pandemic hit, ...

Laurie A. Ferhani, a middle school science teacher at the Amigos School in Cambridge, has completely adapted her curriculum to an online format, using interactive online simulations to replace labs. Due to the reduced class time remote learning provides, however, her students are only learning a third of what they would have in a typical year, Ferhani said. “Where I am now, in January, I probably would have been in November," she said. While all Cambridge Public School students began the year with remote learning from home, on Oct. 13, certain eligible students began attending in-person ...