While the National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for central Maine, the heaviest rain will miss the state as the storm tracks more west than earlier forecasts indicated.
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Coast Guard breaks ice on Kennebec River
The ice-breaking operation was moved up by about four days because of an early spring storm that was expected to move through the region by Friday morning.
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Predicting Mother Nature nearly impossible, but central Maine forecast not calling for dramatic melting, flooding
The late-week weather looks good for a slow thaw.
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Search underway for missing Richmond boater on Kennebec River
RICHMOND — Authorities were searching the Kennebec River Friday morning for a Richmond man who was reported missing Thursday night and whose boat was found, running and unoccupied, aground on Swan Island. Mark Johnston, 64, was reported overdue at 9:20 p.m. Thursday after he had gone out onto the river with plans to take his […]
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Art project aims to illuminate Kennebec River with fire
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen got a first look Tuesday night at “Kennebec on Fire,” a collaborative public art project proposed by the Wesserunsett Arts Council and Main Street Skowhegan. That’s fire on the Kennebec River — an idea that was inspired by the Maine Arts Commission and by the long-running WaterFire project in Providence, Rhode Island, […]
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Flood warning re-issued for Kennebec as river continues to rise
The National Weather Service in Gray issued a flood warning through Friday afternoon for part of Augusta and Hallowell, Gardiner and Richmond because of the rising Kennebec River, while U.S. Coast Guard boats continue to push upriver in an unprecedented attempt at breaking up midwinter ice to ward against flooding. By Thursday evening, the river’s […]
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U.S. Coast Guard ice breakers impose their will on Kennebec River
ABOARD THE USCGC TACKLE — Two U.S. Coast Guard cutters took turns for nearly two hours Wednesday barreling full speed toward the only thing between them and the open water of the Kennebec River: thick sheets of ice. Several times throughout the journey, as one of the vessels, the USCGC Tackle, reared up and approached […]
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Video: U.S. Coast Guard ice breakers work their way up Kennebec River
Ice cutters ram until they get stuck via @BrookeRWGME pic.twitter.com/2J4NmeJfvH — CBS 13 News (@WGME) January 24, 2018 BOWDOINHAM — Ice breaking operations are underway Wednesday morning in central Maine as two 65-foot U.S. Coast Guard ice breakers work their way up the Kennebec River. The cutters Tackle and Bridle have encountered thick ice and […]
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Coast Guard prepares for ice-breaking on Kennebec
Two ice-breaking tugs were on the Kennebec River on Tuesday ahead of a larger vessel later this week, a U.S. Coast Guard official said. The unusual midwinter effort comes more than a week after a sudden ice jam caused destructive flooding in low-lying areas in Augusta and Hallowell. Lt. Matthew Odom, chief of the Coast […]
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Bath hopes trail will lead to riverfront development
BATH — The city plans to build part of a half-mile walking trail along the Kennebec River this year, with completion of the entire project expected in 2019. The project is contingent on Bath gaining easements to parts of the planned projects that it does not own, which Planning Director Andrew Deci hopes to accomplish […]