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Sheriff Ken Mason says staff members and inmates at the jail in Augusta will begin returning to more normal operations at the end of this week, following a COVID-19 outbreak at the jail announced at the end of November, which is now affecting 32 people.
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AUGUSTA With the controversial statue of Melville Fuller set to go back to its donor, the committee appointed to help find a new location for the effigy of the former Supreme Court justice wants to ensure its educational significance is not lost.
But the work of the advisory committee has ended because of an agreement reached Tuesday between Robert Fuller Jr. and the Kennebec County Commissioners to return the statue to Fuller for $1, and to allow the statue to remain in place for up to 12 months while Fuller looks for a new home for it.
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Lawyer: Donor of controversial Augusta statue might be willing to take back his gift
A lawyer representing Robert Fuller Jr., who donated the statue of Melville W. Fuller to Kennebec County in 2013, suggested his client is willing to take back his gift.
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The statue of Melville W. Fuller, who was born in Augusta in 1833 and served as the eighth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, outside the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta.
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AUGUSTA When the Kennebec County Commissioners voted in February to remove a controversial statue from the Kennebec County courthouse grounds, they had no idea where it would go or who would pay to move it.