tuition to its students. The University of Maine at Augusta is third-largest university in the University of Maine System. The Maine State Library and Lithgow Public Library are both located in Augusta. Media Printed media Kennebec Journal, daily newspaper for capital area Uncle Henry's, weekly classified adverts publication Radio WJZN, oldies WMDR, religious WMME-FM, top-40 WTOS-FM, rock WVQM, talk WWTP, religious Television Augusta is part of the Portland, Maine television market, and receives most of that market's channels. WCBB channel 10, licensed to Augusta, is the local television outlet for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Transportation Interstate 95 runs by the western outskirts of Augusta. U.S. 202 runs east-west through the city. U.S. 201 runs north-south through the city. Augusta State Airport in the western part of the city has commercial flights. Sites of interest Blaine House Fort Western Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine at the University of Maine at Augusta Lithgow Public Library Maine State House Maine State Museum Viles Arboretum Notable people Ambrose Abbott, state legislator Martha Ballard, midwife James G. Blaine, Secretary of State and presidential nominee Horatio Bridge, navy officer Julia Clukey, 2010 Olympic luger Beverly Daggett, President of the Maine Senate Olive E. Dana, short-story writer, essayist, poet Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court George Huntington Hartford, owned the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death John F. Hill, former Maine governor Robert Deniston Hume, Oregon politician and businessman Eastman Johnson, artist Roger Katz, mayor of Augusta and state legislator George W. Ladd, U.S. congressman Dorianne Laux, poet Sumner Lipman, state legislator and attorney Ben Lucas, football player Henry A. McMasters, recipient of the Medal of Honor Rachel Nichols, actress Frederick G. Payne, Mayor of Augusta and 60th governor of Maine David Peoples, athlete and golfer Frederick W. Plaisted, mayor of Augusta, 48th governor of Maine John F. Potter, U.S. congressman, judge Travis Roy, hockey player Luther Severance, publisher, U.S. congressman and senator Olympia Snowe, U.S. senator John L. Stevens, U.S. minister to Kingdom of Hawaii, accused of attempting to overthrow Hawaiian queen, 1893 Manch Wheeler, quarterback with the Buffalo Bills Gil Whitney, television news anchorman and meteorologist Reuel Williams, U.S. senator Willard G. Wyman, general References External links City of Augusta, Maine Lithgow Public Library University of Maine at Augusta Epodunk City Profile Down East, March 2020. Wright,