KENNEBEC JOURNAL • August 2, 2022
Officials and donors broke ground for the Augusta animal shelter’s future home Tuesday, to be called Nancy Shuman Shelter, on an approximately 77-acre site off Leighton Road, where they plan to build a new, much larger facility that is friendlier both to the animals that will temporarily live there, and the humans that care for and, hopefully, adopt them, as well. The Shuman family and their Augusta-based car dealer business, Charlie’s Family of Dealerships, have pledged $2 million toward construction of the now $7.7 million project.