Jessica Lowell covers business and economic development and general news in the Gardiner area. After short but intense aspirations to be an opera singer (age 4) and a deep-sea diver (age 6) her most enduring passion has been telling stories. A University of Maine graduate, she worked for newspapers in New Hampshire, upstate New York and Wyoming, where she has won awards for investigative and explanatory journalism. She’s a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. After several years out of journalism, she returned to Maine and to writing, where she spends her free time enjoying both trees and the ocean, two commodities that Wyoming lacks.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2021
Amid chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, Travis Mills is on a mission to support service members who ‘did good’
Travis Mills, whose foundation operates a lakeside retreat in Rome for wounded veterans and their families, says the U.S military didn’t fail in Afghanistan and has taken his message to a national audience.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2021
Truck driver arrested following crash that closed Interstate 95 in Augusta
The driver of a tractor-trailer that rolled over on Interstate 95, shortly before 8 a.m. Friday in Augusta, has been charged with operating under the influence of drugs and drug possession.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2021
Health care workers protest vaccine mandate in Augusta
Nearly 400 people, many in scrubs, lined both sides of State Street in front of the Maine State House to protest the requirement to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 or have a medical exemption.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2021
Second man indicted in Waterville drive-by shooting pleads guilty
Jeremiah D. Gamblin pleads guilty Monday to elevated aggravated assault in the shooting of a Waterville girl in February 2020.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2021
Protests take aim at Hallowell’s state Rep. Charlotte Warren after social media post
A comment on the now-deleted Facebook page of Rep. Charlotte Warren, suggesting that straight, white men are too emotional to be in politics, has sparked protests, but some fellow legislators are defending her free speech rights.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2021
Sold: Augusta’s Western View golf course under contract
The public nine-hole golf course, located on state Route 3 in Augusta, was offered at auction by Keenan Auction Company after a deal to sell the property fell through earlier this year.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2021
Emergence of browntail moths across central Maine shows growing scope of outbreak
While the moths do not pose the same risk as the caterpillars, with their toxic, rash-causing hairs, the moths clearly illustrate the spread of the invasive species into central Maine.
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PublishedJune 24, 2021
Kennebec County Republican Committee votes to censure Collins
While the move is only procedural and unlikely to affect Sen. Susan Collins, experts say it is part of a populist shift in the Republican Party from the local to the national level.
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PublishedJune 21, 2021
Augusta man flees Wiscasset arrest, crashes in Richmond
Police say Vlad Palli, 23, fled from a traffic stop in Wiscasset on Sunday, triggering a brief high-speed chase in Dresden before his car ended up in a ditch on Front Street in Richmond.
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PublishedMay 28, 2021
Central Maine companies seek workers through drive-thru job fairs
The drive-thru option gives organizations struggling to fill vacancies during the COVID-19 pandemic a different way to recruit people, who can apply from the safe distance of their vehicles.
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