Future efforts to monitor river flow will benefit from a new monitoring gauge deployed in Hallowell, officials say.
Jessica Lowell
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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Kennebec County officials consider joining lawsuit against drug companies
Other communities in the state already have signed on in the legal action against the makers and distributors of opiate drugs amid the drug crisis.
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Police capture chicken in Olive Garden parking lot after low-speed chase
‘Three grown men running across the interstate was priceless,’ a witness says.
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Gardiner company employees get bonuses
Everett J. Prescott Inc. joins other companies giving bonuses since the new tax law took effect.
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Officials waiting for ice to flow in southern Kennebec County
A day after U.S. Coast Guard tugs completed their ice-breaking operation in the Kennebec River, officials are looking for the river to flush the channel clear of ice.
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Panel votes to tighten rules for online burn permits
The measure also would lift the $7 fee and allow the permits to be viewed on smartphones.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Outdoors
Smelt camp prepares to pull shacks before second ice-breaking voyage
The Coast Guard will send its vessels up the Kennebec River next week.
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Coast Guard preparing for new Kennebec River Ice-breaking effort
Observations by the Coast Guard and Kennebec County officials show thinning ice and stretches of open water on the river south of Richmond.
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Coast Guard icebreakers to return to Kennebec River next week
The Maine Emergency Management Agency sent out a request for a second round of ice breaking in the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers on Thursday based on expected warmer weather.
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Augusta conference mixes business with drones
The daylong seminar, which drew about 75 people, spotlighted the application of commercial drones.