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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PublishedDecember 1, 2019
Gardiner city manager takes on cancer: ‘I have to be here to do this’
With a diagnosis of an aggressive form of breast cancer last summer, Christine Landes is now balancing her life as a wife, mother and grandmother and Gardiner’s city manager.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2019
Five Questions: A look back at gratitude
Five business owners or executives talk about the people and the advice they are grateful for in their business lives.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2019
Is Litchfield the new Woodstock?
A proposal to hold a four-day music event on a farm in Litchfield has prompted town officials to draft an ordinance to govern large-scale events, but it’s not clear the gathering will take place.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2019
Gardiner Area High School students share the bounty
National Honor Society students are making sure 200 families have what they need for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2019
Augusta police officer on leave after shooting
Officer Sabastian Guptill is on leave after an armed altercation Sunday morning during which he shot an Augusta man wanted by police in Fairfield.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2019
Augusta prepares to greet the holidays with 40-foot balsam fir
The tree was a donation of Anita and Peter Morrissey, in whose yard the transplanted forest tree has been growing for more than a decade.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2019
Five Questions: A1 Diner’s Aaron Harris
The owner of the A1 Diner in Gardiner talks about the difference between being and employee and a boss.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2019
Some Richmond residents want out of area school district
A petition, bearing the signatures of more than 164 Richmond residents, is asking the Board of Selectmen to initiate the process to withdraw from Regional School Unit 2.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2019
Former Central Maine Meats properties auctioned in Gardiner
The winning bid on the three properties where a meat processing facility had operated was $2.1 million by Maine Capital Group.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2019
Five Questions: PR Maven Nancy Marshall
The owner of Nancy Marshall Communications talks about the importance of technology and keeping pace with change.
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