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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PublishedNovember 9, 2023
Trial begins for Augusta man accused of killing Richmond photographer over salacious images
Tyon Shuron is accused of murdering Andrew Sherman at Sherman’s Richmond home in 2019 and trying to compel a witness to change the story she told police.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2023
Neighbors appeal Planning Board’s approval of plan to convert former Gardiner hospital into apartments
The board approved the proposal in August. Neighbors have opposed the project from the outset.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2023
Neighbors appeal Planning Board’s approval of plan to convert former Gardiner health care facility into apartments
The board approved the proposal in August. Neighbors have opposed the project from the outset.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2023
Fire at vacant Gardiner house closes Water Street for several hours
No one was injured by the fire Sunday at 494 Water St.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2023
Augusta teen charged with terrorizing following report of weapon at school
Police have issued a summons to a 15-year-old Augusta boy on a felony charge of terrorizing following an incident Thursday at Cony High School.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2023
Augusta’s long-running UVM Haunted House continues to deliver thrills, scares
Hundreds of people from across the region and state are expected to line up for this season’s frights put on by the United Volunteers of Maine at the Marketplace at Augusta.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2023
Prosecutor in Kennebec, Somerset counties hired to lead new public defender office in Augusta
Beginning in November, Frayla Tarpinian, who has worked in the Kennebec and Somerset County District Attorney’s Office for more than a decade, is to oversee the first brick-and-mortar public defender office in Maine.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2023
Antisemitic message found at Augusta’s Cony High School
Principal Kimberly Liscomb said the student who wrote the message has been identified and ‘consequences and education have been implemented.’
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PublishedOctober 11, 2023
Augusta woman, 31, dies in Wayne crash
Police say Taylor Perkins was driving on Main Street when her vehicle left the road late Thursday or early Friday.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2023
Rumford, Dixfield women identified as victims of deadly crash in Albion
Kandi L. Carrier, 38, of Rumford, died Friday after the van she was riding in collided with a pickup truck. The van’s driver, Mandy L. Thibodeau, 46, of Dixfield, was injured and is in fair condition at a Bangor hospital.
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