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 9, 2019
Missing Richmond woman struggled with mental health, substance abuse
A search for details of the life of Anneliese Heinig, the missing mother of two from Richmond, reveal a woman who is loved by family and friends but who also has struggled and had a history of conflict involving law enforcement.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2019
Richmond officials mull election date on school withdrawal proposal
Selectmen are seeking more information on when a vote to determine whether withdrawal from Regional School Unit 2 should be held, while one town resident is taking issue with the petition submitted to launch the process.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2019
Shifting details frustrate family of missing Richmond woman as search goes on
Varying accounts of where and how Anneliese Heinig, 37, disappeared after she left her car on Interstate 295 have caused pain for her family.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2019
Police expanding search for missing Richmond woman
Anneliese Heinig, 37, left her SUV on the side of I-295 in Falmouth last week, and her parents are asking why they weren’t contacted after the vehicle, which was registered to them, had been towed from the highway.
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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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