While fundraising continues for the $5.5 million renovation of Gardiner’s historic opera house, pandemic-driven inflation is expected to increase the final project cost.
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine Instrument Flight in Augusta sold to Idaho-based company
SprintBach Aviation of Idaho to continue operating Maine Instrument Flight at the Augusta State Airport, and plans to invest in pilot training program with the University of Maine at Augusta and in the charter business.
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Organic dairy farmers in Maine, Northeast offered new assistance in wake of contract cancellations
The proposal falls short of what state officials and organic agriculture groups had sought after Horizon Organic announced in August that it would not renew dairy contracts with organic dairy farms across the Northeast, including 14 in Maine.
Posted inMaine
Sturgeon art planned for downtown Augusta
The Augusta Downtown Alliance has secured a grant from T-Mobile to pay for the installations as a semipermanent art exhibit to promote a sense of place.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Central Maine rescue officials say staffing crisis leading to faltering coverage
Across the region, EMS services are finding they don’t have enough staff to answer a growing number of calls.
Posted inMaine
Remains found off Edison Drive belonged to missing Augusta man from 2017, police say
Scott A. Milliken, an Augusta resident who was reported missing in 2017, was identified as the person whose skeletal remains were found last month.
Posted inMaine
Person killed in West Gardiner toll plaza crash identified as Blue Hill man
The Maine Department of Public Safety said Lucas Yurchick of Blue Hill was killed when the vehicle he was driving struck part of a southbound toll booth on Interstate 95 on Nov. 20.
Posted inMaine
Investigators probe fire at Litchfield turnpike garage that caused millions of dollars in damages
Firefighters from at least 16 fire departments responded to the fire Thursday that burned down a wooden eight-bay garage at the Maine Turnpike Authority’s Litchfield facility.
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Crews respond to large fire at Maine Turnpike Authority garage in Litchfield
A Maine Turnpike Authority worker, who had stayed late Thursday, saw the flames and reported the fire at about 5 p.m.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Hallowell residents protest closure of Hydeout at the Wharf
Nearly three dozen people turned out Sunday in Hallowell to protest the likely closure of the Wharf, after the bar’s owner said the lease on the decades-old bar was not being renewed and the block of properties it occupies has been listed for sale for almost $3 million.