Emily Higginbotham

Morning Sentinel

Emily Higginbotham covers general news in the towns of China, Oakland, Unity, Vassalboro and Winslow. She started reporting for the Sentinel in November 2017 after working as a copy editor at the newspaper for a little over a year. Emily also writes a bi-weekly column, “Notes from a Novice,” that appears in the Sentinel and Kennebec Journal on Wednesdays. She is an Illinois native and a graduate of St. Louis University in Missouri, where she studied journalism, creative writing and political science. In her free time, she likes to travel, cook new recipes and optimistically root for Chicago sports teams.

Latest

Published
February 25, 2018

Lovejoy Health Center in Albion celebrates 40 years with open house

The practice has about 4,000 patients from Albion, China, Freedom, Palermo, Thorndike, Troy and Unity.
Published
February 24, 2018

Snow sculptors contend with warm weather at Waterville event

Still, a mother and daughter team make lemonade out of lemons – or a fish out of ‘mashed potatoes.’
Published
February 16, 2018

Summit Natural Gas to expand service to Sidney come spring

The company plans to spend over $4.5 million to install 46,000 feet of pipe to connect asphalt and aggregate producer Pike Industries.
Published
February 7, 2018

Jackman seeks temporary solution to its health care needs

The town is seeking a half-million dollars to maintain its health center’s on-call services until a permanent solution is found and implemented.
Published
February 1, 2018

Sen. Collins tells Jackman residents they did the right thing in firing town manager

The senator also said that she would not endorse state Rep. Larry Lockman, R-Amherst, in future elections after he said legislation on immigrants is part of the ‘war on whites.’
Published
January 27, 2018

Jackman hires interim town manager after white separatist is fired

Mitchell Berkowitz, who lives in Gray and has 43 years of experience in municipal government, will assume the role part time in February.
Published
January 27, 2018

Jackman moving on after outrage over town manager

Local residents wait for a good snowfall to get tourists back, while the image of former Town Manager Tom Kawczynski fades in the rearview mirror.
Published
January 25, 2018

Police: Baby delivered after fatal Skowhegan crash dies at hospital

The son of Desiree Strout and Harry Weeks died Thursday after he was delivered by emergency C-section Monday.
Published
January 23, 2018

Jackman town manager defiant as selectmen fire him for racist views

Denying that he’s a racist while saying he’ll now advocate for ‘white civil rights,’ Tom Kawczynski says he agreed to ‘a firing without cause’ to take the attention off the small northern Maine town.
Published
January 22, 2018

Jackman residents feel manager’s posts have tainted town’s image

Many residents and business owners recoil at Thomas Kawczynski’s white-separatist views and hope that he will resign his post or be fired by the select board Tuesday morning.