Meg Robbins

Kennebec Journal

Meg Robbins covers general news in the towns of Oakland, Winslow, China and Vassalboro for the Morning Sentinel. Though she grew up in New Jersey, her ties to Maine reach back generations. Meg’s work has appeared in the Vineyard Gazette, Pine Tree Watch, NJ Spotlight and various other outlets. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Meg began working for the Morning Sentinel in Sept. 2018 after living in South Africa for a year, where she produced a documentary about stand-up comedy. She geeks out over “Saturday Night Live,” movies, cats and good coffee.

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Published
June 20, 2022

Photos: Salvaging wood from Maine’s oldest opera house

Renovations to Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, considered the state’s oldest opera house, began this month. A crew from Barn Boards & More, a local wood salvaging business, was pulling up and saving the tongue-and-groove floor boards from the theater Thursday to reuse as flooring or make into tabletops. By December 2023, the three-story performing arts venue in Gardiner is expected to reopen to the public with a 400-seat theater, a large lobby and concession area, full-service box office, green rooms for performers, and an elevator. Local hotel owner Benjamin Johnson turned the former livery stable into a performance hall in 1884, and it became an opera house in 1888. All photos by Kennebec Journal photojournalist Joe Phelan.
Published
June 10, 2022

Video and photos: K-9 teams demonstrate how dogs aid law enforcement at graduation

The Maine Criminal Justice Academy event marked the graduation of nine police dog units.
Published
June 3, 2022

Police: Car crash in Augusta leaves 1 dead, 2 injured

Augusta police identified the man who died as a result of the crash Friday on Route 3 in Augusta as Stephen Moore, 31.
Published
February 9, 2020

Farmington doctor leads by example when it comes to LGBTQ care in rural Maine

Access to quality health care has long been a problem for Maine’s roughly 70,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents, officials said.
Published
February 1, 2020

Officials head into the woods to explain plans for China School Forest’s upcoming harvest

The harvest could generate up to $8,000 from wood products, which volunteers hope can be put toward continued maintenance of the China School Forest on Lakewood Avenue.
Published
January 17, 2020

Winslow Catholic school to close at end of year, signaling decline in area’s Catholic population

St. John Catholic School, which once had as many as 350 students enrolled in the 1960s, will close at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, with enrollment at 34 children.
Published
January 17, 2020

Waterville fire chief: Alleged white power gesture in photo made ‘unknowingly’

Waterville Fire Chief Shawn Esler said he investigated the allegation that a firefighter was making a hand gesture associated with “white power” in Facebook photo.
Published
January 15, 2020

Bird rescue group in Freedom reports death of five eagles since start of 2020, all with elevated levels of lead in blood

It takes a piece of lead the size of a grain of rice to fatally poison a bald eagle, according to the state’s raptor specialist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
Published
January 6, 2020

People targeted in central Maine drive-by shooting spree had connections to suspect’s ex-girlfriend, police say

Dana S. Dasilva and Michelle N. Luce, of Skowhegan, were arrested by police following multiple instances of gunfire Saturday night in Winslow, Waterville and Clinton.
Published
January 5, 2020

Skowhegan man, woman arrested following multitown, ‘targeted’ shooting spree

Dana S. Dasilva and Michelle N. Luce, both 25, are being held at the Kennebec County jail in Augusta following gunfire in Winslow, Waterville and Clinton.