Jackson is a progressive Democrat and logger from rural Maine who served in the state legislature—first in the lower chamber and then the upper—for more than 20 years.
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Connor Greene,
Time,
9 July 2026
Troy Jackson, a logger and former candidate in Maine’s Democratic gubernatorial primary and a progressive, has been floated as a candidate who could appeal to Platner’s voters.
Her mother was a homemaker, and her father was a lumberman and sawmill owner with one of the largest lumber operations in the area.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 June 2026
The drive honors the late lumberman and passionate outdoorsman Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
Did these sisters see the silhouette of a Bigfoot or a big lumberjack with no neck?
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Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
But when her younger sister, Ramona, wanted to drop out to join her siblings as a lumberjack, the school for some reason ruled against this younger Mindrum heading into the woods.
The discovery of the buckling columns launched a major effort to shore up — or reinforce — the building’s weakest points, with crews using emergency jacks and installing new steel supports.
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Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
11 July 2026
Ahmed Tigani, commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings, told reporters late July 7 that jacks were in place to stabilize the weak points and new steel was being installed to create additional stability.
Utah's state forester, Jamie Barnes, told reporters that fires across the state this season had been moving in ways that had stretched Utah's firefighting capacity to its limits, with new fires beginning closer to populated areas than in previous years.
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Willem Marx,
NPR,
28 June 2026
With the fires spread out across the state, emergency response teams could use more personnel, said state forester Jamie Barnes.
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