Ashley Conti

Bangor

Freelance Photographer at Freelance

Freelance photographer based in Bangor, ME. Adventurer, trail runner, wakeboarder, and pet lover. Available for assignments.

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Articles

Why We Can’t—and Shouldn’t—Forget Françoise Sagan - Colby News

Jan 22, 2025 | news.colby.edu | Ashley Conti |Laura Meader

Flavien Falantin uplifts the iconic French writer who inspired repressed women worldwide By Laura MeaderPortrait by Ashley L. Conti January 22, 2025 The French writer Françoise Sagan lived a life of shocking intrigue. Gutsy and reckless, she fascinated readers with her flamboyant lifestyle and forthright novels. Now, 20 years after her death, scholars are revisiting the profound cultural and literary impact of her 1954 debut novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which took the world by storm.
A Wealthy Couple Became Local Pariahs After Poisoning Their Neighbor’s Trees

Aug 3, 2024 | wsj.com | Joe Barrett |Ashley Conti

By | Photographs and Video by Ashley L. Conti for WSJ Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:16This article is in your queue. CAMDEN, Maine—Lisa Gorman was preparing for another summer at her waterfront home—with its stunning view of this town’s idyllic harbor—when a neighbor delivered some bad news and a seemingly generous proposal.
An Ancient Tree Sheds Light on Life's Deep History

Apr 5, 2024 | news.colby.edu | Ashley Conti |Tomas Weber

A tree fossil that Colby researchers helped interpret enriches our perspective of a mysterious period in Earth’s past By Tomas WeberPortraits by Ashley L. Conti April 5, 2024 In December 2017, Robert Gastaldo’s phone rang. Two graduate students in Canada had just discovered a strange-looking fossil of a tree in a quarry, on land that, hundreds of millions of years ago, had been at the bottom of a deep lake.
For Young Offenders in Maine, Justice Varies With Geography

Mar 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Callie Ferguson |Ashley Conti

Maine has tried to send fewer teenagers to prison, emphasizing rehabilitation programs instead. But the rural north of the state shows the effort has played out unevenly. The highway to Caribou in Aroostook County, Maine, near the Canadian border. Credit... Aroostook County, in Maine's far north, is the largest county east of the Mississippi, a sparsely populated region of fields and forests with just two small cities and about 50 smaller towns.
Tenure Awarded to Five Faculty Members

Feb 19, 2024 | news.colby.edu | Ashley Conti |Laura Meader

Hailing from the Natural Sciences Division, the professors are also named Haynesville Project Fellows By Laura MeaderPortraits by Ashley L. ContiFebruary 19, 2024 On the recommendation of President David A. Greene, five faculty members have recently been promoted and granted tenure. Those receiving tenure and a promotion to associate professor are Eric Aaron, computer science; Bess Koffman, geology; Oliver Layton, computer science; Suegene Noh, biology; and Jerzy Wieczorek, statistics.
How Maine Struggles to Handle Troubled Youth

Feb 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Callie Ferguson |Ashley Conti

Even as fewer teens are being prosecuted, the state is not providing enough intervention, rehabilitation and other help. Despite multiple recommendations to overhaul the juvenile justice system, Maine has not come up with a comprehensive plan to fix the crisis. Credit... Nearly three years ago, Maine lawmakers hoped to be in the vanguard of a national movement to transform how governments deal with teenagers who break the law.
COLLEGE RANKINGS 2

Jan 6, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Conti

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Jonathan Henry, the vice president of enrollment management and marketing at the University of Maine at Augusta, which spent $15,225 last year for the right to market U.S. News “badges” commemorating its rankings, Dec. 6, 2023. Henry said there was just too much of a risk of being outshined and out-marketed by competing schools that pay to flash their shiny badge.
MAINE MISSING SON 2

Dec 10, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Conti

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Brandy Baron-St. Louis, left, hands Jack Scully a flier with information on Graham Lacher, to put on a community board near the Kennebec River Rail Trail in Gardiner, Maine, on Jan. 15, 2023. Tammy Lacher Scully’s adult son, Graham Lacher, disappeared 18 months ago from a psychiatric hospital in Bangor; it has fallen on her to keep the search going.
MAINE MISSING SON 4

Dec 10, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Conti

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save From left, Micaela Grass, Tammy Lacher Scully and Brandy Baron-St. Louis walking train tracks while searching for signs of homeless encampments, lean-tos or human activity in a wooded area of Veazie, Maine, on Jan. 14, 2023.
STORM LEE 12

Sep 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Conti

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Central Maine Power and other utility crews work to clear a downed tree in Stockton Springs, Maine, after Lee, which transitioned from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone early in the morning, made landfall on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Though no longer a Category 5 hurricane, Lee was still a significant storm as it made its way toward Canada on Saturday.