Meet the reporter who covers Newry

Name:

Terry Karkos

Location:

East Dixfield, Maine

Biography:

Terry covers municipal government for Rumford; environmental, nature, hunting and police and fire beats in the River Valley area, as well as other subjects that pertain to life in Western Maine. He is a 1979 graduate of Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz., with an associate's degree in journalism and a 1981 graduate of Northern Arizona University with a bachelor's degree in photojournalism. Terry also worked as a general assignment reporter/photographer for The Original Irregular in Kingfield for several years before joining the Sun Journal in May 2000 to work in the Rumford bureau.