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Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.

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  • Published
    March 27, 2020

    Community notices, announcements, cancellations

    Farmington Recreation Department has online offerings The staff at the Farmington Rec Dept. has created enough online offerings for 8-10 weeks. A weekly schedule for programs, times, and supplies needed will be posted Sundays at 4 p.m. Postings will be seven days a week, 3 times a day. The Recreation Department will either be going […]

  • Published
    March 26, 2020

    New urgent care center opens in Lewiston

    New urgent care center opens LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare’s new urgent care center at 685 Sabattus St., across from Hannaford supermarket, opened to the public on Wednesday. The Lewiston clinic will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. CMHC is hiring about 20 staff members.  

  • Published
    March 26, 2020

    Community updates, notices and advice: UMF donates toilet paper to psychiatric hospital

    UMF donates hundreds of toilet paper rolls to Riverview Psychiatric Center FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington has donated 320 rolls of toilet paper to the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. The commodity has been in short supply with the recent COVID-19 pandemic. According to a UMaine spokesman, with many students studying remotely […]

  • Published
    March 26, 2020

    Auburn schools offer free internet access outside of buildings

    AUBURN — The Auburn School Department has set up free Wi-Fi access for students and guests outside school buildings. The locations are: • Edward Little High School in the front parking lot by the main office; • Auburn Middle School in the front bus circle by the main office; • RETC (former Lake Street School) […]

  • Published
    March 23, 2020

    Coronavirus updates and cancellations: Lewiston closes skateboard park & basketball courts

    Lewiston basketball courts and skateboard park closed  LEWISTON — The city of Lewiston announced Monday that the basketball courts and skateboard park in Kennedy Park are closed and will remain closed for an indefinite period. With Lewiston schools being closed, this includes all athletic facilities such as the Lewiston High School track for residents to […]

  • Published
    March 23, 2020

    Virus outbreak means (mis)information overload: How to cope

    Already, text messages predicting a nationwide lockdown have circulated, along with social media posts telling people that one way to get tested for the virus is by donating blood or warning that mosquitoes can carry it. All are untrue.

  • Published
    March 23, 2020

    How living with brain cancer prepared me for pandemic

    The uncertainties of this pandemic are all real concerns, but I’ve learned from living with cancer that there is no crystal ball. To constantly try to peer into the crystal ball to answer these unknowns is an exhausting and often futile task. It has taken me 16 years to learn that instead of focusing on the “what-ifs,” it is best to take life day by day.

  • Published
    March 22, 2020

    Western Maine Transportation suspends GreenLine, Lisbon connectors

    LEWISTON — Western Maine Transportation will suspend its GreenLine Connector beginning Monday and continuing through April 3. Riders are instructed to call WMTS for alternative transit options. In addition, the BlueLine pilot is suspended through Friday. The first morning run and last evening run on the Lisbon Connection is suspended through April 3. The Brunswick […]

  • Published
    March 18, 2020

    Emergency legislation will allow towns and school districts to meet remotely

    LEWISTON — The Legislature has passed emergency legislation to amend Maine’s Freedom of Access Act to allow governmental bodies, including towns, cities and school districts, to hold meetings by phone or other electronic means. Committees and councils are still required to provide notice of meetings, as required in current law, but now must also provide […]

  • Published
    March 17, 2020

    Are you working from home?

    Widespread precautions to contain COVID-19 have forced many Mainers to work at home. Are you at home? Trying to get work done at the kitchen table while your also-at-home children are making meals? Are you and your spouse sharing the dining room table? Or are you holed up in the bedroom? Send us a picture […]