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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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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PublishedMarch 17, 2020
No school? What are you doing instead?
Students and teachers: Without the routine of the school day, and some uncertainty when classes will resume, how are you holding up? What are you doing? Catching up on Netflix? Studying for the now-rescheduled SATs? For most of you, a minimum of two weeks at home is a lot of time to fill, and being […]
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PublishedMarch 16, 2020
Resources for Mainers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak
Where to find trusted information.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2020
This week’s agenda
Monday Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 10 a.m., county building Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Otisfield: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Oxford County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Paris: […]
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
2020 presidential issues: The Second Amendment
The Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution has become a major issue in the 2020 presidential contest. In his victory celebration on Tuesday night, March 3, former Vice President Joe Biden embraced Beto O’Rourke and announced that Beto would be the point man for his campaign’s gun control policies and efforts during this election […]
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PublishedMarch 12, 2020
OSHA fines LEAP and Techno Metal Post for ‘serious’ safety violations in connection with Farmington explosion
FARMINGTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied fines against Life Enrichment Advancing People in Farmington and Techno Metal Post in Manchester in connection with a propane explosion that leveled the LEAP building in September, killing Farmington Fire Capt. Michael Bell and injuring seven others. The fines were each issued after OSHA completed […]
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PublishedMarch 12, 2020
UMaine System working on plan to reimburse students for room and board, following spring break
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine System has issued a statement in response to a rumor circulating on social media that is wrongly reporting that UMaine students will not be reimbursed for room and board, even though the system has asked them not to return to campuses following spring break. Dan Demeritt, executive director of […]
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PublishedMarch 11, 2020
Births
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Kami Lou Milligan, a girl to Melanie McDiffett and Justin Milligan of Rumford, Jan. 8. Sibling, Spencer Milligan; grandparents, Billi McDiffett, Rumford, Patricia Milligan, Andover, Dave Milligan, Rumford, Brian Hale, Colorado Springs, Colo.; great-grandparents, Earl and Verna Massie, Jamestown, Kan., Dale and Joy Rice, Winthrop. Emma Ann Huston, a girl […]
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