We started offering takeout and delivery but stopped after a week: Our guests weren’t observing social distancing, and no one was wearing a mask.
Judith Meyer
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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These 6 restaurants around the world have found creative ways to enforce social distancing
Keeping disease prevention in mind, establishments are getting creative with the use of barriers, props and other objects to enforce social distancing and make their dining spaces seem more lively.
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Not even the punctuation
It was almost 40 years ago I learned a couple exceedingly difficult and expensive lessons about our legal system. I had always been taught that people were required to tell the truth in court and legal proceedings. I expected that. Then I learned that lawyers, at least some of them, define the truth as: “Whatever […]
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Rediscovering America: A quiz for Memorial Day
Observed annually on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is set aside to honor the men and women who have died in service to our country. While Memorial Day didn’t become an official national holiday until 1971, its origins begin with the Civil War. The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, […]
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This Memorial Day, COVID-19 will force us to stay home; maybe that’s a good thing
Dust off your water skis because summer has begun! Clean your grills for fresh burgers and dogs — the neighbors are coming over! Get down to the stores for the big sales for new cars, furniture and TVs! Put on your Uncle Sam hat and wave your mini flag — the parade is about to […]
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Memorial Day is not for sale
Scenes of GIs mooning for their girls back home, baseball, hot dogs and Mom’s apple pie were a staple of Hollywood movies about World War II. But those scenes never rang true with any of the WWII combat vets I’ve talked to. What they recall obsessing over was the misery around them: the weather, the […]
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Share of women in military didn’t grow much over 14 years, study finds
WASHINGTON — The share of female troops in the U.S. military increased only slightly over 14 years, consistently representing less than a fifth of service members, and women remain more likely to leave the military than male troops, a government watchdog report shows. Women cited an array of challenges in deciding to end military careers […]
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Fryeburg police chief on paid administrative leave
Town manager says it was effective Monday.
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Memorial Day parade in Bethel is canceled
BETHEL — The American Legion Post 81 has canceled this year’s Memorial Day observance ceremony set for Monday, May 25, on the Town Common.
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Masks are here to stay — and they’re quickly becoming a way to express ourselves
There may be no other piece of clothing that has had a trajectory like face masks — something that began as purely protective transforming into a fashion statement in no time at all.