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 […]
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.
Posted inOpinion
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.
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Posted inOpinion
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
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 […]
Posted inMaine, News
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 […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine
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 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
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 […]
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Resources for Mainers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak
Where to find trusted information.
Posted inMaine, News
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: […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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 […]