Tuesday Buckfield: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Board of Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 10 a.m., county building Farmington: RSU 9 board of directors, 6 p.m., The Forum, Mt. Blue Campus Jay: Budget workshop with Select Board and Budget Committee, 5 p.m., Town Office Livermore Falls: Select Board, […]
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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New year! New rubbish?
The new year has been celebrated and we return to “ordinary time”: Daily routines of work, school and organizations. So too returns that endless stream of political drivel: printed, posted and broadcast. Within days, the talking heads will get (or compose) a fresh load of rubbish to spread along with their fact free conclusions. Candidates will seek every opportunity for camera time and political advertisements will push the skin creams and antacids off the air anywhere […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Casco: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m.,Town Office Jay: Board of Selectpersons, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Board of Selectmen, 6:30 p.m.,Town Office Peru: Board of Selectpersons, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Board of Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: […]
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Why digital Monday and why it matters
If you’re reading this, chances are you are a seven-day home delivery customer. We have some important news to share with you. Starting on March 2, we will deliver the Monday paper in digital format only. We’ll continue to report, edit, design and layout the Monday paper but instead of appearing on your doorstep […]
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The Constitution and the wisdom of the founding fathers
I am not sure that many folks today understand the wisdom of those men of more than two centuries ago who wrote our United States Constitution. People seem confused or have no knowledge about what is going on in our government today. The emotion of the moment seems to be more important than the “why” […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Livermore: Board of Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Special town meeting, 6 p.m., Casco Community Center. Regular selectmen meeting to follow. Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Farmington: RSU 9 Operations Committee, 4 p.m. site visit to […]
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Out Late: Dancing at The Silver Spur
Maine may not exactly be the country’s biggest hotbed of passion for country western music, but that doesn’t mean The Silver Spur can’t claim the mantle of being a hotbed of passion for country western music in Maine. It certainly doesn’t seem to put a damper on the enthusiasm of its regulars — folks who […]
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Culture Club: Drama and class at The Public Theatre
Epic dramas spotlighting Broadway actors to comedies starring film celebs. Years of readers choice awards. And between six to eight productions each season, shown to a total of upward of 17,000 people over the years. Not bad for a little theater that started off in a borrowed space in the Auburn Mall. The Public Theatre […]
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Culture Club: Give contradance a whirl
On the second Saturday night of the month, several dozen Mainers gather at the Farmington Grange — just as they might have a century ago — to spend a couple hours dancing jigs, reels, waltzes and polkas. “I love the tradition of it,” said Cynthia Phinney, who started the Farmington Contradance more than a dozen […]
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History Buff: Ski Museum of Maine
The Ski Museum of Maine isn’t just for skiers. Even visitors who’ve never hit the slopes savor this run through iconic Maine history. The terrain takes in Swedish immigrants who brought skiing here, the state’s winter Olympians, ski areas (past and present) from the “Crown of Maine” to the coast, and Maine-made skis and boots. […]