Monday Casco: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectpersons, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center […]
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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Births
MID COAST HOSPITAL Wyatt Neil Beckim, a boy to Stephanie O’Brien and Timothy Beckim of Richmond, Aug. 25. Grandparents, Debra and Thomas O’Brien, Richmond, Timothy Beckim, Corinna, Diana Elliot-White, Corinna; great-grandparents, Andrea Beckim, Richmond, Edith Astahl, Riceville, Iowa, Elliot Beckim, Richmond. Emery Marlowe Sturgeon, a girl to Erin Phillips and Mark Sturgeon of Brunswick, Aug. […]
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Births
MID COAST HOSPITAL Maevyn Estelle Knapper, a girl to Adam and Shiane Knapper of Yarmouth, Aug. 10. Grandparents, James and Sherrilyn Arnett, Chico, Calif., Charlie and Laurie Knapper, Riverbank, Calif.; great-grandparents, Richard and Gloria Arnett. Bridgton Hospital Griffin Jay Weymouth, a boy to Julia Thompson and Justin Weymouth of South Paris, July 6. Grandparents, Cheryl […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Bethel: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Casco: Zoning Board, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Livermore: Board of Selectpersons, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Select Board workshop, 6 p.m., Municipal Center. Regular meeting to follow. Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 10 a.m., county building Farmington: RSU 9 Operations Committee, […]
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Jody Jalbert: Thank you, and enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving Day
I hope you are enjoying your newspaper today, which is our largest paper of the year and is filled with ads, fliers and offers to begin your holiday shopping. On our front page, we’ve featured 10 Mainers to Be Thankful For, focused on the work they do to help and support their communities. Here — […]
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Happy days coming? Or just happy daze
Let us pretend the results of the 2020 election have just been finalized and the Democrat Socialists have won it all, the presidency and both the House and the Senate. Can you just imagine how great this is going to be, freebies and more freebies and I suppose it will not cost anyone any money […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Hebron: Select Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Select Board, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: RSU 9 board of directors, 6:30 p.m., The Forum, Mt. Blue […]
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Births
Rumford Hospital River Rose Leighton, a girl to James and Jessica Leighton of Peru, June 26. Siblings, Makayla, Abbigale; grandparents, Kenny and Judy Gill, Peru, David and Pam Leighton, Rochester, N.H., Rachel Leighton, Westbrook; great-grandparents, Bob and Shirley Dolloff, Peru, Erwin Coy, Portland, Josephine Leighton, Westbrook. Kinsley Jeanne Prevost, a girl to Jeff Prevost and […]
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Is political harmony a thing of the past?
Not so very long ago it was possible for people of divergent political views to live in relative harmony. Republicans and Democrats had different perspectives on how the country should be governed, but their arguments could usually be settled with the understood maxim, patriotic citizens have a common goal — the spiritual, economic and social […]
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Births
Rumford Hospital Jeffrey Scott Brown III, a boy to Jeffrey and Lacee Brown of Jay, May 13. Siblings, Autum, Sylas, Dalton, Aiyanna, grandparents, Richard and Leslie White, Mexico, Jeffrey Brown Sr., Wilton, Sheri Mathieu, Bingham. Ezekiel Earl Liam Byron, a boy to Jeremy and Angela Byron of Rumford, May 16. Siblings, Harley, Hiram, Saphira, MacKenzie; […]