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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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Price Points: Burgers
Is there any foodstuff more versatile — more customizable — than the hamburger? One minute it’s as humble and no-nonsense as can be, wearing just a slather of mustard, ketchup and mayo, and maybe a pickle or two on a simple steamed bun. The next it’s gotten gussied up with carefully aged melted cheeses, roasted […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Snow School: Bates College makes life drawing practical — if not easy
Artists have been gathering like this since the Renaissance: Observing a nude model, drawing implement in hand, striving to capture the essence of the human form with three-dimensional likeness on a two-dimensional surface — week after week, year after year. “If you can draw a figure you can draw anything,” said 68-year-old Michael Heskanen, a […]
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PublishedDecember 22, 2019
Rep. Adam Schiff and media acolytes are proven liars
If you have been watching, reading or listening to the mainstream media coverage of American politics for the past few years, California Congressman Adam Schiff, current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has been a regularly featured “authority” on all things important to the “we-hate-President Trump-but-we’re-not-biased media.” Lest we forget the history here, Rep. Schiff […]
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PublishedDecember 21, 2019
Salvation Army bell ringers brave freezing temps to help feed, clothe others
On a sunless December morning, the wind chill causes the frigid 25-degree temperature to feel like minus 10. Smiling broadly, asking how people are feeling and making what he calls “important eye contact,” Lewiston resident Nate Weymouth rings his bell with gusto in front of the Farmington Walmart. He is heard but barely visible, buried […]
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PublishedDecember 20, 2019
Boston man resentenced after court dismisses a 2014 firearms charge in Minot home invasion
PORTLAND — Ishmael Douglas has re-pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit a robbery in a home invasion and robbery in Minot in 2014 and has been resentenced to fewer years, after the court dismissed a firearms charge. In 2016, Douglas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a robbery and using a […]
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PublishedDecember 19, 2019
Details of proposed Poland housing project announced
The apartment complex will be located next to Top Gun of Maine at Routes 26 and 122.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2019
Senatorial Collins
Maine is indeed fortunate to have Susan Collins representing us in the U.S. Senate. As the senior senator from the Pine Tree State, her legislative record and calm, deliberative manner embody the very term “senatorial.” Webster’s Dictionary defines the term as “acting with dignity and solemnity.” Colleagues on both sides of the political aisle admire […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Change of season, season of change
Mere weeks remain in the second decade of this new millennium. So far, we have survived the Y2K crisis, the acid rain crisis, the dot com crisis, multiple climate change crises, and the opioid crisis. We have even survived the incessant, insulting, hyperbolic headlines proclaiming them. Some say we have all but completely abandoned the […]
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PublishedDecember 6, 2019
This week’s agenda
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 […]
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PublishedDecember 5, 2019
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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