A few master’s degree programs for aspiring librarians have classes on mental health, but most don’t. To help fill in the gaps, an estimated 40-plus library systems have full-time social workers on staff, according to Whole Person Librarianship, an organization that tracks such partnerships.
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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Jalbert named vice president, general manager of Sun Media Group
Sales Executives Dan McManus and Kelly Wade have also been promoted, and the company has hired three new sales executives.
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Lewiston man gets life sentence in stabbing
This is the second time the 77-year-old man has been sentenced for killing a woman. He was released from prison in 2000 for that crime. One of the victim’s friends said, “I hope he rots in hell.”
Posted inBethel, Franklin, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
This week’s agenda
Monday Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Wednesday Buckfield: Community Day Planning workshop, 3 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Brainstorming on Town Office, 7 p.m., Town Hall Thursday Buckfield: Library Committee, 6:30 p.m., Zadoc Long Free Library Canton: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Police identify man shot to death Saturday in Auburn
AUBURN — The man who was fatally shot Saturday evening in the parking lot at Walmart has been identified as Jean Fournier, 41, of Turner. Fournier was shot twice in the back in a possible case of road rage, according to police. He died at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Stephen McCausland, spokesman for […]
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Book World: Eight men, one chaotic election and the birth of the modern primary system
It was a bloody year. Every night in 1968 Americans watched the Vietnam War rage on television. Casualties from the war had increased dramatically in 1966, again in 1967 and again in 1968. When Americans weren’t tuning into the dismal news from Vietnam, they were watching race riots in major cities. In the nation’s capital, […]
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All-girls school becomes 1st in US with varsity esports
A private school near Cleveland has become the first U.S. all-girls school to launch a varsity esports program. The team at Hathaway Brown is coached by J Collins, a former U.S. Department of Education employee who has concerns about patterns of inequity in the budding collegiate esports scene. Collins hopes to set an example for how high schools can attract more girl and gender minority gamers so those players can take advantage of scholarship opportunities.
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Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered
Hundreds of African Americans died at the hands of white mobs during “Red Summer,” but little is known nationally about this summer of violence 100 years later.
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I am a capitalist. Proud of it
I am not a member of the “one percent.” Not even close. I grew up in a solid middle-class family, got a job when I was a high school junior working on dangerous log booms at the oceanfront, and paid my way through college. I became a teacher, married, raised a family, attended church, and […]
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Technology, temporary help keeps farmers on job longer
Assistive technology, help from seasonal hires and family members, and a general improvement in the health of U.S. seniors in recent decades have helped them remain productive well into their 60s, 70s and beyond.