Monday Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectboard, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Buckfield Village Corp. annual district meeting, 7 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Selectboard, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: RSU 9 board of […]
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 inLewiston-Auburn
New Gloucester woman gets 6th James Beard nomination
The owner of Purple House bakery – known in part for its Montreal-style bagels and ornate pizzas made by a wood-fired oven – is a semifinalist for the 2019 culinary award
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Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
All downhill from here? Maybe
We’ve reached that point in a long winter — the ground at my house has been covered by snow since Nov. 11 — when it seems that nearly all conversations start with the weather and soon include the F word. Florida. Seems we’re barely into a conversation when someone says, “Maybe next winter I’ll go […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Uncategorized
Anti-Semitism with organized confusion
Over the past several weeks there exists significant disagreement and confusion among elements of the Democrat Party. Three new members of Congress — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Talib and Ilhab Omar — have created comments that have seemed to have splintered their colleagues. Most recently Rep. Omar has made several comments that are anti-Semitic. First, in […]
Posted inNews, Uncategorized
This week’s agenda
Monday Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Livermore Falls: Budget Committee, 6 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Crooked River School referendum vote, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Hartford: Road […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
Going to college through the ‘side door’
Oh, Felicity Huffman, say it ain’t so. For 20 years, the actor you may know as Lynette Scavo on “Desperate Housewives” was a role model in our house for a role she had played earlier. Now, she is a role model for how the elite cheat. Damn. Huffman was indicted on Tuesday by the federal Justice […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Uncategorized
Vigil for peace in Lewiston Sunday
LEWISTON — A community vigil for peace will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in Kennedy Park. The public is invited to gather in observance of peace and unity in the shadow of the terrorist attack at two mosques in central Christchurch, New Zealand, where dozens of people were killed as they gathered […]
Posted inHoroscope
Aries: Do not fold under pressure
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Bryce Dallas Howard, 38; Rebel Wilson, 39; Daniel Craig, 51; Jon Bon Jovi, 57. Happy Birthday: Emotional matters will stand between you and your success if you let things fester instead of dealing with issues quickly. Acting on your own behalf and doing what’s right and best for yourself will […]
Posted inDear Abby
Disagreement may put end to thirty-year friendship
DEAR ABBY: How do you break up with a friend? “Jenny” and I have known each other since high school, more than 30 years. Over the years we’ve both moved far apart and see each other every couple of years. We were each other’s bridesmaids, supported each other as our parents passed away and celebrated […]
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Boss in love with secretary tries to chart the road ahead
DEAR ABBY: My secretary has worked for me for six years, and I have fallen in love with her. Neither of us is married. There’s a couple of problems, however. The first is, she’s half my age. The second, she’s a great secretary, and I would never want to do anything to upset her. I […]