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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PublishedAugust 2, 2023
Carrie Castonguay named town manager in Livermore Falls
Castonguay replaces Amanda Allen, who resigned as town manager in early June after coming to an agreement with town officials to settle a discrimination complaint she filed with the Maine Human Rights Commission.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2023
Big Food should be ESG’s next target
We have started eating substances that “can’t really even be called food,” says van Tulleken — “emulsifiers, low-calorie sweeteners, stabilizing gums, humectants, flavor compounds, dyes, color stabilizers, carbonating agents, firming agents and bulking — and anti-bulking — agents” just for starters.
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PublishedJuly 26, 2023
SAD 58 citizens to receive survey on district’s vision for educational approaches
Officers were elected, including Jessica Caine as chair of the board.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2023
Mexico man seriously injured in Hanover crash Monday
When deputies arrived, along with members of the Rumford Fire Department and Med-Care Ambulance, they found a vehicle off the road, with the front end crashed into a tree.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2023
If you never got sick from COVID, thank your genes
The researchers found that people who carried one copy of a version of a gene called HLA-B*15:01 were more than twice as likely to remain asymptomatic after being infected with COVID.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2023
Rangeley prepping for property tax revaluation in 2026
Municipal attorney Steven Langsdorf reminded selectmen they’re required to end their meetings by 9 p.m., noting “nothing good happens after 9 p.m. in a public meeting.”
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PublishedJuly 21, 2023
Deanne Danforth: Worry about laws that adversely affect a child’s health
California, Colorado, Oregon, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington State require schools teach about LGBTQ as part of sex education classes. They’re forcing society to accept a lifestyle many Americans — not just Christians — disapprove of. Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota are weakening “The Fair […]
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PublishedJuly 21, 2023
Zoë Lidstrom: Sheline’s love of his community is clear
I first met Carl Sheline at a monthly nature walk for members and allies of the LGBTQ community, shortly after I moved to Lewiston last fall. We talked at length; he seemed genuinely interested to get to know me. Only later did another attendee tell me he was the mayor. Since then, I’ve seen Carl […]
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Tom Fallon: Mass shootings continue to threaten our ‘free state’
I thank the Sun Journal for the three articles in the July 16 Perspective section relating to the continuing mass shootings of citizens in the nation. (“Is a nation where bullets fly at schools, parties, parades really free?“) In our American Constitution’s Second Amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a […]
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Brian Kelly: Trump is not morally fit to be president
I keep reading how Donald Trump is the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential race. I find this unbelievable. Trump’s actions and lies about the 2020 election that he lost, which resulted in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, should have been enough to disqualify him from any further consideration. I can only assume […]
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