The proposed budget is nearly $2 million more than the current budget of $27.4 million, for an increase of 6.9%.
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 inAndroscoggin County, News
Poland voters face a 7.67% increase in the municipal budget
The amount to be raised by property taxes is $6.4 million, a 12.51% increase from this year’s $5.7 million.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Listen to Jason Kelce on homemakers, not Harrison Butker
Homemaking isn’t a role that women are born for. It’s a process that a family builds together.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Joe Walker and Tricia Asselin memorialized at Pettengill Park ball fields
More than one person Sunday used the word ‘fitting’ to describe naming the fields after ballplayers Joe Walker and Tricia Asselin.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Fit Fest race in downtown Lewiston-Auburn on Sunday
Motorists should expect to encounter runners during the midmorning hours.
Posted inPolitics
Joan Beal announces candidacy for state representative in District 81
Beal said in a written statement that she was inspired to run, in part, by the many proactive pieces of legislation that have been passed in the recent legislative sessions.
Posted inNews, Politics
‘Caldie’ Jackson seeks reelection to the Maine House
Jackson thinks state government is not addressing the real problems facing Maine citizens, especially people living in rural areas.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
‘Silent ride’ set May 15 to commemorate cyclists who were injured, killed on Maine roads
For more information about the ride, go to: www.rideofsilence.org.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
11 officers on administrative leave after Paris chase, shooting
Gary Porter, facing multiple charges for stealing two police vehicles and firing at police, will make his first court appearance on Wednesday.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
America’s tents are pitched on shameful truths
The tents house the people we don’t want to see. These humble structures that sit low in the valleys between skyscrapers and monuments, remind us of inequality, of the unpredictability of unfairness, of the ways in which capitalism and the American Dream don’t work. They represent one immoral truth out of many.