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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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  • Published
    May 12, 2022

    Memorial Day ceremony planned in Oxford

    OXFORD — Anderson Staples Post #112 will hold a Memorial Day celebration at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 30, at the post at 169 King St. It will be an outdoor ceremony unless the weather is bad. In that case, the ceremony will move indoors. Refreshments will be served.

  • Published
    May 12, 2022

    Cause for Laughter: Healing pain through comedy

    Bethel comedian Kate Carroll has recorded a video to raise money to build a home for her friend, who is raising two granddaughters. It’s a bawdy show for a good cause.

  • Published
    May 12, 2022

    SAD 44 budget is up 3.14%; vote is June 14

    The budget, at $12,782,982, is up $389,450 over the current year.

  • Published
    May 11, 2022

    Photo: Honoring a lifetime of public service

  • Published
    May 9, 2022

    Hands-on Learning: Of rockets and mousetraps

    BETHEL — Peter Hedden, who has been a science teacher for 11 years at Telstar Middle School, was awarded grants from the Maine Environmental Education Association to get materials to build and experiment with hands-on learning. Hedden has a lot of plans this year working with students to build ramp cars, mousetrap cars, rockets, parachutes, […]

  • Published
    May 9, 2022

    Ukraine has high hopes as a victorious nation

    The window of opportunity Ukraine is about to get by denying Putin most of its territory is perhaps the biggest the country has seen since independence. At the same time, however, both Ukrainians and their allies will need to work hard to keep it from closing as the previous ones did.

  • Published
    May 5, 2022

    Photo: From Bethel to Earth, with love

  • Published
    May 5, 2022

    Sumner Fire Auxiliary to host sale

    SUMNER — The Sumner Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary will have a garage, bake and plant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, at the fire department on Route. 219. There will be raffle baskets. Donations are welcome, but no TVs, personal computers or large appliances. To donate, call Gail at 674-5522 or Polly […]

  • Published
    May 5, 2022

    SAD 44 Adult Education to offer free applied technology course

    SAD 44 Adult Ed is offering the course, Applied Technology in the Workplace, in partnership with Androscoggin and Oxford county adult education programs.

  • Published
    May 5, 2022

    ‘I will miss her forever’

    Merrie Lee Butters Ojeda will be remembered in a celebration of her life at Telstar High School on Saturday, May 14. The event, which will include readings, sharing memories and a slide show of her life and loves, is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.