JAY — The Frank L. Mitchell Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Jewell Street has canceled its takeout meal for Friday due to the snowstorm that is forecast.
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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Photo: First time on skates
Mars Morton of Philadelphia prepares to step onto the rink this week at Hippach Field in Farmington, where his father, Miles Morton, took him skating for the first time. Father and son are visiting Mars’ grandparents, Dick Morton and Anne Mallett. The rink warming hut is open Fridays from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m., Saturdays from […]
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Disaster flicks like ‘Don’t Look Up’ won’t spur climate change action. Here’s why.
For fiction to have an influence on the climate debate, it needs stories that highlight the ways climate change is disrupting everyday life, stories about its impacts — visible and submerged — on health and psychology, family and community, inequality and justice.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
When do we ‘click’ with someone? This test tells us.
Responding quickly to our partners makes them feel closer. By shrinking the space between our turns, we shrink the psychological distance between us.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Voting rights legislation was defeated. But activists are not.
Barbara Arnwine, founder of the coalition, recalled talking with other activists after the voting rights legislation died in Congress and being surprised that some were “as depressed and upset as they were about where we are.” It wasn’t as if losing this one vote was the end of the struggle, she said.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Sanborn-Silvers announces run for Maine House
The Lewiston resident is employed by SeniorsPlus.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Patients get better care from female doctors. But sexism persists in medicine.
Women’s participation in medicine has soared since the 1970s, and their entry into the field has benefited patients. Female physicians are more likely to follow guidelines, collaborate with specialists and ask patients about social circumstances that may affect their health; they also spend more time with patients.
Posted inOp-Eds
Mascots get a makeover, with less sex appeal and more Gen-Z anxiety
The brand promised “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester wit and humor.”
Posted inOpinion, Our View
Our View: Poetic justice for a man who lived a life of faith, hope
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 83 bias-motivated crimes in Maine last year, the most since 2008.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine’s prime farmland is being lost to solar. Is ‘dual use’ the answer?
Farmland, with its open fields, southern exposure and well-drained soils, is typically one of the easiest and cheapest places to put a solar project.