Kathryn Skelton
Kathryn Skelton is a business reporter at the Sun Journal covering local industries large and small. She writes features and deep-dive analysis, keeps up with local happenings, closings and rumors in a regular business Buzz column, and at least once a month, writes about Bigfoot, ghosts or something equally intriguing in the "Weird, Wicked Weird" series. She's a proud Maine native, grew up in the Gardiner area and also proudly graduated from the University of Maine's journalism program. She's been a reporter at the paper for 20 years. When not working, she enjoys traveling, reading, corgi-walking and adventuring with her husband and two boys.
Quebecois-style restaurant coming to Auburn Mall
Francis Gagnon has named the restaurant Pierrette’s after his mom and hopes to open in October with a full Franco-American inspired menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Buzz: Auburn’s Backwoods Snowboards & Skateboards doubles in size
• New greenhouse venture for former Roak the Florist owner
• New 911 antenna for Lewiston
• Auto shop expanding in Auburn
• How do Maine couples’ wedding registries compare to the rest of the country? (*Spoiler* We’re a gifting bargain)
Working: Launching a secondhand clothing store in downtown Lewiston
The couple behind Lions is already turning heads with five mannequins with ever-changing outfits in the windows.
Wahoo! Maine summer road trip time!
Test your Pine Tree State savvy in the Sun Journal’s 7th annual Summer Road Trip Quiz
Better than Bacon: House of Bacon closing, owners opening wizard-themed ‘magical theatrical restaurant’
The new pop-up theater and restaurant already has a closing date: Halloween night, 2020.
Lewiston police looking for passer-by who used baseball bat to break up domestic assault
One person was charged after the incident in the 7-11 parking lot Tuesday night and taken to the hospital with injuries.
Auburn actress making feature film debut in Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
“You do drama club in high school and you hope and dream someday that it takes you to Hollywood, and I love that it actually did,” says Breanna Wing, who graduated from Edward Little in 2007 and now lives in Los Angeles.
The Buzz: Asian restaurant closes for repairs in Lewiston after driver plows into bathroom wall
* Lewiston’s Great Falls Delivery Service changes its mission
* The answer to, “What’s up with that broken plane?”
Hemp: Maine’s newest growing field
Farmers can earn tens of thousands of dollars an acre raising and processing the plant for medical products. In Maine, that’s got them planting.