Developers plan a May 31 grand opening for the $8.5 million Lisbon Street housing project in Lewiston.
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.
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Face Time: Alisha Giandrea, nail guru
You’ve seen women on reality TV with loooooooong eyelash extensions? Alisha Giandrea lashes women in Lewiston-Auburn. She’s been at Reveal Salon and Day Spa for two years and it’s one of her specialties. We asked about nails, eyelashes, beauty trends and waxing requests, and learned a new wince-worthy word. You’ve been warned . . . […]
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Rebuilding, again: Lewiston family survives three house fires in two years
“It sounds weird me saying this: I want to know what tried to kill me,” says Jessica Gould, who barely escaped the last fire in March.
Posted inMaine
Bigfoot? Sea serpents? Check and check at Portland’s 2019 International Crypto Con
The three-day event with a jampacked lineup of speakers starts Friday just a short walk from the International Cryptozoology Museum.
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Ready to talk Thunderbirds?
Texas cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard, frequently seen on Travel Channel’s “In Search of Monsters” and History Channel’s “Missing in Alaska,” and author of “Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters,” is one of the headliners at the International Cryptozoology Conference in Portland this weekend.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Poland welcomes The Ecology School to its temporary home
Hello, FBI Maine. That’s Fungus, Bacteria and Invertebrates, of course.
Posted inBusiness
Tourism 101: How to ready Lewiston-Auburn for more business
The Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce held the first of three tourism forums Monday.
Posted inBusiness, Oxford Hills
Working: Mt. Abram ski resort plans to build Maine’s largest mountain bike park
GREENWOOD — Over the next six years, Mt. Abram is building the largest mountain bike park in Maine from scratch, up to 16 trails accessibly by chairlift. Alex Graves will be up in the woods mapping out each jump, drop and switchback. The ski resort’s 40-year-old grooming and snowmaking supervisor says he was the kind […]
Posted inBusiness, The Buzz
The Buzz: Breakfast for dinner edition
The Twin Cities getting a kickball league and other happenings out of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s “Breakfast for Dinner” event Thursday night.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine can put off last minute tax filings another two days
The average state refund for the returns filed with Maine Revenue Services and due refunds so far: $655.