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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PublishedMarch 12, 2019
The Buzz: Lepage Bakeries to spend $1M for new loading docks; local ice cream stands get ready
* Lepage Bakeries is building two new loading docks on Cedar Street in Lewiston.
* Avesta Housing gets (another) initial zoning OK from the Lewiston Planning Board.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2019
CMCC, Bates students giving it the college try in new TV entrepreneur competition
Ten college students across Maine are taking part in a pilot for a new TV entrepreneur competition.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2019
Auburn agriculture conference: Growing, making connections
One hundred people turned out Thursday for the LA Region Farmland Access and Food Economy Conference in Auburn.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2019
Western Maine woman takes Outdoor Channel’s reality TV challenge — 28 days to trek 750 miles with 9 strangers
The show, “The Brigade: Race to the Hudson,” debuts April 22.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2019
‘All of his training came to a pinnacle’: Red Cross ‘Real Heroes’ honored for service, saving lives
LEWISTON — Adam Salve had been on the job less than six months, and he was off duty, when he heard about a call for two young boys in the water off Bonney Park. The Auburn firefighter showed up at the shore all geared up, flippers in hand. “He asked if I needed help and […]
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PublishedMarch 5, 2019
Auburn’s Craft Brew Underground named Maine’s ‘Great American Beer Bar’
Auburn’s Craft Brew Underground made the Beer Association’s list of the 50 Great American Beer Bars for 2019 last week. Nearly 7,000 votes were cast nationwide in December and one bar in each state earned a spot. Owner Mike Williams Jr. said he was surprised at the honor; he had put a single mention about […]
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PublishedMarch 4, 2019
The Buzz: Zimmie’s Comics closing, Craft Brew Underground celebrating
* Zimmie’s in Lewiston closing at the end of March
* Auburn’s Craft Brew Underground named Maine’s ‘Great American Beer Bar’
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PublishedMarch 3, 2019
Hartford’s Seth Turner ‘playing with fire’
HARTFORD — Ten years ago, it was boy meet torch, and it was love. Seth Turner was an artist working in pottery. His buddy had a shack of unused glassblowing tools just sitting there. “As soon as I saw the flame that the torch made, I immediately was just hypnotized,” said Turner, 32. “The whole […]
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PublishedMarch 3, 2019
Face Time: Jayson Lobozzo — Lewiston native partnering with Zac Brown
After a career behind the scenes in film, LHS grad launches into intriguing act two.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2019
Weird, Wicked Weird: Divining the now.
WHITEFIELD — Sticks. Stones. Trinkets. Bones. Juss Stinson Finlay says she has 19 ways to read you. Down a few backcountry roads, working mostly remotely from home, Finlay’s been a full-time divination practitioner for two years, with regular clients in the U.S., Ireland, England and Australia. She gets right out of the way early that, […]
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