An Auburn family plans to open WillowsAwake Winery in Leeds this fall.
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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Sun Journal CEO breaks down its reach and readership at chamber breakfast
AUBURN — Eighteen months after Reade Brower bought the Sun Journal, new CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto said she’s been conscious of maintaining the newspaper’s local identity. She broke down the paper’s reach and readership at the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce breakfast Thursday at the Hilton Garden Inn. Brower owns six daily newspapers […]
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Lewiston trampoline park expands, business jumps — more than 1,000 new customers in 12 days
LEWISTON — Aero Air Park is now FunZ Trampoline Park and after an almost $1 million expansion at the Lewiston Mall, business has tripled. “There’s not many things to do around here — we expanded and took the risk,” owner Jun “Tom” Zhang said Tuesday. General Manager Michelle Gosselin’s phone pings every time a first-time […]
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The Buzz: Major renovation for Liberty Mutual building in Lewiston
Liberty Mutual gets set for $1.1 million renovation at 1775 Lisbon St., Lewiston
Maine Small Business Development Center counts 99 jobs saved and 11 businesses started in Androscoggin County last year with its help.
Two different companies spend more than $4 million in investment purchases in Lewiston, tenants staying the same.
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CMCC adds two traditional trades majors, plumbing and HVAC
AUBURN — Central Maine Community College is adding two degree programs for jobs that the state calls in-demand and paying an average wage of nearly $24 an hour: plumbing and heating technology; and heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration technology. “They offer multiple opportunities — people can be self-employed, work for larger companies, work for […]
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As she calmed her daughter, she felt a hand on each shoulder that pinned her to the bed
A mother tells the story of an evening of something that visited her and her daughters in a 300-year old house in Kittery.
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Some ghost don’t wait until dark to communicate
Two ghost hunters tested a new piece of equipment in a Freeport cemetery. And heard a message.
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He asked the demon to scare his girlfriend. It backfired.
Central Maine Ghost Hunters’ first exorcism was nothing like the movies.
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Weird, Wicked Weird: What’s Halloween without a few ghostly Maine tales?
That chill creeping up your back — sure, it could be the unseasonably cold weather, the three hours less of daylight, the furnace refusing to kick in, the early-onset flu. But what if it’s not. In honor of Halloween, we asked Maine ghost-hunting groups to recount their creepiest, most intriguing encounters. Get ready to grab […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: An academic career studying Sasquatch
Twenty-two years ago, after a chance visit to the foothills of the Blue Mountains outside Walla Walla, Washington, Jeff Meldrum found himself looking at a line of 35 to 45 clear, fresh footprints in the mud and realizing he was at a career crossroads. “You could see skin ridge detail, the dermatoglyphics, the fingerprints in […]