PORTLAND — The Maine Cheese Guild recently nominated four new board members, including chef Ciana Godin of Alice & Lulu’s in Carrabassett Valley. The Maine Cheese Guild is the oldest of the American Cheesemaker Guilds, founded as an education-focused nonproft in 2003 to support and encourage the Maine cheese-making community. The Guild uses its collective […]
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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Black Friday, meet 2020
At big retailers, midnight shopping lines are out and Shop Local Saturday is more support-small-business-for-weeks to spread out crowds during the pandemic.
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CMCC nursing program receives continued accreditation
AUBURN — The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing has granted continuing accreditation through 2028 to the associate degree in nursing program at Central Maine Community College. The purpose of the commission is to provide specialized accreditation for all levels of nursing education and transition-to-practice programs in the United States, U.S. Territories and internationally. About […]
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Roger Charest joins board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
PORTLAND — Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine has launched a new diversity, equity and inclusion program, beginning with the election of new board members who are recent alumni of BGCSM. Roger Charest was named one of the new board members. Charest attended the Auburn/Lewiston Boys & Girls Club. He graduated from the University […]
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Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice hires Tina Lin-Mott
LEWISTON — Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice has hired Tina Lin-Mott as a palliative care nurse practitioner to its growing palliative care team. Lin-Mott most recently served as a nurse practitioner at St. Mary’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders where she provided clinical care in hematology and oncology, along with providing patients and their […]
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Query: What are you going to be doing on Black Friday?
The pandemic has already forced major retailers to rethink how they are handling Black Friday. How about you? Are you still going to get in line so you can be one of the first shoppers through the doors at midnight? Are any of your Black Friday traditions still an option? If you run a local […]
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Norway Savings Bank earns wellness award
NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank has, for the second consecutive year, been recognized as a “Best Wellness Employer” by Wellness Workdays, a leading provider of corporate wellness programs, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School. The designation includes gold certification, the highest level achievable, and recognizes businesses and organizations committed to creating best-in-class corporate wellness programs […]
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The Good Samaritans at Good Shepherd
Auburn’s Good Shepherd Food Bank provides millions of meals, with the help of thousands of volunteers. After a massive donor outpouring, it navigated 2020 and is braced for 2021.
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Avangrid Foundation donates to Trinity Jubilee Center
LEWISTON — The Trinity Jubilee Center has received a $20,000 grant from the Avangrid Foundation in partnership with Central Maine Power. The grant will support the center’s soup kitchen and food pantry. These programs are seeing increased need during the COVID-19 pandemic: more than 25,000 meals, 4,000 bags of groceries and 28,000 diapers have been […]
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Greene Central School switches to remote learning after COVID-19 outbreak
The school has seen four positive cases in a span of 14 days, according to the superintendent.