Business owners and managers: How does Gov. Janet Mills’ reopening timeline impact your business? What challenges do you foresee? Staff writer Kathryn Skelton would love to hear from you today for a story. Please leave a comment here with your name and business name or reach her at [email protected]
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.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston approves three commercial solar power projects
The Maine Public Utilities Commission will decide whether they go ahead later this year.
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston’s Flowers Bakeries worker sick with COVID-19, asks others to self-quarantine
The Georgia-based parent company of the former Lepage Bakeries said Tuesday it’s taking “all necessary precautions to ensure the safety of our team members.”
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Hobby Lobby reopens after it’s deemed an ‘essential business’
The retailer temporarily shut its doors chainwide April 3, days after Maine Gov. Janet Mills issued a stay-at-home order.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, The Buzz
Former Legal Peaces owner opens Weed Mart Maine on Sabattus Street
• New warehouse and office proposed for Sabattus Street
• Predevelopment happenings in Lewiston and Auburn
• Auburn’s out-sleeping Lewiston, and other things you never thought you’d type
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Maine businesses think outside the box to survive in a stay-at-home economy
Subscription services, quarantine kits and unexpected curbside pickups are some of the creative ways to serve customers during the pandemic.
Posted inBusiness, Oxford Hills
Ocean State customer upset voluntary surcharge didn’t seem so voluntary
On March 31, Ocean State Job Lot instituted a new 2% surcharge chain-wide to raise money for employees that cashiers can take off bills at checkout if customers ask, according to the company: “While that might not be happening 100% of the time, it is our intention.”
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Farmington PD promotes Jacob Richards
FARMINGTON — Officer Jacob Richards has been officially promoted to detective within the Farmington Police Department. Richards is a Mt. Blue High School graduate where he was a two sport all-conference athlete, in football and lacrosse. He served as an active member of the United States Air Force from 2004 through 2008 and is in […]
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Franklin Memorial Hospital receives Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital certification
FARMINGTON — Franklin Memorial Hospital was recently named Silver Safe Sleep Champion by the Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program. The certification recognizes the hospital for its commitment to keeping infants safe in their sleep environment and eliminating as many sleep-related deaths as possible. More than 3,500 infants die of sleep-related deaths […]