The statewide daily average of people diagnosed with COVID-19 visiting an emergency department spiked near or at 2% in late August but is trending downward, according to Center for Disease Control and Prevention data. This time last year, daily averages exceeded 3%. There was a significant increase in the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 […]
Kendra Caruso
Staff Writer
Kendra Caruso is a staff writer at the Sun Journal covering education and health. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in journalism in 2019 and started working for the Sun Journal in 2023.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston School Committee candidate believes in necessity of civic education
Craig Charpentier hopes to use common-sense principals over politics if he is elected to the School Committee.
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Agren hopes to improve education as Lewiston School Committee member
Matthew Agren throws his hat in the ring to run for Lewiston School Committee.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Lewiston School Committee tables talks on student theater Maine Inside Out operation in Lewiston school
LEWISTON — The School Committee voted 6-3 Monday night to table discussions about an agreement to allow Maine Inside Out to continue its work to create original theater with Lewiston Middle and High school students. With committee members Elizabeth Eames, Tanya Whitlow and Chairman Megan Parks voting against tabling the issue, committee members were split […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Police investigate bomb threat at Lewiston High School
Students were evacuated for about a half hour, and law enforcement was contacted.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Auburn schools report enrollment increases
Many school officials also gave updates regarding staffing situations and school goals for the new school year.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News
Lisbon councilors approve bond for bridge repair, hire assistant town manager
A May 2 storm damaged the Burrough Road bridge and the town must replace the temporary bridge the town constructed in its place.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News
Turner seeking legal guidance for tax-acquired property in light of Supreme Court ruling
Towns used to be able to keep revenue gained above and beyond what taxes the town was owed from tax-acquired properties but a recent Supreme Court ruled against that practice.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley, Schools & Education
Chronic absenteeism rates at Maine schools remain high, state data shows
Students who miss two days or more of school during the first month have a higher risk of being chronically absent during the school year.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Several hundred more enrolled in Lewiston schools than last year
Former home-schooled students and those from asylum-seeker families signing up.