Penelope Overton – Page 54 – Lewiston Sun Journal

Staff Writer

Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.

Business, Maine

Public has chance to weigh in on marijuana regulation

by Penelope Overton May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

National experts have already suggested ways to improve rules, from allowing online purchases and retail delivery to banning hazardous extraction methods and most forms of advertising.

Business, Maine

Funtown icon gets a winter makeover

by Penelope Overton May 18, 2019May 19, 2019

The Astrosphere scrambler at the Saco amusement park now sports a concrete dome – complete with air conditioning – to replace the old inflatable one.

Business, Maine

Hearing set on recreational pot rules

by Penelope Overton May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

The May 23 hearing in Portland will be the first opportunity for the public to provide in-person testimony on the state’s draft of adult-use cannabis regulations.

Business, Maine

Maine releases draft rules for its recreational marijuana market. Read them here.

by Penelope Overton April 22, 2019April 23, 2019

Proposed regulations, made public at the request of the Press Herald, cover everything from licensing, inventory tracking and enforcement to advertising, packaging and labeling.

Business, Maine

U.S. lobster dealers expanding into Canada to shore up their business

by Penelope Overton April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

With an acquisition in Nova Scotia, Ready Seafood joins a growing group of dealers that want to secure access to hard shell lobster year round and hedge against unfavorable trade conditions.

Business, Maine

Maine on track to launch recreational marijuana market this year, says state’s pot czar

by Penelope Overton April 10, 2019April 11, 2019

Residents can now grow cannabis for recreational use at home, but still have no way to legally buy or sell it.

Maine

Portland man charged with murder in shooting death of Deering High grad

by Penelope Overton April 5, 2019April 6, 2019

Mark Cardilli Jr. was arrested Friday in the killing of Isahak Muse in Portland’s Riverton neighborhood March 16. Muse’s family says it’s ‘only the first step in ensuring justice for him.’