Before catching Ned Castle’s work at L/A Arts this month or his talk Thursday at the Lewiston Public Library, learn more about the photographer’s inspiration behind a photo project that had him re-enacting homeless and runaway youths’ best and worst memories. Also: Why and when he became a photographer and what he’d pack if he […]
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Face Time: Jennifer Skiff, writing to save animals
Hebron Academy alumna Jennifer Skiff is an award-winning journalist, an animal advocate and an author. In her latest book, “Rescuing Ladybugs,” she puts all of those skills to work to highlight the stories of people helping animals. One person released orangutans in Borneo, another worked to save sharks in Indonesia, someone else protected salamanders […]
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Face Time: Randy Berry — preparing for emergencies
Randy Berry is a former fire chief, state representative and papermill worker. When the Wausau Paper Corp. mill in Jay and Livermore Falls closed in 2009, he earned a bachelor’s degree in geography at the University of Maine in Farmington through the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, but his world today is all about being prepared […]
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Face Time: Claire Starnes and the untold stories of women veterans
Claire Starnes, a Vietnam War veteran and New Hampshire woman who was born and raised in Maine and went to the Twin Cities’ St. Dominic High School, is wrapping up a statewide tour behind a book she helped write with other female veterans. The book, “Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories,” recounts the experiences of […]
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Face Time: Stefanie Mahr Damien — Sewing, designing and predicting the next hot shade
Stefanie Mahr Damien moved to Maine in 2015 after falling in love with an Auburn man. She started Refresh, an interior design, staging and sewing company now in the Pepperell Mill, the next year. She talks design, sewing corn costumes, selling Jaguars and gently steering people away from a case of the color regrets. Name: […]
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Face Time: Steve Grenier, lead guitarist for Fire in the Hole
Chances are, you won’t find Fire in the Hole performing at area clubs with a hefty cover charge. The local band doesn’t play massive venues for $300 a ticket or anywhere, really, where the focus is on making money. At least not making money for the band. For years, Fire in the Hole has largely […]
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Face Time: Carold Folsom handling emergencies in Franklin County
FARMINGTON — Carold “CL” Folsom of Salem Township grew up in Monmouth and graduated from Monmouth Academy in 1986. When things didn’t go as initially planned to go into law enforcement, he entered the social service field after he met his wife Julie. The couple will be married 25 years on Monday, Sept. 17. “We […]
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Face Time: Grillin' and chillin' with 'Rocket' Ron Demers
OXFORD – For most of his adult life, Ron Demers of Otisfield worked at his father’s business in Lewiston selling leather to manufacturers. He traveled the country, offering his product to everyone from luggage manufacturers to cowboys who performed in rodeos. Nowadays, Demers is more known for the restaurant he runs out of a yellow […]
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Face Time: Going for the millions with Christopher Matthews
“Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” Christopher Matthews, that’s who. Since the game show first launched in the U.S. 19 years ago, the Lewiston man has been scheming to become a contestant. That’s nearly two decades of working the phones, studying trivia and traveling back and forth to New York. Matthews has gotten close. A […]
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Face Time: Kevin Gagne and Scout, partners in policing
Lewiston Police Officer Kevin Gagne has had a dog before. But a dog as a partner? That’s something different. And Scout, a yellow Lab, is a different kind of police dog. Unlike some of the other, more aggressive K-9s, Scout is a sniffer, not a fighter. She’s been trained since puppyhood for life as a […]