Anthony Shostak is a painter, an art educator (21 years as the Bates College Museum of Art ‘s curator of education), a father, a cat owner and a musician many times over. Among his instruments, Shostak plays the uilleann bagpipes. His words to the wise: When playing, wear pants. And he’s full of other great […]
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Face Time: Dr. Derek Mittleider, saving life and limb
As an interventional radiologist at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Dr. Derek Mittleider works to normalize blood flow. Too much? Too little? Blood vessels too large? He does it all. But he’s best known for opening arteries in patients’ legs and increasing blood flow . . . without major surgery. Think catheters and stents used […]
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Face Time: Daphne Izer — Tireless advocate, national ‘champion’
Daphne Izer received two national honors in Washington, D.C. this summer for her work advocating to keep the country’s highways safe, inspired by the tragic loss of her son. The Lisbon woman founded Parents Against Tired Truckers after Jeff and three of his friends were killed on the Maine Turnpike in October 1993; a fifth […]
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Face Time: Meaghan Lyndaker – Taking a bite out of her movie debut
Meaghan Lyndaker heard through the grapevine that Bill McLean was looking for a few good zombies. She was so in. “I was like, ‘Ah, that would be so cool!’” she said. Lyndaker has a form of muscular dystrophy called spinal muscular atrophy. She’s used a wheelchair since age 5. “You don’t see a lot of […]
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Face Time: Heather Engstrom, court advocate
Heather Engstrom has been an advocate for victims and witnesses for more than a decade, first in the Navy and now through the District Attorney’s Office at the Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn. It’s not an easy job. Sometimes people don’t want the support. Sometimes they’re afraid, or angry, or frustrated with the court […]
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Face Time: Mary Moyer — Lewiston world traveler heads to Cameroon (sans fluffy towel)
Mary Moyer was 10, in the fourth grade, when a Peace Corps volunteer who’d been stationed in Nepal spoke to her class. “I went home that day and told my mom I wanted to do the Peace Corps,” Moyer said. The St. Dom’s and University of Maine at Farmington grad leaves for Cameroon in September, […]
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FaceTime: Joel Merry — securing Maine’s county jail system
Joel Merry looks little like the imposing and and beefy stereotype of a jail boss. But last month, following passage of a new law governing the way Maine’s 15 jails are woven together as a network, the soft-spoken sheriff from Sagadahoc County was elected as chairman of the Maine Board of Corrections. The Sun Journal […]
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Facetime: Sarah Pine, woman of the woods
For lovers of the outdoors, it doesn’t get much better than Sarah Pine’s job. As hut operations manager for the nonprofit Maine Huts & Trails, she oversees the collection of huts in the Flagstaff Lake region of northwestern Maine where hikers, skiers and mountain bikers stop to rest and eat. It can be a tough, […]
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Face Time: Jim Wright — Mr. No Line Is Safe To Touch Evah
It started as a casual conversation with a fellow who looked lost but wasn’t. Turned out the fellow was just waiting to meet a friend in the Central Maine Power parking lot in Skowhegan where Jim Wright worked as a lineman. “We chatted for a little while (before the man asked), ‘How’d you like to […]
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Face Time: Filmmaker and festival shaker Ramsey Tripp
LEWISTON — When local filmmakers and movie fans lamented the loss of the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival in March, Ramsey Tripp was among the people who helped create the Emerge Film Festival. For Tripp, a filmmaker who works out of a modest office overlooking Lewiston’s Lisbon Street, his role in the new festival broadened his […]