The layout of the polling places will look different this year due to social distancing measures.
Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
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Four school districts forced to rescind next week’s school budget questions
Errors on warrants to consider school budgets were significant and would have shorted funding by millions of dollars in four school districts.
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OSHA fines companies for ‘serious’ safety violations in connection with Farmington explosion
The companies each have until April 17 to either contest the citations or pay the fines.
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UMaine System working on plan to reimburse students following spring break
Details of the reimbursement process will be available on the system’s public health advisory website.
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Salvation Army bell ringers brave freezing temperatures
But the organization takes precautions, offering them warm coats and boots, hand and toe warmers and umbrellas – and not sending them out in storms.
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Boston man resentenced after court dismisses a 2014 firearms charge in Minot home invasion
PORTLAND — Ishmael Douglas has re-pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit a robbery in a home invasion and robbery in Minot in 2014 and has been resentenced to fewer years, after the court dismissed a firearms charge. In 2016, Douglas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a robbery and using a […]
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Rumford and its former town manager prepare to face off in federal court
Linda-Jean Briggs claimed her civil rights were violated when she was suspended and ultimately terminated without cause.
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Discrimination claim against St. Mary’s hospital has been resolved
The attorney who represents former St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center laboratory technician assistant Mykayla McCann, said Friday morning that “all claims have been resolved.”
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Four Brazilian nationals, living illegally in the U.S., arrested in Farmington
FARMINGTON — U.S. Border Patrol agents from Rangeley arrested two Brazilian nationals Wednesday, according to a statement issued Saturday. Further investigation led to a local hotel where two additional Brazilians were arrested. According to the statement, agents responded to the Farmington area following a report of suspicious activity near the local Walmart. While investigating the […]
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Local people who are all about the work share what motivates them
For local citizens, passion, kindness, community discipline and purpose are common threads on the road to success.