Kathryn Skelton is a business reporter at the Sun Journal covering local industries large and small. She writes features and deep-dive analysis, keeps up with local happenings, closings and rumors in a regular business Buzz column, and at least once a month, writes about Bigfoot, ghosts or something equally intriguing in the "Weird, Wicked Weird" series. She's a proud Maine native, grew up in the Gardiner area and also proudly graduated from the University of Maine's journalism program. She's been a reporter at the paper for 20 years. When not working, she enjoys traveling, reading, corgi-walking and adventuring with her husband and two boys.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2019
Working: After 52 years, moving but not hanging up their scissors, yet
Richard and Solange Pepin attended Henson’s Barber School in 1966, opened a shop the next year and they’ve been cutting together in Lewiston ever since.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2019
Family to build wellness center in honor of son killed in Maine farm accident
The 19-year-old athlete died in a farm accident in Turner last month.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2019
Luke Livingston retiring from Lewiston’s Baxter Brewing Co.
The 34-year-old company founder says his retirement is effective Sept. 13, the same day Baxter will celebrate having brewed its 100,000th barrel of Stowaway IPA.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2019
Lewiston’s Hebert Construction: 75 years and building
The company’s third and fourth generation are on the job with local projects this year that include Bates Mill No. 1 renovations, Dirigo Federal Credit Union, LePage Bakery additions and St. Mary’s Infusion Center.
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PublishedJuly 26, 2019
Better than Bacon: House of Bacon closing, owners opening wizard-themed ‘magical theatrical restaurant’
The new pop-up theater and restaurant already has a closing date: Halloween night, 2020.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2019
Lewiston police looking for passer-by who used baseball bat to break up domestic assault
One person was charged after the incident in the 7-11 parking lot Tuesday night and taken to the hospital with injuries.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2019
Auburn actress making feature film debut in Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
“You do drama club in high school and you hope and dream someday that it takes you to Hollywood, and I love that it actually did,” says Breanna Wing, who graduated from Edward Little in 2007 and now lives in Los Angeles.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2019
Hemp: Maine’s newest growing field
Farmers can earn tens of thousands of dollars an acre raising and processing the plant for medical products. In Maine, that’s got them planting.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2019
Auburn founder of Super Women’s Society hosting Girl Power Summit
The July 27 event will include a speaker from the U.K. teaching personal safety and empowerment, a health coach and a vision board workshop.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2019
Rare Constellation at Auburn airport dismantled, wrapped for return to Germany
One employee and a huge plane in parts is all that’s left 11 years after Lufthansa Technik started the major restoration project at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport.
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