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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PublishedMay 3, 2019
#BookofThrones: More than half of Farmers’ Almanac readers keep their copy in the loo
The Lewiston-based almanac’s declared Monday “Read Your Farmers’ Almanac in the Bathroom Day.”
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PublishedMay 3, 2019
Entosense selling vials of flavored crickets for on-the-go snacking
The company’s new grab-and-go cricket treat is making waves
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PublishedMay 1, 2019
Boston Brands of Maine’s $4M expansion expected to boost capacity 20% at Lewiston bottling plant
Last year, the brand’s Fireball Cinnamon Whisky outsold longtime Maine favorite Allen’s Coffee Brandy.
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PublishedApril 27, 2019
Rebuilding, again: Lewiston family survives three house fires in two years
“It sounds weird me saying this: I want to know what tried to kill me,” says Jessica Gould, who barely escaped the last fire in March.
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PublishedApril 25, 2019
Weird, Wicked Weird: Ready to talk Thunderbirds?
Texas cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard, frequently seen on Travel Channel’s “In Search of Monsters” and History Channel’s “Missing in Alaska,” and author of “Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters,” is one of the headliners at the International Cryptozoology Conference in Portland this weekend.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
Mt. Abram ski resort plans to build Maine’s largest mountain bike park
The resort plans to have the first trails, two beginner and two intermediate trails, plus one climbing trail for hearty souls who prefer to bike up, open in spring 2020.
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PublishedApril 14, 2019
They’re ready for visitors at the Maine Wildlife Park
“It’s very hard to keep a moose” and other curious facts from the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, which opens for the season Monday.
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PublishedApril 9, 2019
Lisbon native pitches custom water filters on ‘Shark Tank’ this Sunday
Eric Roy’s company, Hydroviv, has eight employees “water nerds” and it’s looking to grow.
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PublishedApril 7, 2019
Maine’s ‘first and only cannabis business park’ growing in Auburn
Developers looking ahead to Maine’s recreational marijuana market plan to invest $6 million to $7 million this year setting up the site off Minot Avenue.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2019
L.L.Bean teases summer concert series lineup: Gone West, AJR, Mat Kearney
FREEPORT — L.L.Bean is thinking summer and songs. The iconic Maine retailer teased a partial lineup for its annual free summer concert series Friday. Playing Summer in the Park so far: July 4: The War And Treaty, a husband and wife duo whose music Rolling Stone called “joyous, gospel-style harmonizing with superb country-soul arrangements and […]
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