They are strangers in a new country, often arriving without the language skills needed for work. But Lewiston-Auburn’s immigrants are finding jobs through determination, a desire to learn and help from local support groups.
Kathryn Skelton
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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Hold those thongs! After $1.2 million trash bill, Goodwill encouraging people to look before they donate
Goodwill Northern New England, with 17 of its 30 stores in Maine, is looking at a trash bill of more than $1.2 million as a result of people donating unusable items in what the nonprofit believes are largely good but misguided intentions.
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Boy Scouts selling Camp Gustin in Sabattus to raise money for abuse victims fund
The 85-acre camp was deeded to the Scouts in 1948 and has been a day and weekend camp for decades.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Franklin County’s high-speed internet question — will residents pay to bring service to town?
Carthage, Weld, Temple, Wilton and Perkins and Washington townships face that question at town meetings over the next several months. All six need to agree to make a proposed $10 million project a go.
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Skiers hit Maine slopes in 2020-2021 season as pandemic pushed people to get outside
“People really wanted to ski,” Sugarloaf spokesman Ethan Austin said. “They didn’t want this to be one of the things the pandemic took away from them.”
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Sun Journal moving printing operations to South Portland
The newsroom, advertising, circulation and customer service employees will continue working in the building at 104 Park St. in Lewiston.
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Face Time: Jeffrey Thomson — a poet in a newly poetic age
He didn’t set out for a career writing and teaching, but found himself ‘a poet of the landscape, a poet of the ground.’
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Anti-mask-mandate commissioner told to work his day job from home
Isaiah Lary, who has hammered against the legality of Gov. Janet Mills’ mask-wearing mandate, said Friday the move was “an attempt to distract from the main issue.”
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Auburn’s Mu Noi Brunch chef on Food Network’s Supermarket Stakeout tonight
The episode is described as the spiciest ever.
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Toasting Lewiston’s Baxter Brewing Co. at 10
The company rolled out its first cans from one of the city’s historic mills 10 years ago, kicking off the local craft brew scene and a decade of milestones.