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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PublishedJune 23, 2023
Former Rangeley selectman pleads guilty to 3 federal charges
David Burgess admitted his involvement with a lucrative illegal marijuana and money laundering ring that operated in Franklin County.
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PublishedMay 2, 2023
Overnight standoff in Auburn sparked by online feud, police say
Police say the 21-hour standoff started after a Gillander Avenue resident fired a gun at a passing car.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2023
17-year-old North Jay teen denies shooting older brother
Last week, prosecutors elevated the charge to elevated aggravated assault, the charge the juvenile would have faced if he was an adult.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2022
Jay paper mill to close in early 2023
Gov. Janet Mills issued a statement saying the state offered its support to try to keep the mill open, but company leaders said there was nothing they could do.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2022
Hanover residents to talk Tuesday about deorganizing
An informational meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. at the Town Pavilion.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2022
Three solar energy companies challenge Mechanic Falls’ ordinance on annual inspections
The Town Council’s attorney advises it has legal authority for yearly checks.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2022
Defense lawyers want murder indictments dismissed because Maine State Police heard confidential calls
The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2022
Lithium deposit in Newry falls under 2017 mining law, DEP rules
The state ruling means the lithium operation would be treated more like a copper or silver mine, rather than a quarry operation for limestone or granite, as the Freemans had hoped.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2022
Maine jail recorded hundreds of lawyer’s calls. He wants to know why
Between June 2019 and May 2020, the Aroostook County Jail recorded 622 calls defendants made to 20 attorneys, according to records obtained by The Maine Monitor.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2022
Maine’s highest court upholds Hartford man’s murder conviction, 50-year sentence
Justice William Stokes, who sentenced Rondon Athayde last year, called the ‘brutal’ and ‘extraordinarily violent’ domestic assault an ‘abomination,’ adding that the images of 41-year-old Ana Cordero and the crime scene ‘stayed with me for several weeks.’
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