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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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 12, 2019
SAD 52 makes 2019-20 budget proposal official, public to vote May 9
The tax impact of the $27.2 million proposed budget varies from 1.62% in Turner to 2.15% in Leeds.
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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 8, 2019
The Buzz: Auburn brothers are on the box, hiring as frozen seafood meals keep growing
* A new name, new growth for Auburn’s Cheating Gourmet
* Cote Bros. Sewing Machines in Turner looks for a buyer, prepares to close
* Lewiston’s $39 million March building permit
* Worst Road in Maine contest is back -
PublishedApril 8, 2019
Cote Bros. Sewing Machines in Turner looks for a buyer, prepares to close
After 63 years in business, Ron Blake and his wife, Lisa Cote-Blake, will close Cote Bros. Sewing Machines next month unless a buyer comes through. Lisa’s father and his brothers founded the business back in the day to serve the once-thriving shoe industry in Lewiston-Auburn. The Blakes closed it once before, in 2008, selling the […]
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PublishedApril 8, 2019
Bates College has a $39 million building permit in Lewiston
You see a permit for $39 million and cannot help but do a double take. Just some of the activity out of the Lewiston and Auburn code offices in March, according to city records: Bates College’s contractor pulled a $39 million building permit for its new science and technology building at 45 Campus Ave. in […]
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PublishedApril 8, 2019
The Worst Road in Maine contest is back
This time of year, it is no joke: The Maine Better Transportation Association is once again holding its Worst Road in Maine contest. The winner gets $529, which the association says is the estimated amount residents pay in costs for extra maintenance and repairs from bad roads. The statewide estimate is $541 million. Spokeswoman Kathryn […]
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PublishedApril 7, 2019
Working: Making pub dreams come true in Mechanic Falls
Bobbi Nugent says she hopes the new Little Brick Pub can do its part to pull people in to town. “We want you to stop. Don’t drive through, stop.”
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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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PublishedApril 5, 2019
Turner parents ask for teacher in new school budget, board adds it
The proposed $27.2 million SAD 52 budget is expected to increase taxes roughly 1.8% for Turner, Greene and Leeds.
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