Lisa DeSisto, CEO of Sun Media Group and MaineToday Media, delivers her talk, “A Bright Future for Newspapers,” at the Great Falls Forum on Thursday afternoon at the Lewiston Public Library. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — The leader of Maine’s largest news media company says she is “both excited and very nervous” about the future […]
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Sun Media CEO featured speaker at Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — Lisa DeSisto, CEO of Sun Media Group and MaineToday Media, will address the Great Falls Forum on Thursday at the Lewiston Public Library. Her talk is titled, “A Bright Future for Newspapers.” The program is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall, on the library’s second floor. While the demise of printed […]
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Panel: Innovation needed to keep housing affordable
LEWISTON — Housing is the basis for solving many of the social issues this country faces, and perhaps it deserves more attention. That was the consensus among a diverse panel of Maine housing professionals during a Great Falls Forum on Thursday on innovations in housing. Both nonprofit and for-profit organizations were represented at the forum […]
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Housing innovations topic at Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum on Thursday will feature a panel discussion titled “Innovations in Housing.” It will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Panelists include Amy Cullen, development officer for the Szanton Co.; Cullen Ryan, executive director of Community Housing of Maine; Craig Saddlemire, […]
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Great Falls Forum focuses on addiction recovery
LEWISTON — Providing “a sense of community” is the fundamental goal of addiction counselors at Grace Street Services, according to two representatives of the organization at a Great Falls Forum presentation Thursday at the Lewiston Public Library. Michael Connors, a facilitator of an intensive outpatient program at Grace Street Services told the audience of about […]
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Martin O’Brien featured at Thursday's Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The 2017-18 season of the Great Falls Forum continues Thursday, Nov. 16, featuring Martin O’Brien, president and founder of Grace Street Services, with a talk titled “Placemaking and the Foundation of Identity.” The program will be from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at Lewiston Public Library. Prior to his current work, […]
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Bates professor addressing Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum series continues Thursday, Oct. 19, with Amy Bradfield Douglass, professor of psychology at Bates College. Her talk is titled “Eyewitness Identification: Causes of Errors and Suggestions for Reform.” The program will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Douglass has taught […]
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Speaker: U.S. working to help Somalia, Kenya overcome challenges
LEWISTON — Kenya and Somalia may share a border, but the two East African countries have few similarities. That’s part of the challenges facing the United States in that region of the world, said Ian M. Catlett, an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Department of State. The Lewiston native was the first speaker of the 2017-18 season […]
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State Department attorney speaking on East Africa
LEWISTON — The 2017-18 season of the Great Falls Forum kicks off Thursday, Sept. 21, with Ian Catlett, attorney-adviser with the U.S. Department of State. His talk is titled “East Africa Security and Justice and the U.S. Role Overseas.” The program will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston […]
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Maine blueberry industry’s challenges, victories
LEWISTON — Last month, schools in 19 states placed orders for 1.25 million pounds of wild Maine blueberries. That’s more than schools in eight states ordered in all of 2016, according to Nancy McBrady, executive director of the Maine Wild Blueberry Commission. Making inroads like that — in this case, working with a U.S. Department […]