October 13, 2025 • 35 mins
LCN general assignment reporters Ali Juell and Christina Wallace are joined by incoming reporter Claire Taylor as they cover top stories from the October 9th edition of The Lincoln County News. In the second segment, they talk about the people that bring the paper to print every week, and the impact community journalism has.
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Welcome to be on The Broadsheet,a podcast by the Lincoln County
News. We are a community newspaper
based in Mid Coast Maine and we provide the most comprehensive,
in depth coverage available anywhere of the 18 towns and 1
plantation that make up Lincoln County.
My name is Christina Wallace andI'm a reporter here at LCN
covering the towns of Bristol, South Bristol, Bremen and
Nobleboro. And I'm Ali Jewell.
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I'm a reporter covering Newcastle, Damroscatta,
Whitefield and Edgecomb. And you're joined by a newcomer
today. I am Claire Taylor and I'm a
reporter here as well. Beat Upcoming.
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In our last episode, we discussed the history behind the
annual fall festivals, Apple Fest and Pumpkin Fest and
conducted a poll around the office to determine to determine
which people thought the superior fall flavour was.
This week we will be talking about the people who get the
paper to print every week and the hard work that goes into it.
But first, here are some of our top stories from our Thursday,
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October 9th edition of the Lincoln County News.
Residents of Jefferson voted to approve a revised education
budget at a special town meetingon Wednesday, October 1st.
This is the town's third attemptat trying to pass an education
budget for the 2020 sixth fiscalyear.
The revised budget totals 9.3 million, which is a decrease of
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$677,470 or 6.97% from the previous version of the budget
that voters approved at a special town meeting on July 9
but failed to validate at the polls on August 12th with a vote
of 279 to 152. The newest figure is the lowest
proposed budget out of the threedrafts presented this year at
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the October. At the beginning of the October
1st meeting, AOS 93 Superintendent Todd Sanders gave
a presentation to explain the fluctuations in the different
versions of the budget. He said the main driver of the
increases is the special education budget.
According to Sanders, JVS had a significant shortage of teachers
and support staff for the 202425academic year, causing more
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students to be placed out of district for special services,
which increase the budget. This year, JVS has more
sufficient staff which has enabled more students to receive
services at JVS and have fewer out of district placements.
The special education budget sawa decrease of $545,986 or 16.88%
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from the previous version of thebudget.
Residents will consider whether to validate the budget from 8:00
AM to 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 4th during the
referendum election at JeffersonFire Department.
So hopefully third time is goingto be a charm.
Hopefully to be determined. In some other municipal news,
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Damariscotta nods continued joint publics works research
despite residents concerns Officials from Newcastle and
Damariscotta will continue fleshing out figures for a
potential shared public works department after receiving
approval from their respective select boards.
At a Damariscotta Select Board meeting on Wednesday, October
first. Members said the towns should
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see the analysis process throughdespite concerns expressed by
residents in attendance. Since May, officials from the
twin villages have discussed general parameters for a shared
department that would provide year round service, including,
you know, snow plowing as well as some offseason work like
draining out culverts, filling potholes, that kind of stuff.
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So with the help of a grant funded consultant, the two towns
have been discussing logistics like necessary staffing,
equipment and service levels. As of now, the joint Public
Works department is estimated torequire 7 1/2 full time
employees, 1 pickup truck, 6 dump trucks and machines such as
yard loaders and sub compact tractor.
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A side of at least 5 acres wouldalso be needed for office space,
salt storage and material storage.
Despite residents concerns, Stammer Scott, a Select Board
Chair Darrell Frazier said he hopes the community will remain
open minded until there is a more concrete picture of the
department and its associated costs.
Frazier said. If we shoot down everything from
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the very beginning, then we're not going to have any plans for
any ideas ever. We need to know what the actual
numbers are and go from there. Some of the concerns raised by
people included just accurate numbers, feeling as if the joint
effort may not actually produce cost savings.
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And just, you know, people were concerned about funding efforts
outside of their town with theirown tax paying dollars.
So, but all the town officials said that they are going to do
their best to address people's concerns and just make sure to
produce the most accurate numbers possible so that
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everyone can decide what's what's the best next move.
So it's all to be determined. Absolutely.
In some more education news, Bristol and South Bristol
advance their plans to enter into an education service
center. The Bristol and South Bristol
School Committee has unanimouslyvoted to continue supporting the
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effort to form an Education Service Center and to submit the
second part of their applicationto The Maine Department of
Education had their meetings on Thursday, October 2nd and
Tuesday, October 7th, respectively.
The school committees voted to approve the first part of the
application at the end of August, which the state approved
in September. The second part of the
application, which is due at theend of October, requires a
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formal proposal to the DOE that includes a draft proposal
budget, details about the organizational structure and
staffing such as job descriptions and roles,
information on the governance and how decisions would be made,
and an outline of the services that Education Service Center
would provide, such as special education, transportation, and
administration. According to South Bristol
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School Committee Chair Sarah Mitchell, although both
committees voted to submit the second part of the application,
it is not a binding agreement even if approved by the state.
This includes the draft of the interlocal agreement, draft
budget, and draft withdrawal plans.
Both committees must vote on joining an Education Service
Center before November 30th for the agreement to be binding.
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So they do plan on voting earlier to give their
neighboring schools bit more of a chance to plan ahead for next
year. So they're planning around
November 12th to have that decision finalized and then it
will be official be officially entering in.
Yeah, it seems like they've they've moved pretty efficiently
on all. Of the they have, yeah, they
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have moved very quickly. The restructuring committee has
definitely done a lot of work. So that's fantastic, yeah.
In other news, it has been 20 years ago this week since the
destruction of Sherman Lake. Heavy rains from a storm washed
away a dam in Newcastle which destroyed Sherman Lake and
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created conditions for Sherman Marsh to thrive.
According to the Lincoln County News Archives, rainfall during
what was called the Columbus DayStorm over October 9th and 10th
of 2005 flooded, damaged or closed more than 150 roads
across Lincoln County, inundateda pump station on Birch Point
Rd. in Wiscasset, and caused debris to block a culvert on
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West Elma Rd. which in turn flooded several acres of land.
Newcastle based National Weatherobserver Arlene Cole reported
that more than 7 inches of rain fell over the course of the
weekend. Land owners on Sherman Lake went
to bed Sunday night owning lakefront property and woke up
Monday morning to find that the lake was gone.
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After the water level rose enough to breach the levee.
State, county and local officials acted quickly to
mitigate the damage. After the washout was
discovered, workers imported stones, RIP rap and earth to
backfill the area. In 2006, dot Commissioner David
Cole announced that after much deliberation that the state
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would not rebuild the dam that would restore the lake and
instead it would be restored as a salt marsh due to
environmental and budgetary considerations, Cole said.
A healthy salt marsh well, not areplacement for Sherman Lake,
brings many positive benefits tothe site.
That's crazy how Lake just like disappeared overnight.
I can't even imagine something like that happening.
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It must have been very jarring waking up on the.
Lakefront, I can imagine, I do imagine if I was one of those
people like I, I don't know, like to go from having a view
out to a lake to I've never seena marsh.
So I'm sure they have their own beautiful traits, But I I would
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probably feel a little questionable about my real
estate choices. Absolutely.
In the lead up to Pumpkin Fest, which is this coming weekend
when we're recording this, two state records were smashed at
the pumpkin way off last weekend.
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Roy Morgan of Charleston took home not one but two victories
at this year's Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weigh off on
Sunday, October 5th at Louie DoeHome Center.
Morgan won the award for the largest pumpkin, weighing 1624
1/2 lbs and the longest gourd, which measured 151.5 inches,
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which broke a state record. It was his own state record.
That's. Amazing, right?
I feel like especially cool it'syour own, your own competition
as yourself. Yeah, that's the way to do it,
though. Truly, truly.
Bill Makowski of Milford broke his own state record as well
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with a 177 1/2 LB field pumpkin,Mason Busby of Damariscotta won
the youth division with a 606 1/2 LB Giant pumpkin, and Edgar
and Don Lamb of Orno won the Howard Dill Award for the
prettiest pumpkin. It was really cool to just like
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see all the growers who are clearly very passionate about
giant pumpkin growing. And it was especially like very
cool to see the operation among the like volunteers to get the
pumpkins to the scale. Like I did not anticipate how
much of like a locked like routine they all have to guide
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all the forklifts and just like use any kind of like, I don't
know, strap mechanisms to like get it.
There it was. I don't know, it was very
impressive and I appreciated that they let me get very close
and take some pictures, even though I'm sure it made their
job a little harder. So.
I was, I saw the pictures you took and it's like, incredible
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the operation that they have there.
Like they take this so seriouslyevery year.
Oh yeah. And I also didn't realize how
like giant pumpkins can get. They're so big.
They are. Amazing, honestly, what these
folks have done. Yeah, yeah.
And I know that, you know, with the drought this year, it was
like a little bit tougher to getsome like good quality pumpkins.
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But, you know, we still had a great show out and yeah.
I mean, we still had records smashed.
So. 10 out of 10 for that headline, by the way, Thank you.
It's a good one. Did my best.
So Speaking of fall festivities,I got to cover Apple Fest, Noble
Borough's annual fall festival. Applefest celebrated the beauty
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of autumn with the beautiful weather and lots of apple pies
on Saturday, October 4th. The the weather was like perfect
for the event which is so incredible.
Residents and volunteers gathered at Nobleborough Central
School to participate in this annual event hosted by the
Nobleborough Historical Society.This year the event saw a change
in volunteers. Several of the veteran Applefest
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volunteers stepped down and madeway for a new generation of
volunteers this year. Jill Nutter took over the food
preparations and was hard at work making homemade Donuts from
scratch with one of the largest turn out she said she's ever
seen. Local vendors sold crafts, fresh
apples were for sale from Beth'sFarms and the Nobleboro Fire
Department even paid a visit forkids to sit in their truck.
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And there were indeed well over 100 apple pies for sale.
So yeah. Were there any gluten free
options for you to try? I don't believe so.
I was telling our editor, Maya, as soon as I walked in, the
gluten just like hit me. It smelled so good.
Everyone was so kind there. And yeah, definitely a really
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good turn out. That's awesome.
Yeah, glad to hear. In further development related
to a potential data center, Westport and Wiscasset residents
shared their dissent at the Wiscasset Select Board meeting
on Tuesday, October 7th. Wiscasset town officials told
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the county commissioners they were in early talks to turn the
former Maine Yankee Site on Old Ferry Rd. into a data center at
a September 16th commissioners meeting.
During the October 7th board meeting, residents expressed
their concerns over power demands, water capacity, and the
environmental impacts the proposed Dana Center could
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bring. Residents said they hope
Wiscasset will consider the impacts of the data center both
within and beyond town lines. Wiscasset Select Board Chair
Sarah Whitfield said. We will absolutely do our due
diligence. Everything from environmental
concerns to traffic to sound light, water, community, all,
all of that will be addressed ifthis moves forward, and we don't
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even know if it will. So yeah, I think it was a good
opportunity for people who maybedo not live in Wiscasset but
still want to share their input,especially if it does end up
going to voters, just share how they feel like they might be
affected so. In other community news, the
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character of the county this week was Kevin Burnham.
He is the long time editor of the Booth Bay Register.
Burnham started at the newspaperas a staff reporter in 1987.
Within six months, he was named the newspaper's editor, a
position he has held ever since.Burnham said.
He took an interest in newspaperand sports early on in his life,
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both thanks to the influence of his father, Burnham said.
I think I'm a part of the whole community that put trust in me,
that we do a good job covering their stories and their work.
I feel a responsibility to the news, to the community that
we're serving. It's not just a job.
To read more about Burnham, pickup a copy of this week's edition
of the Lincoln County News or goto LCNME dot.
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Com And Speaking of community journalism, this is kind of a
good transition because our second segment really talks
about our paper and the people that put a lot of work into it
and also the impacts of community journalism because I
think that's an important thing to talk about.
So we'll move on to our second segment.
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In our September 18th edition ofthe Lincoln County News, our
publisher John Roberts wrote an editorial outlining the hard
work and dedication that goes into bringing the paper to print
every week. Since we have a new reporter
joining us this week, we thoughtwe would highlight the people
who work hard each week to bringthe paper to life and talk about
the impacts of community journalism.
So let's start by talking about our staff because we definitely
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have a great group of people. Yeah, absolutely.
It's been so neat meeting everybody on the staff and just
kind of getting to get an outsider perspective of how hard
these folks are working. So on the staff we have Maya
Zuhart. She's our amazing editor.
She started at the paper as a general assignment reporter 10
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years ago. She has been the editor of the
paper for three years now. And then we have Amber Clark,
who runs our website and designsthe magazine, and she has also
been here for a decade. And then we also have Sherwood
Olin. He is our associate editor.
He has been with the paper for 25 years.
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He started as an editor, took a break and then came back as
associate editor. He's responsible for the
majority of our character of thecounty stories.
We also have Sarah Masters who is our Arts and Eats reporter
and has been at the paper for two years.
Mick LaBelle is our full time sports reporter who has been
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with LCN for two years and PaulaRoberts, mother of publisher
John Roberts is our part time sports reporter.
We also have Charlotte Boynton who is our most seasoned staff
member. She reports on Westport Island
and has been a key reporter since 2013.
LCN typically has four full timegeneral assignment reporters.
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Since September, Ali and Christina have been the only
full time reporters covering as much as they can across Lincoln
County. So now we're excited to announce
that we have a new reporter withus, Claire Taylor.
So, Claire, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Yeah, absolutely. So I am new here.
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I just started this week and I'msuper excited to be a part of
the LCN community. I just moved to the area with my
partner and our cat and it has been wonderful to get to know
the area and I'm really excited to do that through the paper as
well and just get to see these thriving communities.
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That's awesome. And I think Ali and I were
telling you that a lot of how wediscovered the county was
through assignments. So I think that'll be good for
you. Yeah, I'm really.
Excited and very importantly, what's your cat's name?
My cat's name is Tuesday. Adorable.
I love it. Very important.
Why Tuesday it just. Suited him.
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I, I like it. I especially, I don't know, it's
something about it being like the day before Wednesday.
I I like it. Yeah, it's very fitting for the
paper, I feel. Yeah, we also have many other
people who contribute to the paper.
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If we were to list all of them, this would be a very long
podcast, but there is a full list of everyone at LCN in the
September 18th edition of the paper.
Maya thought it was really funnythat on the list it says that
she's been here longer than John, because John was named
publisher a couple of months after she got here as a general
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assignment reporter. So that's a fun little detail on
that chart, but we also have a pretty unique week.
Yes, yeah, definitely. It's, you know, no week, no day
is ever really the same, which is a very fun part of the job.
Our week starts and ends on Wednesdays, which is very
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interesting. And everything we do really
revolves around getting the paper to print and it is taken
to the print on Wednesday mornings.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdaysare kind of hectic because
that's when we have our deadlines.
It's when we're, you know, in our kind of final crunch.
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Things in and to cover any last minute meetings but after we go
to print on Wednesdays we have astaff meeting where we plan
stories for the upcoming paper. We talked through any kind of
events, any, you know, people who have reached out, maybe had
some important things that we need to keep an eye on.
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So, yeah, part of what makes ourjob is so unique is the fact
that we get to cover a ton of different topics.
I mean, everything from what's what's happening with shellfish
contamination to a brand new education budget getting passed
to pumpkin boats floating through the river.
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So it's, it's very fun and enjoyable to get to do so many
different things. And yeah, I have to say, like
one of my favorite stories I've done is a story that was brought
to me by someone in the community about food pantries
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and everything that goes into Manning.
Those I got to go in during a day when the food pantry was in
full swing. And from there, I got to call
and talk with a ton of differentfood pantry leaders across the
county and turn that into kind of an opportunity to just
highlight everything that goes into it and why it's an
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especially challenging time right now for people who are
food insecure and to, you know, provide those people adequate
opportunities. So I really enjoy about this job
that we get to shine a light on things that people might not
otherwise realize and hopefully make them appreciate the people
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that make up our county a littlebit more.
Yeah, absolutely. I always think it's fun when you
have to do research or some amount of research on a story in
order to write it, especially ifit's about a topic like you've
never heard of before, have no experience in.
Like for me, covering the fiber fair in Bristol was really
interesting because I had to do a lot of research on like the
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process of how wool is made or wool is spun and things like
that, and how the textiles were made in the mill and things like
that. So it was really cool to be able
to just learn something fun about that.
Yeah. So community journalism is
something that's very important and it impacts a lot of us.
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And, you know, where we are working in community journalism.
I thought it would be cool to kind of talk about that.
So I have a couple talking points here that I think would
be cool to go over. So why do you think community
journalism still matters today, especially when people can get
information instantly online? I feel like I think about the
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fact that I don't know, this is super specific, but my dad has
like tons of these boxes of likebasically all of our like family
pictures and stuff got like thrown into like 5 different
boxes. So they're just like these big
boxes stacked with tons of random like family history
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things. And I think about the fact that,
you know, we, when we were looking through the boxes, we
would find like newspaper clippings and getting to read
those and see even if it was just like a really small short
story, if like someone from our family was like at a community
event or something, there was something really special about
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getting to pick that up and see like a little bit of their
personality and who they were asa person, Especially the family
members I never got to meet. Like to know that they were
recorded and just immortalized in that way was really cool and
special. And I feel like that happens
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less and less because there's, you know, less community news
happening across the world. And so I feel really special and
honored to be able to provide those kinds of like
opportunities for people here inLincoln County.
Yeah. And before I wrote my first
character of the county piece, Sherwood had brought up, you
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know, this is sometimes like, the first or only time that
someone is going to be featured in a newspaper this way.
And it's just really special forthem to look back on.
And I think like we get so caught up in like the big news
that it's so nice to be able to take a step back and look at the
people in the community and be able to highlight someone in
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such a positive way. Yeah, I think I just think
that's really special. It's, it's a nice little break
from all of the the hectic, hecticness of the news going on
around you. And I think that that's a very
unique part of community journalism that like much
broader journalism doesn't get to see is you don't get to see
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like those little moments between people.
You know, everyone's so focused on the bigger stuff.
So. Yeah, do.
You have any thoughts, especially I think in thinking
about like getting information instantly online, right of that
like yes, there's a lot that youcan learn online.
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There's a lot of great tools outthere and information that you
can pick up, but also you aren'tgetting those interpersonal
details you aren't able to access like those little stories
aren't available online. You might not know otherwise
without actually getting a journalist in to talk with those
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people and have those conversations and bring them to
the community at large. Yeah.
Absolutely. And I think that kind of ties
into my next question is how do you think local news shapes the
sense of identity in a town or neighborhood?
For me, I think like being able to see your business on the
front page as a really big one because then like you can be
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walking through the stores and say like, oh, hey, there's my
friend on the front page. Or bring awareness to like a
small startup that's happening that you know, you wouldn't have
been able to see otherwise. And things like that.
Getting someone's project recognized.
I feel like it really gives people an opportunity to
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understand their neighbors and, you know, people they know
intimately, people they maybe like, have only ever seen, like,
passing by in the grocery store.Just getting a deeper
perspective and maybe being ableto better understand what makes
someone, like who they are and also like, find commonality.
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So I think it's a great way to bring people together in ways
they might not otherwise. Absolutely.
Yeah. And I feel like just having a
sense of like that broader community to in being able to
bring out those individual stories seems really important
to me. I think like having an idea of
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what is going on in your town, in your village, like just
knowing. It's really neat.
Yeah, absolutely. So how would, how do you build
and maintain trust with your readers or listeners?
For me, I think a big one is actually like you being a part
of the community. I think that's a very unique
aspect of working at LCN is I'm not just like someone from the
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outside coming in to report on this.
Like I'm actually like in the community and a part of it.
And I think that gives you a very unique perspective on
reporting and things like that. I think there's like much more
of the culture that I'm able to see in the towns and incorporate
into my stories. Yeah.
I don't know if you guys have any other thoughts on that.
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Yeah, I think this is something that like, as I'm starting out,
I'm trying to think about how I'm going to do this and how I
want to make sure that I am being a person who is going to
do right by our readers and by the folks that I'm writing
about. And I think so far for me, that
has meant just being very honestabout where I'm at and what I
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don't know, and just trying to ask lots of questions, trying to
make sure that I'm going to portray people right and in the
way light that they would like to be.
Yeah, absolutely. Totally.
Yeah, I think especially in community journalism, it's
really important to demonstrate to people, like when you're
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talking to them, that you care about them in their entirety as
a person, and not just about getting what you need to write
this story. Like, yeah, absolutely.
It's very valuable as you're chatting with people to take the
time to just like learn about all the things that make them
who they are. And I feel like it's even
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helpful like when you're writingto understand just like all the
personal context that's leading into like these community
stores, so. Yeah, absolutely.
And I mean, I've gotten to meet such interesting people doing my
job and going around on assignments and interviewing
people and just hear their stories and hear how like
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fascinating they are. And building those relationships
to me is is really important because really community is at
the center of what we do here. So I think that's very important
aspect. My last question is what is the
hardest part of the job and whatis the most rewarding part of
the job? I definitely think that it can
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be challenging to feel as if, you know, every story that we
get to do. It's always an honor to get to
bring light to things and to be the person like writing them.
And I always wish with almost every story that, you know, I
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had more time, more opportunity to really, like focus and, you
know, put just complete and uninterrupted energy into
something. But part of the job is juggling
a lot of different stories at once.
So it can be hard sometimes knowing that, you know, to
manage time and to get everything in.
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We maybe don't always get to have the full deep, like
unadulterated focus on stories that we would like to.
But it's very rewarding to just,I don't know, like I kind of
said earlier, I really enjoy putting something out there for
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people to, you know, better understand their neighbors, to
better understand people that maybe they don't get to interact
with on a daily basis. And that's always just like a
personal goal of mine as I want people, even if they don't agree
with others, to at least understand where they're coming
from and why they're doing what they're doing.
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So. Yeah, absolutely.
I think for me, like the most rewarding part of the job is the
the impact that what I do has onother people.
I think as journalists, we're ina very unique position where we
have the ability to ask questions on behalf of hundreds
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to thousands of other people so that they're informed on issues.
And that's something that I takevery seriously.
And so I think, you know, using that and being able to to
provide the information to people is definitely a very
rewarding aspect of the job. I would say As for the hardest
part, definitely doing those tougher stories, any like car
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accidents, things like that. It's never something that I like
to report on. It can be hard, especially in
small communities, but it definitely can offer people some
closure on things that happened because I think anything major
like that happening in a small town is like it's it's big.
It's a big thing. So yeah, just turning that
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around and being able to providepeople with some closure is
good. What are you looking forward to
the most about working here and getting to know Lincoln County?
Yeah, I think I'm really excitedto just kind of dive into the
county and like I, I'm really enjoying.
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I've been here for about a monthleading up to this.
And so I've been trying to get to know the area on my own.
But it's been really fun since starting here that I feel like
I'm looking at everything with new eyes, like I'm taking it all
in in new ways. I've taken lots of notes and
just I feel like it's a new lensto look at the world through and
it's really neat. But I'm just really excited to
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get to know the community and the people out there.
Folks have been so nice and so welcoming so far, yeah.
I know when I first started here, I think one of the biggest
shocks to me was just how kind and welcoming everyone is.
And that was such a good feelingas someone who felt like a
complete outsider, like coming into this community and like
kind of getting great up in people's business, having a
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report on things. It was just really nice to like
have that support from total strangers and just like the
kindness I've seen has been really, really great.
Yeah, yeah. Well, Claire, we're very excited
to have you here and to have youin the office and to get into
the groove of things, so. Thank you so much.
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It's been a joy to be here. Yes, and we're very excited to
see what what's next for you andwhich town.
Yeah. All right.
We will see you all next week. Thank you for listening to Be on
the Broadsheet, a podcast by theLincoln County News.
This podcast is produced by Lucas Mcnelly and Maya Ziebert.
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Tyler Davis of Tyality Productions provides production
support. Our theme music is by Stu Mahan
and LCN associate editor slash bassist Sherwood Olin.
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It's been great catching up today and we'll talk with you
again soon.
Welcome to be on The Broadsheet,a podcast by the Lincoln County
News. We are a community newspaper
based in Mid Coast Maine and we provide the most comprehensive,
in depth coverage available anywhere of the 18 towns and 1
plantation that make up Lincoln County.
My name is Christina Wallace andI'm a reporter here at LCN
covering the towns of Bristol, South Bristol, Bremen and
Nobleboro. And I'm Ali Jewell.
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I'm a reporter covering Newcastle, Damroscatta,
Whitefield and Edgecomb. And you're joined by a newcomer
today. I am Claire Taylor and I'm a
reporter here as well. Beat Upcoming.
TV. Determined.
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In our last episode, we discussed the history behind the
annual fall festivals, Apple Fest and Pumpkin Fest and
conducted a poll around the office to determine to determine
which people thought the superior fall flavour was.
This week we will be talking about the people who get the
paper to print every week and the hard work that goes into it.
But first, here are some of our top stories from our Thursday,
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October 9th edition of the Lincoln County News.
Residents of Jefferson voted to approve a revised education
budget at a special town meetingon Wednesday, October 1st.
This is the town's third attemptat trying to pass an education
budget for the 2020 sixth fiscalyear.
The revised budget totals 9.3 million, which is a decrease of
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$677,470 or 6.97% from the previous version of the budget
that voters approved at a special town meeting on July 9
but failed to validate at the polls on August 12th with a vote
of 279 to 152. The newest figure is the lowest
proposed budget out of the threedrafts presented this year at
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the October. At the beginning of the October
1st meeting, AOS 93 Superintendent Todd Sanders gave
a presentation to explain the fluctuations in the different
versions of the budget. He said the main driver of the
increases is the special education budget.
According to Sanders, JVS had a significant shortage of teachers
and support staff for the 202425academic year, causing more
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students to be placed out of district for special services,
which increase the budget. This year, JVS has more
sufficient staff which has enabled more students to receive
services at JVS and have fewer out of district placements.
The special education budget sawa decrease of $545,986 or 16.88%
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from the previous version of thebudget.
Residents will consider whether to validate the budget from 8:00
AM to 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 4th during the
referendum election at JeffersonFire Department.
So hopefully third time is goingto be a charm.
Hopefully to be determined. In some other municipal news,
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Damariscotta nods continued joint publics works research
despite residents concerns Officials from Newcastle and
Damariscotta will continue fleshing out figures for a
potential shared public works department after receiving
approval from their respective select boards.
At a Damariscotta Select Board meeting on Wednesday, October
first. Members said the towns should
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see the analysis process throughdespite concerns expressed by
residents in attendance. Since May, officials from the
twin villages have discussed general parameters for a shared
department that would provide year round service, including,
you know, snow plowing as well as some offseason work like
draining out culverts, filling potholes, that kind of stuff.
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So with the help of a grant funded consultant, the two towns
have been discussing logistics like necessary staffing,
equipment and service levels. As of now, the joint Public
Works department is estimated torequire 7 1/2 full time
employees, 1 pickup truck, 6 dump trucks and machines such as
yard loaders and sub compact tractor.
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A side of at least 5 acres wouldalso be needed for office space,
salt storage and material storage.
Despite residents concerns, Stammer Scott, a Select Board
Chair Darrell Frazier said he hopes the community will remain
open minded until there is a more concrete picture of the
department and its associated costs.
Frazier said. If we shoot down everything from
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the very beginning, then we're not going to have any plans for
any ideas ever. We need to know what the actual
numbers are and go from there. Some of the concerns raised by
people included just accurate numbers, feeling as if the joint
effort may not actually produce cost savings.
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And just, you know, people were concerned about funding efforts
outside of their town with theirown tax paying dollars.
So, but all the town officials said that they are going to do
their best to address people's concerns and just make sure to
produce the most accurate numbers possible so that
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everyone can decide what's what's the best next move.
So it's all to be determined. Absolutely.
In some more education news, Bristol and South Bristol
advance their plans to enter into an education service
center. The Bristol and South Bristol
School Committee has unanimouslyvoted to continue supporting the
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effort to form an Education Service Center and to submit the
second part of their applicationto The Maine Department of
Education had their meetings on Thursday, October 2nd and
Tuesday, October 7th, respectively.
The school committees voted to approve the first part of the
application at the end of August, which the state approved
in September. The second part of the
application, which is due at theend of October, requires a
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formal proposal to the DOE that includes a draft proposal
budget, details about the organizational structure and
staffing such as job descriptions and roles,
information on the governance and how decisions would be made,
and an outline of the services that Education Service Center
would provide, such as special education, transportation, and
administration. According to South Bristol
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School Committee Chair Sarah Mitchell, although both
committees voted to submit the second part of the application,
it is not a binding agreement even if approved by the state.
This includes the draft of the interlocal agreement, draft
budget, and draft withdrawal plans.
Both committees must vote on joining an Education Service
Center before November 30th for the agreement to be binding.
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So they do plan on voting earlier to give their
neighboring schools bit more of a chance to plan ahead for next
year. So they're planning around
November 12th to have that decision finalized and then it
will be official be officially entering in.
Yeah, it seems like they've they've moved pretty efficiently
on all. Of the they have, yeah, they
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have moved very quickly. The restructuring committee has
definitely done a lot of work. So that's fantastic, yeah.
In other news, it has been 20 years ago this week since the
destruction of Sherman Lake. Heavy rains from a storm washed
away a dam in Newcastle which destroyed Sherman Lake and
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created conditions for Sherman Marsh to thrive.
According to the Lincoln County News Archives, rainfall during
what was called the Columbus DayStorm over October 9th and 10th
of 2005 flooded, damaged or closed more than 150 roads
across Lincoln County, inundateda pump station on Birch Point
Rd. in Wiscasset, and caused debris to block a culvert on
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West Elma Rd. which in turn flooded several acres of land.
Newcastle based National Weatherobserver Arlene Cole reported
that more than 7 inches of rain fell over the course of the
weekend. Land owners on Sherman Lake went
to bed Sunday night owning lakefront property and woke up
Monday morning to find that the lake was gone.
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After the water level rose enough to breach the levee.
State, county and local officials acted quickly to
mitigate the damage. After the washout was
discovered, workers imported stones, RIP rap and earth to
backfill the area. In 2006, dot Commissioner David
Cole announced that after much deliberation that the state
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would not rebuild the dam that would restore the lake and
instead it would be restored as a salt marsh due to
environmental and budgetary considerations, Cole said.
A healthy salt marsh well, not areplacement for Sherman Lake,
brings many positive benefits tothe site.
That's crazy how Lake just like disappeared overnight.
I can't even imagine something like that happening.
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It must have been very jarring waking up on the.
Lakefront, I can imagine, I do imagine if I was one of those
people like I, I don't know, like to go from having a view
out to a lake to I've never seena marsh.
So I'm sure they have their own beautiful traits, But I I would
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probably feel a little questionable about my real
estate choices. Absolutely.
In the lead up to Pumpkin Fest, which is this coming weekend
when we're recording this, two state records were smashed at
the pumpkin way off last weekend.
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Roy Morgan of Charleston took home not one but two victories
at this year's Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weigh off on
Sunday, October 5th at Louie DoeHome Center.
Morgan won the award for the largest pumpkin, weighing 1624
1/2 lbs and the longest gourd, which measured 151.5 inches,
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which broke a state record. It was his own state record.
That's. Amazing, right?
I feel like especially cool it'syour own, your own competition
as yourself. Yeah, that's the way to do it,
though. Truly, truly.
Bill Makowski of Milford broke his own state record as well
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with a 177 1/2 LB field pumpkin,Mason Busby of Damariscotta won
the youth division with a 606 1/2 LB Giant pumpkin, and Edgar
and Don Lamb of Orno won the Howard Dill Award for the
prettiest pumpkin. It was really cool to just like
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see all the growers who are clearly very passionate about
giant pumpkin growing. And it was especially like very
cool to see the operation among the like volunteers to get the
pumpkins to the scale. Like I did not anticipate how
much of like a locked like routine they all have to guide
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all the forklifts and just like use any kind of like, I don't
know, strap mechanisms to like get it.
There it was. I don't know, it was very
impressive and I appreciated that they let me get very close
and take some pictures, even though I'm sure it made their
job a little harder. So.
I was, I saw the pictures you took and it's like, incredible
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the operation that they have there.
Like they take this so seriouslyevery year.
Oh yeah. And I also didn't realize how
like giant pumpkins can get. They're so big.
They are. Amazing, honestly, what these
folks have done. Yeah, yeah.
And I know that, you know, with the drought this year, it was
like a little bit tougher to getsome like good quality pumpkins.
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But, you know, we still had a great show out and yeah.
I mean, we still had records smashed.
So. 10 out of 10 for that headline, by the way, Thank you.
It's a good one. Did my best.
So Speaking of fall festivities,I got to cover Apple Fest, Noble
Borough's annual fall festival. Applefest celebrated the beauty
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of autumn with the beautiful weather and lots of apple pies
on Saturday, October 4th. The the weather was like perfect
for the event which is so incredible.
Residents and volunteers gathered at Nobleborough Central
School to participate in this annual event hosted by the
Nobleborough Historical Society.This year the event saw a change
in volunteers. Several of the veteran Applefest
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volunteers stepped down and madeway for a new generation of
volunteers this year. Jill Nutter took over the food
preparations and was hard at work making homemade Donuts from
scratch with one of the largest turn out she said she's ever
seen. Local vendors sold crafts, fresh
apples were for sale from Beth'sFarms and the Nobleboro Fire
Department even paid a visit forkids to sit in their truck.
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And there were indeed well over 100 apple pies for sale.
So yeah. Were there any gluten free
options for you to try? I don't believe so.
I was telling our editor, Maya, as soon as I walked in, the
gluten just like hit me. It smelled so good.
Everyone was so kind there. And yeah, definitely a really
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good turn out. That's awesome.
Yeah, glad to hear. In further development related
to a potential data center, Westport and Wiscasset residents
shared their dissent at the Wiscasset Select Board meeting
on Tuesday, October 7th. Wiscasset town officials told
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the county commissioners they were in early talks to turn the
former Maine Yankee Site on Old Ferry Rd. into a data center at
a September 16th commissioners meeting.
During the October 7th board meeting, residents expressed
their concerns over power demands, water capacity, and the
environmental impacts the proposed Dana Center could
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bring. Residents said they hope
Wiscasset will consider the impacts of the data center both
within and beyond town lines. Wiscasset Select Board Chair
Sarah Whitfield said. We will absolutely do our due
diligence. Everything from environmental
concerns to traffic to sound light, water, community, all,
all of that will be addressed ifthis moves forward, and we don't
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even know if it will. So yeah, I think it was a good
opportunity for people who maybedo not live in Wiscasset but
still want to share their input,especially if it does end up
going to voters, just share how they feel like they might be
affected so. In other community news, the
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character of the county this week was Kevin Burnham.
He is the long time editor of the Booth Bay Register.
Burnham started at the newspaperas a staff reporter in 1987.
Within six months, he was named the newspaper's editor, a
position he has held ever since.Burnham said.
He took an interest in newspaperand sports early on in his life,
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both thanks to the influence of his father, Burnham said.
I think I'm a part of the whole community that put trust in me,
that we do a good job covering their stories and their work.
I feel a responsibility to the news, to the community that
we're serving. It's not just a job.
To read more about Burnham, pickup a copy of this week's edition
of the Lincoln County News or goto LCNME dot.
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Com And Speaking of community journalism, this is kind of a
good transition because our second segment really talks
about our paper and the people that put a lot of work into it
and also the impacts of community journalism because I
think that's an important thing to talk about.
So we'll move on to our second segment.
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In our September 18th edition ofthe Lincoln County News, our
publisher John Roberts wrote an editorial outlining the hard
work and dedication that goes into bringing the paper to print
every week. Since we have a new reporter
joining us this week, we thoughtwe would highlight the people
who work hard each week to bringthe paper to life and talk about
the impacts of community journalism.
So let's start by talking about our staff because we definitely
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have a great group of people. Yeah, absolutely.
It's been so neat meeting everybody on the staff and just
kind of getting to get an outsider perspective of how hard
these folks are working. So on the staff we have Maya
Zuhart. She's our amazing editor.
She started at the paper as a general assignment reporter 10
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years ago. She has been the editor of the
paper for three years now. And then we have Amber Clark,
who runs our website and designsthe magazine, and she has also
been here for a decade. And then we also have Sherwood
Olin. He is our associate editor.
He has been with the paper for 25 years.
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He started as an editor, took a break and then came back as
associate editor. He's responsible for the
majority of our character of thecounty stories.
We also have Sarah Masters who is our Arts and Eats reporter
and has been at the paper for two years.
Mick LaBelle is our full time sports reporter who has been
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with LCN for two years and PaulaRoberts, mother of publisher
John Roberts is our part time sports reporter.
We also have Charlotte Boynton who is our most seasoned staff
member. She reports on Westport Island
and has been a key reporter since 2013.
LCN typically has four full timegeneral assignment reporters.
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Since September, Ali and Christina have been the only
full time reporters covering as much as they can across Lincoln
County. So now we're excited to announce
that we have a new reporter withus, Claire Taylor.
So, Claire, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Yeah, absolutely. So I am new here.
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I just started this week and I'msuper excited to be a part of
the LCN community. I just moved to the area with my
partner and our cat and it has been wonderful to get to know
the area and I'm really excited to do that through the paper as
well and just get to see these thriving communities.
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That's awesome. And I think Ali and I were
telling you that a lot of how wediscovered the county was
through assignments. So I think that'll be good for
you. Yeah, I'm really.
Excited and very importantly, what's your cat's name?
My cat's name is Tuesday. Adorable.
I love it. Very important.
Why Tuesday it just. Suited him.
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I, I like it. I especially, I don't know, it's
something about it being like the day before Wednesday.
I I like it. Yeah, it's very fitting for the
paper, I feel. Yeah, we also have many other
people who contribute to the paper.
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If we were to list all of them, this would be a very long
podcast, but there is a full list of everyone at LCN in the
September 18th edition of the paper.
Maya thought it was really funnythat on the list it says that
she's been here longer than John, because John was named
publisher a couple of months after she got here as a general
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assignment reporter. So that's a fun little detail on
that chart, but we also have a pretty unique week.
Yes, yeah, definitely. It's, you know, no week, no day
is ever really the same, which is a very fun part of the job.
Our week starts and ends on Wednesdays, which is very
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interesting. And everything we do really
revolves around getting the paper to print and it is taken
to the print on Wednesday mornings.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdaysare kind of hectic because
that's when we have our deadlines.
It's when we're, you know, in our kind of final crunch.
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Things in and to cover any last minute meetings but after we go
to print on Wednesdays we have astaff meeting where we plan
stories for the upcoming paper. We talked through any kind of
events, any, you know, people who have reached out, maybe had
some important things that we need to keep an eye on.
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So, yeah, part of what makes ourjob is so unique is the fact
that we get to cover a ton of different topics.
I mean, everything from what's what's happening with shellfish
contamination to a brand new education budget getting passed
to pumpkin boats floating through the river.
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So it's, it's very fun and enjoyable to get to do so many
different things. And yeah, I have to say, like
one of my favorite stories I've done is a story that was brought
to me by someone in the community about food pantries
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and everything that goes into Manning.
Those I got to go in during a day when the food pantry was in
full swing. And from there, I got to call
and talk with a ton of differentfood pantry leaders across the
county and turn that into kind of an opportunity to just
highlight everything that goes into it and why it's an
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especially challenging time right now for people who are
food insecure and to, you know, provide those people adequate
opportunities. So I really enjoy about this job
that we get to shine a light on things that people might not
otherwise realize and hopefully make them appreciate the people
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that make up our county a littlebit more.
Yeah, absolutely. I always think it's fun when you
have to do research or some amount of research on a story in
order to write it, especially ifit's about a topic like you've
never heard of before, have no experience in.
Like for me, covering the fiber fair in Bristol was really
interesting because I had to do a lot of research on like the
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process of how wool is made or wool is spun and things like
that, and how the textiles were made in the mill and things like
that. So it was really cool to be able
to just learn something fun about that.
Yeah. So community journalism is
something that's very important and it impacts a lot of us.
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And, you know, where we are working in community journalism.
I thought it would be cool to kind of talk about that.
So I have a couple talking points here that I think would
be cool to go over. So why do you think community
journalism still matters today, especially when people can get
information instantly online? I feel like I think about the
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fact that I don't know, this is super specific, but my dad has
like tons of these boxes of likebasically all of our like family
pictures and stuff got like thrown into like 5 different
boxes. So they're just like these big
boxes stacked with tons of random like family history
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things. And I think about the fact that,
you know, we, when we were looking through the boxes, we
would find like newspaper clippings and getting to read
those and see even if it was just like a really small short
story, if like someone from our family was like at a community
event or something, there was something really special about
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getting to pick that up and see like a little bit of their
personality and who they were asa person, Especially the family
members I never got to meet. Like to know that they were
recorded and just immortalized in that way was really cool and
special. And I feel like that happens
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less and less because there's, you know, less community news
happening across the world. And so I feel really special and
honored to be able to provide those kinds of like
opportunities for people here inLincoln County.
Yeah. And before I wrote my first
character of the county piece, Sherwood had brought up, you
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know, this is sometimes like, the first or only time that
someone is going to be featured in a newspaper this way.
And it's just really special forthem to look back on.
And I think like we get so caught up in like the big news
that it's so nice to be able to take a step back and look at the
people in the community and be able to highlight someone in
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such a positive way. Yeah, I think I just think
that's really special. It's, it's a nice little break
from all of the the hectic, hecticness of the news going on
around you. And I think that that's a very
unique part of community journalism that like much
broader journalism doesn't get to see is you don't get to see
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like those little moments between people.
You know, everyone's so focused on the bigger stuff.
So. Yeah, do.
You have any thoughts, especially I think in thinking
about like getting information instantly online, right of that
like yes, there's a lot that youcan learn online.
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There's a lot of great tools outthere and information that you
can pick up, but also you aren'tgetting those interpersonal
details you aren't able to access like those little stories
aren't available online. You might not know otherwise
without actually getting a journalist in to talk with those
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people and have those conversations and bring them to
the community at large. Yeah.
Absolutely. And I think that kind of ties
into my next question is how do you think local news shapes the
sense of identity in a town or neighborhood?
For me, I think like being able to see your business on the
front page as a really big one because then like you can be
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walking through the stores and say like, oh, hey, there's my
friend on the front page. Or bring awareness to like a
small startup that's happening that you know, you wouldn't have
been able to see otherwise. And things like that.
Getting someone's project recognized.
I feel like it really gives people an opportunity to
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understand their neighbors and, you know, people they know
intimately, people they maybe like, have only ever seen, like,
passing by in the grocery store.Just getting a deeper
perspective and maybe being ableto better understand what makes
someone, like who they are and also like, find commonality.
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So I think it's a great way to bring people together in ways
they might not otherwise. Absolutely.
Yeah. And I feel like just having a
sense of like that broader community to in being able to
bring out those individual stories seems really important
to me. I think like having an idea of
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what is going on in your town, in your village, like just
knowing. It's really neat.
Yeah, absolutely. So how would, how do you build
and maintain trust with your readers or listeners?
For me, I think a big one is actually like you being a part
of the community. I think that's a very unique
aspect of working at LCN is I'm not just like someone from the
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outside coming in to report on this.
Like I'm actually like in the community and a part of it.
And I think that gives you a very unique perspective on
reporting and things like that. I think there's like much more
of the culture that I'm able to see in the towns and incorporate
into my stories. Yeah.
I don't know if you guys have any other thoughts on that.
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Yeah, I think this is something that like, as I'm starting out,
I'm trying to think about how I'm going to do this and how I
want to make sure that I am being a person who is going to
do right by our readers and by the folks that I'm writing
about. And I think so far for me, that
has meant just being very honestabout where I'm at and what I
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don't know, and just trying to ask lots of questions, trying to
make sure that I'm going to portray people right and in the
way light that they would like to be.
Yeah, absolutely. Totally.
Yeah, I think especially in community journalism, it's
really important to demonstrate to people, like when you're
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talking to them, that you care about them in their entirety as
a person, and not just about getting what you need to write
this story. Like, yeah, absolutely.
It's very valuable as you're chatting with people to take the
time to just like learn about all the things that make them
who they are. And I feel like it's even
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helpful like when you're writingto understand just like all the
personal context that's leading into like these community
stores, so. Yeah, absolutely.
And I mean, I've gotten to meet such interesting people doing my
job and going around on assignments and interviewing
people and just hear their stories and hear how like
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fascinating they are. And building those relationships
to me is is really important because really community is at
the center of what we do here. So I think that's very important
aspect. My last question is what is the
hardest part of the job and whatis the most rewarding part of
the job? I definitely think that it can
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be challenging to feel as if, you know, every story that we
get to do. It's always an honor to get to
bring light to things and to be the person like writing them.
And I always wish with almost every story that, you know, I
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had more time, more opportunity to really, like focus and, you
know, put just complete and uninterrupted energy into
something. But part of the job is juggling
a lot of different stories at once.
So it can be hard sometimes knowing that, you know, to
manage time and to get everything in.
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We maybe don't always get to have the full deep, like
unadulterated focus on stories that we would like to.
But it's very rewarding to just,I don't know, like I kind of
said earlier, I really enjoy putting something out there for
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people to, you know, better understand their neighbors, to
better understand people that maybe they don't get to interact
with on a daily basis. And that's always just like a
personal goal of mine as I want people, even if they don't agree
with others, to at least understand where they're coming
from and why they're doing what they're doing.
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So. Yeah, absolutely.
I think for me, like the most rewarding part of the job is the
the impact that what I do has onother people.
I think as journalists, we're ina very unique position where we
have the ability to ask questions on behalf of hundreds
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to thousands of other people so that they're informed on issues.
And that's something that I takevery seriously.
And so I think, you know, using that and being able to to
provide the information to people is definitely a very
rewarding aspect of the job. I would say As for the hardest
part, definitely doing those tougher stories, any like car
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accidents, things like that. It's never something that I like
to report on. It can be hard, especially in
small communities, but it definitely can offer people some
closure on things that happened because I think anything major
like that happening in a small town is like it's it's big.
It's a big thing. So yeah, just turning that
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around and being able to providepeople with some closure is
good. What are you looking forward to
the most about working here and getting to know Lincoln County?
Yeah, I think I'm really excitedto just kind of dive into the
county and like I, I'm really enjoying.
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I've been here for about a monthleading up to this.
And so I've been trying to get to know the area on my own.
But it's been really fun since starting here that I feel like
I'm looking at everything with new eyes, like I'm taking it all
in in new ways. I've taken lots of notes and
just I feel like it's a new lensto look at the world through and
it's really neat. But I'm just really excited to
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get to know the community and the people out there.
Folks have been so nice and so welcoming so far, yeah.
I know when I first started here, I think one of the biggest
shocks to me was just how kind and welcoming everyone is.
And that was such a good feelingas someone who felt like a
complete outsider, like coming into this community and like
kind of getting great up in people's business, having a
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report on things. It was just really nice to like
have that support from total strangers and just like the
kindness I've seen has been really, really great.
Yeah, yeah. Well, Claire, we're very excited
to have you here and to have youin the office and to get into
the groove of things, so. Thank you so much.
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It's been a joy to be here. Yes, and we're very excited to
see what what's next for you andwhich town.
Yeah. All right.
We will see you all next week. Thank you for listening to Be on
the Broadsheet, a podcast by theLincoln County News.
This podcast is produced by Lucas Mcnelly and Maya Ziebert.
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Tyler Davis of Tyality Productions provides production
support. Our theme music is by Stu Mahan
and LCN associate editor slash bassist Sherwood Olin.
The Lincoln County News hits news stands across the county
every Wednesday afternoon, and you can also access our work
online at lcnme.com. If you have a question, comment,
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or suggestion, please e-mail us at info@lcnme.com.
As always, we're grateful for the support of our readers and
listeners in Lincoln County and beyond.
It's been great catching up today and we'll talk with you
again soon.
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