Susan Sharon
Deputy News DirectorDeputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.
Got a story idea? E-mail Susan: ssharon@mainepublic.org. You can also follow her on twitter @susansharon1
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The last time alewives made the 70-mile journey from the ocean to China Lake in central Maine, the American Revolution had just come to an end in 1783. Since then, the sea run fish, also known as river herring, have been blocked from their historic spawning grounds by a series of dams. But this week, something remarkable happened: the fish returned. -
During their sentencing, the activists said the urgency of the climate emergency cannot be overstated and that government and regulators have failed to respond adequately. Judge Andrew Schulman disagreed.
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Lewiston wants a prohibition on development in the Lake Auburn watershed without its written consent and the approval of the Maine Drinking Water Program.
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Pingree's office flooded with messages from Mainers who want Congress to codify abortion protectionsIn the wake of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree says her office has been flooded with more than 3,500 messages from Mainers who want Congress to pass legislation making abortion safe, legal and accessible everywhere in the U.S.
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Currently, the entire river is designated as a Class C, the state's lowest water quality rating. But, the bill would elevate the lowest section of the river to a Class B, which Ed Friedman and the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay have been advocating for nearly 20 years.
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A new report finds that prosecution and incarceration associated with drug use and possession are costing the state more than $100 million a year.
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The Grafton Notch Forest was considered a crucial gap in a conservation corridor that connects hundreds of thousands of acres across Maine and New Hampshire. Most of the land will remain as working forest, but more than 6,000 acres will be managed as wilderness.
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Some of the children, including a pair of brothers who were on the verge of being adopted by a family in Leeds, Maine, now face an uncertain future. The boys have been evacuated to Poland but are in a legal limbo with no way to enter the U.S. Morelle says others are still trapped in Ukraine.
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Lisa Pohlmann has guided the Natural Resources Council of Maine for more than a decade. Before that she served on the group's board of directors for many years, including in the role of president.
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The Bell family has been trying to adopt Vanya and Serogzha from Ukraine for about two years.
