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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On May 3, 2024, the Lewiston bowling alley that was one of two targets for the worst mass shootings in Maine history plans to reopen.
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A bill supporting a $30 million trails bond in Maine has received unanimous support from the Legislature's Appropriations Committee. That means it now heads to the full Legislature for consideration.
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Amid the bleak reports about a precipitous loss in numbers and types of birds around North America and the rest of the world is a glimmer of hope in Maine's North Woods.
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Workers are making their concerns public because they say the Department of Corrections has not taken action to remedy the situation.
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The Maine Community Foundation announced Thursday that it has distributed nearly $4.7 million to 162 people directly affected by the Oct. 25 mass shootings in Lewiston.
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Pingree's questioning of Sgt. Maj. Michael Weimer comes just days after an independent commission released an interim report on the October mass shootings in Lewiston that killed 18 people and wounded more than 13 others.
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The City of Lewiston and the Lewiston/Auburn Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that they are establishing a special fund to create a memorial honoring the victims and survivors of the Lewiston mass shootings that killed 18 people.
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A forensic analysis has found evidence that the man responsible for killing 18 people in Lewiston last October was likely suffering from a traumatic brain injury. That may have played a role in his actions.
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More than 440 acres have been permanently protected as a community forest in Rumford, about a five minute drive from downtown.
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Many say their lives have been forever changed by the shootings and they fear others will have to endure what they have over the past four months if systemic changes aren't made.