Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2024
Imposter scams topped Maine’s 7,500 fraud complaints in 2023
The Federal Trade Commission received fraud reports from consumers in Maine totaling more than $17 million last year.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2024
Mills plans to accelerate $50 million relief proposal for storm-damaged Maine communities
The governor hopes a separate bill will move more quickly through legislative review and provide more immediate support to hard-hit areas.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2024
Smiling Hill Farm could be a roadblock for preferred Gorham Connector route
The 500-acre, 13th-generation family operation in Westbrook wants to preserve the farmland and forest it has cultivated and harvested since 1720, but some of its woodland lies in the path of the Maine Turnpike Authority’s proposed 4-lane highway.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2024
Wyman’s installs 35-acre solar farm to power Down East operations
It’s one of the largest, if not the largest, solar farms in Maine hosted by a business to power its own facilities.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2024
Portland-based Wex reports strong growth in 2023
CEO Melissa Smith says the company is positioned to ride market cycles in part by investing in technology, including AI.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2024
Maine’s highest court vacates termination of mother’s parental rights
The justices found that the state failed to provide critical nursing services that the child was legally entitled to receive and could have made a difference in the case.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2024
Breeze Airways adds new services from Portland to North Carolina and Florida
New offerings include a seasonal route to Raleigh-Durham and one-stop, no-plane-change service to Jacksonville.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2024
Acadia National Park numbers were down in 2023 for second year in a row
But the Bar Harbor area is still benefiting from a post-pandemic tourism boom and working to address visitor congestion during peak season.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2024
Over 95,000 Maine households may soon lose internet subsidy
Supporters of the federal Affordable Connectivity Program are fighting to extend funding that’s set to end April 30.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2024
Gov. Mills honors 4 Maine businesses for excellence
The 2023 Governor’s Awards for Business Excellence went to firms committed to their communities and their employees.
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