Helen Hunt will be featured on genealogy series “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the stateโs leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, 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, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
A rally cry for religion
United in their opposition to mandated birth-control coverage, demonstrators in Portland add voices to a national protest.
Discretionary salary increases suspended
The new chancellor of the University of Maine System announced Thursday that he has suspended all future discretionary salary increases and will examine recent raises granted through a systemwide position-review program.
Teen killed in Maine crash
Alcohol and speed were probably factors in a crash on Route 5 earlier today that killed an 18-year-old woman.
Boatbuilders show begins today
YARMOUTH — Workers at the Yarmouth Boat Yard were unwrapping boats and putting docks in the water about three weeks early on Wednesday, responding to unseasonably warm weather and increased boat sales that might signal an improving economy.
Greely Middle School principal wins state award
Kim Brandt is Maine’s 2012 Middle Level Principal of the Year.
Supreme Court finds for Freeport in dispatch dispute
FREEPORT — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has found in favor of the town and denied an injunction sought by residents who opposed outsourcing emergency dispatch services to the town of Brunswick in 2010.
Freeport wins court’s favor in dispatch flap
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court finds Town Council acted appropriately in ratifying a multi-year contract for Brunswick dispatch services several months after it was signed.
Portland diocese has plan to oppose gay marriage
PORTLAND — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland will take no active role in the campaign against a same-sex marriage proposal that’s expected to be on the state ballot in November, Bishop Richard Malone announced Friday.
Maine Diocese says it won’t campaign against gay marriage
Maine’s Roman Catholic Church won’t join a political campaign against gay marriage this year, opting instead to educate its members about the importance of traditional marriage.