Police say Michael Burns, 28, fled into the woods with a 20-gauge shotgun.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s 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.
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Portland superintendent retiring
PORTLAND — Maine’s largest school district has made progress since Jim Morse became superintendent two years ago, but the person who replaces him will still have a lot of work to do, according to Morse and other school officials.
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Portland superintendentto retire in June
Jim Morse took the job as head of the city’s public schools in July 2009 on the heels of a financial crisis that resulted in the firing of a superintendent and a business manager.
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DEP restores director to southern office
Jim Dusch lives in North Yarmouth and has worked at the agency for more than a decade.
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Maine community college enrollment up 4.3%
The system’s enrollment has gone from 10,127 students in 2003 to 18,548 students today.
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‘Prohibition’ in Maine set stage for national effort
The hard-won legislation was so groundbreaking, so controversial, it was known across the nation and beyond as “the Maine law.”
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Downeaster expansion stirs new issues
Sixteen years ago, Mori and Carl LeFevre built their house next to the railroad crossing at Muirfield Road on the Falmouth-Cumberland town line.
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Noise, safety factors in expansion of Downeaster passenger service
Sixteen years ago, Mori and Carl LeFevre built their house next to the railroad crossing at Muirfield Road on the Falmouth-Cumberland town line.
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Motorcycle crashes on 295 in Freeport
The rider was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Obama names head of new consumer agency
Richard Cordray most recently served as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s enforcement division and is a former attorney general of Ohio.