While supporters are pleased, opponents fear the nation’s first constitutional amendment for food rights will lead to legal battles.
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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COVID-19 hospitalizations tick up again in Maine
There were 202 people being treated for the coronavirus in hospitals statewide on Sunday, up from 195 the day before.
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Afghan evacuees begin to arrive in Maine
The first of what could be as many as 100 Afghan evacuees to come to Maine arrived at Portland International Jetport on Thursday.
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Hundreds of asylum seekers wait in Portland-area hotels because apartments are so scarce
More than 300 immigrants who arrived in Portland recently are waiting for permanent housing in a tight rental market.
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Person found with gunshot wound near South Portland High
Emergency responders found a person with a gunshot wound in one leg that didn’t appear to be life-threatening, a city official said.
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Man dies after car crashes into house in Penobscot County
An older woman sleeping in the room where the car hit was transported to the hospital as a precaution.
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Connecticut man dies in ATV crash in Franklin County
The Maine Warden Service is investigating the crash on ITS 84/89 along Potato Hill Road.
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Police investigate suspected arson at Portland church
Neighbors who spotted the fire at the Portland New Church on Stevens Avenue used buckets of water to try to put it out before firefighters arrived.
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Afghan evacuees to begin arriving in Maine as soon as this week
Catholic Charities Maine is heading up the resettlement of 67 to 100 Afghans who fled their homeland as the U.S. military withdrew from the 20-year war.
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‘They didn’t know me or what I would do for this country’
Yasin Ahmady, who had come to the United States from Afghanistan 20 years before 9/11, is one of many Muslim Americans who suffered verbal and physical attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.