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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PublishedDecember 20, 2018
Oil odor closes South Portland middle school again Friday
Memorial Middle School students will get an early start to the holiday break because of this week’s boiler breakdown.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2018
Cape Elizabeth to hire municipal finance director
The new position is expected to address a growing need for town and school budget accountability flagged in a recent audit.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2018
South Portland council backs zoning change for new middle school
Councilors unanimously approve the first reading of a proposal to allow the school on Wescott Road to be as tall as 60 feet.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2018
Heating oil odor forces closure of South Portland school for 3rd day
Memorial Middle School students will attend classes at South Portland High School on Thursday while malfunctioning boilers are repaired.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2018
Young donor to sick kids fell ill himself – then tripled his gifts to children’s hospital
‘Sam the Bottle Man’ Rideout, 10, had raised funds and donated toys for two years. Then, motivated further by his own experience, he delivered $6,371 in gifts and donations on Monday.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2018
Six years after Sandy Hook, Mainers hold vigil for victims of gun violence
The gathering at Portland’s First Parish Church marked six years since 20 first-graders and six educators were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2018
Chinese nationals charged with sex trafficking in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
An indictment says the husband-and-wife team recruited women in China and coerced them into prostitution after they arrived in the U.S.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2018
Robert Bryan, half of original ‘Bert and I’ duo, dies at age 87
With Marshall Dodge, he popularized the Maine humor known to many Americans.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2018
Bright fireball seen in the sky over Maine
The meteor is part of the Geminid shower, which is expected to peak Thursday night.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2018
Deqa Dhalac wins big in special election for South Portland council seat
Dhalac, an experienced social worker, got more than two-thirds of the vote in the race against longtime local business owner Donald ‘Cookie’ Cook.
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