Maine Green Power targets the city as the next area to expand the state’s effort to subsidize renewable energy generation.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about some of the most critical aspects of Maine’s economy and future growth, including transportation, immigration, retail and small business, commercial development and tourism, with emphasis on consumer issues, sustainability and minority ownership. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, 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 for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Watch: Humorous ‘Duckasaurus’ video has serious message in South Portland
The public service announcement is a humorous take on 1950s sci-fi monster movies, but its goal is to promote a new ban on feeding waterfowl and gulls.
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Posted inBicentennial, Local & State, News
It’s Maine’s 200th anniversary of statehood, and the party begins
Gov. Janet Mills visits Portland and 3 other communities via helicopter to launch a 15-month celebration of Maine’s bicentennial.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
South Portland plans crackdown on short-term-rental scofflaws
Eight months after voters approved rules for rentals promoted on websites such as Airbnb and HomeAway, city officials are preparing to take action against 62 operators who appear to be breaking the law.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News
State admits it was wrong to resist federal crackdown on oil tank pollution
From 2011 to this year, the Maine DEP sided with oil companies and ignored Environmental Protection Agency attempts to rein in hazardous emissions from tanks in South Portland and Searsport.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Scarborough planners approve business park at The Downs
Once completed, the Innovation District will be valued at more than $100 million, according to local businessmen who are redeveloping the 525-acre horse-racing property.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Global oil terminal in South Portland violated air-quality standards again, state says
The Department of Environmental Protection informed city officials, as required by a law passed after a lawsuit accused Global Partners of violating the Clean Air Act for several years.
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Judge backs the town in Cape Elizabeth waterfront street fight
Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy rules that several residents of Pilot Point Road failed to prove they own an undeveloped street that runs between their homes and Broad Cove.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, New England, News
Federal appeals court hears arguments in South Portland pipeline case
Approved 5 years ago, the Clear Skies ordinance blocked the company from reversing the flow of its oil pipeline running from Portland Harbor to Montreal.
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Fourteen people cited at 1 of 2 Maine protests of Trump immigration policies
Protesters at demonstrations in South Portland and Portland on Friday decry such policies as family separations and the treatment of migrants held in detention centers.