Eight goats from Scapegoats of Kennebunk will spend a week munching on Japanese knotweed in a park beautification project.
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.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Mold cleanup in dorm makes move-in day challenging at Southern Maine Community College
SMCC welcomes students for the fall semester – many of them in temporary quarters – as a company removes mold from Spring Point Residence Hall.
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South Portland’s short-term rental rules on track for citywide vote in November
A majority of city councilors says the boomerang issue of controversial Airbnb-style rentals should go to the voters.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Mold cleanup in SMCC’s largest dorm to displace 320 students as semester starts
Testing identifies several types of mold in the 10-year-old Spring Point Residence Hall, some of it low levels of ‘black mold.’ Some students say the school was slow to inform them of the problem.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
South Portland’s long fight over short-term rentals goes on as petition puts new rules on hold
The referendum petition resurrects a community dispute over regulations for popular room and home rentals advertised on websites such as Airbnb and HomeAway.
Posted inMaine, News
Cape Elizabeth seaside residents agree to pay $500,000 to block public shore path
Under a settlement proposal, the waterfront residents would drop their lawsuit and the town would vacate its claim to an undeveloped street in the Shore Acres subdivision.
Posted inMaine, News
National summit on aging targets Maine, home to nation’s oldest, most rural population
Eradicating isolation on the outskirts of America is the focus of a national gathering of elder advocates and other experts in Portland this week.
Posted inMaine, News
South Portland firefighter killed in crash in Hollis fell asleep at wheel, state police conclude
Lt. Harry Weymouth had completed a 24-hour shift the day before the head-on collision and had worked a ‘mini-shift’ at a Sanford hospital not long before it.
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See how you can beat the heat as ozone, temps and humidity hit dangerous levels Tuesday
Communities around Maine open cooling centers as surging ground-level ozone pollution is made worse by smoke from 100 wildfires raging across the western United States.
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South Portland bucks trend on medical marijuana growers, retail shops
While other Maine municipalities delay decisions on allowing more businesses, the city is set to vote on welcoming them, with restrictions.