The South Portland store will likely stay open three more months, but Maine’s labor market is so tight that other retailers are already poaching its employees.
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
Scarborough superintendent says she didn’t intend to infringe on students’ rights
Julie Kukenberger defends halting a student voter registration drive by saying she wanted to protect students who were feeling pressured to join an effort to unseat school board members.
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Scarborough superintendent tries to halt student voter registration drive
Senior class officers complete their effort to register 18-year-old students and sign petitions to recall 3 school board members.
Posted inMaine, News
South Portland sets date to reconsider short-term rental rules
Residents continue the argument over Airbnb-style home rentals as the City Council takes action on a successful referendum petition.
Posted inMaine, News
Budgets plowed under as municipalities deal with season heavy on the ice and snow
Whether paying for wages, sand or salt, costs exceed spending expectations as the wicked winter fades – and a new storm looms.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Seeing the signs: Renowned USM professor reflects on life-changing language discovery
Decades after documenting sign language created ‘out of nothing’ in Nicaragua, Judy Shepard-Kegl firmly believes she was right not to influence it.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Scarborough High School teachers cast no-confidence vote against superintendent
The 83-1 vote against Julie Kukenberger preceded a heated school board workshop where one member walked out after speakers questioned the handling of a principal’s recent resignation.
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South Portland residents clash over short-term rental petition
Police issue a cease harassment notice to one petition opponent after confrontations occur in front of Scratch Bakery, at the post office and during neighborhood canvassing.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
South Portland seeks pier expansion ideas from fishermen, aquaculture operators
City officials looking to invest in the Portland Street Pier hope to tap growth in shellfish farming in Casco Bay.
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Scarborough school board chair says public doesn’t know whole story of principal’s resignation
Facing a recall threat from a group that wants David Creech to keep his job, Donna Beeley says confidentiality is keeping the other side of the departure story from being told.