Bishop Robert Deeley informs church members in Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland that retired Monsignor Michael Henchal is living with a former church administrator.
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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Nearly 200 victims of the sinking of SS Portland are remembered
Many passengers and crew members who died in the 1898 disaster were Mainers, including 19 members of Portland’s Abyssinian congregation.
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Avesta Housing pitches 64-unit mixed-use project in West End of South Portland
The $13 million mixed-use building is being developed on the site of a popular neighborhood variety store known for its Vietnamese soups and sandwiches.
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South Portland joins battle against tree-killing winter moths
City officials are working on a plan to fight the invasive insect, while state entomologists plant cocoons of flies they hope will attack the moth caterpillars next spring.
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Piper Shores opens $14 million memory care and assisted-living facility
The new building in the retirement community between Higgins Beach and Prouts Neck includes 14 memory care units and 16 assisted living units.
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New tavern and condos could replace former Griffin Club in South Portland
Ginger Cote needs a zoning change that raises parking concerns before she can build Big Babe’s Tavern and five condominiums in the Knightville neighborhood.
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South Portland urges federal judge to halt company’s lawsuit over oil pipeline
The city is fighting to defend an ordinance that effectively blocks future use of an underground pipeline to export Canadian oil through the city’s waterfront.
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Once-vibrant VFW post in South Portland closes as membership dwindles
The veterans group that was once one of the largest in New England leaves its longtime home, the victim of cash woes, social trends and technology, and is borrowing space from the American Legion.
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Cape Elizabeth steps up fight against winter moth devastation
Volunteers set out to band more than 150 trees in Fort Williams Park and Robinson Woods over the weekend.
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Cape Elizabeth becomes latest town to adopt bag fee, ban foam containers
The Town Council approves ordinances similar to regulations in South Portland, Portland, Falmouth, Freeport and other Maine communities.