The Town Council adds four commercial digging permits over the objections of shellfish commission leaders.
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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A Bath-built schooner is coming home for good, 110 years later
The two-masted Mary E was built in 1906 and is going to the Maine Maritime Museum to complete an ongoing restoration for public exhibit.
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Gray man dies in snowmobile accident in Windham
The crash brings the first snowmobile fatality of the 2016-17 winter season.
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Phippsburg man arrested after seven-hour standoff
Ruben Foster threatened to kill two family members on New Year’s Day, police say.
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Online series captures voices and views from Portland’s working waterfront
‘Wharfside’ is a collection of a dozen audio slide shows sponsored by the Waterfront Alliance and the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership.
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Maine Audubon exec resigns after less than a year on the job
Ole Amundsen III has decided to leave the Falmouth-based environmental group in January, saying it’s ‘the right move.’
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House passes bill Sen. Collins authored to counter Boko Haram terrorist threat
Maine’s senior senator says the legislation will ‘send an international signal that we will never forget the girls of Nigeria’ who were kidnapped simply because they went to school.
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Environmental group seeks private donations to help South Portland fight pipeline lawsuit
The group posts a video requesting donations as the city’s legal costs head toward $1 million in the ‘Clear Skies’ ordinance case.
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Brexit leader eyes Maine coast in planned departure from United Kingdom
Friends of Nigel Farage say he’s planning to emigrate to the United States even if he doesn’t get the ambassador post suggested by President-elect Trump.
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Councilor-elect Susan Henderson survives recount in South Portland
In the new tally, she ends with 50 more votes than Kate Lewis.