Noel Gallagher covers K-12 and higher education issues statewide. Her stories are a mix of breaking news and trend stories. In recent years, they’ve ranged from why college costs so much, the launch of the state’s first charter schools, how a school welcomed a transgender student and why Maine schools have a hard time finding teachers. She’s enough of a news nerd to enjoy sitting through legislative education committee meetings and hours-long school board meetings so you don’t have to. The Maine Press Association has honored Noel’s work, but she says she writes for the readers, in the firm belief that an informed citizenry is key to a healthy democracy. Noel is a California native who has worked at wire services, online websites and newspapers across the country. She was in Washington D.C. during the early Clinton years, covering AIDS activism in 1990s San Francisco, documenting the business of wine in Sonoma County and riding out the boom and bust cycle of the early Internet era in early 2000s Silicon Valley. She arrived in Maine at the beginning of the recession and wrote quite a bit about the downturn here. In her free time, Noel writes the occasional cookbook review, spends an inordinate amount of time at the Portland Public Library and hangs out with her three fabulous kids and wonderful husband. She is not a former member of the band Oasis.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2016
UMaine System keeps tuition in deep freeze
In a deal with Gov. LePage, trustees agree to a sixth year of the same in-state figure, a rarity at a time of rising college costs nationwide.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2016
LePage nominates three to UMaine board of trustees
Former Unity College interim president John Craig of Waterville, DAVO Technologies chief operating officer Theresa Sutton of Cumberland and UMaine Augusta student Jason Coombs of Brunswick were nominated for the board.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2016
Cookbook Review: ‘The Vermont Country Store Cookbook’
It whisks a reader to the humble beginnings of an iconic store that opened in 1946 and is still going strong today.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2016
Acting president wins permanent appointment to lead Maine’s community colleges
Derek Langhauser, a veteran of the system, is approved unanimously by the board of trustees.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2016
LePage offers $7.2 million more for the University of Maine System
The governor says he’ll ask for the additional funding if the board of trustees continues its tuition freeze.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2016
More than 100 attend vigil in Portland for missing Maine Maritime student
David Breunig’s family and friends gather on the Western Promenade a week after the Westbrook High School graduate disappeared in Orono on his way to meet friends at a nearby bar.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2016
Charter commission approves new Lewiston-Auburn school
Acadia Academy, which will open in the fall, is the ninth of 10 charter schools permitted under state law.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2016
Bill would standardize drug-abuse education
Currently, individual middle and high schools set their own policies, which officials say leaves gaps.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2016
Effort to put statue of Margaret Chase Smith in U.S. Capitol stalls
Maine arts officials say it would take too much time and money to replace the statue of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s first vice president.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2016
Associate professor accuses UNE of retaliating because she alleged harassment
Lara Carlson sues for damages, but the school denies administrative misconduct and asks for a dismissal.
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