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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PublishedSeptember 9, 2015
U.S. News & World Report ranks Bowdoin No. 4 among liberal arts colleges
Bates and Colby also crack the top 25 in the annual ranking.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2015
Couple from Wales killed in motorcycle crash in Hiram
The deaths are Maine’s 23rd and 24th motorcycle fatalities this year.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2015
Portland’s exhibit on human bodies presents anatomy as art
The ‘Body Worlds’ exhibit is scheduled to open Friday at the new Portland Science Center on Commercial Street.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2015
Four groups apply for last three charter school slots in Maine
Decisions are expected by Nov. 17 on the proposals for schools in York and Hancock counties, Sidney and Lewiston-Auburn.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2015
Charter schools in Maine nearly full as a new year starts
All seven of the schools are in high demand, including the two virtual charters, and new ones may be added as the state nears its cap of 10.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2015
Top teachers offer their advice for going back to school
For teachers, it’s to be prepared for new challenges. For students, it’s get more sleep and read every day.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2015
Maine firefighters, forest rangers battling Western wildfires
‘Everything is on fire, it seems like,’ says a Unity College student working on a fire crew.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2015
New USM president Glenn Cummings lays out vision for the future
In his first address to faculty and staff, Cummings says that the University of Southern Maine ‘has every possible asset to succeed.’
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PublishedAugust 11, 2015
Tests show cell tower emissions OK
Deering High School teachers still trying to have tower removed from roof.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2015
Political response to crushing college debt ratchets up
In Maine and across the nation, ideas flourish over an issue that will likely remain in the forefront through the 2016 election cycle.
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