A Jeep driven by a Skowhegan woman hit a utility pole and several trees along Route 26, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
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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Maine’s U.S. House members respond to Trump’s latest tweets on immigration
While Rep. Bruce Poliquin notes the U.S. is a ‘nation of laws,’ Rep. Chellie Pingree says the president’s lack of understanding ‘is just shocking.’
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Door-to-door scam seeks customers for Electricity Maine, affidavit says
Bath, Norway and Paris residents report people posing as Central Maine Power Co. employees but working for Electricity Maine.
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Body found in Penobscot River in Bangor
It has been recovered and will be brought to the state medical examiner’s office to be identified, police say.
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Oil pipeline and prospect of expansion hold back development, South Portland official testifies
In the federal trial challenging the city’s ‘Clear Skies’ ordinance, Planning Director Tex Haeuser says South Portland’s plan for future development envisions a very different waterfront.
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Two South Portland motels will stay open under agreement approved by council
The City Council is expected to ensure that other hotels and motels operate under the same rules that the Maine Motel and the Knights Inn agreed to follow.
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South Portland’s ‘Clear Skies’ ordinance clouds pipeline company’s future, CEO says as trial begins
Portland Pipe Line Corp. and the city go to federal court in a trial that’s likely to be closely watched by the energy sector and others dealing with interstate commerce.
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As oil pipeline trial begins, South Portland banks on ‘foie gras’ defense
The federal case hinges on whether the city’s ‘Clear Skies’ ordinance violates congressional control of interstate and foreign commerce.
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Two South Portland apartment projects win planning approvals
The Residences at Clark’s Pond and Thornton Heights Commons would add a total of 298 apartments to Greater Portland’s tight and increasingly costly rental market.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
South Portland straw vote shows solid support for new middle school site
The $50 million school would consolidate two middle schools on the site of Memorial Middle School.