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.
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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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 honors local companies for impact, resilience
Foulmouthed Brewing and Taco Trio are among five businesses to be recognized at the third annual South Portland Business Awards Reception.
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Merrie Allen
Helping is more than just a job for the director of a South Portland resource hub.
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Cape Elizabeth trust wins public funding for Shore Road land acquisition
The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust will receive $250,000 from the Land for Maine’s Future Program to buy a parcel near Robinson Woods Preserve.
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Press Herald Toy Fund expands its reach into Androscoggin County
Children in need will benefit from various fundraisers for the gift-giving program, including potluck luncheons to be held Dec. 8 by companies throughout Greater Portland.
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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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Linda Cohen will again serve as South Portland’s mayor
The longtime councilor and former city clerk was also the city’s mayor in 2015.