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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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South Portland set to flip the switch on Maine’s largest municipal solar array
Members of the public will be invited Tuesday to walk through the 2,944-panel facility and learn how it works.
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Scarborough voters to consider borrowing $19.5 million for new public safety building
Police Chief Robbie Moulton and Fire Chief Mike Thurlow will host an open house Saturday so residents can see all that’s wrong with the existing building.
Posted inMaine, Politics
South Portland again seeks write-in candidate for school board
School board Chairman Richard Matthews is frustrated by the lack of interest in a district seat that represents ‘tons of families.’
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Scarborough group challenges $463,477 in tax abatements paid by town
Its lawsuit claims an assessment board’s approval of the payments, which followed a ruling by Maine’s highest court, was discriminatory.
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South Portland’s second responder follows up on crises
Formerly a Department of Justice special agent, Dana Baldwin becomes the police department’s first behavioral health liaison.
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The naturalized citizen: He came here to study and stayed to thrive
What is naturalization?About Vietnam Quang Nguyen had a rather inauspicious arrival in the United States, especially for a young man who, 10 years later, is on track to fulfill his goal to become a millionaire. In August 2007, Nguyen traveled alone and with limited English skills from Vietnam to Portland. Just 18 at the time, […]
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The family: A young Vietnamese man builds success here, then brings his parents to share in it
Last November, three days after Quang Nguyen became a naturalized citizen, he applied to bring his parents from Vietnam to live in the United States. On Oct. 7, his father, Hung Nguyen, 53, and his mother, Hoa Le, 49, arrived at their new home with him in Portland, Maine. In the last week, after resting […]
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South Portland city councilor sworn in as incoming MMA president
Linda Cohen hopes to improve relations between the Maine Municipal Association and Gov. Paul LePage, who have wrangled over taxes and government policy.
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South Portland reacts as company kills cross-Canada pipeline plan
The city’s attorneys move to halt the Portland Pipe Line Corp. lawsuit as they review how TransCanada’s decision to kill the Energy East project might affect an existing pipeline from South Portland to Montreal.