The South Portland Housing Authority wants to build 28 affordable apartments in Thornton Heights to help address the overall lack of housing in the city.
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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Cape Elizabeth to hold hearing on possible 3.9% tax increase
The Town Council will hold a public hearing Monday on a proposed spending increase of 2.2%.
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South Portland council backs delay on marijuana businesses
The City Council takes an initial vote to renew the temporary ban despite the slow pace of regulatory action at the state level.
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Maine poet wins international prize for poem about husband’s dementia
The judge of the Ballymoe International Poetry Prize says she ‘fell hard and fast’ for Lee Sharkey’s poem ‘Letter to Al.’
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South Portland authority plans to add 104 housing units in tight rental market
The two housing projects would include both subsidized and just-below-market-rate apartments.
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South Portland considers extending marijuana moratorium
Some city councilors question the need since the Legislature isn’t expected to iron out state regulations governing marijuana operations until next year.
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South Portland prostitution arrest helps build case against interstate sex ring
The 2015 arrest of a Chinese immigrant at a Main Street hotel led to the indictments of three New York City residents on federal sex trafficking charges.
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South Portland drops bid for sanctuary city designation
City councilors are divided over a new proposal that largely affirms police policies and practices already in effect.
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Contractor controversy mars South Portland public works facility project
Bickmore Concrete claims it was fired twice by Great Falls Construction and left with $63,000 in unpaid bills, after the city removed SMRT Inc. architects from the project.
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Maine poet is a finalist for international prize with work about husband’s dementia
Lee Sharkey and Al Bersbach of Portland will fly to Dublin this week for the prestigious Ballymaloe awards event.