The crash brings the first snowmobile fatality of the 2016-17 winter season.
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.
Phippsburg man arrested after seven-hour standoff
Ruben Foster threatened to kill two family members on New Year’s Day, police say.
Credit union donates $100,000 to fill gap in South Portland-to-Kittery trail
The gift from Town & Country Federal Credit Union will be used to complete a 1.6-mile gap in the Eastern Trail as it runs through Scarborough.
Online series captures voices and views from Portland’s working waterfront
‘Wharfside’ is a collection of a dozen audio slide shows sponsored by the Waterfront Alliance and the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership.
Cape Elizabeth considers shopping bag fee, plastic foam container ban
The proposals mirror ordinances in effect in Portland and South Portland.
Maine Audubon exec resigns after less than a year on the job
Ole Amundsen III has decided to leave the Falmouth-based environmental group in January, saying it’s ‘the right move.’
South Portland city councilor hospitalized following heart attack
City Councilor Brad Fox had experienced intermittent chest pains for the last two weeks and is awaiting surgery at Maine Medical Center.
House passes bill Sen. Collins authored to counter Boko Haram terrorist threat
Maine’s senior senator says the legislation will ‘send an international signal that we will never forget the girls of Nigeria’ who were kidnapped simply because they went to school.
Group seeks private donations to help South Portland fight pipeline lawsuit
The group posts a video requesting donations as the city’s legal costs head toward $1 million in the ‘Clear Skies’ ordinance case.
South Portland inauguration brings calls for respect, inclusion
New Mayor Patti Smith, city councilors and school board members are sworn in, and outgoing mayor Tom Blake is recognized for his contributions.