Department officials hope that building stronger relationships with minority and immigrant communities will help expand the applicant pool and increase diversity in the mostly white, male department.
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 council makes part of Knightville street two-way again
Some business owners fight the change, which will turn some angled parking into fewer parallel spaces.
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South Portland Council’s decision on appointment raises diversity issue
City Councilor Brad Fox fails in an effort to have an African-American woman appointed to the city’s Civil Service Commission.
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South Portland to consider pesticides ordinance
The partial ban of synthetic pesticides would apply to city-owned and private lawns, gardens and sidewalks, but it would exclude commercial agriculture, golf courses and other home uses.
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Bag fee, plastic foam ban take effect Tuesday in South Portland
The City Council approved the ordinances unanimously last September.
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Cape Elizabeth student’s photo wins contest, will hang at U.S. Capitol
The black-and-white photo of a grizzled farmer in Friendship took top honors for Maine’s 1st District.
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Committee hears conflicting views on bill that aims to protect gun ranges in Maine
Supporters say more than 100 shooting ranges across the state are threatened by increasing development in rural areas, challenging their futures and Maine’s hunting heritage.
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South Portland council shows shift on disputed Knightville one-way
A proposed return to two-way traffic would replace 15 angled parking spaces on the west side of Ocean Street between D and E streets with nine parallel spaces.
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South Portland violates its own ordinance in Knightville one-way dispute
Nearly four years after South Portland officials allowed angled parking on Ocean Street to appease some businesses, neighbors find a city ordinance that says it’s illegal.
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South Portland council appoints De Angelis to post over member’s objection
Councilor Eben Rose had asked the former mayor to confirm that she wouldn’t run for the Legislature this year if he nominated her to the Civil Service Commission.