Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, 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 for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2012
More than 40 gay couples licensed to wed in Maine
In communities all over the state, same-sex couples obtain licenses to stand for the first time before their friends and family and be able to say: ‘We’re married!’
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PublishedDecember 28, 2012
44 couples obtain marriage licenses
The legal barrier dismantled by November’s vote, same-sex couples line up to make “it official.”
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PublishedDecember 27, 2012
Maine officials acting amid a surge in gonorrhea
The 441 infections in 2012, many involving people in their 20s, is quadruple the number reported in 2008.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2012
Portland officials eager to see proposals for Nova Scotia ferry service
They’re due Jan. 24, and if one is accepted, the service to Canada could benefit both tourism and transport.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
The brisk walk, salsa dip formula
The holidays are an especially tough time to get or stay healthy, but there are many ways you can get it done.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2012
Candlelight vigil remembers 30 homeless who died in Portland in 2012
It’s among the highest number of homeless deaths ever tallied in Maine’s largest city.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2012
More than 56,000 Mainers lose power from storm
A powerful wind- and rainstorm pounded coastal and inland areas of Maine on Friday, knocking down trees and power lines and causing chaos.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2012
Whooping cough cases more than triple in Maine
Cases have exploded since 2011, rising from 202 to 701, and health officials are urging Mainers to get vaccinated.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2012
Maine’s debt to hospitals approaches $500 million
Hospitals are urging the state to begin making overdue Medicaid payments so they can also collect the much bigger federal match.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2012
Feds recognize Web health-info exchange in Maine
HealthInfoNet links 27 of Maine’s 39 hospitals and 294 physician practices across the state.
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