A movement to ban or limit the city’s use, and possibly private use, of pesticides is growing for health and environmental reasons.
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Developer proposes senior housing complex in Portland
Hawthorn Retirement Group is seeking to build a 150-unit project off outer Ocean Avenue.
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Posted inLife & Culture, News, Schools and Education
Belfast student sits silent for pledge, gets sent to principal
A national group says the boy had personal and religious reasons for not wanting to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The superintendent says he was copying South Portland students who have stressed that the pledge is optional.
Posted inBusiness, News
Cape Elizabeth establishes its first tax increment financing district
Property taxes collected on new value in the town center will be used to build sidewalks and improve stormwater management.
Posted inMaine, News, Religion and Values
Mission to communist island: Maine group to forge ties with Cuba’s Jews
Members will see how the faith is faring and cultural highlights in a visit made more exciting by renewed diplomatic relations.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
South Portland students not giving up on controversial change to pledge invitation
Three students plan to again seek the faculty’s approval for a new introduction to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
South Portland weighs proposal for liquid propane gas facility
City officials say NGL’s proposed storage and distribution facility would improve the way the gas is now handled at Rigby Yard.
Posted inMaine, News
South Portland enlists Boston firm to help defend crude oil ban
The City Council approves hiring environmental legal experts at Foley Hoag and hopes donations to city’s Clear Skies Fund will help pay for it.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Ken Kunin on track to become South Portland’s school superintendent
Kunin is principal of an American school in Rome and a former principal of Deering High and Reiche Community School in Portland.
Posted inMaine, News
Hospice project gives students rare insight into the end of life
The University of New England offers an unusually immersive care experience with patients facing death and dying.