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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 town manager puts global spin on service
Mike McGovern travels the world to promote the Rotary’s effort to eradicate poliomyelitis.
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Proposal would end backing up by drivers at Cape transfer station
Engineers suggest a change in the traffic pattern after a fatal accident that amplified safety concerns.
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Payson heirs fighting Cumberland’s beach plan
A town vote approved creation of a public beach, but the lot’s former owners have filed suit to stop it.
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Mother of teen blamed for school threats says he’s ‘a good boy’
Mother of 16-year-old boy charged with sending emailed threats that closed Windham and Raymond schools says her son is ‘not the monster they’re making him out to be.’
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Windham-Raymond students return to schools after shutdown
Students, staff members and parents seem glad for a ‘return to some sense of normalcy’ in the wake of emailed threats.
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South Berwick apartment complex to promote aging in place
The 28-unit project is being praised as a model for other Maine communities.
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Mercy or murder? Deaths in Gouldsboro yield no easy answer
The story of Ray and Ginger Hutchins, a fiercely independent couple who struggled with pain and other health care issues as they aged, ended in a desperate act. Advocates for the elderly say there has to be a better way.
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Engineers will visit Cape Elizabeth’s transfer station to assess safety
Town officials hope to get suggestions for immediate changes in the wake of a fatal accident at the facility last week.
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Rare insight, empathy guide new South Portland mayor
Councilor Linda Cohen, who grew up poor and spent 21 years as a city clerk, wants to rebuild trust in government.