The School Board made some last-minute changes to the budget, but it wasn’t enough get the spending plan passed.
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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Portland voters overwhelmingly approve $96.3 million school budget
The spending plan requires no teacher layoffs and will provide more funding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Property tax breaks for select few under fire in Maine
A widespread assessment practice that slashes the tax bill on adjacent lots with the same owner is illegal and unfair, Scarborough lawsuits say.
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Bowdoin College president says he’ll leave in 2015
Barry Mills will step down next year to pursue another ‘professional challenge.’
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Maine finance Commissioner H. Sawin Millett to retire
A public servant for nearly 55 years, he has helped Gov. LePage institute a variety of budget initiatives.
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Scarborough dog owners balk at latest plover protection effort
Councilors delay action to address concerns about ‘protected areas’ that would be established on town beaches.
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Construction starting on South Portland building to be leased to DHHS
Builders say they’re on schedule as they face a tight deadline to deliver the contentious building.
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LePage to attend inaugural event at UNE’s Morocco campus
The university welcomed 23 students at its new Tangier campus on Jan. 10.
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Army Corps of Engineers to ensure Scarborough dredge is finished
If the contractor doesn’t finish within a week, the work could be completed as soon as next fall.
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Unfinished dredging job a setback for Scarborough
If the river work isn’t done by the March 31 deadline, beach restoration will have to wait and navigation problems will persist.