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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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  • Published
    November 29, 2011
    20100324_FalmouthBus

    Falmouth council keeps Metro bus service

    The 5-2 vote comes after a lively public hearing and discussion of whether the town can afford the cost.

  • Published
    November 28, 2011

    Occupy Maine decides to seek Portland permit

    Members of the Occupy encampment in Lincoln Park agreed Sunday to apply for a city permit that, if approved, would allow the demonstrators to remain in the park through the winter.

  • Published
    November 27, 2011

    Falmouth to consider ending Metro service

    The town’s tab for the bus service has grown, but so has ridership.

  • Published
    November 27, 2011

    Occupy Maine considers seeking permits, leaving Lincoln Park

    Members are weighing whether to seek permits to stay in Lincoln Park or pull up tent stakes until spring.

  • Published
    November 27, 2011

    South Portland fire was accidental

    No one was home at 17 Osborne Ave. when the fire broke out around 4:25 p.m. near the kitchen stove.

  • Published
    November 27, 2011

    Portland woman arrested in Brunswick crash

    Kaitlynn Gatchell, 23, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol.

  • Published
    November 24, 2011

    Raising spirits with time, humor, shortbread

    Every Sunday, Marshall “Jack” Gibson visits patients at the Maine Medical Center cancer treatment facility that’s named for his first wife, Susan, who died of lung cancer in 1989. He stops and chats and hands out packages of Scottish shortbread, which she showed him how to make back in 1953 from an old family recipe. […]

  • Published
    November 24, 2011
    20111123_Windows

    Historic building violation halts job

    Removal of windows from former newspaper offices causes work to be stopped until a change is approved.

  • Published
    November 24, 2011

    Arts group’s new home in old firehouse

    Yarmouth has approved a lease, and the nonprofit group hopes to offer art programs by April.

  • Published
    November 24, 2011

    For her, cooking for 200 is ‘better than Christmas’

    Believe it or not, Debi Hubbard has selfish reasons for cooking Thanksgiving dinner for more than 200 people each year at the VFW hall in South Portland. Hubbard started the tradition 16 years ago, with her friend Judy Levesque, because she wanted to avoid the challenge of splitting the holiday between her mother’s house and […]