Any deal is likely to include a without-a-permit penalty for the Yarmouth Water District and a contractor.
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.
Freeport citizens discuss ideas for town-owned land
Ideas ranged from the practical — add parking at the Pownal Road athletic fields — to the sublime — build an observation tower on Hedgehog Mountain.
Freeport’s plea about usable land: Dream big
Dozens of residents will brainstorm Thursday on a vision for a 250-acre town-owned parcel on Hunter Road.
Pretty? Route 1? Yarmouth gets ideas
Visions of a transformed commercial corridor are culled from a series of brainstorming sessions.
Durham schedules forum on leaving RSU 5
Town voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to pursue withdrawing from the school district, which includes Freeport and Pownal.
Many fail to seek Maine tax, rent refunds
Only about half of those eligible apply to get money back.
Petitioner in SAD 51 seeks split over taxes
North Yarmouth will vote Nov. 6 on whether to consider leaving the high-performing district.
Sen. Snowe to appear on ‘Parks and Rec’ tonight
Actor Adam Scott says Snowe is a “smart, sophisticated” woman.
Meeting set on future of Portland’s Clifford School
The Nathan Clifford Re-Use Advisory Task Force will seek public input on Oct. 2.
Maine gay-rights leader to get diversity award
Rita Kissen is an author, singer, composer and retired professor who founded the Portland chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.