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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
    October 27, 2011

    Freeport to mark completion of athletic fields

    The fields are part of a $3.3 million multi-use complex that will include trails for running, biking and cross-country skiing and a recreational lodge.

  • Published
    October 27, 2011

    Sex parties cause banquet hall patrons to flee

    Organizers of a Nov. 5 benefit dance in Sanford fear that the hall’s operators may lose their liquor and business licenses when the Town Council reviews them on Tuesday.

  • Published
    October 27, 2011

    Caterer tells town sex parties will stop

    The swingers’ club disturbs residents and leads Sanford to move the Ward 7 polling site out of the banquet hall.

  • Published
    October 26, 2011

    Caterer promises to stop Sanford sex parties

      SANFORD — The owner of a catering company that hosted sex parties at a local banquet hall has promised town officials that the parties will stop. Town officials ordered Jim and Susan Colley of Springvale, operators of Great Beginnings Catering at Mousam View Place, to halt the parties after undercover police officers witnessed partygoers […]

  • Published
    October 25, 2011

    Sanford orders caterer to stopsex parties at banquet hall

    Undercover police witnessed about 40 people openly engaged in various sexual acts at Mousam View Place on Oct. 15. The monthly parties started a few months ago and were scheduled to run through December.

  • Published
    October 25, 2011

    ‘Outstanding’ educator gets national prize

    Yarmouth seventh-graders say they appreciate Morgan Cuthbert’s challenging math and science lessons.

  • Published
    October 24, 2011

    Yarmouth teacher wins$25,000 Milken award

    Morgan Cuthbert grew up in Brunswick and lives in Freeport.

  • Published
    October 24, 2011

    Honda goes the distance: 1 million miles

    SACO — Joe LoCicero’s 1990 Honda Accord slipped into a parking spot in front of City Hall with its engine purring, much as it did two decades ago after it rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio. The town of Norway resident was honored with a surprise parade and given a 2012 Accord on […]

  • Published
    October 24, 2011

    Early morning blaze destroys Saco restaurant

    SACO — A seasonal restaurant on Ocean Park Road that had served steak and ribs for 30 years was destroyed by fire early Sunday. Inspectors from the state Fire Marshal’s Office were at the Steak N Rib Restaurant on Sunday afternoon, starting their search for a cause. They’re expected to continue their investigation today, after […]

  • Published
    October 23, 2011

    Maine man’s Honda racks up 1 million miles

    Joe LoCicero bought his 1990 Accord in 1996, when it had 74,000 miles on it, and kept it running through diligent maintenance.