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Kelley Bouchard
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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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Chancellor takes pulse at USM meetings
James Page says that, amid a variety of opinions, he hears much concern over how the university will evolve.
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Freeport downsizing field plan
The town proposes a smaller recreational lodge for the Hunter Road athletic fields.
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Nest control: Ospreys ousted in Maine
Seeing no eggs, workers remove the nest at the ship megaberth. The birds will likely build elsewhere, a biologist says.
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City workers remove osprey nest from new megaberth
Portland takes action after a biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says the nest could be removed if it contained no eggs.
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Freeport reviewing municipal budget
The proposal and its 3.7% spending increase will be the subject of a public hearing set for May 15.
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Osprey nest forces a port choice
Port of Portland officials say they must decide: Either they allow a pair of ospreys to continue building their home on the megaberth pier … or the nest is history.
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Skaters hunting for area ice time
The reconstruction project has hockey players and other skaters traveling as far as Dover, N.H.
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Chancellor plans visit to embattled USM
James Page will visit next week, after USM faculty’s recent no-confidence vote on President Selma Botman.
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Yarmouth Water District sets rate hike at 14 percent
The increase will help pay for the district’s new $2.25 million headquarters.