Kim Brandt is Maine’s 2012 Middle Level Principal of the Year.
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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Warm weather has boatyards buzzing
Yard operators are getting busy very early this year as the mild winter puts boat owners in a seafaring mood. “People just want to start having fun again.”
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Justices uphold outsourcing of Freeport dispatch
The court denies a request for a ruling that the town improperly approved the service shift to Brunswick.
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School costs may require tax increase in Falmouth
The municipal budget holds the line, but a new building and higher enrollment and salaries will add to school spending.
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Freeport wins court’s favor in dispatch flap
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court finds Town Council acted appropriately in ratifying a multi-year contract for Brunswick dispatch services several months after it was signed.
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Falmouth municipal budget plan preserves tax rate
That’s a good, because the school budget to be presented Friday is expected to address enrollment, elementary-level spending and cost-of-living pay increases.
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More schools mine China for students
Several public high schools in Maine are developing sister-school relationships in China as a way to attract international students, along with the tuition dollars and cultural diversity that they promise to bring to Maine’s mostly white, English-speaking communities.
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After record-breaking surgery, 9-year-old back at home
In order to keep her alive, doctors removed 9-year-old Alannah Shevenell’s stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, small bowel and one-third of her esophagus. But this little Maine girl still faces much adversity.
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Freeport weighs town computer upgrade
An overhaul of the current balky system would make life easier for workers and residents, an official says.
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Ethics rules under review in Freeport
Town councilors hope to address concerns over conflicts of interest and other issues by creating ‘one consistent code.’