Students would shift to Cumberland under the tentative plan, saving about $550,000 a 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.
S. Portland robot team wins regional challenge
The Riot Crew robotics team is heading to the annual FIRST Robotics Championship in St. Louis, Mo., in April.
Maine Diocese dials down anti gay-marriage campaign
Instead of actively fighting a gay-rights ballot question, Maine’s bishop will highlight the benefit of traditional unions.
Maine Diocese says it won’t campaign against gay marriage
Maine’s Roman Catholic Church won’t join a political campaign against gay marriage this year, opting instead to educate its members about the importance of traditional marriage.
Steve Abbott, GOP veteran, won’t run for Snowe’s seat
The 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate says he cannot leave his job at UMaine amid a two-year commitment.
Two Pingrees mull campaign options
Democratic Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree continues to mull entering the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe.
Soccer club says future of Freeport plan muddy
A representative declines to say the Pownal Road site was ruled out by a zoning change denial.
Yarmouth history center to break ground in April
Patches of snow still dotted the ground when 20-year-old Maren Madsen arrived by train at Yarmouth Junction in May 1892.
Freeport blocks construction of soccer complex
Because of residents’ oppositions, the Town Council rejected a zoning change that would have allowed a new indoor-outdoor soccer complex near Hedgehog Mountain.
Freeport residents pack Seacoast hearing
Testimony so far is overwhelmingly against the soccer club’s request for a zoning change needed to build an indoor-outdoor field complex in a rural residential district.