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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PublishedJune 10, 2011
Wait’ll you get wind of this …
There are plenty of reasons why Olivia Fowler’s favorite course at Freeport High School is engineering and technology.
Olivia, a sophomore, is training for her pilot’s license and one day hopes to work for NASA. But the joy she gets from the elective engineering course taught by Jon Amory is more immediate.
“Mr. Amory said, ‘Build a wind tunnel,’ and we figured out how to do it.”
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PublishedJune 8, 2011
Freeport letting most shops fly ‘open’ flags
The flags are still prohibited along Main Street, where town officials worry they would create sign clutter and safety hazards.
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PublishedJune 8, 2011
Unum, Sea Dogs to salute Maine’s top teachers
The Starting 9 will be introduced during the Maine Teachers’ Hall of Fame recognition ceremony before Friday’s game at Hadlock Field.
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PublishedJune 8, 2011
Maine ranks 17th in U.S. in graduation rate, new study says
Reflecting data from 2008, Maine easily exceeds the national rate but lags most of the New England states.
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PublishedJune 7, 2011
Falmouth teacher wins $24,000 fellowship
Last year, Richard Meserve, a special education teacher at The REAL School, received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award.
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PublishedJune 7, 2011
Maine is 17th in 2008 grad rate report
Maine’s rate, as calculated by Education Week, was 76.5 percent, compared to a national average of 71.7 percent.
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PublishedJune 6, 2011
Falmouth embroiled in debateover soon-to-be-empty schools
A June 14 referendum on a proposal to redevelop the Plummer-Motz and Lunt elementary schools into a community center and public library is one of the most contentious issues to face town voters in years.
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PublishedJune 3, 2011
Teachers, not principal, to lead Reiche
Maine’s first public school team-leadership program is approved after months of studying other states.
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PublishedJune 2, 2011
Reiche School to be led by teachers
It will be the first public school in Portland and one of few in Maine to adopt a team-leadership model.
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PublishedJune 1, 2011
Farewell fest planned for Falmouth schools
Events Friday and Saturday will help the community say goodbye to the Plummer-Motz and Lunt elementary schools.
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