After 55 years, Chief Byron ‘Pat’ Fairbanks is retiring – with thanks from a grateful community.
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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Maine Diocese pushes back on birth control rule
Requiring nonprofits to cover staffers’ contraception violates the Constitution, church officials say.
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RSU 5 seeks input on Freeport High changes
School officials have hired PDT Architects of Portland to produce a master plan to improve the safety, accessibility and appearance of the high school, which was built in 1961.
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Ron Paul in Maine: Visit to USM Gorham is creating a stir
Politically informed students are interested, along with those who are happy because ‘not much happens in Gorham.’
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Public praises OceanView project at Falmouth hearing
Residents offer ideas and raise a few concerns about the housing planned for two ex-school sites.
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Free speech gets the nod in Freeport
Wary of a lawsuit, councilors end the removal of anonymous publications from Town Hall.
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Local schools plan dual-diploma French program
North Yarmouth Academy and L’Ecole Francaise team up to offer students a degree recognized by France.
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Yarmouth to hold hearing on removing dams
Five of seven councilors agreed in December that two town-owned dams should be removed.
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Falmouth picks plan for school sites
OceanView’s bid of $3.25 million satisfies many councilor goals and will be voted on as soon as Monday.
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Falmouth council picks $3.25M OceanView deal
OceanView is a 60-acre retirement community next to the former Plummer-Motz and Lunt school complex.