Kaitlynn Gatchell, 23, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol.
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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Raising spirits with time, humor, shortbread
Every Sunday, Marshall “Jack” Gibson visits patients at the Maine Medical Center cancer treatment facility that’s named for his first wife, Susan, who died of lung cancer in 1989. He stops and chats and hands out packages of Scottish shortbread, which she showed him how to make back in 1953 from an old family recipe. […]
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Historic building violation halts job
Removal of windows from former newspaper offices causes work to be stopped until a change is approved.
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Arts group’s new home in old firehouse
Yarmouth has approved a lease, and the nonprofit group hopes to offer art programs by April.
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For her, cooking for 200 is ‘better than Christmas’
Believe it or not, Debi Hubbard has selfish reasons for cooking Thanksgiving dinner for more than 200 people each year at the VFW hall in South Portland. Hubbard started the tradition 16 years ago, with her friend Judy Levesque, because she wanted to avoid the challenge of splitting the holiday between her mother’s house and […]
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Proposal would give soccer arena to Freeport
To resolve a zoning issue, Seacoast United would pay to build the complex, then lease it from the town.
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Nordica Theatre opens Nov. 18 in Freeport
It’s named after an old movie theater that once stood in town.
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Freeport re-elects school board members
FREEPORT — Incumbents Nelson Larkin and Beth Parker were re-elected to two seats on the school board on Tuesday, defeating challenger Gurdarshan Gill, according to Town Clerk Bev Curry. Larkin and Parker will continue representing the town on the Board of Directors of Regional School Unit 5, which includes Pownal and Durham. Katherine Arno, […]
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Biddeford elects members to school, charter panels
BIDDEFORD — City voters elected seven people to the School Committee and four people to the Charter Revision Commission on Tuesday, according to City Clerk Carmen Morris. School Committee members are: Lisa Vannais, Tammy Fleurant, William Moriarty, Anthony Michaud, Heather Mills, James Emerson and Mark Gervais. Charter Revision Commission members are: Thomas Craven, Ryan […]