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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PublishedMarch 3, 2011
King students to address Oregon conference
Four eighth-graders will give the keynote address to 800 educators at this year’s Expeditionary Learning National Conference.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2011
Mysterious odor forces Hall kindergartners to move to new classroom
PORTLAND — A kindergarten class at Hall Elementary School has been moved to another classroom while school officials investigate an unknown odor. The class started meeting in the school’s library in mid-February, after its teacher noticed an earthy, unfamiliar odor in the classroom, Principal Kelly Hasson said Wednesday. Maintenance workers removed interior and exterior walls […]
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PublishedMarch 2, 2011
Portland superintendent’s plan for schools is full of cuts
His budget would erase 81 jobs and raise taxes by 4 percent as Portland deals with a loss of stimulus funding.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2011
Portland super’s budget would ax 81 school jobs
PORTLAND — Eighty-one positions in the city’s public schools would be eliminated by the $92.7 million budget that the superintendent proposed tonight for the coming school year. Targeted positions include 31 teachers, 38 educational technicians, six administrators, three custodians and one secretary, Superintendent Jim Morse said. Exactly how many people would be laid off is […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2011
Hoping to shape scientists, leaders
FREEPORT – Melissa Catalan gazed at the dark water swirling where the ice-covered Little River flowed into Casco Bay and offered a seemingly unremarkable observation. “The ice is thinner than it was last week,” Catalan said, bundled up and surrounded by her peers. The girls stood on a one-lane bridge, on a rolling dirt road, […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2011
Land deal would boost magnet school
The partnership pairs Good Will-Hinckley with Kennebec Valley Community College.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2011
Falmouth bookstore to close Monday
Books Etc. will close after 23 years in business.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2011
Mainers in the path of Middle East history
Maine students and professors in the Middle East keep close tabs on the region’s unrest, but they aren’t letting it keep them home.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2011
Principal of Riverton school submits letter of resignation
Nancy Kopack will serve through June, during school improvement efforts.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2011
A matter of choice
The competition grows intense as Portland’s three high schools court the city’s 500 eighth-graders. It’s an opportunity and a challenge that’s unique to Maine’s largest school district.
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