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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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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PublishedFebruary 19, 2011
Local actions, national attention
Student’s community spirit earns presidential award
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2011
SMCC culinary arts program wins accreditation
The designation gives the college access to educational programs, certifications, competitions and networking opportunities.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2011
Event to explore issues facing immigrant youth
Students, educators and representatives of nonprofits are invited to speak at the free, public event on Saturday.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2011
Electron microscope makes big impression at Maine schools
PORTLAND — The black-and-white image of fuzzy cells filled the computer screen, showing students at Deering High School what breast cancer looks like when it’s magnified 9,000 times. The students’ extraordinary experience was possible because scientists from the University of Southern Maine brought a portable electron microscope into David Sproul’s biology classroom on Tuesday. About […]
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2011
Waynflete hosts Haitian dinner, film fundraiser
PORTLAND — Students at Waynflete School will host a dinner-and-film fundraiser for Haiti on Thursday. A Haitian festival, including ethnic foods, performances and crafts, will be held from 5 to 6:45 p.m. in Sills Hall at the Arts Center, 360 Spring St. Dinner costs $7 per person or $10 for a family of four. Reservations are […]
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2011
USM presents play for Black History Month
PORTLAND — The University of Southern Maine will present a one-woman play, “I Question America,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Black History Month. The free, public performance will be at the Hannaford Lecture Hall, Abromson Center, Bedford Street. The play, performed by actress E.P. McKnight, tells the story of civil rights leader Fannie Lou […]
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