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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PublishedJanuary 27, 2011
Report: Structure UMaine programs to feed businesses
The chancellor says he has concluded that higher education translates into economic development.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2011
Maine students reach top 10 on national science test
Fourth-graders tied for fifth and eighth-graders tied for eighth in an assessment done in 45 states.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2011
‘Bleak picture’ faces Portland schools in $4 million shortfall
The 2011-12 budget will likely be lower than this year’s, but cuts in federal funding are expected.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2011
Maine students perform well on national science test
Maine’s fourth-graders place fifth and eighth-graders place eighth on science portion of National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2011
Hearing tonight kicks off school budget season
The Portland school board meeting starts at 7 tonight in King Middle School cafeteria.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2011
Old-school folk prepare for new-school move
Everyone’s psyched about the Ocean Avenue school, principal says
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2011
Historic shipyard’s last building coming down
Work crews dismantle the bones of the last of South Portland’s mammoth shipyard, where 244 Liberty ships were built during World War II.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2011
UMaine president job down to four finalists
A search committee has picked four finalists for president of the University of Maine, UMaine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude announced Tuesday. The one chosen to be the 19th president of the system’s flagship university in Orono will succeed Robert Kennedy, who plans to step down in June. The finalists are: • Donald J. Farish, Ph.D., […]
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2011
Here, crime pays … as a teaching tool
PORTLAND — One could almost hear the heart-thumping strains of The Who as students filed into the mock crime scene on the fourth floor of Deering High School on Tuesday. Details of the case could have been “ripped from the headlines” or featured in the latest episode of “CSI.” It was the first day of […]
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2011
Four finalists named for UMaine presidency
The current president, Robert Kennedy, plans to step down in June.
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