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 18, 2011
Four finalists named for UMaine presidency
The current president, Robert Kennedy, plans to step down in June.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2011
Stephen Colbert notes LePage remarks
Gov. Paul LePage’s recent controversial remarks about the NAACP were featured on The Colbert Report on Monday night. Stephen Colbert, host of the satirical late-night news program on Comedy Central, opened the show with a riff on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Colbert noted that the holiday is still “marred by controversy” and that Maine’s […]
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2011
Maine pays tributeto Martin Luther King Jr.
PORTLAND — They marched down Congress Street, shouting in unison, “This is what democracy looks like,” and carrying signs with slogans such as “Enraged by LePage” and “Civility Not Division.”
About 500 people braved the cold Monday afternoon to join a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and rally for justice on the steps of City Hall. The long-planned event was fueled by recent controversial statements from newly inaugurated Gov. Paul LePage.
Several community and church leaders delivered impassioned speeches to the gathering, including City Councilor Dory Waxman, who shared some of her father-in-law’s advice.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2011
Hundreds march and rally at Portland City Hall
Marchers shout “This is what democracy looks like” and carry signs with slogans such as “Enraged by LePage” and “Civility Not Division.”
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2011
King Day 2011: Emotions run high
The 30th anniversary Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Sunday was marked by sadness and outrage over Gov. Paul LePage’s comments last week about why he wouldn’t attend the NAACP Portland Branch’s premier annual event.
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2011
Kids test their voices in MLK Day projects
PORTLAND – In Sahro Atoor’s neighborhood, it’s easy to feel like an outsider. One day, a car drove by Atoor’s friend and the white men inside yelled racial epithets. “Go back to your country,” one of them shouted. In Kennedy Park, the housing complex where Atoor lives, kids hang around in cliques and talk trash […]
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2011
Schools ready for sports equality review
Portland has done an audit already that shows two problems in avoiding gender discrimination.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2011
LePage leaves NAACP feeling left out
He is unable to attend Martin Luther King events and has declined other invitations, but plans to honor King publicly.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2011
Three Maine school districts get $200K grants
The money will be used to plan and design student-centered educational programs that meet the needs of all learners.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2011
Biddeford high school students get a scientist’s point of view
A UNE visiting professor from Kenya shares details of her work to inspire students to pursue a science career.
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