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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PublishedDecember 30, 2010
Mechanics tried to fix cable before chairlift derailed
Mechanics at the Sugarloaf Mountain Resort were trying to realign a chairlift cable Tuesday when it derailed and dropped five chairs carrying skiers into the snow 25 to 30 feet below, resort officials said Wednesday.
The announcement came as state inspectors ended their first full day investigating the accident, which sent eight people to hospitals and stranded dozens of skiers on the Spillway East lift for as long as an hour and 44 minutes.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2010
AG releases video of Outlaws shooting
Clip shows portion of federal raid that ended in death of Thomas Mayne.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2010
Top grade for school librarian
Kelley McDaniel never saw herself overseeing a hushed repository of books.
As the librarian at King Middle School, she’s usually at the center of activity, whether students are enjoying snacks at a Thanks a Latte reader-appreciation event, playing vampire-themed games during a library sleepover for fans of the “Twilight” series or engaging in a scholarly discussion about books set in the Civil War era.
It’s a part-time job that McDaniel does with full-time vigor, largely because it allows her to learn right along with students.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2010
Cost-cutting pays off for schools, city
Portland’s $2.2 million surplus for the last budget year is welcome, but cutbacks loom next year.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2010
Students put LePage to the test
Portland eighth-graders learning about government quiz the next governor on his positions and plans for the state.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2010
LePage fields Portland students’ questions
Students asked the governor-elect about his stand on education spending, environmental protection and gay marriage, among other issues.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2010
20 Maine teachers get national certification
The 201 Maine teachers who have been certified in recent years are among more than 91,000 nationally certified teachers across the country.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2010
Portland school board to vote on core principles
PORTLAND — The Board of Public Education will vote Wednesday night on a proposed slate of core principles that are meant to guide future budget and policy decisions. The board will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 250 at Casco Bay High School. The core principles support “an organization that strives for continuous improvement, with agreed-upon […]
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PublishedDecember 11, 2010
Critics say city school chief lacks thriftiness
But committee members insist that it’s too early to tell whether his reorganization of the central office is successful.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2010
Grant will help the world
Casco Bay High School students are competing for a $1,000 grant, but they know the stakes are much higher.
Sixty-two sophomores presented proposals Thursday to use the money to address problems in the developing world such as hunger, disease, poverty and lack of education. They raised the money themselves, by holding a Halloween dance.
Their proposals, developed as an Expeditionary Learning project, were judged by teams of grant-writing and philanthropy experts, who selected five finalists to continue in the competition. The students will vote for a winner next week.
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