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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PublishedNovember 23, 2010
Turnpike spokesman dies after cancer battle
Each Labor Day, Dan Paradee donned a moose suit, stationed himself at the York toll plaza and doled out token gifts to tourists leaving the state.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2010
Discipline in SchoolsBig changes loom in state’s restraint rules
Officials get advice from educators and children’s advocates as they seek to clarify state policy on a range of disciplinary tactics.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2010
Problems down, scores up
Westbrook students are achieving more academic success thanks to the shared efforts of parents, teachers and community members.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2010
City school business manager heads to Yarmouth
Herb Hopkins says he chose to move on following an administrative shake-up in Maine’s largest school district.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2010
Westbrook school advisory councils get recognition
A statewide group is launching a campaign to increase community involvement in all Maine schools.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2010
Maine students prepareto experience a financial future
Unlike many of his peers at Portland High School, Matt McInnis knows something about personal finance.
He’s had a savings account since he was 4 years old and he works part time at Maine Red Claws basketball games. Now a senior, he’s saving money to study criminal justice at Husson University in Bangor.
Still, as McInnis enters adulthood, he concedes that the broader financial landscape looks increasingly complicated, despite the efficiency of online banking and other benefits of modern technology.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2010
Panel: Revise expulsion procedures
All districts should give expelled students a re-entry plan, a study group says
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PublishedNovember 15, 2010
SMCC gets $1.9M federal grant for student success
New programs will target students in the formative first semester of college.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2010
Voters cite many reasons at the ballot box
The mood among Maine voters ran from resignation to outrage as they went to the polls.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2010
Campaign Diary: ‘Gloves are off’ for Libby Mitchell as campaign nears end
‘I didn’t cause the recession,’ she tells a radio host on a day of interviews and visits to get-out-the-vote centers.
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