June 30 is the new deadline for responding to a survey that will help shape long-range planning.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, 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, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
Medical marijuana doctor expands to Falmouth
Physicians reluctant to recommend the treatment are sending patients to Dr. Dustin Sulak.
Brunswick residents suggest other sites for new train facility
At a forum, neighbors of the area initially proposed for the building tell the state it’s the wrong choice.
Train officials consider options in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — The New England Passenger Rail Authority is considering alternative sites for a proposed Downeaster train layover and maintenance facility that has upset some homeowners in neighborhoods off Route 1. Alternative sites will be discussed at a public forum at 7 tonight in the Town Council chambers at Maine Street Station. “We will be […]
District works to shape fair new contract
Teachers in the three towns that make up RSU 5 don’t earn equal salaries, slowing contract talks.
Other Brunswick sites viewed for Downeaster layovers
Alternative sites will be discussed at a public forum on Thursday.
Freeport hosts weekend of free wellness activities
Be Well Freeport runs from Friday through Sunday and includes exercise programs, nutrition advice and fitness counseling.
Cumberland scheduled to fix zoning glitch
Planners intend to remove ‘retail’ and ‘associated retail’ from the list of permitted uses along Route 1.
Downeaster plan prompts Brunswick meeting
The public forum will address noise concerns and other issues raised by neighbors of a proposed 40,000-square-foot train facility.
Freeport Village redux
A new food market signals an effort to give residents more services and to offer visitors more than retail.
Nestled on a newly built stretch of School Street, the new Bow Street Market is just around the corner from the original store that served mostly locals for 65 years.
The barn-style 15,000-square-foot market is three times larger than the original and is situated a lot closer to the village center.