CUMBERLAND – Leah Twomey has seen the magic happen again and again, when a child with severe mental and physical disabilities responds to the velvet nuzzle of a Shetland pony. “It awakens children in a way that other therapies just can’t,” Twomey said. “The ponies come up and put their heads in their laps. They […]
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.
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These tekkies like living on the (cutting) edge
YARMOUTH – Around town and beyond, they’re known as the Bens — Ben McNaboe and Ben Nickerson — members of Yarmouth High School’s class of 2011 who have distinguished themselves as crusaders for technology in the classroom. The Bens became best friends as freshmen, drawn together by a shared passion for technology. Both products of […]
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GREAT GRADS 2011
Tireless volunteer just happy to carry on her family’s legacy of community service
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Cumberland voters weigh gravel pit ban
Residents will rule on an initiative that would restrict work on the Copp property, and on the school budget.
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Wait’ll you get wind of this …
There are plenty of reasons why Olivia Fowler’s favorite course at Freeport High School is engineering and technology.
Olivia, a sophomore, is training for her pilot’s license and one day hopes to work for NASA. But the joy she gets from the elective engineering course taught by Jon Amory is more immediate.
“Mr. Amory said, ‘Build a wind tunnel,’ and we figured out how to do it.”
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Freeport letting most shops fly ‘open’ flags
The flags are still prohibited along Main Street, where town officials worry they would create sign clutter and safety hazards.
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Unum, Sea Dogs to salute Maine’s top teachers
The Starting 9 will be introduced during the Maine Teachers’ Hall of Fame recognition ceremony before Friday’s game at Hadlock Field.
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Maine ranks 17th in U.S. in graduation rate, new study says
Reflecting data from 2008, Maine easily exceeds the national rate but lags most of the New England states.
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Falmouth teacher wins $24,000 fellowship
Last year, Richard Meserve, a special education teacher at The REAL School, received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award.
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Maine is 17th in 2008 grad rate report
Maine’s rate, as calculated by Education Week, was 76.5 percent, compared to a national average of 71.7 percent.