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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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L.L. Bean boosts Freeport project
Its $500,000 donation to a new complex of fields and trails is in honor of the retailer’s 100th year.
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L.L.Bean gives $500K for Freeport fields
The donation will help the company celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary of doing business on Main Street since 1912.
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Alternative high school gets $1M grant
The federal grant will help Youth Building Alternatives serve more than 65 at-risk youths from across southern Maine.
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Waynflete gets $2M grant for scholarships
The Malone Family Foundation selected the school based on academic and staff quality, among other factors.
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Young financial mentor comes full circle
Seven years ago, Carine Rugema Stubbs was a senior at Deering High School who was enrolled in the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program.
Born of Rwandan parents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she was a recent war refugee who hoped the program would give her the skills to write an eye-catching resume, ace job interviews and generally make her way in a new country.
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Years of study lead to one big test
With their college options hinging on strong SAT scores, students turn to prep classes and tutors.
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Mainer eliminated from national poetry contest
Lulu Hawkes, who lives in Gorham and attends Catherine McAuley High School in Portland, reports that she won’t advance to the poetry-reciting finals.
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SMCC creates Maine FIre Science Institute
The institute will develop an online academy system to deliver first-responder training throughout the state.
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City schools bracing for influx from Cathedral
Portland educators will need to identify resources in the budget to serve up to 90 transferring students in the fall.