The Zoning Board of Appeals will allow 370 spaces instead of 500.
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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Film aims to ease race to achieve
Nearly 500 gather at Yarmouth High to watch the film ‘Race to Nowhere,’ which raises disturbing questions about the pressures on today’s young people.
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Portland teachers OK contract that delays some pay increases
Teachers also agree to add five teaching days – increasing the number of school days to 180 and surpassing the state-required 175.
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Portland teachers agree to salary freeze
Three-year contract will save $800,000 in anticipated wage increases in the coming school year.
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Expelled kids find road back
A Windham program helps expelled youths keep up with classes, avoid re-offending and work toward graduation
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Learning’s a shore thing
Teams of seventh-graders from Scarborough Middle School worked with sticks, strings and frozen fingers to chart the shoreline on their monthly field trip for the Southern Maine Beach Profile Monitoring Project. The frigid temperatures were nothing compared to the waist-deep snow that challenged the students when they visited the beach in January.
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Planetarium to host NanoDays events for kids
More than 200 science museums, research centers and universities are taking part in the nationwide festival.
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High school bands win honors at Maine jazz fest
The event was held at Mount Desert Island and sponsored by the Maine Music Educators Association.
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UMaine system opens doors to Japanese
Japanese university students whose classes have been suspended or terminated because of the recent disaster are invited to enroll.