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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PublishedJune 23, 2010
Portland Catholic Diocese raises $42M
The two-year capital campaign that officially ends June 30 surpassed its goal.
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PublishedJune 23, 2010
Senate confirms U.S. attorney for Maine
Justice Thomas Delahanty II will replace Paula Silsby in the post that he held during 1980-81.
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PublishedJune 23, 2010
Garden tour meant to yield grant funds for city schools
The Portland Education Foundation is raising money for a program that funded 10 special projects this year.
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PublishedJune 22, 2010
Senate confirms Delahanty as U.S. attorney
The Lewiston native and Falmouth resident will replace Paula Silsby, who has held the office for nine years.
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PublishedJune 22, 2010
Riverton residents question library automation
One patron describes the proposal to automate the branch at Riverton school as ‘a slow death.’
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PublishedJune 21, 2010
Riverton residents plead to keep library branch open
PORTLAND — Riverton residents pleaded with city officials Monday night to keep a staffed Portland Public Library branch in their neighborhood’s school. That’s unlikely, given the budget troubles the city will face next year, including a $4 million reduction in federal funding, said library Director Steve Podgajny and Superintendent Jim Morse. They urged the residents […]
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PublishedJune 21, 2010
Program to rescue dropouts a keeper
The first Amnesty Day attracted 16 people and likely will be tried again to help increase graduation rates in Portland.
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PublishedJune 19, 2010
Portland schools mourn loss of student
Garrett Cormier, who had just completed his sophomore year, dies in a single-car crash in Falmouth.
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PublishedJune 18, 2010
Portland High student athlete dies in crash
Garrett Cormier’s mother, who teaches at Lyman Moore Middle School, came upon the scene shortly after police.
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PublishedJune 18, 2010
L’Ecole Francaise du Maine
The South Freeport school adds a prestigious accreditation from France’s Ministry of Education
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