PORTLAND — The black-and-white image of fuzzy cells filled the computer screen, showing students at Deering High School what breast cancer looks like when it’s magnified 9,000 times. The students’ extraordinary experience was possible because scientists from the University of Southern Maine brought a portable electron microscope into David Sproul’s biology classroom on Tuesday. About […]
Kelley Bouchard
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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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Waynflete hosts Haitian dinner, film fundraiser
PORTLAND — Students at Waynflete School will host a dinner-and-film fundraiser for Haiti on Thursday. A Haitian festival, including ethnic foods, performances and crafts, will be held from 5 to 6:45 p.m. in Sills Hall at the Arts Center, 360 Spring St. Dinner costs $7 per person or $10 for a family of four. Reservations are […]
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USM presents play for Black History Month
PORTLAND — The University of Southern Maine will present a one-woman play, “I Question America,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Black History Month. The free, public performance will be at the Hannaford Lecture Hall, Abromson Center, Bedford Street. The play, performed by actress E.P. McKnight, tells the story of civil rights leader Fannie Lou […]
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High school finalists named in regional poetry reading
Five high school students were named finalists in the Southern Regional Poetry Out Loud Competition held Thursday at the City Theater in Biddeford, according to the Maine Arts Commission. They are Lulu Hawkes, Catherine McAuley High School in Portland; Ian Hawkes, Gorham High School; Munye Mohamed, Portland High School; Morgan Wiggan, Thornton Academy in Saco; […]
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Riverton School: Reaching to improve
Teachers say ‘students are responding’ to an effort to get off the list of 10 lowest-performing schools.
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‘This is my country now’
The U.S. welcomes 32 new citizens from 15 countries, while fifth-graders from Falmouth learn about the rigorous process of becoming an American.
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Portland schools approve retirement incentive
Officials facing a tight budget offer the enhanced packages to about 200 workers to reduce payroll and layoffs.
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Casco Bay High School has room to grow
A task force recommends adding 100 students to the school within three years.
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Maine’s robotics teams give engineering a spin
While the teens must raise thousands of dollars and spend countless hours, it’s not just about the ‘bots.
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For local superintendents, deciding when to cancel school often a tough call
When Reza Namin visits a classroom in one of Westbrook’s four elementary schools, children often recognize him for the one thing he does as superintendent that affects them directly. One student invariably pipes up, “You’re the man who calls school off on snow days!” While students and staff members often relish snow days as unexpected […]