Raina Jensen, 27, graduated from Deering High School.
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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Car crashes into Brunswick Walmart
Andrea Kreitman, 47, received non-life-threatening injuries, police say.
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Dan Paradee, Maine Turnpike’s PR manager, dies
Known for dressing in a moose costume at the York toll plaza, he liked connecting with people.
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Turnpike spokesman dies after cancer battle
Each Labor Day, Dan Paradee donned a moose suit, stationed himself at the York toll plaza and doled out token gifts to tourists leaving the state.
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Discipline in SchoolsBig changes loom in state’s restraint rules
Officials get advice from educators and children’s advocates as they seek to clarify state policy on a range of disciplinary tactics.
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Problems down, scores up
Westbrook students are achieving more academic success thanks to the shared efforts of parents, teachers and community members.
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City school business manager heads to Yarmouth
Herb Hopkins says he chose to move on following an administrative shake-up in Maine’s largest school district.
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Westbrook school advisory councils get recognition
A statewide group is launching a campaign to increase community involvement in all Maine schools.
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Maine students prepareto experience a financial future
Unlike many of his peers at Portland High School, Matt McInnis knows something about personal finance.
He’s had a savings account since he was 4 years old and he works part time at Maine Red Claws basketball games. Now a senior, he’s saving money to study criminal justice at Husson University in Bangor.
Still, as McInnis enters adulthood, he concedes that the broader financial landscape looks increasingly complicated, despite the efficiency of online banking and other benefits of modern technology.
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Panel: Revise expulsion procedures
All districts should give expelled students a re-entry plan, a study group says