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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Expelled kids face uncertain road back

by Kelley Bouchard

In June, Laurie Bauman’s son was expelled from Cape Elizabeth High School after he sold a pot brownie to another freshman at school and that student wound up in a hospital emergency room.

The student recovered and Bauman’s son – an honor roll student and award-winning musician who hadn’t been in serious trouble before – admitted responsibility, she said. Bauman was aware that her son was dabbling in drug use. She had enrolled him in drug counseling six months earlier. But she was shocked to learn that he was selling, she said.

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