A new program in Portland aims to keep lower-income families from going hungry in summer.
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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Maine student volunteers to be honored at Fenway
Known as the Maine Action Team, the students are scheduled to meet Boston Red Sox players Jason Varitek, David Ortiz, Mike Cameron and Bill Hall.
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Bowdoin team heads to Singapore for robotics games
The Northern Bites, seeded second in this year’s competition, will be among 24 teams competing for the robotics soccer world championship in the Standard Platform League.
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USM to host international conference on tech learning
The three-day Diverse 2010 will be held on the Portland campus in July.
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Student photos to appear on 70,000 laptops
Nineteen winning images were selected from nearly 400 entries in statewide online competition.
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City schools to review policies on foreign trips
The issue of legal liability and safety on field trips and overseas programs call for greater scrutiny, some say.
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Portland’s new academic chief starts July 1
David Galin has been curriculum director of School Administrative Distrct 51 in Cumberland and North Yarmouth for six years.
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Stephen Thurston: Child of adversity has goals in Army
SOUTH PORTLAND – Stephen Thurston has received two letters in his life that most children would rather not get. One was from his mother, who was a drug user and dealer, he said. She left the note in their Portland apartment before she fled the cops and the state when he was 8 years old. […]
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Yuri Shepard-Kegl: ‘I was proud … to put my language out there.’
PORTLAND — It was an extraordinary moment in an already extraordinary life. Yuri Shepard-Kegl stood before the audience in Merrill Auditorium earlier this month and, with the rest of the graduates in Portland High School’s class of 2010, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in American Sign Language. “I was proud that I was able to put […]
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Grads beat odds
WINDHAM – At age 13, Desirea Limanni experienced something that would overwhelm many adults. Her mother, Amy Limanni, died unexpectedly at their home in Westbrook, leaving Desirea and her three younger siblings in the care of their father, Scott Limanni. As the oldest child, Desirea felt that she had to hold it together for everyone […]