The event will address name-calling, taunting, social exclusion, gossip, intimidation, physical aggression and harassment via the Web or cell phones.
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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Schools intensify bullying battle
New strategies target today’s bullies, who have more ways of attacking their victims.
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Amnesty Day targets recent school dropouts
The May 22 event at the Portland Boys and Girls Club will provide a more welcoming forum for students who may be ready to return but need a little encouragement.
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Portland schools to launch redesigned website
The new look and features will be demonstrated at Wednesday’s School Committee meeting.
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TRADING FUTURES Welding students show their proficiency
PORTLAND — Justin Halladay emerged from a shower of sparks holding two welded steel plates about the size of a paperback novel. Bill Presby, Halladay’s welding instructor at Portland Arts and Technology High School, checked the inch-wide steel bead joining the plates and nodded his approval. “I was a little nervous at first,” Halladay confessed, […]
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The new whiz kids: The art of science in Falmouth
Falmouth High advances to the National Science Bowl by winning the Northern New England title on its first attempt.
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School panel trims funding for consultants
Cutting $109,000 holds a proposed property tax increase to 1 percent, but some residents say that’s not enough.
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Students prepare for Project Citizen State Showcase
Teams from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Windham, Boothbay, Holden, Calais and Swan’s Island help to solve community problems such as energy use and dropout rates.
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Annual student art show to open at City Hall
The exhibit will feature more than 500 pieces created by students in kindergarten through high school.
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Alumnus’ gift to Cheverus pays forward his success
Tom Yates, who competes in three sports and plays jazz trumpet, receives the first Ahern Scholarship.