The proposed $109,000 cut would reduce money available to purchase professional services, such as consultants.
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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Portland, Deering sophomores going to college for a day
The early introduction to campus life is meant to encourage interest in higher education and promote career planning.
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Funds sought to upgrade city schools
Portland is applying for state funds aimed at renovating or replacing five elementary schools.
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Searching for spirits at Portland High
Students learning new technology spend curious night at the school.
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Portland mother will represent Maine at first Moms Congress
Catherine Anderson is a single mother of two boys and a King Middle School teacher.
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Students hunt for ghosts, learn skills, at Portland High
Members of a new media class at Portland Arts and Technology High School used high-tech equipment to monitor paranormal activity in various parts of the school. And they had some success.
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For French group, it’s no ordeal to be stranded in Maine
They’re taking in the sights and enjoying the hospitality, but some are missing activities back home.
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Students to gubernatorial candidates: Fund health centers in schools
Outreach teams host a breakfast to emphasize the value of the 27 centers to gubernatorial hopefuls.
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Students to hunt for ghosts at Portland High
A new media class will use voice recorders, low-light cameras, hands-off laser temperature gauges and electromagnetic frequency readers to conduct the hunt.
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Maine Med appoints new COO
Jeff Sanders is a Maine native who has been working in Utah hospitals.