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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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South Portland considers gender-neutral bans on nude swimming, public indecency
The City Council is poised to update ordinance language as part of a larger effort to promote equity and inclusion.
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After 25 years, Abyssinian Meeting House restoration is sprinting toward completion
A recent $1.7 million federal budget allocation should make it possible to complete the decades-long project well before the building’s 200th anniversary.
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Downeaster, SUV collide near Woodfords Corner in Portland
The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m., snarling traffic in the area for over an hour.
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Scarborough Downs developers donate 25 acres to Warren Woods
The gift brings Warren Woods Preserve to over 250 acres of protected forest and wetlands.
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Redbank Village rent hikes spark fear and outrage among residents, officials
The 500-unit cluster of duplexes in South Portland has been purchased by a California-based company that is raising monthly rents as much as $598, tenants say.
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Some southern Maine Republicans divided on party’s new platform
While some are embracing the socially conservative changes, others worry that the shift will drive people away and backfire at the polls.
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Marshals arrest Maine man charged with sex crimes in South Carolina
The Osborn man was taken into custody while at work by the Maine Violent Offender Task Force.
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Portland Public Library director plans departure in watershed period
The library’s board of trustees will conduct a nationwide search to replace Executive Director Sarah Campbell.
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South Portland council embraces anti-racism proposal
A proposed resolution would declare racism a public health crisis and calls for action on city laws, policies and practices.