Kelley Bouchard writes about what’s happening in Maine and beyond, with a focus on South Portland, Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth and other communities in Cumberland County. Her interests include housing, immigration, human rights, history, aging issues, sustainability, the environment and the untold story. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. Before joining the staff of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in 1998, she was a reporter for the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2018
Watch: South Portland gets a herd of hungry goats to clear park of invasive weed
Eight goats from Scapegoats of Kennebunk will spend a week munching on Japanese knotweed in a park beautification project.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2018
Mold cleanup in dorm makes move-in day challenging at Southern Maine Community College
SMCC welcomes students for the fall semester – many of them in temporary quarters – as a company removes mold from Spring Point Residence Hall.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2018
South Portland’s short-term rental rules on track for citywide vote in November
A majority of city councilors says the boomerang issue of controversial Airbnb-style rentals should go to the voters.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2018
Mold cleanup in SMCC’s largest dorm to displace 320 students as semester starts
Testing identifies several types of mold in the 10-year-old Spring Point Residence Hall, some of it low levels of ‘black mold.’ Some students say the school was slow to inform them of the problem.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2018
South Portland’s long fight over short-term rentals goes on as petition puts new rules on hold
The referendum petition resurrects a community dispute over regulations for popular room and home rentals advertised on websites such as Airbnb and HomeAway.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2018
Cape Elizabeth seaside residents agree to pay $500,000 to block public shore path
Under a settlement proposal, the waterfront residents would drop their lawsuit and the town would vacate its claim to an undeveloped street in the Shore Acres subdivision.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2018
National summit on aging targets Maine, home to nation’s oldest, most rural population
Eradicating isolation on the outskirts of America is the focus of a national gathering of elder advocates and other experts in Portland this week.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
South Portland firefighter killed in crash in Hollis fell asleep at wheel, state police conclude
Lt. Harry Weymouth had completed a 24-hour shift the day before the head-on collision and had worked a ‘mini-shift’ at a Sanford hospital not long before it.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
See how you can beat the heat as ozone, temps and humidity hit dangerous levels Tuesday
Communities around Maine open cooling centers as surging ground-level ozone pollution is made worse by smoke from 100 wildfires raging across the western United States.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2018
South Portland bucks trend on medical marijuana growers, retail shops
While other Maine municipalities delay decisions on allowing more businesses, the city is set to vote on welcoming them, with restrictions.
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