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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PublishedOctober 24, 2011
1990 Honda Accord hits million-mile mark
SACO — Joe LoCicero’s 1990 Honda Accord slipped into a parking spot in front of City Hall with its engine purring, much as it did two decades ago after it rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Fire rips through Steak ‘n’ Rib Restaurant
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Wiscasset man faces domestic assault charge
Police say Michael Burns, 28, fled into the woods with a 20-gauge shotgun.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2011
Portland superintendent retiring
PORTLAND — Maine’s largest school district has made progress since Jim Morse became superintendent two years ago, but the person who replaces him will still have a lot of work to do, according to Morse and other school officials.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2011
Portland superintendentto retire in June
Jim Morse took the job as head of the city’s public schools in July 2009 on the heels of a financial crisis that resulted in the firing of a superintendent and a business manager.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2011
DEP restores director to southern office
Jim Dusch lives in North Yarmouth and has worked at the agency for more than a decade.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2011
Maine community college enrollment up 4.3%
The system’s enrollment has gone from 10,127 students in 2003 to 18,548 students today.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
‘Prohibition’ in Maine set stage for national effort
The hard-won legislation was so groundbreaking, so controversial, it was known across the nation and beyond as “the Maine law.”
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PublishedAugust 7, 2011
Downeaster expansion stirs new issues
Sixteen years ago, Mori and Carl LeFevre built their house next to the railroad crossing at Muirfield Road on the Falmouth-Cumberland town line.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2011
Noise, safety factors in expansion of Downeaster passenger service
Sixteen years ago, Mori and Carl LeFevre built their house next to the railroad crossing at Muirfield Road on the Falmouth-Cumberland town line.
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