Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, 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 for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedApril 15, 2019
Annual frog migration brings out amphibian fans in Cumberland
Volunteers came Sunday to help frogs and salamanders cross Range Road, but the most movement likely happened after midnight, when the human visitors were gone.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2019
South Portland raises a red flag over dog waste problem at Hinckley Park
As snow turns to mud, a park ranger runs out of flags – orange, not quite red – highlighting the volume of dog feces at one of the city’s most popular dog-walking spots.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2019
Portland diocese celebrates cathedral’s 150th year
The soaring Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Cumberland Avenue is the spiritual home for about 220,000 Roman Catholics in Maine.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2019
South Portland man charged in connection with suspected overdose death
Stephen Lynch was arrested after a 28-year-old man was found dead by family members.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2019
Legislation targets Maine’s chronic waiting list for Meals on Wheels
The largely federally funded program provides healthy food and human connections that help prevent more costly hospital and nursing home stays.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2019
South Portland suspends worker for salting his driveway in Scarborough with city truck
Ronald Doucette, a longtime Fire Department employee, was caught on video applying salt to the driveway at the home he shares with his wife, the city’s former code enforcement officer.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2019
Customer crashes SUV into Amato’s in South Portland
The pizza-and-sandwich shop was closed Saturday after a woman accidentally drove into the glass entryway.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2019
Armed with smartphones, volunteers track Casco Bay king tides as harbingers of sea-level rise
Friends of Casco Bay has more than 80 ‘water reporters’ uploading photos and observations of pollution, acidification and other problems.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2019
20 years later: A Saco teenager’s murder remains unsolved
Ashley Ouellette was just 15 when her body was discovered on a road in Scarborough early on February 10, 1999. Every parent’s nightmare, the homicide case hasn’t been closed, but authorities insist it’s far from cold.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2019
Maine’s youngest immigrants follow parents to citizenship
The 29 children, ages 1 to 17, came from all over the world and now live throughout southern Maine.
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