Stephen Lynch was arrested after a 28-year-old man was found dead by family members.
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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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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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.
Posted inLocal & State, News
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.
Posted inLocal & State, News
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.
Posted inNews
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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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.
Posted inNews, Schools & Education
South Portland to change controversial proficiency-based grading at high school
The change will take effect in the 2019-2020 school year, a decision that followed increasing complaints about the accuracy, fairness and complexity of the system adopted four years ago.
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First Maine baby of 2019 is a girl born in Presque Isle
Karly Drue Williams beats out Lev McGuckin, who was born in Portland, by just a few minutes.
Posted inPolitics
LePage pardons former legislator for felony drug trafficking
Former state Rep. Jeffrey Pierce, R-Dresden, lost his re-election bid last fall after Democrats revealed he had a felony drug conviction 35 years ago, then hunted when he was legally prohibited from possessing firearms, records show.