Dennis Hoey

Press Herald

Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.
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Destroyer leaves discord behind

by Dennis Hoey

Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the Kennebec River on Thursday to bid farewell to a $1 billion Navy destroyer that was built at Bath Iron Works.

The USS Spruance’s departure for Key West, Fla., marked the end of a controversy in which the town of Phippsburg, commercial fishermen and others whose livelihoods depend on the Kennebec River challenged the federal government’s decision to dredge the river during the height of summer.

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