Hannah LaClaire

Staff Writer

Hannah LaClaire is a business reporter at The Portland Press Herald, covering topics such as real estate and development, entrepreneurship and the cannabis industry among others. Before joining the Press Herald in January 2021, Hannah covered the town of Brunswick for The Times Record. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in Journalism, and reported for The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., before moving back to Maine. In her free time, Hannah enjoys reading, running, cooking (eating) and traveling. She lives in Saco with her husband, her dog Olive and her cat Fred.

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Published
April 5, 2020

Freeport retailers brace for potential long-term impacts of pandemic

If the coronavirus pandemic drags into the summer, keeping businesses closed, there is potential for a disproportionate economic impact in Freeport, a town known for its shopping.
Published
April 1, 2020

Photo: Sharing love from a distance

Daniel Atkins, of Brunswick, stands outside the Mid Coast Hospital entrance on Wednesday, thanking the doctors, nurses and hospital staff on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the second sign he has created to pass a message from a safe distance as concerns over COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, […]
Published
March 31, 2020

Brunswick renews shelter in place order with slight adjustments

The first change raises the number of children allowed in a child care setting from 10 to 12, and the second allows for “legal accounting and title services that cannot reasonably be accomplished remotely.” The town also temporarily suspended the required use of town trash bags.
Published
March 31, 2020

Bowdoin College ‘community member’ thought to have coronavirus tests negative

College officials did not have an update on whether the three other students thought to be infected had been tested or released from quarantine as of Tuesday, only saying they are under the care of doctors out of state with their families.
Published
March 30, 2020

To free up space at crowded Tedford shelter, town reserves hotel rooms for guests

The rooms allow guests at the homeless shelter to better practice social distancing. According to Town Manager John Eldridge, the rooms cost the town $3,488, are paid for until Friday.
Published
March 29, 2020

Brunswick based STARC Systems to ramp up production of containment units amid coronavirus battle

Officials are doubling production of containment units that can be used to create instant isolation rooms and quarantine sections in hospitals.
Published
March 29, 2020

Local natural food stores adapt to changing grocery landscape

Morning Glory Natural Foods in Brunswick is operating with limited hours, including a designated time for seniors and the immunocompromised, and is limiting shoppers to 10 at a time. At Bath Natural Market, employees have switched to a pick-up style service and are compiling orders from emailed and phoned-in grocery lists.
Published
March 26, 2020

‘The beauty of our love for her:’ Brunswick woman celebrates 100th birthday amid coronavirus pandemic

When plans for Orean Dionne’s, or MeMee’s, 100th birthday came to a screeching halt, her family found a different way to celebrate
Published
March 25, 2020

Bowdoin College ‘community member’ presumed to have coronavirus

The person was last on campus March 17 and is now under a doctor’s care and self-isolating at home, according to college officials.
Published
March 25, 2020

‘Talking to the people of the future:’ Pejepscot History Center asking for items related to coronavirus

Once the center reopens, officials will start accepting signs, pamphlets, letters, personal stories and other items that represent how local people got through the coronavirus pandemic.