A proposed return to two-way traffic would replace 15 angled parking spaces on the west side of Ocean Street between D and E streets with nine parallel spaces.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about some of the most critical aspects of Maine’s economy and future growth, including transportation, immigration, retail and small business, commercial development and tourism, with emphasis on consumer issues, sustainability and minority ownership. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, 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 for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
South Portland violates its own ordinance in Knightville one-way dispute
Nearly four years after South Portland officials allowed angled parking on Ocean Street to appease some businesses, neighbors find a city ordinance that says it’s illegal.
South Portland council appoints De Angelis to post over member’s objection
Councilor Eben Rose had asked the former mayor to confirm that she wouldn’t run for the Legislature this year if he nominated her to the Civil Service Commission.
Portland, South Portland forge ahead with tandem solar projects
The cities are in talks with ReVision Energy of Portland to build solar arrays on their former landfills.
Cape Elizabeth gun club faces continuing opposition
Pressed by neighbors, the town will start charging property taxes just as proposed legislation seeks to block local efforts to limit or close sport shooting ranges.
South Portland to have business signs at school athletic facilities
Superintendent Ken Kunin assures a divided school board that the signs for corporate sponsorship will be tasteful and eventually could raise ‘six figures’ for sports programs.
Cape Elizabeth library reopens to positive reviews
The second attempt at a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion follows a ‘more careful consideration of what the community needed and what would fit the character of the town center.’
Knightville panel backs plan for two-way traffic
The South Portland City Council will now review the downtown traffic and parking compromise.
Cliff Islanders surprise ‘dear friend to all’ to fete him as he turns 80
Islanders make a fuss over their dependable, indispensable – and beloved – neighbor Chester Pettengill on his 80th birthday.
Plan to upgrade transfer station goes to Cape Elizabeth voters in June
The $1.4 million proposal calls for using smaller, drive-by compactors instead of the larger one in use now.