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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PublishedFebruary 24, 2011
City puts a curb on sidewalk junk
Any property owner who fails to remove household items within 24 hours will be assessed a $100 fee
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2011
Portland landmark step closer to selling
The City Council approves new licenses so a hotel investment firm can buy the Eastland Park.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2011
Collins: We must endeavor to be civil
Effective government is based on compromise, not partisanship and conflict, the Maine senator says.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2011
Community welcomes a ‘bright and cheery’ Ocean Avenue School
The two-hour open house draws a steady stream of students, parents, teachers and neighbors. By the time tours of the Ocean Avenue Elementary School were winding down, most visitors said they were impressed with the care and attention to detail that went into the design for the two-story, 70,000-square-foot building.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2011
Dave Lackey, press liaison and deputy secretary, dies
Lackey, who worked for both former Gov. John McKernan and U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, was 46.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2011
Maine GOP wants probe of weatherization program, ties to Democrats
Maine’s Republican Party called Tuesday for a state investigation into the operations of a soon-to-be-defunct home weatherization program, alleging that it benefited one of the Legislature’s top Democrats. House Minority Leader Emily Cain, D-Orono, denied the allegations against her and characterized the Republicans’ charges “as a pathetic political distraction from what’s really going on in […]
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2011
Polar Dip raises $33,000 for Camp Sunshine
More than 100 people plunge into 32-degree water at East End Beach in the annual fundraiser.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2011
Feature Obituary: Amy Keck, 36, attorney devoted to helping the poor
Amy Keck represented hundreds of underprivileged clients during her 11-year legal career, winning a remarkable 94 percent of her cases, according to her associates. In 2009, she received the Thomas P. Downing Award, an honor given out annually to an individual in Maine who has provided exceptional legal services. Ms. Keck died Saturday at the […]
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2011
Feature Obituary: Robert Paul LeBlanc, loved his family, sports, the great outdoors
Robert Paul LeBlanc Sr. excelled in football at all levels — high school, college and professional — but like many athletes who play a contact sport, there was always the risk of a concussion. Just before he died, Mr. LeBlanc agreed to donate his brain to Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy […]
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2011
Pingree argues for keeping BNAS commissary
The congresswoman says the Topsham facility and the Navy Exchange in Brunswick should remain open after the base closes.
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