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 2, 2011
Portland parking ban starting at 6 p.m.
Vehicles left on the street during the ban will be towed at the owner’s expense.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2011
Scarborough park plan runs into resistance
Neighbors oppose the Black Point Park proposal at a Scarborough Zoning Board meeting.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2011
Bath man arrested in OUI case
After hitting several snowbanks in Bath, Ryan Martin’s vehicle ends up on top of a six-foot snowbank
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2011
Harpswell residents face vote on closing school
Opponents of the closing say consolidation will do nothing to improve the quality of education.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2011
Feature Obituary: Marjory L. Puckey, 94, business owner, nurse, golfer
Marjory L. Puckey was trained as a nurse and had virtually no background in business. But in her 50s she had to take over management of her husband’s oil delivery company, a role she kept until her retirement six years ago. Mrs. Puckey died Thursday at the Coves Edge Nursing Facility in Damariscotta. The longtime resident […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2011
Bowdoin family loses everything in afternoon fire
A mother and her son escape safely, but their home and personal belongings are a total loss after a fire destroys their Bowdoin home
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2011
MaineToday Media names Washington bureau chief
Jonathan Riskind, a veteran political reporter and editor, has been named the Washington bureau chief for MaineToday Media Inc. As the newspaper’s Washington-based reporter, Riskind will write stories for all MaineToday Media publications, which include The Portland Press Herald, the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the weekly Coastal Journal in […]
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2011
Police seek rapport with gay community
At a forum in Portland, Chief James Craig says he wants to improve communication.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2011
Beware kerosene-gas mixture sold in Gorham
A delivery of gasoline was mistakenly pumped into a kerosene tank Tuesday at the Little Mart store on Route 202.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2011
Feature Obituary: Elizabeth McKee, 28, loving wife, mother, teacher
Her family and friends struggle to describe how a woman could have had such an impact on so many people in such a short life. “It’s unusual to go through elementary school, middle school, high school and college and never have a bad word said about a child. Only praise. It was like she was […]
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