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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PublishedAugust 29, 2021
More than 125 boats participate in protest on Frenchman Bay
Sunday’s ‘Save the Bay’ flotilla was a demonstration against plans by American Aquafarms to place an industrial salmon farm off the coast of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2021
Another section of Baxter Boulevard will be closed to traffic for over a year
The city of Portland says the stretch of roadway from Payson Park to Dartmouth Street will be shut down on Sept. 7 and won’t reopen until December 2022 while crews install a sewer separation system.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2021
Skeletal remains found last spring in Casco shed identified as missing daughter of homeowner
The remains belong to Denise Scott Ramsey, the daughter of Douglas Scott Sr., whom she had lived with before disappearing a year and a half ago.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2021
UMaine System campuses now require masks for everyone indoors
The announcement by the state university system, to be reevaluated at the end of September, follows a similar move by Bates College in Lewiston and will affect thousands of students, faculty, staff members and visitors.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Second inmate imprisoned for 1980s murder dies, a week after his accomplice
Joseph Albert, 77, was serving a 70-year sentence for murder in the death of 19-year-old Justine Renee Gridley of Orono in the 1980s.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Injured hiker evacuated by helicopter from Baxter State Park
The New Jersey woman was airlifted from Doubletop Mountain Tuesday night after suffering a leg injury while hiking.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Hard-hit Maine transportation companies set to receive COVID relief funds
Eleven Maine companies are eligible, but final allocations from the $1.6 billion Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services funding program have not been decided.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2021
Motorcylist dies in head-on collision with SUV in Topsham
Topsham police said the rider, who has not yet been identified, was operating a 1983 Honda when it crossed the center line on Augusta Road and hit an SUV traveling in the opposite direction.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2021
Portland picks operator to provide bike share program by June 2022
Portland hopes the program will reduce automobile congestion, noise and air pollution, while promoting personal and environmental health.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2021
Artists paint the town (literally) in Cape Elizabeth
The artwork they created over the weekend will be sold at the 14th annual Paint for Preservation auction Aug. 28-29 to benefit the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust.
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